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.