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AUGUST 4

TODAY I MAKE MY DEMONSTRATION

For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

Mark 4:22

There is just as much of God in this day as in any other.  There is no reason why I cannot make my demonstration now, if I am willing to discipline my thought and feeling.  All that God is is present in my world now.  All the ideas I need are in my consciousness now.  My thought, being the action of Infinite Mind, is all powerful.  I now accept my spiritual responsibility to make a definite demonstration.  No more vague thinking, and no more hoping that it will happen.  Today it will happen, for God is the only presence and the only power in my life.

Every hour is alive with God’s perfect action.  Infinite Mind is instantly and permanently available to me, for I am its beloved outlet.  I claim my good, and subconsciously accept my good.  That good is now appearing, and I train my eyes to see it, and my thought to expect it.  There is no delay to this action, for it is God’s action through me. There is nothing to prevent my demonstration, for all doubt is removed from my thought.  I am immersed in the perfect action of Mind which is already moving to complete my desire.

At this instant my good appears in orderly ways.  The Law of Mind accepts this demonstration as completed.  It has already accomplished every act necessary to its production.  I relax and let God do the work.  I hold my thought firmly to the completed idea.  I discipline my emotions to the accomplished mood.  I am absolutely certain that my idea is appearing in form.  I have full confidence in the Law.  My faith is complete, and my soul rejoices and gives thanks, now, that it is done.  Father-Mother God, I thank thee for this full demonstration now.   

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

AUGUST 3   

I REFUSE TO BE DISTURBED

Try constantly to keep the mind steady, remain in solitude, with mind and body free from desires and possessions.

The Bhagavad-Gita

The universe is always orderly, and my life in it should be one of order, harmony and peace.  This I now accept as truth.  Henceforth, no situation shall confuse me, for I will not accept confusion.  My mind, and only my mind, determines the appearance, the continuity and the end of confusion.  I know that I can think in terms of order, and that all ideas do unfold with order and ease. I am determined to live in peace this day.

My consciousness is at peace, for it is now rooted and grounded in God.  All my thinking is premised on God’s ideas.  Only good appears in my world, and all my reactions are now dedicated to good.  There is nothing in me to cause confusion, or to accept confusion from others.  I know that my thought determines my experience, and I now think rightly and lovingly about myself, my world and my fellowman.

My faith is great.  My peace is complete.  I see a Divine Order and a Divine Pattern in all situations.  I behold myself living with ease and in harmony with God and with man.  People react to me in orderly ways.  Every situation is a blessing to me and increases my good.  I move forward into larger experiences of prosperity, because my mind is clear and my goal is in sight.  No longer can the world tell me what to do.  I am poised and established in the One Mind, and nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.  I declare peace, and peace is mine, for God responds to me as I think His way.  I assume that my world, in all its ways, is filled with right action.  I live in faith and I demonstrate order with ease.    

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

AUGUST 2 

I AM HEALED OF WORRY

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just live by his faith.

Habakkuk 2:4

Faith in God, the Good, is natural to man.  Instinctively man knows that the Mind which created him works through him.  I now declare my faith in God, and I prove this faith through my actions.  My full attention is now devoted to seeing good everywhere and in all people.  I know that within me God upholds my search for Truth and guides me all the way.  I know that the Divine Plan for me is in action; and I have complete trust in God.  Only good surrounds me, and only good comes to me.  I am assured of perfect peace and complete prosperity, for I fear not.

I refuse to worry this day.  Despite all the negatives that may claim my attention, I shall not deviate from my affirmations of faith.  One Power alone is active within me and my affairs.  One mind alone rules and governs my life.  Nothing but God is true, and nothing but good will happen.  The Lord is with me and upholds me in every situation.  Everything that needs to be done, shall be done, on time and with ease. Every need will be met by the Spirit, which works through me.  God in me is equal to every demand made upon Him.  I am certain of this.

I trust the great Law of mind to bring my demonstrations to pass without any worry on my part.  I declare the Truth and the Law produces the Truth in my world.  Never again will I question my own ability to make my demonstrations.  God honors my thought, and the Law produces it.  Calmly I face today, and declare it to be the best day I have ever known.  My good is where I am, and it is now revealing itself to me.  Freed of worry and filled with faith, I have a heavenly experience today.

AUGUST 1       

I AM CAUSE NOT EFFECT

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

Job 13:18

God made man in His own image and likeness, and I am that man now.  God is the Creator of heaven and earth, so I am the creator of my own heaven and my own earth.  I stand in the midst of my own consciousness and assume control.  No longer am I acted upon by my world.  I now am cause to my world. I act in mind, and my world reacts in matter in direct response to my demand.  I am cause, not effect.  I am Spirit releasing Itself into form under freedom.  With my new sense of spiritual responsibility, I create in my experience blessings for myself and good for my fellowman.

Having taken my stand as the cause of my own experience, I know create the unique, the unusual and the different in my world.  God’s Ideas are always new Ideas.  They never repeat.  With my consciousness acting in its true place in the Divine Mind, all things are made new and fresh in my world.  Old patterns of routine and monotony are demolished, and a new mental structure of flexibility and ease is mine.  I let go of the past with joy.  I accept the responsibility of right thinking in the present, and I expect only new forms of good in the future.

I act upon the plastic substance of the universe with intelligence and authority.  My world cannot make me sick, poor or unhappy.  My world has no power or authority over me.  I tell it what to do, and it does it.  As I think the Ideas of God, heaven appears as my world.  Health, happiness and peace are mine today, because in my freedom to use God’s law of mind, I create them and rejoice in them.

JULY 30      

I HAVE JOY

Sorrow is turned into joy before Him … Thou hast put gladness in my heart … Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast put off my sack cloth, and girded me with gladness. 

Job 41:22; Psalms 4:7; 30:11

We cannot conceive of the Spirit as sad or depressed.  There is ever a song at the center of everything.  This song is reflected in all nature, turning “mourning into dancing.”  To put off my sackcloth means turning to a complete reliance on the Divine.  To be girded with gladness means to cover ourselves with the threefold nature of good.  This is a symbol of Divine protection.  Turning the mind to God and recognizing the omnipresence of Love, causes us to rejoice, as we recognize that in Him (pure Spirit) we live, move and have our being.

I know that happiness is God’s will for me and for everyone.  I also know that I cannot gain happiness without giving it; therefore I do not expect to be happy unless I make others glad.  I radiate happiness to everyone.  There is a sense of joy at the center of my being which everyone will feel.  There is no insecurity in this happiness, no sense of impoverishment or fear, no feeling of doubt.

Today I turn from everything that depresses, and sing a song of praise, of gratitude and of joy.  I am going forth to meet joy, singing the song of the triumph of Spirit over all apparent negation.

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

JULY 29

I HAVE HEALTH

The Lord will take away from thee all sickness … I am the Lord that healeth thee. 

Deuteronomy 7:15; Exodus 15:26

Health is a state of wholeness in mind and in body.  The body is the servant of the mind, and the mind is the offspring of pure Spirit.  Thus the Bible tells us that we are spirit, soul (or mind) and body.  These three really are one, and are supposed to work in perfect unison with each other.  They do this when the mind lifts its countenance to the Spirit, permitting Its flow of harmony, unity and beauty a clear passageway.  The body will always reflect this inner poise.

Realizing that the Source of all being is within and at the center of my own being, I consciously unite myself with this center and with this Source.  I expect to be made whole.  I expect to radiate health and vitality wherever I go.  It is my will, my desire and my acceptance that I be made whole.

Today I know that my health, my physical well-being, as well as my mental poise and peace are drawn from an infinite Source of perfection.  Today I know that the Lord, the Law of Good, is the healing Presence of life forever restoring my mind and my physical being.  I pray to, or commune with, this Spirit within me.  Thus I am made whole.

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

JULY 28

I GIVE THANKS

O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.  Isaiah 25:1

Praise and thanksgiving are salutary.  They not only lighten the consciousness, lifting it out of sadness and depression; they elevate consciousness to a point of acceptance.  Praise and thanksgiving are really attitudes of recognition.. They are affirmations of the Divine Presence, the Divine abundance and the Divine givingness.  It is only when we live affirmatively that we are happy.  It is only when we recognize that the universe is built on affirmation that we can become happy.

I give thanks for my happiness.  It cannot be taken away from me; rather, it increases daily in my experience.  It is always more and never less.  I experience the joy in which Jesus proclaimed when he said, “I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.” I bless everything I contact.  I praise God in all things.

Today, through praise and thanksgiving, I recognize the Divine Presence in everything.  In the midst of darkness I shall sing a song to the dawn, for I know that the eternal Light dissipates all darkness.  Today I shall recognize the beautiful and the perfect in everything.  I shall call it forth with praise and thanksgiving, blessing the Spiritual Reality back of all things.

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

JULY 27

I RECEIVE MY GOD

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 

Matthew 7:7

How can we receive what the mind refuses to entertain?  Should we not, then, consciously develop the ability to receive more?  We make life little and mean and limit our own possibilities when we refuse to accept the whole gift of God.  We should open our consciousness to a receptivity of the Divine.  There will never be any point of saturation because God is infinite.  We cannot contract the Infinite, but we can expand the finite.

“The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart.”  Realizing that God has placed the power of life in my own mind, today I am resolved to use this power in accord with the nature of the Divine Mind.  I shall no longer look for God in some distant place, but shall find Him directly at the center of my own being.

Today I ask and know that I shall receive.  Today I seek and know that I shall find. Today I knock and know that shall be opened unto me.  But what is it that I ask for?  What is it that I really seek?  It is to discover God in everything, to see the Divine manifest in everyone, to come into close and conscious communion with Life.  Today, then, I receive the gift of God in its fullness, unstinted, complete.

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

JULY 26   

I AM INTUITIVE

Before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking I will hear. 

Isaiah 65:24

Intuition is not a product of the intellect nor is it something which developed in the process of our evolution.  It is a thing itself.  That which is instinct in the animal, blindly, unerringly leading it to food, water and shelter, becomes intuition in man, consciously perceived.  Instinct is intuition acting unconsciously; intuition is instinct elevated to the point of self-awareness.  They are identical.  Intuition is Omniscience acting omnipresently; therefore, whether or not we believe it, it is ever present with us.

Today I know that the presence of Divine Mind in me will guide me aright.  It will set me on the path of right action.  It will direct my footsteps.  It will counsel my mind.  Today I am aware that there is a light which dispels ignorance, fear, superstition and doubt, and sets me, safe and sane, on the pathway of Truth.

I feel that my being is so close to the Divine that there is no separation whatsoever.  “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”  Knowing that I abide in the Spirit of truth and that the Spirit of Truth abides in me, today I open my whole consciousness to Divine Guidance.  I realize that my entire being is in the hands of a higher Power, that my thought is molded by the Divine Will, that my mind responds completely to the indwelling Presence which is God.  

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