Curious About God: Recent Episodes
Veronica Nieves
For anyone regardless of background and faith or lack of faith, who has a curiosity about God. Primary resources are the Divine Truth Teachings. The teaching are taught by A.J. Miller, the reencarnation of Jesus. https://www.divinetruth.com/sites/main/en/index.htm#welcome.htm And the Padgett Messages. https://www.divinetruth.com/sites/main/en/index.htm#padgett.htm My journey is to seek God's Love. Cover art photo provided by Annie Spratt on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt
I listened again to the themed discussion playlist on the Divine Truth youtube channel. Here is the link https://youtu.be/t5UwLZ2RPbU
Sharing what I am listening to and my experience. The theme discussion playlist has 15 sessions with 4-6 parts about an hour long each detailing the God's laws of Forgiveness and Repentance and tying it all in with the conscience mechanism, God's way of telling us what is true.
In this episode, I decide to share my thoughts on where I am with understanding forgiveness and what I do. I think about was I loving and truthful.
What emotions and beliefs am I operating from, who gave me false teaching and begin to forgive?
Today being Veteran’s Day, I wonder about what God’s point of view of war and death a result of war is. Is the Christian view of believing that the blood of Jesus saves, the truth? God wants us to love one another. War is the opposite of that.
God created a spirit world. How do we feel about God and what he created? Humility is feeling all our feelings without projecting it to others( according to Divine Truth). Feeling is how God designed our soul to communicate.
God created more than our physical reality. God can teaches about all he created including the spiritual realm. I desire to connect to God to learn about all he created.
My lack of patience is a demand, wanting to do things my way. It’s a lower level of “animal” functioning. The Guidance of God and the spirit are our guides to a higher way of living.
God’s Love is more than can be imagined. Love is emotional. Points of overwhelm are opportunities to grow. When we pray overwhelm are opportunities to experiment God’s Love.
Mu understanding of God’s laws is that challenge and overwhelm are opportunities to pray and grow. I am learning to allow overwhelm so I can grow towards God.
After watching the Divine Truth video on prayer and building a relationship with God, I understand that my concept of God needs to change. My faith in prayer and receiving God’s Love needs to be developed.
I’m reading the document from the Divine Truth website, titled Understanding Sin and It’s Causes. Dated March 2, 2019. It helped me to understand that my actions are due to my lack of faith. The document discusses corrupt faith.
I am currently developing my love for God. I can reflect on nature and the fact that he allows mistakes.
There have been very few moments of sincere overwhelming prayer on my part. Today I prayed for 45 minutes and I gave the emotion of love to God. Prayer is emotional.
God has done great things for me. Now he wants me to take off the training wheels and live from what he has taught me. It’s up to me to build faith in what he has taught me.
Today I’m upset with God for not giving me a clear answer to my question. I understand that God has given me enough information to make the choice, using my Will. He allows mistakes and I will be corrected. Trust in God’s process.
Do you want a Relationship with God? Then seek him for guidance with everything including our goals.
I’m watching the videos from the Divine Truth Series, titled a relationship with God. One of the many benefits I am receiving is that my true talents and desires are being revealed. Continue to pray.
Grow your treasure. The main one being the desire to love as God loves. Pray for God’s guidance to do this.
The more I pray the more I get God’s assistance to fulfilling my desires. What do I do with my will and my faith? If I am not fulfilling a desire, I ask God why?
What am I building in my life? After I read the Padgett Messages from Kate Sprague, a socialite in the late 1800’s, I was remind to develop in love not career or intellectual pursuits.
I recently journaled about what happens when I pray. I became aware that when I make time to build the relationship with God there are consistent benefits.
This morning I journaled and created a list of things to learn about God’s system. For example, I can learn to understand how to be in relationship with God, I can learn to love without being loved in return (as God loves).
In seeking a relationship with God, I have started to add journaling to prayer. I contemplate about what I am learning about God. God does not have anger or sadness. If I have those feelings then God desire is to feel them, in order to release them. I journal about my anger and sadness how God helps me in that process.
In my desire to understand why I should put God first and the importance of that, I completed a t-chart comparing God to a previous relationship. God is available to us whenever we truly desire, people are not. God loves without expectation, people do not, etc.
This morning my heart is open to God. I want to give Him my feelings of love. In a relationship, in friendship having love for the other helps the relationship to grow. Engage in activities where you can express love to God. Currently, I am part of a choir. It helps me to open my heart to God and all my brothers and sisters on the planet.
Why do I ignore God’s influence? I find myself not sharing about him. Instead I involve myself in venting and complaining. I don’t want to forget about my spiritual soulful side. If I am building a relationship with anyone, I speak about them. I mention what they mean to me.
Gods Love is given to us. It’s up to us to long for it sincerely. Do I place conditions in order to love God or others? God gets rejected by so many people, yet He still loves. What is stopping me from loving the way God loves? What emotions and false beliefs exists in me?
I don’t know how to love the way God loves when I have it so deep inside that love is a give and take, and sometimes sacrifice. But I’m going to keep praying to receive His love to understand.
Is the emotion of love flowing? God loves emotionally. I am becoming aware of my emotions. Do I have a feeling of love for God when I pray?
Our longing for God opens the door to the reception of His Love. It is emotional. Do we desire to love emotionally regardless of what the another person does or does not do?
God does not force, manipulate or lie, so why do I? I’m Asking God to assist me in noticing my motives for using unloving tactics to get what I want.
God models how to be in all our relationships. If God desires to know and understanding us, are we desiring to know and understand God and others? The more we learn about God’s Love, the more we learn how to love others, including the soulmate that God designed for us. I am watching the Divine Truth playlist on Partner Relationships. I watched them out of order. Session 3 part 1 was where I started.
How many times have I looked to others to give me feelings and things? These are addictions and not a pure way to Love. The relationship with God helps me to discover what negative feelings I have that block love.
When God gives us His Love, we discover more about Him. He is so generous because with his Love comes so many benefits.
The first step to transform the soul and get to know God, is to develop a sincere desire to pray for His Love. With his love we unlock possibilities to understand more about how to be loving people from God's perspective. I have been reading and reflecting upon the ebook/document that is on the Divine Truth website regarding Solomon's Message. The ebook is a transcription of the discussion between Jesus and Mary about the greatest truth in all the world.
After reading the Padgett Message dated January 16, 1917. I had an insight to the importance of God’s Love and that it is available to every sincere seeking heart. One of the many things Divine Love does it that it teaches kindness and how to have a forgiving and repentful soul.
This message also mentions soulmates. Such a beautiful message of God's desire to redeem every soul. My favorite message.
I found a youtube version of the message.
Here is the message form in written form from the Divine Truth website.
Traffic in the morning provides a perfect opportunity to be loving. What would God want me to do? Abide by his laws of love and not only think of myself. Consider myself and the soul of others.
No matter who you are or what you have done if you have a sincere desire to receive God’s Love, God will give you love. His Love is a substance that helps you to know Him. He will guide you to recognize your worth and recognize the work you’d like to do in the world.
As I think about my life and the development of my soul, I am discovering a desire to do spiritual work. God’s Truth regarding my worth helps me transform my soul by developing faith to pray and receive God's Love. The results of my prayer confirms that God would prefer myself to do work that is aligned with His Laws.
I read the document on the Divine Truth website titled, Padgett Messages: Solomon’s Message dated 20th of April 1916.
You can find the video discussion and more resources regarding the message on the Divine Truth website under downloads, 2013 year, dated 10th of April 2013. Although, the message and my episode discussed appear unrelated. I am understanding that putting faith in sincere prayer to receive God's Love is the greatest truth in the world. I have hesitated to do it in the past because I was not willing to accept the truth about how I am living my life in pursuit of worth through career and economic security and did not see an alternative.
I’m understanding how the acceptance of God’s Truth is the Doorway to Love. If I don’t for example accept that my experiences, thoughts and emotions are limited compared to God, I will not open myself to new understandings and more importantly God’s Love.
What desires, emotions and beliefs are inside my soul? Are they loving? Become aware and feel why and where they come from to become more loving, God’s definition of love.
What an I doing automatically? That’s how I am using my will. What are the consequences. God is teaching me. If I continue to long for His Love and build a relationship with him I can make better decisions.
Many times I make decisions looking only what’s in it for me, how it will benefit me. Learning about God’s definition of use of will and love takes self-awareness and reflection. Instead of changing the physical environment and actions, I can change from a soul perspective. My thoughts and concepts from this video on the use of will from Divine Truth. https://youtu.be/WB5Vy7K6HA0
My choices in life determine my happiness in the long run. I am noticing how I use my will. Is it aligned with God’s will? God teaches me through the world we live in. What did God created? What did humanity (myself included) create? Is it aligned with God’s will?
I have prayed for God to show me about myself and about the distractions in the world. Now I have come to an understanding about my will. How am I using it? God showed me to reflect on the Bible verse, Luke 12-16 to 21. Am I using my will to be rich towards God?
God is our teacher he gave me free will to decide to learn about Him and the true definition of love.
A shift has happened were I observed myself with God as a needy being. Neediness does not allow for a fulfilling relationship. God gave me free will. I notice how I use that will and how I pray.
In order to open up to God, and build a relationship with Him, I need to learn more about Him. I read the Padgett Messages Vol. II, a message dated November 05, 1916. What I learned is God is not mysterious. He has no secrets. Link to the Padgett Messages dated November 05, 1916 is from the Divine Truth website.
Building a relationship with God, means preparing yourself to receive God's Love. According to the Divine Truth teachings, a document and ebook, A Burning Desire for God, written Jesus (aka AJ Miller), there are 5 principles to receiving God's Love. I am presenting my current understandings and sharing my experience using the document mentioned as a reference, in today's episode. One of the principles states, "I need to develop a burning desire to be known by God". Do I want to be known by God? A clue is, do I want to be known by others? In other words, am I open or do I present to others and God what I think they want me to be?
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/relationship-with-god-jesus-aj-miller/1121066467
Wow! I was reading a document from the Divine Truth website titled A Burning Desire for God. I was stuck, by the fact that God wants me to know Him. I thought that was so beautiful and relatable. Something has shifted. I want to know Him above all things. I feel a stronger desire more than just curiosity.
I realized I want God to help me fix my life. If he does that then I think he is good. Oh...I just assume that He should be responsible for my life and all I have to do is pray.
I can choose to learn more about God's Goodness. I have free will to make the choice to investigate that topic.
We live in a world where we have distortions about love. If I focus only on my relationships with people, I am missing the opportunity to grow and become educated by God.
When building a relationship with God, I forget about him in favor of having a relationship with others. What do I feel I can get from others? Why don’t I feel God can provide?
How to stay connected to God at work. Treat others the way I want to be treated. Treat others the way God wants them to be treated. Prayer before speaking to others. Prayer before emails and other tasks. Is that the way to build a relationship with God?
What do I do at work? God is not in my thoughts. Should he be and how do I incorporate him at work? I don’t have an answer just yet.
Ep19-03-10-19 Parable of the rich fool. Luke 12: 15-21. Over the weekend I took time to pray and think about God. I enjoyed my weekend very much. The parable of the rich fool reminded me to continue to seek God’s Love.
I read a message from the Padgett Messages in Volume II, dated October 16, 1916. Soul development is eternal. Seek God and not material pursuits.
This experiment to pray and long for God’s love was not as strong as I thought it was. So I try again.
I want to learn more about God to build my faith and relationship with him. He is not a God of wrath but of love.
How do I have a relationship with God? I cannot see God. I sense I am more than my physical body. I take the leap of faith that there’s got to be more.
Faith is an emotion that builds based on past experiences. Starting now I will experiment with Faith. Faith that the best relationship is one with God. Faith that I can have a relationship with a being I can’t see.
Ep12-03-03-19 Building faith that God cares about me. One of my blocks to God is feeling he is too busy and doesn’t care about me. This is why I start my day without him.
Ep-03-02-19 Why don’t I seek God? I’m cranky, my throat is sore and I find myself wanting to plan my day without God.
I want to know God. I ask for Him to show me how to grow my faith. I don’t want to get distracted thinking other relationships and other things are more important.
Ep-7-02-25-19 Building Faith that God is Good. God wants me to be happy. I want my faith to grow to understand why God made the Universe and His gift of free will and love.
“What are the greatest truths in all the world?” Excerpt from the Padgett Messages April 20 1916.
Show me opportunities to be loving. Love is a gift that is a choice of the person giving not the person receiving. Love is not give and take or barter.
The very first episode of this podcast!!
This a project in which I am learning about God. Listen to my prayer and insights, based on information of Divine Truth and the Padgett Messages and how I am seeking God's Love.