Gratitude goes hand in hand with being happy. We give our children the fulness of the earth so that they might have joy (see D&C 59:13-19). All things are given to our children, to benefit and bless our children who live on the earth.

3. The great millennial day will be one of great happiness and joy! Alignment with our will and counsels brings the most joy, for this creates the most joyful and happy state of man. We have learned that the keys of being happy and we freely share these truths with our own children. The devils that follow Satan are the most miserable, for Lucifer seeks that all men and women might be miserable like himself (see 2 Nephi 2:27).

Raphael, I have asked you to come to this beautiful location in our celestial world this morning in your prayer. I love to feel and enjoy the steadiness and beauty of our celestial ocean. Come with me and let's walk barefoot on the sandy beach!'

4. When their children become more capable and want to do things on their own, there is a gradual transition to letting them do things on their own. When they become older teenagers and young adults, they become fully capable to act for themselves without mother or father. This transition is sometimes hard for parents to let go and let their grown children become themselves and fully choose for themselves. These grown children cannot be controlled in a righteous way, for they are meant to have their full agency without parental controls anymore.

5. When the next generation comes forth as parents themselves, they may want advice and direction. It is wisdom not to seek to control them too much with advice and direction, for they have full responsibility now as young adults to forge their own lives. We, their Heavenly Parents, will gently speak to them and invite them to come unto us and follow our godly ways. The next generation thus shapes the course of humanity, and the previous generation becomes more mature, filled with more understanding, but also starts to fade in strength and importance. In not many years, they become the oldest generation living, and like your mother, are filled with memories and wisdom.

6. We have planned that the bulk of our mortal children experience these phases of aging and maturing. These experiences are very helpful in rounding out the mortal experience we wish them each to have. Those who don't receive the full cycle of life in mortality will receive these lessons in the world of the spirits or some time in other phases of progression. These phases of life greatly enhance the understanding of our children, preparing them for living in eternity in the life they have chosen, some to celestial, terrestrial and telestial.

7. Mortal life on an earth such as yours is the process that the non-rebellious children of God may all experience, in all galaxies of all the Gods. This pattern was established from the beginning with our first parent Gods, and will continue on in all times and places. It is our second probation phase where we may fully see what our children may choose to do without our continual presence. We only choose as our elect those who live in righteous ways and want to become like us, their Heavenly Parents, in eternity. These, our choice children, are more and more filled with light and love as we guide them into their own exaltation phase. They soon become Gods themselves, to repeat the same pattern of living we love so much.'

11. We then traveled in the light beam that we generated around our persons, from our ability to shine forth light energy and our ability to move. The light energy enshrouded us in light and conveyed us to you as we directed this light by our thoughts. All of our actions were created by our thoughts! You might ask how our thoughts create our actions, or by what mechanism are our thoughts so powerful?

12. You will find the answer in the way your own thoughts create action. For example, if you wish to walk into your kitchen, you first create a thought to do so. Once your intention was created, your mind directed your body to stand and walk into the kitchen. You hardly thought of all the steps required to do so, because it is normal and a routine you've done before. When you walk, you don't think to place one step in front of another–it just happens naturally. Your body has learned how to walk very well.

13. Similarly, we have traveled many times in light beams. Our minds know the sequence and when we initiate the action to travel in a light beam, our mind responds to our thought command to repeat this action and we do it. It takes little effort and is all controlled and initiated by our thoughts.

When there is initially an action that hasn't yet been done, like for you to first see our faces, it takes lots of faith. As you persist, you break through the veil and perceive our faces. This first time takes lots of faith energy to create the desired result. However, the second and subsequent times you do this are much easier, for you have great confidence that you can do this again.

14. Similarly, when we will train you as a couple God to do something for the first time with your godly power, it is the most difficult. You will see that creating light from elemental matter will be this way. However, to do this again, it is easier. After multiple times there is a routine and it is easily repeated.

We who are your Gods have done everything that we could ever do with our children or our creations multiple times. It is easy now for us to activate our godly powers and by our thoughts create any actions we desire. We are able to do multiple actions in our multiple replicated states, all at the same time. It is now easy for us to do this by our godly powers.

Again, the start of all action is our thought. This is the initiation of all action in all living beings.'

We don't create our thoughts from any substance, but they have always been part of our ability as intelligences. All intelligence has power to think. Some intelligences are more capable in their thoughts to reason or to think clearly. We who are Gods have been blessed with the greatest ability to think.

4. We think, reason and communicate together in our minds. Our minds are in our head as you know and control all our body. Our thoughts have been developed over our existence to become very powerful. These thoughts are inherent to our intelligence.

Our first parent Gods used the power of their thoughts to reason and create their desired actions, all in the beginning when nobody was yet created into spirits. All of us existed, but we were intelligences. We possessed no matter in our beings, for we were only intelligences. We were discernible, but were restricted to remain where we were located, for we had no power to move or travel.

5. However, our first parent Gods used their thought energies, coupled with their faith, to reason and think of creating something to encompass their intelligences from the elemental matter that was near them. They possessed superior intelligence, and by their thoughts created the first spirit creations that their own intelligences entered. They then found that they could have movement, since now they were inside a spirit of substance that they had created. The movement and actions of their spirits were all controlled by their thoughts that continued to come from their intelligence.

Since the beginning, all thought has been part of the innate skill or ability of the intelligences. Elemental matter does not have the power to think; only the intelligence has the ability. Intelligence was not created or made, but has always existed.

6. The intelligences outside our universe are unorganized, for they exist in distinct locations, unable to move. However, they may think. When we come to them, we communicate with them via our thoughts, for intelligences may think and communicate in their thoughts. We direct our thoughts to their thoughts, and they perceive clearly what we direct to them. They then communicate back to us by their directed thoughts. This ability to think and direct our thought energies has always been part of the intelligence's capability.

7. Your Heavenly Father explained to you last night how thought energies are the source of all actions in entities. All entities have both a spirit component and intelligence. Some also have a physical, or more course matter component. Spirit and physical components are made of elemental matter. The intelligence is enshrouded in one or both of these, as our first parent Gods designed. Their methods continue on and are perfect for their many creations.

I know you need to get ready for work now. Your Heavenly Father and I will answer any questions you may have about what we have revealed to you.'

11. Joseph Smith Lectures on Faith, Lecture One, verses 9 & 10–

12. When our first parent Gods thought to organize elemental matter into a form of man, a spirit man, they did so by exercising faith that they could do this. They directed their thoughts in great faith together to create the first spirit matter that they enshrouded over their intelligences. This was the first real act of faith in all of the eternities, even in the beginning of the Gods.

13. Every new action our first Gods did was created by their combined exceeding faith. Their first action of each new creation or activity was the most difficult to accomplish. Once done before, they had great assurance that they could do it again. Thus by degrees they created their first family and all of their creations. One success spawned new activity and success. Our first parent Gods were very determined and learned from each effort that they made and thus increased their faith that they could be more successful in the future.

14. We have followed this same pattern given by our first parent Gods in all of our godly works. We had assurance that we would be successful in all of our actions as Gods because other Gods had done these actions previously. We still had to exercise faith in our ability to repeat this for ourselves, however.

We have taught our beloved children to have faith in Jesus Christ, our Beloved Son, and in his power to redeem them of their sins and weaknesses. This great act of redemption is already fulfilled, but our children still need to activate this redemptive and cleansing power in their own lives. They need to repent and take upon them the name of Jesus Christ. As they do this they are exercising their faith by expressing their belief that forgiveness and redemption will happen.

15. I like this scripture found in Alma 32:27–

16. When you came to us, seeking our faces, you were persistent in praying and visualizing that you would truly see us. You persisted for months, acting in faith. When we came to you in your energy class in 2013, you had displayed to us a great deal of faith, persistence and visualization. We rewarded you with a dramatic experience that day in your class when Heavenly Mother revealed to you one of our healing gifts.

All actions in our children are initiated by their directed thoughts and faith. This is how the infant learns and persists until they walk, even to the Gods who create and populate worlds. Faith is the driving force behind all action.

17. Raphael, you have conditioned your mind to be open and receptive to our revelations. We give them to you a little at a time. You have developed great faith, based on your previous experiences. You act with assurance, even though you don't know it will all turn out like you think. You have expectations that, even in unknown areas, and you have confidence that all will turn out as we will reveal to you. This attitude of faith allows us to continue to reveal more and greater things to you!

We encourage all to align their thoughts in great faith. This will act like the growing seed spoken of by Alma:

18. Alma 32:28–

You understand how critical faith is to all action in intelligent beings, but what about hope? Hope has been described for the faithful by Nephi:

4. 2 Nephi 31:20

Hope is centered in Christ, with anticipation of eternal life.

5. Alma 13:29–

6. When our children are able to lay hold upon the idea that they may progress and live in a happy, eternal state, even in eternal life, this hope is very motivating to their desires to persist in the path towards eternal life. It is hope that propels them forward in faith to do what they need to do in order to attain eternal life. They act in small steps towards their overall objective, in exercising their faith, being motivated by hope.

7. I like the phrase "having a perfect brightness of hope", for this is how our faithful believe and act. If there were no hope in our children, they would have no motivation to persist in faith, and therefore would take no action. Hope, coupled with strong faith, always produces action and improvement when focused on works we direct our children to accomplish.

Even after we ordain our children to be Gods, and ordain them with power to act like we act, the new gods need to act in faith and hope. These two attributes continue to propel them forward in all their actions.

8. Raphael, you have hope that all of the promises we are telling you by revelation are true. You act in faith, riveted by the hope swelling in your heart that they are true. As you move forward and progress, one step closer at a time, you are encouraged and generate more hope and assurance that you are on the correct path that leads to your own exaltation. You believe and hope that you are acting in harmony with our will. We give you more and more light and love to continue to feed your faith and hope. Soon your hope becomes a perfect brightness of hope!

9. Even now, Raphael, I am filled with hope and assurance that you will be motivated to do all we encourage you to do. I see your faith and hope growing stronger with each day. This confirms my own hope that you will press forward and attain all we command and encourage you to do!

I also have great hope in our holy angels–all of them! I see them acting in faith and hope to accomplish such great actions, even as we reveal to them! I desire each to press forward in hope, acting in faith, even until they fulfill all of our commands!'

Q1: After reading your posts, I have wondered about what this life is really all about, if summed up in the simplest form? Repentance? Love? Learning to hear and follow the Spirit? Faith in Christ?
A1: Raphael, there are many purposes of mortality. However, the biggest lessons we'd like to see our children learn are related to listening to us, their Heavenly Parents, and then in following our commandments. This one lifelong effort will allow them to become numbered among the elect of God. Once they pursue a life of dedication to hear and do our will, we will receive them unto ourselves to receive eternal life and exaltation. Our Beloved Son will redeem and cleanse them of all their sins, and will elect them to become members of the Church of the Firstborn, and ultimately become even as we are.

12. Q2: How about for people who are not religious or have very little knowledge of Heavenly Father and Jesus? What is the real test in their life? How are they to make it back home?
A2: At some point, each child of God who enters mortality or the world of the spirits will be faced with the information about Jesus Christ and the gospel plan. We will gently witness to their soul of its truthfulness. Those who hear and repent of their sins will be cleansed and receive more. If they are then baptised and align with our truths, we will heal and bless them. All will hear and have witnessed to them of these truths.

If our children reject the truth and won't hear, we will not continue to invite them with our Spirit and gentle proddings. They will receive the rewards they chose in life, by whom they listed to obey and follow.

13. Q3: What makes babies be born when they are? How come some babies are very early or very late? Is it their spirits' readiness or what are all of the factors? Or is their birthday so significant a day based on their personality and God's plan with the timing in their lives?
A3: The arrival of our children as mortal babies on earth is when we wish and plan for each to come. In many cases, we plan their lives to be intertwined with others of our children. In our great foreknowledge, we are able to plan the timing so that our plans for each child are fulfilled. This may be incomprehensible to you as a mortal, but we who have infinite capability plan all of the arrival and major events of our children. We act behind the scenes, and since it is so well orchestrated, it appears to man that we are not so involved in the planning of the lives of our children. We incorporate early birth and late birth information that we know in advance. We take advantage of the many situations and cultural norms of the society that we know our child will live in. We continue to speak and guide our children in their unconscious mind. Our great work is to provide for each of our children, somewhere along their journey, the many growth experiences and nudgings to entice them to hear us and obey our words.

I thanked my Heavenly Father for answers to these three questions! I feel inspired by his answers and am always grateful for his clear responses. I then knew my time was ending. I looked into his happy face. He was so full of knowledge, ability, intelligence and power! I felt so assured to be before him. I felt very accepted!

He then departed back to under his oak tree. I ended my prayer and got ready for bed.

L. R's Personal Journal Entry, September 28, 2018 Friday

1. I came today to the celestial realms on the earth. I entered by thinking to be there and then I felt I was there. It is very nearby. I know we servants of God use this place as a base or platform to serve those on the earth.

I knelt on the grassy area, facing a little hill. This is the entrance that I have always come to. I then asked for my Heavenly Parents to come.

Heavenly Mother came to me from on top of the grassy hill! She walked down to a place directly in front of me. She was smiling and seemed happy. She was beautiful and such a glorious being!

2. She extended her left hand and spoke:

I stood and took her hand in mine! We walked over the hill and started walking among the beautiful area of the celestial realms on the earth. We walked on a path next to some woods. We passed by meadows and a gurgling stream and a lake.

3. She spoke to me as we strolled together:

(see this entire chapter for the definition of charity).

5. In the instructions we continually give to our children who listen and follow us, we always act and speak in loving ways. We lead our children to serve one another in love and consideration. We teach them of the great importance of the moral agency of all of our children, so that they never seek to force others, gain power or control over them in any unrighteous way, or gain any advantage of others. Instead, we instill love, or charity in them:

6. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Moroni 7:46-48

13. Heavenly Mother then stopped walking and faced me. She spoke again:

I told her I would do so as often as I could! I said I loved her so very much! I thrill to be with her, to learn from her and that I love to be guided by her, Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ. I committed to seek them always, and to keep their commandments!

She started to embrace me as my vision closed. I felt her love in my heart as I came back to my mortal conscious mind. Oh, what a great prayer this morning!