Author: DailyPrayer

JUNE 30   

I GIVE MY WORLD LOVE, JUSTICE AND TEMPERANCE 

“For all things proceed out this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance, in its different applications, just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.”  Emerson

God must act by means of me, for otherwise I have no purpose in life. I am; therefore that which caused me to be, must have a reason for my being.  I have confidence that the Infinite Mind knew what It was doing as It released me into the world.  I have a divine purpose and a spiritual reason for being.  I am not an accident of fate, nor a victim of inheritance.  I am a living soul equipped to display the attributes of God in my world.  I have within me the potentials of greatness, yes, the glory of God as he acts through man.  To me is given the Mind, Life and Love of God, and I accept my role in the Divine Plan.

I live, because God is life.  I love, for within me is a Love greater than I have ever known.  I am kind to others, because God in me knows their love, their integrity and their hopes.  I have at the center of my being all the Mind of Truth. His Ideas are mine, and His Ways are my paths of peace.  I know the real meaning of spiritual justice.  I judge no man by his outer actions.  I judge only righteous judgment.  God is man in his own real self, and though his outer actions may camouflage this, it still remains true.  I behold the Truth in every person.  I see God in every face.

To live in the Presence is to live always in balance.  I have true temperance, for I am guided by a Wisdom that always guides me rightly.  I indulge in the good, and fast from all evil.  I find my every hunger and thirst satisfied by an inner manna of the Spirit.  I live with wisdom, and allow my fellowman to do the same.  I have the spiritual intelligence to perceive the difference between temperance and intolerance.  I live and let live.  I love and let love happen.  I have faith in my concept of Truth, and respect my fellowman’s concept as well.  I live in God, and I express His love, justice and temperance.  

JUNE 29   

I REFUSE TO EXPERIENCE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND UNHAPPINESS

“Good is positive.  Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold which is the privation of heat.  All evil is so much death or nonentity.  Benevolence is absolute and real.”  Emerson

I have free will as a part of my Divine Birthright.  This great power of mind is mine to use, and the Law of Mind must fulfill my direction.  I now declare my freedom from all evil.  I refuse to be dominated by illness, fear, lack and frustration.  God never made them, and I will have nothing to do with them. God in me knows only my perfect self, and this alone I recognize, affirm and accept.  Having the power to reject the undesirable, I now declare my freedom from evil.  Never again will negatives rule my thinking.  I am the perfect creation of a perfect God, and I know it.

My body is divinely created, and divinely operated.  It is not subject to the ills of the flesh, for my flesh is spiritual substance and cannot be defiled.  No sickness can come upon me, and no medical belief can enthrall me.  I am the health of the Spirit.  I am the Life of God made manifest.  I control my thinking and disciple my emotions. My vitality is sufficient for every demand made upon it. I am never unhappy, for God in me is the joy of living.  Outer pleasure I enjoy, but my inner joy is not dependent upon it.   My real happiness is from my knowledge of God as the joy of my being.

I refuse to experience poverty, lack or financial limitation.  I live in a universe of Divine Design and it knows no lack of abundance.  Everywhere prosperity is rampant.  Money seeks me through every person, thing and situation.  His richness is mine, and I accept it.  I enjoy the money I have, and I use it with wisdom.  There is no virtue in lack, and I now dismiss it from my world.  I am the Child of a rich and abundant God.  The eternal providing Principle supports and maintains me in freedom.  I have Manna to eat which no man can see.  I have a living Water of Life to drink, and I am free of all evil. 

JUNE 28   

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL NO LONGER INTRIGUES ME

“These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, of one mind; and that one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool; and whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise.”  Emerson

God dominates my whole experience.  There is so much of God everywhere in my life, that I cannot see any opposite.  My health cannot know disease and my prosperity cannot know decrease.  I am completely convinced that God is the only power. Mind is the only reality and Love is the only atmosphere.  Evil is a word without meaning.  I perceive the Truth and the Truth has set me free from all false speculations.  Within me, around me and through me there is nothing but pure Mind.  I bask in Its eternal embrace; I think in Its eternal consciousness of good.

The problem of evil no longer fascinates me, for I see it as nothing.  Negatives are merely my misunderstanding of positives.  I can see only that which is of good report.  My eyes are now too pure to behold any viciousness in creation.  God appears to me in all things, in all people and in my own uplifted thinking.  All resistance to problems is erased, because the problems are merely my opportunities to prove God as the only cause.  I accomplish with ease, where others struggle to make ends meet.

God’s Spirit in me appreciates my recognition of Itself, and out-pours upon me all of Its qualities, ideas and aspects.  All life moves to grant me the ability and the power to do what I know is right and fine and true.  The inner upsurging of Divine Intelligence and Creativeness impels me to right decisions and right actions.  There is nothing to fight; there are no battles to be won.  The victorious Truth of my being expresses as me, and dominion over all the good is mine to use.  All positives are mine.  All virtues belong to me.  All of God is revealed to me, and I demonstrate my happiness.  

JUNE 23   

I SIMPLIFY MY UNDERSTANDING OF GOD

“Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, – means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hours.”    Emerson   

Jesus was not interested in the logics of theology; He was primarily concerned with the Spirit in man.  I now turn to the Spirit within me, and find It in all Its greatness and all Its peace.  There is an interior Christ-Mind that baffles all reasoning, and is beyond all human explanation.  In me at this moment, God abides in fullness, in richness, in omniscience.  My life today is the Life of God.  My thinking this day is accomplished because the God-Mind thinks through me.  My capacity to be a great and loving person is because greatness born of the Spirit indwells me.

From whence I may come is of little importance to me.  Where I shall go upon leaving my present body, I am willing to leave to the Wisdom of the Father of us all.  Today I am alive as a creative soul, and I will so live that today the Action of Truth shines forth through the works of my thinking, and the words of my mouth.  The Divine is a perfect Simplicity.  Life flows through me, Love seeks an outlet from me, and Power is mine to use as I select.  My use of the Spirit is not dependent upon my education, background or environment.  God in me acts through me as I recognize It.

I am not dependent upon theological beliefs; God and I are one process, one Life and one Joyous Spirit.  I am in the Father and His Mind indwells me, and inspires me at every moment.  I have an invisible church in my consciousness, and in it I silently acknowledge the beauty of my present life in God.  The inner altar of Truth feeds me with Its living bread of ideas, and its vital wine of creative action.  I no longer seek an outside God and an exterior temple, for I know that I am the temple of the living God, and that all of His Creativeness is mine to use and to enjoy.  I have a simplified concept of God.   

JUNE 22   

MY RELIGION IS OF TODAY’S GOD

“As soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind, – is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, vegetation, astronomy, as face to face in a glass; then we have a religion that exalts, that commands all the social and all the private action.”  Emerson

The world of today is my world, and the Cause of it I consider in today’s language.  I see my world as the operation of an Intelligence which must be Mind, a Power which must bear witness of Divine Love.  While I respect the beliefs of the past, yet I must seek my God today.  I can accept a perfect Mind, an unalterable Law and an interpenetration of Love.  This is understandable to me, and workable by me.  I believe myself to be of Divine Importance.  I believe that He who brought me forth indwells me and acts through me.  God in me is my reason for being.

Indwelling me is a center of Divine Action.  Omnipresence personalizes Itself in me, and I am Its distributing center.  I live under a Law of Mind action, and into that Law I place the cause of things I desire.  God wants me to have what I want to have, and the Law produces my good for me, as and when I want it.  Being a law, It cannot oppose me, but must obey my will.  This is the hope of my being; this is my cause for rejoicing.  I live in a universe that fulfills my every positive desire, when I definitely state this desire into the Law of mind.  Greater good could no generation have.

My God gives me my freedom for all experience.  Good can be mine, and evil can be mine.  I, alone decide the picture and I, alone, experience the result.  I live in a Perfect Mind which knows me as Its perfect image and likeness.  I now choose to have a heavenly experience, and the Law now creates it for me.  I love to live the life of freedom in a God which ordains good for me.  Health, peace and prosperity belong to me, and they now function in me and around me, because I have accepted the Divine Gift.  I respect the God of all men, but I know One Mind, One Presence and One Power as the Truth today.        

JUNE 21   

I KNOW THAT SICKNESS IS UNNECESSARY TO GOD’S CREATION   

“We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know it is divine.  But this I know, that these wonderful qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness, nor buried in any grave; but that they circulate through the universe: before the world was, they were.”  Emerson

I accept myself as a healthy, whole person endowed with Divine life and the wisdom to maintain It in freedom of action.  I am unconvinced by all the reports of disease and their many classifications.  I condemn no one who believes them or experiences them, but I am certain that God is unaware of illness.  I have faith that the Intelligence which created my body will maintain it in perfect action, if I will cooperate.  In me the Spirit of Wholeness abides and remains untouched by the errors of body.  The Christ in me is never ill, and never depleted.  God in me is the same yesterday, today and forever.

My life and its health is dependent upon my knowledge of God and my practice of Spiritual Truth.  I now increase my understanding of the Divine Idea of Life, and let this Idea be in me a power.  Perfect God around me, perfect Life within me.  I am maintained in wholeness of body and health of mind. I am not subject to any ill; I am owned and operated by Him who made me to be His own.  There is nothing in my subconscious mind to cause, maintain or erase disease.  I have denied the power of evil, sickness and death.  I have affirmed my health, strength and vitality as God’s offspring, and this alone shall I experience.

God’s action through me is perfect and complete.  My whole being is receptive to Life and Joy.  I love health, for God is health.  I rejoice in health, for Life is joyous, creative activity.  Nothing disturbs me, for the calm peace of faith is mine today.  My thinking is based on Truth; my emotions are balanced in Love.  I gladly co-operate with every idea of health, and these ideas come to me from all directions.  All people speak health to me.  I radiate health to them.  I am healed and whole because my mind is centered in the Lord who is health to His people.  I give thanks that never again shall I know other than health.

JUNE 20   

I AM A GROWING MIND IN AN UNLIMITED GOD   

“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outward to new and larger circles, and without end.”  Emerson

I decide to grow in wisdom and in understanding.  I decide to give up the half-truth and base my whole life upon the One Truth which forever imparts Itself to me.  No more good and evil, no more right and wrong.  God alone is good and Truth alone is right. I refuse to stagnate at any intellectual level of knowledge, for all true wisdom comes from growth with understanding. What I now know is merely the doorstep to what I shall know.  Greater ideas of God come to me each moment, and these cause me to walk forward with consistent enlargement of consciousness.  I thank God that I can grow in His ways.

The seed falls into the ground and dies in order that the plant may appear.  I let every area of my subconscious become the soil of a larger life.  I declare that every idea I now have shall die that greater ideas shall appear and thereby make me a greater expression of life.  I refuse to stay as I am, and I refuse to live by past thinking.  The doorway of the future opens to me only in so far as I let new thoughts govern me today.  Tomorrow will be what I am thinking and feeling today. Knowing this, I now receive from the indwelling Spirit those Ideas which will improve me.

I am receptive to growth.  I desire more good than I have, and I know that Spirit through me will provide it.  I acknowledge but one source for my present and future good – the Mind of God.  I am an evolving, growing expression of a limitless Principle and an ever unfolding Love.  I grow out of all ignorance into all truth.  I evolve out of all pettiness into all tolerance.  I emerge from disease into permanent health.  Whatever needs to be done to make me a greater instrument of Divine Life and Love is now being done in me.  I let all changes necessary to growth take place.  I love to see the old patterns dissolve and the new ones appear.  I thoroughly enjoy growing in grace and in Truth.  

JUNE 19    

I NO LONGER INDULGE IN NEGATIVES   

“We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God.  Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power.”   Emerson

The spirit of the Lord is within me, and I am resolved to live positively.  The Bible states that man is the image of a perfect God.  Therefore, I must have the potential of perfection, and this perfection must be positive. I now align myself with the positive side of life.  It is divinely natural to be positive, optimistic and expectant of good.  These are the bases of all healing, for they are the way God works through me.  If God is my life, then I should express health.  If God is my supply, then I should express abundance and freedom in finance.  I have faith that these ideas are true, and that they now act for me.

No one causes me to worry, nothing causes me to fear.  All evil is wrong self-indulgence.  As an individualized center of Divine Operation, I can no longer afford the luxury of fear and worry.  I refuse to pay their price, for God’s free faith is mine to use without cost.  It offers Itself to me without stint, and I accept it with joy.  I know that my right thinking controls my destiny.  I know that the key to all experience is in my own consciousness.  I set my thinking on the Truth and I do not waiver for a single moment.  I am steadfast in my loyalty to Him who made me of Himself. 

God loves the positive person, for then all of Mind has a free outlet for Its Ideas.  Knowing this, I become the person God loves, and all right action uses me as a center of distribution.  To me comes the Holy Purpose, and from me flows the healing power.  I heal myself and others.  I think health, act as health, and speak health at all times.  I am no longer sick, tired or worn out.  God in me is positive life, health and vitality.  I radiate the positive.  I rejoice in the power of right thinking.  My whole experience is now changed into greater good, and my thinking expands it forevermore.  I dedicate my mind to His, and I rejoice in positive results.

JUNE 18        

LET HEAVEN HAPPEN TO ME TODAY   

“From within or behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.”  Emerson

Within me now is the Light of Life, and I let It reveal Its perfect nature in all that I do.  I am willing to step aside from all petty thinking and place God first and foremost in my experience today.  I know that more Good is seeking to express through me than I can ever know.  All that the Father-Mind has is within me offering Itself to me.  Peace is in my environment, prosperity is in my finances and health rules my body, as I let God dominate my consciousness.  It is a great relief to know that I need not work, but merely know truth and let it happen to me.

The allness of Spirit includes me and all my world of affairs.   Heaven is my natural setting, and I appreciate its generosity of beauty, harmony and order.  I give God the freedom to be in me what His Mind has chosen to be.  Out of the Infinite comes all the good I want and need, and it appears now at this time in my life.  Through me shines the Glory of God and from me flows the Beauty of the Spirit.  As I grant full authority to Divine Mind, I can rest from all labor and watch my affairs operate with ease.  I have peace in my soul, rest in my body and joy in my world.

It is a great relief to know that people, things and situations are not dependent upon me but upon God.  I withdraw all claims of personal achievement and give all honor and all glory to Christ in me who doeth all the true work.  The universe is Divinely operated, and all my personal affairs are a part of this Divine Action.  Therefore, they are now governed by Intelligence, motivated by Love and they prosper.  Heaven is mine today.  Joyously I greet all men as brothers, for we are all one in the Kingdom. One God, one fellowship of man, one universal order, and one heaven in the present.  Greater good than this I cannot know, for I am one with my Father.

JUNE 17   

I FIND THE ONE IN THE ALL   

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles.  Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.”  Emerson

I have faith in one God, one action of Love, and one Life that is in all and through all.  God must be one – for my life bears witness of a unity of creative action, that I, alone, can upset.  This eternal One Mind acting through one Law is never confused by the stupidity of man.  It remains forever poised in Its own self-knowing, and this is the Rock of Ages to which I can always turn when my own thinking has led me astray.  I am never alone, never forsaken by the Truth.  Its patience is forever, and as I return to Its premise It welcomes me and gives me all that It is.

Details can no longer exhaust me, and my variety of duties shall no more disturb me, in all that I have to do there is a single Power and a single Mind operating, and It directs my ways and makes light my burdens.  I arise out of the many and find rest in the One.  I now accomplish all that needs to be done, with inner peace and poise.  No longer distracted, I work with ease.  Life is a pattern of wholeness, and all details fall into their right place and are completed with ease.  I am overshadowed by Wisdom and embraced by Love.  It is good to know this and to feel the One Divine Presence.

I now am able to find the Beauty of the Spirit in all things.  The commonplace becomes the threshold of God, and every minute action glows with the harmony of the Spirit.  Nothing I do is too menial, for God greets me in every action, and Peace enfolds me as I work.  All false pride is swallowed up in the victorious attitude of God’s work in me, through me, and by means of me.  I am the vehicle of the Truth, and I am worthy of the Divine trust.  I dedicate this day to the Allness of God.  I perceive His face in every face I see.  I do His work in every job.  I glorify my Father by living as His Son.