INCREASE

And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to NUMBER Israel."

Notwithstanding the fact that Joab said to him "The Lord maketh a hundred times so many more as they be."

But David insisted. He had to know to the last man and to the last bit of material just what he had to count on; disregarding the invisible increase which can and does "maketh a hundred times so many more than they be." The whole revelation of Jesus Christ is based on the increase, sometimes ten and sometimes a hundred and sometimes a thousand fold - that is when the measure has not been stepped down to a certain quantity. If you only have a pint measure and you know it - what good to have a hundred times more liquid than will fill it. And so when you step your universe down to that which you can count and handle with your hands and circumscribe with the "human" knowledge - what good to pray for increase?

"Open ye gates of dawn and let the Lord pass through," the inward flow of the Invisible Substance which maketh it a hundred or thousand times more than is evident on the surface. If you count your soldiers and find them to be materially less than those of your enemy, what is the natural conclusion? Defeat of course, and so with everything else in life. Trying to demonstrate wealth while you know positively that all you have is a certain limitation, is one of the quickest ways to frustration, and will result in the old cliche "well I never did think this thing worked."

The wrath of God on David for his failure to accept the "Twelve legions of angels" or the increase (Look again the fields are white) is only the Light of God disintegrating the false law of Satan - (human thought).

"What have ye in your house? Three drops of oil - a handful of meal" - well disregard it at once and start pouring, and borrow measures not a few. What? with only three drops of oil? No - that question brings the wrath of God down upon your head which is merely the forsaking of you to your own devices.

With your mental eyes glued upon the manifest realm how are you to experience the increase? Where is it coming from and where are you going to put it if you only have a pint cup - which you positively know is all that you have?

"You (still?) say - it is four months to the harvest?" - is that what you say? Still professing to be a Truth Student? Your human eyes will never see it and you will never experience it until you have come fully to the acceptance of the Presence, here, there and everywhere - awaiting recognition. Then when you go forth, no matter if your enemy has a thousand and more soldiers than you - the invisible Presence will take care of all that "In a way you know not of." Do not try to find out - only BELIEVE. Take your attention away from the manifestation "Be absent from the body and present with the Lord."

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Recognition of the Presence puts you in a "sense-feel" state of consciousness which can and does release the "twice as much as he had before" and will fill everything that is empty in your life - unless you insist that you only have a "pint" measure - then of course if the whole Niagara Falls passed over the cup you would only have a pint.

The moment you step yourself down to appearances you come under the law of judging from appearances which at best is a great limitation and which proves without a shred of doubt that you never did believe in God - that is the God of Jesus - but rather in a limitation of human thinking - a man god - with all his foibles and limitations.

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