TITLE: The Time is Now: Release Tired Habits, Leave Your Cocoon Behind and Step Forward to Fulfill Your Destiny (2026 Direct Voice – Teaching)
SPIRIT: Augustine
MEDIUM: Al Fike
DATE: May 16, 2026
LOCATION: Sechelt, BC
God bless you, my beloved students. It is your teacher, Augustine. It is important to step out into the world, my beloved students, so that God may use you as an instrument to bring blessings and light into the world. As you continue to be increasingly sensitive and perceive the conditions of your world, it is understandable that you wish to withdraw and to cocoon yourself from these dark conditions.
Yet, God asks more of you than this. God asks you to step forward, to stretch yourself beyond those levels of comfort and familiarity, that you may be in conditions and situations that will engender an opportunity to serve and to be a channel of light. It may not be an opportunity to speak to another and to bring this truth, the simple Truth of God’s Love, but there are many opportunities in the world, my beloved and beautiful students, many of which you may curtail because your biases and fears have said, “I will not do this or I will not engage in that”, because it brings fear or a mental block toward the expression of yourself, your presence, in that particular situation.
Yet, how is light to be spread? How is darkness to be quelled? How are God’s instruments to be utilised? It is certainly by being prayerful and in alignment with God and God’s Will. This is first and foremost. When you pray for this gift of Divine Love, you empower your instrumentality. As you sit in circles as you do, Circles of Light, you are being a formidable channel of light and blessings for others, but these things are familiar things. These things are what you do almost on a daily basis. As you are human, it says that you are in a habit of doing these things. In habit, there is a lack of enthusiasm and of intense desire, because they are familiar and comfortable. At times, that intense desire comes forward and you are indeed involved and engaged with God in a conscious and powerful way. Yet, often it is in a somewhat mediocre way. The downside of your habits is the lack of true engagement.
I am not suggesting that when you pray, nothing is accomplished. On the contrary, much is accomplished, but if you desire conscious and intense experiences with God, which are quite possible, you must be fully engaged in the process, in the prayer and in the experience. When you are in a situation that is different and often uncomfortable, do you not pray more? Do you not ask for protection, for guidance and for the opportunity to understand and learn why you have been guided to this particular place, individual or situation? The intensity of your prayer is evident when you are being challenged in this way. It also opens the portal to many experiences and opportunities to learn and grow.
I urge you, my beloved students, do not push aside some inspiration, some guidance that is outside of the purview of your experiences. Rather, step forward and say, “Yes, I am willing, even though I may have my doubts, my fears, I also have faith, faith in Your guidance, dear Father.” If that guidance seems dubious, ask for confirmation. Ask for three confirmations if you are so inclined. If they come, often out of the blue, then you know this is meant to be. I urge you to not shirk your responsibilities, because you carry the knowledge, the truth of the matter in regards to human progression and evolution that is not known in the world. Only a few know this. Are you going to keep this to yourselves? Are you going to cocoon yourselves in that comfortable, warm place of being with God and none other? There are times when this is necessary and desirable, but there are other times when you must step beyond these conditions, this comfort level, and be brave and forthright as God’s instruments.
I wish to say further that everything that you do now is merely the prelude to what is to come. It is practice. It is the opportunity to learn, to grow and to refine your efforts to share this truth in times to come, which are almost imminent. You will not have the opportunity to practice. It will be a full-fledged effort that must be accepted and expressed in all the ways that you are able. If you renege upon this responsibility, this opportunity, in times of great need, when that time comes to pass over into spirit, you will have deep regrets, my beloveds. Deep regrets. I am not saying that you must accept and engage within every opportunity that is possible, because your lives have their limitations and their responsibilities. Yet, when you are able to step forward, and the path is made clear and the opportunity is obvious, then are you going to say no? It is doubtful. Your souls will say very much yes. Your minds may ponder and assess the situation, but in the end it is the impetus of the soul guided by God that will guide the way and give the strength and the power necessary in order to fulfil the task.
It is not that God will give you opportunities of service that are beyond you and that may break you in some way. Yet, you must learn to bend and to accept that all things that God asks of you may not be within the purview of your conscious and mindful knowledge. It may be far from it, but it is a gift, a gift to serve, a gift to grow and to practice and to become stronger and more agile in your instrumentality, the expression of gifts that you may not realise you have, but are evident to God. God wishes to utilise them. How is this made so? It is through practice. It is through its expression and it is, of course, through the discovery that it exists.
My beloved and beautiful students, these are crucial times. These are crossroads and these are times of many opportunities. Do not allow the somnambulance of your habits and patterns of life that have been well established to cloak your perception and your experience that may bring you beyond these things through God’s guidance and blessings upon you. Be awake, my beloved students. Awaken to the possibilities. Awaken to who you are. Awaken to all that has been given thus far for a reason and for a purpose. It is important that you recognise these things, that you throw that dusty old blanket off of you and realise that something new and wonderful is awaiting you. It is given with love, hope and encouragement that you may step forward and become that magnificent instrument that you are meant to be.
The time is now, my beloved students, the time for accelerated growth, awakening, purpose and change in your lives. Do not hide away. Do not use old and tired excuses. Do not see yourself as inadequate, or that the possibilities of greatness do not exist within you, for all of these attitudes are of error. It has been the source through many centuries of souls who had great potential, but shirked these opportunities using the excuses that I have outlined and many more. Yet, now you are at a crossroads, my beloved students, a place where the world may capitulate into unimaginable pain and destruction, or turn that corner toward greater light, truth and blessings, not only for yourself, but for everyone.
I make this speech to encourage you, to uphold you and to say that you can do this, my beloved and beautiful students. Much has been imbued within you. Much has been given by God to empower you. Look deeply into your souls. Seek the blessings of God’s Love to empower you even further. Be of great faith and trust in God’s guidance and plan for the salvation of this world. There is no time left, my beloved students. It is time to step forward, to practice your skills, your gifts, your abilities and to walk in that light that may be foreign to you, but it is blessed by God. Protection is given. Guidance is given. What is needed is given when it is the Will of God and His desire for you to act in a certain way in certain conditions. It is faith that will carry you. It is trust that puts aside the doubts. It is your love and dedication to God and to humanity that will inform how you may act and be in the world. Be that light, beloveds. Be that strength. Be that carrier of truth. Hold the banner high and say, “I am Your child, dear God, and I shall serve You well.”
God bless you, beloved students. I am your teacher, Augustine. I speak to you earnestly in hope that you may be inspired, that indeed you may turn a new leaf, as you say, and walk this road without the impediments of the past and with the empowerment of the blessings of God. God bless you, beloveds. Your teacher, Augustine, loves you. God bless you.
2026-05-16-AF-Augustine (T)