Author: DailyPrayer

DECEMBER 5   

I RESPECT THE HEALTH IN MY BODY

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17

My health is not self-created, for God is the health of man.  This health is worthy of my respect.  Only that which I respect do I value and handle with care.  My body is a spiritual vehicle through which God’s Life flows.  God’s unlimited health maintains it in strength, vitality and ease of action.  My thought definitely affects my health, and my spiritual responsibility demands that I stay positive and creative. As all illness and fatigue originate in my mind, I now eliminate their causes.  Every spiritual thought of mine helps the body to remain sound and whole.  Such thoughts I have with ease.

No more fear and no more worry for me.  I know their destructive actions, and I refuse to adulterate God’s Health in my body with such errors.  I must not impede the health and vitality which God has planned for me.  No hate is worth the toll it takes in my tissues.  No anger is worth the destruction it causes in my body.  What God made I use with all the wisdom I have and can claim.  As I respect my body and declare that God abides within it, I feel an upsurge of life.  Strength and power become my tools to use for right activities.  All fatigue disappears and I do easily whatever needs my attention.  God responds to me with all possibility, because I have rightly used His Life within me.

The Divine Pattern of my health is now accepted by me.  This includes a rich sense of well-being all the days of my life.  I expect my body to react with ease, as my thinking acts with wisdom.  Letting go of all beliefs in sickness, I never again experience disease.  Even the slightest cold will be no more, for I now see God as my health.   I respect the Divine enough that I dedicate my thinking to positives.  I rejoice in my healthy body, because it indicates my healthy thinking. Today I am alive with health, vitality and the power of accomplishment.  I eat with wisdom, rest with wisdom.  I think only those thoughts which maintain me in health.  I am alive now with the permanent and perfect Health of the Spirit.

NOVEMBER 21

I RELY UPON THE ONE PERFECT ACTIVITY OF GOD

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:12

The all-intelligent, creative Presence is the source of all that I am. I believe in the ability and the willingness of this great Source to sustain its own creation.  The Kingdom and the Power and the Glory of God expresses through me.  I recognize myself to be a center through which the intelligence and power of the universe find expression.  Infinite Mind, operating through me, now brings to me the manifestation of harmony, order and the highest good.  The consciousness of peace and plenty is established within me.  All that is necessary to my happiness and well-being now comes into my experience.

Turning my mind into the Divine, I seek to draw into my own soul the essence of everything that is good, true and beautiful.  I seek to draw into my own mind the realization of the Divine Presence and the Power of Good until my whole being responds.

There can be neither limitation nor lack for nothing has happened to the One Perfect Activity.  It is in full operation for me.  I am now free from any sense of bondage.  All power is given unto me from On High.  Knowing this, I am strong with the strength of the all-vitalizing power of the universe.

I am sustained and healed by a divine stream of Spirit-Energy, which flows through me as radiant health and vitality.  Every fiber of my being responds to this spiritual flow.  I stand revealed as the perfect child of the Perfect Father.  Strength and courage are my divine birthright and I am now expressing my true self.  All that the Father hath is mine.  I draw from the spiritual treasure house all that I need.

NOVEMBER 20   

I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW

Despise no man and deem nothing impossible; every man hath his hour and everything its place.

The Talmud

I believe that no matter what the experience through which I am going, good will come out if it.  I believe that all poverty will be turned into riches; that all fear will be converted into faith. I believe that good finally will triumph over every evil and love will heal all hate.  I believe that I have a silent partnership with the Invisible; that this partnership has never dissolved and never can be.  I believe in the invisible Presence of Good in a universe peopled with perfect and eternal entities.  I believe that all things are possible to him who does believe.

Knowing that the law of God is a law of love, and knowing that the law of love is a law of liberty, I see freedom, joy, happiness, peace and wholeness in everything I look at.  I respond to the Divine calm which is at the center of everything.  Knowing that perfect love casteth out all fear, I am strong and confident because I know that the Law of Good goes with me and prepares the way before me.

I have complete confidence in my knowledge and understanding of the Law of Good. I not only know what is the Law, I know how to use It. I know that I shall obtain definite results through the use of It. I realize that doubts about my ability to use the Law are things of thought.  What thought has produced, thought can change.  Knowing this, having confidence in my ability to use the Law, and using It daily for specific purposes, gradually I build up an unshakable faith, both in the Law and possibility of demonstrating It.  There is no doubt in me, no uncertainty rising through me.  My mind rejoices in certainty and in assurance.  I confidently expect that my word shall not return unto me void.

NOVEMBER 20   

I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW

Despise no man and deem nothing impossible; every man hath his hour and everything its place.

The Talmud

I believe that no matter what the experience through which I am going, good will come out if it.  I believe that all poverty will be turned into riches; that all fear will be converted into faith. I believe that good finally will triumph over every evil and love will heal all hate.  I believe that I have a silent partnership with the Invisible; that this partnership has never dissolved and never can be.  I believe in the invisible Presence of Good in a universe peopled with perfect and eternal entities.  I believe that all things are possible to him who does believe.

Knowing that the law of God is a law of love, and knowing that the law of love is a law of liberty, I see freedom, joy, happiness, peace and wholeness in everything I look at.  I respond to the Divine calm which is at the center of everything.  Knowing that perfect love casteth out all fear, I am strong and confident because I know that the Law of Good goes with me and prepares the way before me.

I have complete confidence in my knowledge and understanding of the Law of Good. I not only know what is the Law, I know how to use It. I know that I shall obtain definite results through the use of It. I realize that doubts about my ability to use the Law are things of thought.  What thought has produced, thought can change.  Knowing this, having confidence in my ability to use the Law, and using It daily for specific purposes, gradually I build up an unshakable faith, both in the Law and possibility of demonstrating It.  There is no doubt in me, no uncertainty rising through me.  My mind rejoices in certainty and in assurance.  I confidently expect that my word shall not return unto me void.

NOVEMBER 19   

CONSTANTLY, I PARTAKE OF THE DIVINE BOUNTY

There is nothing impossible of attainment by persons of virtuous behavior.

The Mahabharta

I have within myself, as I sit here, the sense that though my body is real, tangible, with definite form and outline, it is at the same time somehow made of a living stuff which is saturated with God-Life.   I know that whatever the stuff is of which my body is made, though it is called material, it must really be made of the One Stuff and Essence of which all things are made.  Therefore, I sense within the very cells and tissues of my body an Eternality.

Realizing that the Spirit within me is God, the Living Spirit Almighty, being fully conscious of this Divine Presence as the sustaining Principle of my life, I open my thought to Its influx. I open my consciousness to Its outpouring.  I let that Mind be in me which was also in Christ Jesus.  That is the Mind of Truth, the Mind of God, carrying with It all the power of the Infinite.

I am now inviting the Spirit within me to flood my mind with its wholeness, to bring warmth and color and feeling and love into everything I do, say and think. I believe that at the very center of my being there is the man whom God has made, a perfect man.  Therefore, I lay aside all fear, all doubt, all misunderstanding, all uncertainty.  I know that Life has need of me or it would not have put me here.

I know and understand that Good alone is real.  I know that silently I am drawing into my experience today and every day, an ever increasing measure of truth and beauty, of goodness, of harmony.  Everything I do, say and think is quickened into right action, into productive action, into increased action.  My invisible good already exists.  My faith, drawing upon this invisible good, causes that which was unseen to become visible.  All there is, is mine now; all there ever was or ever can be, is mine now.

NOVEMBER 18   

“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH”

Not to be separate from his primal source constitutes what we call the Heavenly man; not to be separate from the essential nature thereof constitutes what we call the Spirit-like man; not to be separate from its real truth constitutes what we call the Perfect man.

The Texts of Taoism

It has been written that Christ is the Redeemer; also that Christ is in us.  We have been told that our redemption is at hand.  We have been told to awake and that Christ will give us light.  Therefore, I conclude that my redeemer lives and is now acting through me.  Why, then, is not my redemption at hand?  It is, but I have failed to see it.  Can it be possible that I am using the Creative Power to produce the very limitation from which I so earnestly seek to extricate myself?  Undoubtedly, this is true.  There are not two powers; there is but One Power.

Today I realize that life is truly a mirror of king and slave.  Today I realize that my redemption is at hand.  The Spirit within me refreshes me daily.  I feel myself saturated with the Life Essence Itself; I feel the same Life Essence flowing in and through me.  I feel myself to be a perfect instrument in Life’s divine symphony, in tune with its harmony and perfection.  My body is an instrument in, through and upon which Life plays a divine and perfect harmony.  I am not going out in search of another power but am going to use the Power which I know already possesses eternity and is already at the center of my own life.  I know that this will heal every condition, overcome every obstacle, break down every barrier, and free me from every false condition.  My redemption is already at hand.

I look confidently into the future.  I see new friendships, new opportunities.  Everything in my experience is renewed.  Everything is made glad and happy and whole.  As I turn to the world around me, I see this same good evenly distributed everywhere, and operating through all people. 

Taken from “Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

NOVEMBER 17  

I EXPERIENCE COMPLETE WHOLENESS

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

I Thessalonians 4: 11,12

I know that I am some part of the Divine Being, that the power and the presence of that Spirit is in the word I speak, and that word infinitely and perfectly and permanently makes whole.  I know that I represent an individualization of the Truth – the truth of Wholeness, the truth of Love, Reason and of Sound Mind; the truth of Peace and Joy; the truth and the freedom of the circulation of the Divine in every atom, in every function and every organ.  I empty myself of any and every thought that denies this.  I know that, silently but effectively, the Divine Power of the invisible Spirit is working here and now – this moment.

Realizing that God, the living Spirit, is the one final presence and power in the universe.  I consciously enter into communion with the Divine Presence that is within me and within and around everything. 

I hold this realization with complete certainty.  I recognize that I am a perfect being, living under perfect conditions, knowing that Good alone is real.  I also know that Good alone is the only thing that has any power either to act or to react.  Everything that I do, say or think today, shall be done, said or thought from the spiritual viewpoint of God in everything.

My recognition of the Power is sufficient to neutralize every false experience, make the crooked straight and the rough places plain.  Definitely I know that this recognition establishes the Law of harmony in my experience, the Law of Prosperity, the sense of happiness and health.  I experience complete Wholeness.

NOVEMBER 16         

TODAY I LIVE

He who knows this grand completion does not seek for it; he loses nothing and abandons nothing; he does not change himself with regards to (external) things; he turns in on himself, and finds there an inexhaustible store.

The Texts of Taoism

The wisest man who ever lived told us that the knowledge of truth shall make us free.  All books of spiritual wisdom have taught us that it is not the one who makes the mistake whom we should seek to destroy; it is the mistake itself which must be erased.  This means that evil has no existence in itself and has no history.  No matter what the negations of yesterday may have been, the affirmations of today rise triumphant and transcendent over them.  Thus all the evils of our yesterdays disappear into their native nothingness.

If we behold beauty instead of ugliness, then beauty will appear.  If we persist in seeing the true rather than the false, then that which is true will appear.  Let us, then, cease weeping over the shortcomings and mistakes and evils of our yesterdays, and steadfastly beholding the face of the great and divine Reality, let us resolve to walk in the light wherein there is no darkness.

Definitely I know that every negative condition of the past is cleared from my consciousness.  I no longer think about it, see it, or believe in it.  Nor do I believe that it has any effect whatsoever in my experience.  Yesterday is not, tomorrow is not, but today, bright with hope and filled with promise, is mine.  Today I live.

I now surrender every doubt and fear, every thought of confusion or uncertainty, into the keeping of the Divine Spirit.  I lose all sense of limitation, lack and want into the Divine Abundance.  I lift up the bowl of my acceptance and know that it is filled from the wholeness of plenty.  I let God, the supreme Intelligence, guide and direct me.   

NOVEMBER 15   

I AM SPIRIT MADE MANIFEST THIS INSTANT

Infinite is that, infinite is this.  From the infinite one proceeds the infinite one.  On taking the infinity of the infinite one, there is left infinity.

Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad

My body, and every part of it, is made of pure Substance – God. It cannot deteriorate.  This instant this Infinite Substance within me, that is constantly flowing through me, takes form in the likeness of perfect, whole, complete cells.  Every cell of my body is strong and healthy, filled with life and vitality, strength and cleanliness.  My body (Spirit in form) knows no time, knows no degree; it knows only to express fully, instantaneously.

The Divine Presence, being everywhere and filling all space, must be in me.  It must be that which I really am.  I recognize It is within me and It is that which I am. I let this recognition of my indwelling Divinity flow through my entire consciousness.

I know that my body is renewed, revitalized, remade.  All the energy, action and vitality in the universe is pouring through it, and I know every action, every organ and function of this body is created in the wisdom of God and maintained by the power of God. 

I let this thought reach down into the very depths of my being.  I rejoice in my Divinity.  I am now made vigorous and hardy.  I have the stamina of the Infinite.  I am sturdy and robust.  I am fortified with God’s perfection and right action.  I am whole and able bodied.  Al the life of the universe is my life.  All the strength of the universe is my strength.  All the power of the universe is my power.  Every breath I draw fills me with perfection, vitalizes, upbuilds and renews every cell of my body.  I am born in Spirit and of Spirit, and I am Spirit made manifest this instant. 

NOVEMBER 14  

TODAY I SEE HIM REFLECTED IN EVERY FORM, MOVING IN EVERY ACT

Now, when the thought of doing good has arisen in a man’s mind, though the good be not yet done, the good Spirits are in attendance on him.

The Texts of Taoism 

After long meditation and much deep reflection, having passed through the confusion of human experience, Job finally arrived at the conclusion that the Spirit of God was within him and that the breath of God was his life.  We all have traveled this same pathway of experience, the journey of the soul to “the heights above,” and always there has been a deep inquiry in our minds – What is it all about?  Does life make sense?  What is the meaning of birth, human experience and the final transition from this plane which we call death?  Somewhere along the line we too must exclaim with Job, “The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.”  Nothing can be nearer to us than that which is the very essence of our own being.  Our external search after Reality culminates in the greatest of all possible discoveries – Reality is at the center of our own being; life is from within out.

I feel that my search is over.  I feel that I have discovered the Great Reality.  I am not evolving into it, I am merely awakening to the realization of what it means.  There is but one Life.  This Life I am living.  Today I speak this Reality into every experience I have.  Today I see Him reflected in every form, back of every   countenance, moving in every act.

This is my deliberate choice.  This is my secret desire.  This is the sole ambition of my heart and mind and soul, that I shall walk with God, and walking with God, that I shall so manifest His nature that everything around me shall be blessed.     

NOVEMBER 13   

DAILY I DIE TO EVERYTHING THAT IS UNLIKE GOOD

When all desires dwelling in the heart have been quitted, then the mortal becomes immortal; (then) he enjoys here Brahma.

Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad

The Talmud says that unhappy conditions arise when we mistake shadow for substance.  Even the valley of the shadow of death causes no fear when we arrive at the consciousness of the Psalmist who, from the exaltation of his Divine deliverance, proclaimed, “…thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”  The rod and staff of Truth is the realization of the substantiality and the permanence of that which cannot change.

I am believing that we are identifying ourselves with success and happiness.  This is what we are decreeing. This is what Life is doing for us now.  We know that goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives: and we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

We are ever renewed by the passage of the Divine Light through our consciousness.  The revitalizing, regenerative power of Spirit flows from the consciousness of wholeness into our physical organism, and into every objective act when we give the realization of the Divine Presence free passage through our thought.

I know that every apparent death is a resurrection.  Therefore, today, gladly I die to everything that is unlike the good.  Joyfully I am resurrected into that which is beautiful, enduring and true. Silently I pass from less to more, from isolation into inclusion, from separation into oneness.  The perfect Law of Good is operating through me.  Joyfully I accept it.  Joyfully I permit its action in everything that I do.  I know that my recognize of good is the substance of the good which I recognize and I know that this good is ever taking form in my experience.  It is impossible for me to be separated from my good.