How to Benefit from the Changing Power of God

The Spirit of God has been poured out on all mankind. Acts 2:16-17

But the anointing that you have received from him abides in you,
and you do not need any man to teach you;
but as the same anointing teaches you all things
and is truth, and is no lie;
and even as it has taught you,
abide in him. 1 John 2:27

Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10

Jesus said:
"There is only one thing needed.
Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her" -
to sit at the feet of Jesus and hear his word.
Luke 10:39-42

What Has Been Missing is the Power of God

Without the power of God working in you, there is no victory, there is no overcoming. There are three sources to the power of God being released to purify you: 1) power in the true hope and gospel, 2) power in the inward cross of self denial, and 3) the power in the name of Jesus. This power of God works in us, and keeps us through faith to salvation, which is to be delivered from sin. Christendom today is without the cross and without the true hope; and so without the power of God, left only as a form (hollow shell) of the original Christianity, without the new life of the new creature, without holiness, wallowing in sin, boasting of their imperfection, perishing, whose end is destruction. For without the power of God released to change a man, his heart remains full of sin and unacceptable to God, whatever his lips may say in the form of worship. The true hope is detailed in John 14 and John 17 with commentary and footnotes. This writing is to show you how to carry the inward cross of self-denial with obedience to his spoken and heard words, while meditating on the name of Jesus: the combination of all, to access the changing, infinite power of God to work in you, cleansing you, purifying you, delivering you from all sin, and bringing you into union with God into his kingdom, while on earth and then forever.

Many different religions meditate.
What is different about this?

The difference between Christian meditation and all the other meditation flavors is that Christ is the one doing the work for us. We don't have to worry about techniques: i.e. incense, bells, chants, mantras, breathing, etc. - because we only try to be quiet and think on His name while we wait, listen, and watch; he does the rest. We go to him to learn and be changed by grace. Many forms of meditation teach to ignore all thoughts and all voices, but unless you obey the convictions and complete commands heard and understood, there is no spiritual progress. Obedience is the cross; obedience is to deny your own will and obey the will of God. And the reward for which we strive far exceeds anything the others have imagined; not only purity, which they seek, but after purification: union with God and Christ; dwelling in the Kingdom of Heaven while on earth; fellowship in heaven with Christ, the Father, the angels, and the spirits of men and women past made perfect; fellowship in the Spirit with fellow believers; and each of us having an office and function in the Body of Christ and His government on the earth for the rest of our lives here. This is where you learn from Him, get cleansed by Him, are led by Him, and come to know Him. The Holy Spirit or Comforter or Spirit of Truth will teach you about sin and righteousness, lead you into all truth, and teach you all things — if you get quiet, listen, think on the name of Jesus, hear, and obey.


If I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you.
And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong [reprove] of sin, and righteousness, and judgment.
Of sin, because they do not believe in me.
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more.
Of judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned. John 16:7-11

However when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.
.. and he will show you things to come. John 16:13-14

But the Comforter, who is the Holy Spirit and whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you all things. John 14:26

Compared to an expert in yoga or Buddhist meditations, my techniques are nothing; but they don't have to be anything, because it is Christ who does the teaching, not me who somehow makes myself capable by technique. Believe me, after hearing from many who have found this web site to guide them to their teacher within, technique is the least important; for we are taught and changed by the unmerited favor of God, grace, which abounds in sufficient quantity to those who humbly seek him with the name of Jesus in mind.

Whatever works for you to get into the Light, keep using it. We know people who have gone into the Light by a variety of meditation methods. One person using TM had the Light tell her that it would heal her. It was suggested to her that the Light was Christ, but that person rejected the Light to be Christ, because she had rebelled from a condemning fundamental christian sect. Rejecting the Light to be Jesus, she missed the opportunity to be healed of her sickness and the opportunity to attain union with God in his Kingdom.
The Inward Focus

Christ's physical life and sacrifice made our purity and union possible; the benefits of His earthly life are detailed in Why Light?

A common fear among people of the deficit sects is that any meditation is trying to make ourselves a pantheistic God, looking inward, rather than looking outward to God. However the fear is unfounded; Paul confirms Christ within, whom we seek to hear, see, know, and follow:

Do you not yourselves realize and know that Jesus Christ is in you? 2 Cor 13:5
Christ in you, the hope of glory Col 1:27

I will dwell in them, and walk in them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people. 2 Cor 6:16

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Eph 3:17

What may be known of God is revealed in them; for God has shown it to them. Rom 1:19

Further Scriptural Basis of Waiting, Watching, and Listening for God

Jesus said: Whoever comes to me, and listens to my words and does [practices, obeys] them,..
He is like a man who built a house, and dug deep and laid the foundation securely built on a rock. Luke 6:47-8
He can't make it any plainer! He said: come to him, listen to his words, and obey. By doing so, you receive Christ.

If a man loves me, he will keep my words [obey me, practice my teachings]; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. John 14:22-3
The core message of this web site is from the above two teachings of Jesus:
Come, listen, and obey what you hear (repentance), be loved by the Father, and He and Jesus then come to you with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Listen to and obey My voice, and I will be your God and you shall be my people;
and walk completely in the ways that I command you. Jer 7:23

Jesus said: "There is only one thing needed. Mary has chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her" - to sit at the feet of Jesus and hear his word. Luke 10:39-42
To hear his word it to listen to the word of God in your heart. Rom 10:8,17

Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. John 18:37
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27

So you can see that hearing his voice and following him (obeying him) is critical to your future - critical to obtaining life: The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:33. The promises are: if you listen to and obey the Holy Spirit, he will teach you all things, he will guide you into all truth, he will tell you of things to come, and you will know all things.

It is a cross to a man's will to sit silently, struggling to keep his mind from wandering; it is a cross to a man's will to obey what he is commanded and taught by the Holy Spirit; this is the cross of which you must deny yourself and pick it up every day to then follow Jesus. To follow is to obey. You cannot be his disciple unless you pick up your cross daily and follow his orders. Salvation is only received by those who follow the lamb wherever he goes - who obey completely the voice of the Lord, in whatever he commands. Do not be discouraged if you don't hear for some time. Even your waiting is to your credit: Let your mercy, O LORD, be upon us, in proportion to our waiting and hoping on you. Psalms 33:22. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by ear, nor has the eye seen a God beside you, who acts for the one who waits for him. Isa 64:4.

Abide [dwell, remain] in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine; neither can you, unless you abide in me. John 15:4
If a man abides in me, and I in him, he produces much fruit; (love, peace, joy, patience, kindness,...Gal 5:22-23
for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5. Works without God's Love in us count for nothing. 1 Cor 13:3
To produce fruit, is to possess God's love; then your works are faith expressing itself through love. Gal 5:6
If a man does not abide in me, he is thrown out like a branch, which withers.... cast into the fire, and burned. John 15:6
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. John 15:7
Abiding is the key to success. Studying the Bible only tells us what we must achieve and avoid.
To know the truth, you have to be taught by Jesus himself, personally, about himself. His living words must abide in you.
To abide in Christ, is to abide in his Light, in his presence, in his living word, (not reading the Bible).
All things [as in the secret sins of your heart] that are reproved are made manifest [revealed] by the light. For whatever reveals is light. Eph 5:13-14

The LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. Jer 17:10, Rev 2:23, Rom 8:27, 1 Chron 28:9

To abide is "to remain." We go to him and quietly sit waiting on him; and then we listen for him to speak to us and watch for what he shows us. When the Light appears, we spend time in the Light. His living Word penetrates us, separating spirit from soul, and the Light purifies us by the blood of Jesus. As we repent, we are changed and receive more of His Spirit. As we receive more of his Spirit, he abides or remains in us too. We become the possessors of Christ, not just professors.

To sit in silence waiting on the Lord is to bear the cross - instead of thinking how you might please others. - Voice of the Lord.

Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord. Zech 2:13

Truly my soul silently waits upon God; from him comes my salvation. Psa 62:1

The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2:20

In repentance and rest you are saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Isa 30:15

The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63


"But all of you who are in your own wisdom and in your own reason, you say that silent waiting upon God is a famine to you. It is a strange life to you to come to be silent. You must come into a new world: how you must die in the silence, die from the wisdom, die from the knowledge, die from the reason, die from the understanding.

So as you come to feel that which brings you to wait upon God, you must die from the other [that resists the silence and feels famished in silence]. It is this [dying in silence] that brings you to feel the power of an endless life, and you come to possess it; in silent waiting upon God you come to receive the wisdom from the above by which all things were made and created, and it gives an understanding and reason that is clearly different from that of the earthly man. This life of God in you is what brings you to wait upon God—and to know God is eternal life. To you this is the word of the Lord God."

Jesus came so he could destroy the devil and his works, sin, in us - if we go to him.
For this purpose the Son of God is revealed [in us], that he might destroy [in us] the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8

So, seek, listen, obey. Seek, listen, obey. Persevere, and Christ will lead you through repentance to union and the Kingdom of Heaven.
He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him! Heb 11:6
(Diligence is defined as: continually attending to and striving to achieve a goal; laboring; persevering.)
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27
Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21.

If those who hear will obey, their progress will be swift. Voice of the Lord 3/4/8

Belief in the true gospel, and the cross to realize the promise, releases the power of God to purify you and make you one with Him.

Jesus said, Then shall the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God] shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears be listening, and let him contemplate, discern, and understand by hearing. Mat 13:43.

The following extract of letters from the early Quaker notable, William Dewsbury, is an outstanding description of the workings of the Spirit to teach, convict, and lead to salvation, while waiting on the Lord in silence; he particularly relates the process in precise scriptural language:

All people who desire to know the living God, let the time past suffice in which you have followed men who have deceived you, and cease from them; and turn to the true Prophet, whom Moses the servant of the Lord declared, the Lord God would raise up, Deut 18:15, his elect and chosen servant, to raise up the tribe of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; whom he has also given for a Light to the Gentiles, and to be his salvation to the ends of the earth. Whom Isaiah the prophet also declared, the Lord would raise up, to open the fountain of life and salvation to all that thirst, Isa 55:1-3, and is now witnessed by all that hearken to his counsel, who calls,' Ho!' to every one that thirsts,' come you to the waters, and he that has no money, come you buy and eat, yes, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfies not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness: incline your ear and come unto me; hear, and your souls shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.' " All people, look no longer forth; the glad tidings of the gospel of eternal salvation is heard within, in this day of the Lord's mercies, in which he is teaching his people himself, as was declared by the prophet Isaiah 54:13, and is now witnessed by all the children of light, whose minds are turned within to wait on the Lord for his teaching, to establish them in the covenant of life and peace, who is performing his promise, which he declared by his servant the prophet Jeremiah to all that wait on him; namely,' This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, in those days, said the Lord; I will put my law into their hearts, and write it in their inward parts, and will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people; and they shall no more teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, said the Lord; for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more.'

Therefore, everyone that desires to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, turn your minds within, and examine your hearts, search and try your ways with the light that Christ Jesus has enlightened you withal, that shows you in your hearts what is sin, that pride and covetousness, lying and swearing, dissimulation and cheating, vain and idle communications, foolish jesting and unbelief, are sins. These things you know to be sins in your own consciences, by the righteous law of God in the heart, that reproves you for them in secret. There is your teacher, the Spirit of the Lord within you; which, in this mighty day of his power, he is pouring upon all flesh, according to his promise declared by the prophet Joel 2:28-29, and is now witnessed by his sons and by his daughters, who walk in the light, and are led and guided by his Spirit within them, which keeps the conscience void of offence towards God and towards man. "Hearken, everyone, diligently to the counsel of the Lord, the light that witnesses for God in the conscience; give up to be guided by it; then you will need no more to be taught of men, neither shall your teacher be removed into a corner any more; but your eye shall see your teacher, and 'your ear shall hear a voice behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand or to the left,' as was declared by the prophet, Isaiah 30:20-21, which is now witnessed :— and that is the living word of God within you, which has raised desires in you towards God. Everyone in whom such desires are raised, wait in the light and power within, which has raised the desires; and the Lord will then strengthen you, and give you power to wait on him in the way of his judgments, until the carnal, earthly, sensual mind, which has led you to delight in lusts and pleasures, and in created enjoyments, below God, is cut down and slain by the word of God within which is a sharp and two-edged sword, to slay down the first man, which is of the earth, earthy; and then will you come to witness a being 'the slain of the Lord.' The sentence of death will be passed upon the first man that has led you from God, and on all the strength, wisdom, and righteousness you had in him; and in the power of the Spirit, you will be brought, in the true sense of the poverty of your spirits, to hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, to prize and love him, and to judge and deny self with his light, and in it to wait for his power to guide you in every word and work."

William Dewsbury

The Environment for Success

You must return to your first love, the way you felt when you were first touched by the Lord - on fire. Kindle that fire again. Seek with all your heart. Hate your evil thoughts, profane words, and slavery to your pleasures; they are your enemies. You can't stop your mind from sinning, you can't control your tongue from sinning, but you can control you feet and hands; and you can learn to control your eyes, by practicing looking away from what tempts you. The fear of God is to turn away from evil. If you don't stop sinning by reaching out with your hands to commit evil, and running to evil with your feet, you are not sincerely seeking God - you have failed to repent from the basics under your control. Obedience to what you understand, and what you are able, leads to righteousness. If you deliberately sin, when you could have chosen not to, then you are betraying your sincerity in seeking God; and you can expect to receive little to no help, until you show a true turning away from the evil of which you are able. Dedicate yourself to be rid of you sins once and forever, through the grace of God that will save you completely from your sins. Focus on becoming pleasing to God. Seek God's direction in your life, confident that your life will then be lived to the fullest with the best possible results.

The Lord has told me several times in my journey to "keep seeking peace." He also said for anyone to be successful: "Your motive must be noble and pure." It cannot be to seek financial gain, a more powerful personality, power, religious position, spiritual gifts,* money, or prestige. These are all rooted in the ego flesh, which the Spirit mortifies in the meditation process. You must humbly approach meditation willing to give up anything asked; eager to crucify your lusts and affections; willing to repent of any evil in your heart revealed; and hopeful of receiving his words, light, spirit and peace in return. Without this motivation, you will receive little, if any, help. If you approach meditation with reservations about something in your life you selfishly intend to retain, whatever you ask, you will hear little. If you approach meditation seeking specific answers to questions you have, therefore trying to set the agenda yourself, rarely will you hear.

*Do not seek gifts, seek the giver. If you seek gifts, you will not succeed. But if you seek the giver, you will be showered with gifts. William Penn said, "They, who seek power, are those who do not receive Christ in his convictions upon the soul, and therefore, they will always lack power; but those who seek his convictions [his revealing of the sins in your heart], receive power, like those of old, to become the children of God, through the pure obedience of faith."

If you are serious about seeking God, you must make every effort to be honest: no lying, no cheating, no exaggerating, no omission of details that change your statements. If you slip in the moment, which happens even while trying, go back to the person and correct your misstatement; all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. Rev 21:8. When you are willing to give up anything, so that you can get closer to God, you have nothing to lie about any more; for one lies to gain or preserve, whether it is goods or pride.

This is not a 100 meter dash; it is a 100 kilometer marathon. A command to me, particularly appropriate to the start of your journey is: "Do not despise small beginnings."

To seek union with God is not always pleasant, especially the crucifixion of self. As Molinos says: He that would go to perfection by the means of sweetness and consolation, is mistaken. The soul that would be united to Christ, must be conformable to him, following him in the way of suffering on the cross. Jesus said that before beginning, one should first sit down and calculate the cost whether he has sufficient means to finish it. Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to complete, all who see it will begin to mock and jeer at him. Saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' He is telling us to not even start, unless we are committed to going all the way, including death of self through suffering and tribulation. This commitment comes from a deep hunger, a hunger established by God to draw you to him. He already has far too many, calling themselves 'christians,' who never even started, much less finished, building his temple to completion in their hearts. But we can testify truly, that having gone through much suffering and tribulation, the pain is nothing compared to the reward of knowing God. For God has created us to be loved by him and for us to love him. He is pure, clean, holy, righteous, merciful, truthful, faithful, peaceful, full of joy, and abounding in love for us - eagerly awaiting the opportunity to show his love for us. But to be in his presence and receive his love, we must be changed to become pure to able to receive his spirit in measure - our old wineskin can't hold the new wine - we must let him prepare us a new wineskin - so we can possess and enjoy the superior wine. From the voice of the Lord, "Trust him. He will lead you and watch over you continually. He will never leave you."

Therefore, since Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind because he who has suffered in the flesh is finished with sin, so that you should not live the rest of your time in the flesh in the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 1 Pet 4:1-2. Tribulation is not a hard day at the office, a car wreck, or some natural difficulty; it is unmistakably, supernaturally imposed.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, so that you should follow his steps.
1 Pet 2:21. (There is much more on tribulation later in this section.)

The Lord has told me that "compared to the impoverished, third-world nations, very few in the prosperous, industrialized western world will be willing to completely sacrifice their selfish way of life." Don't sacrifice your eternal happiness for the transient pleasures of your lifestyle, however good it feels. Remember, pride of life results from lust's accumulations. Pride of life is the major problem for the industrialized nations; we imagine that we have the world by the tail. Presumption is the major spiritual error; we imagine that we can please God without crucifixion of the selfish spirit to its death.