Changes

 

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group

 

===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===

Teachers: Lantarnek, Jessona

 

===Teacher: [[Lantarnek]], [[Jessona]]===

Topics:

===TR: [[Jonathan]]===

 

 

Lantarnek (Jonathan TR): Greetings, this is Lantarnek. Take a moment to reflect upon the security you feel as one who belongs to a particular country. You may not derive security from the political state of any country, but you know your residence, your surroundings, your belonging. In those countries that are beneficial to the individuals within that governing body, the citizens are content, reasonably so.

 

 

 

* Lantarnek (Jonathan TR): Greetings, this is Lantarnek. Take a moment to reflect upon the security you feel as one who belongs to a particular country. You may not derive security from the political state of any country, but you know your residence, your surroundings, your belonging. In those countries that are beneficial to the individuals within that governing body, the citizens are content, reasonably so.

The result is that sense of belonging, feeling at home. Reflect a moment upon the many volunteers from Jerusem who came to your world to join the planetary government of Urantia. They became a part of its regime. Their citizenship shifted to this world and was to be for many, many years. Then, as if overnight, the entire structure changed and much confusion resulted. You would not wish that to occur in your country this day or even throughout this week, that while the conditions are not perfect, they are reasonable.

The result is that sense of belonging, feeling at home. Reflect a moment upon the many volunteers from Jerusem who came to your world to join the planetary government of Urantia. They became a part of its regime. Their citizenship shifted to this world and was to be for many, many years. Then, as if overnight, the entire structure changed and much confusion resulted. You would not wish that to occur in your country this day or even throughout this week, that while the conditions are not perfect, they are reasonable.

It cannot possibly adhere to your singular perspective. But don't let that prevent you from reaching out to the many souls who desire belonging, who have unique contributions to make to the advancement of Nebadon to Light and Life. Take yourself to them and take them to Michael. That is your simple task. Michael will bring them into higher levels of understanding. His administrators are beyond your count. I will retreat from this contact and give over to Jessona to receive your questions to allow her to address you. Thank you.

It cannot possibly adhere to your singular perspective. But don't let that prevent you from reaching out to the many souls who desire belonging, who have unique contributions to make to the advancement of Nebadon to Light and Life. Take yourself to them and take them to Michael. That is your simple task. Michael will bring them into higher levels of understanding. His administrators are beyond your count. I will retreat from this contact and give over to Jessona to receive your questions to allow her to address you. Thank you.

 

Tom: Thank you, Lantarnek, I needed to hear that. Assurance and confidence were mentioned. How does conviction play a role in this preparedness for preaching the gospel or doing the Father's will? What is conviction, specific to healing?

Tom: Thank you, Lantarnek, I needed to hear that. Assurance and confidence were mentioned. How does conviction play a role in this preparedness for preaching the gospel or doing the Father's will? What is conviction, specific to healing?

* Jessona: Conviction is a result of experience. It is more than the persuasiveness of argument; that is more an attempt to convince. To be convicted is to know through experience. Lantarnek spoke of assurance and confidence, and you bring to the discussion conviction. Assurance is presented to you and received by you. It is a nudge. In confidence you are adopting faithfully, decisively, what talents you have, what guidance is assigned to you. Conviction is a result of earlier experiences of victory, of success. Let us return to the dynamics of Jesus and his apostles.

Jessona: Conviction is a result of experience. It is more than the persuasiveness of argument; that is more an attempt to convince. To be convicted is to know through experience. Lantarnek spoke of assurance and confidence, and you bring to the discussion conviction. Assurance is presented to you and received by you. It is a nudge. In confidence you are adopting faithfully, decisively, what talents you have, what guidance is assigned to you. Conviction is a result of earlier experiences of victory, of success. Let us return to the dynamics of Jesus and his apostles.

Continually he assured them that they were capable of the tasks ahead or he would not have chosen them. They grew in confidence as he taught them and went about his earlier exercises of faith training. Each episode in their ministry that they experienced and grew through developed conviction, but these apostles, while truly spending very precious years with the sovereign-soon-to-be of Nebadon, never really received conviction until he left Urantia. Persuasion is not conviction. Therefore, in the realm of healing, you approach assured of the presence of the healing circuits. You are confident that if your will aligns with the will of the Father you will be successful. Conviction may this day elude you, for your experiences have not been numerous enough to reflect back to your mind the success of your prior endeavors to give the gift of healing to another. While you seek it to be better able, in reality it is received subsequent to your ability to transmit these energies to another. In a sense it becomes the reward of your faith potential. Does this help?

Continually he assured them that they were capable of the tasks ahead or he would not have chosen them. They grew in confidence as he taught them and went about his earlier exercises of faith training. Each episode in their ministry that they experienced and grew through developed conviction, but these apostles, while truly spending very precious years with the sovereign-soon-to-be of Nebadon, never really received conviction until he left Urantia. Persuasion is not conviction. Therefore, in the realm of healing, you approach assured of the presence of the healing circuits. You are confident that if your will aligns with the will of the Father you will be successful. Conviction may this day elude you, for your experiences have not been numerous enough to reflect back to your mind the success of your prior endeavors to give the gift of healing to another. While you seek it to be better able, in reality it is received subsequent to your ability to transmit these energies to another. In a sense it becomes the reward of your faith potential. Does this help?

Tom: Yes, it does. Thank you.

Tom: Yes, it does. Thank you.

* Jessona: I also encourage you to review a lesson given to this group a short while back on conviction, for this may help to augment my comments today. [Editors Note: See session dated March 30, 2003. Available at TMArchives.]

Jessona: I also encourage you to review a lesson given to this group a short while back on conviction, for this may help to augment my comments today. [Editors Note: See session dated March 30, 2003. Available at TMArchives.]

Tom: Would you mind coming with me today as a minister to my sick friends?

Tom: Would you mind coming with me today as a minister to my sick friends?

* Jessona: My friend, I am there already. I address you from that location. It is my duty to be abreast of the situation and to encircuit with these precious individuals, your friends.

Jessona: My friend, I am there already. I address you from that location. It is my duty to be abreast of the situation and to encircuit with these precious individuals, your friends.

Tom: Thank you.

Tom: Thank you.

Evelyn: Lantarnek was saying that assurance involves relationship, that someone gives assurance and you have to also receive it. As ambassadors we could follow Lantarnek's model today by assuring others of their ambassadorial effectiveness. We can also begin to accept it when we hear it and build that assurance ourselves. I'm understanding it to be a two way relationship requiring both giving and taking.

Evelyn: Lantarnek was saying that assurance involves relationship, that someone gives assurance and you have to also receive it. As ambassadors we could follow Lantarnek's model today by assuring others of their ambassadorial effectiveness. We can also begin to accept it when we hear it and build that assurance ourselves. I'm understanding it to be a two way relationship requiring both giving and taking.

* Jessona: Indeed, it does. As you experience the granting of assurance along with the accumulated experience of receiving assurance then you become truly confident. You feel like you belong to a larger family. No longer do you need to be reminded or even assured. You now know. It is in the giving that you are strengthened in the belief that when you receive assurance it is true, for you know that as you have given it has held true to the one who received. It is the same principle that is at play in forgiveness. The ability to trust such contact, whether it is assurance or forgiveness, is strengthened in your ability to likewise extend assurance or forgiveness.

Jessona: Indeed, it does. As you experience the granting of assurance along with the accumulated experience of receiving assurance then you become truly confident. You feel like you belong to a larger family. No longer do you need to be reminded or even assured. You now know. It is in the giving that you are strengthened in the belief that when you receive assurance it is true, for you know that as you have given it has held true to the one who received. It is the same principle that is at play in forgiveness. The ability to trust such contact, whether it is assurance or forgiveness, is strengthened in your ability to likewise extend assurance or forgiveness.

I may attempt to group assurance, confidence, and conviction into a unit. Assurance is a process of give and take. It requires another or others to help you or for you to be helpful. Confidence is a sense of belonging to that brotherhood, that family of assurers. Conviction allows you to stand on your own.

I may attempt to group assurance, confidence, and conviction into a unit. Assurance is a process of give and take. It requires another or others to help you or for you to be helpful. Confidence is a sense of belonging to that brotherhood, that family of assurers. Conviction allows you to stand on your own.

Isolated you may be, but nonetheless faithful and loyal, determined and capable. That is a strong state to attain. It provides you with the ability to pursue through all difficulty, to take no concern when all things appear to fail. Even to feel alone in spiritual support you will not falter. These are not building blocks from one to the other. These are interrelated and interworking. One brings greater development of the other, for is it not true?, have you not witnessed? that one who is convicted has greater impressability of assurance upon you when you are receiving their counsel.

Isolated you may be, but nonetheless faithful and loyal, determined and capable. That is a strong state to attain. It provides you with the ability to pursue through all difficulty, to take no concern when all things appear to fail. Even to feel alone in spiritual support you will not falter. These are not building blocks from one to the other. These are interrelated and interworking. One brings greater development of the other, for is it not true?, have you not witnessed? that one who is convicted has greater impressability of assurance upon you when you are receiving their counsel.

Evelyn: This has been an exciting session to think about being a citizen of Nebadon, an ambassador of Michael.

Evelyn: This has been an exciting session to think about being a citizen of Nebadon, an ambassador of Michael.

* Jessona: It is encouraging to me as well, for that is my assignment as master seraphim. And to receive the support of the Melchizedeks is very important in continuing our enthusiasm. We do not wane in our enthusiasm, but we do enjoy a bolstering of that enthusiasm. There is much work upon this planet to be done. A wonderful goal is before us. You have a precious spot in the history of the development towards this goal. I will bring closure to this contact. I too thank you for receiving me today.

Jessona: It is encouraging to me as well, for that is my assignment as master seraphim. And to receive the support of the Melchizedeks is very important in continuing our enthusiasm. We do not wane in our enthusiasm, but we do enjoy a bolstering of that enthusiasm. There is much work upon this planet to be done. A wonderful goal is before us. You have a precious spot in the history of the development towards this goal. I will bring closure to this contact. I too thank you for receiving me today.