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AUGUST 17

BELIEVING IN GOD, I EXPECT IMMEDIATE RESULTS

Lo! We have shown man the way, whether he be grateful or disbelieving.

The Koran

God is unconditioned by time, space or belief.  As the perfect expression of this Infinite Mind, I am not under the laws of time, space and belief.  The instantaneous action of Mind produces immediate demonstrations in my experience.  No longer do I wait for my good.  No longer do I hope, trust and expect.  I am now established in instant results.

The Lord is with me.  The Lord is where I am.  The action of God is taking place now in my affairs.  What needs to be done is already done, for Mind sees the end from the beginning.  Cause and effect are one action.  Prayer and demonstration are one unit.  There is no longer a beginning and an end, a treatment and a healing.  In my consciousness there is only the complete understanding that at this moment all is accomplished, and I already have what I formerly thought I needed to have.

Having erased the concept of time and space form my thought, I now claim my perfection of mind, body and affairs.  I claim it as an actual fact now; not tomorrow but today; not in an hour but at this instant.  The world cannot limit me; people cannot inhibit me; and God is for me.  No more alibis; no more delaying mind-action.  God, and God alone, is in action through me, and I have all that I can use of His Intelligence and Love.  Within me perfection is; around me perfection has appeared.  Duality has been dissipated, and Unity has been established.  I thank God for this, and act upon this premise.  All that is good in mine, and all that is true is mine now.  My world blesses me.  My body is a joy to me.  My friends and loved ones are perfect spiritual beings now.  It is all here, and it is all mine.

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

AUGUST 16  

I ACCOMPLISH WITH EASE

God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

I Corinthians 10:13

Infinite Mind is forever in action, producing good.  This action is the activity of man. I now realize that I am an outlet for the perfect action of a perfect God.  Therefore, my yoke is easy and my burden is light, for God does the work.  I am a center in the Divine Mind, and I direct the action of that Mind through me.  My work is to let God’s action flow through me into creative and valuable results.  This takes the burden of hard work off my shoulders, and I accomplish all things with ease.

My work is easy, for I let the Spirit within me do it.  I know that there is no need to struggle for a living, for God acting through me makes easy my job.  I now relax and know that within me right action is taking place, and that I am inspired to right results.  My life is the Life of the Spirit, and my work is to release this Spirit, and I now do it.  As I let this action take control of my work, everything I need appears at the instant I need it.  All the strength I need is within me, and never fails me.  All the wisdom I need is within me and guides me constantly.

I do not believe that I have to work to be successful.  I only know that success is mine to the extent that I let Spiritual Ideas work in my mind, and Love work in my heart.  I approach whatever needs to be done with confidence that I am equal to the situation.  I lean upon the indwelling Spirit, and It never refuses to respond to my call.  Letting God do the work assures me of perfect results.  My mind is receptive to God, and I am divinely sustained by His action through me.  Success is no longer before me; it is now where I am, and is appearing in all that I do.  

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

AUGUST 15  

I AM RECEPTIVE TO GOD’S IDEAS

For the word of God is quick and powerful…

Hebrews 4:12

All of God is available to every person.  Nothing is ever withheld from a sincere seeker of Truth.  The Infinite Mind releases all of Its Ideas to every receptive consciousness.  I now receive ideas direct from God, and I assimilate them and express them.  These ideas are perfect and complete, revealing to me all that I need to know for this day.  My way is now easy, for I know what to do at every instant, and order does prevail.  I am inspired by God to do right and to live abundantly.  No more doubt, no more questioning.  I know exactly the way to go, the thought to think, and the love to express.

God’s Ideas fill my mind, and there is no room for any wrong thoughts.  I claim my health, my prosperity and my full self-expression.  As I make these claims, the Infinite supplies everything I need to fulfill them.  All power is given unto me to demonstrate the desires of my heart.  All life surges through me as health. All prosperous ideas quicken my consciousness, and money comes to me from all directions.  I deny any and all negative thoughts which seem to contradict this Truth.  I know that God backs me up in every situation with right ideas.  These ideas move me forward in ever-increasing joys of life.  I shall never hesitate again in moving forward with wisdom.

What every great Spiritual Teacher did, I can now do.  The same Ideas which inspired them, inspire me.  God gives of Himself with lavish abundance, and I rejoice to receive His Ideas now.  All of good is before me, as I accept this inspiration from on high.  I give thanks for my freedom from all problems, and my ability to meet all situations. The Lord is with me, now and forevermore, and I am sustained by His Truth.

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

AUGUST 14   

I CHOOSE TO LIVE WISELY

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Isaiah 26:3

All that is good is available to man.  God never limits Himself and God never limits man.  Man is consciousness in the One Mind, and all Ideas are given unto him.  I now choose to live with wisdom today, by selecting only true ideas to function in my mind.  No one governs my thinking but myself.  No one forces me to worry, or forces me to have faith.  Either of these is mine as I select.  I chose faith, for I know that I am maintained by the Power of the universe.  I have full confidence that my life is rich in goodness, and prospered by love.  My faith in God keeps my mind positive.

I choose health today.  Right thinking is spiritual medicine.  My thoughts are worthy of God, and a blessing to man.  My whole consciousness is positive and constructive.  I know that health is God’s free gift to me.  I know that my body responds to my thought, and wholeness is mine.  Fatigue is impossible, for strength never fails me.  Disease is no more, for there is nothing in me to cause it.  Joyous, healthy ideas saturate my consciousness, and God’s Life saturates my body.  God’s presence in the weather blesses me.  Heat and cold do not affect me, for my life is warm with love.

I choose to be a blessing today.  Every act I perform brings good to someone.  Every thought I think brings healing to my fellowman.  I know that God uses me as a mighty channel of good, and I love to do the works of Him who sent me.  I let my Light shine so that all people, seeing my good works, will glorify God.  Love fills my heart, and power fills my mind.  Richly I give to my world, and richly my world gives to me.  Wisdom, born of the Spirit, is mine.  I have chosen Him who will never fail me.  I love to live the Life of God.

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

AUGUST 13

THERE IS PEACE IN MY SOUL

My mercy embraces all things.

The Koran

The universe remains forever in perfect balance.  No thought or creation of man can confuse the eternal heavens.  The perfect action of intelligence maintains Its creation in peace, order and harmony.  This is the true state of the world in which I live.  Around me in normal activity, and within me is a peace born of God.  As I know this, and accept this, I relax and let the Infinite Mind do Its perfect work through me.  Peaceful thoughts flow through my mind, and rest flows through my body. 

Nothing can disturb me, for I am anchored in peace.  I am led beside the still waters, and my soul is refreshed.  Never again will the confused opinions of others have power over me.  False speculations of the human mind no longer intrigue me or lead me into chaos. Now, I am firm in the Truth and the power of Its word.  I do not accept appearances as truth.  I have spiritual shrewdness to see good where others see evil.  Peace is mine today, and no person or situation can confound me.  I know that the harmony of heaven is where I am, and in all that that I do.  Poise is my attitude and order is my vision.

Recognizing peace as my normal environment, I give peace to others.  My presence in any group is calming.  My speech reflects my inner peace.  I speak of those things which are true of God and true of God’s spirit in man.  By my silent thought I still the troubled waters of other minds.  I know that peace is natural to all people, so I seek its center in all whom I know.  The healing peace of God radiates from me, and I am a blessing to my world.  This day I am peaceful, loving and wise.

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

AUGUST 12

I FEAR NO EVIL

The net of Heaven is cast wide.  Though the mesh is not fine, yet nothing ever slips through.

The Tao Te Ching 73

The omnipotence of God forever surrounds and maintains man.  All power is instantly available, at every point in space and in every instant of time.  As man knows this, all fear is erased from his consciousness.  I join with all who know God as the only Power and Presence in their lives.  I have absolute faith in the goodness of life and the indestructibility of Spirit.  God in me is my resource, and nothing can harm me.  I know that I am the cause of my experience, and I erase fear from my mind, and evil cannot appear in my world.  Love attends me wherever I go.  Peace envelopes me at every moment, and God will never leave me comfortless.

I rejoice that my knowledge of good has destroyed my belief in evil.  The more I know of God, the less I can create or experience difficulties.  I steadfastly watch my thought, and eliminate every suspicion of fear and negation.  Through the doors of my mind only good ideas pass, and only righteous judgments issue.  Good is my experience, now and forevermore.  I have complete security because I keep my consciousness free from false conclusions about evil.  I know that no evil can happen to me unless it happens through me, and that I will not allow.  I consecrate my consciousness to Truth, and thereby think the Truth and experience the Truth.  Evil is not the Truth, and has no place in me or my affairs.

The endless possibilities of Life are before me, and nothing can prevent my full spiritual development.  I know that I am growing in spiritual wisdom and in factual demonstration.  Every victory over evil increases my realization of its lack of power and authority in my life.  I am the victorious creation of God, and I triumph in all my ways.  

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

August 11

GOD’S PRESENCE IN ME IS LIFE, LOVE AND WISDOM

When the mind is cleaned by the grace of wisdom, he is seen by contemplation – the One without parts.

Mundaka Upanishad

God is Mind, and I exist in a universe of mind-action.  My thought and my feeling are now governed and controlled by the Spirit within me.  Gone are all my doubts and fears.  Gone are all my false conclusions about Life.  I know, and know that I know, that Life, Love and Wisdom are within me.

The Life that I live is perfect in purpose and perfect in plan.  I align my thinking with Life’s purpose and I live in accordance with Its plan.  My expectancy is great, for I know the law of mind, and I know that right results are now appearing.  I rejoice in health.  I rejoice in strength.  I rejoice in vitality.  Only increased creative activity is before me, and I am equal to every situation that Life offers me.

The Love that is mine to give is from God, and I give it into my world with ease.  I love to love with the love of God.  I love to free my fellowman in love.  I love to feel that all people everywhere are one with me, and are a blessing to me.  This deep inner Love gives me peace of mind.  It gives me a feeling of being worth while.  It makes me know that I am loved by others.  All Love is mine to give this day.

The Wisdom of God is the true inner motive of my consciousness.  I make right decisions.  I think clearly and I act wisely.  I have order in my mind and in my affairs.  Al things work together for good, because the Wisdom of the Infinite Mind is my wisdom now.  I live with ease, for my thinking is right, and my world responds to my decisions.  I claim good judgment.  I claim the Integrity of God as mine today.

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

AUGUST 10

I AM VICTORIOUS

Ye shall know them by their fruits.

Matthew 7:16

I have faith that God, the Good, is all there really is.  Always, I am supported by the action of Good, the action of God.  Problems are merely the acknowledgment of the power of evil.  I now refuse to believe that any situation can confuse me, make me sick, or limit me.  Either I live in God, or I live in nothing but material belief.  I now choose to live in God, and immediately I renounce every thought of negation.  I assume victory over my world, my body and my finances.  God in the midst of me is victorious over the doubts of my mind.  Joyous accomplishment saturates my life, and victory is mine now.

I let Divine Ideas work in me, for I know they are powerful and quick to accomplish their ends.  They arrive in my consciousness equipped to demonstrate themselves, and I give them my loving attention.  God’s Ideas functioning within me are my only source of power, health and peace. These alone make my life victorious and undaunted.  I meet every hour of this day with a deep inner conviction that I am spiritually able to handle every situation with poise.  Order prevails; love is in control; and peace is the result.

I face all problems with inspiration and an expectancy of handling them with ease.  I know that from a center within me, I control the events around me.  I am calm and victorious at the center, and therefore my world is calm and victorious at the circumference.  Christ is me is my hope of glorious achievement, and around me all things work together for good.  Inspired by Divine Mind, I act with wisdom in all matters.  Enfolded in Divine love, I handle all personalities with love and understanding.  Undaunted by things and people, I am always in control of my life, and victory is forever mine.  Today is the day of Spiritual Victory.  

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

AUGUST 9

I CONTROL MY THOUGHT

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.

Habakkuk 1:13

Free will does not mean that wrong thinking is justifiable.  Infinite Mind created man a free soul in order that man might experiment with varying combinations of right ideas.  I am free to think in all possible ways about the good, the true and the perfect.  There are endless possibilities of right thinking and of right action.  I now assume dominion of my mind and emotions, and dedicate them to positive goals.  I enjoy the infinite variety of Divine ideas, and I contemplate their possibilities of making me a new creature expressing spiritual discernment.

My faith in God is so great that I have no faith in evil.  I cannot conceive of evil’s power, for I know that God alone is power and is presence.  Life to me is an affirmative action of thought.  I think affirmatively this day, knowing that good is created, maintained and extended by so doing.  I drink of the living water of spiritual Truth, and am never thirsty for error again.  I eat of the heavenly manna of God’s Ideas, and never again hunger for old experiences.  I look forward with my mind and create good ahead of me.  I do this deliberately, for my future will be the result of my thinking today.

God’s thoughts are now my thoughts, and good appears instantly wherever I look. Thinking rightly of God and of man is a joyous and easy accomplishment.  My mind is centered in heaven and good is established in my earth.  Ideas of good appear in my consciousness continuously, and I give them free action through me.  I am in full control of my own destiny, and I now create good alone.  Recognizing only the one true Source of my thinking, I experience only the one possible effect in my experience – the effect of good.  Controlled, poised and sure, I see God everywhere as I think His thoughts with Him.  

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

AUGUST 8

MY FAITH IN GOD IS GREAT

Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Psalm 90:2

The Mind which conceived me is with me.  The Power which has brought me this far attends me all the way.  Heaven is where I am and Love fills my environment.  All power is in action through me and I accomplish my good works with ease.  I am as certain of these truths as I am of life itself.  There is no doubt or questions in my mind.  I know a perfect God, a complete Mind and a definite Law.  I do not go to It, for I am already in It.  I do not seek It, for I already have all that God is and can ever be.

Having accepted this full understanding of Truth, I now live in such a way that I prove my faith.  I dedicate my thought to true and positive ideas.  I dedicate my feelings to Divine Love and Divine Understanding.  I let my human ego become as nothing, for I desire that only the Christ Ideas govern my life.  I rise steadfastly out of all pettiness in human relationships.  I live as a Spiritual Being, and I acknowledge all with whom I live, play and work as Sons of God.  I face the future with joy, for I see idea after idea unfolding in perfect order.  The future will be good, and I now have health, peace of mind, and security.

My universe is alive with good, and I have dismissed evil forevermore.  I know that I am upheld, and maintained by God, and by God alone.  I know that my thought demonstrates instantly the desires of my heart.  I have faith in all that is good and true.  I have faith in a protecting Presence and an indwelling Power.  Today, I rejoice and am glad. 

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