UP Church Worship Experience – July 25, 2021

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Sermon by: Rev. Dr. Della Reese

IT’S UP CHURCH MONTH!

Help us celebrate Rev. Della all month long! Join us for 31 days of UP Church! We want to know your favorite memories.

FEATURED MUSIC
SANCTUARY
Written by: West Angeles COGIC Mass Choir and Congregation
Lead Vocals: Kim Yarbrough
BG Vocals: UP Church Choir

Musicians: TC Campbell, Bill Pittman, David Scott, Tom Sala, Joe Sala, Mark Allen Felton

EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE
Written By: Bernard Ighner
Lead Vocals: Karen Evans
Background Vocals: UP Church Choir
Musician: TC Campbell, Bill Pittman, David Scott, Tom Sala, Joe Sala, Mark Allen Felton

GOD IS SO WONDERFUL
Written by: Bruce Carleton Fisher / Billy Preston
Adapted By/Lead vocals: Della Reese Lett
Background vocals: UP Church Choir
Musicians: TC Campbell, Bill Pittman, David Scott, Tom Sala, Joe Sala, Mark Allen Felton


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July 25, 2021 – I HAVE POWER

JULY 25

I HAVE POWER

So God created man in his own image … And God blessed them and God said unto them … replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

Genesis 1:27 – 28

It is because the Spirit of God is incarnated in us that we have dominion over the world of effects.  This dominion is excised in such degree as we sense its true meaning. It is written that we have dominion over evil, not that we have dominion in or through evil.  Spiritual dominion is exercised only as we rise above that which denies the Divine Goodness.

Today I exercise my spiritual dominion through the recognition that good alone is real, that God is the only presence and Love and the only power.  Today I rise above the sense of separation into a consciousness of my union with Good.  Today I understand the power of God flows through me to everything I contact.

I declare that my God-given dominion is exercised over everything I do, say or think.  I am guided by Divine Intelligence which goes before me and makes perfect my way.  I exercise dominion over my environment, over every circumstance and condition that I contact.  I know that the Divine Mind, operating through me, will arrange all my affairs in harmony and in prosperity.  Divine Power flows into my thought and work. Peace and harmony attend everything I do.  Love and protection are ever present.  I am guided, guarded and sustained by an everlasting strength, power and wisdom.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

July 24, 2021 – I HAVE COMPANIONSHIP

JULY 24 

I HAVE COMPANIONSHIP

I am a companion of them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.  Psalm 119:63

We all long for intimate relationships; we wish to feel that we are one with people.  This yearning, which every normal person has, emanates from an unconscious but spiritual perception that we all are one in Life itself. Where there is no sense of rejection there will be no loneliness.

I no longer reject myself.  Knowing that I am one with all people in the Spirit, I receive everyone as a friend.  I establish a close and intimate relationship with everyone I meet – something goes out from me and becomes unified with them.  I include all and exclude none.  Higher than all differences, is that union of the soul with its Source; beyond all differentiation, the Infinite Person is enshrined in the sanctuary of my own consciousness.  One with all people, I enjoy this Divine companionship.  I embrace the Infinite in everyone and in turn am embraced by It.

I know that my presence upholds and blesses everyone whom I contact, and that a healing power goes forth from me.  I know that today I shall be able to help everyone whom I meet.  There is a song at the center of my being which everyone hears, a joy which everyone feels, a strength which is imparted to all.  I place upon everyone I meet the seamless robe of Christ, the garment of truth which is the unity of God and man.  All people are my friends.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

July 23, 2021 – I AM ONE WITH ALL

JULY 23   

I AM ONE WITH ALL

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord … I and the Father are one … Who hath seen me hath seen the Father. 

Deuteronomy 6:4; John 10:30

Perhaps the most difficult thing for us to realize is that one Life runs through everything, one Presence manifests in everything, and one Person individualizes through everyone.  But unity does not mean uniformity.  We do not all have to be alike, think alike, or act alike, but the world is learning that we must all act in union.  The Infinite One manifests in infinite variations, each rooted in the One but each divinely unique in its own right.  Good, bad; high, low; across, above and beneath, are all one to the infinite Mind.

Today I find my union with Life. Today my imagination reaches back through all differences to the universal sameness.  Today I know that I am in Him, He is in me, we are One.  Today, I sense this Divine union of the soul with its Source and of all people with the Infinite.

I know that I am not isolated from the All-Good, but as one with it.  Therefore, I am not afraid, even when the billows roll and the wind sweeps by, for there is a divine hand guiding my ship; there is an invisible Presence at the wheel.  I lift the sails of faith and let the winds of love fill them with the mighty power of the Divine Presence.  My boat rides upon a sea of pure Spirit and finds safe anchorage in a haven of delight.  I am one with God.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

July 22, 2021 – I HAVE ILLUMINATION

JULY 22     

I HAVE ILLUMINATION

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in.  Psalm 4:27

The gates represent the place in our consciousness where the Divine flows into the human.  The light which artists painted around the saints represents the light of Heaven.  Illumination or cosmic consciousness is a reality.  This is what Jesus referred to when he said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

As the dawn of illumination breaks and the shadows of evil flee, the hills of God are touched with the glow of Divine rays.  I wake to the thought that I am one with all life.  I lift mine eyes to the sky and sing with the joy of one who beholds the Eternal Presence in everything.

Today I lift up my consciousness to the light and I know the King of Glory will come in.  Today I keep this inner light, this Candle of the Lord, trimmed and burning, for I know that the bridegroom, which is Christ, my true Self, will enter my consciousness.  I know that there is a Divine radiance emanating from everything.  I know that in this light which emanates from the very center of everything there is no darkness at all.  In this light, I see the light.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

July 21, 2021 – I GIVE FREELY

JULY 21 

I GIVE FREELY

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.  Luke 6:38

We all wish to receive, but how many of us desire to give?  If, as Jesus intimated, receiving is the other end of giving, then the more we give, the more we shall receive.  ‘Who loses his life shall find it.”  We should give the best we have to each other and to the world.  This gift of Life, a conscious letting go of all the tight strings of our being, a loosening of the Divine gifts within us.  Only when we have learned to give all shall we be in a position to receive all. 

God “prepares a table before me in the presence of mine enemies, … my cup runneth over.”  Realizing that the table of the Lord is ever spread with the bounty of the Eternal Givingness, and knowing that my inner Shepherd attends my every need, I realize that my cup of joys runs over with the gifts of Life.  Unhesitatingly, I give to others.  I share my kingdom with all.

Today I give myself unstintingly to Life. I unloose the wellsprings of my being and make a complete deliverance of the self to Life.  This I do with joy, withholding nothing.  I shall not do this with any hope of reward, but in the glad joy for the opportunity to increase my own livingness.  Everything that I have belongs to the world.  Giving, I shall receive the world back into my own consciousness.  

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

July 20, 2021 – I FORGIVE

JULY 20

I FORGIVE

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions … For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.  Isaiah 44:22, 65:17

Whatever the mistakes of yesterday may have been, today is a new creation.  Turning from the errors of the past and no longer carrying with us the sorrows and mistakes of yesterday, today we may enter into a new experience.  But it is only when we forgive everyone that we may feel certain that the weight of condemnation is lifted from our own consciousness.  We should refuse to carry the negations of yesterday into the positive atmosphere of today, for today the world is made new in our experience.

When we criticize another person we are apt to become involved in his psychological reactions.  This does not help the person we censure but draws us into the confusion which we are observing.  We must recognize that each person is a law unto himself within the Cosmic Law.  Each person has the right to his own ideas and beliefs.  We cannot understand a person’s actions until we know the beliefs which are motivating him.  Only from the inner self can motives be explained.

Today I loose all condemnation. I judge not and I am judged only by the Law of Good.  There is no animosity, no criticism, no hatred.  I shall behold the face of love, of beauty and of peace in the Spirit and that there is nothing that opposes this blessing or denies this Divine givingness.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

July 19, 2021 – I HAVE TRUE UNDERSTANDING

JULY 19

I HAVE TRUE UNDERSTANDING

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.  Proverbs 4:7

As all Scriptures tell us, true spiritual understanding comes from a perception of the Divine Unity back of all things.  Knowledge is of the intellect; wisdom and understanding are of the heart.  Those who have had true spiritual understanding  have always taught us of the unity of good; that we are one in essence with the Spirit.  They have told us that the unreal never has been; that the Real never has ceased to be.

“I will not leave thee nor forsake thee.”  Our divine nature never deserts us.  Like the prodigal son, we may wander into far countries of despair, but the Divinity within us ever gently urges us back to the center of our true being; It ever reminds us if its presence.

Today I permit my spiritual understanding to penetrate everything which seems opposed to good.  Back of all variety, I perceive the One Cause, the One Presence, the One Purpose.  Today I align myself with this Divine Presence that runs through everything.  I open the gates of my consciousness with enthusiasm and through recognition and acknowledgment, permit the Spirit of Wholeness, the Spirit of Oneness, to flow through me.  I know there is one God, one Spiritual Man, one perfect Law, and one eternal Life.

UP Church Worship Experience – July 18, 2021

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Sermon by: Rev. Dr. Della Reese

IT’S UP CHURCH MONTH!

Help us celebrate Rev. Della all month long! Join us for 31 days of UP Church! We want to know your favorite memories.

FEATURED MUSIC
WE COME WITH PRAISE

Written by: Rev. Della Reese Lett and Bob Henley III

Lead vocals: Karen Evans

Background vocals: UP Church Choir

Musicians: TC Campbell, Bill Pittman, David Scott, Tom Sala, Joe Sala, Mark Allen Felton

FORGIVE IT, FORGET IT

Written by: Rev. Della Reese Lett and Bob Henley III

Lead vocals: Rev. Della Reese Lett

Background vocals: UP Church Choir

Musicians: TC Campbell, Bill Pittman, David Scott, Tom Sala, Joe Sala, Mark Allen Felton


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July 18, 2021 – I USE DIVINE LAW

JULY 18     

I USE DIVINE LAW

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass.  Psalm 37:5

It is written that the Law of the Lord is perfect; therefore, when we commit our ways unto the Lord, we automatically are using this perfect law even in the most trivial things of life.  To this Law there is neither great nor small.  It is always responding to us by corresponding with our mental attitude toward it.  Our mental attitudes can be consciously controlled; therefore we can always make conscious use of the Law of Good.

The Law of Mind brings all ideas into expression according to man’s thought; therefore, we know that our positive vision brings right action on all our affairs.  We do not try to influence people nor attempt to bend them to our will.  But we do know that what we sustain in our consciousness will be established in our experience.  When we know that God action is right, and depend on God action and not on personalities, whatever is necessary to the fulfillment of our vision will be included in our experience.

Today I have faith in the Law of God.  Today I guard my thinking, consciously endeavoring to think affirmatively and with faith.  I believe that the Law of the Lord will bring every good and perfect thing to me and will bless everyone whom I hold in consciousness.  Knowing that the Law of Good operates through my word, I speak this word with implicit confidence, with complete acceptance, and with absolute abandonment to good.