{"id":113083,"date":"2026-11-04T12:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=113083"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:46:49","slug":"the-lord-and-i-are-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/113083-the-lord-and-i-are-one","title":{"rendered":"The Lord and I Are One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am with you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0That is the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0If you really think about it, that consciousness could absolutely and eternally tell the truth by saying, \u201cI am always with you.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0– John Morton<\/p>\n

This article comes from a sharing session John had in May 2026 with<\/strong> undergraduate students at Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lord would do your life completely as you.\u00a0\u00a0John-Roger taught us, \u201cThe Lord and I are one.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I took that to heart.\u00a0\u00a0I claimed that.<\/p>\n

We have a power in us that works at the heart level.\u00a0\u00a0When I say the heart level, I\u2019m talking about the soul level.\u00a0\u00a0And when I say the soul level, I\u2019m talking about the God level.\u00a0\u00a0All at once.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like, \u201cI\u2019m in a phase of the Lord, and I can\u2019t quite get to the soul consciousness because the Lord has got me doing karmic things in the etheric level.\u00a0\u00a0I forgot about it and didn\u2019t know I had all this karma on the etheric level.”<\/p>\n

The Lord is doing it with you.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI am with you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0That is the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0If you really think about it, that consciousness could absolutely and eternally tell the truth by saying, \u201cI am always with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the Lord is always with us, how does that work?\u00a0\u00a0Is it, \u201cHey Lord, I\u2019m busy here.\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t interfere and mess up with what I\u2019m doing.\u00a0\u00a0Sit down and mind your own business.\u201d<\/p>\n

I often consider the Lord has the power to go invisible on us.\u00a0\u00a0If we do what we call invisible and silent, that is the Lord\u2019s presence.\u00a0\u00a0How or why does the Lord do that?\u00a0\u00a0So that you can learn how to do what is yours.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m so subtle you do not consciously know I\u2019m even here.\u00a0\u00a0But I\u2019m completely with you.\u00a0\u00a0That is who I am.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t go away.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t turn away.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t abandon you.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t forsake you.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t judge you.\u201d<\/p>\n

You may say, \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of don\u2019ts.\u00a0\u00a0What do you do, Lord?” \u00a0The Lord says, \u201cI love you.\u00a0\u00a0I love you as you are.\u00a0\u00a0Always and all ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

You are not your actions. You\u2019re not what you do.\u00a0\u00a0Isn\u2019t that amazing!\u00a0\u00a0You are in it, but you\u2019re not of it.\u00a0\u00a0You are completely out of it.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s good!\u00a0\u00a0You can get free of what you did, but you have a responsibility because you are a co-creator on every level.\u00a0\u00a0So, we then would have an intention to come clear with what we have created.\u00a0\u00a0We have responsibility for what we have done as actions.<\/p>\n

There is a quick way to do that, called the Christ action, blessed in the way that Christ blesses it.\u00a0\u00a0The quick way is, \u201cI forgive myself.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0When we get out of the action, forgiving ourselves, it\u2019s for judging what we did or did not do.\u00a0\u00a0There is often a lot there.\u00a0\u00a0You had the opportunity to do what was true in your heart, but you pulled back, wouldn\u2019t allow it or pretended you couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It is also a pretending not to know who you are.\u00a0\u00a0That can be a weird, strange thing.\u00a0\u00a0You may feel you are leading a false kind of life.\u00a0\u00a0Not bad, but sort of going through the motions.\u00a0\u00a0But you do get some responsibility because there is a level of what you do that has the law in it.\u00a0\u00a0If you do something, whatever that creates, it comes back.<\/p>\n

One of the things we are doing at the level of the Traveler consciousness, which is also the Christ Consciousness, is we bless it.\u00a0\u00a0It releases in the karmic way.\u00a0\u00a0Then in grace, it is blessed.\u00a0\u00a0It is no more.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s over.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re not in that.\u00a0\u00a0You are here.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s blessed by, \u201cI forgive myself for the judgment that I withhold myself, that I\u2019m bad or wrong, evil, no good, unworthy or can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even that level has some law of reversibility in it with what we think and keep holding.\u00a0\u00a0It doesn\u2019t get in the heart.\u00a0\u00a0It can\u2019t be in the heart because it is not loving.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not forgiving.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not blessed.\u00a0\u00a0Then what is it?\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s strange.\u00a0\u00a0A sign that we are off.\u00a0\u00a0Like, \u201cI feel confused, weird, ashamed.\u00a0\u00a0I feel like, what the hell?\u00a0\u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter anymore. I\u2019m going to give up, pull the pin and end this life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Life has an ending.\u00a0\u00a0But you are going to pick it up now, where you are in your learning and growing.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s where we are.\u00a0\u00a0We are in the learning.\u00a0\u00a0We came here to learn.<\/p>\n

In the mastership level, the Inner Master\u00a0in that presence that is God, it comes in as a companion.\u00a0\u00a0It can appear as a friend.\u00a0\u00a0But sometimes our aggressions, our \u201canti-this\u201d<\/em>\u00a0or \u201canti-that\u201d\u00a0<\/em>will be directed at the Inner Master.\u00a0\u00a0Good luck!\u00a0\u00a0It doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0\u00a0There is a protection.<\/p>\n

In the law of reversibility, what you are putting out as bullets comes back to you.\u00a0\u00a0You are really shooting yourself.\u00a0\u00a0If you crucify the Lord, you crucify yourself.\u00a0\u00a0At the ego level, you can say, \u201cI can use that, ending the kind of thinking that separates me, that brings me into an anti-love, againstness or hatred.\u00a0\u00a0It can\u2019t endure.\u00a0\u00a0It must come to an end.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0We can bring it to an end now with, \u201cI forgive myself.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Then the Lord is speaking in that through you, as you.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lord and I are one.\u201d When you have done it unto the least part of who you are \u2013 your forgetful, separated false self \u2013 you do it to the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0But the Lord doesn\u2019t judge or cause it to come back.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you need to have an experience come back to you, so you realize what you are doing to yourself and your God nature.\u00a0\u00a0It doesn\u2019t reach your God nature, which is good.\u00a0This is, \u201cThank God. Praise the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0I can\u2019t harm my true self.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Nobody can harm their true self.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n

We may have habitually adopted this false self.\u00a0\u00a0That is where the clearing is.\u00a0\u00a0We clear the false self and come into the willingness to behold who we are as a divine being.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then we start practicing and seeing it in everyone and everything.<\/p>\n

John-Roger taught us, \u201cLook for the good and the divine in people and things.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0All of them.\u00a0He said, \u201cOut of God comes all things.\u00a0\u00a0God loves all of his creation.\u201d<\/p>\n

God\u2019s love has been here all along.\u00a0\u00a0We didn\u2019t realize it or we forgot.\u00a0\u00a0Remember to say, \u201cI forgive myself for forgetting that I am divine.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It starts right here, right now.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI am loving myself and I\u2019m letting go of anything less than loving.\u00a0\u00a0I give it into the light.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It takes it to the Christ to bring it here, so you go free.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

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Prayer for Truth<\/h5>\n

Lord God, once again we give thanks
\nfor the opportunity to be with You.
\nWe ask that You bring us forward from whatever we have chosen
\nthat would keep us lagging or restricted from knowing You.
\nLift us from our pretenses and falsehoods
\nThat we have placed before ourselves as judgments and false knowledge.
\nWe ask that You take away the illusion
\nand that You may assist us, regardless of what we have done.
\nWe come to You in grace, to the door of forgiveness.
\nRestore our joy and courage, that we can go through each day
\nand whatever meets us, knowing the blessings of each moment
\nand being glad in what we behold as eternal truth.
\nWe bring our enthusiasm to do the best we can.
\nWe trust that You are always with us and
\nthat You have prepared the way.
\nThere is nothing against us that will ever last.
\nWhatever negativity we find shall not prevail.
\nWe are resurrected in the Christ.
\nThe Holy Spirit is our companion.
\nYou bring the Lord\u2019s hand to touch us,
\nStrength to lift us, vision to look upon Your face,
\nLight to let us see the truth, and wisdom to know
\nthat Your will is done.
\nAnd we find everlasting peace in Your loving embrace.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note: The above blessing is from John Morton’s book,\u00a0You Are the Blessings<\/em>, available on the MSIA website at https:\/\/www.msia.org\/app\/books\/you-are-the-blessings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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