Positive Daily Inspiration – February 22, 2023 – Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday – LENT – 40 days Giving up Anger

“The person who has an ear, let that person hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The person who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give that person a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except the person who receives it.” Revelation 2:17

For everyone, this can be a powerful spiritual time. The word Lent is derived from a word meaning “Springtime.”

And on this, the first day of Lent, we can experience a spiritual springtime in our souls – the budding of new spiritual ideas and the unfolding of new awareness. We can manifest inner growth that comes from using our energy and vitality in new and creative ways. We can blossom forth with joy and enthusiasm.

Traditionally, Lent is a time of fasting, of denial, of giving up something.

Positive Christianity breaks down the word LENT to mean –

Let’s Eliminate Negative Thinking.

We can adopt this theme as we relinquish limiting thoughts about ourselves and others. We can ask to express Christ-like ways, and to recognize such expression by others. We can deny any sense of limitation or lack and affirm spiritual wholeness and well-being.

Lent can be a time of spiritual growth and reawakening as we express the ever-renewing life of Christ, and as we manifest Christ-like abilities in our own lives.

For 40 days (not counting Sundays leading to Easter) I ask you to keep a journal to become aware of the negative thought patterns and record your positive actions to correct them. I believe in this, because it helps us to record and become aware of where we are, and more important where we would like to be.

This year I’m asking you to focus on eliminating one major thing for the next 40 days leading to Easter. I am asking each of you reading this to give up anger for the next 40 days.

The power of Lent is denying and abstaining from our lower animalistic traits and replacing them through habit and action with the latent spiritual qualities, leading to an Easter like resurrection experience of our souls.

For 40 days, every time you begin to get angry, you will spiritually decide not to go there. You will learn to act and react in a higher way. When we get into the spiritual business of removing waste packed into our consciousness, and in some cases, doing spiritual archaeology to rediscover what was given to us from the beginning, but now hidden under the layers of human consciousness. A shift happens inside of us from problem thinking to solution thinking. Truly we will be following Jesus Christ not just in word, but 1000 times more important, in action to become more like Him.

I ask you to focus again on the above Bible verse. This was written for the people in the churches, those that were seeking actively spiritual growth, like you are today. It is talking about conquering ourselves and receiving a hidden continuous wellspring of manna of God’s ideas that are unlimited to meet your every need. It promises a white stone, which in biblical terms means a clean slate, a new beginning. It is a beautiful statement that God will continuously give you a fresh start when you’re ready to accept it.

For the next 40 days we are abstaining from anger.

POSITIVE PRAYER FOR TODAY:

Dear God, I pray that I will be empowered in Your Mind.
I fast from negative thoughts, and all anger, for the next 40 days and
I pray that these traits are permanently removed from my thinking and my life.
I pray that I will automatically think positive from this Lenten time on.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

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POSITIVE AFFIRMATION FOR TODAY:

God is with me and therefore I have the power to transmute any anger inside of me into a living peace and well-being.

POSITIVE QUOTE FOR TODAY:

“Life as only that we flow with it, but we do not resist, that we do not crawl into corners and direct barriers.”
Newton Dillaway

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