God is Love/ Love is God

Here are a few bullet points to jog the memories of those who attended service on Sunday, December 15, 2013. The full text of the service can be read here.      

·        God is Love and Love is God

·        Life is the experience of Love and the quality of our lives is dependent on how much Love we “have inside.” (and are aware of and extend to other people and circumstances and conditions in our lives) It’s not just about other people loving us.

·        Love is all around us and what we do is fight off acknowledging it; fight off expressing it; fight off receiving it. Love is God; God is love. There is no love to be found; it is ever-present and only known through its expression.

·        If we didn’t spend so much time battling against receiving/accepting Love being offered to us, and giving Love to those who cry out for it, we’d recognize we are awash in endless unconditional Love.

·        Committing yourself to God is not committing yourself to religion. Committing yourself to God is committing yourself to extending love and seeing with love. When you are working with Love you are working with God.

·        Withholding the circulation of love and happiness withers your life; circulation of love and happiness expands your life.

·        Life is a choice

·        “What life do you choose for yourself?”

·        Whatever you’d like your life to be, choose to live it.

I’d like to recommend a video to watch on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk (West Jet Christmas Miracle)

Here you can experience for yourself the feelings around the giving and receiving of unconditional Love.

Staying Afloat

Here are a few bullet points to jog the memories of those who attended service on Sunday, December 8, 2013. The full text of the service can be read here.      

·        Do you believe immortal life will be found after you die?

·        Do you believe immortal life can be experienced now?

·        Reminder: we were created in the image and after the likeness of God.

·        Therefore, in my opinion, the being part of us is immortal

·        Charles Fillmore: “When we finally understand the facts of life and rid our minds of the delusion that we shall find immortal life after we die, then we shall seek more diligently to awaken the spiritual man (Christ consciousness/ awareness of God) within us and strengthen and build up the spiritual domain of our being...”

·        The one idea I want to focus on from that statement is diligence

·        Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it spring the issues of life

·        Our spiritual journey is about what we want to be (rather than what we don’t want to be)

·        God placed Itself in us at our spiritual creation and we have forgotten

·        Be diligent in gently taking your consciousness to task in remembering to express the spirit of God in all things.

·        Proverbs 21:5, “The plans of the diligent lead to profit…”

Prosperity Sunday 4 of 12

Here are a few bullet points to jog the memories of those who attended service on Sunday, December 1, 2013. The full text of the service can be read here.

·        In Mark 9:23 these words are attributed to Jesus, “…All things are possible to the one who believes.”

·        What does it mean to you to believe?

·        Butterworth suggests that belief isn’t believing in something but openness to something.

·        The whole universe of “God-Substance” is centered in you. There is nothing you can do to add to that or take away from it.

·        We may think the above is true of Jesus, but not of us.

·        In John 14:12 Jesus tells us we can do not only the works he has done (because all of the "God-Substance" of the universe is centered in us) but works that are even greater… and he qualifies it with if we believe.

·        Believing is the openness to something.

·        Ohm’s Law is written this was: V = I x R (voltage equals current times resistance). Ohm’s Law is used to perform a circuit analysis.

·        Metaphysically we can say: Experience of our Life = the current of God x (working thru) the resistance (or openness) of our Consciousness.

·        Personalizing this it becomes “Brad’s Law” Experience of my Life = God (working thru) Brad's belief system.

·        When my life isn’t all it could be I can perform a personal circuit analysis by asking myself, “How many “Brad’s” of resistance are present in my consciousness to the flow of the current of God?”

·        Butterworth: “The [belief] required to demonstrate prosperity is not simply a pious pronouncement, it is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you [believe] in. What you will always receive is what you actually expect.”

·        The experience of our life is the direct result of what we expect and that is amplified by the ever-present current of God.