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When Stories Die: Christianity's Crisis and the Urantia Papers

Choosing the Divine Will
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." 102:1.1 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_102.html#102:1.1

He will Raise You Up
"And now I declare to you that I, if I be lifted up on earth and in your lives, will draw all men to myself and into the fellowship of my Father.174:5.13 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_174.html#174:5.13

Spiritual Leadership
What a mistake for Christians to make when, in presenting Christ as the supreme ideal of spiritual leadership, they dare to require God-conscious men and women to reject the historic leadership of the God-knowing men who have contributed to their particular national or racial illumination during past ages. 99:5.11 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_099.html#99:5.11

101:2.13 The realization of religion never has been, and never will be, dependent on great learning or clever logic. It is spiritual insight, and that is just the reason why some of the world's greatest religious teachers, even the prophets, have sometimes possessed so little of the wisdom of the world. Religious faith is available alike to the learned and the unlearned.

Cosmic Love and the Seven Spirits of Change by Hugh Donald Perry

9. CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVE PRAYER

91:9.1 If you would engage in effective praying, you should bear in mind the laws of prevailing petitions:

91:9.2 1. You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess cosmic stamina.

91:9.3 2. You must have honestly exhausted the human capacity for human adjustment. You must have been industrious.

91:9.4 3. You must surrender every wish of mind and every craving of soul to the transforming embrace of spiritual growth. You must have experienced an enhancement of meanings and an elevation of values.

91:9.5 4. You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.

91:9.6 5. You not only recognize the Father's will and choose to do it, but you have effected an unqualified consecration, and a dynamic dedication, to the actual doing of the Father's will.

91:9.7 6. Your prayer will be directed exclusively for divine wisdom to solve the specific human problems encountered in the Paradise ascension -- the attainment of divine perfection.

91:9.8 7. And you must have faith -- living faith.

91:9.9 Presented by the Chief of the Urantia Midwayers.

148:4.10 "Thomas, have you not read about this in the Scriptures, where it is written: `You are the children of the Lord your God.' `I will be his Father and he shall be my son.' `I have chosen him to be my son -- I will be his Father.' `Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth; even every one who is called by my name, for I have created them for my glory.' `You are the sons of the living God.' `They who have the spirit of God are indeed the sons of God.' While there is a material part of the human father in the natural child, there is a spiritual part of the heavenly Father in every faith son of the kingdom."

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Abide Forever
"Every earth child who follows the leading of this spirit shall eventually know the will of God, and he who surrenders to the will of my Father shall abide forever." Jesus, 146:3.7 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_146.html#146:3.7