Sermon Review (Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008)

I am only going to summarize one section of Sunday's sermon: Getting The Most Out Of Your Reading.

STEP 1	Begin with the introduction of the book. Continue reading until some idea inspires and motivates you. Mark the page and STOP READING.
STEP 2	Make a decision to implement that idea in your life every day for one week.
STEP 3	Continue reading, from where you left off, until you find another idea that motivates, excites and or inspires you. Mark the page and STOP READING.
STEP 4	Repeat Step #2

It may take you an entire year to get through one book, but you will have lived that book rather than merely read the book. Furthermore, you will experience the practical power of those ideas because you are putting them into action. You can apply this same formula to a Sunday sermon. Simply take the one idea that inspires you the most and live it until next Sunday. A sermon lived is far better than a sermon preached.

Highlighting Hopkins On-Healing

To be seized with the idea that a man needs healing is to be seized with an accusation against him. He does not need healing. You need to drop an imagination. You need to stop accusing the son of God of being unwholesome. As God pronounced the man good there must be something ailing your ideas if you do not see him as God sees him. The whole secret of healing is to see no disease in anyone because God sees none. Who shall save us from our disease except Him that seeth no disease in us.

Highlighting Hopkins-It's All Good

Again, I started this series so that you can see the lessons the founders of Unity received from Emma Curtis Hopkins. Remember her writing style is typical of the late 1800's

Another topic that the mind is not to descend into thinking or the voice into speaking about, is that there is anything against anyone or anything. Whoever says opium is dangerous, or compositions of minerals are offensive, is descending from the ideal reasonings of God, who pronounced all things good. No one shall speak against the climate, the draughts, the actions of earth's creatures, for he who would see them good must think along the thoughts of God. We shall not permit the lowering of the mind's holy reasonings into the thought or the talk of sin in the world or in ourselves. Sin is not a theme we can give any thought to. Many a good reasoner in Science wonders why his thoughts do not live and thrive at the harbors of demonstration where he halted them. He may remember that yesterday or last week, he descended into the idea of the selfishness of Mary, or the jealousy of James, or his own temper gave him regret. A fall of the barometer of reasoning must chill the delicate process of demonstration.

Sermon Summary--The Economy

• If you are feeling fearful about the economy, remember "God has not given you the spirit of fear..." As there is no fear in God and no God in fear, the fear that you seem to feel can't be and is not real.
• More money in an anxiety-ridden hand is like having no money at all. The first order of business is not getting more money; but rather experiencing the PEACE that is native to your God nature. "Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee." Keep your mind stayed on the highest Truth(s) of God you know (or have faith in).
• Read over the promises of God in the Bible. They apply to you, since God is no respecter of persons. Do a Google search for "promises of God" in quotation marks. There is a good one that lists the promises of God by category. Read them slowly.
• All economic theories are based on the fictitious notion that there is not enough. All you need to know about "not enough" is that it is a LIE about MORE THAN ENOUGH. Infinity is the measure of existence. As God is the Substance of all Form, for there to really be not enough, there would have to be a shortage of God--Infinity.
• All it takes is just 1 person to turn their eyes away from the appearance of lack and FOCUS on God's Infinite Substance to see the evidence of God's Abundance. And it helps to turn your ears away too.

Highlighting E.C. Hopkins-No Suffering

It is related of a soldier in the East Indies that his comrades threw a basin of hot soup into his bosom to test his patience after his conversion to Christianity. He had been a prize-fighter, and they hoped he would fight at this insult. He, however, looked up calmly and said, "This is what I must expect if I become a Christian." Well, who taught him to "seek and find" such things as that? Was he not rather bending like a reed under the wind of a popular opinion of the Christian walk than standing straight up like a pillar of faith with the early proclamation, "I do not believe in violence and hardship?" "They that seek Me early shall find Me." Who is this "Me" the soldier might have found? "The Prince of Peace." He had a right to the peace of God. Does God suffer? Then remember it is not Godlike to suffer. Those who are most like God suffer least.

Highlighting Hopkins--Truths To Contemplate

(by Emma Curtis Hopkins teacher of the Fillmores)

Has anyone found himself glad to be told that reformatories and prisons are no use because they are founded on a belief that in God's house there is evil? In Truth there are no criminals. In Spirit there is no need of prisons and reformatories. Spirit and Truth are all. Shall we then close up our prisons and reformatories? Our first duty is to know the truth about them. "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free." It is not for you to touch externals. You are to know what is true. This is your whole business in life. Knowledge of Truth is its own demonstration. All things are coming to the world by its knowledge of Truth. It is considered a virtue by some people to build hospitals and schools for the carrying out of man's belief in the absence of God. It is not virtue. It is better to enter into the closet and be still to know God. God is Truth; Truth will redeem the nations from pain. Therefore speak Truth. Truth is peace. Therefore speak Truth.

Highlighting Hopkins--Human Will

I've decided to add the "Highlighting Hopkins" column to our blog. The Hopkins I'm referring to is Emma Curtis Hopkins, the teacher of Unity's founders Charles and Myrtle Fillmore. My purpose is to give you a glimpse of the teachings they received during their coursework with Ms. Hopkins. Below is from one of her Bible studies.

Some people are not honestly interested in the Science of Spirit for a long time. Their thoughts are all wound and twisted around material things. They only think of the Spiritual teaching in the hope to get material gains of some kind. Now, for a long time the most extraordinary blessings attend them. Their eyes are healed. Their backs are strengthened. Their families are healthy. But there is one thing that still seems to refuse to yield to all their thoughts about Spirit. They were so filled with hope at first that they rather ignored that one unchanged condition. But by and by it is thrust uppermost in their mind and thy actually feel cross at the Science for not fixing up that one point. This unmanageable condition stands for the human will. That human will is still set to material issues. It is cross-grained to Spirit. Here is an affair that never will to the way you want it. Your want must be changed; for the want is simply your ugly will. At this point Jesus Christ said we ought to take our mind entirely away from caring whether it were brought to pass or not. The dissolution of the human will is demanded. It has been an ugly clog in the passageway where some wonderful idea was meant to flow through.

Highlights From the Q & A Service

First "Thank you" for being courageous enough to ask your questions. And Donna, a particular thanks to you for getting the ball rolling. I was thrown by one question and another haunted me on my drive home. The question that haunted me was Roslyn's: "How come we don't see anyone doing the works of Christ Jesus?" Don't be fooled. People are doing some amazing things, but what happens is that they begin to retreat from society. Why? Because when they share their stories, no one believes them. As the so-called supernormal become more normal for these people, they find it more difficult to share what is most meaningful in their lives, and usually retreat to a monastic lifestyle. But Roslyn didn't ask the Ultimate question which is, "Why is it that it seems no one is as dedicated to Truth as Christ Jesus?" It was C.J.'s unwavering devotion to knowing and Being Truth that showed forth as superhuman ability. People seem to want the ability without the devotion. Won't happen! The other question was Terri's: "What does that look like?" Although a good question it caught me by surprise. The practice of Truth is nothing more than the acknowledgment of God as the only Presence, Power, Mind, Life, Substance and Activity. Have you ever complemented a woman on the pretty dress she was wearing? The complement was not to change the attire, it was simply an acknowledgment of what IS (was). Truth acknowledged cannot be to change what appears to be. It must be to merely acknowledge what IS according to God's absolute Allness. The Mind of God only acknowledges God.

Testimonial Times

Although our packed schedule didn't allow for testimonials last Sunday, "Testimonial Times" follows our announcements each Sunday. If you have something to share (consistent with our teachings), please do.

Sermon Recap

• All condemnation is a denial of God being the only Presence and the only Power.
• Because the kingdom of problem-free living is constituted of God's Allness, condemnation is a denial of the presence of the very life you "desire" to experience.
• Praise is the very opposite of condemnation. Praise is the recognition of God's Presence and God's Power. In order to praise rather than condemn, you just as Christ Jesus said, "judge not according to the appearance."
• Before you complete a condemning remark, STOP and quickly pray, "Of myself I can do nothing, God judge this (person, situation, etc.) through me, and as me."
• Here's a great little help. The prayer above seems like a mouthful in times of emotional upheaval, find ONE WORD that symbolizes that prayer for you. Your word will not be my word.

Demonstration

One very famous spiritual teacher offers this as the "secret" to demonstration. Can you tell me who it is? More than guessing the author, try living the principle. I have learned a great secret. I have learned how to demonstrate, I have learned how to make Science a thing of life, not of words. I am going to tell you what the secret is, and it is wonderful. It is this: Not to see or hear or repeat any kind of imperfection. It is seeing and hearing and repeating good only, at all times and under all circumstances, and in spite of everything that appears to the contrary. I make this resolve every morning, when I first open my eyes, and I renew it every hour of the day. I see perfection in myself in my friends, in my so-called enemy, in my affairs and in world affairs. I take my radical stand for the perfection of God and everything and for everything and everybody He has created. I look upon the world with God's eyes and see it just as He sees it, and I refuse to see it in any other way. I stop a dozen times a day, and renew the resolve, and make sure that I am not repeating error or giving way to criticism. I watch my thoughts about people, the lame, the old, the unloved to sense that I pass in the street, stray animals, I except nothing. I have taken my radical stand for perfection and I will not, absolutely will not, relax this perfect standard. The result has been simply marvelous. Try it and you will find that you forget your glasses; they will become unnecessary. You will be seeing with God's eyes, His perfect sight, and you will behold a perfect universe, the outward condition of your inward thinking. To change the picture you must change the sight that produced the picture.

Sermon Summary

Sunday's sermon "Finding the Christ in Yourself" was pregnant with good information, but there was one point that I want to stress in this summary. As you recall, this sermon was based on a chapter from our "Book of the Month" selection. In it, Emily Cady writes, "You want to manifest the perfect Christ, affirm with all your heart and soul that you do so manifest now that you manifest health and strength and love and Truth and power." Stop trying to become the Christ, or develop into the Christ. Acknowledge that you are the Christ right now. A human identity will never become other than what it is, but you are NOT a human identity. YOU ARE THE CHRIST. Claim it. How can you expect to evidence your Christ power, if you continually deny that you are already the Christ? Claim now and forever that you are demonstrating the fulness of your Christ power. Claim that you are able to see the kingdom of heaven right now. Claim that all the Power of God is moving in you and AS you right now. That's what Jesus did. Claim that you can multiply loaves and fish. Claim that you can still the storms. Claim that you are LOVING unconditionally right now.

The University of Divine Revelation

In a twenty-minute sermon, you can't cover any topic thoroughly. Below are just two essential points not covered:

• When asking any question of you God-Consciousness, the answer may not come during the "listening" phase of your silence. The answer may come later during the day, when you are involved in some other activity. However, the listening paves the way for the answer to "surface" whenever it does. Don't skip the silent listening.
• How long do you "listen?" Once listening becomes effortful, it is time to stop. This means that your silent time can be one minute to one hundred minutes. Efforting is counterproductive.

Testimonial Times

Starting Sunday (September 28), I will incorporate "Testimonial Times," immediately following the sermon. This will be the time for you to share your story of how you are living the principles you are learning at Unity in Silver Spring. I've decided to incorporate this into our worship time because for weeks Pat (my sister) has had a testimony to share and I keep forgetting about it. However, if "Testimonial Times" is built into the service, your testimony cannot be forgotten.

God's Will (sermon recap)

Here are the highlights from Sunday's sermon based on the text "Attaining the Unattainable," by Rev. Jim Rosemergy.

• God's will for you is constant prayer, or as the aspotle Paul wrote to "pray without ceasing." Remember, whenever you are acknowledging God's Presence and Power,you are praying. For example, when you see people on the street, at work, or in your home and you silently acknowledge, "I behold the Christ as you, here the life of God I see," you are praying. When you are in the midst of your busy-ness and you acknowledge that LOVE IS THE ONLY ACTIVITY, you are praying.
• Years ago when I was teaching a class and mentioned the necessity of constant prayer, one class member set his watch to alarm every hour. That was his signal to pray. You will find that constant prayer turns every hour to pure bliss.
• God's will for you is constant joy. Constant, uninterrupted joy. This is not a joy that is dependent on what you have and what you do not have. It is not a joy that is dependent on who you have and do not have. This JOY is independent of circumstances and conditions.
• Because constant joy is God's will for you, take a stand today for JOY. Refuse to accept anything less than Joy. Don't settle for anything less than joy. Remind yourself that God's will for you is joy and there is no other power.
• God's will is that you know God. Perhaps your prayers have been for the gifts of God and have ignored the giver. Now is the time, and today is the day that your prayers be focused on knowing the GIVER. And then, you will discover that you are not the recipient of God's will. You and God are one, and you are God in action.

Prosperity of Good Health (Sermon Overview)

Below are some of the highlights

from Sunday's sermon:

• God is not just the source of your Health, God is your Health. Mistakenly, we have related bodily health to diet, exercise, neutraceuticals, etc. However, God, which is the Substance of your Body is the source and essence of your Health.
• After reading the above, it is easy to see why the more you know and understand of God (by direct Revelation), the better your health. But this is only true if your Body in your understanding of God. How can we say God is all, if we leave the body out of the ALL?
• So, the "Touch Exercise" is most apropos here. It is a good thing (especially when bathing) to touch your body and remind yourself as you are touching, "This is the Substance that is the Presence of God. What is true of God is true as my body."
• Don't fight disease. Don't fight a diagnosis. Don't fight a prognosis. It is not your responsibility to fight the good fight. It is your responsibility to know that, "Pain, sickness, poverty, old age and death cannot master you, because they are not real." Only God, eternal Perfection is real.
• Everyday you are confronted with suggestions that your body is mortal and material. Everyday someone will identify your body with birth, death and age (unGodliness). Until you know that you are no longer swayed by those ideas. [What follows is a big step] Until your body shows no signs of sopping up these suggestions, it would be a good thing for you to DAILY contemplate the SPIRITUAL NATURE of your Body.

The Wedding Feast (sermon highlights)

The miracle at the wedding feast is chock full of prosperity lessons, but in this sermon I focused on just one: "As resource Substance is One, in use Substance is many."

• Divine Substance is the essence of all form. All form is Substance formed.

• There is only One Substance and only one property (and value) of Substance: what's true of God is true of ALL Substance regardless of the form.

It is a mistake to think that each form of Substance has its own separate property and value. Substance is one.

The Complete CD List For Mail Order

Finally we are ready to offer our sermons to those of you who would like to order them for your listening enjoyment and inspiration. So far, only the following sermons are available. When I have the full list, I will post.




Available Sermons ($10.00)

Prosperity 101

God's Debt Relief Program

Breaking Through Time and Space

Your Eternal Life

Miracle Mind/Miraculous Living

The Healing Trinity

How To Walk Water

The Real and the Fictitious

Unity in the Spirit

"The Secret" According To Christ

The Wedding Feast (Prosperity 102)

Career Passion and Purpose

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Career, Passion and Purpose (recap)

Here are a few highlights from Sunday's sermon:

• There is a unique "work" for you--a line of activity that is tailor made for you. Each person should be employed in work that makes their heart sing. I call this "work" your "Passion Action." Why? Because this is the work where you are a living bonfire of passion, excitement and enthusiasm when doing it.

• To find that work, it is best to first get in touch with your Life Purpose. As the Christ (God being You), it is your purpose, as was Christ Jesus', to "bear witness to Truth." In other words it is your Life Purpose to show forth God's presence in all that you say, do and be. And more than that, like Christ Jesus, it is your purpose to show forth God's Love, Peace, Wholeness and Abundance wherever you are. How? By being so clear that only God exists anywhere as all Power, Substance, Form and Identity that this spiritual clarity is visible as the only Experience.

• Once you accept this as your Life Purpose--even as it was Christ Jesus'--then it is easy to take the next step and discover your Passion Action.

• In James 1:5, it reads, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God..." It's simple. If you don't know what your right work is, then go directly to your All Knowing God Consciousness and ask, "What is it that I am supposed to do?" "What is my God appointed work?"

• You may have to ask this question many, many times followed by silent listening. Or, you may only have to ask it once. Whichever the case, just keep asking and listening until you KNOW. But be warned. When praying a prayer like this you must be open to DO what ever it is. You must be open to GO wherever it requires. You must be willing to be uprooted and rerooted into your Divine Appointment.

God's Debt Release Progam (sermon recap)

Here are some key ideas from Sunday's sermon.

• Behind all debt is the belief in lack. When people believe they lack the money to pay for something outright, they incur debt. With this in mind, the first step toward debt-free living is a CONSCIOUSNESS OF ABUNDANCE.

• Because God is all the Substance there is (and the only Substance), and that Substance is infinite, lack is only a belief and not a reality.

• There is a Spiritual Economy governed by Infinity. The law simply is: The supply always exceeds the demand. (remember Jesus and the loaves and fish?)

• Like each leaf on a tree is not dependent upon another leaf for its supply, you are not dependent upon another identity for your supply--be it loan officer, etc. As each leaf is dependent upon the light of the sun for its supply, you are dependent upon the Light of the I AM God Presence. Turn there first, last and always--first by recogning this to be your Source of all supply,and then by knowing you and the Source are one.

• Make a list of all the people who you say owe you something. It doesn't have to be money. It could be those you feel owe you more respect, more love, more attention, more affection, etc. In prayer, release them from this obligation. Set them free. For everything you are looking for from them turn to the Infinite I AM.

• Bless your creditors. As you pay your bills, bless your creditors by knowing God is their infinite, constant and abundant supply too. This simple blessing is powerful.

• You question is, "How do I get this Consciousness of abundance?" This is not a feat of mental gymnastics where you repeat some prosperity formula over and over again. No, this has to be done by Revelation. In prayer ask for understanding that God is your Supply. Ask for understanding on what that means. Whatever you are unsure about, simply ask.

Substance: The Foundation of Prosperity (recap)

Below are the basic ideas from Sunday's (July 13) sermon. What is written below, when put into practice, is enough for you to start prospering TODAY.

• God Is the only Substance. Everthing in this universe is made out of the Substance that is God's Presence--including MONEY.
• To blossom your understanding of Substance, it would be good to walk around your home touching various things. As you touch them, put out of your mind the "material" name of that object and REMIND yourself, "This is the spiritual substance that is the Presence of God."
• Start thinking of money as Substance.
• Remember, only what is TRUE of God is TRUE of SUBSTANCE. This means that Substance is right here, right now, all the time, and Substance is INFINITE.
• Understanding that your Prosperity is Divine Substance, and what is true of Substance is true of your Prosperity, you must realize that just as there is never a need for more God, there is never a need for more Prosperity. What appears as a need is really a need to have your eyes opened to SEE (perceive) the Infinite Substance that is right here, right now, right where you are.
• As your understanding of SUBSTANCE blossoms in your awareness, your understanding will appoint the right channels for your Prosperity. Leave the channels alone. Deal only with your understanding of Substance.
• In prayer, ask for an understanding that God is the Substance, essence and totality of your prosperity.
• Whatever words of Revelation are "given" to you, those are your words. Hold fast to them.

What I am about to write is very important. Saying mindless affirmations over and over again, hoping they will become true is not going to amount to much. When your words are given you, in prayer, you might have to REMIND yourself of them often, but as you do you are mindful that THEY ARE ALREADY TRUE.

Truth or Fiction

Here are highlights from last Sunday's sermon.

1. "Pain, sickness, poverty, old age and death cannot master you, for they are not real." (Lessons In Truth)
2. Your senses seem to say that all of the above are real, and yet your soul says only God and God's perfection are real. The only seeming challenge you have in life is resolving the discrepancy between what your soul says is real and what your senses seem to say is real.
3. Life mastery happens when you can ignore the testimony of the senses, and stand firm on God's Absolute allness.
4. People say this is difficult, but it is because they are sincerely trying from a human sense of identity. It is the Christ that knows the Truth and reveals that you are already and forever free from pain, sickness, poverty, old age and death.
5. The most important thing you can do is REALIZE (real in your eyes) your Christ (God as you) Identity as your only Identity. The more you realize your Christ Identity, the less you will seem to be bamboozled into believing that the false is real and that the Real is invisible.
6. Go into your prayer closet (as often as you feel led) and take these words with you, "I and my Father are one." Ask your God Consciousness for great understanding and clarity of these words. As your understanding increases, you are realizing and experiencing your Christ Identity. This simple practice will seem to lift your feet off of what appears to be the battlefield of life and will plant them solidly in the kingdom of heaven.

Live The Life/Walk The Talk (sermon recap)

I apologize that this past Sunday's sermon was not recorded. We will now implement preventative measures to insure that it never happens again. Here is a brief recap of the sermon's highlights.

If you want to live the power you read about in the Truth books, the first requirement is a right understanding of God.

Affirmations, denials and mental visualizations do not take the place of a right understanding of God gained through silent, God-focused prayer.

Whenever the going seems rough and you don't know what to do about it and don't know how to pray about it, DON'T PRAY ABOUT IT. Instead pray something similar to this, "God, what is it that I need to understand about you." [You may have to keep this up for awhile until the answer is revealed.]

All of our seeming problems have one thing in common. They represent a misunderstanding of the presence and nature of God. Clear up the misunderstanding by spiritual realization and there is no more problem

Be steadfast and unwavering TRUSTING that your spiritual principles are already true--even when things seem just the opposite.

Spiritual principles don't change because your situation seems to change. God remains all despite what you seem to be going through. Maintain that you move, live and have your being in and as the Perfection of God, rather than believe that you are going through something--no matter what that something appears to be.

You can never go wrong praying to see clearly that God is right here where the problem seems to be.

Miracles by Walter Lanyon

Many of you asked for Sunday's "Inspirational Reading." Here it is below.

Miracles

(from That They May Have)

The Day of Miracles is past also for the curious mind. There is no reason why the curious one should believe–it makes no difference, and certainly there is no possibility of a curious, unbelieving mind ever "seeing" anything that the "believing" mind knows as fact. God is not set up as a plaything of the vicious human mind that wants to PEEP and SEE and then try to figure it all out from his SCIENTIFIC basis of three-dimensional reasoning. Yes, the Day of Miracles is past for the human mind. As we look out on the picture just now we find the human thought has about run itself into a "ditch." After thousands of years of "learning" and trying to make things better it finds the entire world in flames and blood. BUT The Day of Miracles is here and now, when you arrive at the Consciousness of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.......When Jesus ascended to His Father within–the consciousness of his PERMANENT IDENTITY–then the great forces of Creation were able to play though His temple and the Day of Miracles came into being. Laws, conditions and happenings which had no human foundation, came into manifestation and the former things of discord and lack were proven to be illusion.

Healing Miracles Sermon Recap

• Spiritual healing is the result of clearly perceiving God's presence (Wholeness) right where disease seems to be.
• Christ Jesus healed the sick because HEALTH is the reality. Health is the will and the nature of God.
• It is natural for you to heal and to enjoy uninterrupted perfect health. When you don't, it means that another presence and power other than God is believed to be real.
• It would be good for you to contemplate the statement from our Unity textbook, "Pain, sickness, poverty, old age and death cannot master me for they are not real."
• God is Spirit and Spirit is all that there is. This Universe--your Body included- is pure Spirit.
• People fail to heal because they hold fast to the misperception that their Body is human and material. Although that is what the eyes report, this is one of those times when you have to judge not according to appearances.

Miracle Recap

I didn't want to say it right out, but instead set the sermon up to lead you to this conclusion: A miracle is nothing but the EVIDENCE of REALITY. It is the norm When someone is "healed" of a so-called "incurable" disease, people say it's a miracle. But that's not true, the miracle would be if someone could actually be diseased when PERFECTION IS AN OMNIPRESENT, ETERNAL CONSTANT. Here are the important points from the sermon.

1. The Miracle Mind is a God-focused mind. It is not problem or solution focused. The Miracle Mind remains fixed on God's Allness as All, all the time.
2. The Miracle Mind is aware that what is true of the nature of God is true of all Existence, all the time--regardless of what the eyesight says.
3. The Miracle Mind stands firmly on God's Allness. It does not kowtow to what the eyesight reports. The Miracle Mind dictates reality to the eyesight.

(There's a deeper implication in these steps, has it been revealed to you what it is?)

A Course In Miracles

Are you ready for a miracle? This Sunday kicks off a new series called "A Course In Miracles." The miracles of Christ Jesus are the foundation for this sermon series. However, this Sunday we will kick things off with a sermon lesson on "The Miracle Mind."

Sermon Recap--"The Secret"

I didn't trick you. This is the secret to Spiritual Power. Remember Christ Jesus said "Straight is the gate and narrow is way..." Being dedicated to Truth (God) with all your heart, soul, and mind is a step that cannot be escaped. If you can't remember the "how's" of this, let me refresh your memory. There is no other (human) way to have this kind of dedication to a God you've never seen before--a God that seems a mystery to you. Prayer is the way. You have to pray for a simple willingness to love Truth with all your heart, sould and mind. You have to pray this prayer over and over until you mean it. Then, the seeming mysteries of God unfold themselves. Then the seemingly unknown God is felt, known and experienced. Then all the seeming mysteries of the universe unfold themselves--even if slowly. The mysteries of health, prosperity and love REVEAL themselves and all is proved to BE WELL.

Handling the Big Problems--Sermon Recap

This past Sunday, I suggested steps to take when it feels like your problem is a mountain you just can't move. Here are the steps:

1. STOP and remind yourself that God (Perfection) is the only Presence and Power. Because Perfection is the reality, it is possible for you to experience and evidence Perfection right where the problem or imperfection seems to be.
2. ELIMINATE THE FEAR. Your seeming problem has no power. God (Love) is the only Power. It does not even have genuine Substance, because God is the only Substance. All the spooking power your problem seems to have is your own fear of it. Get rid of the fear of the problem and the VICTORY is yours.
3. The PRAYER CLOSET is the way to nip the fear at its root. Pray as often as necessary for a clear, unmistakeable realization of God's Presence. Before you actually sense, feel and know that GOD IS HERE, it may (or may not) take many prayer periods.
4. Align yourself with a PRAYER POSSE. Don't try to go it alone. See (Prayer Resources). Call like-minded friends to pray with and "for" you. If necessary call a licensed Practitioner.
5. Keep your Consciousness soaked and saturated with God's Truth, and with inspirational stories of folk who have been in a similar situation and prayed their way to wholeness. See the sidebar (Healing Stories) for inspiration. Read the Bible and other literature. Most of all keep your mind "stayed on Thee." You cannot think about your problem and the Truth of God's Presence at the same time. Which one would you like to see evidenced as your life? Then, think about that.

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Prayer Walking

During the Fellowship, I overheard a member of our church family declare emphatically that she was going to "Prayer Walk" on her job this week. I sure hope that she did. "Prayer Walking" is so fundamental to spiritual outreach, that I think we should make the first Sunday of every month "Prayer Walking Week." This will be the week that we make a conscious decision to prayer walk through our homes, neighborhoods or jobs.

If we are going to be a spiritual influence in our world, we have to start somewhere and "Prayer Walking" is, I feel, the best start.

Sheets will be handed out and posted on the blog at the appropriate time.