9-Day Prayer Challenge- Surrendering Everything To God Day 9

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” – Lao Tzu

This is the last day of our 9-Day Prayer Challenge. Thank you for being with me these past 9 days. May your life be peaceful, joyful, and full of Jesus' love.

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Transcript

Good morning.

God morning to you.

You've been so hard on yourself for a really long time now.

It's good to be motivated,

But not at the expense of constant pressure that consistently has you unimpressed with yourself.

Now is the time to feed into treating yourself with care.

Find ways to relax your body,

Stretch,

Release the build-up,

Pamper yourself,

Create an environment that inspires you to be at peace with where you are.

Affirm where I am is where I need to be.

Surrender to where you are in life.

Alignment comes before action,

But source messages.

Close that body's eyes and know that that contracted energy held in the body is a conditioned response to a past that is over.

To a past that never really was.

That's Pat Nolan.

He said the good news is that the bad news is an illusion.

There's nothing here but God.

And since you don't know what God is,

What is there to think about?

All you can think about is illusion.

Every thought is about the illusion,

But the silence penetrates the illusion.

It breaks the illusion,

The hypnotism.

Lao Tzu says to the mind that is still.

The whole universe surrenders.

Maya surrenders.

The illusion yields.

A dream changes.

No longer a nightmare.

A good dream,

But it's still a dream.

Jesus said to know what is before your face and what is hidden from you will be revealed to you.

For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed nor anything buried which will not be raised.

Right now,

Feel what is before your face.

Not what you think is before your face.

Not what you saw before those eyes closed.

Don't refer to thinking.

Just feel in your direct experience what's here.

A deeper question would be what is before your face?

Who were you before you took on that face?

Before you became you?

What's behind it?

Ken Jay says behind every thought there is thoughtlessness.

Have you witnessed it?

Behind every voice there is a voice whispering in silence.

Have you observed it?

Behind every form there is formlessness.

Have you become aware of it?

Behind everything manifested there is the unmanifested.

Are you able to observe it?

Behind every being there is non-being.

Have you become mindful of it?

Behind this addiction for certainty there is uncertainty.

Have you surrendered to it?

And Ramesh Balkashar says the joke is that even the surrendering is not in your control.

Why?

Because so long as there is an individual who says I surrender,

There is a surrenderer,

An individual ego.

He says what I'm saying is that even the surrendering is not in your hands.

That's why Maharaji says all we can do is focus on one point,

One thought,

Or one name and wait for grace.

When I'm focused on the name I am surrender,

Focused on this love I am surrender,

You are that state of surrender right now.

When your attention is off of yourself and on yourself,

Capital S,

Off of your problems,

Off of the world and what lies beyond it,

Behind it,

Before it,

This feeling is peace that passes all understanding.

My son came to me again last night crying,

Scared of death,

Just like me.

He is me when I was that age and I shared a little bit with him knowing that I can't take away that fear,

Those feelings,

But trying to give him something because I had no one to talk to when I was his age.

I was just told to go to bed and to not worry about it.

He's mostly afraid of losing me,

Losing his grandparents,

Losing himself,

Being lost in what he calls blackness,

Like the darkness that he sees at night.

Same exact thoughts that I had at that age that led to me being here right now and I told him that my biggest fear was losing my grandma who was my best friend,

My grandma Maxine,

And that I would keep me up at night so many nights and no one had answers.

The priest that my mom would take me to,

They didn't have answers and then in my 30s I finally was in that moment where it was happening or that dreaded moment was happening and grandma,

Her last words was the light and as I was sharing this with him and I there was a constant filtering going on because I'm like I don't want to say too much you know but for some reason I was sharing this story which I had never shared with him and he was listening he was still crying but he was listening and he was the crying was softening his breath was kind of slowing back to normal and he was like she said the light and I said she said the light and I was standing there with her and my sister and my sister is not as spiritual as me and so as soon as grandma said the light I knew what she meant but I looked over at my sister and then I looked back at grandma and I said are the lights too bright grandma in this hospital room or you know do you want us to turn them down and still was going to reach for the lights and grandma looked at me and she said the light light like she was annoyed like the light light and she was looking at me and then she was looking through me as if she was seeing into eternity she was beholding what was before her face and then her eyes closed and she passed peacefully about 10 hours later I was the only one in the room but that message of the light of seeing light and not blackness not darkness max took that and that fear was gone at least for last night completely shifted and we had a great evening getting ready for the first day of school and I remember going to the kitchen to make a snack and he came back out of his bedroom no tears completely happy and he said I thought of something I said what's up and he said when I'm in the light I'm happy and when I'm in the darkness I'm sad but that sadness isn't real and I smiled and I said that's right and then he said it's like the sun he said India is on the other side of the world right and I said yeah and he said it's early there and so it's light there and it's getting dark here but the sun is always there I'm like right it's always shining it never goes away it never sets it never rises it just is always this joy just is always in your heart but you turn away you get busy you get preoccupied you start beating up on yourself again but if you stop in the middle of that temptation you can feel the sun in your heart a smile returns to your face you'll hear a sigh of relief you'll hear this hearing that what you just heard as that pause changes everything it deweeds you your garden it removes what is no longer helpful it makes room for what is and right now the best thing you can do is rest and surrender rest is surrender God is saying you no longer have to fight it the surrendering this resting is the key to receiving in the season and in this moment everything has already shifted in spirit but it's about to break forth in the natural that's godly waiting day nine let us pray this is Jesus speaking to your soul pray always in readiness to surrender and you will receive from it great peace and great rewards even when I confer on you the grace of emulation of repentance and of love then what does suffering matter it seems impossible to you close your eyes and say with all your soul Jesus you take care of it do not be afraid I will take care of things and you will bless my name by humbling yourself a thousand prayers cannot equal one single act of surrender remember this well there is no novena more effective than this and we pray 10 times oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything oh Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything and now our concluding prayer mother Mary I am yours now and forever through you and with you I always want to belong completely to Jesus amen for a while while my life was in transition between the old and the new before the new was completely born before I could see it but I was filling it every day every moment of every day I would say I have meat the world knows not of that's from John 4 32 that's what Jesus told to his disciples I have meat the world knows not of and I would feel this love as that as that food that spiritual food that spiritual supply this very real substance that you can turn to and feel to me that is surrender when you're in the midst of a train of thought that is worrisome bothersome frequent I'd have the same thoughts every day I'm sure you have most of the same thoughts every day you're worried about the same stuff we're all worried about the same stuff if you can pause in the worry and remember I have meat the world knows not of and you are included in the world your mind is you don't know either but you feel it and you trust that that surrender you trust that in the surrendering your life gets better not worse you trust that surrendering doesn't mean crumbling and becoming nothing doesn't mean crumbling and failing it means rising it means him exalting you because you listened to him instead of to the world instead of to your mind that is convinced always that something bad is about to happen just around the corner even if things are good right now you gotta get ready for what's about to happen the other shoe is gonna drop that's how this mind works it won't even let you enjoy all of this that you're living now that you prayed for back then seemingly and so in this moment thank god for how far you have come without thinking about how much further you have to go it's just a thought thank god for where you are right now let right now be enough not right now the circumstances the illusion the story the dream right now this love god those are synonyms this peace let this peace be enough fill this peace while you go out into what you consider is not enough not where you want to be the only way to get to where you want to be is to feel this while you're in that place where you don't want to be you don't change it by feeling like crap while you're where you don't want to be you stop and you feel this love in that place when i was in that transition in a city in a house i didn't want to be in i didn't visualize the next house the next city i wasn't visualizing an ocean or palm trees i was filling love formless love where i was seeing that room that house that city that situation and it changed the new city the ocean the palm trees all of that built up around me in the world there seemed to be steps that were being taken but they were natural they were guided you are guided when you know you have meat the world knows not of every time a bill would come that was too much i would close my eyes on it and know i have meat the world knows not of i have money the world knows not of and it always shows up ramana maharshi says when a person has realized a universal life current takes possession of him and he becomes an instrument in its hands his own separate will is gone this is the real self-surrender this is the highest kundalini the highest divine cosmic energy this is real bhakti real devotion this is the knowledge of the self people think prayer is less than meditation that it's dualistic but repray seemingly in a dualistic way knowing there's only one here knowing that the moment the prayer is offered it is the silence our self that is receiving it that is hearing it there is no delay no journey the words have to take it's all here it's all now it's all love constant worship only worship is here only love is here i love you i love you i love you i love you and i thank you for praying with me ceaselessly for loving with me non-stop we'll chat soon

Reviews

This whole series on surrender novena is so powerful, so helpful, so information-dense. I am go grateful to its creator for the comfort it has provided. I listen to it repeatedly. Blessings to its creator.