Monday, October 28, 2013

Prosperity Sunday #3


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.






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