Spiritual Healing--Sermon Summary

This sermon was not recorded, so I will summarize it in more detail than usual.

Keep in mind that Christ Jesus self-professed mission was to bear witness to Truth. In every healing miracle of Christ Jesus, there was one constant: The so-called disease left and the Body remained. Why? Because there is no truth (reality) in disease, but the BODY IS REAL.

Your BODY is not only real, it is constituted of the Substance of God's Presence. There are many religions that say the body is not real, but this is not in keeping with Jesus' ministry or his miracles.

God's will for you is PERFECT HEALTH.

Remember the denial from the Unity textbook Lessons In Truth: "Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death cannot master me because they are not real."

Disease is like a smoke alarm that alerts you to get out of the house. Disease is an alert telling you to move up higher in your understanding of God's Presence and Power. When you are clear on this, you never approach body disease at the level of the body; instead, you approach it from the level of God awareness.

Spiritual healing is the only healing that has nothing to do with the body in practice, but has everything to do with the body in effect.

Stop talking about your disease. Stop identifying yourself with it. Stop identifying yourself with the prognosis. (I know that's a hard one, but you ARE THE POWER that can do this).

The right prayer for any seeming disease is: "God, in this seeming situation (name it if you want to),what is it about your Presence and your Power that I need to understand?"

You may not get your answer right away. Nevertheless, keep at it until you get your answer. You will know when it is your answer. The fears and the tears leave when the answer "arrives." At this point, you are no longer concerned about the seeming disease. Your revelation is your Truth, and the disease is revealed to be a lie.

STAND BY YOUR REVELATION. This will be easier than you think, because truth is no longer a mere speculation.

Simply put, spiritual healing is the knowing and showing of God's wholeness right where disease seems to be. You take care of the knowing and the knowing takes care of the showing.

Sermon Summary (Prosperity)

• The challenge of approaching your finances spiritually is that your source (God) seems invisible to the human eye. However, the economic mess the world appears to be in is due to trusting in "visible" sources.
• The chief requirement in the spiritual approach to financial prosperity is an understanding of Divine Substance--God. "For of Him, to Him and through Him are all things." Read about Divine Substance, and put the ideas you read about into practice immediately. Or take the matter into the prayer closet asking for understanding of Divine Substance. Whatever you "hear," put into practice immediately by acknowleding this Truth to be your present reality
• Divine Substance responds to your faith in it and knowledge of it.
• Because God is both the Substance and Source of your financial prosperity, whatever is true of God is true of your financial prosperity. You know that God is infinite and inexhaustible. So are your finances. God is unconditioned. Your finances are immune to so-called human situations and economic cycles.
• When you seem to be concerned about your finances, (1)turn away from the appearance of lack. (2) Don't try to shuffle around the visible in the attempt to force your supply to appear. (3) Turn to whatever understanding of Divine Substance you have and STAND FIRM on it--nothing wavering.

New Wine New Bottles (Sermon summary)

As I considered how to summarize Sunday's sermon in the best way, I realized that (if you heard it) I would have to eliminate many good points to get to the essential points. Here they are:

1. If you want to experience a real new year, that doesn't look like an identical twin of your other years, you are going to have to drink new wine (spiritual insight) from new bottles (mindset).
2. When new insight comes "to" you, that idea must replace the old idea it relates to. Otherwise, it will not seem to bear fruit in your life. For example: If the idea flashes in your Consciousness, "God is my body, it can't be sick," that idea has to replace the old host of ideas you have entertained throughout the years.
3. Those ideas might include: (a) identifying yourself with a disease ("cancer patient"), (b)the doctor's prognosis, (c) age as an excuse for aches and pains (d) deliberate actions to avoid disease, (e) judging the body by the apperance of having a disease, etc.
4. Christ Jesus said, "Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, lest the bottles break and the wine is spilled." In other words, if some new insight strikes a responsive chord in you, it will not bear fruit in your life if you are holding on to old, conflicting ideas.
5. Much of what appears to be Truth "not working" is the result of trying to embrace the new while holding on to the old.