Course: Doctor of Spirituality (ACIM) of ULC Seminary - Lesson 2: God, His Son and You

Name:           Stefan Schulz

Date:             April 26, 2024

Course:         Doctor of Spirituality (ACIM) of ULC Seminary

Lesson:         II – God, His Son and You

 

Hello Loretta and brothers and sisters of ULC Seminary, thank you very, very much for this magnificent, spiritually very in-depth and instructive lesson! Here are my prayer exercises:

1.    Think about something for which you have been praying. Now write a prayer that prays from the perspective of your new understanding of what God, His Son and you really are. 

Heavenly Father, Abba, I pray to you in the name of my Lord, Light, Redeemer, Liberator, Savior, King, High Priest, Way, Truth, Judge and Shepherd Jesus Christ, who is in me and I in Him. He, who covers and purifies me by His love and blood. Thank you that you have send Jesus Christ to me, He who has found and chosen me for the purpose to be your Son in Him. Thank you for your love and grace and for your Holy Spirit who resides in me, who guides me and protects me. Thank you for guiding and leading me by your truth and your way and thereby to my real life and purpose. 

I pray and ask you to purify me completely from all leftovers of my former unnatural, artificial and illusional programming of duality, which created an awful ego which is not and was not me. Please, heavenly Father, as your Son, fill me instead with all your love, your truth, your joy, your wisdom, your righteousness and your strength to follow the way of Jesus Christ. Let me be a blessing to all creation in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Please lead all your creation back to you as you have done it with me, this in order to heal and purify the whole planet. 

Thank you that You have given me all these revelations and that you have brought me back to my true nature in you. Amen.

2.    Imagine the comfort you would feel if you were able to fully accept the fact that you are loved beyond measure. Think of the miracles that will occur in your life when you are able to accept the fullness of your complete worthiness. Write a prayer that asks for these conditions and a few paragraphs describing the way your world will change when receive that for which you have asked.

Heavenly Father, Abba, I pray to you in the name of my Lord, Light, Redeemer, Liberator, Savior, King, High Priest, Way, Truth, Judge and Shepherd Jesus Christ, who is in me and I in Him. He, who covers and purifies me by His love and blood.

Heavenly Father, thank you for your inifinite love for me and please give me this love, joy, strength, simplicity, innocence and the clarity to follow the way of Jesus Christ in fullness as your true son. I understand that only then I will be able to recognize, to experience and to appreciate all the wonderful miracles, blessings and healings that you will reveal to me on this way.

Heavenly Father, this is the life I am endlessly looking forward to since you have found and chosen me. To finally be completely free from all my programmed fears, feelings of inferiority, my shame and my feelings of lack. Heavenly Father, thank you very much that you have chosen me to be able to walk this path of light, love, righteousness and joy in Jesus Christ. Amen.

Greetings from your brother in Christ, 

Stefan

Course: Doctor of Spirituality (ACIM) of ULC Seminary / Lesson: 1 – Revelation

Hello Loretta and all brothers and sisters of ULC Seminary,

please find attached my thoughts, comments and impressions concerning the first lesson of the Doctor of Spirituality (ACIM) course with ULC Seminary. Thank you very much for the opportunity to study with you and for the time you invest into me and my spiritual growth. The course was a deep blessing to me and a crucial point within my spiritual life. Why? Because for the first time in my spiritual life, and after doing a lot of studies relating to this topic, this course has revealed the true essence of spirituality to me - this in a way if one would use a magnifying glass in order to illuminate this very important topic especially to me. With this impression please find below a description of some main reflections, emotions and thoughts of what happened during my coursework and my prayer visualization. For the first time in my life I fully have recognized, experienced and emotionally understood that God´s true love is the one, true essence of my existence. More over, I understood that this love always was the original intention of God when He created His whole creation (including me) in His likeness. 

During my coursework and my prayer visualization, I experienced a very deep and overwhelming, joyful feeling of God´s love within me, which makes me fully aware of some selfish, worldly-programmed and therefore unnatural leftovers which have been manifested in my current life as a child of God. In my experience, this artificial system of unnatural, artificial programming is designed to remove God´s true love completely. Instead of God´s love it then always implements an unnatural, opposite state and different layers of consciousness into God´s creation which are all cause „fear", e.g.

 

- rejection of God´s truth and other people instead of openness to all creation

- separation or overemphasized individualism instead of oneness and connection to God and His creation

- conflict and chaos instead of peace 

- selfish goal-setting instead of real purpose

- multiple bondages and conformity instead of liberty and freedom of lchoice

- coerced action and artificial functioning instead of voluntariness and inner motivation to act in harmony with natural laws

- utilitarian thinking instead of wisdom

- deception of the mind and soul as well as of others instead of truth and righteousness

- happiness based on circumstances and satisfaction of lusts and desires instead of inner joy

- growth of money and possessions instead of spiritual growth

- status instead of dignity

- death instead of life

As a result, these negative patterns and subconsciously programmed, wrong thought and emotional figures listed above, are some of the main obstacles that prevent me and others from time to time to recognize the full presence of God´s true love within me. 

On the basis of this reflection and perspective I am able to understand and explain better how the concept that "nothing real can be threatened" and "nothing unreal exists" determines what I ask for in prayer. Regarding to these concepts I have adjusted my structure and my focus in prayer. That means that I now pray with stronger emphasis for cleansing and purity from all unreal, unnatural, programmed and therefore imagined/worldly/selfish patterns of my consciousness as well as of this concerning other people. With particular respect to the concept that "nothing unreal exists" I now explicitly ask for a removal of all fears, threats and other defects, because these are the causes of an unnatural state of consciousness and a subsequent false way of life based on this state. In addition to that I pray and ask that nothing would prevent me from giving and receiving true love, unity, peace and harmony from and to all creation. In this context I ask and pray for strength, guidance, wisdom and openness in order to identify, avoid and remove selfish, worldly or even satanic thoughts, temptations and desires which would bring back harmful patterns and fear in my life and the life of others. Furthermore I always ask and pray for unlimited joy, true liberty, true righteousness and lifelong spiritual growth as a result of choosing God´s way, truth and life, this by exercising free will.

What has remained always the same in my prayers is - as a disciple of Jesus Christ - that I ask and pray always with thanks and humbleness to my beloved Father („Abba") in the name of Jesus Christ. This I do so because He is my mediator, my lord, my king, my priest, my light, my savior, my redeemer, my liberator, my judge, my shepherd, my way, my truth and my life. More over in prayer I never ask God for selfish purposes or personal advantages.

Best regards from your brother in Christ

Stefan