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December 19, 1999

December 19, 1999

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham Speaking. Once more, I wish to express how gratitude washes over me each Sunday evening. This evening, we shall discuss wants versus needs.

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham Speaking. Once more, I wish to express how gratitude washes over me each Sunday evening. This evening, we shall discuss wants versus needs.

 

From the time you are a child, you have all been consumed with want and you expressed yourself with dissatisfaction from the time you first cried for your bottle. As you matured, your wants become more complex and often involved the actions of others. You wanted to play with the child next door, you wanted to eat earlier or later than your mother was willing to accommodate, you wanted a cookie. Later, it was even more complex. You wanted so and so to like you, you wanted to be accepted, you wanted approval, and all these things became associated with material goods and physical appearance or with certain behaviors that elicited certain responses. For example, the class clown always got attention and so he cultivates disruptive behavior. All of you, of course, had secret longings and wants that went unfulfilled.

From the time you are a child, you have all been consumed with want and you expressed yourself with dissatisfaction from the time you first cried for your bottle. As you matured, your wants become more complex and often involved the actions of others. You wanted to play with the child next door, you wanted to eat earlier or later than your mother was willing to accommodate, you wanted a cookie. Later, it was even more complex. You wanted so and so to like you, you wanted to be accepted, you wanted approval, and all these things became associated with material goods and physical appearance or with certain behaviors that elicited certain responses. For example, the class clown always got attention and so he cultivates disruptive behavior. All of you, of course, had secret longings and wants that went unfulfilled.

The Father knows all of you needs and all of your needs will be met. But of course, your wants are another story. And so, it is the wise man who is content with what he has, who lusts after nothing but doing the Father's will. The Father will care for you and when you come to the place where there is nothing you want but to fulfill the Father's righteousness and to sow his seeds of goodness, all else will be added unto you. I will answer any questions at this time.

The Father knows all of you needs and all of your needs will be met. But of course, your wants are another story. And so, it is the wise man who is content with what he has, who lusts after nothing but doing the Father's will. The Father will care for you and when you come to the place where there is nothing you want but to fulfill the Father's righteousness and to sow his seeds of goodness, all else will be added unto you. I will answer any questions at this time.

 

Q: Ham, I have always felt that I had a need to express something. Early on, I thought that that need was to express myself and had nothing but rocks in that road. I have given over to hoping to express something that would be God's will for me to express. I have always thought of expression as a need but maybe it is just a want.

Q: Ham, I have always felt that I had a need to express something. Early on, I thought that that need was to express myself and had nothing but rocks in that road. I have given over to hoping to express something that would be God's will for me to express. I have always thought of expression as a need but maybe it is just a want.

Ham: Of course. Look forward not backward. Raise up your hopes and faith to the highest levels. Do not fear hope for hope is that which supports faith and remember when hopes are dashed it was only because they were attached to the wrong thing.

Ham: Of course. Look forward not backward. Raise up your hopes and faith to the highest levels. Do not fear hope for hope is that which supports faith and remember when hopes are dashed it was only because they were attached to the wrong thing.

 

That is all for now, my love and my prayers are with you each. I will be available next week for those who would wish to come.

That is all for now, my love and my prayers are with you each. I will be available next week for those who would wish to come.