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SEPTEMBER 8

THE PROTECTING POWER OF THE INFINITE SUSTAINS ME

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.

I Peter 1:22

As a child turns to its parents for comfort, so every man is relying on God, whether or not he realizes it.  This concept is so universal that it has been present in every age, with all people, and at all times.  Jesus dared to place his hand serenely in the Hand of the Invisible.  His works justified his words; his faith was manifest through his acts.

Nothing has happened to Reality since this glorified figure walked the highways of human experience.  With equal confidence you should believe in the protecting Presence of the ever-available Spirit.  Today you are to hold your thought steadfast in the realization that God withholds nothing from you.  Therefore, prepare yourself for a life of joy, happiness and well-being.  Say:

I know that the Law of God surrounds me with love and friendship.

I let it radiate in my environment, bless everything I touch, make whole that which is weak, turn fear into faith, and accomplish the miracle of healing through love.

I believe in myself because I believe in God.

I accept life fully, completely, without reservation, holding to the conviction that good is the eternal Reality, that God is the everlasting Presence, that Christ within me is the eternal Guide, that my life is complete today.

SEPTEMBER 7

THE LAW OF GOOD BRINGS ME SATISFACTION

Devotion is God-gnosis; and he who knoweth God, being filled with all good things, thinks godly thoughts.

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

There is a Power operating through, a Presence inspiring, an intelligence guiding, and a Law of Good sustaining you.  Upon this Presence, this Power and this Law you may place complete reliance.  Because you live in this Divine Presence and because It is in you, you may know that the creative Law of Good, which is infinite, and which has all power, can do for you or bring to you, anything and everything necessary to your complete happiness.  Its whole desire for you is one of freedom and joy.  Say:  

I know that freedom and joy are mine today.

This freedom and joy express themselves in my experience.

There is nothing in me that can obstruct their passage.

I permit them to flow through me in all their wonder and might.

I am conscious of an Infinite Wisdom directing me.

Whatever belongs to me will come to me.

My every thought and decision is molded by intelligence and expressed through law and order in my experience.

I not only think upon and realize the meaning of this truth; I am impelled to act upon it intelligently, creatively, without confusion, doubt, or hesitation.

With joy I enter into the fulfillment of life.

SEPTEMBER 6

I LIVE ETERNALLY IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD

The perfect man, along with other men, gets his food from the earth and derives his joy from his Heaven.

Kwang – Tze

You live in the house of God.  The household of God is a household of perfection.  It is “the secret place of the most High” within you and within all.  The inmates of this household all are divine.  They will become as divine to you as you permit.  As you look at them they look at you, for this is the way of life.  Everything responds to you at the level of your recognition of it.

In the household of God there is no jealousy, no littleness or meanness.  It is a household of joy, a place of happiness and contentment.  Here is warmth, color and beauty.  Seen in this light, your earthly house symbolizes the kingdom of Divine Harmony in which no one is a stranger.  Say:

Nothing is alien to me.

Nothing enters into my experience but joy, integrity and friendship.

The good I would realize for myself I realize for all others.

I cannot desire a good for myself other than the good I desire for everyone else.

Neither do I deny myself the good I affirm for others.

I know that in the household in which I live the host is God, the living Spirit Almighty; the guests are all His people; the invitation has been eternally written for all to enter and dwell therein as the guests of this Eternal Host forever.

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SEPTEMBER 5

I EXERCISE MY GOD-GIVEN DOMINION

They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

Psalm 36:8

There is a God Power at the center of every man’s being, a Presence that knows neither, lack, limitation nor fear, sickness, disquiet nor imperfection.  But because everyone is an individual he can build a wall of negative thought between himself and this perfection.  The wall which keeps you from the greater good is built of mental blocks, cemented together by fear and unbelief, mixed in the mortar of negative experience.

Now you are to tear down this wall, to completely destroy it.  The view which this wall obstructed is now seen it all its grandeur.  The sun never really stopped shining and the River of Life forever flows.  Every man’s experience is an attempt to merge his own being with this eternal river, not to the loss of his identity, but to the discovery of that self which has newer wholly left its heaven.  Say:

I know that there is a Presence and a perfect Law irresistibly drawing into my experience everything which makes life happy and worthwhile.

The good that I receive is but the completion of a circle, the fulfillment of my desire for all.

I have placed my reliance in the Power, the Presence and the Perfection of God.

Therefore, I have dominion over all apparent evil.

I repudiate all its claims, cast out ever fear of, or belief in, that which is not good and exercise the dominion which by divine right belongs to me.

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

SEPTEMBER 4

HIS LAW IS WRITTEN IN MY HEART

The energy of God is Power that naught can e’er surpass, a power with which no one can make comparison of any human thing at all, or any thing divine.”

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

Since the only life you can have is the Life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression.  You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power.  You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life.  Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.  Say:

Because my whole being is the Life of God in me, I have nothing to fear.

Everyone I meet is part of the same Wholeness in which I live.

Every person I meet is a center of the great unity in which I live.

It is this center of Life that I meet in all persons.

It is this unity in and through all that I respond to.

I cannot wish anyone harm, nor does anyone desire to harm me.

Through my consciousness of love, which is the very essence of goodness, I transform any apparent imperfection into the perfect idea of true being.

I am knowing people as God knows them.

I am seeing everything as God must see it.

His Law is written in my mind and felt in my heart.

I see God everywhere.