Our Divine Faculty of Will

Location: Center of the Front Brain
Color: Magenta
Chord: B, D#, F#  (Will, Strength, Love)
Compliment: Understanding
Disciple: Matthew
Month:  August
 

1. Divine Will has Energy and Intelligence.
    
2. Divine Will is your willingness toward God, not your willfulness to outer facts.  Willingness is always constructive in your consciousness building.  Willfulness is always destructive.
    
3. Divine Will is always seeking the good for all.  As long as you are seeking good for all, and harmlessness to others you are exercising Divine Will.
    
4. Divine Will is the great permission giver of your Consciousness.
    
5. Divine Will determines character formation. 
    
6. Divine Will acknowledges the outer facts, but moves according to inner instruction.
    
7. Divine Will is thy will not my will.
    
8. Divine Will is the executive function that carries out what is best for all.
    

The calling forth of Divine Will is a calling forth of surrendering of old ways.  No matter how well you understand spiritual laws, if you are not willing to adhere to them, they are not useful to you.  If you are not willing to forgive, for instance, the cleansing action of forgiveness cannot flow through you.  The greatest block to willingness is fear.  Fear of change from that which is familiar holds one fixed in a rigid position.  One must overcome fear of change in order to become willing toward God.

You must choose willingness over willfulness.  It comes right down to “Thy will, not my will.”  Willingness is always constructive and willfulness is always destructive.  Willfulness lacks the courage to depend on God for having needs met and, at the same time, ignores spiritual laws.  It includes self-determination and takes credit for all that is accomplished.  Willfulness acts according to facts that are presented in the outer, not according to intuition and spiritual guidance.

Willingness acknowledges the outer facts but moves according to inner instruction.  Willingness benefits from both directions because it recognizes them as being one.

Divine Will is always seeking the good for all.  As long as you are seeking the good for all, with harm to no one, you are moving according to God’s will.

There is a mistaken belief that pain and suffering are part of God’s will for individuals and mankind.  This is using God as an excuse.  Pain and suffering are results of our breaking spiritual laws and principles: the laws of our own highest good.

If you believe that you are being punished, you believe that you have done something bad.  This leads to the belief that you are a bad person.  This impacts your self-esteem.  It is important to realize that making a mistake does not make you a bad person.  You by your nature cannot “be bad.”  You are good, as God is good.  Being willful is not being bad.  It is merely refusing to align with those divine principles that bring forth all good in you life.  Being willing leads you to the understanding that you are all good.  Being willing leads you to the understanding that you have and loving Father and that it is His will that good comes to all.

Your will is the great permission giver of your consciousness.  It moves all the other spiritual gifts to action.  No matter how much you understand you God given gifts, if you are not willing to use them, they remain potential only. 

No matter how much you understand love, you must give it permission over anger.  You must give permission to strength over intolerance and discouragement.  You must give permission to good judgment over irrational impulse.  You must give permission to faith over appearances.  These abilities are all at you command, but you must give the command.  All things are within you. 

You manifest in your life to whatever you give your permission.  And you give your permission to what you give your attention to.  If you do not give your attention to your Divine Powers, you cannot give them permission to move into expression in your life.  The best way to give your attention to a particular gift is to silence yourself toward it.  When you silence yourself  to a Divine power through meditation, the power pours through you.

Divine Will determines character formation.  As you consciously choose the development of awareness of your specific gifts, you are actually determining the shape of you character.  You are willing to become more loving, stronger, wiser, and more creative as you choose to give permission to these God qualities to reshape your expression of your self.