October 26, 2021 – I CANNOT ESCAPE HEAVEN, FOR I AM ALREADY IN IT

OCTOBER 26         

I CANNOT ESCAPE HEAVEN, FOR I AM ALREADY IN IT

Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?  Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?  If I ascend unto heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 

Psalm 139:7,8

To think that any person is outside of God is an absurdity.  We know that God as Infinite Mind is the only real Presence and Power there is, and all men are in It and of It.  That our material troubles prevent us from knowing this all the time is obvious, but the disciplined soul can cause heaven to appear in the midst of every problem.  When we pray, or treat a negative condition we set in process a Divine idea which brings heaven to pass at the instant.  As we recognize and affirm the omnipresence of Spirit, we are causing heaven to appear.  All evil fades as Truth is asserted by the determined Son of God.  Eternally, we live in heaven, the Presence of Pure Being, the Life Everlasting.  As we lift up our eyes unto the Truth our minds are transformed.  With a new viewpoint we look out upon our world and like God we, too, can say “Behold, it is very good,” it is heaven.

God made my world, and He called it good.  I now link my mind with the Mind of God and look out upon my world from a new viewpoint.  I see God in every person and every situation.  All negatives are now cleaned from my consciousness.  I am pure in heart and I see God everywhere.  I see only the Christ Spirit in my fellowman.  I look forward this day to the joy of living in the Kingdom of Heaven right here on earth.  My home, my church, my office are locations in Heaven, and they are filled with the atmosphere of good.  Divine Love absorbs my full attention and I release that Love to all I contact this day; I cannot escape my heaven, for I am already in it, and all is well with my soul.  

October 25, 2021 – GOD IS THE HEALTH OF MY BODY, THE INSPIRATION OF MY MIND, AND THE GOOD OF MY UNIVERSE

OCTOBER 25  

GOD IS THE HEALTH OF MY BODY, THE INSPIRATION OF MY MIND, AND THE GOOD OF MY UNIVERSE

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. 

Isaiah 58:8

We believe in the Omnipresence, Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omniaction of God as Mind, Life, Truth and Beauty.  Therefore, all that we are, or ever shall be, is a part of the universal Being.  Our health is God in action.  Our consciousness is Mind in action.  Our good is the manifestation of Spirit.  If we believe this then it becomes our experience for the law of Mind produces it.  Disease falls away from the person who is thinking in Godlike terms.  Confusion melts from the thought of him whose mind is stayed on God.  The universe becomes a friendly creative atmosphere to all who love the good and live rightly with their fellowman.  Thousands have proven the truth in this way of life.  The healed, the inspired and the successful bear witness to this Truth we love, for the Law is impersonal, It works for all who co-operate with It.  We now blend with all that God is, and the demonstrations of good appear.

My health is the automatic expression of my consciousness.  No illness can hold me in its clutches, for I rise on the wings of God’s thoughts, into perfect health of body and mind.  I am inspired with the living, pulsating ideas of Spirit.  The inspiration of the Almighty is mine today.  I am led into paths of perfect activity bringing good results.  My universe is saturated with Divine Love and Order, and it returns to me the good I am now believing to be mine as a child of God.  God is the health of my body, the inspiration of my mind and the good of my universe at this moment, and all through the day.

Sunday Worship Experience – October 24, 2021

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Week 7: Adventure in Faith – Move Into Your Promised Land

Scripture

Joshua 6:24 They burned down the city and everything in it. But the silver and gold and the objects of copper and iron were deposited in the treasury of the house of the LORD.

Sermon Title: Divine Substance is Your Supply

Sermon Notes

Financial Unfoldment – In the unfoldment of financial abundance, all that does not align with Spirit must be destroyed.

Scripture – Joshua 6:24
They burned down the city and everything in it. But the silver and gold and the objects of copper and iron were deposited in the treasury of the house of the LORD.

Your vision comes with provision.

Divine radiant substance is your supply. Substance is the spiritual essence out of which all things are made. It is visible and comprehensible to your spiritual eye, but not to your natural eye (what you pick up using only your five senses).

Success Mindset
Take a deep breath
Put on blinders
Tune out the noise
Take your supply

Affirmation: The rich substance of the kingdom of God is pouring its plenty perpetually into my mind and affairs, and I am in all ways prospered.

The Covenant

I am ready for my Adventure in Faith.
I see the divine opportunity designed just for me and I wholeheartedly say YES GOD!
I am strong – I will withstand the temptation to dream small or stay the same.
I am courageous – I travel as the power, love and life of God.
I have no reason to fear.

NOTHING CAN STOP ME! NOTHING CAN STOP ME!

I think thoughts, feel feelings and speak words that reflect my promise being fulfilled.
I live in a state of perpetual gratitude.
I move on UP!
I Move Into My Promised Land Now!


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October 24, 2021 – TODAY, MY WORLD IS GOD’S WORLD, AND ALL IS WELL

OCTOBER 24   

TODAY, MY WORLD IS GOD’S WORLD, AND ALL IS WELL

The Lord reigneth. Let the earth rejoice; let the multitudes of isles be glad thereof. 

Psalm 97: 1

Our mental attitudes are our most priceless possessions.  No material security is actually secure, but the deep issues of our thought can make or unmake us.  Like the Psalmist of old, we should realize that our world is of God, therefore its essential nature must be good.  That which seemly opposes us in the world can be overcome and dissolved by right thinking, if our motives are right.  This universe is our field of opportunities.  It is the great laboratory in which he who knows the power of mind can work miracles.  It says unto us that we can have and become whatever we desire, providing we can establish great ideas within our subjective areas of consciousness.  To look out upon our world and expect only good from it is true spiritual living.  Then, security is assured for our own right mental attitudes will produce it.  The Intelligence that created us requires our co-operation with the laws of right thinking based on right motives.

I behold my world today as the expression of God’s Intelligence.  Everywhere I walk this day, I walk in the presence of Good.  Everyone I meet today, in business or at home, is the incarnation of Spirit.  I joyously co-operate with the good in every man.  I look out upon my world as God does and call it good.  I expect today to be a day of fulfillment.  I dedicate my thoughts to God’s Ideas and walk through His world seeing only that which is perfect, loving and beautiful.  The Glory of God fills my world and all the people in it.  I rejoice in this day, for in it shall I find more of Truth than I have ever known before.

October 23, 2021 – WITHIN ME THE SPIRIT IS ALIVE AND VITAL

OCTOBER 23 

WITHIN ME THE SPIRIT IS ALIVE AND VITAL

Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. 

Nehemiah 9:20  

This is a universe of activity and vitality, and if we would live in it effectually, we must be actively and vitally alive.  The Mind that created and sustained the universe must have as its essential nature vitality and activity.  We are Sons of God, the expressions of the Creative Mind, and our inheritance is the capacity to express life with a punch, a zest and a joy.  To do this we must be aware of our inner Divine Potential and through co-operation with it, let it act through us.  Thus, we pray and treat to know that God is the energy, vitality and essence of our lives.  From a center within ourselves there springs forth all that we need to live in creative ways and be a blessing to the world.  The followers of Jesus were given by him a strong message to be vital and definite partners with life.  Christianity must develop a mass of right-thinking people who demonstrate this energy of Spirit in creative ways.

Within me is a part of God, it is my own true self.  This inner spirit releases through me the energy, vitality and joy of the Lord.  My whole body is now filled with God’s vitality.  I am not fatigued this day, for God’s energy, working in every cell of my body, renews and maintains me in complete perfection.  I am alive and vital for God’s Ideas fill my consciousness.  New creative channels open for me this day in my business and family life.  I look forward to new ways of service, new ways of expressing love.  I dedicate all that I am to being vitally alive with the life of God.  I shall be a blessing to all who contact me this day.   

October 22, 2021 – FREELY AND JOYOUSLY I LET RIGHT ACTION TAKE PLACE IN MY LIFE

OCTOBER 22  

FREELY AND JOYOUSLY I LET RIGHT ACTION TAKE PLACE IN MY LIFE

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Romans 15:13

The Law of Life is a law of co-operation with all that is fine and true. Believing that Life is God in action, we must accept its processes with a firm conviction that in the long run all things will work together for good.  Resistance brings contraction; co-operation brings expansion.  God’s mind is already in perfect action.  We cannot start Its working for us, for It is already trying to bring forth good by means of us.  However, It does require that we accept Its methods, Its Ideas and Its Plans.  Today, the Infinite has arranged more good for each of us than our finite thinking can comprehend.  With Joy we open our whole body of consciousness to the Divine inflow.  We expect this Spiritual Presence to be in us as an accomplishing power for demonstration.  Nothing can prevent the Truth from appearing in our world, for Omnipotence itself is in action at every instant.

Freely and joyously I let right action take place in my life.  I know that God’s Mind is thinking through me at this moment, and greater results than I have ever dreamed are now appearing.  There is nothing in my thought to block the action of God.  I am willing to let my little thoughts go, knowing that the great thoughts of Being guide me into paths of pleasantness and ways of peace.  I accept without reservation the abundance that my Father has for me today.  Every hour brings me the fulfillment of all my needs and desires.  I believe in God.  I love God.  I have faith in God’s processes.  I live in the Joy and the Right Action of Spirit.

October 21, 2021 – DIVINE PROSPERITY IS WORKING IN ALL MY AFFAIRS

OCTOBER 21    

DIVINE PROSPERITY IS WORKING IN ALL MY AFFAIRS

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure. 

Job 36:11

Prosperity is the result of a mental atmosphere of faith and order induced within us through right thinking.  We should believe that the universe is planned for abundance, and that we as a living part of the Universal Intelligence have a share in the general riches.  Lack of supply to meet our needs is an indication of lack of spiritual development.  The more we understand ourselves as spiritual beings living in a spiritual universe the more that supply flows to us easily and naturally.  The disciplined mind can demonstrate prosperity, for it has provided the orderly channels necessary for it.  A disorderly mind usually has financial troubles as a result of its scattered thinking. We know that man’s mind is God’s mind in action, and we know that the Divine Mind is always orderly in its processes.  Jesus stated that as “first the blade, and then the ear, and then the full corn on the ear.” He knew that we have to provide a mental atmosphere of order and harmony in which the living ideas can grow. 

I live in a world that is filled with God’s abundance, and I now claim this as my  own.  The riches of the universe are open to me, and I partake of them in wisdom and joy.  All my affairs are under the law of prosperity.  Increased good flows to me from all directions and through all people.  There is no lack in my consciousness, for God’s ideas fill my thought and all is richness and opulence.  I am orderly in all my ways.  I am loving, kind and gracious.  I speak this day in terms of abundance.  I expect increased prosperity to take place in my world, for I know that God’s activity is alive in my affairs.  I now give thanks that the riches of God are mine to use and to enjoy in right ways. 

October 20, 2021 – THIS IS A HAPPY WORLD AND I AM JOYOUS IN IT

OCTOBER 20

THIS IS A HAPPY WORLD AND I AM JOYOUS IN IT

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 

Proverbs 17: 22

It is sometimes difficult for people to believe that God want us to be happy.  We have been taught that to be spiritually minded usually meant to be burden-minded.  This incorrect idea is fast disappearing, for which we can give thanks.  There is no reason why any of us who will live rightly and love greatly cannot be happy right here.  The Mind which created us gave us the ability to laugh and smile.  These are healthy mental states.  They relax us and give us peace. We like people who are gay and light, as long as we know their motives are right.  We want to be like them, and the Bible states that we should be.  We need to accept the fact that the universe is planned for creative joy, and that we possess the ability to be happy in it.  God wants us to be happy people, and His Mind has given us the capacity to know joy and to express joy.  As we do this we fulfill our inheritance.

My world is filled with the joy of Spirit, and I see happiness everywhere.  Today, I express the joy of the Lord.  I refuse to be discouraged and unhappy, for I know these states of mind are not of God.  I have a God of joy and good cheer.  I have a God who created me to smile and laugh and be lighthearted as I do my work.  I am determined to have a song in my heart and a smile on my face.  Everyone I meet senses this inner happiness which God has placed within me.  They respond to it and are blessed by their contact with it.  Divine Love made this world a happy place to be filled with joyous souls rejoicing in good.  I am loving, joyous and free.  I respond to the Joy of the Spirit in all and through all.

October 19, 2021 – I AM FREE TO EXPRESS ALL THAT GOD IS

OCTOBER 19

I AM FREE TO EXPRESS ALL THAT GOD IS

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money: come ye, buy and eat: yea come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 

Isaiah 55:1

In the realm of Mind there are no Limitations save those which are self-imposed.  In our everyday living we seem bound by time, space and money.  Often our health limits our living freely, or our hurts and pride keep us from pleasant experiences.  Isaiah, like other Biblical Teachers, reveals to us the freedom of the Spirit.  He tells us that there is a way of living mentally where we are unbound, unfettered, and free.  This is the same teaching which Jesus gave us in his concept of the Kingdom of heaven as being possible here on earth for those who will think rightly and aspire greatly.  Freedom begins and ends in our consciousness.  As we turn in thought to the unlimited possibilities of what we are in God, we begin to be free from the limitations of matter and material laws.  This must be done mentally, and we who love God do it and prove that freedom is a reality.

I have faith that I am a citizen of the Kingdom of God on earth.  This Kingdom is one of perfect Mind, and all Its perfect Ideas now function in me, delivering me to greater good and greater service to my fellowman.  I am free to select the good, the right and the true, and I do this joyously for my own Christ Self urges me now to do just that.  There is nothing to bind me, limit me or make me afraid.  God is the only real Presence and the only real Power, and I am the living representative of God.  I freely express all that God is, and I love to do it.  I am free, praise God, I am free.  I know the Truth, and I have been set free to live wisely, lovingly and justly.  

October 18, 2021 – The God in Me Loves the God in My Fellowman

October 18

The God in Me Loves the God in My Fellowman

Let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

I John 4:7

THE word “love” when used to describe the nature of God can be easily understood by everyone, for we are always responsive to love.  Rich or poor, religious or nonreligious, we know the word and feel an expansion within us when it is used.  Believing that God acts through humanity, then love must act through humanity.  It is easy to love the people who agree with us, but Jesus had the knack of loving the people who didn’t agree with him.  We must make a sincere attempt to love those who oppose us, who disagree with us.  If we realize that within them is the love of God, even as it is within ourselves, and we salute it and thus bring it forth, we shall be worthy if the teachings of the Man of Galilee.  We may not love the outer actions of our fellowman, but we can love the fact that God dwells in him.

I BELIEVE that divine love indwells all the people whom I meet this day.  I salute that love within them and expect good in some form from each one.  No one dislikes me, and I dislike no one.  I seek until I find some good in everyone.  I am loving, kind and courteous to all.  I show through the words of my mouth and the unseen thoughts of my mind that love is in my heart and joy is in my soul.  To all who would irritate me I say, “The love of God in me loves the love of God in you.”  The world is alive with divine love and I abide in it as a loving and gracious expression of Spirit.  I give beauty and peace to my world and, therefore, I can only receive beauty and peace from my world.  I give thanks that God loves by means of me.