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.”