I GIVE NOTHING MORE THAN WHAT YOU BELIEVE

From Mary Jo:

The Divine Plan can vary, according to the Guides. We start on one line of birth, which is our beginning of civilization here on earth and then we die. So anywhere between the drawing of the first breath and the taking of the last breath, we pretty much have free will to do whatever we want to do. We can make every hill steeper or less steep by how we believe. If you believe you can’t have something or shouldn’t have something, you create obstacle after obstacle after obstacle. But if you believe that you can have it, the road toward your goal becomes easier.

Try this as an example: Before you arrive at a place with a difficult parking situation, visualize getting a parking spot close to wherever it is you want to be. Ninety-nine percent of the time you will get your parking spot. So it’s what you believe; you project it therefore you believe it. And it becomes so. The Divine Plan is not always as we think it is. From A to Z, we need to be there. How we get there is a choice we make along the way by our belief structure.

"The teachings of the Guides were given to Mary Jo and transcribed in their original format. No attempt has been made to change the content. However, slight editing has been done to some vocabulary."

Trance Teaching:

When man begins to blister the spirit of his heart, he is often reminded of the challenges he’s already faced in order to get to where he is today. Man believes that the center of his peace comes from outside of him, but he never realizes that deep inside of him is a depth of truth that others seek to know.

It is important that when man begins to stand up for himself in life, he should understand the power he gives to himself about him. He starts to live his life emotionally and bring forth ideas about himself that have been kept under a bushel.

We speak to you this day about the generosity of our world and the choices you place upon us in seeking our guidance. First of all understand that all souls on your earth do not understand the vibration of their sensitivities. They do not know that in this life path they have come to touch into their wisdom; nor do they know that they are the founders of their own reality.

Man believes that his path in life is set for him. While that is truth, it is more important that he look upon himself as the trunk of the tree. Inside the trunk there is nourishment to bring leaves on the tree and to offer shade for the path chosen. As it offers itself growth, it provides warmth and coolness for those that lean under the tree. So it is with you this life path. The physical world holds nothing more than what you are within you. Everything outside of you is the nourishment to create the journey back into you. If you understand that truth, you have no mystery about yourself that you cannot embrace.

“I give nothing more than what you believe” is the blistering of truth that makes men wise upon this earth. We come into your world as visitors. Your Spirits around you help guide and support you in the journey of life that is best for you. We are not allowed to intervene in your life in a way that takes from you the mystery of your own world; therefore, we are not given the choices you might believe we are given.

We cannot take from you the courage you need from us. We cannot offer you the blisterings of truth about you that give you more heads on your body, even though we know a lot about what has helped create who you are this day. They’re all a mystery to you, and they will remain that way for many years to come upon your earth.

We are not always the students that look for our desks in which to study. You ARE our study! Because of that we sometimes can help guide you to the journey that you need. Other times, we can only encourage you to follow that journey. It is difficult when man looks upon his past and sees challenges that he feels have taken away his freedom. Understand what you believe. If you truly believe you are not given opportunity in life, then you will be given few opportunities. If you allow yourself to persist, to have courage, to not allow yourself to be beaten by the throws of others around you, you will continue to seek and have more in your life.

Man must know how to measure what he believes while living his life. So many of you on this earth do not really know what you believe. Many of you think you always believe in the light, and yet most of you believe there is a part of you that draws to the dim.

When man is in question about what is best for him, it does not take from him his journey. It may create more struggles, but it also brings him an advantage, an added wing for himself, an extension of who he is. Eventually it will wrap him in more comfort and warmth than what you can imagine. We encourage you to be inquisitive. We encourage you to seek more direction for you. We don’t encourage letting go of your own ambitions or no longer seeking opportunity.

Man does not need to have a career or want more in life to live long. He does not have to have a family to make him feel good about himself. What he does have to have is belief in him. If he cannot believe in the worth of who and what he is, he will never achieve what he needs while on this earth path.

It is truth that the journey of hope and of having is to believe that you are worthy of having…to know that you have a place in man’s world that is unique, and that you are given opportunities all others are given. Sometimes we become so fixed on what we want out of life that we forget to see what we need from life. That is why so many of you become confused as to what is yours to have and what isn’t. You cannot take from another the robe they wear that comforts them. You cannot take the food from someone else’s plate that feeds them. What you can do is explore life and find what part of it you want from others or what they have in life that seems to be encouraging you about you. Look at your neighbor and admire their joy. Doing that allows you to see that you yourself are missing out on joy. If you admire the monies of their world, it will show you that you are feeling denied while living on earth. In order to change your path, you have to create the circumstances that indeed do that.

When man overloads his life with routine, it is impossible for him to break free of it instantly without making changes around him. If you need funds but have no way of seeing that which bleeds the funds from you, you will never have the funds you need. You must be willing to make adjustments and changes in life that make you what you want to be, that force you to look at you differently, and begin to change the belief structure in how you see you.

If you believe that life must be a struggle, then it becomes so. If you believe that you can have the joy that someone else holds, then you begin to work toward it. Determination is the fuel that allows you to reach your goals.

We also want to share with you the limitations we have on us while living as a part of your life. It is as though someone wants to take from us the toes on our feet. We have legs to carry us. We have feet to share our path with you. We have, however, no toes that point us before you, so YOU become our toes. You see, dear ones, that helps you understand our place in your life. We cannot point you. We cannot even lead you. We can only follow behind you. We are given no more freedom than that. We must follow your toes. If you need us, you must ask for us. If you want to be a bigger part of our world, and you want us to be a bigger part of yours, you must ask for that.

It becomes difficult for man to understand the levels of opportunities that are available to him. The God-self in all of you is a golden light that shines forth many beams of light. The farther you get away from the God-Source, the lighter the gold light becomes. It can become nothing but a glimmer of yellow and then white, not feeling the warmth of the glow from which it originates. When you are truly able to reach for help, when you are able to look beyond you to find others around you that are there to support you, whether physical or spiritual, the light becomes brighter. You move closer to the God-Self. The more connected you become to each other, the more Godly your life is. That, my dear ones, is the truth that will lead you back into your own truth, the God-self in you.

As you touch the God in others you find the God in you. We give nothing more than what you believe. Begin to believe differently about you. Say you will have, rather than you want. Look desperately at the things you feel you need out of your life, then make a list of the things you want. If they do not blend or match, you will never have what you seek. What you need is not what God always offers you. What you want, however, is promised to you. And that, my dear ones, is the blessing of our speech.

I Give Nothing More Than What You Believe

Trance Teaching:

When man stops to understand the choices he has made, he is always amused by the identities of those he seeks for his own comfort. Man does not recognize that the elbows of those he touches are those that guide him into the journey of hope. All souls in this life seek to have more in life, not less. Every person in this world is recognized by their own choices. Because of that man must think through the choices he makes for himself. But more importantly he must learn to look back into his past to know the choice he needs to make today, for his future is not created today. It is that of his past that holds the promise for the future he seeks to follow tomorrow.

It is important that all of you know that there are many different departments of truth in which man lives. There is the department of hope that brings man freedom, the desire to choose above the isolation of his future, wanting desperately to live in this moment and in the signs of time that give to him freedom. Then there are those truths that bring him opportunity, the things in life that give to him a purpose beyond himself, for that to us is opportunity. When he can expand his own awareness to bring to others an awakening of their own journey, it gives opportunity and peace to him. There are many channels of hope. But man must look at himself openly in order to feel the sweetness of the stream of life that runs in him.

Try to understand that we are limited by the voice of your spirit, as your guides, as your guardians. We are not allowed to give to you more than what your seed is at the moment. Even though you may plant hundreds of seeds in all days, it is only those you embrace, those you give light and hope and opportunity to that will bring to you the fruitfulness of which you seek.

From our world we are limited by your ideas. We are not allowed to stand in front of you and guide you in the direction we seek for you. We are here to comfort you, to support you, to stand beside you. Never are we allowed to think for you or to lead you in the path that we want for you. For that reason you must understand the need of us, your guidance, in your world.

Man becomes confused easily when he believes that the route he seeks is one that he wants beyond his own expectation, that the journey of life is given to him by chance. Life is given to you by choice. And the choice comes from your own thought process in the way you believe and the way you want you to become in this moment as well as in this life.

Look at all of those that you would give life to, the children that come from you, the relatives you support, or those you feel support you. Then try to imagine how difficult it is to love someone so much that you want more for them than what they want for themselves. No matter how much you love them, you are not allowed to control them or to take from them their being. You must honor them by standing beside them and encouraging them in the journey they feel--they believe--is best for them in the moment of time in which they live.

It is our choice in this life to give to each of you a purpose beyond you, to encourage the spark of hope in you by bringing adventure to you in your imagination, by helping you to confront life with obstacles that can be overcome easily. We are never allowed to route your life for you. And we can only be who you believe we are. We cannot be your teachers if you feel superior to us. We cannot be any more than what you believe we are. You ask of us, “How can this be true?” It is because you are your own world. We are nothing more than visitors in your world. You see, dear ones, we sign the guest book, just as you sign ours. When you invite us into your space, into your world, we must adjust to your belief structure. We must adjust to the truths which you believe. We cannot take away your purpose. But we can help support you to find and live through your purpose.

You are the one in the control seat of your life. If you feel you are not in a space where you want to be, it is not those of our world who have taken from you your choice. Someone asked of us, “Will I lose my home?” Sometimes it is difficult for souls to understand that the soul has made a better choice for them than the life in which they’re living with restraint, confinement, and burden. And nothing of which we can do from our truth, our level of awareness, can take away the lesson that is most asked for from that individual soul.

While many of you seek to find companions on a physical level, you seek not to finish the journey of life with that soul. Why is that? Because the promise you once held in your heart is no longer there. And the course that you thought to be so important for you has forced a detour. Does it mean that the journey of life you have thus far walked is wasted? Not at all, it means you have made a choice, a difference.

We are only allowed to give you what you believe. And what you believe, you live. We must adjust to your world. If you want us to help you, you have to learn to listen more to light around you. You have to look for us in your life. You have to create communication with us, believe in us as your teachers, NOT as your dictators. You must believe that not only are we your teachers, but we are also your students; therefore you must see yourself in the same likeness.

When children begin to live a life of learning, they are eager to begin the process of thought. They want to learn how to read. They want to learn how to believe in themselves and give light to them that will eventually bring independence. Loving you, carrying for you in God’s light is teaching you to have independence.

It is our gift to you to believe in you, but to also honor your wishes. We give nothing more than what you believe. So why is this important for you? Because it is the way you have chosen. And if you want to change your life, you must change the way you believe YOU while in life. You must learn to live your life differently. You must look at what feels sacred to you. Then you must learn to confront the fear that takes from you freedom. You must learn to taste life, not swallow it whole, but to taste it, to savor every moment of the day, yet be eager to live another day. That is where your goals are important, because without the fire in your belly to want more, you will never have more.

You must believe that you are capable of more than what you are. You must believe that we are there to support you, to give you encouragement, to teach you to be independent. When you give a soul support, you are preparing them for their independence, their freedom. It is truth that it is not necessary that souls live alone, but souls must unite in the world of each.

You are a world within yourself. In your world you have many moments of time, just as you have many faces of yourself. If you want to know what and who those faces are, pick out the three people in your life today that dominate your life and color them blue, yellow, or red; the blue being the person that is your most connected, that’s like family to you, that loves you unconditionally; the yellow being the person that inspires you, that is honest with you, that kicks you when you need to be pushed; and the red is the person that brings opportunity to you, that takes you out of the place you’re in and holds promise for you in helping you find a new direction, a new opportunity. Those three people in your life today will teach you to break away from the belief you hold about you. In doing that, you can learn to re-create you in the world of mankind.

We are here to guide you. We give nothing more than what you believe. That is our limit, even though we might want you to be more than you are, because we know you can be. It would be like a shoe that is different than the foot that it holds. What good is the shoe if it does not fit the foot? It will only rub blisters. You see, dear ones, you are our dictators. You are our people in us that we try to become by believing in you and strengthening you to help you find your independence, the source of truth that creates depth in you. To change your life, believe in you. To believe in you, wonder about you. To wonder, you must have confidence and serenity, but more importantly you must be satisfied with the choices you make for you.

When man is given a rock and holds it in his hand, he knows he can let it go, and it will become a part of the earth again. Or he can make it his and bring it into his soul and admire the rock. But it is not his to keep. Eventually the rock will find its home again, because when all else leaves, when all else is gone, the rock is still steady, the rock is still hard, and it finds its way back to the earth. You will find your way back to you. It is our gift to you to believe that for you, for in doing that, we help you find you.

This is a poem from The Guides
given on a retreat in 2004.

When you move away from others, you ignore a part of you that you must see.
When you hide from the world of others, you hide from Me.
When you live in your heart, you share with others your wings.
When you turn inside yourself, you find the glory of Me.

No one can stand alone, for there is no path that is so.
But even if you could, you would never want to be alone-
For there is a part of you that yearns for a connection with Me.
Know, though, there is always a part of you that feels alone
until you find your home with Me.

It is hard for you to feel alive when you don’t know how to live.
But, you will never live and live successfully until you fight your battle within.
Even though there have been lifetimes in which you have lived,
you have never stood alone in any of them even when you were mad at Me.
I wish I had an easier path for you to find you.
The best that I can offer you is the path that leads you back to Me.

I have no longing to be you for I am already you.
I stand in honor for I am so very proud of you.
And My honor is My gift to you in this world of man.

If I could tell you how to find me in your heart,
I would carve out a path for you to walk.
I would never walk the path for you.
It would take away the courage in you.

I wish I knew how to sing to you the song of praise in which I feel.
For every debt you pay, and for every word you say.
I have never seen another’s face in you; only your face do I see.
But even if I could change you, I would only teach you how to love you as I love you,
and that is the only thing I would ever change in you.

All souls are unique and every soul is a blessing to Me.
Oh, how I wish you could see what I see all dressed up in you.
When you taste my nourishment, you will want to experience more of Me,
for that is the reason I share with you that part of Me.

I never want you to go hungry, for the nourishment I give is through my word.
With my word I teach you how to have faith in Me and how to find my heart in you.
For it is there that you hear the voice of Me.

Through the heart of truth, you are taught that in order to believe in Me, you must learn about Me.
But there is no learning about Me,
for all that you must know is to acknowledge Me by believing in Me;
for that is how you grow with Me.

It is truth there are many who know not of my journey.
But there will come a time when I call them home and they will know Me.
When I stand before them, they will see Me;
then they will recognize Me.

I have been a part of them along each step with them.
It is then that they will give Me the gift of their love
when I share with them the very best of them.

I give you my heart to help you find your wings
and to help you look not beyond Me,
but to look for more of Me in all things.

I teach you to follow your faith and to believe in my strength in you.
But I cannot tell you about you, for if I did you would no longer have a need for Me.
So what more can I give to you other than the love I feel for you.
Even though it is painful to Me when you think that all that you are is outside of you.
When you don’t know how to love Me by just believing in You.

You ask of Me, “What can I do to make You feel good about me?”
I say to you, “Just know how to be with Me.”
For when you become too serious in the seeking of Me,
you lose your heart to pain and then I become work.

I don’t want to be alone without you.
I have a place for Me inside of you.
If I told you more about Me, I would take away your journey in finding Me.
So believe!
Take this time to learn.
Spread your wings with joy.
And never turn away from My spirit in you

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