# Chain: Provision For Service > *God's provision for God-guided work* **The argument it traces:** When a mission is guided by God, all that is required is provided on every level, including the monetary → worry, guilt, and conflict are barriers the servant raises, not conditions God imposes, and they work as barriers because they attract what obstructs and exclude the Touch that would otherwise be present → provision meets requirements, not indulgence → harmony is the mark of God's Hand upon the work **5** messages · **12** supporting · complete --- ## Foundation ### 2015-08-20 - [[2015-08-20 Encouragement to Establish Centers of Light|Encouragement to Establish Centers of Light]] Provision promised for a named work, the Centres of Light, with the material spelled out and a condition attached: "God will provide the means, the buildings, the finances, all that is required will be provided given your intention to work and support in loving harmony the possibilities of creating these Centres." The supply is tied to the work being God's, "they are required in the world," and to intention and harmony on the human side. Stated rather than argued, so it sits in the Foundation section beneath the anchor, [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|2016-04-04-af-augustine]], which develops the claim. ### 2016-04-04 - [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|God Provides for Those Who Serve*]] **(anchor)** The developed statement of God's provision for guided work, provided "on every level, including a monetary level"; worry, guilt, and conflict as barriers we raise ourselves; provision meeting what is needed, not indulgence; harmony as the sign of God's Hand upon the work. Presumptive section anchor, and the anchor is not settled: [[2016-03-16 The Resonance of Love Amongst You|2016-03-16-af-jesus]] also states the claim, against a named work, so both belong in the Foundation section and are weighed at build. [[2016-08-19 Blessings Are with You in Your Travels|2016-08-19-af-andrew]] supplies why the barriers work. ## Elaboration ### 2016-03-16 - [[2016-03-16 The Resonance of Love Amongst You|The Resonance of Love Amongst You]] Provision stated against a named work rather than as general assurance. "God provides for you all that you require to do so. He opens doors, many, many doors. He provides the means for you to travel to connect with one another and to connect with many others. He gives all that you require, my beloveds." The work is named, "you will expand your work which is God's work in the world," and so are the means of travel, a concrete case of the thread's claim about material provision, as at [[2016-08-29 This Place Has a Role to Play|2016-08-29-af-faith-nyquist]]. ### 2016-08-19 - [[2016-08-19 Blessings Are with You in Your Travels|Blessings Are with You in Your Travels]] Develops the barrier claim causally: worry is not merely unhelpful, "In this way you do not attract negativity. In this way you allow God's full Touch, within each thing that you do, to be present and to bring harmony," which is why the barrier is the servant's and not God's; closes on harmony as the mark of God's Hand. Closest member [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|2016-04-04-af-augustine]] (Foundation, states the barriers); new facet: why they work as barriers. ### 2016-08-29 - [[2016-08-29 This Place Has a Role to Play|This Place Has a Role to Play]] The no-sacrifice claim, in an institutional setting: the thread's criterion nearly verbatim ("when God moves in this way all needs are met, harmony ensues, love underbinds all actions") plus a further claim: "those who are dedicating themselves to the success of this will be mightily blessed, they will not sacrifice but gain much, for God blesses those who act on his behalf." Where [[2016-04-04 God Provides for Those Who Serve|2016-04-04-af-augustine]] answers worry, guilt and conflict as self-raised barriers, this answers the belief that serving will cost you. Secondary facet: the law applied to an institutional negotiation with trustees and an explicit consideration of the material, the nearest the monetary clause comes to a concrete test. Closest member [[2016-08-19 Blessings Are with You in Your Travels|2016-08-19-af-andrew]]. --- ## 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.* - **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]] (witness) - Provision stated plainly and twice, "You have all that you require to set forth upon your path," and at the close, "you will be given all that you require. Do not doubt this but rejoice in this," with "God will take care of the rest." Augustine is assuring individuals on a spiritual path rather than describing the supply of an undertaking. - **2015-03-24** [[2015-03-24 There Is Fate and Yet There Is No Fate|There Is Fate and Yet There Is No Fate]] (witness) - Circumstances arranged to put people where they are needed, "many acts and actions had to take place for you to arrive at this very moment, and the angels indeed are kept very busy to orchestrate many, many things in this world." Spoken as gratitude for the medium's own arrival rather than as teaching. - **2015-06-29** [[2015-06-29 You Must Prepare Yourselves for What Is Coming|You Must Prepare Yourselves for What Is Coming]] (witness) - Provision promised for those who let go of their attachments to serve: "all you require will be provided, all your obligations in this world will come into the care of God's Loving Hand, and you will not feel as if you are sacrificing and compromising in your life." - **2015-11-09** [[2015-11-09 Persist in Your Faith in Bringing about Centers of Light in the World|Persist in Your Faith in Bringing about Centers of Light in the World]] (witness) - The same Centres of Light work, met with negotiations and setbacks, and the supply described as help rather than money: "we in spirit are working diligently to clear away the obstacles," and "you will be surprised at the insights and blessings and inspirations that will be given for you to accomplish this work." Asserted as encouragement, with persistence and prayer asked of the people serving. - **2016-01-08** [[2016-01-08 Encouragement from Jesus|Encouragement from Jesus]] (sighting) - Doors opened, "God will open the doors, my beloveds, He will open the doors," and the soul nourished, "shall provide for you the great nourishment of your souls," with nothing said about supplying the work. Opportunity rather than provision, on the far side of the thread's fence. - **2016-08-25** [[2016-08-25 The Great Journey Begins|The Great Journey Begins]] (witness) - The provision asserted, "the means will be provided, the opportunities will be laid before you to continue upon this journey, this caravan of hope taking you from one place to another"; roster witness. With [[2016-08-19 Blessings Are with You in Your Travels|2016-08-19-af-andrew]], the teaching comes just as the travelling work begins. - **2016-08-26** [[2016-08-26 This House Is Blessed by God|This House Is Blessed by God]] (sighting) - Very light; the no-barriers side without a provision claim. - **2016-08-27** [[2016-08-27 Be Open to New Directions|Be Open to New Directions]] (sighting) - The release-and-provision adjacency without a provision claim. - **2016-09-13** [[2016-09-13 Move in the World|Move in the World]] (sighting) - "God will bring towards you as you move towards His intention there will be many blessings, experiences and opportunities to serve." Opportunity rather than provision. The thread answers what is supplied to a God-guided work, not what is opened to a soul in motion. Fenced so it is not mistaken for a provision claim. - **2016-11-06** [[2016-11-06 Be Disciples of the Truth|Be Disciples of the Truth]] (sighting) - Doors opened, with nothing said about provision. - **2016-11-27** [[2016-11-27 Confucius Welcomes the Flock|Confucius Welcomes the Flock]] (witness) - The human side of the bargain stated as the whole of it, with the worry named and located on logistics and personnel: "Do not fret, my beloveds, over the details of how this will be accomplished and who will be involved, my beloveds, God is involved, God will accomplish this task. All that we require of you is for you to come together in harmony and prayer." The chain's messages answer worry with provision; this answers it by shrinking the requirement to harmony and prayer and nothing else. It is asserted in a short greeting, and provision itself is never mentioned. - **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) - Provision for the hard encounters of service rather than for an undertaking, "God will provide you with the means to deal with any and all circumstances but you must have faith that this will be so," with guilt set down rather than carried, "Do not carry the burden of guilt, do not carry the assumption that you must heal all situations and bring harmony to all conditions."