Prosperity Sunday 8 of 12

Below are my bullet points from Sunday, March 30, 2014. There is no full text of this talk as I used only bullet points this week

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  “It’s the receiver of the gift who determines the value of the gift.”

2.     You’ve been given the gift of creation

3.     You’re the receiver of the gift – how do you value it?

a.     You didn’t receive this gift because you’re lucky, or Christian

b.     You can’t lose it or turn it down

c.      You can deny it, decline it, be unaware of it. Regardless, you do have it.

4.     You have received the gift,

a.     How do you value it?

b.     What awareness do you have of divine flow?

c.      The answers to above determine how you see experience your security in a changing world

5.     Unaware of this power to create? You have it. To know and practice this is life-changing.

6.     Having inner conversation about, “Not me.” Stop it. It’s a lie. It’s not true.

7.     Here’s what you need you know:

8.     Key* You live in and endless flow of creative substance

9.     Key* You “attract” according to how you think

10.                        It is vital to know and practice your creative power

a.     If you are practicing, keep practicing

b.     If you were practicing and fell off wagon, start again

c.      If you are unaware of this powerful gift, begin to explore

11.                        Key* There is a vast difference between believing and knowing

a.     Difference between intellect and experience

b.     Look for its demonstration; occurring all the time

c.      Once you see it occurring on a small level, step back and let it occur on a bigger level

d.     Step back, yet again, to another bigger level

12.                        Key* develop a relationship with your Inner Guidance

13.                        Key* Your Inner Guidance will tell you when to shift and change. Learn to hear and trust.

14.                        Key* Check your motivation. Give to give, not to get

15.                        Think of what you are doing as giving when paying bills rather than “losing” that money

The "F-Word"

 Here are a few bullet points to jog the memory of those who attended church on Sunday, March 9, 2014. If you would like to read the full text, click here.

• If you text on your telephone you likely use abbreviations such as: LOL (laugh out loud), K (meaning OK - I guess OK is too many characters to type), TTFN (Ta-ta for now)
• Perhaps you even use this one : WTF!
• Some people shy away from the "F-Word," others, like myself, use it regularly
• On any number of occasions when I get upset I'll use that thought, WTF!
• Work That Forgiveness!
• Forgiveness is the most powerful "F-Word"
• In Luke, chapter 5, Jesus tells us something very important; "...you have the authority on earth to forgive..."
• Jesus' authority comes from God. Your authority comes from God. You have the authority to forgive!
• Have you ever said, "I just can't forgive him (or her)?"
• If you think you can't, yes you can, Jesus just said so.
• "It is though forgiveness that true spiritual healing is accomplished. Forgiveness removes errors from the mind and... harmony results in consonance with divine law."
• I would say the error of the mind that forgiveness removes is the idea that another person (or yourself) is somehow "less than" as a person.
• "Forgiveness is not for other people, it is for ourselves so we can get well and heal" (Max Lucado)
• If you have a struggle with another person, or yourself, you have the authority to forgive.
• Forgiveness makes you feel better.
• If you have a struggle with another person, or yourself, drop an F-bomb on them! Shower them, and yourself, with the healing power of forgiveness.

Lobsters, Butterflies, and Cake

Here is a brief overview of our Sunday service from March 2, 2014. To see the full text of the talk, click here.

• ·        What do lobsters, butterflies, and cake have in common?

• ·        Each of these provides a metaphor for life.

• ·        A full grown man can step on a lobster in the water and the lobster’s shell will protect it.

• ·        A lobster shell is restrictive and stunts further growth. In order for a lobster to grow it must shed its protective shell, thus becoming vulnerable.

• ·        In order for us to grow spiritually we, too, need to shed our restrictive shell of protection and allow ourselves to be vulnerable.

• ·        As we grow spiritually we are “protected” from the previous discomfort of the vulnerabilities we have allowed to be exposed to the healing love of spirit.

• ·        A caterpillar crawling across a Persian rug may encounter constantly changing, and seemingly random, colors.

• ·        Our lives may seem to be a mish-mash of constantly changing and confusing events and emotions.

• ·        When the caterpillar becomes a butterfly and is able to fly above that Persian rug, it will see a pattern where once there was the experience of randomness.

• ·        When we view our lives from a higher spiritual perspective; a perspective higher than a judgmental and critical mind we see the unfolded pattern of our life. From that higher perspective we see that everything is exactly as it should be.

• ·        The patterns of our life are defined by what we might call “The Law of Life.” The Law of Life is: The creative spirit of God working through (+) our consciousness creates (=) the patterns (or experience) of our life.

• ·        Asked to take a bite of flour, you’d probably decline.  Baking soda? Likely the same response.  A spoonful of cooking oil? Yuck! Maybe a little sugar, a tad of vanilla, a bit of chocolate. OK, that sounds better, but each of them by themselves?

• ·        Taken one by one, the ingredients are less than appealing. Mix them together though, and bake them, and they turn into a delicious cake.

• ·        Looking upon the individual events of our lives we’ll find the sweet and the yucky. Seen together throughout a life time yields a rich and lovey life.

• ·        In order to see our lives as rich and lovely we must see our personal individual ingredients in a new way.

• ·        Typically we would see our experiences as examples of love or fear. Fear, we know, keeps us established in challenging patterns.

• ·        There is a loving way to interpret fear.

• ·        Fear is actually a call for love. When we are afraid to be vulnerable and allow love in or out, we express fear. Fears seems to be a protective shell, and yet all that shell does (like the lobster) is stunt our growth.

• ·        Love heals and harmonizes.

• ·        If someone extends love to you, return it. If someone calls for love from you, extend it.

Will You?

Here are a few bullet points to refresh the memories of those who attended service on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. To view the full text, click here.

• Today, instead of saying, “You can make a choice,” I am going to ask you to make a choice. Are you willing?

• This week, I’m asking you, would you decide to be happy; to use your freedom of choice to choose to be happy and to share your happiness with others?

• This week, I am asking you to choose to be happy!

• I’m asking you to choose to have a happy, positive, joyous, enthusiastic state of mind. Will you do that?

• Will you choose to smile often, to laugh more, to love, and be loving?

• Will you choose to allow the love of God to flow through you and out to everyone and everything around you. Will you do that?

• Choose to see the good of God in others, to love them as they are, not to judge nor try to change them. I ask you, this week, to choose to trust God, to align your will with God’s will, and to allow God to express through you as peace, and love. Will you do that this week?

• I know you’ve heard me say this before, and it’s worth repeating: God is with you right now, you are never alone.

• You can close off your awareness, you can close off your knowing, but you are still not alone anytime, anyplace, anywhere, because God is there.

• As a spiritual person you know to live from the inside—out; you know that you set the conditions of how you feel about the day.

• I suggest that you do this before you even leave your bedroom in the morning; set the conditions of your day. Will you do that this week?

• I ask you to take happy and loving action toward whatever, whomever you resist. Will you do that?

• You can use your freedom of choice to choose to be happy in every thought inside of your mind, and to let your happiness light shine out to others. Will you do that this week?

• I believe that God will show you what absolute happiness is, and that this feeling is one that will remain with you.

• So, I invite you to make a commitment this week, because to be a source of joy and happiness for yourself, and others, requires more than just mere words; it takes action on your part.  Will you do that?

• Will you put down your story?

• Yes, life may still present many mysteries, but you are secure in God. Rather than becoming anxious about what you do not know, or understand, embrace every opportunity to learn with the joy of God’s Spirit working through you. Will you do that this week?

• Galatians 5:25, “If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.”

• Will you do that this week?

 

Three for the price of One!

Well, I haven't posted bullet points or the full version of my talks the past three weeks. If you click through to the full version of my Sunday messages, you can read the last three weeks.