Jun. 07, 2023 – I RELY ON GOD ALONE TO MEET EVERY SITUATION   

JUNE 7   

I RELY ON GOD ALONE TO MEET EVERY SITUATION   

“Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment are worthless.”   

Emerson

I face my world with a courage born of my knowledge of God.  I am never alone, never deserted and never without aid.  My reliance is on Him who brought me forth to express His life divine.  Indwelling me, there is a center of Mind and Love, where Power awaits my recognition.  From this inner Christ I draw greatly on God.  The inexhaustible action of Divine Mind is the power of my thinking, and I have the courage to do all things.  Directed from within, I see the falsity of external authority.  God in the midst of me is my Power and my Deliverance from all that would beset me.

Steadfastly knowing my inner strength, I am no longer appalled at what I need to meet.  Challenges change to opportunities; problems to possibilities.  Urged forward by Divine Truth, I proceed into correct action and bring forth right solutions.  I am no longer the victim of verdicts, whether they be medical, economic, age, social or financial.  I have but one Divine Verdict upon me – God declares forevermore that I am His eternal Son.  That alone is true of me, and knowing this I have no fear.  His whole Mind and Love are mine to use for right activities, and I use them with ease.

As there is no power opposed to omnipotent Mind, there is no power opposed to me as Its beloved outlet.  I now erase all opposition within my own thought, and am a free and open channel for Omnipotence.  I face all things with faith, cheer and the expectancy of good.  I am a spiritual optimist, for I know that with God’s help everything works together for good.  My life is now a victorious one, and problems dissolve as I think the Truth.  Today is filled with victory.   

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

Jun. 06, 2023 – I KNOW MY OWN DIVINITY AND APPRECIATE IT   

JUNE 6   

I KNOW MY OWN DIVINITY AND APPRECIATE IT   

“The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself.  He is not to live in the future as described to him, but to live in the real future by living to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.” 

Emerson

All Mind operates at a center within me.  All Love seeks an outlet through me.  God’s action in me is my own real Self, and to It I now devote my attention. I know myself as God knows me, and all disbelief is erased from my consciousness.  Contemplating myself as a spiritual being, I realize the vast possibilities before me.  I am unconditioned by the world, for I am Mind in action.  I now become the person I have always hoped to be.  Finding the Spirit within me, I change all my opinions of myself.  No more self-limitation, no more self-condemnation.  Today, I am God’s creation and as such I move forward in life.

Watching my momentary thinking, I realize the reason I have not accomplished my heart’s desires. All stumbling blocks have been unconsciously created by myself.  I am determined to cease my own self-imposed restrictions.  God has placed no limitations upon me, and I accept my freedom to prosper. Acknowledging myself as God’s beloved expression, I think straight and make right decisions.  I now act from the God-Mind indwelling me, and my actions are worthy of Truth.  God speaks acts and loves by means of me.  Around me is an inviting Presence, and within me is all the Mind of Truths.  Knowing myself as God knows me, I move ahead to great accomplishments.

I appreciate the God Action indwelling me.  I appreciate the Life that animates me.  I praise and give thanks for my own Divinity.  I see this same Divinity in my fellowman.  All men have goodness in their hearts and greatness in their souls.  I am one with the good in all.  I am one with the universe and it’s Spiritual Source.  I am one with God and act as His representative.  Today, all men shall call me blessed, and the world will be a better place because of my action.  I am Divine and release goodness.  

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

Jun 05, 2023 – WHAT I DECREE TODAY HAPPENS   

JUNE 5    

WHAT I DECREE TODAY HAPPENS   

“A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself.  He is made a law unto himself.  All real good or evil that can befall him must be from himself.” 

Emerson

I stand in a universe which responds to me.  My world being a subconscious intelligence must respond to my conscious thought, act upon it, and produce what I decree.  It has no power to resist me, and no way of not doing what I direct.  I act upon the One Mind and the world of form reacts to me in direct response.  My word is power.  My thought is a direction to the universal power and presence.  My active treatment is a command to the subconscious to produce what I want.  Knowing what I really want, I now speak with authority to my own mind, and the sum-total powers of the universe produce my command in form.  This is my power and my authority as a Son of God.

Jesus bid the waves be still, and they calmed at his word.  I now look out upon the troubles of my own experience, and declare “Peace, be still.”  Jesus demonstrated to all that God’s Power is the only Power.  I am a center of this Power, and It seeks my recognition and direction.  My thought directs It and my emotions motivate It.  I am the only authority in my world.  I may give this authority to others, to situations or to conditions, but it is my free choice to do so.  God’s action through me is only conditioned by me, and I now give It freedom to act for my good, by directing It to do so.

Nothing can happen to me, unless I am the channel through which it acts.  I now refuse all evil, all inharmony and all disease.  My mind is centered in the good, the true and the wise.  Projecting good, I experience good.  Wise in the ways of the Spirit, I know what to do and speak my word to accomplish it.  In me there is Wisdom born of God.  In me there is Love born of the Infinite Love.  I now decree their release into my experience.  I decree my own good, and this makes it a good to others.  I accept the responsibility of life.  I declare the Truth and my world must mirror only Truth.  

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

Sunday Worship Experience – June 4, 2023

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Sermon Title: How Jesus Became God

Thesis: Jesus did not come to save the world en masse but to teach people one by one how to find the Christ indwelling and to walk by its light.

Scripture: John 4:21-24 NKJV

21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

POINT OF VIEW #1:

Jesus – The Revealer of Truth

POINT OF VIEW #2:

Jesus – The Master Teacher

POINT OF VIEW #3:

Jesus – The Christ

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Jun. 04, 2023 – I RISE OUT OF THE OLD TO WALK WITH GOD IN THE NEW   

JUNE 4         

I RISE OUT OF THE OLD TO WALK WITH GOD IN THE NEW   

“Religion in the mind is not credulity, and in practice is not form.  It is a life.  It is the order and soundness of a man.  It is not something else to be got, to be added, but is a new life of those faculties you have.  It is to do right.” 

Emerson

The world would have me tarry in the old, the traditional and the past.  But, the Infinite urges me forward, bidding me to keep pace with the fresh ideas emerging from the Divine Mind.  The truth is ever new to me.  Today’s inspiration is God’s action urging me to do a creative work.  Within me now is the order and soundness of God’s man.  I need add nothing more to my wisdom, for His Mind is mine, and I now produce good works.  I practice my knowledge of God.  I give factual evidence of my faith.  Whoever sees me this day sees the Spirit at work through me.  I do the right and loving thing.

The years ahead are bright with promise.  They will be to me what I cause them to be.  I can repeat the past, or I can create new and better experiences.  God wants me to do the latter, and I now resolve to do it.  If God is forever making all things new, the He is forever making me a new person.  This constant improvement is now the basis of my thinking.  I think and act today in accordance with my plan for the future.  My present faith in Good brings that Good upon my pathway.  Today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be heaven on earth.  No longer chained by the past, I freely create a new heaven and a new earth.

My religion is of today, for my God is present today.  I acknowledge Him in all my ways, and follow His mind to direct my paths. Right now I am a spiritual being, and I never shall be less.  New Ideas are the foundation of my life today, and I am their living today representative.  God walks as man through the affairs of my world, and I am that man of God.  All power is mine to use.  All blessings are mine to share.  I am victorious over the past, and I am radiant with the possibilities of the now.  I open my whole being to the next great Good that is even now appearing in my experience. 

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

Jun 03, 2023 – TODAY IS UNCONDITIONED BY THE PAST 

JUNE 3   

TODAY IS UNCONDITIONED BY THE PAST   

“Teach men that each generation begins the world afresh, in perfect freedom; that the present is not the prisoner of the past, but that today holds captive all the yesterdays, to judge, to accept, to reject their teachings, as they are shown by its own morning sun.” 

Emerson

The Infinite Mind being eternal is not concerned with past, present nor future.  It knows me as a timeless being.  It offers to me all that It is, and never frowns at my lack of acceptance.  In a timeless God I allow my human thinking to become aged by experience, and then my complaints are many, and my excuses are profuse.  I use the past to explain the limitations of the present, and I fail to realize that only my acceptance of the past gives it power.  I now free my thinking from all past patterns and step forth this day as a new creature in Christ.  Too long have my alibis ensnared me.  They are as nothing when I declare the Truth.

I am of God’s generation.  My habitation is eternity, and my continuity is beyond question.  Time is my own measurement, and God knows only the Now.  I accept myself as free from the past, creative in the present and rejoicing in the future.  I inherit the ideas of God, and I dispense them with order and efficiency.  Fresh impulses come to me, and new experiences unfold before me.  God’s man is never of the past, for God knows no past.  God’s man is the man of the hour, the moment, the split second.  I am that man now.  Unconditioned by disease, I am health.  The world does not determine my prosperity, I alone determine it.  God is all that I am.

The sun of Truth shines in my world and reveals the good that is at hand.  Gone are all false leanings on family, heritage and background.  I am today what I am because of my consciousness.  Background is merely a record, it is never a fact.  Born of the Spirit, I am the Spirit and no man can convince me otherwise.  I rejoice in the Now and live in the present, finding God in every moment.     

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

Jun 02, 2023 – I AM GOD’S MIND MADE VISIBLE

JUNE 2        

I AM GOD’S MIND MADE VISIBLE

“The life of the soul in conscious union with the infinite shall be for thee the only real existence.” 

Emerson

I live in God, the one Mind, the one Principle and the one Truth.  Body, world and material conditions are secondary to my consciousness, which is forever active in God’s Mind.  I am a mental being in a universe of mind-action, and the Law of Mind is mine to use in ways of righteousness and in ways of peace.  One with the Infinite I walk the pavements of time untouched by error and upheld by the Spirit.  From me proceeds the good, and to me comes the divine.  All of Life is now offering Itself to me, and I drink deeply of its healing waters.  My thirst for Truth is quenched, as I realize the Truth of myself as God made visible. 

The material world is not my prison, and my work is not my supply. I am the conscious director of my life, and destiny depends upon me for its fulfillment.  I am the creator of circumstances, not their victim.  I sow the good and reap the plenty.  I give out that which is of God and take in that which is of good report.  One with His perfect mind I rejoice in thinking the ever-expanding Idea of Truth.  Time and space are my tools, and thought is my only creative power.  Unbound and free, I live with ease in my knowledge of God and of His eternal presence in my fellowman.  Duality erased is unity made manifest.  My one good is God, and my one action is Good.

I walk as a person of Power.  I act as a person of Love.  I speak as the Voice of Truth.  I live as an example of what God can do in man.  Within me there is peace and around me there is right action.  The Almighty is my strength and I never fail my highest ideal.  True to all that God expects me to be, I live in right relationships with all whom I meet.  I am a blessed experience to my friends, co-workers and family.  God is visible in all that I do, say or think.  Today is my opportunity to reveal my real Self. 

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

Jun 01, 2023 – I AM TRUE TO MY HIGHEST PRINCIPLES

JUNE 1     

I AM TRUE TO MY HIGHEST PRINCIPLES   

“Thou shalt not profess that which thou dost not believe.  Thou shalt not heed the voice of man when it agrees not with the voice of God in thine own soul.” 

Emerson

To profess is easy, to practice is not easy.  All people proclaim their belief in God, but they rely on material help in every problem and pray as a last resort.  I now take my stand with myself.  I have no one other with whom to deal.  I am in my own world, and I now place God at the center and know that good appears at the circumference.  I refuse to declare my faith in God and still continue in my old material patterns of behavior. Today, the Lord becomes my physician, my lawyer, my counselor and my co-worker.  I lean not on my own understanding; I depend on Him who projected me as His own.  I shout from the housetops my own divinity.  I cry out to all, my dependence on the indwelling Spirit.

I am not a metaphysician in name only, I practice when I believe.  I pray my way out of every problem, and prove God in every experience.  The confines of my thinking extend to include the good of all.  I truly practice the Brotherhood of Man.  I see each soul as God sees him, and declare that his place in my life is one of blessing.  I am not under the material influence of nations, economic levels, nor world conditions.  I am an independent creation of a perfect Mind living in the atmosphere of my own consciousness.  What I decree in mind is my experience in the world.  I know but one Standard and one Principle – the Truth.  To these I dedicate my thought, my motives and my responses.

Within me is the true Mind of the Spirit.  It invites me to partake of Its ideas, and to prosper in all my ways.  It whispers thoughts that are contrary to human opinions and worldly wisdom.  But, I listen to the inner Wisdom and act in accordance with It.  No man can dissuade me, no group can alarm me.  I know the right, and I do the right.  I am true to my highest knowledge of God and to my greatest vision of Spiritual Man.  I am undaunted by others; I am true to my belief.   

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

May 31, 2023 – TODAY I ENTER INTO MY KINGDOM OF JOY, INTO MY INHERITANCE OF HAPPINESS

MAY 31   

TODAY I ENTER INTO MY KINGDOM OF JOY, INTO MY INHERITANCE OF HAPPINESS

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy: at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. 

Psalm 16:11

James Whitcomb Riley said: “As it’s give me to perceive, I most certainly believe, when a man’s glad plumb through, God’s pleased with him, same as you.”  Jesus said that he came that we might have more life, not less.  There is nothing in the thought of God that should produce sadness or depression; rather, it should be quite the reverse, because faith, conviction and love should give us such confidence and such a sense of security and faith in the good that our lives should run over with joy and we should indeed be able to sing: “Joy to the world, the Lord has come.”

Realizing that the Lord who is not far off but an inward, intimate Presence, closer to me than my very breath, I affirm that there is nothing in me that can doubt this Presence or limit the Power of Good.  There is nothing in me that can separate myself from the love of God, the joy of living, and the Law of Good.

I affirm that this Divine Presence is leading me on the pathway of peace.  It is directing my thoughts, my words and my actions into constructive channels of self-expression.  It is uniting me with others in love, in kindness and in consideration.  Therefore, today I accept the joy of life.  In gladness I recognize the Kingdom of God that is within me.  I know that today the Law of Good is bringing into my experience everything necessary to my happiness.  And knowing there can be no good to myself alone, for God is in all people, I affirm for others that which I accept for myself.

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