The Power of God Gratitude

A Lesson on Gratitude

by Lorraine Michaels

September 4, 2005

It was many years ago that I first felt the tremendous power of gratitude. This is not to say I had never been grateful before, but I had never felt its power before. And the reason I felt its power was because of the difficulty it was to be grateful at that moment. As anyone knows going through a difficult time, it is very hard to be happy when things are difficult in your life, let alone be grateful.

I was going out with a gentleman from my study group, after having been recently divorced. I was thrilled to be dating someone who was interested in spirituality, the violet flame and with whom I could converse with on the subject of God and Being. My first marriage ended after twelve years, and the restrictions on my Being who I am had been severely hampered over the years. He was an agnostic and I was devoted to the Teachings and spiritual pursuits. So the widening gap caused the separation and divorce after several years of struggling to find that peace between us.

So I was very happy in my relationship, and happy that we were like-minded on many spiritual subjects after having been through my prior relationship with its difficult ending. But although we saw many things eye to eye, he definitely was opinionated about his wants and desires. There were certain things he would not surrender, and alcohol and rock music, motor cycles and sports were all an integral part of his life.

So we came to a disagreement one day. I gave him a teaching on music and he denied that it was true. He was not about to change my mind, as I had an inner understanding about rock music long before I had the outer teachings of the truth of what rock music did to our body temples. I stayed away from rock music in general and found classical music as a teen and was drawn to its beauty. But he was very attached to these rock musicians and was a guitarist himself, playing many of these rock songs, which he thought were perfectly fine. So my teaching to him angered him, and he would not speak to me for days.

I was surprised at his reaction. Very surprised that he could get that angry that he would not talk with me again, it seemed. And so after three days and waiting for his phone call I finally resolved myself to let it all go. And what came to me was gratitude. So as I had been going about my job that day, I started sending praises of gratitude to God for the time we had together, for my experience and sharing with him and for whatever else came to mind to be grateful for. I just poured out my love to God and my God Self and I surrendered all my negative feelings of hurt and disappointment to God.

Within minutes of my sending out this gratitude, I was filled to the brim with love and gratitude that I had just sent out! It was like it had been returned to me and multiplied ten times over. I did not have an understanding of what happened. I only know that I felt wonderful, happy, joyful and grateful and enthusiastic to forgive this gentleman, and to just love him no matter if I never saw him again. He called soon after that.

Understanding the Return of God Gratitude
It was years later that I was doing a healing session with a friend, who is clairvoyant. We would get together frequently, and just flow with the Holy Spirit and work on our psychologies and whatever the Spirit led us to do.

This particular day when we were working, we both received the impulse to send gratitude to God and so we both did, expressing it in words and prayer and in our visualization. Minutes later we were both filled to the brim with joy, with enthusiasm, with love and gratitude so that we were overflowing with happiness. Because her third eye was open, she explained to me what happened.

She said that as we sent up our gratitude to God, God took that gratitude and rained back down upon us His love and gratitude. We both knew something extraordinary had just happened.

Again, years passed and I was going through some initiations with El Morya. I usually had contact with him every day, especially during my morning prayers, but also all throughout the day as the need arose. For a few days I heard not one word from El Morya. I thought I might have offended him, or did something wrong. On the third day, I was getting quite concerned that I hadn’t still heard from him. I would ask him frequently, “Have I offended you El Morya?” But would receive back no reply.

So on that third day, I was out in my horse pasture working, when that familiar, but rare desire came over me to send forth gratitude to God. I say rare, because the feeling came from that place of knowing inside myself that I was familiar with as the power that moved me and I could not help but obey and follow. It was from my Mighty I AM Presence, but did not know that at the time.

And so I poured out my gratitude to God for El Morya, for all the assistance he had given me, for all God had given me in the wonderful help I had received to understand myself and heal. I just continued all those praises and thanks as I truly felt this love and gratitude for all that I had received, even if El Morya never talked to me again.

Immediately upon finishing my outpouring of gratitude, there was El Morya. He told me that he could not come to me and interfere with this test, that this was a test and I had passed it. He expressed to me in the way an Ascended Master can, that he loved me and understand my difficult days under this initiation. Three days might not seem like any big deal to be separated from the Master, but it was to me.

I had been separated from El Morya for two years under the initiation of the Dark Night of the Spirit. I was not only separated from El Morya, but from all the Heavenly Hosts, and it was a most painful period. I cannot express to you in words the pain of separation of walking and talking with God, and then to continue on earth bereft of God, or so it seemed. The nearest I have found to those who understood this pain was some of the near-death experiencers. After they had been to Heaven and experienced the unconditional love of the Beings in Heaven, and they returned to their bodies and the conditional love here on earth, many went through a period of depression.

Although we are never separated from God, the God within our hearts, as we go through the Dark Night of the Soul, we are seemingly cut off from the very source of God within, due to our karmic blindness. As we go through the Dark Night of the Spirit, we are cut off from all contact with the Heavenly Hosts, as the veils of Maya and time and space are impenetrable until we pass this initiation. Although I always knew my Christ self was there, I don’t remember hearing him as I had in the past, while going through the Dark Night of the Spirit.

I was not aware that this was the Dark Night, and so I continued doing what I had always known to do, pray and decree, work on my psychology with my healing techniques, and try to be happy in a world that seemed so empty of the presence of the Beings of unconditional love. I knew they still existed. I knew they were in their world, while we were in ours, but I had learned to bridge that gap between worlds and that experience transformed the seemingly empty existence of living and existing in a world so full of hate and lust and greed.

So those three days of absence of the Master were painful to me. But again, as I found that place of gratitude and love inside myself, I transcended the pain and found something to be grateful for. Again, my being was filled with joy and gratitude, as it was multiplied back in my life.

Understanding the Multiplication Factor
What I am prompted to share with you is how powerful the tool of God gratitude is. If you look at a clock with twelve lines on it, you see that the 12 and 6 o’clock line are connected. The same for the one and seven, two and eight, all the way around the clock. Mother Mary has taught us that on each line of the clock we may find an attribute of God.

On the one o’clock line we find the quality of God Love. And on the seven o’clock line we find the quality of God Gratitude. The 1, 4, 7 and 10 are the love qualities. When you express love, qualify that love with God obedience, expanding that love through God Gratitude, and have the vision of the immaculate concept, you are qualifying your Being with the fullness of God love in your Being.

The same would apply for the other qualities of blue, God Power, God Control, God Harmony and God Reality. When you take God power and qualify that power with God Control, expand it through maintaining and sending out God Harmony and holding on to Reality and Truth, you expand the flame of God Power within your heart. When you take the yellow qualities of God wisdom and qualify God Mastery through Wisdom, and expand that wisdom through Justice, and hold that Victory consciousness, you have just expanded the flame of wisdom within your Being.

Whenever you express God Gratitude, you are magnifying the Love on the 1 o’clock line. The antithesis of that love would be hate and anger. The antithesis of God Gratitude would be ingratitude, thoughtlessness and spiritual blindness.

What has been explained to me that happens is that as you, in the physical realm as the monad, make the choice out of your own free will, to take a difficult situation and find it within yourself to send praises of love and gratitude to God regardless of those difficulties or pain, God receives that love and multiplies it back to you. So as you send up love and gratitude to God, that love travels up from your heart, through your crystal cord that connects you with your I AM Presence, and beyond your Presence to the heart of God in the Great Central Sun and your God Creator. When that love has traveled through the crystal cord and reaches the God source that you have sent it to, God receives that love and pours back down that crystal cord His love in return. Well, anyone who has experienced this return of love, knows that one cannot contain the fullness of God’s love, as our vehicle and hearts are not big enough to contain it!

Oh God, expand my narrow room! Is the call that expands the heart chakra. And expand it we must do, and can do through exercising love in all we do. Whether we are expanding the flame of God Power or God Wisdom, we qualify that power with love and that wisdom with love. When we exercise our hearts to send out love during our darkest nights, we are expanding that vessel of love within us. We can Be more and Being more God is a worthy goal. Exercise God Gratitude, especially during your darkest hours and experience the healing power of God Love through God Gratitude.

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