beyond a doubt that you can always rely on Me, no matter what. (IV:330)
Loss is simply one of those attached lessons of life that everyone has got to deal with sooner or later, and better sooner than later…
You’ll be able to comfort others with the comfort you are being comforted with yourself, but unless you’ve made the experience, there’s no way you could ever relate to them… (IV:335)
You’re going to literally experience the truth of what I meant by “Without Me ye can do nothing.” (IV:381)
Experiences will always lead you to the conclusion that I am the only solid Rock, the one true Constant in your life that you can rely on, and the best thing you can do to prepare yourself and spare you any shock and disappointment is to keep that in mind. (IV:389)
Experience is serving to teach you that you must put your trust in Me to a greater extent. (IV:416)
Life is full of options and surprises that never would have occurred to folks, which is the big difference between theory and actual experience… (IV:431)
I let you see the advantages and disadvantages of different options and want you to grow stronger through your experiences. (IV:447)
Life is an as-you-go learning experience, since the practice has proven to be a so much more effective teacher than mere theory.
I like to teach you most of all by the things that you experience, and basically, that’s what life is all about, not just theoretical head stuffing.
When you experience the disappointment of someone turning out to have been a fake, it strengthens your desire to make sure you are the Real Thing yourself. You wouldn’t want to be a fake like them. (IV:458)
The sort of knowledge you acquire by experience is a lot more effective, it works more in you, and half the fun of experience is that you don’t know everything beforehand… (IV:466)
Sometimes I allow you to experience that sadness because you did not pray, and some of the sad things others experience might be happening because you failed to do that which you can do, and can always do, which is pray. (IV:482)
It is good to learn from what you experience in life. (IV:490)
The experience of loss evokes processes that make richer and more “valuable” somehow.(IV:499) You have to find out which is and which isn’t the right way from experience.(IV:506)
As much as I leave you free choice: the main purpose of that freedom is for you to find out by experience that there is really no better choice you can make than deciding to put your will on My side. (IV:514)
As hard as experiences might be, just like death itself, they are precious in My sight, because they drive home to you the futility of this world in ways that only they can… (IV:519)
I need folks who cannot just preach in theory, but prove by their experience that it really works and they have tried and proven it themselves by finding Me to be a sure and certain Help in times of crisis! (IV:525)
Most people are at least sometimes inclined to think that they’d be doing a better job at playing God than the Father is, but it’s experience – the experience of actually having children of their own – that teaches them that it may not be as easy as they thought to raise children, and the experience of making a mess of the situations you’re in charge of, that you may not be the best boss in the world, after all, either… (IV:528)
I must allow you to reap the consequences of your actions to some extent. You’ve got to find out by your own experience what sort of thing is genuinely helpful, and which are not. (11:8)
As you can tell from your own experiences: less than wholehearted often fails to inspire and invoke enthusiasm… (11:28) You can only be like Me in this world by spending time with Me to learn of Me, experience what I’m really like and become like that yourself… (11:33)
Getting a taste of the yoke of the System, you've got to remember that it is My yoke I want you to take upon you!
Sometimes the reason why I do lead My followers to get a taste of their yoke, is for them to experience and know the difference between the liberty I give and the bondage and yoke of the System. (11:41)
I’m drilling you to learn by your own experience and from your mistakes; what happens when you forget to do this or neglect to do that, etc. (11:43)
Life itself allows people to find out by their own experience which paths truly render happiness, and which don't... (11:48) You know by experience that you’ve fared well thus far, to be listening to My voice. Granted, sometimes I may lead you down a path that will test your faith and make you wonder, “Are You kidding, Lord? Are You for real? This doesn’t seem to make any sense at all…”
And everybody will nod their head vehemently and enthusiastically in agreement and say, “See, we’ve told you all along, you couldn’t trust this Guy! Look what road He’s leading you down!”
But you know My response to that: Wait and see! (11:49)
You’ve experienced and found out that there are bound to crop up problems, and you’re going to wish for My Presence and Help in order to deal with them when they happen, and the only way you can ensure that is by staying close to Me. (11:50) Who do you regard as your ultimate teacher? Your personal experiences or Me? Or, what am I really trying to teach you through your experiences?
Wasn’t that what faith is all about? Seeing more than the immediately visible? Looking further than what your eyes can make out, and even that which experience teaches you?
Or is there a truth that is deeper and goes further than all that experience could possibly teach you? Something that tells you that things may seem like this, but they’re really another way? – Well, that’s the voice of faith.
The voice of faith is the difference between what experience teaches you – or at least your carnal mind makes of it - and that which I’m really trying to teach you by all this. (11:64)
Life is what you choose and strive to make it each day: either a positive experience you can rejoice in, or a negative one you need to suffer through. (11:66)
Nothing draws you closer to Me than the experience of your own insufficiency. (11:69)
Sometimes a man has got to do what he’s got to do regardless of potential failure and the risks involved. It’s the experience and the lesson in it that counts, and if you didn’t do it, you may stay wondering for the rest of your life, “What if I had?”
If the means are there, you can do it, and it will be worth the experience, but you should not blame Me or anyone if it doesn’t work out the way you want… (11:83)
If you could face each day and all its moments with the assurance that this is exactly what you’re supposed to experience right now, instead of with an attitude of, “What am I doing here?” you’d find more grace in you to embrace your lot with a smile. (11:115)
Do you think that’s all you deserve? – Just pleasant things to go through and experience? If that would be so, why would I permit and allow those unpleasant experiences happening to you? (15:169)
Gather some wisdom through life’s experiences, concerning what reaps good results, and what doesn’t! (15:246)
If it’s already the roughest times you’ve experienced, let it be a preparation for you for what’s expecting the world! (2016:1) Better to be prepared for rough times coming than having to experience them in shock! (2016:23)
If it’s rough times, take the chance to apply for My Help, and experience the difference it’ll make!
You did experience already the positive differences prayer was able to make on some days. (2016:31)
Life’s a lesson on what not to do, how not to behave and act, if you want to do it the proper way – Our way. It includes the experience of learning about the mistakes one can make by being governed mainly by selfish intentions, being concerned about one’s own welfare, instead of that of others.
One of the ways of learning how to do it is to experience first how not to. (2016:57)
In order not to get tripped off on the bad, some experience seems necessary to prevent it. (16:58)
My death was to prevent you from suffering hereafter, if you receive Me. But for some of your sins, faults and mistakes you have to go through some experiences yourselves down there that you’ll be able to learn from… how to do it better. (2016:61) Trust and believe in My Promises to help you through and protect you, even if you’ve had an experience that made you doubt that! (2016:64)
Sometimes it’s the end that will tell the whole depth of a story, and makes apparent temporal curses turn out to have been blessings after all, even if that blessing will just turn out through the wisdom, experience and strength you’ve gained through it all. (2016:70)
Sometimes it takes certain experiences in order to learn the principal lessons of life, of which the top one is to love, both, your Creator, and your fellowmen. That’s why I even told My followers to love their enemies.
Take whatever comes… trusting Me that it’ll be just the right experience for whatever part of the lessons of life I consider you still have to go through! (2016:76)
Let Me help you make it through that hell on Earth!
Tough, compared to that bit of Heaven on Earth you experienced beforehand… but making it through either Heaven or hell on Earth is a part of what faith is supposed to enable you to… that faith that Heaven’s going to win that battle in the end!
(2016:97)
If the circumstances aren’t rosy, see it as a preparatory lesson and experience for the darker times to come, to teach you how to handle difficult times! (2016:100)
When circumstances will have become negative enough to affect others, and they still see you cheerful after your time with Me, they might finally get interested in experiencing that, too. (16:107)
It takes that history of experience of what evil can do to make most folks choose the good… including the repercussions of having chosen evil first. (16:112)
Wrong decisions and acts make folks pay their price through the following experiences and repercussions.
Experience is still one of the best teachers. Better than any words and theories… even the Words of your Lord and Creator, when they’re not being treasured as they should be. (16:113)
Heaven on Earth can be experienced through offering Heaven to others. (2016:121)
I want My sheep to learn that I am their Shepherd, and to gain enough experience to teach them what good it is to look at other people and folks like them as their leaders. The fewest of them resist the temptation to abuse their position of leadership…
With all you’ve experienced through earthly leaders, you’ve definitely come to the conclusion that it’s safer to put your trust in Me instead.
The experience of failing human leadership is a way that points in the right direction as to whom one can truly trust without any doubts. (2016:131)
Remember that the physical weakness you experience is supposed to give you greater spiritual Strength, and make you more dependent on Me and your Help from Above!
I turn the bad experiences into something good for you. (16:142)
Allowing circumstances to drag you down, just shows that your state of faith isn’t exactly where it’s supposed to be.
Look beyond them and rise above them! I know, it’s an act of faith… but also experience that will help you strengthen your faith by putting it into action. (16:144)
A weakening process of carnal abilities: A good thing that will turn out to be one in spite of coming out of evil incidents and experience. (16:153)
The times are getting darker by the hour. And how you’re going to make it through them depends on your reliance and dependence on Me… not the experience of things working out the way they used to! (2016:159)
Leaving the right of free choice out there from the beginning shows Our liberal attitude, in comparison to the enemy’s, who will seek to have each on executed who won’t receive his mark…
An incident and experience that ought to teach mankind which is the better force to rule over them – his or Ours. (2016:163) Keeping on the sunny side in the spirit when the world around you’s in darkness is pretty much a miraculous act, which is basically why I’m preparing you for dependence on miracles. And in order to get them and experience them, you’ve got to ask and pray for them! (2016:164)
Let your experience raise your confidence in the Power of good overcoming and rising above that of evil! (2016:170) The times coming will be a lot harder and tougher than what you’ve already experienced and gone through. (2016:175) Another plus about heavenly Help: experiencing It makes you feel better!
It’s experiences through seemingly hopeless situations that raise your trust and confidence in Us to help and see you through.
Experiencing Our Help and protection raises your faith that We might manage to help you make it through the rough times to come.
So, one advantage of experiencing Our Help to make it through rough and potentially dangerous events: raising your faith in and lifting your worries about the capacities of making it through the times to come.
So, good to know and experience that you’re not all alone down there having to make it, isn’t it?
Experiencing your heavenly Help through apparent and initial disadvantages is one of the main factors of circumstances and incidents that draw you closer to Me, and one of the main reasons We allow them to happen. (2016:178)
Don’t be too shocked by circumstances passing the level of what you’re experienced in being able to handle! Be ready to deal with the fact that your faith might still have to grow an awful lot to be able to confront what the enemy not just might, but will be up to!
Expect to see things you’ve never seen and experienced before; which is why I keep reminding you not to set your faith on the things you can see with your physical eyes, but set it Up Here through the spiritual glimpse, vision and focus at the carnally unseen! (2016:179)
In order to be able to appreciate Heaven, most folks need to experience and get a bit of a taste of hell on Earth first!
(2016:190)
If life down there is exhausting, that’s one experience and minus you won’t have to put up with Here. (2016:197) Experiencing mercy on one’s own behalf should also extent the level of it in them toward others.
The more mercy received and experienced, the more to give and show for others. (2016:198)
Being able to put up with others’ faults is something that comes up through the experience that your own can be even worse. (2016:201)
See “doing good” as a way to do things differently for a change! At least it will raise your level of experiences and that of change, which I’ve always promoted as something valuable and positive. (2016:203)
Getting used to tougher times equals experiencing them; and, unfortunately, no way around them. (17:8)
The good and easy times you’ve experienced in a world largely governed by our enemy’s forces of evil are over, with him approaching his ultimate rulership as Antichrist not too long from now. (17:13)
An atheist in many aspects a greater saint than just about any believers you remember: A lesson and experience that should give you hope for the salvation of unbelievers. (17:18)
If laziness has become a long-lasting weakness, and you’re getting almost too tired and weak to fight it, all you’ve got to offer the School of Life is a lesson of unpleasant experiences.
It’s definitely an experience when there’s nothing around you to do. It should get you looking at the possibilities, options and for open doors, not just resign to fate as a “useless” condition, situation or circumstance!
Learning to appreciate folks that aren’t “perfect” might be one of the major challenges for someone with a craving for perfection. And having to deal with the fact that he’s not prefect, either, should make that lesson and experience a little easier to handle. (17:25)
New situations require something different than leaning on one’s own abilities, habits and experience. Dealing with the new, and learning how to do that is one of the advantages of getting or being used to changes. (17:27)
In former times you’ve made it to a large percentage on your own, physical abilities; but by letting you experience a low passage of that former state, I’m in the process of teaching you to utterly lean on Me and Heaven’s Help without which you wouldn’t and won’t make it through what’s coming up ahead. (17:30)
Miracles are the factors that create faith in people more than the Word, since it’s just easier for folks to believe in what they can see and experience. (17:34)
Folks have got to get to the point of learning the difference between good and evil through experience. (17:46)
It may be tough for you to figure out what I'm trying to teach you through your experiences, and it just takes a bit of trust in that fact that I know what I'm doing and allowing, even if it presently it doesn't make much - if any - sense to you. (17:49) Part of the lessons of life: the experience what the motion – along with its notions – the enemy has led the world to fall into the results of. (17:51)
That's what experience will teach: having to go through the results and consequences of the choices made. (17:58)
How long can you be open to the new, the unknown, that which you haven’t experienced yet is another interesting question, regarding what’s coming up ahead.
There’s just a lot to learn to put up with in a world that you’re living in.
Not feeling at home down there, and causing the experience to help you appreciate what’s coming thereafter the way you should… well, that’s part of the sense of the experience of life you’re going through down there. (17:65)
Not feeling at home down there, and causing the experience to help you appreciate what’s coming thereafter the way you should… well, that’s part of the sense of the experience of life you’re going through down there. (17:65)