Dear Folks,
Realize you can open your arms to change, without letting go of your values.
Pray — there is immeasurable power in it.
Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
— Selections from: Instructions for Life, Anonymous
We do not often think of ourselves as Regal, but as your read the definitions, imagine it as a positive goal.
I have been grateful to all of you receiving these messages for the last 20 years, and, I suppose, my complimentary close of “Peace” has been a prayer-wish for you. From today and moving forward, I will think of you with a Prayerful attitude.
            REGAL
Definitions: (1) exhibiting notable excellence or even magnificence; splendid; (2) relating to or suitable for royalty
            PRAYERFUL

Definitions: (1) worshipful communion to or with God; (2) spiritual or meditative contemplation; (3) devout; (4) earnest and sincere
Compatible Quality: intuition
Parental Quality: faith
Consequential Quality: insight
Saying: Laborare est orare (Latin): “To work is to pray.”
Quotes:
You can’t pray a lie. — Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
God answers man’s prayer by giving him an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, and an augmented concept of goodness. Prayer is a subjective gesture, but it contacts with mighty objective realities on the spiritual levels of human experience; it is a meaningful reach by the human for superhuman values. It is the most potent spiritual-growth stimulus.
Words are irrelevant to prayer; they are merely the intellectual channel in which the river of spiritual supplication may chance to flow. The word value of a prayer is purely autosuggestive in private devotions and sociosuggestive in group devotions. God answers the soul’s attitude, not the words. — The Urantia Book (91:8.11-12)
Prayers:
• Make up your own prayers or modify these. Remember prayers are not the words. Your sincere heart is doing the praying. Your open mind is receiving the light. Your prayer is personal.
• Dear God, you are The Upholder. Thank you for the gift of life. Just as the bird sits on her nest, so do you patiently and knowingly nurture our growth.
Daily Prayer
I am thankful for this new day. My mind and heart are open to all experiences because they teach me what I need to know. Those persons, places, and things I can benefit and can benefit me are drawn to me and I to them. I am a blessing to all whom I meet today. I am valuable and deserve to be happy.
I forgive all who need to be forgiven; and everyone who needs to forgive me does so now. I can deal with whatever may happen to me today. There is nothing to fear, the Knower within me guides me perfectly in all decisions.
I am healthy and whole and respect my body. My positive, affirmative thoughts shield me from all negativity and doubt. I let go of worn out things and worn out conditions. I replace them with fresh, vibrant, and abundant ideas. I am alive, alert, and aware. I walk in the paths of fairness, right action, and gratitude – all of the time, whether I think about it or not.
I align myself consciously and deliberately with the Supreme. I am a child of the universe, and am filled with the faith God is in charge of my life. It is my will to align with The Will.
Good morning One! Thank you for this day! Thank you for me! Thank you for my friends. Thank you for the world. May all my thoughts, words, and actions of today be in service to the highest good. — Australian Aboriginal, Mutant Message

Divine intelligence, what positive, constructive, creative thought, word, attitude, or action is my next step to improve my present work? What is the next step into … abundance, satisfaction and freedom …? — Catherine Ponder (1927 – ) The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

Our Mother, who art beneath us, you support us, nurture us, bring us the gift of life. Hear the prayers of your children and forgive us our trespasses. Intervene on our behalf for those other lives, great and small, which suffer when we err. Oh, Mother, we pray. Help us to face danger and be wise. — David Brin (1950 – ) Earth
Inspiration:
We seek, through prayer and meditation, to improve our conscious contact with God (as we understand the concept). Praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry it out. — Number eleven of the Alcoholics Anonymous twelve‑step program
Observations:
• Praying is an efficient way to clarify our understanding of our intended needs and concepts.
• In order for a prayer to be effective, we must first possess and have honestly aspired to the qualities of industriousness, stamina, surrender, decisiveness, dedication, wisdom, and faith.
Comment: The sincere motive of your prayer is the payload; your faith is the propellant sending it swiftly and surely to an eager Divine Source. Since God is always open to give, and has an unlimited supply of goodness, truth, mercy, or any positive quality, you will get what you need.
Prayer changes, expands, and clarifies your attitude and insight.
Types of Prayers:
• Adoration, Praise
• Forgiveness, Contrition
• Submission, Acceptance
• Thankful, Grateful, Appreciative
• Wishful, Needful, Helpful, Petitionary
• Affirming, Knowing
• Aligning, Faithful
• Contemplative
• Denial
Note: Denial should be meshed with an affirming prayer, such as, “I will not accept this negative situation. I know Divine Order will prevail, and I accept God’s structure. The evil here does not touch me, but I will learn from it.”
Experience: When I used to hitchhike, I would not fret and worry about the next ride or when I would get it. I would instead build up a prayer to give to the next person kind enough to bring me down the road. I would do this by being conscious of all that was happening to me and around me. I would add special inner prayer wishes for the good of the person who finally opened there door, and thus their heart, to me. As each driver approached I would mentally let them know a wealth of good energy would be theirs if they chose to pick me up.
I did not often get rides from female drivers, but one time, while I was using this technique, I did. She was amazed that she had stopped. I told her why and we had a very nice conversation about the important things in life.
Symbols: 1) the eagle; 2) the bow and arrow
Legendary Object: A Japanese legend holds that the crane lives for a thousand years, and your prayer or wish will come true if you fold a thousand paper cranes.
Mythological Figure: Sandalphon, in Jewish mythology, one of three angels who receive prayers from the faithful and weave them into crowns
Consider the Source

The teachings of Jesus, even though greatly modified, survived the mystery cults of their birthtime, the ignorance and superstition of the dark ages, and are even now slowly triumphing over the materialism, mechanism, and secularism of the twentieth century. And such times of great testing and threatened defeat are always times of great revelation.
Religion does need new leaders, spiritual men and women who will dare to depend solely on Jesus and his incomparable teachings. If Christianity persists in neglecting its spiritual mission while it continues to busy itself with social and material problems, the spiritual renaissance must await the coming of these new teachers of Jesus’ religion who will be exclusively devoted to the spiritual regeneration of men. And then will these spirit-born souls quickly supply the leadership and inspiration requisite for the social, moral, economic, and political reorganization of the world.
The modern age will refuse to accept a religion which is inconsistent with facts and out of harmony with its highest conceptions of truth, beauty, and goodness. The hour is striking for a rediscovery of the true and original foundations of present-day distorted and compromised Christianity — the real life and teachings of Jesus.
Primitive man lived a life of superstitious bondage to religious fear. Modern, civilized men dread the thought of falling under the dominance of strong religious convictions. Thinking man has always feared to be held by a religion. When a strong and moving religion threatens to dominate him, he invariably tries to rationalize, traditionalize, and institutionalize it, thereby hoping to gain control of it. By such procedure, even a revealed religion becomes man-made and man-dominated. Modern men and women of intelligence evade the religion of Jesus because of their fears of what it will do to them — and with them. And all such fears are well founded. The religion of Jesus does, indeed, dominate and transform its believers, demanding that men dedicate their lives to seeking for a knowledge of the will of the Father in heaven and requiring that the energies of living be consecrated to the unselfish service of the brotherhood of man.
Selfish men and women simply will not pay such a price for even the greatest spiritual treasure ever offered mortal man. Only when man has become sufficiently disillusioned by the sorrowful disappointments attendant upon the foolish and deceptive pursuits of selfishness, and subsequent to the discovery of the barrenness of formalized religion, will he be disposed to turn wholeheartedly to the gospel of the kingdom, the religion of Jesus of Nazareth.
The world needs more firsthand religion. Even Christianity — the best of the religions of the twentieth century — is not only a religion about Jesus, but it is so largely one which men experience secondhand. They take their religion wholly as handed down by their accepted religious teachers. What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! Descriptive words of things beautiful cannot thrill like the sight thereof, neither can creedal words inspire men’s souls like the experience of knowing the presence of God. But expectant faith will ever keep the hope-door of man’s soul open for the entrance of the eternal spiritual realities of the divine values of the worlds beyond.
Christianity has dared to lower its ideals before the challenge of human greed, war-madness, and the lust for power; but the religion of Jesus stands as the unsullied and transcendent spiritual summons, calling to the best there is in man to rise above all these legacies of animal evolution and, by grace, attain the moral heights of true human destiny.
Christianity is threatened by slow death from formalism, overorganization, intellectualism, and other nonspiritual trends. The modern Christian church is not such a brotherhood of dynamic believers as Jesus commissioned continuously to effect the spiritual transformation of successive generations of mankind.
So-called Christianity has become a social and cultural movement as well as a religious belief and practice. The stream of modern Christianity drains many an ancient pagan swamp and many a barbarian morass; many olden cultural watersheds drain into this present-day cultural stream as well as the high Galilean tablelands which are supposed to be its exclusive source.
Consider the Source

Quite often, men of the world refer to believers as troublemakers; as Ahab called Elijah a “troubler of Israel” (1 Kings 18:16-18). Interestingly, Jesus might appear more of a troublemaker than a peacemaker, as people could not agree about him. Jesus explains, “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword,” (Matthew 10:34).
Dr. Ron Susek, in his book Firestorm, shares the difference between a peacekeeper and a peacemaker. Dr. Susek explains, “Peacekeepers tend to be passive, preferring to avoid conflict…. On the other hand, peacemakers tackle conflict head on, determined to bring peace based upon truth, mutual understanding, and forgiveness…. While peacekeepers try to sweep things under the rug, peacemakers try to sweep issues out the door.”
As we hear more and more about the World Court from the United Nations, we find a prophecy of the Lord coming as the ultimate judge in Psalm 96:10-13. We are also told he will lift the curse upon creation in Romans 8:18-23. that Jesus Christ will preside over a world court in John 5:22. We are consoled by the words of Abraham: “Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25). Is this is the new world order men so desperately desire?
We are told there will be a perfect peace and harmony between heaven and earth (Isaiah 11 and 12). The blessings from peace and harmony flow through the believer’s life.

Consider the Source

7 Checkpoints Curriculum Strategy for Students is an intentional, systematic approach to discipleship focused on the content of discipleship. These seven student-specific principles are the irreducible minimum. The authors are convinced that these seven basic principles every student should understand, commit to memory and embrace before they leave the safety of their homes and youth ministries. These are the must know, can’t be without principles. They are not all that is important. But they are what are most important for students. They are as follows:

• Check point #1 – Authentic Faith

Principle – Can God be trusted that he will do what He has promised to do.
Critical question: Are our students trusting God with the critical areas of their lives?
Key passage – Proverbs 3:5-6

• Checkpoint #2 – Spiritual Discipline

Principle – When you see as God sees, you will do as God says.
Critical question – Are our students developing a consistent devotional prayer life.
Key passage – Romans 12:2

• Checkpoint #3 – Moral Boundaries

Principle – Purity paves the way to intimacy
Critical question – Are our students established and maintaining Godly moral boundaries?
Key passage – I Thessalonians 4:3-8

• Checkpoint #4 – Healthy Friendships

Principle – Your friends will determine the direction and quality of your life.
Critical question–Are our students establishing healthy friendships and avoiding unhealthy ones?
Key passage – Proverbs 13:20

• Checkpoint #5 – Wise Choices

Principle – Walk wisely
Critical question – Are our students making wise choices in every area of their lives?
Key passage – Ephesians 5:15-17

• Checkpoint #6 – Ultimate Authority

Principle – Maximum freedom is found under God’s authority.
Critical question – Are our students submitting to the authorities God has placed over them?
Key passage – Romans 13:1-2

• Checkpoint #7 – Others First

Principle – Consider others before yourself
Critical question – Are our students putting the needs of others ahead of their own?
Key passage – Philippians 2:3-11

Consider the Source

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! — Henry Ward Beecher

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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. — William Blake

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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had. — James Brown

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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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