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Are You Being Called To Stand With The Christ

Are You Being Called To Stand With The Christ

Read Are You Being Called To Stand With The Christ article by Genevieve Gerard

One of the things I do every day as a part of my spiritual journey is to meditate and pray.

I arise, usually before the sun and open my heart, my mind, and my Soul to the Christ.  Doing that on a daily basis helps me align with my Soul, align with Divine Will and align with Love.

This sacred time, this time of contemplation and surrender, are the source of my joy and peace of mind.  When faced with a troubling situation in life it is this that guides me.

When there are ethical questions, I encounter in life situations, knowing whose team I am on make them easier.  I know whose teachings guide my life.

Standing With The Christ

This relationship with the Christ is not a new one for me.  It has been the sustaining power in my life.

Standing with the Christ is not about theological dogma for me.  It is about relationship, choice, and surrender.  However, it is mostly about love.

My relationship with the Christ is not a bunch of rules and regulations.  It is not about believing.  It is about living in the real world as a disciple of a Lord that I love more than words can easily express.  And, it is about being loved and knowing without question that I am loved, completely and unconditionally.

It is not about following what people say or believe about the Christ, and especially not about following what people say that they believe.  It is about following the dictates of love.  It is about listening to the still quiet prompting of my Soul.

Only when I love I am able to let go of my ego and personal desires, to stand with the Christ. It is Love that guides my heart and mind beyond selfish desires and brings me to a relationship with Christ that directs and empowers my life.

God knows I have an ego.  I certainly have a personality with as many flaws as anyone.  But when I stand with the Christ, as love enters my heart I am blessed with unconditional love, grace, and forgiveness.  I do not have to be perfect because I stand within the love of the Christ.

That Love is sufficient for all of my needs.  It fills my heart to overflowing abundance enough for me to share with the world.  Compassion can flow without ceasing.

Love is my antidote to criticism and judgment.  The joy I experience with this relationship is a natural antidote to fear.  This relationship is beyond faith.  It is a giving and receiving relationship that guides my thoughts, words, and deeds.

Standing with the Christ focuses my life on the principles of service and goodwill: Those principles have been called the saving force of humanity.  Standing with the Christ is what we as humanity and more importantly as disciples are called to do.

Across the planet, across all religions and limitations that lead to separateness and selfishness in the world is a call from the Christ for men and woman of goodwill to stand with Him.

This is calling out to the men and woman of goodwill that transcends all denominations and all dogmas; it is a calling for right relationships for all of humanity.

When Jesus walked the earth, he spoke of this coming time and guided us with His teachings of how to recognize those who take a stand for Christ.

He told us that:

Yea though you have done it to the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me.
           – Matthew 25:40 (King James Bible)

To stand with the Christ is a stand of service.

In the 2,500 years since the resurrection and accession of the Christ, God has continued to work for good in the world.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.
           – Romans 8:28 (King James Bible)

 

An Invitation To The New Group of World Servers

This working for good in the world has, according to the Ageless Wisdom become a worldwide movement directed by the Christ that is becoming known by the name The New Group of World Servers.  This working for good in the world is part of standing with the Christ.

I take this opportunity to invite you to join with your heart and your mind with this mission of the Christ in the world today.

You can join with others who are the men and woman of goodwill, every day across this planet at 5 p.m.; wherever you are in the world by saying this simple prayer:

The Blessing of the New Group of World Servers

May the power of the One Life
pour through the group of all true servers.

May the Love of the One Soul
characterize the lives of all who seek to aid the Great Ones.

May we fulfill our part in the One work
through self-forgetfulness, harmlessness and right speech.

 

The words “the power of the One Life” refers to the Christ.  When you say this blessing, you join with and stand with the Christ by supporting His disciples around the world.

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I invite you to stand with the Christ in relationship to help empower “the least of these, my brethren.”  It is an invitation to let love guide your relationships through self-forgetfulness, harmlessness, and right speech.

You will by your actions affirm and identify yourself as a follower of Christ by your Love.

You will know them by their fruits
               – Matthew 7:15-20 (New King James Bible)

Love and compassion are the fruits of standing with the Christ.

If you let love and compassion guide your life decisions, you will live with harmlessness and right speech.  These are simple ways to honor the sacrifice the Christ made for you and your salvation.

Stand with the Christ in your everyday interactions with your fellow citizens of planet earth.

It is a way to answer all ethical questions.  When you stand with the Christ love becomes your guiding principle.  When you let love be your guide, it becomes easy to know right from wrong, truth from lies and good from evil.

This is your life.  It is your choice what you do.  This simple choice to stand with the Christ opens you to a life of love, a life of service and an opportunity to know the “Peace that passes understanding.”

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ.
                 – Philippians 4:7 (King James Bible)

Stand with the Christ.  Be a person of goodwill in this world.  Consider harmlessness to others in all that you say and do.  Let right-speech guide your words.

As I discuss in my article Principles of Goodwill, “To consider that each time you serve your fellow man, the good that you do is being done for the Christ (or even to the Christ) really expands this concept of the body of Christ.”

Being a disciple of Christ in this modern world may require taking a stand.  When you take that stand in love and when you take that stand with Christ miracles happen.

 

Ancient Affirmation and Mantra

I would like to conclude this with something I have published before, that is a personal favorite of mine and a call to action.  It is an ancient mantra called the discipleship mantra.  I invite you to use it to empower your life.

Discipleship Mantram

 

I am a point of Light within the greater Light.

I am a strand of loving energy within the stream of Love Divine,

I am a spark of sacrificial fire, focused within the fiery Will of God.

And Thus I Stand.

 

I am a way by which men may achieve.

I am a source of strength enabling them to stand.

I am a beam of Light shining upon their way.

And Thus I Stand.

 

I am a radiating center of Joy, Serenity and Quiet Mind.

And Thus I Stand.

 

And standing thus revolve.

And tread this way the way of men.

And know the way of God.

And Thus I Stand.

 

I welcome you and honor you as you stand with the Christ!

 

Namaste,

   Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

 

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Be One with the Body of Christ

Be One With the Body of Christ

Read "Be One With The Body of Christ" by Genevieve Gerard

There is in the Christian faith a concept that holds within in it such great mystery and such great power that it bears some deep pondering and consideration.

It is a thought we can only hope to comprehend with our hearts and minds open as we touch our Souls.

As you open to the presence of your Soul, enter into the essence of Spirit where you are beyond the limitations of matter.

Join in the mystical union with the Christ to support and add your efforts to His mission and work in the world.

This is a concept of what it means to “be One with the body of the Christ” that I have often pondered. I would like to share my thoughts and understandings on this today.

All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.
            – Bible ESV 1 Corinthians 12:27

To enter into the awareness of your Soul is a mystical experience. It is through this expanded awareness that you can consider what it means to be a part of the body of Christ (beyond the Church as the body of Christ.)

This is truly a mystery and you must open yourself to this mystical experience to appreciate the full depth and scope of what that phrase means.

I have read in the course of my years of studying and pondering spiritual questions, the Body of Christ phrase used to describe the Church or the community of faith. However, that seems too limiting when I consider the full glory and power of the presence of the Christ. The Christ as the Risen Lord whose resurrection Easter celebrates is a living and vital force in the world today.

George Weigel, in an article on Easter and the Cosmic Christ believes, “that Christ’s transformed body is also the place where men enter into communion with God and with one another and are, therefore, able to live definitively in the fullness of indestructible life.”

I believe you can by your love, and with your life, support His work in the world. You can help bring into the world the meaning of the words affirmed around the world as the mystery of faith on Easter morning. Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again.

Indeed, Christ coming again joins with the prophesies and promises of all religions across the world.

In the explorations of the Ageless Wisdom is expressed a concept of the Christ as The Word Soul and as we join with His Light, His Love and more importantly His purpose as World Savior, that concept expands.

In meditation when we join symbolically with the Christ, by invocation into the exalted energies of the heart of the Christ, we are opening our heart, mind, and Soul to a mystical and almost magical unity with the body and mission of the Christ in the world today.

In the exalted moments of prayer or meditation that you can reach His Divine Presence, you realize He calls you to a life of service. This calling to active service was revealed by Jesus in the parable of Judgment Day. Matthew 24:40. To realize that and consider that each time that you serve your fellow man, the good that you do is being done for the Christ (or even to the Christ) really expands this concept of the body of Christ. In my lifelong ponderings, this seems to speak to my heart, my mind and my very Soul.

This call to service includes all of humanity as a part of the brotherhood with Christ, a brotherhood that he calls “even the least of these my brethren.” To consider all (wo)men united in a brotherhood of man seems to give a hint to what it means to be an active disciple of Christ, of mystically joined as a working and living demonstration of His love and compassion in the world.

For you to join in the body of the Christ as a part of His work and mission in the world, seeing the Christ in the face of all of your fellow man, and serving the Christ every time you serve your fellow man may be a broad reach. It is what motivated Mother Theresa when she went into the hell holes of Calcutta. It is a level of work and service that seems beyond what you are capable of doing except as you enter into this mystical union of the body of Christ. That empowers you to achieve and dare acts of love, compassion, and service beyond what you would otherwise consider or dare.

In my own life, to give me the strength to provide the love and the service that the world so desperately needs, I often use this Affirmation:

The Love of the Christ flows through me. Alone, I am nothing.
            – Genevieve Gerard

In the writings of the Ageless Wisdom, we are told that the work and mission of the Christ is a unifying of His followers on a planetary level, that have now 2000 years after He walked with us on the earth expanded to a worldwide work and service that is known as The New Group of World Servers. These are the men and woman of goodwill who are energetically united to serve their fellow man acting as if in each act of service they are serving the Christ.

This fellowship of planetary service is united energetically under the direction of the Christ. It is a group of Souls of many religions and paths unified in the love and dedication to the love of the Christ and creating on the earth the conditions that Christ can come again. These mystical unions of Souls most probably have never met, but their commitment to serving the Christ as they serve their fellow man joins them as the material representations of the body of Christ in the world.

These men and woman of Goodwill are comprised of every religion. They answer to the promptings of the Christ through the connection and direction of their Souls. The limitations of doctrine and dogma fade as this call to planetary service guided by the Law of Love comes ever more into manifestation.

This service, this mystical connection throughout the world, seems to be how you (and I) can best join efforts in the mystical union of the Body of Christ at work in the world.

A profound and powerful way that you could join this holy effort is by combining your efforts with others across the planet every evening at 5 p.m., whenever it is 5 p.m. where you are in the world by saying:

The Blessing of the New Group of World Servers:

May the Power of the One Life
pour through the group of all true servers;

May the Love of the One Soul
characterize the lives of all who seek to aid the Great Ones.

May we fulfill our part in the One Work
through self-forgetfulness, harmlessness, and right speech.

The “Power of the One Life” is a reference to the Christ.

In energetically joining with this world mission, and this world service, you are energetically expanding your life and the reach of your service.

To further enhance and support your mystical union with the Body of Christ I offer you a Mantra, I created for my own use in meditation, which I call, The Love of the Christ Mantra.

Love of the Christ Mantra

 

May the Love of the Christ enfold me

 

May the Light of the Christ surround me

 

May the Wisdom of the Christ guide me

 

May the Energy of the Christ sustain me

 

That I may go forth to serve my fellow man

 

Giving the Love of the Christ to comfort them

 

Giving the Light of the Christ to guide them

 

Giving the Wisdom of the Christ of to enlighten them

 

Giving the energy of the Christ to fill them

            – Genevieve Gerard © 2011-2018

Christ is mystical and he addresses a deep esoteric principle that is a part of the mystery of faith. Thankfully, you do not have to understand this with your mind to experience it in your Heart and Soul.

Being One with the body of Christ is done as a Soul. Your connection with the others with whom you join through the community of faith is accomplished Soul to Soul.

Miraculously, by the simple act of joining your energy with the Christ and the community of all who serve Him in the world, through your invitation and intention, you can consciously experience this Love and Light through your own Soul. Remember, consciously striving to be One with the body of the Christ is enhanced when you join with others.

The promise that whenever two or more gather in His name He is with you, is a profound and powerful truth that can be used to enhance this experience.

Now is the dynamic and fertile time to open your heart, your mind and your Soul to this mystical union of Oneness.

Here is a prayer I wrote that may support you in this effort:

Beloved Lord Prayer

Beloved Lord

I come to you today with an open heart and an open mind to offer up my Soul to you. Please hold me in your radiant heart.

I offer myself up to be One with you in the mystical union of Souls that makes up your body in this world as an active service to you.

I put away any of my fears or concerns about my worthiness, relying on your grace and forgiveness to guide me and support me as I strive to serve you more completely.

As I receive the blessing of your Love freely, I commit to giving freely of my Love. This I do with intention and a commitment to serve others in your name.

I invite you to work with me in the world. Guide my words as I strive to help and comfort others. Direct my steps to take me where you need me to be. Let me be a source for your forgiveness and your grace whenever I discover those who need your healing touch.

I praise you and give thanks for this miracle of faith that I may be One with you for your glory and work in this world.

Amen

So be it and it is so.

I pray that these words, tools, and techniques will support and sustain you in your journey and your faith. Our Oneness, our Brotherhood, and our Soul connection is available to you across the limitations of space, in the dynamic essence of the Eternal Now.

Namaste,

 

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

 

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