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.