NOTHING CAN GO FORTH FROM ME BUT GOODNESS, TRUTH, LOVE AND KINDNESS; THEREFORE NOTHING LESS THAN GOODNESS CAN COME BACK TO ME.
… If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. I John 4:12
Every heart responds to the warmth of love. Every mind yearns for its embrace and no life is complete without it. Love really is the fulfillment of the Law of Good. Love alone can heal the world and cause people to live together in unity and in peace. Believing that love is the great lodestone of life and that love alone fulfills the Law of Good, quietly I say to myself:
I believe that God is Love. I believe that Love is at the center of everything. Therefore I accept Love as the healing power of life. I permit Love to reach out from me to every person I meet. I trust the guidance of Love because I believe It is the Power of Good in the universe. I feel that Love is flowing through me to heal every situation I meet, to help every person I contact. Love opens the way before me and makes it perfect, straight and glad.
Love forgives everything unlike itself; It purifies everything. Love converts everything that seems commonplace into that which is wonderful. Love converts weakness into strength, fear into faith. Love is the all-conquering power of Spirit. As a child walks in confidence with its parents, so I walk in confidence with Life. As a child, through love, trusts its parents, so I put my whole trust in that Love which I feel to be everywhere present, within, around and through me – within, around and through all people.
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Matthew 7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
John 5:2-18 – Jesus heals on the Sabbath.
Key Points from the Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol
#1 “Remember always: ‘Whatever man can conceive mentally, he can bring into materialization.’ Health, wealth, and happiness must follow if the proper mental pictures are created and constantly maintained, for the law of cause and effect is immutable.”
#2 “…there must be a mental attitude of expectancy, concentration of thought, and enthusiasm for the desired results if a person is to be successful…”
#3 Assert yourself to be the creator and boss of your own habits of thought—in fact, become unconquerable. No one ever defeated a resolute will.
Key Definition
Conviction – an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence. The state of being convinced.
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I LIFE UP MY CUP OF ACCEPTANCE, KNOWING THE DIVINE OUTPOURING FILLS IT TO THE BRIM
… God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. II Corinthians 9: 8
We lift up our cup of acceptance to the Divine Bounty when we think affirmatively and with gratitude to the Giver of all life. Daily we should practice affirming that our cup is filled and running over, always remembering that when we affirm for ourselves we must affirm for others. Living and letting live, giving and receiving, loving and being loved, our cup of acceptance will be filled from the horn of God’s abundance.
I am living in the continual expectancy that every good thing in my experience shall be multiplied. There is neither doubt nor uncertainty in my mind. Every denial is transformed into an affirmation, every negative into an acceptance, every “no” into a “yes.” I know that the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life. I have complete confidence in this Spirit. I know that I am loved of It and needed by It. I feel at home with It.
Today is filled with blessing for myself and others. The past is gone and I gladly loose it and let it go. The present is filled with peace and joy, and the future with hope. Gratefully I accept the presence of Love and Divine Givingness, and gladly I extend this Love and Givingness to everyone I meet. I am made whole with the wholeness of the Spirit. Gently, but with complete certainty, I am guided into right action and successful accomplishment of all good desires. This I accept. This I experience.
EVERY NEGATIVE THOUGHT OR CONDITION IS ERASED FROM MY EXPERIENCE AND I WALK IN THE JOY OF EVER INCREASING GOOD
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. Psalm 91: 15, 16
This passage contains a great promise. Not one of something that is to transpire in the future, but rather, a good that should be transpiring in the present moment in which we live – right now and right here. Therefore we should accept this promise and its fulfillment.
I now accept this promise in its fullness. I do believe that every good thing necessary to my success already belongs to the Kingdom of God, which I know is at hand. I am expecting good to happen. I anticipate success. I believe that Divine Intelligence guides me into happiness and wholeness, because I know that God is happy and whole; therefore, I know that I am living right now in the spirit of wholeness and happiness. I am looking through the eyes of happiness at the presence of wholeness, and accepting it.
I accept that God is Love, and knowing that God is in all people, I meet this Love which is everywhere. Therefore, I love and I am loved. Knowing that God is the great Giver, I accept His gift and do myself become a giver to life. All I have I give, and all that God has I receive. The Kingdom of God is at hand today. I enter into it with joy. This Kingdom contains all that belongs to the life of good. It contains all people and all things. Forever the life of this Kingdom flows through me in happiness, in peace and in love.
TODAY I LOOSE ALL CONDEMNATION; I JUDGE NOT AND I AM JUDGED ONLY BY THE LAW OF GOD
… forgive us our debts; as we forgive our debtors. Matthew 6:12
When Jesus said that we should not judge lest we be judged, he was stating the action of the law of cause and effect. If we wish a complete clearance from any sense of condemnation about ourselves, we must first be certain that we have released all condemnation of others from our own minds. When we do this we meet others in a new light and reaching back of all judgment and criticism, establish a relationship that is within us, for God is One in all people.
Realizing that love is the great motivating power of life, and knowing that God must be at the center of everything, today I am meeting this God in everyone and seeing the manifestation of His life in everything. If there is any condemnation or animosity in me, I gladly loose it. I loose it and let it go as I turn to that silent Presence within me which gives all and withholds nothing.
Giving and receiving, loving and being loved, I rejoice with all creation and find in field and flower and running brook, in the sunshine and in the stillness of the night, that One Presence which fills everything. I enter into the harmony of eternal peace, into the joy of knowing that I am now in the Kingdom of God, from which no person is excluded. My yesterdays are gone forever, my tomorrows stretch forth into an endless future of pure delight. And from out the Invisible there come to me these words: Today thou art with Me in Paradise.
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Matthew 28:18
While Jesus said that all power was given to him in heaven and earth, at another time he said that he of himself could do nothing. This sounds like a contradiction until we understand the subtlety of its meaning. Jesus realized that there is but One Power and One Presence and he knew that when he surrendered himself to the Presence, that is, when he thought the thoughts of God after Him, then the Power would automatically respond to him. Therefore, in surrendering himself to the Presence of Good he commanded the Law of Good. This is fundamental to our whole concept of what we believe and the way we use it. For we use the Law of Good, which of itself is entirely independent of us, like all other laws of nature. Responding to the Presence of Love, we use the Law of Good. This is what meditation, affirmation and prayer mean.
I am now depending on the Power that is greater than I am and the Law of Good that is available right here and now. I identify my life with the Presence and the Power and the Love of God. I recognize the Divine Presence within and around me, and in all people.
If there is anything in me that denies this Presence or this Power, I loose it and let it go. I am surrendering myself in faith and with complete conviction to the acceptance that everything necessary for my well-being, my physical, mental and spiritual self-expression, is now operating in, through and around me. I know that everything I so shall prosper. I know that the One Life, which is God, is my life now. Therefore I accept this gift of Life and Love, for myself and for all people.
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If I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
Jeremiah 20:9-10
Sermon Points
Character Study: Jeremiah “You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.” Jeremiah 20:7-8
Character Study: Jeremiah The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. Jeremiah 31:31-34
Key Point #1 You have an inner spark. You yourself have this inner spark, but it must be fanned until the fire is of white-heat intensity and it must be constantly stoked, which you do by adding fuel-ideas, ideas, more ideas, and action. from The Magic of Believing, pg 173
Key Point #2 Interest & Attention Turn the Spark to a Flame Closely linked with this matter of initiative are interest and attention. The more interest you take in your work, naturally the more attention you give it and the greater are the results. We all know that we do best the things in which we are interested.
So if you do not find the task before you of interest, look for one that will interest you. The more absorbing the interest, the better—the interest factor alone will give you momentum that will carry you a long way forward. from The Magic of Believing, pg 175
Key Point #3 Change Your Atmosphere Temperature – a measurement of heat in an environment. Thermometer – the instrument for measuring heat Thermostat – an apparatus that regulates the temperature
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I FREE MYSELF FROM EVERY SENSE OF CONDEMNATION, EITHER AGAINST MYSELF OR OTHERS
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness … He that loveth his brother abideth in the light … I John 2:9, 10
When John said that it is impossible for us to remain in the light while we hate someone else, he was pointing the same truth that Jesus had in mind when he said, Forgive, and you will be forgiven. We could not expect the law of Good to operate for us alone, shutting all other out. It is only what we share with others that really is ours. We are so constituted that when we think evil of others or condemn them it is impossible to escape this condemnation of ourselves. This is why Jesus said, “Judge not that ye be not judged.” Everything that goes out comes back again. Our thoughts and acts move in circles.
I bless myself for the good I would do and I bless everyone for the good they would do. I recognize the Presence of God at the center of my own being, and I know that the Divine Spirit within me responds to the same Spirit in others, comforting, unifying and making whole. There is no criticism, no false judgment, no unkindness in me. My whole thought and feeling is one of praise, of thanksgiving and blessing.
Today I am living as though this moment were eternity. I am recognizing that the kingdom of Good is at hand. Seeing the Divine in everything, I know that the Divine in all things responds to me. Receiving the silent blessing of the Spirit, I permit this blessing to enrich the life of everyone I meet, to bring comfort, faith and good cheer to everyone I contact. Therefore, I walk in that Light in which there is no darkness, in that Love in which there is no fear, in that life in which there is no death.
I FREE MYSELF FROM EVERY SENSE OF CONDEMNATION, EITHER AGAINST MYSELF OR OTHERS
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness … He that loveth his brother abideth in the light … I John 2:9, 10
When John said that it is impossible for us to remain in the light while we hate someone else, he was pointing the same truth that Jesus had in mind when he said, Forgive, and you will be forgiven. We could not expect the law of Good to operate for us alone, shutting all other out. It is only what we share with others that really is ours. We are so constituted that when we think evil of others or condemn them it is impossible to escape this condemnation of ourselves. This is why Jesus said, “Judge not that ye be not judged.” Everything that goes out comes back again. Our thoughts and acts move in circles.
I bless myself for the good I would do and I bless everyone for the good they would do. I recognize the Presence of God at the center of my own being, and I know that the Divine Spirit within me responds to the same Spirit in others, comforting, unifying and making whole. There is no criticism, no false judgment, no unkindness in me. My whole thought and feeling is one of praise, of thanksgiving and blessing.
Today I am living as though this moment were eternity. I am recognizing that the kingdom of Good is at hand. Seeing the Divine in everything, I know that the Divine in all things responds to me. Receiving the silent blessing of the Spirit, I permit this blessing to enrich the life of everyone I meet, to bring comfort, faith and good cheer to everyone I contact. Therefore, I walk in that Light in which there is no darkness, in that Love in which there is no fear, in that life in which there is no death.
