March 21, 2022 – I RELAX IN THE PEACE OF GOD   

MARCH 21  

I RELAX IN THE PEACE OF GOD   

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:7

We often wonder if peace really exists anywhere.  In a world distraught with so much confusion and chaos we deeply need an inner, abiding sense of calm and tranquility.  Peace of mind really is what the world is searching after because without it we have only a sense of insecurity and loneliness.  Without peace, deep and abiding, there can be no happiness nor contentment, no sense of security, no confidence.  And yet, Jesus said, “My peace I give unto you,” and the Apostle said, “The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”  This means that in such degree as we attain peace, Christ, or the Anointed of Heaven, the true and Divine Sonship, makes itself known to us.  For He is not met through confusion, but only when the mind is tranquil, and, like an unruffled body of water, reflects the Divine images of peace and perfection.

Today I enter into the Peace of God.  My mind is stilled from all confusion, and I feel a deep and abiding inward poise.  Christ, the Son of the living God, the One Son begotten of the only God, is real to me.  I keep my mind stayed on this Divine inner Presence, and, letting every thought of discord slip away, I meet the Reality of myself, the eternal and changeless Truth about me, which is that I am the Son of God, I am one with Him forever more, within me, there is a voice that says: “Peace.  Be still and know that I am his God; God in me, around me and through me, the Divine Son forever incarnated and forever kept in the bosom of the Father.”  I glorify the name of this Son; I exalt his presence.  “I am that which thou art; thou art that which I am.”  And that which I am, and that which Thou art, is one and the same.

March 20, 2022 – HONOR THE PRESENCE OF GOD

MARCH 20    

I HONOR THE PRESENCE OF GOD   

… If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honoreth me… John 8:54

If I honor myself alone, not realizing that I am one with the Divine Presence, then I shall quickly exhaust the small portion of good that I, as a human being, can at any one moment contain.  But if I honor the Presence of God in me, of God around and through me, of God in and through everything, then I am indeed honoring the Presence of God, for One Spirit is over all, in all and through all, and One Presence is all. There can be no separation from this Presence, no apartness, no division.  It is one, complete and total, equally distributed and everywhere available.  To feel this Presence in things, in people and in human events, and to sense that it is all-inclusive, really is to honor God and to provide in one’s own self a place where the Divine can go forth anew into creation.

Today I am honoring the Presence of God.  I feel His beauty in the rose-tinted dawn and in the glow of the evening sunset.  In the rose I find the loveliness of His beauty.  In the mountains I see His Strength.  In the quiet of the evening I feel His Presence.  And throughout the night I know that this Presence overshadows me, therefore I sleep in peace and wake in joy and live in a consciousness of good.  Seeing God in others, I enter into companionship with the Divinity in all people.  In the outstretched hand, in the smile of recognition, and in the warm embrace of friends, I feel the One Presence, the One Power and the One Life.  And so I give thanks – with a song in my heart and with a joy unspeakable I give thanks to this Presence.  May I ever more embrace and be embraced by the love, the beauty and the goodness of God.

March 19, 2022 – I AM GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF GOD

MARCH 19   

I AM GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF GOD   

For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:  Romans 7: 22

This scriptural passage tells us of all that we should have delight in living.  All creation is a manifestation of the delight of God – God seeing Himself in form, God experiencing Himself in His own actions, and God knowing Himself in us as us.  For the highest God and the innermost God is one God, and not two.  But the passage also suggests that in addition to delight, the enjoyment of realizing that we are alive and awake and aware, we are also subject to the exact law that must govern everything – the Law of the Lord that is perfect.  We are, then, to combine our idea of delight with the concept of law, for Love and Law are the two great realities of life – Love as the outpouring of the Spirit; Law as Divine Government.  Let us, then, find delight in the Law of the Lord which is perfect, as we say daily to ourselves:

I am one with the Infinite Spirit of Love, one with the outpouring of the Divine Life.  I am governed by the perfect Law of the inward man, made in the image and likeness of That which is pure, whole and perfect.  My whole life finds its impulsion in Love and all my actions are governed by the Law of Good.  As I meditate upon this perfect Law of God, I realize that it is operating in my affairs, in my body, in my mind and in my spirit.  I know that the Law of Good is absolute; it is complete; it is operating in and through me now, bringing about everything that is good, everything that is right, everything that is happy.  And since this Law must be perfect as well as exact, and since it must know how to bring everything about that is necessary to my good, I place my whole trust in it.  And so I say today, and every day: The perfect Law of Good is governing everything I think or do and all my relationships with others.  I delight in this Law and I delight in the Divinity within myself and all people.

March 18, 2022 – I AM WARMED BY THE LOVE OF GOD   

MARCH 18   

I AM WARMED BY THE LOVE OF GOD   

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God… I John 3:1

It has been truly said that love is the loadstone of life, the treasure of earth and the highest gift of heaven.  We all wish to feel that we are kept in the arms of love, protected by its shelter and warmed by its feeling.  But someone might ask, “How do we really know that ‘the universe rests on the shoulders of love?’” The answer is more simple that it might appear.  For instance, no one is ever harmed by love.  The more love there is in one’s life, the better off he is; while the opposite to love, which is hate and dislike, can actually consume a person mentally and destroy his health physically. If, then, love tends to build up while the opposite tends to destroy, we may be certain that there is a universal Reality to it; that we actually are immersed in an Infinite Love as well as a Divine Wisdom.  And we must learn to feel the presence of this Love and rely on it.  Therefore, let each say to themselves, daily:

I am one with the Love of God.  I am one in the Love of God with all people.  My love goes out to everyone and I know that it is returned from everyone.  Overlooking everything that might seem to deny this Divine beneficence, I trust that Infinite Love will guide and protect me in everything.  And I counsel my own soul to show forth this love in such a manner that it shall embrace and warm the heart of humanity, bringing confidence and trust and faith and hope to everyone it touches.  Daily I affirm that love governs all of humanity into pathways of peace and joy.  Daily I affirm that love goes before and makes the way plain and happy.  And daily I affirm that my own love is renewed and rekindled by that great and vast Love in which I am immersed, that Love which is God.

March 17, 2022 – I SEE WITH THE EYES OF GOD   

MARCH 17         

I SEE WITH THE EYES OF GOD   

…one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.  John 9:25  

The ancients said that there is an “all-seeing eye” and that if we could cause our physical eyes to see with its vision we should be looking at things as they really are.  But is it not true that too often we see with a blurred vision because we are so confused mentally?  The all-seeing eye of God, by its very nature, being one and only, must forever see things as they really are.  This is why Jesus said to judge not according to appearances but to judge righteously.  We cannot expect to draw a pattern of this right seeing from the objective world of confusion or our inner thoughts of doubt and fear.  Therefore we are told to see and act according to “the pattern shewed to thee in the mount,” that is, we are to look and think independently of the confusion around us.  We are to view everything as we feel the Divine, Infinite and Perfect Being must know and understand Its own creation to be.  This is seeing with the eyes of God.

Today I am seeing with the eyes of the Divine.  I am looking at things in a perfect and direct way.  I am seeing through confusion to peace, through doubt to certainty, through fear to faith.  Quietly, then, I review myself, those around me, and  everything that occupies my attention, bringing to them all a broader vision, a deeper insight, a more complete perspective of the Infinite harmony which I know is back of, in and through everything that God has made.  I am keeping my eye single to this one truth – what God has done is good, therefore my experiences are good.  What God has created is wonderful; therefore I am surrounded with good.  In calm judgment, then, I sit quietly within myself and in my imagination look around and see everything according to the Divine Pattern.  As I do this everything I look upon shall become transformed and reborn.

March 16, 2022 – I AM ENDOWED WITH THE PERFECTION OF GOD   

MARCH 16   

I AM ENDOWED WITH THE PERFECTION OF GOD   

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

When Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven (within you) is perfect,” he was telling us that there is a Perfection at the center of all things, which, recognized, will spring into being.  We must learn to identify ourselves with this Perfection, to so accept it that it is real to us, and to so live that it may be expressed through us. Every organ, action and function of our physical body is rooted in spiritual Perfection, from which it draws its life.  If this were not true we could not be here.  No matter how imperfect the appearance may be, or painful or discordant, there is still an underlying Perfection, an inner Wholeness, a complete and perfect Life, which is God.

Therefore I say to my physical body: “Be ye therefore perfect because you already are perfect in the Divine sight.  There is One Life, that Life is God, that Life is my life now.  This Life circulates through me.  It animates my whole being.  I am one with its peace and wholeness.  There is no inaction in this Divine Life.  There is no stoppage nor hindrance nor obstruction to it.  And whatever may seem to be to the contrary is false, for I am identifying my physical body with the body of pure Spirit.  I am opening my mind as a channel for the realization of the Divine Presence.  I affirm it and accept it.  There is nothing in me that can deny or reject it.  Because God is perfect, I am perfect.”  Quietly I affirm and reaffirm these simple statements until they sink into my consciousness and become a habit pattern of thought which is no longer rejected.  With complete conviction I accept the wholeness of the Spirit and as I do so I identify myself and everything that I am with the harmony and the perfection and the wholeness of the Life of God. 

March 15, 2022 – I AM SUPPLIED FROM THE SUBSTANCE OF GOD

MARCH 15   

I AM SUPPLIED FROM THE SUBSTANCE OF GOD

The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.  John 3:35

We all have need of many things.  We cannot believe that the Divine Spirit wishes to withhold any good from us.  It is the nature of God to give, and it is our nature to receive.  Back of every idea of supply, every need in our human lives, there is something which forever more gives of itself and takes the form of our experiences when we permit it to.  Whether it be a house to live in, money that we have need of, or employment that furnishes the gratification of adequate self-expression – always there is the Giver flowing into these things.  But the Divine has already given Its entire being to us.  God has not failed humanity.  But humanity has failed to accept the gift.  It has failed to enter into the spirit and the nature of the Giver.  It has even refused to believe that there is such a gift or such a Giver. How, then, can even God really give us what we refuse to accept?  This is why Jesus told us we must believe that we have really received the gift before we see its evidence.  This is an active faith but it should be a faith built on the sure knowledge, the certain foundation, the positive conviction, that there is something that responds to us, gladly, readily, willingly, joyously and without limit.

Today I am living in the quiet and joyous expectation of good.  God is not only my life; He is substance taking form in everything I do.  God is not only the Actor; He is acting through me now.  God is not only the Giver, He is also the gift.  This gift I receive in joy, with gratitude, and with a complete sense of security.  I expect everything I do to prosper.  I expect new and wonderful experiences to come to me.  I am living in complete confidence that the Kingdom of heaven is here and now that I am prospered in everything I do.

March 14, 2022 – I ENJOY THE COMPANIONSHIP OF GOD

MARCH 14   

I ENJOY THE COMPANIONSHIP OF GOD   

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.  John 14;16

Communion with the Spirit is one of the greatest privileges of life.  By communion with God we do not mean telling the Infinite what to do or how to do it, for that is talking at God rather than communing with Him. By communion we mean silently entering into Divine harmony and beauty until we feel that harmony and beauty in our own souls, in our own minds.  For instance, if one finds himself distraught and mentally upset, and he follows the simple practice of communing with peace, he will find that peace enters into him.  He does this by dropping all confusion from his mind and thinking about peace; he dwells on its meaning and feels that he is breathing it into himself until it floods his whole being with harmony.  This is real communion – not telling peace what it ought to do or be, but entering into its spirit, silently, quietly and alone.  And so it is with love or joy or any other attribute of the Divine – we must commune by listening and feeling this Presence until the Presence is real to us.  This is the very essence of communion.

God is my companion.  It is impossible for me to be lonely or alone, for wherever I go the One Presence will accompany me.  I have an Infinite Companion who goes with me wherever I go.  I have partnership with the Infinite which is steady and strong and certain.  This same Presence I feel in everyone else – the One Companion of all. I guided by this Presence, I am guarded by it; I am kept in the shadow of Its strength.  I am fed by the bounty of Its love.  I am guided by Its wisdom.  This Presence is closer to me than my breath, nearer to me than my hands and feet. Therefore, I have no sense of aloneness, no feeling of isolation, because all the Presence there is, is my companion.  In this companionship there is love and beauty, there is peace and joy, there is happiness and success, today and forever more.

March 13, 2022 – Sunday Worship Experience

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Series Title: Lent 2022 – Build a Better Life!

Sermon Title: Acknowledge God

Sermon Thesis:

Acknowledging God will positively change your life.

Guiding Scripture:

“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths” (Proverbs 3:6).

Sermon Points

Point 1: Mix it.

Point 2: Apply it.

Point 3: Smooth it.


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March 6, 2022 – Sunday Worship Experience

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Series Title: Lent 2022 – Build a Better Life!

Sermon Title: How Good is Your Spiritual Ear?

Sermon Thesis:

Scriptures are your beginning tool for developing your spiritual ear.

Guiding Scripture:

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

Sermon Points

Point 1:  Read the scriptures.

Point 2:  Study the scriptures.

Point 3: Research the scriptures.


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