# Chain: Free Will And Self Responsibility > *Your healing waits on your own will* **The argument it traces:** God honours free will absolutely and will not override it even to relieve self-created pain → prayers for relief go unanswered while the mind keeps feeding the very condition prayed about → real change must come as a deep desire from the soul, not a correction from the mind → and the same law releases you from responsibility for the choices of others, for each soul answers for what it chooses **9** messages · **8** supporting · complete --- ## Foundation ### 2019-02-22 - [[2019-02-22 The Power to Change Needs Your Conscious Understanding of the Power of Free Will|The Power to Change Needs Your Conscious Understanding of the Power of Free Will]] **(anchor)** (presumptive section anchor) A full, developed statement of the thread's argument: a person's own free will is the turning point of their healing. God honours free will absolutely and "will not override" it, even to relieve pain a person has created for themselves. Prayers for relief go unanswered when "within your mind you continue to persist" in feeding the very condition, and real change is "not just something that is a correction that comes from your mind, but a deep desire for change from your soul." Augustine states the Law of Compensation without naming it: "There is a law that says you must be responsible for yourself." Distinct from [[Chains/Free Will And Gods Plan|Free Will And Gods Plan]], which traces how God carries out His plan across generations through willing souls. Shares ground with [[Chains/Soul Expiation|Soul Expiation]] (change that comes from the soul; compare [[2023-02-10 The Impediments of Soul Awakening|2023-02-10-af-augustine]], which denies that a soul must cleanse everything first) and with [[Chains/Mind Vs Soul|Mind Vs Soul]] (the mind's correction set against the soul's desire), but neither of those threads makes this argument. ## Elaboration ### 2014-07-26 - [[2014-07-26 Free Will Makes for a Free Wheeling World, Nothing Is Guaranteed|Free Will Makes for a Free Wheeling World, Nothing Is Guaranteed]] The purpose behind the law of non-interference. Augustine gives the refusal and its reason in one breath: "We cannot interfere with your free will. We will not, for this is your precious life and it is for you to grow, to learn, to strengthen, to love, to understand the nature of life, the nature of Creation, the being that is your Creator and the being that is you, the created." The non-interference is pedagogical rather than merely legal, and responsibility follows from it: "it is the power of your free will, your choice, your efforts which will determine how you deal with these conditions, what is manifest, what unfolds." ### 2015-03-29 - [[2015-03-29 The Greatest of All Types of Healing Is Divine Love Healing|The Greatest of All Types of Healing Is Divine Love Healing]] The message's largest argument, stated plainly: the spirit world could remove the obstructions and deliberately does not. "We in spirit who have great powers of healing, can with each day bring you to a place where you are free of these inhibitions, these obstructions, but would this strengthen you on your journey? It would be gratifying and make many challenges easier, but it would not strengthen your souls, your resolve, and those aspects of your beings which need transformation, and discipline, and efforts which must rise from within you." He anticipates being misread and heads it off: "Do not take my message as a message that indicates that we do not have care for you... for we do, in great measure. But in partnership with our efforts, your efforts are required and necessary." The same restraint God shows in [[Chains/Free Will And Gods Plan|Free Will And Gods Plan]], here shown by the angels and given its reason: help that bypasses effort would leave the soul unstrengthened. ### 2016-04-04 - [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|God Provides for Those Who Serve*]] Draws out what follows from the law that each soul is responsible for itself: some people "stubbornly hold on to what they carry" when "they may indeed find healing and respite and an unburdening", keeping their condition by choice, and therefore "you are not required to have a sense of responsibility towards their choice, for each soul is responsible for what they choose, just as you are responsible for what you choose." Where [[2019-02-22 The Power to Change Needs Your Conscious Understanding of the Power of Free Will|2019-02-22-af-augustine]] turns the law inward, on the seeker's own healing, this message turns it outward: the same law that makes your healing yours releases you from carrying theirs. ### 2016-05-29 - [[2016-05-29 Aman Speaks of the Original State of Humanity and the Fall from Grace|Aman Speaks of the Original State of Humanity and the Fall from Grace]] The consequences of choice stated at the scale of history rather than of a life: "all of humanity must come to recognize the power of this Gift and how it can lead to decisions which may have profound effects upon yourselves and others," and "Millennia upon millennia of disharmonious choices and unloving acts have made this perfect Earth into a howling mass of unloved and injured souls." The diagnosis of the present world is not misfortune but alignment: "The world is rife with sin and error because the children of God do not desire to be in alignment with Him and His laws of creation." ### 2016-08-15 - [[2016-08-15 The Reluctance to Step Fully into the Light|The Reluctance to Step Fully into the Light]] Names what the will weighs when it stalls: the fear of annihilation, "to lose who you are and not knowing who you will become, to lose all that you have built over a lifetime," answered by enhancement ("it will not crumble and fall away as you imagine, but all will be enhanced"), with the no-penalty clause: "God respects your will. He awaits your decision and He loves you. Whatever you decide, you are always loved." Closest member [[2019-02-22 The Power to Change Needs Your Conscious Understanding of the Power of Free Will|2019-02-22-af-augustine]] (Foundation, why the prayer for relief fails); new facet: the content of the hesitation itself, and that withholding the decision costs no love, which the Foundation's sterner register does not carry. ### 2016-09-09 - [[2016-09-09 Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love|Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love]] The lag between what the Love has already changed and what the seeker must still change by hand. "This Love is designed to expel these conditions within you. But the last vestiges of such conditions remain within your material mind, these patterns of thoughts, these erroneous conclusions, these unloving projections upon another. And it is your responsibility to change those patterns of thinking, those old habits, to catch up with the changes within you." Nearest to it is [[2019-02-22 The Power to Change Needs Your Conscious Understanding of the Power of Free Will|2019-02-22-af-augustine]], the chain's developed statement, where prayers for relief go unanswered while the mind keeps feeding the condition prayed about. Augustine describes a seeker whose mind is actively sustaining the problem, so the healing waits; Andrew describes a seeker whose soul has already been changed and whose mind is merely behind, which makes the residue a maintenance task rather than an obstruction. What is new here is the Love's work already done, with responsibility as what remains. He adds the failure mode: "To do God's Will does not mean to indulge in your old human ways and rationalize them in your actions and say this is God's Will." ### 2016-09-12 - [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|You Are Supported in Your Struggle]] Decouples responsibility from authorship. "Nonetheless, no matter the source, it is your responsibility and your struggle to take the actions necessary to cleanse your soul and God's Love begins the process, ignites a great flame that will burn away these encrustations, but it is for you to acknowledge what lay within you. It is for you to be strong enough to look." The Foundation, [[2019-02-22 The Power to Change Needs Your Conscious Understanding of the Power of Free Will|2019-02-22-af-augustine]], rests responsibility on authorship, its conditions being those "most often you have created yourself over long years of choices". Here the same law is applied where the seeker did not author the condition, so responsibility is for the cleansing and not for the cause. It sits between the Foundation, your healing waits on your own will, and the [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|2016-04-04-af-augustine]] Elaboration, you carry no responsibility for the choices of others: this says you do carry the cleansing of what others put in you. Adjacency recorded: this passage and the Objection-removed above are consecutive in the text, and the two claims are separable, ownership of the reactions and responsibility for the cleansing regardless of source. ### 2017-05-11 - [[2017-05-11 Jesus Speaks of the Pentecost|Jesus Speaks of the Pentecost]] The thread's claim stated sharply, and the message's door: "The only thing that holds you back from the awakening of your soul is you. Your inability to have that faith, that trust, that awareness, that all you essentially need is God." Stated immediately after the assurance that the help is already in place, "we, the angels of Heaven, will surround you and support you and inspire you and protect you," so responsibility is placed without abandonment. Closes: "This is between you and God." --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **2015-11-02** [[2015-11-02 Free Will Governs Your Path|Free Will Governs Your Path]] (witness) - The law stated as daily choice with its consequences, "God gives you free will and you are to utilize this Gift," with growth coming by "experiencing the consequences of your actions, which, as I have said, at times bring Light and at times not." It also states the release from other people's choices that [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|2016-04-04-af-augustine]] develops: alignment with God's Will "allows you to release your hold upon another and that human desire to want others to follow a certain path and way," because "each soul has their own unique journey in life and lessons to be learned." - **2016-08-26** [[2016-08-26 Seek the Light of God's Love|Seek the Light of God's Love]] (witness) - The non-coercion law in its invitational form: "God does not command you to love him but God beseeches you to know his Love. It is your choice." The Foundation ([[2019-02-22 The Power to Change Needs Your Conscious Understanding of the Power of Free Will|2019-02-22-af-augustine]]) states the law from the withheld-relief side; this is the same law from the offer side, one sentence, asserted. Promotable at build if a message develops the beseeches-not-commands framing as an argument. - **2016-09-10** [[2016-09-10 Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You|Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You]] (witness) - The offer side stated for a third time by this spirit, "God gives you the choice. God allows you to turn away if you wish or turn towards this Light. It is your responsibility and your choice which way you wish to go, for God gave you free will." The [[2016-08-26 Seek the Light of God's Love|2016-08-26-af-augustine]] witness already carries the beseeches-not-commands form. Recorded so the repetition across August and September 2016 is findable. - **2016-09-14** [[2016-09-14 Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort|Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort]] (witness) - The law extended to the angels, and prayer named as what licenses their help. "We in spirit who watch you and watch over you can only wait for you to climb back out of your condition... Yes, we do assist you but we cannot always assist you... And indeed when you pray for assistance you do receive it. This is the first choice when one feels these heavy conditions... Prayer, prayer, my beloveds, is important, indeed crucial, for this opens the possibilities for us to assist you." The Foundation already carries the spirit-side limit, that no spirit can override God's Laws. What is named here is that assistance is gated on the seeker's asking, and that the spirits' posture in the meantime is enforced waiting. Held at witness because the limit itself is not new. Followed up at [[2016-10-16 The Opening of Your Soul Perceptions|2016-10-16-af-augustine]] below. - **2016-10-16** [[2016-10-16 The Opening of Your Soul Perceptions|The Opening of Your Soul Perceptions]] (witness) - The assistance gate named at [[2016-09-14 Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort|2016-09-14-af-augustine]], here from the same spirit with its law attached: "When you ask for our help you receive it. When you walk with God in His Love you open a great channel of assistance and love towards you and this is how the Law of Attraction works." Still not an argument about the gate: two sentences inside a message about soul perception. But with [[2016-09-14 Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort|2016-09-14-af-augustine]], the pair carries the gate and the law that governs it, which may be enough at build. - **2016-11-29** [[2016-11-29 Put Aside the Goals and Ambitions of Your Mind|Put Aside the Goals and Ambitions of Your Mind]] (witness) - The release from other people's choices, "none of you are responsible for another in regards to their choices and their path to God. No, they are responsible for themselves," widened to the world, "none of you can save the world, no, only God can save the world." [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|2016-04-04-af-augustine]] develops the same release. - **2016-12-05** [[2016-12-05 Talks of the Challenges That Come with Soul Growth|Talks of the Challenges That Come with Soul Growth]] (witness) - The choice to follow guidance, with no penalty for refusing, "it is your choice whether you will listen and enact the guidance given, it is always your choice. If you refuse, it does not mean that God loves you any less." - **2016-12-07** [[2016-12-07 Pray from Your Heart|Pray from Your Heart]] (witness) - The release from other people's choices, with the seeker's own responsibility put in its place, "it is not your responsibility to lead the soul in error to light, it is your responsibility to lead your own soul into the light and in so doing you become an example for other souls and it then becomes their choice to open their eyes and to see," and "Do not think you can change another, as you can only pray and ask for the light to shine within yourself as a lantern." [[2016-11-29 Put Aside the Goals and Ambitions of Your Mind|2016-11-29-af-judas]] states the release; this adds what the released seeker does instead.