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NOVEMBER 26   

LIFE SINGS THROUGH ME IN RADIANT ECSTASY

The footsteps of those who dwell with the god of light are set free.

Book of the Dead

Now and always I recognize that I live, move and have my being in God.  I am part of Universal Mind.  I am one with Universal Substance.  All the qualities and all the wealth of good and desirable things that exist in Universal mind are mine now.  I perceive, accept and experience them.  I know that that Presence which manifests in my heart and mind is God expressing Himself within me.  As I feel this Presence more and more I hear the Song of Joy deep within.  Always when I am still I hear the Song of Life pouring through my consciousness.  I have only to listen for it is always there.

The Father and I are one.  This I know to be the truth of my being.  I open my mind and my heart to the inflow of the Divine Spirit and know that the presence of God flows through my being with perfect action and in perfect unity with good.

With this knowledge, this assurance that the loving Presence is always here – “closer to me than breathing, nearer than hands and feet” – I have nothing to fear.  I feel this loving protection around me, and I know that it is not only a Song of Joy, but a Song of Love and Protection.  I tune out all dull, negative ideas, and tune in with the sunshine of life, with brightness and laughter, with the joyous Presence that is Life itself.  I now lay aside all anxiety, all striving, and let the Law bring my good to me.  I joyfully anticipate greater abundance, more success and more joy.  Joy wells up within my heart and Life sings through me in radiant ecstasy.  

NOVEMBER 25   

THE LIFE OF THE FATHER IS MY LIFE

When Heaven and Man exert their powers in concert, all transformations have their commencements determined.

The Texts of Taoism 

God could not withhold Himself from me.  That which is He has given fully unto me to enjoy. The life of God is perfect, it is eternal, it is the essence of all things.  That life is God’s gift to me.  Therefore, this fullness is within me, ready to manifest through me as I partake of it.  Since I am self-choosing, even though Divinely endowed, I partake of my Divinity only as I let it through; I am always in the midst of plenty everywhere.  I know that I live in a changeless Reality. I am not disturbed by the passage of time, the movement around me, or the variations of experience through which I go.  Something within me remains immovable and says, “Be still and know that I am God.”

There is no here and there to the Spirit, for both are included within Itself, even as yesterday, today and tomorrow are but passing events in Its unitary wholeness, even as big and little are but outlines.  The manifest universe is an expression of that which transcends time, overshadows eternity, encompasses all form, and remains stable within that which forever flows.

I now consciously draw upon the life which is mine.  I now reeducate myself definitely, by whatever steps I may, to a belief that there is given unto me a fullness of life which is Divine in its origin, eternal in its presence, and always fully available. The life of the Father is my life.  The infinite richness of the Father is mine.  All things which proceed from Him may be mine.  I now claim them.  The act of taking is my right and privilege.  I exercise it now intelligently and in full faith.

NOVEMBER 24   

I ACCEPT MY OWN SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL PERFECTION

He is a rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Deuteronomy 32:4

My body is the temple of the Living God.  It is Spiritual Substance.  I have perfect confidence in my heart that God’s lifegiving Spirit is my life. Since God is my life and God is eternal, my life is eternal.  Therefore I cannot be separated from God, from Good, from Perfection.  If I would renew body, mind and affairs, I must first cause my imagination to rise above them. The supreme Ruler, omnipresent, therefore existing at the very center of my thought, the Christ within me, really has the power to make all things new.

The perfect Life of God now expresses its innate perfection and wholeness.  As the sun dissolves the mist, so does my knowledge of Truth dissolve all pain and discord.  I know the Truth about myself as a child of God and that Truth makes me free.  I am free because the Power of the Living Spirit is my power and it remolds and re-creates my body after the likeness of the perfect pattern of God.  I open wide the doorway of my consciousness to a greater influx from the Divine.  I know that the all-conquering power of Spirit is with me.  I accept my privilege, as a Son, of manifesting the Life, Love, Peace, Strength, Harmony and Joy of God – the Father Almighty who indwells me and incarnates Himself in me, as me.

Therefore, I rest in peace and in the quiet confidence I know that all is well.  It is my sincere desire that the Life and the Love which God is shall flow through me to the whole world.

NOVEMBER 23   

MY WORD DOES ACCOMPLISH

The first step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good Thought Paradise;  The second step that the soul of the faithful man made, placed him in the Good Word Paradise; The third step that the soul of the faithful man made; placed him in the Good Deed Paradise.

The Zend-Avesta

Since thought is a definite, dynamic, creative, consciously directed and intelligent energy, then I know that a thought of Truth will definitely neutralize a negative argument.  I am on guard to protect my own word by knowing that it is the activity of Spirit through me and as such cannot be denied.  In effective prayer, I realize that a Power greater than I am consciously acts with creative intelligence upon my word.  In this way, I free myself from a sense of personal responsibility, while, at the same time, remaining aware that even spiritual laws must be definitely used, if they are to provide tangible results in my experience.

Believing that there is one Divine Intelligence that governs everything, I affirm that this Intelligence is acting in my mind, causing me to know what is best and to do what is best. I open my mind to new thoughts, new ideas.  And I know that as I do this new experience shall come to me.

I seek to believe with absolute conviction that my word will not return unto me void, and I do this when I realize that spiritual laws execute themselves, just as do others laws of nature.  I know that my word penetrates every unbelief in my mind, casts out all fear, removes all doubt, clears away every obstacle, and permits that which is enduring, perfect and true to be perceived by my mind.

I provide faith, acceptance, and a joyous expectancy that all the statements that I make in my prayers or treatments are not only true but that they will be carried out as I have spoken.  As my work is done with this sense of reliance upon the Law of Good, I know that my word shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish that whereunto it is sent.”

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

NOVEMBER 22   

TODAY I BESTOW THE ESSENCE OF LOVE UPON EVERYTHING

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 13:10

“The Law of the Lord is perfect” and the Law of the Lord is Love.  We are made perfect in the Law when we enter into the communion of love with one another and with the invisible essence of Life.  Love is the fulfillment of the Law, that is, we never can make the most perfect use of the Law unless that use is motivated by love, by a sincere desire to express unity, harmony and peace.  As the true artist weds himself to the essence of beauty, imbibing her spirit that it may be transmitted to the canvas, or awaken a living form from cold marble, so we must wed ourselves to the essence of Love that we may imbibe its spirit, and, transmitting it, give loveliness to all events.

I desire that everything I think shall be from the heart as well as from the head.  I wish to release kindness and love, sympathy and understanding, peace and joy.  No condemnation, judgment or fear shall go from me to anyone or anything.

Today I bestow the essence of love upon everything.  Everyone shall be lovely to me.  My soul meets the soul of the universe in everyone.  Nothing is ugly; everything is beautiful, everything is meaningful.  This love is a healing power touching everything into wholeness, healing the wounds of experience with its divine balm.  I know that this Love Essence, the very Substance of Life, the creative Principle back of everything, flows through my whole being, spiritual, emotional, mental and physical.  It flows in transcendent loveliness into my world of thought and form, ever renewing, vitalizing, bringing joy and harmony and blessing to everything and everyone it touches. 

DECEMBER 5   

I RESPECT THE HEALTH IN MY BODY

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:17

My health is not self-created, for God is the health of man.  This health is worthy of my respect.  Only that which I respect do I value and handle with care.  My body is a spiritual vehicle through which God’s Life flows.  God’s unlimited health maintains it in strength, vitality and ease of action.  My thought definitely affects my health, and my spiritual responsibility demands that I stay positive and creative. As all illness and fatigue originate in my mind, I now eliminate their causes.  Every spiritual thought of mine helps the body to remain sound and whole.  Such thoughts I have with ease.

No more fear and no more worry for me.  I know their destructive actions, and I refuse to adulterate God’s Health in my body with such errors.  I must not impede the health and vitality which God has planned for me.  No hate is worth the toll it takes in my tissues.  No anger is worth the destruction it causes in my body.  What God made I use with all the wisdom I have and can claim.  As I respect my body and declare that God abides within it, I feel an upsurge of life.  Strength and power become my tools to use for right activities.  All fatigue disappears and I do easily whatever needs my attention.  God responds to me with all possibility, because I have rightly used His Life within me.

The Divine Pattern of my health is now accepted by me.  This includes a rich sense of well-being all the days of my life.  I expect my body to react with ease, as my thinking acts with wisdom.  Letting go of all beliefs in sickness, I never again experience disease.  Even the slightest cold will be no more, for I now see God as my health.   I respect the Divine enough that I dedicate my thinking to positives.  I rejoice in my healthy body, because it indicates my healthy thinking. Today I am alive with health, vitality and the power of accomplishment.  I eat with wisdom, rest with wisdom.  I think only those thoughts which maintain me in health.  I am alive now with the permanent and perfect Health of the Spirit.

NOVEMBER 21

I RELY UPON THE ONE PERFECT ACTIVITY OF GOD

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:12

The all-intelligent, creative Presence is the source of all that I am. I believe in the ability and the willingness of this great Source to sustain its own creation.  The Kingdom and the Power and the Glory of God expresses through me.  I recognize myself to be a center through which the intelligence and power of the universe find expression.  Infinite Mind, operating through me, now brings to me the manifestation of harmony, order and the highest good.  The consciousness of peace and plenty is established within me.  All that is necessary to my happiness and well-being now comes into my experience.

Turning my mind into the Divine, I seek to draw into my own soul the essence of everything that is good, true and beautiful.  I seek to draw into my own mind the realization of the Divine Presence and the Power of Good until my whole being responds.

There can be neither limitation nor lack for nothing has happened to the One Perfect Activity.  It is in full operation for me.  I am now free from any sense of bondage.  All power is given unto me from On High.  Knowing this, I am strong with the strength of the all-vitalizing power of the universe.

I am sustained and healed by a divine stream of Spirit-Energy, which flows through me as radiant health and vitality.  Every fiber of my being responds to this spiritual flow.  I stand revealed as the perfect child of the Perfect Father.  Strength and courage are my divine birthright and I am now expressing my true self.  All that the Father hath is mine.  I draw from the spiritual treasure house all that I need.

NOVEMBER 20   

I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW

Despise no man and deem nothing impossible; every man hath his hour and everything its place.

The Talmud

I believe that no matter what the experience through which I am going, good will come out if it.  I believe that all poverty will be turned into riches; that all fear will be converted into faith. I believe that good finally will triumph over every evil and love will heal all hate.  I believe that I have a silent partnership with the Invisible; that this partnership has never dissolved and never can be.  I believe in the invisible Presence of Good in a universe peopled with perfect and eternal entities.  I believe that all things are possible to him who does believe.

Knowing that the law of God is a law of love, and knowing that the law of love is a law of liberty, I see freedom, joy, happiness, peace and wholeness in everything I look at.  I respond to the Divine calm which is at the center of everything.  Knowing that perfect love casteth out all fear, I am strong and confident because I know that the Law of Good goes with me and prepares the way before me.

I have complete confidence in my knowledge and understanding of the Law of Good. I not only know what is the Law, I know how to use It. I know that I shall obtain definite results through the use of It. I realize that doubts about my ability to use the Law are things of thought.  What thought has produced, thought can change.  Knowing this, having confidence in my ability to use the Law, and using It daily for specific purposes, gradually I build up an unshakable faith, both in the Law and possibility of demonstrating It.  There is no doubt in me, no uncertainty rising through me.  My mind rejoices in certainty and in assurance.  I confidently expect that my word shall not return unto me void.

NOVEMBER 20   

I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW

Despise no man and deem nothing impossible; every man hath his hour and everything its place.

The Talmud

I believe that no matter what the experience through which I am going, good will come out if it.  I believe that all poverty will be turned into riches; that all fear will be converted into faith. I believe that good finally will triumph over every evil and love will heal all hate.  I believe that I have a silent partnership with the Invisible; that this partnership has never dissolved and never can be.  I believe in the invisible Presence of Good in a universe peopled with perfect and eternal entities.  I believe that all things are possible to him who does believe.

Knowing that the law of God is a law of love, and knowing that the law of love is a law of liberty, I see freedom, joy, happiness, peace and wholeness in everything I look at.  I respond to the Divine calm which is at the center of everything.  Knowing that perfect love casteth out all fear, I am strong and confident because I know that the Law of Good goes with me and prepares the way before me.

I have complete confidence in my knowledge and understanding of the Law of Good. I not only know what is the Law, I know how to use It. I know that I shall obtain definite results through the use of It. I realize that doubts about my ability to use the Law are things of thought.  What thought has produced, thought can change.  Knowing this, having confidence in my ability to use the Law, and using It daily for specific purposes, gradually I build up an unshakable faith, both in the Law and possibility of demonstrating It.  There is no doubt in me, no uncertainty rising through me.  My mind rejoices in certainty and in assurance.  I confidently expect that my word shall not return unto me void.