Good & Plenty

Here are some bullet points to refresh the memories of those who were at church on Sunday, January 19, 2014. The full text of my talk can be read here.

•  The song we sang during special music (http://www.danielnahmodlyrics.com/sl-more-than-enough.html) tells a story worth thinking about: “Your infinite Love made me, made everything I see.”

•  God’s infinite Love is another way of describing the creative substance we’ve been talking about on Prosperity Sundays.

• Let’s me test your chemistry knowledge for a moment.  This slide (hydrogen, hydrogen, oxygen) shows 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen, which you know to be what?  Call it out. (H₂O, or, water)

• Now if you could put together hydrogen and oxygen atoms together at a rate of two to one in favor of hydrogen, water would be manifest according to how much hydrogen and oxygen you assembled at that ratio.

• Assuming you have a laboratory and could do this, why would combining the atoms in the ratio of H₂O create water? Why would that occur? Would it be because you learned it in science class and could repeat it, or would there be some kind of chemistry law at work? If you were completely ignorant of the compound H₂O and you mixed that ratio together, you’d still create water.

• The same is true with “Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.” Regardless of whether you are aware or unaware of that spiritual law, it’s at work.

• God is generous:

John10:10 “I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly.”

Malachi 3:10 “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this,” sayeth the Lord of Hosts. “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room enough for you to receive it.”

• Or as Daniel Nahmod put it, “More than enough.”

• God is generous. God is also intrinsically Good (or goodness); it is God’s good pleasure to give us the Kingdom. Psalm 23:6, “Surely goodness and love (mercy) shall follow me all the days of my life…”

• God is Good and generous. If you need a visual, maybe this will work.

• To quote our song again, “Why would I worry, why would I doubt, why would I ever think I’d go without?”

• God is Good and provides our plenty

•          Here are six quick abundance tips:

1.    Believe that you, as a child of God, have the right to be prosperous.

2.    Realize God as your source.

3.    Get out of “debt-thought.” (or lack thought, or not enough thought. You are not facing anything alone. You have God with you.

4.    Form a mental vacuum – eliminate the thinking of what you no longer want – mental house cleaning, then let love and trust and faith in God rush into the void you’ve created.

5.    Commit to your God-given Good. That’s what we did last week in envisioning and feeling the life we want for ourselves.

6.    Give. A Course in Miracles says, “To have: give all to all.”  Whatever you do (doing is giving), give in full loving kindness without fear of depletion or loss but with the expectation of abundance. Give all your love (give with your full awareness of God) to all your circumstances and conditions.

Winter Storm

There is no Monday Message this week. Church was cancelled due to bad weather.

Prosperity Sunday 5 of 12

Here are a few bullet points to jog the memories of those who attended service on Sunday, December 29, 2013. The full text of the service can be read here. 

 

·        What, in your opinion, is your most important asset?

·        In the opening paragraph of this week’s chapter, THE GRATEFUL HEART, Butterworth gives us his answer: (page 85, P1) “What is your most important asset? Conditioned as it is to materialistic values, your mind might begin weighing the relative usefulness of things. However, if you carefully search within yourself, you may come to the awareness that your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life. Nothing else can satisfy or fulfill… unless you enjoy the freedom that comes from control of your inner world of mind and emotions.”

·        Butterworth says, “…though normally overlooked, living with a grateful heart is a key element in the process of achieving prosperity.”

·        In 1 Thessalonians 5:18-19 Paul is counseling the people to, “give thanks in all circumstances.”

·        Please do not misunderstand this. The counsel is not, “Be thankful for all circumstances,” but, “be thankful in all circumstances.” These are two very different suggestions.

·        Here’s what it’s about, plain and simple: be thankful for the awareness of the ever-presence of substance.

·        Knowing this and knowing that you can choose to be aware of the ever-presence of substance (i.e. be grateful) is your most important asset because now you know you have conscious control over your own life!

·        Let me give you a way to extend gratitude on a day-to-day basis that activates the ever-present substance and initiates the process of achieving abundance: bless everything.

·        (pages 92-93) “The power of blessing is not reserved for the holy places, or for the specially ordained persons. It is an act of tremendous power that can be used by anyone. …to bless… means “to confer prosperity upon.” You are always projecting some kind of thought toward everything you have or hold. Sometimes it is negative, limiting, restrictive. But you can bless your home, your job, or your money supply, and thus confer a consciousness of abundance upon them. It is not something you do to these things. Rather, it is a correction of the mentality [you hold]. And the law is that things become to you, that which you see them as being.”

·        Take a moment right now engage in the experience of gratitude, just as we did earlier in our meditation. Close your eyes and just feel grateful. Don’t cast about for something or another to be grateful for, just feel gratitude. This is an exercise in feeling causal energy. Just feel grateful. Let the spirit of thanksgiving flood your whole being with its healing warmth.

·        This week, make a commitment to keep alive your awareness of substance through gratitude in all things. If you are willing, write 10 times each day until our next prosperity Sunday, “Feeling gratitude is a key element in the process of abundance.”