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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.

JULY 17        

CHRIST IN ME

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.  Ephesians 4:13

The Bible tells us the real man is Christ.  This Christ is the perfect, invisible Presence back of, in and through every living soul.  Just as there is but one God or First Cause, so there is but one Man, the manifestation of the Divine Spirit in and through all people.  Throughout the ages this Christ has come with some degree of clarity to those who have meditated long and earnestly upon the nature of the Divinity that is in everything.

I acknowledge this True Self, knowing that It will instantly supply me with whatsoever things I need.  I consciously re-enter the kingdom of heaven within me.  I sit at a table of the Lord and partake of the divine banquet, the wine of Spirit and the bread of Life.  I know that the master at the table is my own indwelling Christ, that part of me which is perfect in God, that immortal Self which is birthless, deathless and changeless.  I know that my host is God, the living Spirit Almighty.  I live, move and have my being in this Divine Presence.

Today I permit Christ to be born in my consciousness.  Today I realize that Christ is the universal Son appearing through every deed of goodness, truth or love.  As I unveil the Christ in my own nature, I know that the countenance of the same Christ will be revealed to me through others.  I enter into my Divine inheritance through the recognition of my union with the supreme Spirit.

JULY 16         

I HAVE SYMPATHY

          My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.  I John 3:18

Humanity and Divinity will be identical when we recognize Divinity in humanity.  We must learn to see through the apparent, to judge not according to appearances, to realize that at the center of every man’s soul God is enthroned.  Sympathy and compassion are the ties that bind us together in mutual understanding and in the unified attempt to uncover the Divinity in each other.  Sympathy is the most gentle of all human virtues, for it is the outpouring of the Divine givingness through man.

Today I extend the hand of sympathy to everyone I meet.  I permit my inward vision to penetrate every apparent obstruction, every obstinate attempt to cover up the Divine, every ignorant misuse of the Law of Good.  I withdraw the veil that hides my real self and in so doing, unveil the Reality in others.  Today I love as never before.  I draw close to the Spirit in everything and everyone.

I know that God’s action is right action and that all things work together for good in my experience.  My word shall objectify itself as co-operation, sympathy and love.  I am not afraid to make demands upon myself.  I recognize the harmonious Self which I am, and I know that this Self will find its perfect expression.  I am receptive to new and greater ideas of good for myself and others.

JULY 15

MY OWN COMMUNION

My delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night.  Psalm 1:2

There is always a silent communion going on between the individual soul and the invisible Presence.  This communion should become a conscious union of the self with the Over-Self, of the mind with the Spirit, of the personal with the Universal.  As the artist communes with the essence of beauty and gives birth to form so our minds should commune with the Divine Presence.

Today I commune with the Spirit.  I see the Spirit manifest.  In everyone I meet I shall commune with the Living Christ, the Divine Presence in him, sensing Its perfection, realizing Its beauty, and being consciously aware of its love.  Today I hold silent communion with that invisible Presence which peoples the world with the manifestations of its light and its love.

I declare the Presence of Spirit; I worship the God within me. Knowing that the Lord is in His holy temple, and that everything on earth is subject to His will, I bless the place where I now stand.  This attitude of blessing sheds a new light on my environment and I see beauties hitherto hidden. Even the commonplace takes on a new glow, and I hear “… a voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacles of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people.” 

JULY 14 

I HAVE FAITH

The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.  Galatians 2:20

Faith is more than an objective statement.  We do not have perfect faith while any subjective contradictions deny the affirmation of our lips.  This is what the Bible means when it says we must know in our heart. Heart symbolizes the innermost center of the being.  When the intellect is no longer contradicted by our emotional reactions, by unconscious doubts and fears, then the word of our mouth will immediately bear fruit.

Today I have faith that my word shall not return unto me void.  Today I surrender myself completely to this faith, for I know that there is a creative Spirit which gives substance to this faith and which will provide the evidence of this substance in actual fact.  I expect, then, to meet my good, and I rejoice in the anticipation of this good.  I know that my faith operates through an immutable Law and that there is no possibility whatsoever of its failing.

My faith leads me into complete self-expression.  It awakens inner spiritual forces that have the power to do anything.  My faith transcends the limitations of fear, of physical pain, and of mental depression.  My faith leads me into the pathway of righteousness.  My faith unites every experience I have with the Eternal.  My faith in God reflects itself unto everyone I meet, thereby making practical my faith in man.

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

JULY 13

I HAVE DIVINE GUIDANCE

Be strong and have good courage … for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.  Deuteronomy 31:6

We all wish to know that the Divine Presence goes before us and we all have a right to feel this assurance.  Every man is a unique presentation of the Divine Mind, a separate, without being a separated, entity in the universal Spirit.  Every man is, as Emerson said, “dear to the heart of God.”  We should all develop an increasing consciousness that we are protected and guided in everything we do, say or think.

I know that new and wonderful ideas will come into my consciousness today and that I shall be compelled to act upon them intelligently.  I am assured of Divine Guidance; I feel that it will be impossible for me to make any mistake; that even though I should start to move falsely, my movement will be corrected.  I feel as though I am being constantly watched over and protected.

Today I know that the Spirit goes before me, making plain my way.  I feel that everything I do shall be prospered and I fully accept that I am in partnership with the Infinite.  It is my desire that only good shall go from me, therefore I have a right to expect that only good shall return to me.  I live under the government of Good and am guided by the Spirit of God.  This I affirm; this I accept.

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

JULY 12

I AM SUCCESS

They that seek the lord shall not want any good thing.  Psalm 34:10

Success does not mean the accumulation of wealth, the maintenance of position, nor supremacy of power.  Success means a life free from the burden of anxiety and liberated from the thralldom of fear.  There is no successful life without peace or without that inner spiritual certainty which knows that the soul is on the pathway of good, forever expanding into the conscious union of God with man.

Today I expect every good thing to come to me.  Everything that is worthy of the soul, I anticipate. Everything that belongs to the Spirit, I accept.  Everything that partakes of the nature of the Divine Reality, I claim as my own. Today I identify myself with abundance and success.  I know that my destiny is divine, that my destination is certain, that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  I know that this Kingdom contains everything necessary to my well-being.  In gratitude and with joy, I receive this Kingdom into myself.

I live in the consciousness of success.  I awaken its greater possibility within my imagination.  I feel it at the center of my being.  My whole consciousness expands, and my enthusiasm glows with the heat of Divine Fire.  There can be no obstruction to my success.  Every path is open before me, and “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

JULY 11          

GOD IS MY IDENTITY

Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.  Matthew 5:48

There is a pattern of perfection at the center of everything.  This the saints and sages of the ages have told us.  There is, as the Platonists taught, a prototype of perfection at the center of every form.  It is this spiritual prototype with which the mind should identify itself, for this is the Father in heaven within us.  Nothing has ever violated the integrity of this inner kingdom.  It exists forever in the bosom of God and we are in Him even as He is in us.

The most High is enthroned in my soul; the Divine Spirit exists at the center of my being.  Knowing that Divine Power can accomplish anything and realizing that faith in this Divine Power draws it forth into my experience, today I exercise complete confidence in the Invisible.  I permit that mind to be in me which was also in Christ Jesus.

Today I consciously identify myself with the Supreme Presence which inhabits eternity, and finds a dwelling place at the center of my own soul.  By some deep inner spiritualization, I penetrate the mask of separation and discover the unity of all life.  I identify myself with this unity, finding Christ within and knowing that “Christ is God’s.”  I recognize my union with all the Power, all the Presence and all the Life that there is. 

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

JULY 10     

I AM SPIRIT

Now there are diversities of things, but the same Spirit … It is the Spirit that quickeneth.  I Corinthians 12:4 and John 6:63

Out of unity comes variety.  All things are made from one formless Substance.  The invisible essence of everything is pure Spirit.  It is a realization of this Spirit at the center of everything that enables us to see God in everyone.  “It is the Spirit that Quickenth.”  When we recognize the Spirit in anything or anyone, there is an equal reaction from the Spirit back to us, and we are made more alive through the divine influx which follows our recognition.

I believe there is but One Presence in the universe, which is God, the living Spirit Almighty.  Therefore, disregarding any appearance which seems to contradict this divine fact, I press forward with the certain knowledge that I am forever one with the invisible Presence which is able, ready and willing to direct all my ways.  I know that “her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.”  Today I walk in these ways of pleasantness and “no wind can blow my bark astray.”

Today I am resolved to see the Spirit in everything therefore; today I know that my own spirit is quickened.  I know that there is an inner Presence in everything I shall contact which will respond to me.  I know that everything is alive, awake and aware with this Presence; that in all the changing scenes of my experience I shall be contacting this one Presence.  Therefore, I go forth to meet the Divine, to enjoy His bounty and consciously to live in His house forevermore.