Part V:
“Now that you have come to maturity and feel the promptings of the soul’s outreaching and yearning for something higher, nobler, and better, you must go forward. But alas, before you, all is dark and uncertain and something within you seems to admonish you that the pathway that lies before you is strewn with many difficulties! Even the Lord and his angels have impressed your mind with the danger of “leaving the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, and going on to perfection”, and you fear to launch out into the uncertain and unknown.
But you have one consolation left; namely, if you have been faithful over the few things that you had during your early Christian life, you have learned that you can safely trust God; then, if you put your trust in God and go forward fearlessly, determined above all things to do his will, let the consequences be what they may, the messenger of the covenant will be sent to you with a message from the Father, and your soul will be led to enter into covenant relation with God. God’s covenant has been left on record, and the message is essentially this (although it may be varied according to the necessities of the individual):
“If you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all peoples: for all the earth is mine, and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.”
And the time will come when you will be impressed to answer as Israel did; namely: All that Yahveh hath spoken, or will speak, I will do; I will be obedient. Thus, there is a most pointed covenant entered into between God, the Spirit, and your own soul. You promise to be absolutely obedient to the guidance of the Spirit, and God promises to be your power under all circumstances, to deliver you from your bondage to this world, to give you power to overcome all the adversaries in the invisible world, even though the obstructions be as great as those that the children of Israel met when they were delivered from their Egyptian bondage.
In this covenant, your mind must be fixed and the soul must answer for the body and external mind, and say, in answer to God’s question: “I will be obedient, I will follow the guidance no matter where it leads me, or what it costs me; no matter whether it be suffering or enjoyment; only that I may know and do the right, the will of God, that I may become a co-worker with him and his angels in the gathering of the first ripe fruit of the earth, in the saving of his people from their sins.”
Thus, the soul is placed in position to apply the promise put on record by the Lord Christ: “If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name.” The name Jesus means “Savior”, for, as the angel said, “He shall save his people from their sins.” In this covenant, then, you take the name of Jesus, and all your prayer is “in his name”, in the purpose expressed by that name.
The habit on the part of the people to pray to God “for Jesus’ sake”, is the expression of ignorance and blindness; but when you have entered into covenant relation with God you will find that your mind is brought into unity with the Christ and becomes the expression of that name. Then all desires that have for their ultimate the purpose of fitting and preparing yourself to become a savior, an instrument in the hands of the Holy Spirit to save his people from their sins, will be granted to you by the everlasting Father, and the granting of your desires is embodied in the meaning of that wondrous name Yahveh Elohim – I will be your power – for the word Elohim means power, the Creative-Power.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 