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By spending even a small interval of time in [[stillness]], you are experiencing your [[purity]] of [[being]]. What I mean by "purity of being" is that you are not clouded by [[appearance]]. Your [[functions]] and the distractions of the elements that support your functions cease. The more deeply you [[experience]] this sense of being unencumbered by definition, the more profoundly you will know who you are, who God is, and your [[relationship]]. Subsequently you will be better able to don the appropriate apparel and [[function]] for [[the Father]], because you will better understand who is filling the shoes and wearing the hat.

By spending even a small interval of time in [[stillness]], you are experiencing your [[purity]] of [[being]]. What I mean by "purity of being" is that you are not clouded by [[appearance]]. Your [[functions]] and the distractions of the elements that support your functions cease. The more deeply you [[experience]] this sense of being unencumbered by definition, the more profoundly you will know who you are, who God is, and your [[relationship]]. Subsequently you will be better able to don the appropriate apparel and [[function]] for [[the Father]], because you will better understand who is filling the shoes and wearing the hat.

Someone who for the very first time suits up in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_suit high pressure diving outfit] finds it awkward, needs to [[understand]] how the apparatus functions for safety and mobility. Once the skill and the education is attained, the individual can expertly apply the apparatus to reach the desired goal. So [[training]] for [[service]] has two aspects: Better [[understanding]] of the needs to be filled through [[outreach]] and ministry, service; the skills you have in order to accomplish such. Secondly, is your [[relationship]] to God, for, though one may understand how well to use the apparel they place upon themselves to fulfill a function, there as an inward [[preparedness]]. Clean clothes lose their [[purpose]] when the body that wears them is not clean itself. By retreating to this primal position of being before God, you reset, you cleanse yourself. You [[prepare]] to be able to approach the wardrobe of ministry. This [[time]] of [[eternal]] importance [[reveals]] to you that whatever garment you wear to accomplish whatever task it serves as you wear it, not one is of less [[value]] or importance. What is important is the value that God places upon you and upon the other to whom you reach. This is understood from [[stillness]] and then applied in [[service]]. You can come to the [[realization]] of the value of personal [[relationship]] with the Father by being the recipient of the outreach of another, but often the outward [[appearances]] [[confuse]] the original [[revelation]]. The cloak of the clergy, the coat of the surgeon, can cause you to stop short of understanding the greatest value of all. So, I conclude by encouraging you to spend time in the most primary of important [[events]] you could undertake, and that is in [[quiet time]] with the [[Divine]] Presence.

Someone who for the very first time suits up in a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_suit high pressure diving outfit] finds it awkward, needs to [[understand]] how the apparatus functions for safety and mobility. Once the skill and the education is attained, the individual can expertly apply the apparatus to reach the desired goal. So [[training]] for [[service]] has two aspects: Better [[understanding]] of the needs to be filled through [[outreach]] and ministry, service; the skills you have in order to accomplish such. Secondly, is your [[relationship]] to God, for, though one may understand how well to use the apparel they place upon themselves to fulfill a function, there as an inward [[preparedness]]. Clean clothes lose their [[purpose]] when the body that wears them is not clean itself. By retreating to this primal position of being before God, you reset, you cleanse yourself. You [[prepare]] to be able to approach the wardrobe of ministry. This [[time]] of [[eternal]] importance [[reveals]] to you that whatever garment you wear to accomplish whatever task it serves as you wear it, not one is of less [[value]] or importance. What is important is the value that God places upon you and upon the other to whom you reach. This is understood from [[stillness]] and then applied in [[service]]. You can come to the [[realization]] of the value of personal [[relationship]] with the Father by being the recipient of the outreach of another, but often the outward [[appearances]] [[confuse]] the original [[revelation]]. The cloak of the clergy, the coat of the surgeon, can cause you to stop short of understanding the greatest value of all. So, I conclude by encouraging you to spend time in the most primary of important [[events]] you could undertake, and that is in [[quiet time]] with the [[Divine]] Presence.

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