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I AM HERE. John.
I heard your prayer and know that this Love is flowing into your soul, and that
now you have a great abundance of Its possession of which you are conscious. It
will never fail you when you pray in earnestness and with the real longings for
Its coming. It is always ready to respond to your aspirations and to make you
feel Its Presence and the happiness that comes with It.
As you know, I am your special friend in my work of helping to develop your
soul. And whenever you pray to the Father, as you have just prayed, I come to
you with my love and influence to help open up your soul to the inflowing of
this Love. Have faith, and you will have the certainty of the presence of the
Love, and that It is yours and is seeking to come into your soul in greater
abundance.
You are blessed in that you have the knowledge of the existence of this Love,
and that It may be yours if you so will It to be, and pray with the true
longings of your soul’s desires. You cannot doubt the Truth of what I write;
for, as in the ordinary things of life, there is nothing so convincing as
personal experience. And your experience is such that there has been no room for
doubt. So, keep the consciousness of the presence of this Love continually
alive, and pray and pray whenever the opportunity presents itself. By this, I
don’t mean that you shall wait for a time when you are not engaged in your
business affairs. Rather, pray at moments when the mind may be free from these
business affairs, even if only for a moment. The longings, if exercised only for
a moment, will bring their results; for God’s Ear is always open and ready to
cause the responses to such longings.
ONE MOMENT OF TRUE SOUL-FELT LONGING IS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN HOURS OF PRAYER
WHERE THESE LONGINGS ARE NOT PRESENT. THE PRAYERS OF THE LIP OR OF HABIT ARISE
NO HIGHER THAN THE ESCAPING BREATH, AND DO NOT CAUSE THE LOVE TO RESPOND AND
FLOW INTO THE SOUL. REMEMBER THIS. AND THEN REALIZE HOW FUTILE ARE ALL THE
PRAYERS OF PREACHERS AND OSTENSIBLE WORSHIPERS WHEN THE SOUL’S LONGINGS AND
DESIRES ARE NOT PRESENT.
ONLY SOUL CAN CALL TO SOUL, AND LOVE RESPONDS ONLY WHEN SUCH SOUL CALLS. THE
MERE DESIRES OF THE MIND, IF I MAY SO EXPRESS MY MEANING, DO NOT IN THE LEAST
AFFECT THE SOUL. AND AS MIND CAN OPERATE ONLY ON MIND, THERE CANNOT POSSIBLY BE
ANY ACTIVITY OF THE SOUL’S FACULTIES WHEN ONLY THE MIND IS OPERATING. HENCE, YOU
WILL SEE THAT ALL THE WORSHIP THAT COMES MERELY FROM THE MIND WILL NOT
EFFECTUATE THE WORKING OF THE LOVE, OR BRING THE SPIRIT’S WORK INTO OPERATION.
I write this to further encourage you, and also to make plain the necessity for
the true prayer.
JOHN
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About James E. Padgett
 Born August 25, 1852, Mr. James Edward Padgett
practiced law in Washington, D.C. Subsequent to his wife's, Helen,
passing in February, 1914, James learned from a psychic that he had
the gift of automatic writing. Based on the promptings of the
psychic and with a desire to reach his dearly departed Helen, he
commenced take messages from the spirits in the spirit world. At
first, James denounced the messages as merely coming from his mind,
driven by a strong desire to reach his departed wife. Eventually,
however, James could not deny the fact that information he was
receiving could not have possibly come from his own mind - for the
content of the messages surpassed his own education and knowledge.
Before his passing in March, 1923, James had accumulated hundreds of
messages from spirits and celestials in the spirit world.
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