Feb. 03, 2021 – I AM SECURE FOR I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN ME

FEBRUARY 3   

I AM SECURE FOR I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN ME   

He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.  Psalm 1:3

The omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence and Omniaction of God as Infinite Mind are the security of man. These eternal verities sustain us at every instant and in every place.  They are ours in days of good cheer; they are ours in times of despair.  They are never lost; they are merely forgotten in our confusion.  We are not under the law of material problems and world beliefs.  We are under the Law of the Spirit which maintains us in freedom and peace.  All that God is, is around us and within us, and is eternally asking of us that we recognize It.  Jesus had the capacity to recognize God where those around him were recognizing evil.  We, too, must see the possibility of God, rather than the impossibilities that the world believes.  Our security lies in this ability to know Truth regardless of conditions, and Love regardless of hurts.

All that God is, is now alive in my world, my body and my mind.  This Presence and Power is real to me this day, and I rest in Its eternal embrace.  I am secure for His Mind thinks through me, and His Love enfolds me.  I am not afraid of any negative situation, for I know that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.  Nothing can disturb me, for Divine Order is now established in my mind and perfect Peace now fills my heart.  There are no impossibilities today, for God is my eternal possibility of greater good, greater love and greater health.   

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

Feb. 02, 2021 – I GIVE THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYER

FEBRUARY 2   

I GIVE THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR THE ANSWER TO MY PRAYER   

His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.  Psalm 1:2

The Law of Mind never fails.  Even when It delivers to us the things and conditions we do not like, It has still functioned perfectly.  Our use of It determines our experience, and wise is the man who only thinks rightly.  Prayer scientifically understood, is a statement of Spiritual Fact.  It convinces us that good alone is true, and right alone is victorious.  As we are convinced of these facts, the results are brought into our lives by the Law of Life.  The Psalmist advises us to delight in the Law of the Lord, which is the Law of Mind.  He suggests that we think about this Law both day and night.  We may have what we want, but we must think it definitely and continuously, in order to have it made manifest.  Thanksgiving in prayer is vital, for it makes us believe that we already have our good.  When the idea is established within us, it then takes form around us.

I give thanks that there is a perfect Law of Mind, and that I am able to use it.  God responds to me as I respond to Him. I now turn to the indwelling Spirit and affirm Its presence.  I know that every true desire of my heart is being established unto me today.  I place these desires in the Law of Good, and rejoice that Its perfect action is now taking place in me, around me, and through me.  All this day I remind myself that my demonstrations already are made.  I give thanks in advance for the answers to my prayers.  My whole being is open and receptive to that good which is now arriving on my doorstep.  I rest in the Law and meditate upon Its accuracy.

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

Feb. 01, 2021 – I AM ESTABLISHED IN RIGHT THINKING, AND NO ONE CAN CONFUSE ME THIS DAY

FEBRUARY 1   

I AM ESTABLISHED IN RIGHT THINKING, AND NO ONE CAN CONFUSE ME THIS DAY   

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. 

Psalm 1:1

The “ungodly” are those who perceive, accept and describe evil.  Unfortunately there are many people whom we meet each day who are in such states of consciousness.  Unless we are exceptionally careful of the ideas accepted by us, we shall let a few false ones slip into the back corners of our mind.  Gradually this infiltration makes an impression, and we become discouraged and feel that all men are out to defraud us.  As students of Truth, we know that this is not true, and that we must perceive the Truth operating through our fellowman.  We are faced with the necessity of finding God in man, for people around us are born of the Mind and Love of God that we are, and our knowledge of this will set us free from any negation that comes our way.  Our offices, homes and activities are filled with the sons and daughters of God.  We must do all that we can to actually know and experience this.

Because I believe that God is omnipresent as Life, Love and Wisdom, I now see these spiritual qualities alive in everyone with whom I live and work.  Every individual in my world is a son of God, a creative expression of Divine Love.  Each one offers to me only that which is good, creative and true.  All else is as nothing to me, for I know that I am established in a perfect Mind, where all is order, peace and right action.  There is no confusion, for God is the eternal Peace of my soul.  I see this within myself, and I seek this same Peace within my fellowman. God within me, God within each one I meet this day.  All is good in my world.     

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

Sunday Worship Experience – January 31, 2021

Rev. Sherri James

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Sermon Title

I AM in Charge of My Healing

Scripture

Luke 15:17-18 “But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! I will get up and go to my father…'”

Sermon Notes

Thesis: I think, feel, speak, act and react like whatever has my attention. The healing that seems to elude me is simply a matter of who and what has my attention. A mind focused on health produces health; a mind focused on wealth produces wealth.

Point #1: I combine with what I notice.
Point #2: My healing is not waiting on outer conditions.
Point #3: Only notice and identify with the things of God.

Healing Treatment: My healing is in my hands. All power and authority in Heaven and on Earth have been given to me. I now send the pure white light of Christ through my body to heal every cell, every tissue, every fiber. Everything in my body now works the way it was designed to work. I AM in perfect health because I AM health. I am filled from end to end with the Living Energy of the One Power and One Presence. These words set up a healing vibration at the center of my being that radiates outward, healing everything in its path. I am well! I am well! I AM well!

Jan. 31, 2021 – I RELEASE EVERY TENSION OF MIND AND BODY

JANUARY 31 

I RELEASE EVERY TENSION OF MIND AND BODY

Release and ye be relaxed.  Luke 6:37

Today I release all thoughts of fear from my mind.  Today I lay down the burden of carrying the load of responsibility for life for myself or for others.  Today I relax all sense of strain.  I remember that Emerson said “The universe remains to heart unhurt”; that Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled.”  Therefore, I lay all trouble aside, seeking to look through it, beyond it, above it; to detach it from the realm of Reality, to separate it from any consciousness that it belongs to me or to anyone else, regardless of what any problem of the moment seems to be.

Today I proclaim my divine inheritance.  I am rich with the riches of God.  I am strong with the power of God.  I am guided by the wisdom of God.  I am held in the goodness of God.  I arise and return unto my Father’s house.  Knowing that the Law of God operates through my word, that is, through my thought or faith, upon my expectancy and acceptance I speak my word.

I align myself with the powers of goodness and of right action.  I abide in perfect and complete faith in God as my ever-present good.  I take up no arms to fight, realizing that light is immune to darkness, that the night has no power over the day, that dawn dissipates the shadows of midnight.  I turn my attention to the Light Eternal, without struggle, realizing that the Light, shining through the dark places of my consciousness, will dissipate them and that I shall walk in the Light in which there is no darkness.  Not only shall I walk in this Light, I shall radiate it.  I shall impart it to others.  I shall remember the saying, “Let your light so shine before men that they, seeing your good works, shall glorify your Father which art in heaven.”  I shall remember that the Father which art in heaven is in that heaven which is within me.

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

Jan, 30, 2021 – I KNOW THAT EVERY APPARENT DEATH IS RESURRECTION, THEREFORE GLADLY I DIE TO EVERYTHING THAT IS UNLIKE GOOD

JANUARY 30 

 I KNOW THAT EVERY APPARENT DEATH IS RESURRECTION, THEREFORE GLADLY I DIE TO EVERYTHING THAT IS UNLIKE GOOD

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.  Psalm 23:4

Unhappy is he who mistakes the branch for the tree, the shadow for the substance.  The Talmud

Gain for yourselves, ye sons of Adam, by means of these transitory things which are not yours, that which is your own, and passeth not away. Fragments of a Faith Forgotten

We are told that we must gain a knowledge of that which cannot pass away.  The Talmud says that unhappy conditions arise when we mistake shadow for substance.  Even the valley of the shadow of death causes no fear when we arrive at the consciousness of the Psalmist who, from the exaltation of his Divine deliverance, proclaimed “… thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”  The rod and the staff of truth is the realization of the substantiality and the permanence of that which cannot change.  We are ever renewed by the passage of the Divine Light through our consciousness of wholeness into our physical organism and into every objective act, when we give the realization of the Divine Presence free passage through our thought.  Emerson tells us that in these moments we are conscious that we as isolated beings are nothing, but that the Light is all.  Thus he admonishes us to get our “bloated nothingness” out of the way of the Divine Circuit.  How wonderful to realize this possibility to which he refers – nonresistance and nonburden.  Let us, then, learn to let the burden slip from the shoulders of personal responsibility and enter into our divine union with enthusiasm.

I know that every apparent death is a resurrection.  Therefore, gladly, today, I die to everything that is unlike the good.  Joyfully I am resurrected into that which is beautiful, enduring and true.  Silently I pass from less to more; from isolation into inclusion; from separation into oneness.

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

Jan. 29, 2021 – I SHALL SEE HIM REFLECTED IN EVERY FORM, BACK OF EVERY COUNTENANCE MOVING IN EVERY ACT

JANUARY 29   

I SHALL SEE HIM REFLECTED IN EVERY FORM, BACK OF EVERY COUNTENANCE MOVING IN EVERY ACT   

The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.  Job 33:4

Thou hast begotten the Man in Thy self-born Mind, and in Thy Reflection and Conception.  He is the man begotten of Mind, to whom Reflection gave form.  Thou hast given all things to the Man.  Fragments of a Faith Forgotten

We created man: and we know what his soul whispereth to him, and we are closer to him than his neck-vein.  The Koran

After long meditation and much deep reflection, having passed through the confusion of human experience, Job finally arrived at the conclusion that the Spirit of God was within him, and that the breath of God was his life.  We all have traveled this same pathway of experience; the journey of the soul to “the heights above,” and always there has been a deep inquiry in our minds – what is it all about?  Does life make sense?  What is the meaning of birth, human experience, and the final transition from this plane, which we call death?  Somewhere along the line we too much exclaim with Job, “The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life!” With the Koran we must realize that the Divine is closer to us even than our physical being.  Nothing can be nearer to us than that which is the very essence of our own being.  Our external search after Reality culminates in the greatest of all possible discoveries – Reality is at the center of our own being.  Life is from within out.  We must no longer judge according to appearances, but, rather, base our judgments on the assumption that the God-Mind dwells within us; proclaims or reflects Itself through us into every act.  Thus the search after Reality culminates in the realization of the ever-present good.  The search at this point, should cease, and we should at once enter into our Divine inheritance, no longer as searchers after, but now as users of, the highest gift of heaven.

I feel that my search is over.  I feel that I have discovered the Great Reality, and today I shall speak this Reality into every experience I have.  I shall see Him reflected in every form, back of every countenance, moving in every act.

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

Jan. 28, 2021 – TODAY MY HEART IS WITHOUT FEAR; I HAVE IMPLICIT CONFIDENCE IN THE GOOD, THE ENDURING AND THE TRUE

JANUARY 28   

TODAY MY HEART IS WITHOUT FEAR; I HAVE IMPLICIT CONFIDENCE IN THE GOOD, THE ENDURING AND THE TRUE   

Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.  Psalm 27: 1,3

When one cherishes no fear of anything, when one is not feared by anything, when one cherishes no desire, when one bears no hate, then is one said to have attained to the state of Brahma.  The Mahabharata

Holiness is the best of all good.  Happy, Happy the man who is holy with perfect holiness! … The will of the Lord is the law of holiness.  The Zend-Avesta

Fear is the only thing we shall be afraid of.  It is not the host encamped against us, nor the confusion of war around us, that we need to fear; it is a lack of confidence in the good which alone should cause concern.  Through inner spiritual vision we know that evil is transitory but good is permanent.  We know that right finally dissolves everything opposed to it.  In confidence, then, and with a calm sense of peace, we know that the truth never fails to win every issue.  The power of good is with us.  The Power of the Spirit is supreme over every antagonist.  Then we should cherish no fear, and when we neither fear nor hate we come to understand the unity of life, and then, our lesson tells us, we have attained to the state of Brahma (conscious union with God).  Thus the Zend-Avesta tells us that “holiness is the best of all good,” and it hastens to add that there is no difference between the Law of Holiness (Wholeness) and the Divine Will.  In other words, since the Nature of God is peace, then the Will of God is toward peace; since the Nature of God is love, then the Will of God is toward love – “Who knows not love, knows not God, for God is love.”

Today my heart is without fear.  I have implicit confidence in the good, the enduring and the true.  I enter into conscious union with the Spirit.  I am happy, whole and complete in my Divine Self.  Therefore, with joy I enter into the activities of the day and with confidence I look forward to tomorrow.    

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

Jan. 27, 2021 – I BLESS EVERYTHING AND KNOW THAT ALL GOOD WILL MULTIPLY IN MY EXPERIENCE

JANUARY 27   

I BLESS EVERYTHING AND KNOW THAT ALL GOOD WILL MULTIPLY IN MY EXPERIENCE 

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful bearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.  James 1:25

It (God) was not created in the past, nor is it to be annihilated in the future; it is eternal, permanent, absolute; and from all eternity it sufficiently embraces in its essence all possible merits.  The Mahayana

That itself on which all things depend, and from which every transformation arises!  Kwang-Tze

James tells us that we should look to the perfect law of liberty, follow its precepts and then we shall be blesses in our deeds.  This means to keep the eye single, or centered, on the Presence, the Power and the Responsiveness of Spirit.  The Law of God would have to be a law of liberty, since bondage could not come from freedom any more than death could be born of the principle of Life.  We often wonder why we are so limited, and too frequently project the blame for our limitations upon the universe itself.  This is a psychological trick which we play in ignorance of the true facts.  Limitation is not imposed upon us by the universe, but through our own ignorance.  Every discovery in science tends to prove this.  As Kwang-Tze says, all transformation, that is, every form, arises from the Invisible and takes temporary form in our experience.  Fortunately, none of these forms is permanent.  We should look upon them as the play of Life upon Itself.  In our own experience we are privileged by the Creative Wisdom to become co-creators in our personal affairs.  As our lesson says, the Divine Creative Spirit embraces every possible action.  No greater freedom could be found nor given, and we should daily open our consciousness to the Divine Influx, expecting greater wisdom, more definite guidance and more complete self-expression.

Today, I lift up my consciousness and receive a more abundant expression.  I bless everything and know that all good will multiply in my experience. I expect the good.  I live in a state of joyous anticipation, as well as quiet realization.

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

Jan. 26, 2021 – I BELIEVE IN DIVINE GUIDANCE AND I KNOW THAT UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS

JANUARY 26   

I BELIEVE IN DIVINE GUIDANCE AND I KNOW THAT UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS   

The eternal God is thy refuse, and underneath are the everlasting arms.  Deuteronomy 33:27

All this universe has the (Supreme) Deity for its life.  That Deity is Truth.  He is the Universal Soul.  Chhandogys Upanishad

But God will increase the guidance of the already guided.  The Koran

If God is our refuge, why is it that we refuse to avail ourselves of this divine security?  The Psalmist tells us that “the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him … in truth.”  This can have but one meaning.  We cannot call upon God in truth unless we enter into the Divine Nature in truth, that is, we cannot expect love to become hate, nor peace to enter into confusion.  If we could call upon God in truth, we must become like the truth.  This is the seemingly unfathomable mystery of the infinite, invisible Essence which surrounds us.  Jesus tells us that if we abide in Him, then His words will abide in us, and we shall ask for anything that we will and it shall be done unto us.  The everlasting arms are beneath but they bear us up only when we enter into the truth.  The Koran tells us that God increases our guidance once we have guidance.  This is a mystical (mystical does not mean mysterious, it means an intuitive perception) way of saying that if we believe in Divine Guidance, then we will be divinely guided.  “Act as though I am, and I will be.”  “Believe and it shall be done unto you.”

Today I believe in Divine Guidance.  Today I believe that underneath are the everlasting arms.  Today I rest in this divine assurance and this divine security.  I know that not only all is well with my soul, my spirit and my mind; all is well with my affairs.

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