With a thought, he steps from world to world to world. He has lived for over three thousand years. Measures of sanity among planeswalkers are hard to come by. This unique gift produced such a spiritual change in Brother Lawrence that many people sought him out to learn how to practice the presence of God themselves.ĭaniel and his wife, along with an incredible team, helped plant Anchor City Church in San Diegoa third culture, multi-generational church who seeks to join the redemptive mission of God for our city and for the world.Prologue Urza says he's sane. The Thran J Robert King How To Practice The I made this my business, not only at the appointed times of prayer but all the time every hour, every minute, even in the height of my work, I drove from my mind everything that interrupted my thoughts of God. I worshipped Him the oftenest I could, keeping my mind in His holy presence and recalling it as often as I found it wandered from Him. They are the heart and soul of his ability to live in the constant presence of God.Īfter having given myself wholly to God, to make all the satisfaction I could for my sins, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He, and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.Īt other times I beheld Him in my heart as my Father, as my God. Yet the goodness of God assured him He would not forsake him utterly and that He would give him strength to bear whatever evil He permitted to happen to him. Whether God led us by suffering or by consolation all would be equal to a soul truly resigned. We ought to give ourselves up to God with regard both to things temporal and spiritual and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will.
He said that faith was sufficient to bring us to a high degree of perfection. Instead of taking faith for the rule of their conduct, men amused themselves with trivial devotions which changed daily.
We should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of God which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. It was a shameful thing to quit His conversation to think of trifles and fooleries.
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