Athol, I appreciate your effort to share a positive message, and to encourage faith in Christ. We all should look to God in faith and thank him for his great gift of life and love and his message of truth.I do want to encourage you to continue seeking truth in Christ, to carefully read his message in the Bible and pursue a Christian life that follows the teachings of his new covenant. Some of the repeated phrases and language and urgings in your message do concern me, as I do not know what "Christ Consciousness" is in the language and message of the Bible, which is to say the language and message of Christ. I am perplexed when I see human beings described as "Supreme" and "Divine" when the Bible describes man as sinful and mortal, with sin beginning in man's quest to be "like God" on his own terms. I cannot encourage people to read a particular message or prayer just before bed and immediately upon arising in the morning as a means to making a commitment to Christ either, since neither Jesus nor his apostles ever taught this kind of approach. The numerous conversions reported in the book of Acts, for example, did not occur in this way. Rather people were taught to believe in Jesus, the resurrected and reigning Son of God, to confess faith in him and be baptized into Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and then to live in obedience to his teaching. No specific prayer was prescribed, no repetitions of phrases, and what isn't from the Bible concerns me when it is presented as a means to knowing God. Many in this world follow and teach a kind of mysticism that calls for repetition of phrases and high sounding ideas, using some of the language of the Bible, but really depending on human experience and human wisdom rather than on God, and I hope that you're not mistaking that kind of mysticism for genuine truth from God. Please give careful consideration to what God has said in the message of his holy prophets and apostles, the Bible. Be sure to learn the nature of God, and of Jesus Christ, and of human beings, as well as how to please God, from that source above all others.
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