December 25, 2021 – THE CHRIST IS BORN IN ME

DECEMBER 25        

THE CHRIST IS BORN IN ME

Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:5

“He that sent me is with me.”  The action of God in me is the Christ of my being, and on this Christmas Day, I pay tribute to Jesus who is the world’s greatest example of God’s action through man.  Two thousand years have passed since a Larger Light came into the world and told man of his spiritual freedom to accomplish his heart’s desires.  These years have not been in vain for gradually man has come to larger understanding of God and of his own Christ Self.  I now dedicate and consecrate myself to the teachings of the man of Nazareth.

On this Christmas Day I let Christ rule my heart, mind and affairs.  I see the new birth of Love in all people and in all events.  All the Beauty of Christmas is mine to behold.  All the Love of Christmas is given unto me.  Each card and each gift brings me love, and they bless me with the knowledge of my own birth of Truth.  I shall be like Mary and Joseph and watch carefully over this new inner dawning of true Life.

I make of my mind a stable and welcome the Christ Idea of perfect spiritual man.  I give the gifts of my attention, my love and my substance to this Idea born within me.  I am open to the Divine this day.  I let God be born into my thinking and feeling.  I share this birth to a higher understanding with all people everywhere.  I revere the memory of Jesus, and let His teachings be in me a Light unto my world, and others seeing my good works shall find the Light of Truth within themselves.  This is the day of Christ, the day of Truth, the day of a birth into greater Good.

December 24, 2021 – GOD’S ACTION THROUGH ME IS COMPLETE

DECEMBER 24   

GOD’S ACTION THROUGH ME IS COMPLETE

Rewards are obtained according to one’s heart.

Garland Suttra 10

The Lord God Omnipotent acts through me.  All Power seeks release through me.  All Love uses me as Its channel.  My spiritual responsibility I now accept.  Knowing that the One Mind focalizes Its ideas through my consciousness, I determine to let God alone think in me today.  If I expect the Law of Mind to produce increased good for me, I must do my part in the process.  I must affirm God’s action in me, and act as a spiritual being.  This means I cannot be a difficult nor unkind person. I must seek to understand my fellowman and each situation as it arises.  If I do not always have my own way, I must see this as right action, and agree with it.

As I open my whole mind to the influx of Truth, I must be willing to let go of all my petty beliefs.  Much of my everyday thinking is not worthy of Him who created me.  I cannot love Truth and at the same time find fault with my work, my family and my friends.  I now decide to live as though every spiritual belief I have were an actual fact.  The teachings of Jesus were that I can do this, and now I will. I refuse to be annoyed by people or situations.  I refuse to be depressed and unhappy.  I know that the action of God is taking place in me and producing for me my good and I let it happen.  No more pettiness for me.  I think in terms worthy of the Mind that indwells me.

The whole action of Truth is upon me, within me and around me.  I give It full control of my thinking and feeling.  The Lord is in His Holy temple within me, and now expressed forth from me.  God in the midst of me is mighty to produce right results around me.  The labor is no longer mine, for He that is within me does His perfect work, and I rejoice in immediate results.  Miracle follows miracle and glory appears on every hand.  All men shall call me blessed, and all people everywhere shall rejoice in my presence.  I move from good to more good, as I let God determine what needs to be done.  God’s action through me at this moment is complete, and beauty appears now.    

December 23, 2021 – NO EVIL FOOLS ME

DECEMBER 23         

NO EVIL FOOLS ME

Hence evil is but an illusion, and it has no real basis.

Science and Health, 480

The allness of God and the spiritual nature of man are convictions in my mind.  I am not of the world belief, nor of the world opinion. “Thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever.” Knowing One Cause operating through One Mind upon One Law and One Substance, I deny duality and its wrong experience. I have no place for evil in my thinking.  It cannot register within me, for I am single-eyed to truth.  I am poised in an absolute conviction of the omnipresence of God as Good.  I cannot be persuaded that evil is in me, nor in my fellowman.  God alone creates, and I have faith in what He creates. This world is good enough for God, so it is good enough for me.

No evil fools me.  I recognize it as a fact, but I know it will fall apart of its own false making.  It appears strong, but it is really weak.  It seems to have power, but it soon wears itself out. It tries to make me believe it is true, but only the Truth is true.  Evil is a lie from beginning to end, and I will not accept its demands nor its allures.  Infinite Mind in me reveals to me the Truth, and every possible evil is of no importance.  I do not waste one split second in its belief, nor in its sway.  My time is valuable, for every moment God thinks through me.  Instead of wallowing in past errors, I now create present good.  I am alerted to Truth.

I am determined to be a creative person through whom flow God’s Ideas.  False reports, though they seem valid, are still not the Truth. God alone is real, and Truth alone is eternal.  In God I am, and by God I exist.  His Mind is my mind now.  No other mind can function on me, and no false belief has power over me.  Evil has no existence in my consciousness and no appearance in my world.  Watching the doorway of my mind, I let in only that which accords with Spirit.  All untrue perceptions are turned aside.  Nothing in me can draw negatives, and nothing in me can create them.  I rest in a perfect Wisdom and a perfect Love.  I am surrounded by a wall of Intelligence, and only good can enter my soul.       

December 22, 2021 – HEAVEN IS MY ENVIRONMENT TODAY

DECEMBER 22         

HEAVEN IS MY ENVIRONMENT TODAY

What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

Psalm 116:12

I exist in an eternal Beneficence which seeks to give me what I want.  What others label a material experience, I behold as the heavenly possibility, and put all my efforts to its demonstration.  All of God is where I am, and all of Mind is giving of Itself through me. The doors of my thinking are open wide, and right ideas in perfect order reveal themselves to me.  Guided by the Divine Mind and prospered by the Divine Love, I work with certainty and with ease.

Good seeks me, and I let It happen within me.  This inner compulsion to right action is welcomed by me, for I know it is Divine in source.  Following the urges of the Spirit, I find good on every hand. 

I start where I am and I begin with what I know myself to be.  I am in an unlimited field of Mind action, which responds to me in the terms of my own thinking.  I now change my concept of myself.  I am not material, I am spiritual.  I am not struggling for heaven, I am letting Heaven happen where I am.  I am not depreciating myself; I know that I am God’s intelligent creation worthy of all the good I can conceive.  All that I want to be, I can be.  All that I really want to own, I can own.  I look out at my world and behold a beckoning Good, and a friendly humanity.  Life bids me walk forward.  With my feet set on a holy pathway, I progress with ease.

My senses are alerted to the Truth.  I see God wherever I look.  I hear the Lord’s voice in every sound.  I sense Heaven at hand, and Divine Love in my heart.  Joyously accepting my present day, I see the Good before me, and Love offering Itself to me.  I am not led astray by false reports nor by unwise conclusions.  Heaven is where I am, and I declare it.  If others fail to see Good in their world, this bothers me not all at.  My God and I together walk, and He leads me beside the still waters and into the green pastures.  These twenty-four hours are pregnant with Spirit and vital with Truth.  Each instant is crammed with the One Presence, and each hour is filled with Power.   

December 21, 2021 – THERE IS A GLORY IN MY HEART

DECEMBER 21   

THERE IS A GLORY IN MY HEART

I was a secret treasure, and I created the creatures in order that I might be known.

Hadith

Warm is the love of the Eternal and it glows within me, satisfying my soul.  The heart of God beats within me its rhythmic harmony of glory.  I am fed in all my depths of emotional need by this inner well of Compassion.  The universe glows with kindliness.  Every man offers me the warmth of and the joy of friendliness.  The Glory of God is upon me and I rest in Its perfect action.  I sense the Divine Friendliness of the world in which I live.  All things work together for my good, and all people appreciate and love me. This deep inner sense of well-being is now forever established, and never again shall I feel loneliness.  Glory abides within me.

The expanding power of God is the joy of my soul.  Every mood of good increases and every feeling of goodness is accentuated.  The Holy Spirit of Peace is upon me and resident in me.  Glorious is my day, and rejoicing is in my heart.  God’s wonderful life within me is not completely explicable.  More than my other mind can describe, more than my intellect can define, is the Glory within me.  Beyond all description is the inner peace and the inner glow.  God in me is a terrific presence of power, love and peace.  This inner deep feeling of greatness now takes control of my thought.

I not only know the Mind of God, but I feel the Presence of the Spirit.  I arise and shine, for the Glory of God is within me, and peace does fill my world.  The Light of Truth is within me, and a feeling of greatness arises.  God in me is saying to me that I am His beloved creation.  To me He gives all that He is, and all He has.  This is wonderful and this is heartwarming.  Warm on the inside and wise on the outside I can accomplish my aims.  The Holy Spirit is in my mind now.  Divine Love floods my emotions.  Glorious is my thinking, and glorious is my experience.  God is my all, no more can I seek.  Omnipresence warms me and Omniscience guides me into a friendlier experience. 

December 20, 2021 – DEMONSTRATIONS FOLLOW MY WORD

DECEMBER 20   

DEMONSTRATIONS FOLLOW MY WORD

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

Chuang Tzu 26

There is nothing to obstruct the Spiritual word that I speak. All the power of God is for me, and all the power of God is working through me.  As I make these statements of Truth, the Truth happens in my world.  I speak the Truth, and the Truth sets me free.  This word is not dependent upon my will, for it is the action of God taking place through me.  I now declare my own spiritual perfection as a Child of Omnipotence.  I speak the Truth and the Truth happens to me.  Health appears in my body for I know God as the health of my mind.  Strength flows through me and vitality is instantly available.  I am free in body to do all those things which need to be done.  I am health.

My prosperity is definite, for God thinks His prosperous ideas through me.  I now demonstrate permanent abundance.  I live with wisdom, but I live with ease.  All the Substance of Mind is in action as my immediate and permanent prosperity.  I use money for I see it as God’s mean of maintaining me in freedom.  This flow of good is right where I am, and is happening this moment.  I declare my freedom in finance.  God is my supply right now.  What I need, the One Mind provides this day. All life is backing me up as I make this statement.  Even my own subconscious fears cannot prevent this demonstration.  My word is a law unto that to which I speak it.  It is God declaring Himself by means of me.

I accept demonstration as normal.  God has offered Himself to me, and I let His Mind do what It desires.  The Infinite loves me.  The Infinite appreciates me.  The Infinite wants me to be at peace.  This I now accept as my demonstrations.  My destiny has been given into my hands by the Spirit, and I select my world as carefully as I would select a gift.  I choose what I want, and declare it.  I let the Law of Mind bring forth my decisions.  Unlimited, save by my own wrong beliefs, I stand in a Process Divine which works for me, as I direct It.  Demonstrations follow demonstrations hourly.  Good appears on every hand.  Love offers Itself to me and God gives me what I want.  

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

December 19, 2021 – HAVING RECEIVED LIGHT, I PASS IT ON TO OTHERS

DECEMBER 19         

HAVING RECEIVED LIGHT, I PASS IT ON TO OTHERS

O send out thy light and thy truth.

Psalm 43:3

The Light of Truth is within me, and I release It in every thought and feeling.  This Light of God has always been in me, yet only lately have I realized what it was.  I now know that It is the Divine using me as a center of perfect operation. I know that it is the Truth which I have sought and now found.  I know that it is my highest Self, and that I am It right here in my present circumstances.  God in me at this moment illuminates my whole consciousness and I am free of all un-truth.  Alerted to the Light, I give this Light to others.  Every word I speak is a light to men.  Every thought I think is a treatment to all whom I know.

The Light of Truth cannot be dimmed.  I may not see It some of the time, but It remains within me awaiting my recognition.  This Light is the light of my world.  As I look out at my environment, I am looking through the eyes of Light.  I see all things clearly, easily and normally.  Through my eyes the Light of God flows out, and healing appears everywhere.  I see only the good, the true and the eternal.  I see God in every man and Love in every heart.  Others see this Light in me, and rise to new heights of accomplishment.  They see Truth made manifest, the One Mind releasing Itself.  By their sight of God in me, they are healed physically, mentally and financially.

There is a radiance that shines from me, for God’s healing Light is the true light of my soul.  There are no dark corners in my thinking.  Memories of the past, actions of the present and hopes of the future are all exposed to this Light and are cleansed.  The wrong is erased, and the right is amplified.  I let my light shine to bless and benefit my neighbor, for it is God’s Light shining through me.  Releasing the Light, I am immersed in Lights, and true perception in mine.  I see God everywhere.  I see God in everyone I meet.  I see God in the little and the great.  Omnipresence is manifested to me.  Having received the Light, I now pass It on to others.

December 18, 2021 – MY PEACE I GIVE TO MY WORLD

DECEMBER 18   

MY PEACE I GIVE TO MY WORLD

I have no tact except the exercise of gentleness.

Oracle of Sumiyoshu

Harmony is the automatic action of Spirit, and in me this action now manifests.  The universe is order, harmony and peace.  Despite my present affairs, I now acknowledge this, and act from this premise.  If the sun never fails to shine, the tide to rise and fall in the sea, then neither can my few matters be disturbed nor upset.  God’s universal Law of Order is now in me, through me and around me.  It is my peace of mind; it is the order in all things I do.  Having this peace, I now share it with others.  My whole mental atmosphere is radiant with peace.  My home, my office and my entire environment are bathed in it.  This peace, born of God, is infectious and my fellowman receives it.

I have a poised, balanced mind in a poised balanced body.  God’s eternal harmony and order are mine, and I let them express through me.  My family and co-workers sense this and are healed by this.  Peace flowing out from me heals everyone I contact.  It is a subtle, soothing balm to all their fears and doubts.  They feel better for having spoken to me or clasped my hand.  Every room I enter is alive with Divine Harmony and Order.  God’s Presence is made alive by the Truth I know and the Love I emanate.  Power flows to the weak, positive conclusions flow to the uncertain, and God’s omnipotence is made visible.  The whole Spirit of God in every man is quickened into right action. I walk this day as a Divine Creation.  Nothing in me can confuse, for God alone is the center of my thinking.  My Divinity is obvious, my peace blesses all.  Life flows easily, and all things work together for good.  Radiating peace, I am a blessing to all and a problem to none.  A warm welcome awaits me where ever I go.  Joy greets me in every face, and co-operation appears everywhere.  I see nothing but peace as I look at the people around me. They too, are centered and grounded in the one universal order and harmony of God.  Sensing the eternal good, my friends join with me in silently acknowledging it.  We are all of One Mind now, and together we bring peace to all who are hurt and confused.  This is my job this day.      

December 17, 2021 – I AM MIND IN ACTION

DECEMBER 17   

I AM MIND IN ACTION

According as one acts, according as one conducts himself, so does he become.

Brihadaranyka Upanishad

In the midst of me is the Spirit of the Lord.  To me It offers Itself without limitation.  “All that the Father hath is mine.”  It forever presses upon me all its ideas and they find me a willing vehicle of expression. At every instant I am urged to be my greater self.  At every instant I am bidden to let God shine through as health, peace and creative self-expression.  The unlimited action of truth is the true source of my life.  I see this, know this, and act according to this.  I let my mind be inspired by a Wisdom greater than its present knowledge.  I see ideas as the cause of all experience, and control them to produce what I want, when I want it.  I am Mind in action.

Mind offers me all of Its Being.  Every Idea in the universe is available to me.  What I need to know today is already offered to me.  I now receive the ideas of God and give them welcome.  I open the doors of my thinking and let Divine Inspiration flow into my mind.  New vistas appear around me, as new ideas are born within me.  I have confidence, I have security.  Nothing is withheld from me, and to me comes Omniscience.  I am consciousness knowing Truth.  I am the creative process through which God acts as Mind. I am a thinker in a universal medium of mental law, and as such I alone control my destiny.  God wants me to be free, but I must accept His Ideas in order to be free.  I now do this.

I can be all things which I desire, for the ideas I need are already mine.  My consciousness is inspired by the Mind from which all things proceed.  Unto me is given the greatness of Spirit, and the way of creative accomplishment.  I deny all barriers to my success.  God sees none, and I refuse to accept them.  I join my thinking with the Divine Thinker and experience happiness here and now.  All that I have sought is found.  In me now is the answer to every question, and the solution of every problem.  I think clearly, act wisely and let my good happen.  Inspired by Mind, I think success, peace and prosperity.  I am Mind in action, for this is the inner meaning of the term “Son of God,” and this I am named by Him who created me. 

Christmas Worship – December 19, 2021 – IN PERSON at 1 p.m.

Join us for our first in-person Worship of 2021!

Sunday service will be in person AND live-streamed!

Join us for a beautiful Sunday worship experience on December 19, 2021 at 1 p.m.

Location: 4310 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008

Plenty of parking available on Crenshaw Blvd or public parking lot can be entered on 43rd Street (3416 W 43rd Street).

We will be following the following safety protocols:

  1. Masks must be worn at all times indoors.
  2. All singers, musicians and crew members will be administered Covid-19 tests prior to the start of the event.
  3. NO hugging on the premises.

Location: 4310 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008

Plenty parking available on Crenshaw Blvd or public parking lot can be entered on 43rd Street (3416 W 43rd Street).