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.

Your Prayer Resources

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If you need them, call them.

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.

Prayer Walking Together

Last night it came to me that we (Unity in Silver Spring) haven't had a church-wide prayer project in awhile. Then it hit me, "Allen, why can't the church, as a group, decide on a date when we will all Prayer Walk through our individual homes?" Sounds like a supergood idea to me. How about you?

The tape of the sermon came out well. Those of you who are reading this and wondering to yourself what is this prayer walking business all about, you can listen for yourself. Tapes will be available Sunday. We will also decide on a prayer walking date together. Who know, perhaps this will lead to USS having Prayer Walking Teams.