2009-07-21. Using Prayer
No Idaho #599
Topic: Using Prayer, Expectations of Monjoronson
Group: N. Idaho TeaM
Teacher: Monjoronson
TR: Henry Z.
Opening
Prayer: Monjoronson we ask your presence here tonight as we en-circuit in this spiritual circuit of Nebadon of the internal Father and your presence. Lovely.
Monjoronson: Greetings this evening, this is Monjoronson.
Dialogue
- Taking Action
Comment: Good evening Monjoronson. Our first question is from an individual who prays for help to lift away the doubt, anxiety and fear that plague and paralyzes him from acting. He is still experiencing these things.
Question #1: How do I pray more effectively for this? Can you speak to other strategies that will assist me in overcoming this?
Monjoronson: Greetings. Humans at a human level will always be plagued with humanness. Even when you fuse with your Adjuster there are still remaining aspects to the personality which resemble humanness. You are not plagued by anything. Your doubts and your insincerity is a human trait, it is something which must be overcome. It is the grain of sand which builds within you and creates this pearl of great wisdom. The ability to overcome humanness is to apply human action to a spiritual necessity. What you are experiencing is the tension, the tension which exists between the indwelt Adjuster and the personality of the human associate the Adjuster indwells. This tension is important, it is a reference to the ineffectual human to become affected through spirit.
In terms of prayer, the one to whom you pray is already inside. Begin to speak to the Father as a person, as someone equal to yourself in potential, not in actuality, someone you are becoming. Begin to trust in friendship of the Father, begin to trust in the certainty of His influence and His presence in your life. Spirit is only able to match mans endeavor to reach out and within [to] spirit. True, spirit applies the pressure, again [there] is tension. The tension is released as we move towards spirit. Again this is a reference. Like any reference point you can gauge your interaction and effect with spirit, of course you can directly gauge your effectiveness with spirit in your daily lives, you begin yielding the fruit.
When you pray don’t ask for something. When you pray, offer something, offer your will, offer your service. God is not someone that needs to be appeased but God is someone that responds to human effort, human endeavor. Endeavor to shift things in your life. You will know which things to shift because they will become uncomfortable for you as you begin to shift away from them. Again, this is a reference. Too many humans want spirit to come down to them within their comfort zone. Again, man must feel the tension to feel the spirit. It is much more difficult to feel the spirit in your comfort zone. You must learn to adjust and adapt your behavior, your thinking, your patterns of thought, your patterns of being.
It is not that what you do and what you are right now are not important it is that if you wish to move into another aspect of being that is more closely synchronized with spirit movement then it becomes necessary to adjust. This is not something you pray for, this is something you take upon yourself to do within your own will and your consciousness of soul. Again, effective prayer comes from a tremendously effective attitude. Be thankful for what you have. In general, man will find out that what he needs is right around him, what he needs to do is also right around him and where he is going requires no feat. Thank you.
- What do you expect from us?
This individual is thinking that if you teach us the way that we would be taught on the mansion worlds then we would be able to learn morontia mota while still in the flesh. And if we apply the things you teach us then we may be more ready when the Transition Era is in full crisis mode.
Question #2: Just as any teacher expects something from their students, what are your expectations for us in the form of growth? What is it that you would want us to learn?
Monjoronson: Monjoronson has no expectations of humans. My Brother already lived on your world and told you what to do. We are just waiting until you do it. You haven’t done it yet. Obviously you ask questions. If you are loving your neighbor and you’re giving of yourself where it is needed you don’t have time to ask questions. This is what you are supposed to be doing. You are supposed to be bringing the religion of Nebadon into reality. This is not something that I expect. I expect nothing but if you ask me what you must do, I am telling you; you must obey my Brother.
How often do you read the answers to questions? How often have I dwelt upon the concepts of the Father Fragment living within the human, growing the human soul into an object of beauty and radiance? Spirit does not pray to the Father in heaven to bring peace upon Urantia and to bring it into some justifiable resemblance of the religion of Nebadon. No, spirit just watches, spirit applies pressure, spirit wants to see you break, spirit want to see you get to a point where you realize that there is more to do in life than just what you want to do in life. You can do what you want to do as you are doing the Father’s will. Again the Father’s will is nothing more than loving, respecting and acknowledging each other, making it work for everybody.
Do not be so excited about those that seem as though they have favor with God. Find your own favor with God. Begin your own work for the kingdom. Begin to treat yourself as a brother or sister of everyone else. Again, there are no expectations. When the time is ready we separate the wheat from the chaff, this is how spirit works. We have already fertilized the garden. Very poor soil on Urantia, we are still waiting for the vines to take and the fruit to be born. We wait patiently century after century after century. We expect nothing. You were told what to do, not only told; you were shown what to do. It is not like it was an order or a command. Jesus hoped that mans souls would truly be nourished with what He had to show and offer. Again, you have already been shown how to act. Thank you for this question.
- Lesson Plan
Question #3: In an effort to become more streamlined and focused on spiritual issues, would you be willing to supply us with a topic and then present a lesson on the topic that could possible generate questions for us to ask you?
Monjoronson: In the grand epic of life’s adventure how many questions do you intend to ask Monjoronson before you walk away from the computer and begin to do work, begin to bring the brotherhood of man into fruition? Life itself is the lesson. Everything you need to know will be shown to you when you need to know it. I could sit here and eloquently expound the lessons and each week you could dutifully ask questions; yet there are homeless people with families who are hungry, have no place to sleep. They live in the woods, they live in their vehicles in parking lots. There are empty churches, empty buildings yet people on Urantia do not trust each other, nothing is shared. You want a lesson, go walk out on the street; there is the lesson. This is where spirit can be most effective, when man begins to take action.
Mans spiritual nature is a cumulative. There are many aspects to mans spiritual nature. There is the internal directive aspect of mans nature. There is the external achievement, an external action aspect of mans spiritual nature. Then there is the interconnectedness of everyone in all life that is a part of mans spiritual nature. You could actually live in one of those aspects, yet for a balanced spiritual nature, all three are important. In a sense it becomes more important that you help everyone else as you also help yourself. Mans rudimentary spiritual training should begin externally because you could have the greatest relationship with your Adjuster, the most beautiful thoughts and the best belief system but if others can’t actualize it, if others can’t feel it, if others can’t readily identify you by your actions then what good is all of that part of spirituality?
It is like having steps that lead to a door that opens and there is no floor and no room. Others need to see to believe. You need to give them something to see, acknowledgment, recognition, respect, pleasant words. Many people are afraid to ask for help but there are many ways to help. Allow life to show you its many ways. Again, spirit is tremendously effective when you are practicing bringing your inner reality of spirit to the exterior in acting upon things and helping to change the tide of selfish mankind into an unselfish brotherhood of kind, respectful people. All peoples deserve this of you. Thank you for your question.
- Spirit of Truth
This individual would personally like to be in better touch with their Spirit of Truth and know that what they experience is not just their own value system but is in partnership with Michael.
Question #4: Does Michael’s Spirit of Truth manifest itself consistently to all individuals or can each individuals interpretations contain content that is only relative to him? Will interpretations vary with the individual?
Monjoronson: Like all spirit, we are not respecters of persons, all spirit accesses humans the same although humans access spirit uniquely to the person. Not yet have you grown as a social group to all accept spirit the same, the glad tidings which spirit brings, the joy of having done the work of spirit. If you need to contact the Spirit of Truth, open up your mind to receive the Spirit of Truth. This is all, there are no magic words, no formula, no protocol. The Spirit is given freely to all. Michael’s spirit is a gregarious spirit; it rarely shows itself to the individual. It works more where two or three are gathered, there I am in the midst kind of thing. Thank you for this question.
Closing
Philip: Thank you Monjoronson for helping us tonight. That was a marvelous presentation and was deeply appreciated. That concludes our session for the evening. Thank you to our t/r also, good night.
