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26Sep

POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON – Rebuild Your Life

POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON - Rebuild Your Life

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“For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal.”
Jeremiah 30:17

In Independence Missouri, you can spend the day going through the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library. On his desk, Harry Truman had a plaque that said “The Buck Stops Here.”

Where does the buck stop concerning your healing? You’ve heard of the saying, “Passing the buck,” haven’t you? You say, “Well, it’s not my responsibility,” and you pass the buck to someone else. Where does the buck stop? With your healing – it stops, where it always begins, with God.

I want to be healed, we say. “I’m tired of feeling this way.”

If we are not sick – how do, we stay well?

How do we stay filled with vim and vigor and vitality?

How do we live a life without expected sickness?

It is possible for us to have so much God-life inside of our being that every cell glows with power and vitality.

That’s the way of our Creator.

The Creator never stops creating.

Before the advances that we have today in medical science that can so aid in person’s healing, people would turn to God in faith. Many times, they were healed in what would be called miracle ways. In the mid-1800’s medical science was still in its infancy. Doctors of that time diagnosed this young mother who was wasting away from the common disease of the day tuberculosis. She was dying, and had little time left.

In prayer, daily, she would sit for hours with an empty chair in front of her, in which she imagined the presence of Jesus Christ. She cooperated with this healing presence by believing that she could be healed. Gradually she became stronger and stronger and was never sick another day in her life.

Her husband, who was quite sick himself, wondered about the healing. He wondered what the source of the healing was. His wife did not die as everyone expected she would. She came back to life, stronger than ever. He watched all this happening from his own crippled body that was in severe pain. He had known pain all his life.

I would like to read his exact words about what he was going through in his life from his personal letters.

“When I was a boy of ten, I was taken with what was as first diagnosed as rheumatism but developed into a very serious case of hip disease. I was in bed for over a year.”

Can you imagine a ten-year-old being in bed for a year, and not only in bed, but in constant, and severe pain? In those days, they believed that to get the disease out of the body they had to use a device that was like a razor blade, except there were five in a row, and cut into the most diseased area to allow the disease to drain out of the body. They had performed this inhumane procedure to his leg in over 150 locations during that year. It’s a wonder he even lived through that year.

He continued: “From that time, I was an invalid, in constant pain, for twenty-five years, until I began the application of spiritual healing through prayer.”

Now, he wrote this when he was very positive. You’ve heard about a person’s pain threshold, haven’t you? You learn to live with pain. You can learn to live with a great deal of pain. That is what this young man did. He was in constant torture from his handicapped physical body.

“Two very large abscesses developed at the head of the hip bone, which the doctors said would finally drain away my life. But I managed to get about on crutches with a four-inch extension of steel and cork [which made his one leg the same length as the other.] The hip bone was out of the socket and stiff.

“The leg shriveled and ceased to grow. From the hip to the knee, the flesh was a glassy adhesion with little feeling.”

His leg was about four inches in diameter and very sickly looking. It was much shorter than the other leg and was extremely abscessed. His whole right side then became involved. His right ear became deaf, and his right eye became so weak that he would now be called legally blind.

He was in constant and sometimes severe pain for twenty-five years. To have this condition in your life – practically blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, a shriveled leg – for twenty-five years is impressed on your mind, and your self-identity. After twenty-five years, wouldn’t you believe that you’d have it for the rest of your life? Especially if you’re in constant pain, you would think it would only get worse. You might even dread the future.

He said, “I began to apply spiritual prayer, in addition to medical treatment. There was, for a long time, little response in the leg.”

So often we pray – we think nothing is happening. But beneath the surface, beyond what our physical eyes can see, the Creator is working. He didn’t give up; he kept praying, and more important believing in the power of God. It took what seemed like a long, long time to be totally healed, but he was healed.

He would sit for long periods every day in the silence of prayer, knowing the healing presence of Jesus Christ was there with him.

Now in his words: “There was little response in the leg, BUT I felt better. And I found that I started to hear with my right ear. [This was the first indication to him that something miraculous was happening.] Then, gradually, I noticed that I had more feeling in my leg. Then, as the years went by, the joint began to become limber in the leg, and the shrunken flesh filled out until the right leg was almost equal to the other. Then, I discarded the cork and steel extension and wore an ordinary shoe with a double heel about an inch in height. The leg became almost as large as the other, and the muscles were restored.

“I’m giving the smallest details of my healing because it would be considered a medical impossibility, and a miracle from a religious standpoint. However, I have watched the restoration year after year as I applied the power of prayer. I know it is under God’s Divine law of creation, so I am satisfied that here is proof of the law that the mind centered in prayer cooperates with God and can rebuild the body and can restore it.”

He had the most amazing growth in the healing of his leg when he was past the age of 75. We think that at age 75, it’s pretty much over. Your Creator is NEVER FINISHED WITH YOU. We may think at a certain point in life we can’t heal ourselves any more. We think we can’t regenerate new cells. But God through the Creator’s regeneration is constantly replacing old worn out body parts.

If you have a 1929 Ford out in the parking lot, but every moment you have replaced the parts of the car, is it really a 1929 Ford, or is it a brand new Ford?

You are not your age. You are constantly made new. Your body is God’s and it is constantly rebuilding itself. But every cell listens to your direction in prayer and positive thought.

When we speak, we have the largest listening audience in the world. We have 100 trillion cells listening to our prayers, thoughts, and words. These cells are awake inside of us. They are saying, “What do you want me to do today?” And we tell them. If we tell them we want them to regenerate and go ahead with their healing, they will do it. It will be as you spiritually desire.”

The majority of cases that come for prayer belong to the class of the discouraged. They come to God as a last resort. They come saying, “I have been to the doctor, but I’m turning to you because you’re my last hope.” From now on LET GOD BE THE BEGINNING of all your healings, then go for healing as God directs.

In Luke 8:43, there is a story about a discouraged woman who spent all her money on physicians but who could not be healed. Physicians are very good. They work with the mind of God. They work with God in promoting our healing. But are we putting all the power into one physician, or are we placing the power for healing in the One Master Physician? Are must accept the healing, from the source that really heals, and from God direction to medical helpers.

When Jesus healed, how did He heal?

If you’re coming to Jesus this morning and talking to Him about your illness, what would Jesus do? Jesus would not see your illness. What did He see? He sees your perfection. He sees absolutely perfect God-health flowing through you, no matter what your body is saying in the temporary moment.

Let’s say that today I am wearing this coat. You might say this coat is me. But there is a life inside of this coat. And I can take off this coat if I desire. But the perfection is God given IN me. Tomorrow I might have on a red coat. The body may be wearing something it shouldn’t be wearing. But I tell you, there is God’s perfection that can manifest out if I accept and if I am willing to have it happen.

Jesus never saw anything less than God. We hear the story of the woman just wanting to get close to Jesus, touching the hem of the garment. We take a pill and we expect that to make us feel better, and often it does. In the same way we have to take our faith and expect that to make us better.

Jesus Christ turns around and says, “YOUR faith has made you well.”

He didn’t say faith was going to make you well in time. He says faith HAS made you well, because at that point you have gone back to the cause, and you have created a portal of entry for the purified health of God to flow through and feed every cell of your physical body temple. This is true causation healing instead of just temporal effect healing.

A lot of people who pray are begging and pleading to be healed, and that can be the wrong way to pray. God has never changed God’s mind toward you. God is always loving, perfect perfection, ready to flow through. We just have to consent in every thought inside our physical body temple through our non-doubting faith.

The first step to healing is to cooperate with God by visualizing our perfection, instead of constantly focusing on what is wrong. Begin to know that you can be healed. Know that no matter how young or old you are, God is re-creating inside of you. Accept that every cell of your body temple is now connected spiritually with God life.

How would you act if you were healed right now? Well, begin to accept it. Are you accepting it? Are you feeling it in all your thoughts? Do you really believe? What would it take for you to believe? What would it take for you to fully accept it?

What’s going to happen then? Many of us think a thunderbolt is going to come down and zap us and everything is going to change. But it doesn’t work that way. God is a silent magnificent God. God is a progressive God. God is an unfolding God.

It is a silent energy. You begin to feel better over time. You have been praying every day and you have more energy.

You are feeling better and better and it’s unfolding–it must be God.

With every thought there is a radiation of energy. You hear about people with cancer who go and have radiation treatment. You spiritually take on that God power yourself. Radiate with your belief and faith energy. Whatever you are thinking about radiates through the body.

If you are thinking negative thoughts, all of a sudden you will feel worn out. Your vital energy has been depleted and you don’t know why. But then, you change it and begin to talk to your body as you would a close friend. Honor your body as you do close family members. You begin to even apologize to your body for some of the thoughts you’ve had about it in the past. Then you apply Divine energy spiritually to every part of that body temple.

Your body is made up of individual cells. And those individual cells are not as old as you think they are. They are not as sick as you think you might be. They are new cells. They are healthy cells. They are young cells. They are vital cells. They are also obedient cells. They will listen to any spiritual call you make for them to be. You speak to them with the faith of Jesus Christ and they will obey. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, and medicine must have spiritual help to be permanently effective.

The presiding self-identity in each organism determines the particular kind of impulse that the cells shall radiate.

When we begin to think of ourselves as children of God, we believe and then we are open and receptive, an heir, to the stream of God’s healing life.

A spiritual mental cleansing occurs in us, when focused on prayer upon God’s ever-renewing perfection. When the mind is free of error thought, harmony in the body begins.

Begin to use the words you think and the words you speak in a spiritual faith-based way. Begin to talk to your body in faith, instead of telling it how sick it is. You have a power in your words, a prayer energy behind your words that cause every cell inside of your physical body temple to stand up, listen, and do what you say. If we talk wrong about our body, this in the end can shatter the strongest organism. If we talk right about our body, we will change whatever is going on in our organism and change our body temple for an entire manifestation of a lifetime.

This is something you can do beginning today.

If we were talking negatively to another person, they would cease being our friend and the relationship would be destroyed, and yet often we think nothing about doing that to ourselves, and to our body. You can cure a cold, or you can cure an ache in your elbow. You can also cure anything else with God’s ever-present spiritual healing help.

Nothing is impossible to you because the Creator wills re-creation in you.

God Bless You!

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The uplifting, strength, and courage you seek are at hand. God is your ever-present help. Everything needed is ready to work with you, and in you, for a blessing of mind, body and circumstances in your life. Regardless of where you are physically, or how far you seem emotionally from the peace you desire, your good, your healing, your well-being, your fulfillment is at hand in this prayer now.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

Healing of fears of anxieties, tension and emotional upsets is now at hand because God’s help is at hand. Release and freedom from concern over any traumatic happening or feeling of insecurity or defeat is at hand. Right where you are, this moment, you are in the Presence of answers. You are in the Presence of the solutions you have sought.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

Your good is tangible. It is touchable. It is available to you now. God awaits and is willing to help you.

Take a few moments to spiritually prepare. Accept these Divine ideas that your healing is at hand. Prayer knows no boundaries of time or space. The healing you seek is in the air you breathe and the surroundings you see. It fills this place. It lives within your heart. It is in the light of day and the darkness of night. It is in the clouds and in the sunshine. It is in the cells and atoms of your body temple. It is in the movement of your mind and the activity all about you.

Your healing is at hand. You accept it. With praise and thanksgiving, we accept our healing. We are ready for something miraculous to happen inside our mind and body temple. The idea of healing penetrates every thought you have about yourself and all that appears to be occurring in your life. Acquaint yourself with the reality that healing is everywhere present always.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

Now you practice faithfully. You see health in your mind’s eye for yourself and everything that comes across your path. In this moment, in this experience of life, you realize that God is working dynamically inside of you. You turn your attention to thoughts of healing in your body–healing of feelings, healing of events, healing of conditions. You saturate your thinking with a contemplation of healing with thoughts that promote healing and words that show belief in healing.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

“Dear God, I believe right now in healing. I know it is possible for me. I know that I am in agreement, right now, in mind with what is being said.” From this moment forward, you refuse to entertain even the slightest thoughts of lack of faith about yourself or your healing. You refuse to give attention to experiences or negative suggestions that are going on in your mind. Instead, you know that the healing is at hand. You accept it with praise for God.

You know that God is with you. You are God’s child. The Creator is within every cell of your body temple. God is in your mind and every thought in your mind. God’s healing will never fail. And God’s healing enfolds and protects you, lifts and encourages you. God’s love is never going to fail to show you the solutions to the problems of healing, the answers to the dilemmas of healing or the confusions about healing.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

God’s healing is everywhere you go. And God’s healing is in everything. It fills your universe. You dwell in the kingdom of God. Wherever you sit or walk or work or live, that healing activity is constantly working on you.

You believe when Jesus says to you that you are meant to express healing in every facet of your life and being. You are an offspring of the Creator. You are an offspring of wholeness and well-being. You inherit the right to claim and accept every kind of healing. You were created with wholeness as a reality of your identity. You have it within your soul and mind.

In the midst of any challenge, disease or a disastrous happening, healing is there. You are now connected with a greater healing than you have been connected with thus far. The Spirit of God is in this place, and it is moving right now. The Spirit of Jesus Christ is here, and it is moving. There is a healing activity that is taking place. Your job is to accept that.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

You let the words “God’s healing” run as a golden thread of prayer, extending to every distressing ache or pain in your mind and body. “God’s Healing. God’s Healing.”

You use the faith you have right now to sew this golden thread into every cell of your physical body temple. Your heart is alive with new life. The life of God is behind your heart, causing your heart to beat. There is a Divine order working in your heart, lungs, muscles and the very regeneration of the bones.

You are immersed in God’s healing right now. You immerse yourself in the
thoughts of healing. You saturate yourself with thinking of healing. There is a great light surrounding you that is transmuting any negative aspect of your being. This healing is available to you now. You are God’s child, contemplating healing right now.

You are imagining healing, visualizing healing.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

You agree to work diligently with every manner and method of healing that encourages your conviction. You give praise and thanks to God working in every cell of your being, regenerating your physical body temple. You have faith in the idea of healing inside of you. You have cooperation with God’s perfection in your mind. You are working with God’s blueprint of perfection.

It is the time to think as Jesus thinks. If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain move to here to there and it will move, and nothing will be impossible to you with God.

The mustard seed evolves. It unfolds to become the plant. And so, this happens inside of you. You are unfolding perfection. You are going to the Cause of all health and allowing the Cause to flood your being. Your faith is causing an opening inside of you that is productive and significant. It is an opening that is a beginning to a new, wonderfully developed you.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

God is working inside of you to bring about wholeness you seek. As you pray, God is working. You are staying open and receptive to this healing idea and its possibilities. Nothing will be impossible to you with God’s healing help. You hold close to God in your thoughts, in your consciousness that goes beyond your physical brain, to every cell inside of your body that is listening to your words.

You hold close to the wonders of God’s wholeness.

You contemplate yourself as being perfectly healed. You see yourself dissolving every old habit of doubt and disbelief. The Lord of healing has come. God is working now inside of you, living, and demonstrating healing. Nothing is impossible. You grasp the thought of healing. You cradle that in your heart. No matter how much struggle it takes to return again and again to faith in healing, you keep on returning.

As you rest in the silence of prayer, you are actively talking to your physical body temple. Starting with your feet and going to your head, praise God for the new life and energy that is occurring within you.

God’s light is running throughout you. There is an inner peace felt within your muscles, bones, and entire system. You have a system of God. Every part of you, every cell, is now dedicated to Christ life.

Say aloud, “I DEDICATE EVERY CELL OF MY BODY TEMPLE TO CHRIST LIFE, PERFECTION AND WHOLENESS. I CAST OUT SICKNESS IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

The Creator re-creates me. I am made whole.”

I give thanks for the Christ way and Truth and the gift of healing that rests within me. I give thanks for the Christ healing that is happening now in the deepest recesses of my soul. I know that there is even more of God awaiting release and expression inside of my body temple. I know that this healing is nearer than breathing, closer than hands and feet. It is all present and ever-available, abundant, and plentiful.

My personal healing is here right now. It is mine. It is mine. I quietly accept it. I have peace, assurance, and blessings beyond measure. God is my source. And that source never runs dry. It is never lacking. It never withholds. It never denies. The Source is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow, and forever. I will live in wholeness for all the days of my life. I do not have to be sick. I throw that idea out of my physical mind.

I praise and give thanks in the name and through the healing power of Jesus Christ, with an accepting consciousness, the same that was in His mind …

Amen

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26Sep

Positive Daily Inspiration – September 26, 2022 – GOD GIVES YOU STRENGTH

Positive Daily Inspiration - September 26, 2022 - GOD GIVES YOU STRENGTH

“God, the Lord, is my strength.”
Habakkuk 3:19

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If you ever feel weary, emotionally, or physically, you can find renewal in God. God is your strength for your spirit, mind, and body. God, working within you, becomes a never-ending source of strength and vitality. You become ready to meet both challenge and blessing. God revitalizes and strengthens you, continuously.

You are empowered to accomplish any task before you when you pray that God is your personal strength. God’s power will flow through your spirit, mind, and body. You find that new vitality and energy come to the forefront to aid you in every endeavor, as you focus on the unlimited strength of God.

The strength of God is flowing through you RIGHT NOW. You are renewed and revitalized. What a profound realization it is to know that God’s strength is with you. You can rest in the assurance that the all-encompassing power of God is helping you, this very moment, and you are Divinely protected.

When you know with inner conviction that, with God, you are not weak. When you know with inner conviction that, with God, you are not feeble, but empowered with a power from above and a wisdom from on high – you move on with conviction and energy to do your very best. You also feel the love of God harmonizing all aspects of your life.

Through prayer, you place yourself and your loved ones in the care and keeping of God. You release thoughts of harm and you let the light of God surround you and them. Every cell of your body glows with the life and full Divine energy of God.

In Genesis 21:22, the Bible states, “God is with you in all that you do.”

There is nowhere you can go – either in actuality or in thought – and not experience the presence of God. The presence of Jesus Christ and God is everywhere. From the microscopic cell to the far reaches of the cosmos, God is the loving creator, and all is well.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, in certain areas of my life I seem to be in the maze, where I do not know the path to follow. I trust You God to lead me on pathways that lead to better tomorrows. Dear God, I know that you will never fail or disappoint me. I have faith in the power and presence of Your help at work in my life.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: Aware of You, God – I am aware of my potential!

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “With many people, what is behind them catches up with them because they can’t stop thinking about the past.”

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25Sep

Positive Daily Inspiration – September 25, 2022 – Sunday Funnies

Positive Daily Inspiration - September 25, 2022 - Sunday Funnies

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“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:8

A former Sergeant, having served his time with the Marine Corps, took a new job as a school teacher; but just before the school year started, he injured his back. He was required to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn’t noticeable.

On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school. The smart-alecky punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and decided to see how tough he really was, before trying any pranks. Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk.

When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he picked up a stapler and promptly stapled the tie to his chest.

… … Dead silence …

He had no trouble with discipline that year.

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A man said, I was relaxing in my favorite chair on Sunday. Reading the newspaper, watching a ball game on TV and listening to another on the radio, drinking Coca-Cola, eating a snack, and scratching the dog with my foot – and my wife has the nerve to accuse me of just sitting there doing nothing.

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Lawrence grabbed his plate and walked up to the party buffet for the fourth time. Aren’t you embarrassed to go back for so many helpings? Asked his wife.

Not a bit, Lawrence replied. I keep telling them it’s for you.

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George Burns punctuated this story with a flick of his cigar. “A woman said to me, is it true that you still go out with young girls? I said yes, it’s true. She said, is it true that you still smoke 15 to 20 cigars a day? I said yes, it’s true I said, is it true that you still take a few drinks every day? I said yes, it’s true.

Shocked, she said, what does your doctor say? I said, he’s dead.

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What is the definition of a bachelor pad?

All the houseplants are dead, but there’s something growing in the refrigerator.

An experienced real estate salesman asked his boss if he could refund the deposit to an angry customer who had discovered that the lot he had bought was underwater.

What kind of a salesman are you? The boss scolded. Get out there and sell him a boat.

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An employee said, the stress my boss puts me under is killing me. I have migraines, my blood pressure is going through the roof, I can’t sleep at night, I just found out I have an ulcer, and as long as I stay in this job the only question is whether I’ll have a stroke or heart attack.

So why don’t you quit?

Employee: I have a great health plan.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

On this Sunday, I agree to remember You God. If I am unable to go to church, I hereby promise to spend at least one hour watching a church service on television, or one hour reading the Bible.

I dedicate this Sunday to You, my God.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I am one with the ONE.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.” Helen Keller

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Positive Daily Inspiration – September 24, 2022 – Saturday Inspiration

Positive Daily Inspiration - September 24, 2022 - Saturday Inspiration

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“In as much as you have done it unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto Me.”
Matthew 25:40.

A young lady named Sally relates an experience she had in a seminary class, given by her teacher, Dr. Smith. She says that Dr. Smith was known for his elaborate object lessons.

One particular day, Sally walked into the seminary and knew they were in for a fun day. On the wall was a big target and on a nearby table were many darts.

Dr. Smith told the students to draw a picture of someone that they disliked or someone who had made them angry, and he would allow them to throw darts at the person’s picture. Sally’s friend drew a picture of a girl who had stolen her boyfriend. Another friend drew a picture of his little brother.

Sally drew a picture of a former friend, putting a great deal of detail into her drawing, even drawing pimples on the face. Sally was pleased with the overall effect she had achieved.

The class lined up and began throwing darts. Some of the students threw their darts with such force that their targets were ripping apart. Sally looked forward to her turn, and was filled with disappointment when Dr. Smith, because of time limits, asked the students to return to their seats.

As Sally sat thinking about how angry she was because she didn’t have a chance to throw any darts at her target, Dr. Smith began removing the target from the wall.

Underneath the target was a picture of Jesus. A hush fell over the room as each student viewed the mangled picture of Jesus, holes and jagged marks covered His face and His eyes were pierced.

Dr. Smith said only these words … “In as much as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
Matthew 25:40.

No other words were necessary, the tear-filled eyes of the students focused only on the picture of Christ.

A person’s religion is what they say and do all day, seven days a week – not what they say and do at 10 AM on Sunday.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

O God, how holy Your name,
give peace in our hearts,
in our homes,
in our world,
in our universe,
the peace of our need,
the peace of Your will.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I actively share my love of life with others.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “It’s pretty hard to get what you want when you’re busy doing and being what you don’t want.” Cheryl Janecky

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23Sep

Positive Daily Inspiration – September 23, 2022 – IN-BETWEEN STAGE

Positive Daily Inspiration - September 23, 2022 - IN-BETWEEN STAGE

“Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.”
Mark 6:31

I once did a lesson in the church called “Firmly in Midair.” I talked about that unsure place that we all must move through. The trapeze artist must decide to move to the other trapeze. To move to the other trapeze, he must let go of the trapeze he is holding, sailing through mid-air to grab hold of the trapeze on the other side. When he has let go of the one trapeze, he has lost his visible support and is moving forward on faith, hoping that the other trapeze will show up at the right time. It is the only way to move forward.

Have you ever felt as if you were at an in-between stage in your life? Maybe you ended one project or relationship, but were not ready to begin another. Yet at the same time, you felt as if you should be doing something.

Your ability to let go of the past does not necessarily mean that you are ready for the next step. It could be that you are moving into a time of soul preparation, a time of rest and renewal that will give you the strength to move forward.

If you feel guilty because you are not actively participating or moving ahead fast enough, give yourself permission to just “let it be” and enjoy this special time. You have to wait for the other trapeze to show up. When the new beginning comes – and I assure you that it will – you will be ready and prepared to succeed, beyond your wildest expectations.

Do as Jesus has said: Go to a secluded place all by yourself and rest a while, in preparation for the fast movement that change requires.

When you are in the in-between stage, do not berate yourself for not constantly moving; you are doing valuable soul work that is necessary and needed for your future success.

People do not rest and renew enough. You must allow yourself this time, and give yourself permission to experience the touch of God through prayer and reflection.

God’s love is powerfully active in your life, and it will set you free to be the best person you can possibly be.

God loves you, unconditionally. God wants you to be a human “being,” not just a human “doing.” Many people only have self-worth when they are busy. Modern people often find it very uncomfortable to turn off the TV and radio and to sit in the quiet. But it is only in doing so that we discover our true spiritual being.

You do not have to be busy in order to be lovable, because God loves you as the special creation that you are. This does not mean that you will not ever change, for change is inherent with freedom from the past. What I am saying is that God loves you at every stage of your growth, even in the times when you do not see anything happening.

Humans, in today’s society, are addicted to speed. Spirituality is found in stillness. God will bring new opportunities to you at the exact and precise time when your soul is ready to grasp on to the God-given good.

Through rest and renewal, you will feel free to express your full potential, and let the love of God shine in and through you, every day. You will be empowered by God to move into new experiences, fully expecting not only to grow but also to be blessed in the experience of growing.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

I take a moment to stop and turn the situation over to God. I surrender my own will and let God’s will be done. It let Divine order take over and I recognize that God’s will is being done. I place my trust in the One power in the universe, knowing that I am surrendering my will to the greater will of the good of God. I invite God to be an active participant in my life, I let God be God in my daily walk. I pray for a Divine plan to live a fulfilling life.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION God, not my will, but Your will be done.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “With a closed mind and heart, the light of God cannot enter.”

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22Sep

Positive Daily Inspiration – September 22, 2022 – PRAYERS STILL WATERS

Positive Daily Inspiration - September 22, 2022 - PRAYERS STILL WATERS

“Draw near to God and God will draw near to you.”
James 4:8

Beyond the windy trees of thought
In the valley of reflection
Amid the certitudes of spirit
And quietudes of soul,
Is the placid pool of prayer,
Where I may find myself
Alone with the Alone,
And one with the One,
May I lose my self.

Be still, all you windy thoughts
That blow through my mind,
And sit down with me
By prayer’s still waters.

-James Dillet Freeman

The first step in the realization of life is always to know that God is life, abundant, omnipresent, eternal; and the second step is to make positive connection with God by declaring your oneness with God.

Jesus Christ declared His oneness with the life and with God – the source of life – when He said, “I and the Father are one;” and “I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

You follow Jesus by declaring your oneness with God, and your oneness with life. You realize that God is life, and that God is the one eternal source of all. You make connection with God, through prayer, and you see that the possibilities for expressing this life, for expressing the goodness of God are unlimited.

You draw upon the intelligence of God, available to you through prayer, and you are inspired with Divine ideas, ideas that reveal the way to live a fuller, richer life.

In the stillness of prayer, you relax and realize how much God cares.

In 1 Peter 5:7, our Bible states, “Cast all your anxieties on God, for God cares about you.”

Conditions and circumstances may, at times, seem to block your path, but there is always a solution; there is always an answer.

Through your awareness with God’s great power for good in your life, and your realization of God’s presence always with you, your way through any tangled maze is made clear. You can surmount any obstacle. You can overcome all seeming limitations. You can rise above feelings of fear or doubt.

God cares about you. God is with you always, and God’s presence constantly enfolds you. You are never without God’s guidance. Regardless of what your need may be or what situation faces you, you are never alone. You turn to God, in prayer, and experience the feeling of your oneness with God.

You rest in the assurance that God is your help in every need. Then, with the feeling of total trust, you follow the guidance that comes to you from God.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, teach me freedom,
As the Eagle which soars in the sky.

Dear God, teach me resignation,
As the leaves which die in the fall.

Dear God, teach me regeneration,
As the seed which rises in the spring.

Dear God, teach me to forget myself,
As melted snow forgets.

Dear God, teach me to remember kindness,
As dry fields weep with the rain.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: Home is where the heart is, and my true home is in my heart where I abide with God.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” Thornton Wilder

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21Sep

Name: Nickles – Date: 9/21/2022, 5:45 AM – Prayer Request: “Sorry to disturb you…”

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Prayer Request: Sorry to disturb you but, my cousin Jaco Morton’s daughter, Catherine Alexis Morton, was in a serious car accident in Atlanta. She is currently in the trauma unit, is intubated and unresponsive.  Jacob is there with her. she needs our prayers and Jacob needs our prayers as well. And please keep little Catherine in prayer.

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21Sep

Positive Daily Inspiration – September 21, 2022 – God Timing

Positive Daily Inspiration - September 21, 2022 - God Timing

How long, O Lord?
Psalm 89:46

Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears.

Do you feel that God is not listening to your prayers?

GOD IS LISTENING!

When someone tells you that your dreams will happen in God’s time, do you roll your eyes, sigh hugely, and feel that, if that is the case, your dream will not come true in your lifetime.

GOD IS HELPING YOU BEHIND THE SCENES!

Imagine being God. Imagine coordinating a huge week full of family or friends – like a reunion. Some people would not even begin to plan something of this magnitude, or of any magnitude at all, while others relish the tasks and challenges. Even if you are a person who loves to coordinate gatherings, parties, get-togethers, imagine one of such a great magnitude as 8 BILLION guests! (Current world population)

“Not me,” you say! This is what God does, AND GOD CARES FOR EVERYONE!

God coordinates each and every person’s life so that it entwines with 7 billion other lives.

We are familiar with human dreams and lives. Imagine this human asking God for a life companion (or substitute your own dream). They ask Positive Christianity to pray with them, for this life companion.

Daily, for a full month, Positive Christianity prayer partners pray with her for her life companion to come into her life.

“Hmmmmm … 31 days have passed … where’s this life companion,” she says? “I’ve been asking for days – or weeks – or – months or even years. Is God not listening to me? Is God not sending me a life companion????”

Sometimes, in our human state, we get impatient, discouraged, and even lose hope, and we, sometimes, even forget our dreams.

Ah, but continue on … God is really with you, always! And God is with the other person.

Imagine being God, again. This person just asked for a life companion. God says, “I have the perfect one for you! Just wait! Let me get them.” Because God KNOWS just EXACTLY the right person for this woman. God LOVES giving us what we ask for.

God knows that the woman’s future life companion is not quite ready for her, for one reason, or another. The man has a couple of years to go before he is ready to be the best life companion for her … and for her to be really ready, to be the best life companion for him. But, in getting these two together, several things have to happen. This relationship affects many people – their family, their friends, their co-workers, etc. Everything needs to be in the proper place, and timing is everything, for this to work within their lives, and within the scheme of the entire world … all so that God can give both of them, and all concerned, the highest and most wonderful, good.

But this person may be sitting there without hope, feeling intensely lonely, abandoned, and sad.

She decides to just go out and choose the first person who comes into her life who is willing to be her life companion, no matter if either of them is really the best person for each other. Sometimes this is not the best decision.

Do you get the picture? It’s like a huge, big, sit-down dinner in which you find that you have two people who have decided not to sit in their designated places at the table. And you spent so much time and energy placing each person in the best place for them and for all the others.

God’s grace is often fixing our impulse mistakes that we impatiently make on-the-fly. God works to bring good to each and every situation.

This is a light look at what God just might go through when we get impatient with the slowness of life. But, even in humor, life still can hurt; life still can seem like such a struggle; and each of us knows the deep sadness when we feel that we might not received, or attain our dreams.

There is only ONE thing to remember:

GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU! God NEVER forgets you and is always guiding you and directing you towards that which you deeply desire and need.

God does not take your feelings, or your life, lightly. Whether you are looking for your life companion, or your life dreams to become manifest God helps in the same good ways.

God works night and day, within you, guiding you, directing you, showing you the way towards your dreams.

In Matthew 28:20 it says, “I am with you always.” We have heard that so many times, but I ask you now, when you face your difficulty, to remember these words.

You are not alone. God is with you, taking care of you.

We at Positive Christianity know that God works for you, for your highest good at all times. That’s why we pray with you so wholeheartedly and so gladly. We pray not only for your dream, or your desire, or your need, we also pray for your peace of mind, as you wait upon God, and as you learn that God’s time really IS the most perfect time. Each moment, every day, you continue to live the best life you can with what you have because you know that God is working, right now, towards that which you desire.

Instead of asking “How long, O Lord?” ask “what is my next step towards this dream, this desire, this need?” God will answer you. You have the answer within you, as God presence inspires you, leads you in patience, and celebrates the manifestations of your dreams with you.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, thank you for your vigilant care within my life and within every
other person’s life. I am filled with patience, today. I look above my
feelings to new hope in you. I ask you to help me cast out any feelings of
hopelessness, sadness, and frustration, and I see what you have placed
before me.

Each moment, I choose to move forward as I am guided and directed by you.
I imagine you walking beside me, every step of the way. I feel your
surrounding comfort, understanding, and unconditional love, wrapping
around me, like a blanket, calming my fears and lightening my heart.

Thank you, dear God, for always being there for me and with me, each and
every day. I pray that I enjoy the adventure of the journey.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen.

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: My life is in divine order in God’s perfect timing.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.” James Lane Allen

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20Sep

Positive Daily Inspiration – September 20, 2022 – Tuesday Prayer and Meditation

Positive Daily Inspiration - September 20, 2022 - Tuesday Prayer and Meditation

“From His fullness we have all receive, grace upon grace.”
John 1:16

I invite you to relax in the peace and silence of God’s loving presence.

Take a deep breath and hold it for several seconds. As you gently exhale, invite your mind to let go of all outer concern.

For these next minutes, all your concerns can be lovingly placed in the hands of God, and you can turn your attention to the kingdom of God and all the help it contains.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

Take another deep breath, holding it for as many seconds as is comfortable for you, and as you gently exhale, invite your body to relax in an awareness of God’s loving presence, a presence that enfolds, loves, and blesses us.

For these next few minutes, allow my words to resonate within you; allow my words to go to the very core of your being and to be your words consenting to and accepting their truth as your own.

The radiant life of God flows through me now.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

I open my mind and my heart to this loving Presence of God that is moving through every part of my being.

I begin, again, today with God’s willing help.

With God’s presence with me, I know that whatever I would like to be, I have the ready help at hand.

Whatever I would like to see changed in my life can change. With God, nothing is impossible.

I let go of old beliefs, old worn-out systems of thinking and feeling, and error thoughts about who I thought I was.

I am a beloved child of God, and God’s loving presence flows through me now and always.

God’s presence brings a newness, a new awareness, of Christ.

I feel God’s love flowing through me now.

This is the time – not tomorrow, not next week, not next year, but right now to personally feel God’s help.

I open my mind and my heart to God’s love, to God’s radiant life, and to God’s wisdom which is clearly guiding me and inspiring me to live the glorious life I was created to live.

Rest in the silence of prayer for a few moments, I invite you to hold an awareness of God’s loving presence as radiant life in every cell, every tissue, every organ of your being. Know that all of these parts of your body, and all of your mind, are being renewed, refreshed, rejuvenated, and regenerated.

I invite you to rest in the awareness of God’s loving, healing presence active in us all right now …

Rest in the silence of prayer …

I am a new person in Christ today.

I awaken, as if out of a dream, to a greater realization of God’s loving presence in me, now.

I awaken to a greater awareness of God’s perfect radiant life flowing through me, now.

I am richly and wonderfully blessed as I open my mind and my heart to this living, loving presence of God moving through my life, now.

I follow Jesus by becoming an instrument of God’s love and God’s life.

Thank You, dearest God, for Your loving presence flowing through me now.

Accept this now … In Jesus Christ’s name …

And so it is … Amen.

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: My life is filled with Divine Grace

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
John Lubbock

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19Sep

POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON – Success Through God’s Help

POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON - Success Through God's Help

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In all circumstances, you are comforted and reassured by the tender, loving presence of God. God’s love for you is unfailing and eternal. Nothing can separate you from the love of God.

A man went into a tailor shop to buy a new suit. The tailor thought, “Aha! I’ve got an easy mark here! I’ve got a suit in the back room I’ve been wanting to get rid of for a long time.” He went back, got the suit, and asked the man to try it on.

The man put it on, looked at himself in the mirror and said, “I like the suit, but it hangs down a little too far.”

The tailor said, “That’s no problem. What you do is you scoot it up like this and put your chin over here.”

The man said, “Well, there’s another problem. One of the pant legs is about three inches shorter than the other.”

The tailor said, “That’s no problem. Just pull it up here and put your knees together.”

The man looked in the mirror and said, “Wow! What a great looking suit.” He bought the suit, walked out and headed down the road.

People said of the man, “What a great looking suit, but what a shame he has so many physical difficulties.”

That is the way it is with many of us. We may think we are fooling people. We may think we are dressing up. We think we’re putting on a show, but there is no way, not really, we can hide our challenges.

As Emerson said, “What we are speaks so loudly that others can hardly hear our words.”

Sometimes, our past failures affect us at the core of our being. We don’t know how to go forward. We use the power of the mind in the wrong way. We give over all of our God-given gifts of mind to human pessimism. We might say to ourselves, “Oh well, I’ve done that before. I didn’t have any success at it, and I would never ever do that again. I’m too smart for that.”

Helen Keller had every reason in the world to be a pessimist. Deaf and blind from infancy, Helen Keller played a leading role in most of the significant political, social, and cultural movements of the 20th century. Throughout her lifetime (1880-1968) she worked unceasingly to improve the lives of people who were blind and deaf. Helen’s own approach to life can be summed up by her advice to a five-year-old blind child in 1932: “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” Here’s what she said about pessimism: “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened the new heaven to the human spirit.”

Today, we are asking God’s blessing for successful living. This is not a generic teaching. This is a success truth about God working in our lives, giving us new success.

I’m going to give you a definition of success that may somewhat surprise you: Success may elude you because you haven’t failed enough. People who are willing to risk failure and learn from the loss have the best chance at succeeding. The people who are a success today if you were to read their whole story, you would find that they failed, time and time again, and that they were able to make course corrections and then go forward into their success. Failure sometimes humbles us enough to ask God for help, leading us to our greatest lifelong success.

Failure is merely the cost of succeeding. It is the cost of seeking new challenges in our lives. I’m going to give you ten steps to overcome the failure you have had in your life. I am talking to you directly on this. You know we have all had failures because we are alive. We are in this church because we have overcome that failure. We are breathing in and out, we are thinking positively again, we are holding on to God, and we are here for a reason, seeking God’s blessing, because we do not want to remain the same, not even the same as yesterday. We want to become new, and better than yesterday.

There are steps to climb over that hill of past failure. Sometimes, even though we continue to breathe, we remain in consciousness of that failure from the past.

We must stop using the word failure. In my study of people over the years, I have found that successful people never talk about their failures. They say, “Well, I had a glitch back then … ” or “I had a bump in the road back then … ” Now, these glitches, these bumps in the road, might have destroyed an ordinary man or woman, but they had something else. They had a drive that said, “You know, I’ve got the power with me and within me from God. I’m going to go on. I’m going to make something out of myself.” And they do. Anybody who had that ingrained in the very fiber of their belief system can go on and become all that they want to become.

I want to tell you the story of the man you saw on TV years ago in countless commercials, holding up the Remington shaver, saying, “I like this so much I bought the company.” Well, here is what you don’t know about him. Forty-six years ago, Victor Kiam had a friend come to him with an idea. Victor wavered on the idea. He didn’t know if he really had it in him to take the idea, run with it and make it a big success. So, he told his friend to find someone else. That new product that Victor turned down was Velcro. It has become a billion dollar industry – bigger than Remington.

In his book “Live To Win”, Victor said, “I just look at that as another bump on the road.” But he also said, “If I would have allowed it, it would have destroyed me and my life. I had a choice. I had to make that choice. I realized this for several weeks, even months. I allowed it to depress me deeply. I couldn’t even get out of bed. Then I decided to use the wisdom from that to make a course correction in my life. I decided to look at it seriously, and ask myself the question, ‘Why?'” you ask this question, not as a victim, but instead as a person that is truly ready for self-examination. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

Number #1. Have confidence in yourself. Next time – and friends there is always a next time – have the confidence to take the action that you need at the given time. When Remington came along, Victor had the confidence to buy the company and make it a success. If you want to stand out, don’t be different; be outstanding.

Number #2. Don’t take failure personally.

This is probably the most important step of all because we usually do take failure personally. One person had a failure in his life and he said, “Well, that’s it. I’m a loser. I’m just no good. I’ve had this failure and, if the truth were known, I’ve had 16,000 failures, one after another, after another. I’m just a loser. I’ll never be anything but a loser.”

A loser connected to a winner can be a loser for long. That’s precisely the time to reconnect with the ultimate winner – God.

Do not take failure in a personal way. For instance, if you are unemployed, do you think about it all the time? Do you think that because you went out to look for a job, today, without success, that you will never find a job. Do you label yourself as unemployed? What you call yourself will become a powerful reality in your life. I like to share with people that they are people with lots of open options, lots of ways to go. Always, God, has an open door for you waiting for you to find and accept its new way.

Isaiah 60:11 states, “Your gates shall be open continually … they shall not be shut.”

New doors of opportunity are always open – a door somewhere is always opening. God is holding the door for you.

Ask yourself every day: “What if I had to buy my thoughts?” Imagine if we had to actually go down to the convenience store, reach into our pocket and say, “Well, I’ll take a little worry, about sixty-five cents of depression, and I would like to have $1.30 of crippling anxiety.”

We wouldn’t do that; you know we wouldn’t. We would go in there and ask for the good stuff. We would decide to do that, even if the thoughts were very cheap, because we were actually making the purchase.

Well, we are making the purchase. Every day, we go to the “convenience mind” inside of us, and we decide what we’re going to purchase and what we’re not going to purchase. My goodness, thoughts can become very, very expensive. Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us.

Once, when he was a little boy, the famous American Ben Franklin had a birthday party. His family and friends gave him six pennies. Well, the pennies just burned a hole in his pocket. He had to go and spend the pennies, so he went to the store and saw a toy whistle. Of course, the clerk sold it to him for the six pennies – much more than it was worth. He went home and made so much noise with his toy whistle that he drove everyone crazy. His parents, friends, and family asked what he paid for the toy whistle. He said, “I paid six pennies.”

They said, “You paid four times too much!”

As a little boy, that changed his life. Through that course correction, he remembered that lesson all through his days. Even into his old age, when men and women were spouting different philosophies and talking about anxiety and fear, Ben Franklin would say of them, “They paid too much for their whistle.”

I have a question to ask you: What is the one thing you want to achieve?

Now, I have a second question for you: What has been your greatest disappointment, or discouragement toward that goal?

Now I have a truth for you. You are not that discouragement. Even if you were, even if it was totally your fault, you are brand new, today. Every day, you are new. It is part of the Grace of God that we do not have to remain the same. We become better human beings because we become better receivers of God. That is true of everyone; it is especially true of you who are sitting in this room.

Number #3. Use your defects. You say, “I am just laden with defects. This is the reason I cannot get past failure.” Listen to this: we succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess; but we excel in those in which we also make use of our defects.

A very famous radio announcer, who is now a minister, once admitted, “I have something called a lazy larynx. It is very difficult for me to speak. I found this out when I was in broadcasting. I would slur certain words then, and I still do to this day if I do not have enough air behind each word. The funny thing about what happened in Nashville was that once I learned that, I started to suck in air and put power behind each word. At first my style was a bit choppy. Then the strangest thing happened – advertisers started to seek this man out because people could hear every word.”

Use your defects. Use everything because what seems like a defect to you may be the answer to your whole career. It may be uniqueness that comes out. It may be the specialness that is you. You are a fingerprint on the universe – individual, special, and unique. People love you for your defects more than they do for your perfection. They love your little quirks, the little special things you do. Use them to your advantage.

Number #4. You will get another chance. If there were a tattoo artist in this room, right now, I would have this tattooed on everyone who was willing: I WILL GET ANOTHER CHANCE!

You will get another chance if you can accept it. You have to accept the chance. You have to be willing to see the chance, go after it, and accept new ideas.

Listen to this: God is continually on the birthing bed. God never rests. God is continually birthing in you new ideas – for you, your life, and your career that can transform your life and everything you’re doing in your life.

Number #5. God is with you, not to commiserate, but to co-create. God is your help in every need.

There was a man on Long Island who bought a barometer around the turn of the century. He had wanted this barometer for a long, long time and paid good money for it, from a mail order house in New York City. When the barometer was delivered to his home on the east coast, he noticed the needle was pointing toward “hurricane.” He looked outside and it looked fine. He shook the barometer, and the needle appeared to be stuck pointing to hurricane. Well, the man went into a tirade. He paced up and down. He wrote a scorching letter to the company saying, “Everything I buy is defective … ” The next day when he traveled into town, he mailed the letter to the company. (That’s why we know this story.) Later on that afternoon, the barometer was missing, and so was his house. The hurricane had hit.

You have a “barometer” inside of you, too. The needle is stuck and here is what the needle is stuck on: God is with you.

A lot of times you will shake it and say, “My life is so out of order. I can’t believe God could possibly be with me.” You are shaking it but the needle stays right there and will not move. It never will because God is with you every moment of every day.

Number #6. With God at your side, be brave. Take an honest new look at an old problem. Here is how you do this. First of all you might say, as one man did, “It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time, because they refuse to stand in line.” Whatever position they are in, look at them, one at a time, and examine them, not with human consciousness, but with God’s eyes. Ask God for illumination, guidance, inspiration, and understanding in solving the individual problem. Then, on one piece of paper, write down exactly what the problem is. Define it. On another piece of paper, write down, “What do I think about this problem? What is its cause?” On a third sheet of paper, write down, “What are my feelings about this problem?” Then, on the fourth sheet of paper, go into the following steps you will take to solve the problem:

With God at your side agree to stop worrying, fretting, blaming, or feeling guilty, angry, or afraid.

With God at your side re-establish joy, excitement, and faith in your life.

With God at your side discuss a plan of action with positive people who support you.

With God at your side, you are a positive person for others. If you want to be a friend to somebody, support somebody, unconditionally. Be with them. Listen. Pray with them. If you don’t have someone like this, find someone and make that person very valuable in your life. You will become very valuable in their life, too.

With God at your side: Write: “I will go into action in the following ways,” and then wait in the silence of prayer for God to give you ideas.

God will never let you down – ever. God will give you ideas. They will pour forth. You will be blessed by God. You won’t be able to contain the ideas on the page.

Then, give thanks to God for the perfect answer that is already there. Tell yourself, That’s no hill for a climber; that’s no step for a stepper because I am blessed by God.

Number #7. Don’t just wonder what your purpose in life is. Ask yourself, “What do I love in life.”

What do you love in life? What do you have a passion for in life? There’s a huge difference between just living and having the passion for life. Here is the difference. It is like a song that makes you dance in comparison to a song you dance to. Do you see the difference? So often we are compelled to do things, and then if we find our passion and our love, we just flow. We can’t contain ourselves because so much good is happening through us.

God can only give to you what God can get through you. Don’t quit on God. A man and his wife said they used to get into the back seat of their car, sit back, relax, cross their legs, and say, “Okay, God, if you love us you will drive me to California.” Here they are, in the back seat of their car, waiting for God to get into the car, take the wheel, and drive them to California.

God, who is waiting to give, who is so willing to inspire, just shrugs. God finally says to the back seat drivers, “I can only give to you what I can get through you. If you’ll get in the front seat, if you’ll take the wheel in faith, I will give you the ways to go to California. I will give you the motivation to go to California. I will give you the means to go to California. If you start to move, I will tell you where to turn, how fast to go, and when to stop.” We have to get out of the back seat.

In faith, we must take the wheel.

Number #8. Have lasting power. Some of you who are fans of auto racing remember the name Mickey Thompson. He created the fastest cars ever created. In the twenty-nine races he started, he had the fastest car. The car immediately went to the front of the line, but he never finished a race. The cars always broke down. Something always happened to the cars. The fastest car did not have the lasting power. You have to be willing to finish the race. God will inspire, through you, if you do not quit on God. You see, we say all the time, “Oh God, why did You quit on me?” when, if the truth were known, it is the reverse. We have to finish our course, finish our race and believe.

Number #9. You have only one product to sell, one product to improve, and that product is yourself. Always market a new self. I’ve said many times that what you are looking at today is the best (your name) that has ever been, but it’s nothing like what is coming out in this fall. The 2014 model is coming out. It’s going to have a new grill, a new dashboard, etc. It’s not even going to look like the old (your name).

In every part of your life, become that which you want to be. You have to believe it. You have to become that which you are seeking. Then, like a magnet, it is already drawn to you. It is going from the back seat to the front seat, taking the wheel, and saying, “Okay, God. I believe in You and I know You ARE with me in my life.”

Number #10. Become the success.

We live according to our self-image, the pattern we create daily, and we project it into tomorrow. Most of us imagine ourselves to be less than we are. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge – but imagination. Imagine yourself as successful and become that – and it will become you. You have the blessing of God.

Remember:

#1. Stop using the word failure.
#2. Don’t take failure personally.
#3. Use your defects.
#4. Accept new ideas.
#5. Accept the fact that God is with you, your help in every need.
#6. Be brave; really brave. With God, take a new look at the old problem.
#7. Do what you have a passion for doing.
#8. Have a lasting power in doing it.
#9. Market a brand-new you.
#10. Be the success you seek.

God bless you!

PRAYER / MEDITATION_______________________

What an opportunity we share, to go to God and to know God on a personal basis. Right now, you are drifting away from past thoughts and opinions of who you think you are. You are drifting in spiritual consciousness into the light of truth, the truth that God speaks to you about you and for you. You are drifting away from past limitations that you have placed upon yourself.

You are directly blessed by God.

Jesus Christ is here in our midst, raising us up.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

With God, you are going beyond the failures you have had in your lifetime, and you are receiving a spiritual course correction. In prayer, you receive the illumination and the guidance, along with the incredible comfort of God.

In reassurance of resting in the power of God in the silence of prayer …

Jesus said, “You are a child of the living God. You have, within you, the all-creating power of the Christ. This power of the Christ radiates from you and blesses all you contact. We are connected in prayer. And in that connection, we are both agreeing to God’s will and God’s good.

Your life is God-given life and abundant living. Your life is made up of God’s strength. And your life is made up of new God-given courage because you know, without a doubt, that God is with you. You are patient. As you pray this day, you rest in God. You are not anxious about anything. You realize that God is working; you let go and you let God. God is magnificent. “How great Thou art!”

You are blessed by God.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

There is a peace inside of you that passes human understanding. It is at the core of your being. It is a well-being. You decree in prayer, in Jesus Christ’s name, that this feeling of well-being will stay with you, all the hours and minutes of this week.

You have a power inside of you to rise above past failures, to realize that it is nothing at all for a God connected spiritual person. And you are a spiritual victor because there is that within you that is helping you now and going higher.

In the silence of prayer you are agreeing with God …

Dear God, I wish to go up higher than I have ever gone before. I have realized Your presence, many times, in my life. I consent now to realizing it more. Dear God, I consent this day to realizing God in a new profound way. I know, dear God, that You are always fresh, new, and exciting. I pray that You are all those and more inside of me, this morning. I give thanks for Your presence.

Rest now, once more, for a holy moment, in the silence of prayer …

The grace of God is working in your life. The grace of God is alive. The grace of God is your assurance of all good things.

You are blessed by God.

In Jesus Christ’s name, we give thanks … Amen.

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