MIRACLES FOR YOU Sondra Ray & Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles

MARKUS shares with SONDRA the prayer from Lesson is #189 tat starts with "not knowing." This is a "not knowing" that is Sacred, that is Holy, that is Right On. The Divine Guidance is pure. We can follow in the directions given to us. The means ae Pure and Providence gives us what we need for our Holy Mission to unfold perfectly. We are humbled by this Lesson and the sharing of this Podcast.

Markus & Sondra discuss the Peace of God. Is it a reality for us? Do we claim it and feel it and allow it to emanate from our being? This Lesson helps us to make contact with the Peace of God within us. This is our true Home within—the Heaven that is our true Self and inheritance. It is the Light that was created in us to be our true Home—emanating from within us.

MARKUS RAY discussses the end of "sacrifice" and the beginning of "having something of ourselves to give." We bless the world when we give blessings to ourselves and to others. Giving establishes increase in the Divine Mind. Giving increases what we possess. We give the unlimited nature of Love, Peace and Joy, and these increase in the storehouse of our Divine Self.

We want to go Home. Where is that? What is that? This Podcast explores the deeper meaning of that yearning to "go home." It is a spiritual dimension that we are searching for—"a peace beyond our understanding." It is to "know our true self" that we seek. There is a Silence, an Inner Child of complete innocence and peace inside of us that is beconing us Home. Will we decide to go there? The call is quiet, but certain.

We are 100% responsible for the world we see. What can we do about it? We can decide differently. We can change our minds to be in alignment with the Truth of God's Peace and Joy. Heaven is held out for us to accept, and this power to decide for heaven is given to us by our Creator. This Podcast is about making this one Decision. This is the Power that we wield. We can use it now without delay.

MARKUS & SONDRA discus the last Lesson in the Workbook: "This Holy Instant would I give to You (the Christ) " to be guided in the ways to God's Peace and Joy. This is the "only way," it says. People may not want to follow in this way, thinking they already "know the way." But honesty would pint out our own gudance system" has been faulty—often leading us to conflict and war. Are we ready to receive another way? Once that acyually works for us? This Podcast gives the Answer.

MARKUS & SONDRA discuss the meaning of "sacrifice." What role does "sacrifice" play in us giving up the valueless for the valuable? We do not want to give up the "things of this world" because we still value them. We still think the "things of the world" are valuable to us, even though they have not given us the heavenly awareness God has for us. Let's let go of what is "valueless," and embrace the truth of our Spiritual Reality. There is no "sacrifice" in this "letting go."

Markus Ray gives a succint overview of the basic Corrections put forth in A Course in Miracles to reset and reboot our real realtionship we have with the Christ. A clear voice that awakens our awareness of our "Divine Nature" as God created us, Markus leads us through some basic "facts" that help us replace our "old thought system" of the ego with our real Thought System in the Mind of God. We are retored by listening to this Talk given on the Bali Quest.

"God is the Mind with which I think." This is Lesson #45 that shows us our Real thoughts that we think with God. Sondra and MArkus discuss this Lesson today. The Mind of God has our real Toughts and our Real Self within it. This Podcast will take you there.

SONDRA & MARKUS cover the Lessons 255-258. What is the Perfect Peace that is our goal as students of A Course in Miracles? Peace has no cares, no conflict, and no concerns. With this, we would have no defenses and we are in the "heavenly state." God is total peace and joy. For us to make the attainment of this our one and only goal is to be a true student of A Course in Miracles.

MARKUS & SONDRA RAY discuss lesson #36: "God is the Love in which I forgive." What is the truth about forgiveness. This Lesson gets to the deeper truth of this practice of forgiveness.

Markus Ray discusses Lesson #161: "Give me your blessing, Holy Son of God. " Hate is specific, it says. We use our specific "enemy" to be our "savior" in this Lesson. We ask the person we have condemned to give us their blessing, and in so doing for us to see our " perfect sinlessness" in them.

MARKUS RAY discusses the last few Lessons in the Workbook that impart the Peace of God in our actual life. In the midst of our lack of harmony with another, can we rejoice to know "no mistakes have any real effects on our true Self." Sin is impossible. Forgiveness rests on a certain base. This Podcast is a full examination of recent events that only seem to be a result of "separation." It is a miracle in Real Time that can be received in this Podcast.

How would the Holy Spirit respond to someone's inappropriate behavior? This Section I in Chapter 12 of the Text of ACIM shows us what to do. "Only loving thoughts are true, and everything else is an appeal for healing and help." Do we know how to respond to a situation in the right way? We may not. Therefore, can we turn over any difficult situation over to the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit's response that can restor Love and Unity.

Markus Ray discusses Lesson #109, "I REST IN GOD." It is a profound meeting with the energy of our Divine Connection in which we rest. Markus will take you there, so you can experience this Divine Rest. Give this Podcast your full attention and you will make this contact with the help of Markus Ray's transmission.

MARKUS RAY discusses Lesson #107: "Truth will correct all errors in my mind." Illusions are thoughts in error. They play out in the painful and traumatic experiences in our life. Forgive and change these thoughts, and the nightmares of these experiences will be over. Truth will help us make this correction.

In This Podcast Markus Ray discusses Section VIII from Chapter 27, The "Hero" of the Dream. All effects of the dream of hell are becaseu we are the "cause" of the dream. We project all hellish happenings that fill our world with problems and enemies, and all our reactions to that "dream." We can stop projecting "guilt" onto others and ourselves when we awaken from the dream of separation. "I have dreamed this dream of conflict, separation and hell." Now I have awakend from it, into the Innocence that we are.

Forgiveness has tremendous benefits. This Lesson was has has #249 makes "loss" impossible when forgiveness is employed. That being said, there are no limitations whne we give up anger and a sense of loss. Anger does not protect us, even though we feel a "defense" is necessary. Anger is a defense, and defenses attract more attact. We dedicate ourselves to heaven Consciousness today.

Miracles transcend all limitations and all "hierarchies of order" and "degrees of difficulties" that the lower levels of our perception can contact. First we have to clean up our "perceptions" first and see through loving perceptions, joyful perceptions, grateful perceptions. Then we can see everthing NOT THAT as a "call for love." This switch in our perceptions begin to prepare us for an awareness of the Limitlessness of Spiritual Awareness.

The Joy of God is all around us. Can we let it in? This is a discussion on feeling the Love of God all the time.

The Characteristics of God's Teachers are varied, yet there are some essential characteristics that all Teachers of God have for a bsis of their teaching. Trust in Divine Forces is one of these, even if this Trust is not based on the body's senses. There is a Power in us but not of us. This Power keeps all things safe. This Power helps us to make contact with the Gifts of God. Trust is essential in the sorting out our world in which we may need to relinquish the "valueless", without a sense of "sacrifice."

Can we be still and listen to the truth? What would the truth tell us? What would we receive from the Truth that we would then give? The "mighty voice of Truth" is certainty with a power that bestows an absolute Peace on us. The Truth would be Heaven on Earth. We can find the Source of Life today that is immortal. This is our Source. This is our Truth. "Love which created me is what I am." This is Life Immortal. "Heaven is the decision we must make." We can listen to this truth and go past fear and abide in the Truth of peace, love and joy.

WILL WE CHOOSE FOR THE CHRIST IN US? We always choose between the ego's weakness and the Strength of God in us, which the Christ bestows on us. We have to make a decision for Heaven, which is to claim our Self-Identity in the Christ Mind. Deciding for Heaven and choosing to be the Christ in our True Identity is the only choice we are ever going to make that has ultimate meaning. Can we Choose Once Again? This is our clarity given to us as students of A Course in Miracles.

Can we look within and see our Innocence as God created us? The TRUTH of Who we are as God created us would be Love and Fearlessness. Are we willing to look within, past all the racous fear, guilt and anger that are causeless? In present tiome we can decide for Heaven. This would put us in another awareness of a Reality of the Christ Self. Are we willing to do this? To be truly responsible, we must.

Do we receive the Peace that Christ bestows on us? Do we want that "above all else?" Markus & Sondra Ray discuss Lessons #305-#308. The Peace of the Christ is bestowed on us. This is His Gift to us. Do we value this above all else? Do we put ourselves in the Thought Sysyem of the Holy Spirit, or do we vascillate into the "opposing wishes" of the ego? The Stillness of the Peace of God would be Christ's vision of a totally forgiven world. Would we enter into this state of mind unequicocally? This possibilityy is held out for us to enter.

MARKUS RAY & SONDRA RAY discuss Lessons from #301-304 in the Section of the Workbook called "The Second Coming." Will God Himself remove the tears of our pain and suffering? Will we be willing to change our minds and go a different direction? We can look upon the Light that is God's Will for us to see, but we have to forgive ourselves for the darkened vision of fear, anger and guilt that gave us the "tears" in the first place.

Can we give this Holy Instant our attention for practice.? This is our responsibility. We can practice this Holy Instant to be in more connection with our Divine Source. Can we be led? Sondra and Markus ask us this question in their commentary on this important section in ACIM on the HOLY INSTANT.

There is an instant now in which Heaven abides, and is God's Will for us to inhabit. A Course in Miracles calls this The Holy Instant. Markus Ray and Sondra Ray introduce us to that Holy Instant in this Podcast.

The MInd has an ability to heal, in fact healing must include the mind because that is where the "sickness" begins. We look at the "cause" of the illness which is some judgment that perpetuates the "separation." We belief the Body and personality is our self. We do not condemn and we have the power of forgiveness on our side.

Sondra & Markus discuss section seven in the Teacher's Manual: Should Healing Be Repeated. The question is to rise above the doubt and concern that the healing has taken place. Doubt and concern are a lack of trust that the Holy Spirit's Power can really make a diffenernce in solving our problems, especially "health problems." To doubt that healing has taken place is a lack of trust, and an attack on the whole situation.

When you give the forgiveness of Christ's Vision, you get clear that you have this Holiness, and it increases in your awareness the more you give it away. We receive the boon of forgiveness, which is certainty of our unconditional innocence, when we give this innocence to others, regardless of the mistakes they have made or are making now. We aspire to realize Christ's Vision instead of the hellish world of guilt and conflict we made up for ourselves.

Markus & Sondra Ray continue with the threme of "What is a problem?" and "How do we solve it?" Lesson #80 says, "Let me recognize my problems have been solved." The solution to all of our "problems" has been given us in our Divine Connection. Can we accept it? Can we let go of projecting "problems?" This is the question these Lessons put before us.

What is a PROBLEM? Why do we have them? What is our MAIN PROBLEM? This Dialogue between Markus and Sondra and the Lesson #79 in ACIM will give us a new perspective of solving our problem.

How can we see past what is not really there, but what we "think" is there? This Lesson #99 asks us to "forgive" and be "saved from" what is not there. There is a Will of our Creator of WHAT IS. Then there is the ego's world of illusions "that could never be." But now illusion and truth are "equal" now. Non-truths are lies. Lies are not True. What is not true does not exist. The problem is we think the illusiions are real. We need forgiveness of these illusions. Forgiveness and salvation are the same. This Lesson #99 helps us to see that our Truth as God created us in God's Will is our only Reality. Everything else is not the truth and does not exist. We need Salvation from something that is not even there!

The Presence of the Christ is here for us. How do we make contact with this important part of our own consciousness? This Lesson #157 is a kind of Invocation to the Christ to enter into our consciousness and Join us there. He has already been present; but we have been absent. His words of A Course in Miracles are for us to use, but we must make the committment to use them. Today we enter into His Presence and receive the Gifts of God. He wants us to have peace and eternal Life. Pure Joy is His will for us in all of our thoughts, words, deeds and actions.

We make a secret "vow" to forget the fact that it is the mind that rules the body. The body does not "think." But is does store memory of what the mind "thinks." Will it respond to guilt, fear, or anger? All sickness that the body appears to act out with pain or suffering begins with the sickness in the mind. Thoughts are "off," but the mind took a vow to transfer "responsibility" over to the body. This is a mistake the miracle needs to correct. Real healing begins and ends in the mind. The body is simply a "print out" of this process of inner correction. The "secret vows" to keep this miracle hidden are ending now. We can see that God's Will for us is perfect happiness, and this corrects our mind from all notions of sin, guilt, anger and fear. We are free to allow ourselves to "Be as God created us" now. This sets us in the fields of heaven in which our minds are free to be at peace. And our body can now be released as well. AMEN

Why do we feel unsafe? What would make us feel safe? We have an opportunity to call upon the miracles to undo our fear. We are in danger nowhere in the world. Do we believe that? Are we fearful in the feelings of danger and threat? We can believe we will be calm in the face of adversity, but usually we are activated and feeling unsafe and fearful. God keeps us safe. We are among the ministers of God, and the Energy of Creation protects us in our Mission of Divine Service. "Your peace goes with me Father, it sheds its light on everyone I meet." God will send us the people we are to save. We recognize our Self in them, and give them peace and miracles as we have been given them to extend to others. In the giving we realize the receiving. We give the miracle of Divine Safety, and receive it too. AMEN.

Are we prepared for Grace? What is the prerequisite to receive Grace? We first have to come to an inner silence in which we have let go of the ego's thought system. "Grace is the acceptance of the Love of God in world of seeming hate and fear."The goal of the Course is to give us miracles that undo our blocks to receiving the Grace. Grace, like Love, is from our Source. Miracles make our MInds clear enough to recive the Grace. We clear our minds enough of attack thoughts, grievances, anger, fear, guilt, judgments, etc. in order to receive and live by Grace.

DO we ask God what are we to do? Do we ever make decicions independent of our ego? What would that look like? We have to let go of our plan in order to receive a new plan that is divinely directed. The problem is we can deceive ourselves in thinking the ego's plan is a pretending of "God's Plan." We do not drop our plan long enough to receive Higher Guidance. This Lesson #71, "Only God's plan for salvation will work," there are three important questions we must ask of God to give us directions: Where would you have me go?What would you have me do? What would you have me say and to whom? Can we surrender to a Higher Truth that may feel like facing the Unknown, and trusting we DO NOT KNOW now, but will be told. We can hear the Voice for God tell us what to do—and have a Plan Greater than Ourselves.

What do we think with God? Are the thoughts of anger, guilt and fear thoughts we think with God? Obviously not. There is only Peace and Joy in that Mind. We have to practice holding our mind in that Mind of God. The "brain" is the computer of memory. But the Program of our Divine Connection takes those thoughts we think with God, ones of Love and Peace and Joy, and forms our Mind. "My Mind holds only what I think with God." This is a Fact. Today there are two review thoughts we think with God: "Forgiveness is the key to happiness, " and "Forgiveness offers everything I want." What do we have to lose except the conflicting thoughts we are NOT thinking with God. Amen.

W are asking our brothers and sisters to give us their blessing. We use Christ's vision to see our own "sinlessness" and see the "sinlessness" of our brothers. We ask all those we encounter for their blessing. We will receive it to the degree we give the blessing. We see the totality in the Mind of God which contains all minds. Not only is our mind joined in this Holy Mind, but our brothers' minds as well are part of this One Mind. We use the body as a "separation device" instead of a "communication device." The Body has no meaning essentially, but it can be used to communicate a blessing, which joins us in the Essence of our Self of Love. Can we transcend the fear and hate that starts in the mind and undo it. The blessing / prayer we can extend: "Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.I behold you with the eyes of ChristAnd see my perfect sinlessness in you."

I WALK WITH GOD We are as God created us. We are the Light of Holiness as God is That, and we were created by that Light of Holiness. We did not leave our Source. We walk with God in our Perfect Holiness. We are alive and He is Life. We share that Life. Nothing can be apart from Life and Live. Life, Love, Truth, God, and our Identity in Holiness are all ONE. 

The Decision for Atonement is to accept ourselves as God created us to be. We put our foot down and make this decision for heaven. We have certainty of our Identity. Atonement is the end of confusion. We are certain of our innocence and our joyful nature. We are fully alive in our Awareness of our Self-Identity. We give up all the self-deceptions of the ego. We let forgiveness rest upon all things and hold nothing outside the all pervasive nature of Atonement. We accept Atonement, and we do not avoid it. We no longer want to become something that we are not. We see simply we already are as God created us to be. This is already in us. And we are aware of this. We accept the Atonement for ourselves. 

There are two imprtant lines in this Lesson #93 that are essential for us to realize: "Light and joy and peace abide in me.""My sinlessness is guaranteed by God." Can we accept thses statements as our truth? This would put our entire life in a state of inne Peace and Joy. Byt the fact is we reject this truth for lesser conditions of conflict, guilt and anger.We have obviously made mistakes from our "ego self." But our ego sef is not our real Self. The Self God created never made these mistakes. But we have not been in so much awareness of this Higher Self. We can leave behind our "ego self." In this liberation we are freed from the consequences of the ego. We can then say these lines as our TRUTH: "Light and joy and peace abide in me.""My sinlessness is guaranteed by God."

Can we be still for an instant? Do we have a contact with absolute peace of mind? Are we free of all fear and anxiety of any kind? "Fear is not justified in any form." Have we justified our fears? giving reason to our "concerns." Can we have the sense of security, of "HOME" so deep that we are suspended from all concerns? Are we willing to drop all of thought that distracts us from our true Spiritual Connection? We can be still and instant and go Home when we value this connection with moments outside of time. Our senses are super attuned. This is a heavenly awareness of the Now.

We can join with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Masters. But we have to be the ones to make the invitation for them to come into our awareness. The Holy Spirit is always present to help us, but we are absent. We have not invited the Holy Spirit in. Even a little willingness, a small invitation is enough. We can let go and allow God to guide our life today through the Holy Spirit. We make the invitation for healing. This can be the point of real change. We can make the space to receive the Holy Spirit's spark to give us a new remembrance of God and Creation.

MARKUS RAY presents A Course in Miracles to the people of Bilboa, Spain. For someone unfamiliar with ACIM this TALK could inspire them to become a student of this important work. ACIM "is the most important book written in 2000 years." It can give us a direct relationship with the Christ, Who abides in us. The Lessons are designed to awaken us. Markus presents in the most simple what what being a student of ACIM means, and entails. What you need to start the Course is explained. What can you expect? What will you gain? Why would you want to study this "modern day scripture." The Self God Created as YOU is awakened. The LOVE that created the Cosmos is at your feet. Heaven's door is in this book. Why would you not want to go through it?

True Prayer is not entreaty. Entreaty is "asking for stuff." If we perceive a need unmet, we usually pray for it through a "prayer of entreaty." This is not the highest form of prayer. This does not mean that "needs" will not come up for us, but True Prayer would see that the fulfillment of that "need" is already provided. Our number one need is our awareness of our Divine Connection with our Source Energy, Who meets all of our needs already. True Prayer is one of gratitude and thanksgiving. This is our premier focus with prayers. We can ask the Holy Spirit to ANSWER our prayers in the faith that any need we have is already being met. "All the help we can accept will be provided, and not one need we have will not be met." So where is the "need" to "entreat?" We pray and ask for nothing, because we recognize we already have enerything. AMEN.

What would happen if we let go of the past, and see that it has no real effects now. The miracle shows that the past is gone, and has no real effects. Our ego is not letting go of the guilt we made from separation. We remember our mistakes and project guilt on to ourselves, as though this memory is real. Remembering the present is to remember God. This is what has a real Effect. God is the only Cause. We need do nothing to have awareness of this Source Energy.

The "Son of God," which is Who we are as God created us, beyond all gender and personality of the ego, is free of all death. This lesson describes to a "T" the "unconcious death urge" and what its composition does to us. We have been mistaken about Life and death. We have thought "death is inevitable." The belief in death is a function of consciousness, and we can ascend to a new Consciousness. The reality is Life is Immortal and inevitable. Death is a decision we make in error. This Lesson #163, "There is no death. The Son of God is free," is the ultimate liberation from the ego's belief system. Death is the main "idol" constructed in the imagioned "separation" from our Source. As Teachers of God, we are the Messengers of Life, not death, of immortality, not of the "inevitable end" of our self. There is no death. There is only Life and we are Life itself. God blesses us with Immortal Being as the Christ, God's Child, who is free to be immortal, like God Himself. The Divine Mother joins our body with this Thought of Truth, the Immortality of Life. In Spirit, we live forever, and this Spirit can be infused even into our bodies which can then be the Communicator of this PURE JOY! Used to communicate only Divine Joy, we can keep them for this purpose as long as we choose. AMEN

Resurrection is the surmounting and overcoming the concept of death. This is a complex of thoughts and beliefs that compose a "death urge" that is the stronghold of fear. Getting over this completely is the "resurrection." The "end of dreams of misery" is the realization of perfect happiness, God's will for us. We live in the "Gifts of God" that surround us and protect us and uplift us into the Heavenly Dimension. This is our only reason to be here—to resurrect and realize our God Consciousness.