Unity of LO Lesson
Discover Your God-Given Potential
12 Spiritual Abilities to Change Your Life (Unity pamphlet)
By Reverend Winifred Wilkinson Hausmann
Will - I choose my good based on spiritual understanding.
Re-Educate Your Executive Faculty
Jesus overcame the human, selfish motivation of the will and allowed it to be replaced by unification with Divine will. The rewards of unifying your will with the will of God are great. They include health, happiness, joy, peace, harmony, prosperity and more. But the spiritual development of this executive faculty requires much time, thought and consecration.
No matter how you try, you will not be able to say with Jesus "Not my will but yours be done" until you are able to believe that God's will for you is good. You may speak the words, but you can only realize the prayer when you are joyously, enthusiastically in favor of having God's good manifest in your life.
Will is developed in the middle of the forehead, close to the seat of understanding in the front of the brain. These two powers are closely related and are to be awakened and trained together. Affirm: God's will for me is good, more than I can begin to imagine in my human thinking. Then look around to see how this Truth applies in your life, your aims and your relationships.
The disciple who represents will was a man who needed strong determination to do the job he did before joining Jesus. Matthew was a tax collector and had to be thick-skinned and determined.
Even will that has been wrongly directed in the past can be transformed immediately when touched by the Christ, as represented by Jesus. When Jesus said to Matthew, "Follow me," the tax collector immediately "left everything, and rose and followed him" (Luke 5:28 RSV)
Remember especially that will and understanding, both working from centers in the front brain, must cooperate. Understanding on its own may do nothing. Will, on the other hand, may go ahead forcefully and do the wrong thing. Working in harmony together, the two faculties accomplish much. Will determines the movement; understanding decrees the direction.
These are the steps in developing the facility of will:
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Willingness - Willfulness, the human determination of the will to have its own way, must be replaced by willingness--the willingness to learn, to change, to cease resistance, to go God's way. Consciously take this step to release old habits and attitudes.
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Resolution - Determine the direction you will take and then establish the strength of determination to follow through on it, not in the human sense of getting your own personal way, but in determining a path of spiritual growth.
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Training - In order to be qualified to direct the activities of the other powers, will must be re-educated into right thinking, taught to make right decisions, and schooled to work under the direction of growing spiritual understanding.
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Obedience - Learn to be responsive to the voice of Spirit within. As you continue to be true to your highest present understanding, you will awaken a greater awareness and comprehension.
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Government - Will now functions under the Christ, the spiritual nature. In human consciousness, through the exercise of human will, you can (and do) fail, no matter how forceful you are. In divine consciousness, under God direction, you are invincible.
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Surrender - Give up all personal direction of the will as you say with Jesus, "Not my will but yours be done." This is not a negative sort of submission, but a positive activity in which you give all power to the Christ within.
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Unity - Move past surrender into the ultimate oneness with the will of God. You no longer have to think about it or be conscious of it. You simply let your life move in harmony with it as Jesus did.
Developing the faculty of will in a spiritual way must be done in a relaxed, willing, expectant frame of mind. If you find that there is a tendency to become tense and to try to force this faculty, stop and take stock. Re-educate the executive power of your mind to unfold your divine potential in all areas of life and living.
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