Spiritual Growth

Spiritual development depends, first, on the maintenance of a living spiritual connection with true spiritual forces and, second, on the continuous bearing of spiritual fruit: yielding the ministry to one’s fellows of that which has been received from one’s spiritual benefactors. Spiritual progress is predicated on intellectual recognition of spiritual poverty coupled with the self-consciousness of perfection-hunger, the desire to know God and be like him, the wholehearted purpose to do the will of the Father in heaven.

Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values. The evidence of true spiritual development consists in the exhibition of a human personality motivated by love, activated by unselfish ministry, and dominated by the wholehearted worship of the perfection ideals of divinity. And this entire experience constitutes the reality of religion as contrasted with mere theological beliefs.

Religion can progress to that level of experience whereon it becomes an enlightened and wise technique of spiritual reaction to the universe. Such a glorified religion can function on three levels of human personality: the intellectual, the morontial, and the spiritual; upon the mind, in the evolving soul, and with the indwelling spirit.

Spirituality becomes at once the indicator of one’s nearness to God and the measure of one’s usefulness to fellow beings. Spirituality enhances the ability to discover beauty in things, recognize truth in meanings, and discover goodness in values. Spiritual development is determined by capacity therefor and is directly proportional to the elimination of the selfish qualities of love.

Actual spiritual status is the measure of Deity attainment, Adjuster attunement. The achievement of finality of spirituality is equivalent to the attainment of the maximum of reality, the maximum of Godlikeness. Eternal life is the endless quest for infinite values.

The goal of human self-realization should be spiritual, not material. The only realities worth striving for are divine, spiritual, and eternal. Mortal man is entitled to the enjoyment of physical pleasures and to the satisfaction of human affections; he is benefited by loyalty to human associations and temporal institutions; but these are not the eternal foundations upon which to build the immortal personality which must transcend space, vanquish time, and achieve the eternal destiny of divine perfection and finaliter service.

Jesus portrayed the profound surety of the God-knowing mortal when he said: “To a God-knowing kingdom believer, what does it matter if all things earthly crash?” Temporal securities are vulnerable, but spiritual sureties are impregnable. When the flood tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable; at least this is true of every human being who has dedicated the keeping of his soul to the indwelling spirit of the eternal God.

After such spiritual attainment, whether secured by gradual growth or specific crisis, there occurs a new orientation of personality as well as the development of a new standard of values. Such spirit-born individuals are so remotivated in life that they can calmly stand by while their fondest ambitions perish and their keenest hopes crash; they positively know that such catastrophes are but the redirecting cataclysms which wreck one’s temporal creations preliminary to the rearing of the more noble and enduring realities of a new and more sublime level of universe attainment.

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Meaning

The Meaning of Earthly Life in Light of Eternity

Understanding that eternity is the outgrowth of righteous earthly striving imbues every aspect of life with new meaning and purpose. No longer is suffering seen as pointless, nor is sacrifice regarded as wasted effort. When viewed through the lens of spiritual progress, even life’s difficulties become essential parts of the soul’s training, preparing individuals for higher responsibilities and greater spiritual understanding. The hardships that once seemed unfair now appear as opportunities for growth, and the struggles of daily life become a sacred process of refinement.

Jesus Michael teaches that no effort toward righteousness is ever lost. Even the smallest act of kindness, the quietest moment of faith, or the simplest choice to uphold truth has cosmic significance. The development of the soul is not measured by worldly success, but by the expansion of love, wisdom, and moral courage. What appears insignificant in the material world can hold profound spiritual weight, shaping the eternal identity of an individual in ways that cannot yet be fully understood.

This realization liberates individuals from the fear of insignificance. Many people wonder if their efforts matter, if their sacrifices make a difference, or if their struggles are seen by God. Jesus Michael assures them that every righteous choice ripples into eternity, that their spiritual progress is actively shaping their future, and that their faithfulness is aligning them with the divine will in ways that will one day be revealed.

The Cosmic Implications of Spiritual Growth

Jesus Michael’s teaching also expands human perspective beyond Earthly life, encouraging individuals to see themselves as part of a vast, evolving universe filled with meaning, opportunity, and purpose. The kingdom of God is not just about personal salvation; it is about becoming a conscious participant in the divine administration of the cosmos. Those who develop spiritually in this life will continue their journey of growth and service in the ages to come, contributing to the unfolding of divine realities in ways beyond human comprehension.

This understanding inspires a higher standard of living. Knowing that life is the beginning of an eternal adventure, people are encouraged to live with greater integrity, compassion, and spiritual focus. The pursuit of righteousness is no longer seen as a burden but as a privilege, a way to align with the divine plan and step into one’s full spiritual potential.

Living with an Eternal Perspective

To fully embrace this teaching, individuals must shift their mindset from short-term thinking to an eternal perspective. Instead of making choices based solely on comfort, convenience, or personal gain, they must begin to evaluate their actions in terms of their lasting spiritual impact. Every interaction, every challenge, every relationship becomes an opportunity for soul growth.

Practical ways to live this truth include:

Prioritizing spiritual development over material accumulation.

Viewing challenges as opportunities to strengthen faith and character.

Committing to lifelong learning in wisdom, truth, and service.

Practicing love and compassion as the highest form of righteousness.

Trusting that every act of goodness contributes to one’s eternal progress.

Ultimately, Jesus Michael calls humanity to embrace their noble destiny, to recognize that life on Earth is not an isolated existence but part of an expansive, eternal journey. The pursuit of righteousness is not merely for this world—it is the very preparation for the endless realities of the next. Through faith, love, and perseverance, individuals lay the foundation for their eternal identity, stepping into the vast and beautiful purpose designed for them by God.

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Connection

The Meaning of Earthly Life in Light of Eternity

Understanding that eternity is the outgrowth of righteous earthly striving imbues every aspect of life with new meaning and purpose. No longer is suffering seen as pointless, nor is sacrifice regarded as wasted effort. When viewed through the lens of spiritual progress, even life’s difficulties become essential parts of the soul’s training, preparing individuals for higher responsibilities and greater spiritual understanding. The hardships that once seemed unfair now appear as opportunities for growth, and the struggles of daily life become a sacred process of refinement.

Jesus Michael teaches that no effort toward righteousness is ever lost. Even the smallest act of kindness, the quietest moment of faith, or the simplest choice to uphold truth has cosmic significance. The development of the soul is not measured by worldly success, but by the expansion of love, wisdom, and moral courage. What appears insignificant in the material world can hold profound spiritual weight, shaping the eternal identity of an individual in ways that cannot yet be fully understood.

This realization liberates individuals from the fear of insignificance. Many people wonder if their efforts matter, if their sacrifices make a difference, or if their struggles are seen by God. Jesus Michael assures them that every righteous choice ripples into eternity, that their spiritual progress is actively shaping their future, and that their faithfulness is aligning them with the divine will in ways that will one day be revealed.

The Cosmic Implications of Spiritual Growth

Jesus Michael’s teaching also expands human perspective beyond Earthly life, encouraging individuals to see themselves as part of a vast, evolving universe filled with meaning, opportunity, and purpose. The kingdom of God is not just about personal salvation; it is about becoming a conscious participant in the divine administration of the cosmos. Those who develop spiritually in this life will continue their journey of growth and service in the ages to come, contributing to the unfolding of divine realities in ways beyond human comprehension.

This understanding inspires a higher standard of living. Knowing that life is the beginning of an eternal adventure, people are encouraged to live with greater integrity, compassion, and spiritual focus. The pursuit of righteousness is no longer seen as a burden but as a privilege, a way to align with the divine plan and step into one’s full spiritual potential.

Living with an Eternal Perspective

To fully embrace this teaching, individuals must shift their mindset from short-term thinking to an eternal perspective. Instead of making choices based solely on comfort, convenience, or personal gain, they must begin to evaluate their actions in terms of their lasting spiritual impact. Every interaction, every challenge, every relationship becomes an opportunity for soul growth.

Practical ways to live this truth include:

Prioritizing spiritual development over material accumulation.

Viewing challenges as opportunities to strengthen faith and character.

Committing to lifelong learning in wisdom, truth, and service.

Practicing love and compassion as the highest form of righteousness.

Trusting that every act of goodness contributes to one’s eternal progress.

Ultimately, Jesus Michael calls humanity to embrace their noble destiny, to recognize that life on Earth is not an isolated existence but part of an expansive, eternal journey. The pursuit of righteousness is not merely for this world—it is the very preparation for the endless realities of the next. Through faith, love, and perseverance, individuals lay the foundation for their eternal identity, stepping into the vast and beautiful purpose designed for them by God.

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Faith Awakens Potential

Urantia Paper 102, Part 5: The Supremacy of Purposive Potential

In Part 5 of Urantia Paper 102, the discussion shifts toward the idea that faith is not just a passive belief but a dynamic force that reveals a higher purpose. It explores how human spiritual progress is deeply connected to our ability to recognize and embrace divine purpose, and how this journey is an unfolding process of realizing the full potential of our existence.

Faith as a Purposive Force

One of the core ideas in this section is that faith activates and directs human potential. It is not merely an act of believing in something unseen but a compelling energy that moves a person toward higher spiritual achievements. Faith is described as a living trust in divine reality, one that continuously expands as we grow in spiritual understanding.

Faith enables individuals to see beyond material limitations and recognize their place in the grand cosmic plan.

It instills in people a sense of purpose, ensuring that life is not just a series of random events but a meaningful journey toward divine fulfillment.

This purposive faith is progressive—as a person deepens their faith, they gain clearer insight into universal truth and their personal destiny.

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The Assurances of Faith

The work of the Thought Adjuster constitutes the explanation of the translation of man’s primitive and evolutionary sense of duty into that higher and more certain faith in the eternal realities of revelation. There must be perfection hunger in man’s heart to insure capacity for comprehending the faith paths to supreme attainment. 

If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth. It is literally true, “Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known.” But honest doubts and sincere questionings are not sin; such attitudes merely spell delay in the progressive journey toward perfection attainment. 

Childlike trust secures man’s entrance into the kingdom of heavenly ascent, but progress is wholly dependent on the vigorous exercise of the robust and confident faith of the full-grown man.

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Our Father Mother of Existence

The 21st Century Prayer of Our Father

Our Father Mother Existence who lives throughout the heaven of heavens dwelling as an everywhereness . . .

Hallowed and holy be your Ideal of Existence so that your name is perpetually upon our every faculty as we consecrate our total persona unto you, Father of Life.

Your kingdom is everywhere in everything and one day as everyone; your will be done that we discover your strength and courage and the faith conviction necessary to persevere with our full determination and our great effort.

May thy will of Order and Harmony be achieved upon the earth as it is gradually unfolding throughout the heaven of heavens.

Give us this day the knowledge to extend your existence, and feed us thine bread of understanding that we shall become arisen in your existence and accomplishing our destiny with you in eternity.

Renew our minds into truth and refresh our hungers towards nobility and honor, ennoble our character motivations, and eternalize our complete personhood, so that the desire of our soul partakes of the water of your Life.

Let us become awakened to your perfect approach necessary to receive your continual outpouring of mercy and forgiveness, that we progressively become ascended and permanently free from all our doubts and debts and disorders.

And as we claim our rights and identity in you, as we utilize the endowment of life which you’ve given us, so shall we discover a new capacity to forgive all who are of the body of your Life.

Save us with the right intellectual intelligence, the recognition of your goodness and glory, so that we are elevated beyond the temptations of the senses and the material body.

Let us become delivered from our own self-perpetuated evil and any disloyalty that we’ve set into motion by our strengthening discernment.

Increasingly and progressively each day, let us decide to stand loyal with you, oh God our Father, that we find your eternal value, your everlasting vision of eternal life, and that we give ourselves day by day to your perfection in each moment.

Jesus Christ Michael Of Nebadon

Faith

Salvington School students…

One aspect of my mission is to restore the Planetary Prince School which had begun the organizing and administering of this inhabited sphere.

The success of the School which guides the evolutionary emergence of all creatures and the civilization greatly facilitates the subsequent missions of the Material Sons and Daughters, who come to engraft the higher forms of creature life on the primitive men of the worlds. Their rule also does much to prepare the planets for the Paradise Sons of God, who subsequently come to judge the worlds and to inaugurate successive dispensations.

Thine faith shall grow and expand and mature until it establishes a divine dominance .. so real and all-encompassing shall this faith in you expand and grow throughout all thine field of personality expression that it absolutely sweeps away all intellectual adversity, any spiritual doubts and hesitations, and effectively destroys every conflicting desire and opposition.

Nothing is able to tear one of sincere faith away from the spiritual anchorage of this fervent, sublime, and undaunted faith.

Practice the Six heavenly Ts of Character Righteousness and Personhood Dignity within the ministry of the Universe Adjutants...and the Adjutant of Courage.

Truthfulness

Temerity

Tenderness

Tenacity

Transparency

Trustfulness

The Third Adjutant of Courage...

The spirit of courage—the fidelity endowment—in personal beings, the basis of character acquirement and the intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery.

When enlightened by facts and inspired by truth, this becomes the secret of the urge of evolutionary ascension by the channels of intelligent and conscientious self-direction.

All self-esteem shall grow with these Ts of Courage.

All worthiness shall mature with these T's of Character Dignity.

Ye shall refine thine authorship unto heightening faculties and empowering rights inalienable.

Practice the T's each day while becoming aware of those opportunities to express the T's in your self-relationship and relationship with others.

You shall be shaping all character habits and tendencies upwards; elevating the inner urges to discriminate appropriately, to discern positively, to decide with bravery, to grow boldness and courage in thine selfhood in accordance with the Trinity of Paradise.

Christ Michael Of Nebadon

Proclamations of God's Everlasting Glory

Out of the Mouth of Babes

OF OLD ye have heard it said: Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings the Lord hath ordained truth. 

I tell you, beloved, the phrasing hath its sense; I say unto you that children are the mouthpieces of the eternal ones; verily 

through the childlike do they manifest to flesh. 

Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of Light; verily children are the lamplighters; watch 

them and see radiance. 

Children are the mouthpieces of the eternal ones indeed: they have no knowledge unto themselves yet do they speak with an authority, having a knowledge of heavenly things unsoiled of worldly contacts. 

Mark ye my wisdom: the sons of men have all been children, but more than this, the Sons of Light are always children. 

They have Light in their hearts; they are simple of concept, having no evil in their natures; they have no conflict within their 

spirits; their intellects give the no burden. 

I say unto you, beloved, that mankind hath a humor to deride children for their simplicity and ignorance of the world; I tell you, that is their shibboleth and protection: their simplicity exalteth them. 

I say unto you again, Except ye become as children ye can in nowise enter the kingdom of Light. 

I speak of children as an answer to the eternal question, What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his 

own soul?

Michael Of Nebadon 

Righteousness Groweth in Light

Learn thou child of the universes the secret of growing thyself godward with good morals and ethical decisions upheld .. with dignity of character and righteousness of mind and heart preserved and developing .. and the selfhood government of thine own temper .. let it become refined and matured in all it's glory.

Grow godward in thine authorship capacities, the  cooperative tendencies of mind for collaboration to blossom in thee, and in conscientiousness of determination and self-direction. 

Allowing for the spirit of courage—the fidelity endowment—loyalty in personal beings, the basis of character acquirement and the intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery. 

When enlightened by facts and inspired by truth, this becomes the secret of the urge of evolutionary ascension by the channels of intelligent and conscientious self-direction.

Michael Of Nebadon 

21st Century Sevenfold Revelation

Adonai unto you all in the Emerging Kingdom

Adonai unto you all as you listen to this prayer. Open thine heart and allow now for the Omnipresent Omnipotence of Love .. the Majesty of His Love .. to touch you deeply. Open in childlike awe and wonder at all Life .. Infinite and Glorious...Hold this Idea in mind...childlike .. awe .. wonder .. absolute humility and gratitude...Give all honor to the One God who is Alive and Well and Everywhere present. Humble thine hearts .. let thine heart bow down unto the infinite Generosity of His Presence.  Bow down beloved child .. bow to His Unfathomable Mystery of Life

The One Precious Life within you and all around you in everyone and everything.Let thine vision expand and grow that ye shall see and know and partake of His Grace and Glory Oh Heavenly Source and Center, we honor You and align with your Glory He cometh now descending upon us all beloveds drink of his Indescribable Bliss…

Michael Of Nebadon

21st Century Conclave of God's Glory

Truth is the Way

Truth is the doorway to eternity, and truthfulness is the key to open wide that door .. to enter therein.

Truth brings stabilization and security to the individual personality by eliciting the great powers from the beyond.

Truth awakens moral conscience and stirs upward the ennoblement of character righteousness. 

Truth is the unwavering reality of Life and Spirit. It affords the individual with the constructive igniting of potentialities brought to God actualization. 

Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living. Truth is always more than knowledge. 

Knowledge pertains to things observed, but truth transcends such purely material levels in that it consorts with wisdom and embraces such imponderables as human experience, even spiritual and living realities. 

Knowledge originates in science; wisdom, in true philosophy; truth, in the religious experience of spiritual living. 

Knowledge deals with facts; wisdom, with relationships; truth, with reality values.

Michael Of Nebadon 

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