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Free Will

Free will is the freedom to use your God-given soul faculty of will through wisdom. Free will is the perfection of the Wisdom of God working within man. Your will is free only when you let God’s Wisdom use you. What you really have is freedom to choose your own course of action.
“Free will” becomes part of your name when the Holy Spirit is using you. To achieve this, you must give up the vacillation of self and choosing the negative. Self is the only thing you can surrender.
War is how nations use their collective free will in selfishness and negativity. A soul’s deliberate use of force is its negative expression of free will.–Edna Lister, October 19, 1953

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Edna Miriam Lister
1884–1971
The original Pioneering Mystic,
American Idealist, Founder, Society of the Universal Living Christ, minister, teacher, author, wife, and mother

Note: Read an in depth discussion of free will versus free choice here.

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