A
few bullet points to jog the memory of those who attended service Sunday,
October 27, 2013 - to read the full text, click here.
* On the last Sunday of each month we
are reviewing one chapter from Rev. Eric Butterworth's book SPIRITUAL
ECONOMICS, this is "Prosperity Sunday #3."
* This week's chapter is The Law of Visualization, “Having
seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the
end.”
* From the book, page 49, “We have
been conditioned to believe that life is lived from the outside-in. We see
things “out there,” and we react with attitudes and feelings about them.
Without question, what we see is as it is.
[and thus we think] Seeing is believing!”
* According to that statement, seeing
is believing, our eyes tell us what we see. Our eyes report back to the brain
what is there in front of us.
* A paragraph or so later Butterworth
writes, “What the mind sees is not this picture that is communicated to the
brain, but what your awareness has conditioned you to see. In other words,
seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are,
but as you are.”
* If we actually saw what was in
front of us, no two people could ever have a differing opinion about what
occurred.
* This chapter tells us how
we see and how we need to think. These are two very important
things to know.
* The first of those two things, how we see, is, “We see with the mind.”
* Now, how do we need to think? When
things in our life go awry, we generally think, “I’ve got to set this
right.” Butterworth suggests that, “More
important than setting it right is seeing it rightly.”
* What Butterworth means by seeing things
rightly is recognizing that our experience of what’s occurring “out there” is a
reflection of what’s occurring within us.
* Charles Fillmore wrote, “Turn the
great (bulk) of your thinking toward ‘plenty’ ideas and you will have plenty
regardless of what men about you are saying or doing.” Prosperity page
13 (insertion is mine)
* On page 57 of the book, Butterworth
writes one sentence that gives us advice on how we need to think. In my opinion
it’s the single most important sentence in the book. Again, in my opinion,
taking this advice on as your living experience is the single biggest step you
can take toward turning your life to one of prosperity.
* “The secret of achieving
prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of
affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.”
* Here’s another way of saying the
same thing: The secret of achieving prosperity lies in deeply, vividly,
believing within you in the ever-presence of affluence (prosperity) that you literally radiate the
consciousness of it.
* This one sentence is the core.
Don’t forget it.
* If you have not yet come to live
and understand this, you will.
* I believe in you wholeheartedly.
