Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, 6:10-20
What it comes to in the end is this: grasp the power that streams to you in the experience of Christ in the soul and the powerful regency of his pure spiritual strength.
Put on the power of God as one puts on full armor so that you may stand against the well-aimed attacks of the adversary. For our struggle is not to fight against powers of flesh and blood, but
against spirit beings mighty in the stream of time,
against spirit beings powerful in the molding of earth substance,
against
cosmic powers whose darkness rules the present time,
against spirits who carry evil into the realms of the spiritual world.
Therefore take up the full armor of God that you may be able to stand your ground on the day when evil unfolds its greatest strength and victoriously withstand it.
Arild Rosenkrantz
Stand firm, then, girded
with the truth, like a warrior firmly girded. Connect yourself with all in the
world as is justified in the spiritual world, and this connection with the Spirit
will protect you like a strong breastplate.
And may Peace stream through you, down to your feet, so that on your path you spread Peace, as the message that comes from the realm of the angels.
In all your deeds, have trust in God. This trust will be like a mighty shield; with it, you can quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Take into your thinking the certainty of Christ’s healing deed. It will protect your head like a helmet.
And the Spirit, which has become living in you, you shall grasp as one grasps a sharp sword. The sword of the Spirit is the working of the Word of God.
May this armor clothe you in all your prayers and supplications so that in the right moment, you raise yourself in prayer to the Spirit. To this end, direct your spirit-strength in all your efforts of soul and your intercessions for all who would know Christ’s healing power.
Feel yourself united in
prayer with all other bearers of the Spirit. Take me into your prayers so that when
I open my mouth, the strength of the word will be given to me. Then I can courageously and openly bring the
knowledge of that holy mystery that lives in the message of the Gospel, for
which I am a priestly messenger enchained. Out of the Gospel itself, there
streams to me the free strength to speak with the courage I need.
2nd Michaelmas
October 9, 2022
Ephesians 6:10-19
“Grasp what streams to you in the experience of Christ in the soul, in the powerful regency of his pure spiritual strength.”
When do we experience Christ in the soul? Some may wonder if that has ever happened to them. But we have all had Christ moments:
We experience Christ in those moments when our intentions move us
toward healing, toward wholeness and integration; when our intentions seem to
be impelling us toward our own future development. Sometimes we only recognize
such moment with hindsight. But they are moments when we sense the rightness of
our path, that despite pain and confusion, we are moving in the right
direction. These moments create in our soul a dynamic peace of will. 
Annael
We experience Christ in moments when our feelings are those of courage, of love, and of hope. These moments are Christ working in our soul. They create in our soul a warm and expansive feeling of peace through his love blossoming in us.
We experience Christ in those moments when our thinking is clear, ordered, insightful, even inspired. These moments create in our soul peace-giving thoughts of trust and faith in ourselves and in the world.
When our thinking is full of trust in the divine order, supported by our love for Christ and hopes for our future together with him; when our intentions, our motive force moves us toward healing, wholeness, integration, we are moving toward becoming the human being of the future who has chosen to evolve into what God intended for human beings to be—the human being who has evolved into the image and likeness of the Trinity.
In the Act of Consecration we warmly, intentionally and consciously offer the contents our souls to the Divine. We pray:
May my will turn toward healing
May this will toward healing arise
from my love for Christ
And may I live with the Father consciously through Christ, my thinking enlivened and irradiated by his Spirit.
This is the requirement that we must fulfill, the toll we must pay in order to enter into the Kingdom of Peace. We offer our souls’ best, which is him in us,
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so
that our soul’s life may stream with his Lifeblood
so that our souls themselves may receive the Peace he wants to give us.
Then will our souls feel, think, and will peace. Then will we be able to stream peace from above, all the way down through us to our feet, so that we walk with Christ in peace, along his ever-evolving path of peace.
“Grasp what streams to you in the experience of Christ in the soul, in the powerful regency of his pure spiritual strength.”
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