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18Jul

POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON – God Can Cleanse Hidden Thoughts

POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON - God Can Cleanse Hidden Thoughts

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“Come to him, a living stone … chosen and precious in God’s sight.”
1 Peter 2:4

A long time ago in a kingdom far away, there lived a young prince who had just turned 21 years of age. His name was Prince Peter. He longed so for a bride. He asked his parents, “Is it time, right now, for me to get married?”

His mother, the Queen, who was a very kindly queen said, “Yes, I guess it is. But make sure that the girl you choose is a princess – a real princess.”

So, the search began. They began looking all over the kingdom for a real princess. Many young women came to the castle, but the Queen was not interested in them because not one could prove that she was a real princess.

One day there was quite a storm that came over the kingdom. It was the type of storm where the rain came down in buckets and the lightning flashed across the sky. Out of all this sound that was going on outside, there was a tapping at the castle door.

The King and Queen looked up and asked each other, “Did you hear anything?”

Prince Peter said, “I think that somebody is outside the door.”

They opened up the big door to the castle. Standing out there was a small, soaking wet young woman. She looked up and said, “Hello. I have come because I am a real princess.”

She didn’t look like a real princess. She was soaking wet. Her clothes were just hanging on her. Her soaking wet hair was hanging down in her face.

But the Queen said, “Come in, my dear. Tonight, we won’t worry about whether you’re a real princess or not. We’re going to get you dried off. After you’ve had a good night’s sleep, we’ll decide if you’re a real princess or not.”

Then, the Queen called over the head chambermaid and said, “Do exactly as I say. I want you to put a small, dried pea right in the middle of the bed. Then, on top of that small, dried pea, I want you to put 20 of our softest feather mattresses.”

The chambermaid did exactly as she said. When the young woman went into the room after her bath, she had to look up at the bed because all of these mattresses practically went to the ceiling. (She did not know about the small, dried pea underneath them all.) So, she climbed up a step ladder and got into the center of the bed.

While she was sleeping, all the servants were busy drying and ironing her clothes. The next morning when she got up and came down to breakfast, she looked more like a princess than anyone that they had seen. She was beautiful.

The Queen looked up and said, “My dear, how did you sleep?”

The young woman said, “Well, I do not mean to be impolite, but I didn’t sleep a wink. No matter which way I turned, I felt a lump in the middle of the bed. I tossed and turned all night long.”

The Queen looked at Prince Peter and Prince Peter looked at the Queen … but he was looking more at the young princess by now. Soon they were married, and they lived happily ever after.

You’ve read this story before about the small, dried up pea in the middle of the bed and the 20 feather mattresses on top of that pea, and how no one could feel a small, dried up pea.

This is not a story about a vegetable in the middle of a bed. This is a story about something that we “think” is hidden deep inside of us. The small, dried-up pea is really a small, dried-up thought, and the old anger, or an ancient resentment.

We have tried to cover-up that thought because it initially hurt us. So, we’ve pushed it down and covered it up with layers upon layers of years. But there are still times when you’re tossing and turning all night long and you can’t sleep and you don’t even know why, but, that small, dried-up pea sized thought is still inside of you.

It’s still there, and it’s still pushing out. It’s still affecting you. You don’t really even know what it is anymore because it is has been pushed so far down, for so long.

But what is pushed down, pushes up. It is like trying to hold the beach ball underneath the water the further you push it down, the harder it tries to pop back up.

You see, we are taught early to repress thoughts. We are taught in childhood that if it really hurts us, don’t face it now; just suppress it, push it down, and it will hurt less. That is error thinking. Actually that thing bubbles up all the time, pushes out all the time, and it hurts us constantly, probably affecting our health.

Well, the princess couldn’t rest. She felt discomfort. The princess was royalty.

That’s interesting because you, too, are royalty. You may not feel like royalty because you’ve had lots of small, dried-up pea error thoughts inside of you that tell you otherwise. But you are royalty.

On what authority do I say that? On the authority of the Jesus Christ teachings.

Jesus said, “You are a child of God.” You are a king. The only thing that keeps us from accepting that fully in our awareness – is our awareness – of the small, dried-up error thoughts that are inside of us. These small, outdated thoughts make us think that we are less than we are. They make us uncomfortable during the day, and often make us toss and turn at night.

The gift of God is rest; a mental cleansing that gives a good night’s sleep. The gift of God is a confidence from deep within to allow you to do things that you wouldn’t dream that you could do.

The gift of God is that extra foundation strength that is inside of you that is firm; that you know that you can stand on when you’re facing some adversity.

All life outside of you is an echo. Remember the images of the person standing on one mountain and shouting and then the echo would come back? Well, all life outside of you is an echo of everything that is inside of you in your awareness.

Even the small, dried-up thoughts, (the old, error thoughts that we should have cleansed out long ago), are STILL in there. They have a small voice, but it comes back many times magnified over. Every thought inside of our heads is like a seed. It can grow into something that is way, way out of proportion as the years go on if we give it the power.

There is a wonderful story that author Emmett Fox talks about a big old bear going into a campground. This big old bear is hungry. He sees a cast iron pot on the fire. The lid is just dancing because of all the heat. The bear licks his chops.

He comes into the campground and puts his arms around the kettle. And interesting thing happens next. That bear is scalded and burned so badly. The normal thing to do would be to scream and to drop the kettle. But a bear’s only defense is hugging. So, as the kettle begins to hurt the bear, he does the one thing that it can do … it hugs the kettle tighter, to the undoing of the bear.

But, you know, we do the same thing. When something hurts us, we push that back down fast so that it is not in our face. In doing that, it can live inside of us to come up another day.

You know, these thoughts are like the bubbles in Seven-Up. They continually bubble up. That is the grace of human consciousness. We have the chance to deal with those thoughts again to get them, before they get us.

These thoughts will continue to come up. And as they do, we have the opportunity to eliminate them.

Let’s look to what Jesus Christ says about the inside of you and what we should do with these small, dried-up thoughts.

In Matthew 23, [verses 25-26], Jesus Christ says, “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate, but the inside is full of extortion and rapacity [covetous]. You blind Pharisee. First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the plate, that the outside also may be clean.”

What is He talking about here? Is He teaching humankind throughout all ages how to be clean? Is He teaching humankind throughout all ages how to do dishes? No. He’s talking about the human condition and He’s talking about your mind.

He’s talking about how we go through so much time putting on our suits and ties and combing our hair and doing everything we need to do to groom ourselves, but we forget about the cleansing of our human mind. It is too very important. Truthfully, it is more important than the exterior. The exterior will take care of itself once the inside is clean.

The second part of that teaching is talking about the exterior of all of your life. We spend so much time trying to clean that up. If we cleaned up the inside of us, the whole outside would be clean.

The Bible goes on. In verse 27 [of Matthew] Jesus says, “For you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and uncleanliness.” We have a lot of old, dead ideas inside of us. It’s time, once and for all, to cleanse those out of our consciousness.

I’m going to share with you the same teaching, but from a different Gospel. Jesus is told that he approached this from a slightly different way, clarifying the teaching even more. [Luke 11:39-40]. “And the Lord said to him, now you Pharisees, cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and wickedness. You fools. Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?”

Often we have a person ask, what is blocking me, what is wrong? Everything on the outside can look perfect but yet there is a deep dissatisfaction that is hidden.

God can heal our bodies. But God can also heal what is deep inside of you. Pray to God to completely wash the inside of your cup. Some pray for God to heal their depression, their emotional state. Some feel in the blues today because of old thoughts that are inside churning around, God made the inside of you also and God can heal that once and for all. It’s a HUGE thing to you, but nothing to God. Just ask for and accept an inside healing.

Jesus goes on and tells us how to do it. He said, “Give for alms those things which are within, and behold everything is clean for you.”

What does it mean to ‘give for alms?’ It means to give freely. When those old things come up, instead of pushing them down because they hurt us, give up freely and let those old thoughts be gone once and for all.

When they come up we have the opportunity to examine those thoughts. We have a choice. Our choice is cleansing or pushing down again and re-polluting.

Once upon a time there was a giant Maytag washing machine as big as this room. It cleaned clothes beautifully. But when it went into the spin cycle and started to drain out its water, it pumped it back into the machine the dirty water instead of draining it out, and dirtied the clothes again with the dirty water.

We do the same with soiled memories; we have an opportunity to eliminate these old thoughts when they come up.

Old anger thoughts often push up and out as illness in the body, sluggishness and fatigue.

Thoughts occupy space; you might not think that that tiny, dried-up old thought inside of you is going to come through all those layers of the years. But they do.

A man bought a brand-new trash can for his house. He always put the trash in bags and tied them tightly.

Yet, when he opened the lid, it would almost knock him over with the smell. He couldn’t understand why. Finally, he got brave enough to stick his head in that trash can and look around. He found a little piece of rotten banana peel about the size of a dime.

You might think, “Well, I have so many good thoughts inside of my mind. But occasionally one of those old thoughts creeps up. Surely, if I push that back down and don’t deal with it, it won’t hurt the rest of the thoughts because I’m getting more good thoughts all the time.”

One small thought inside can pollute you we must also do a mental housecleaning.

You have dominion! You have dominion over every thought inside of your head. It is not the other way around. You have dominion. Take the reins of those out-of-control thoughts. Every night before going to bed, deal with the thoughts that have not been up to the Christ standard about you that day. Simply say, “NO!”

I’m going to close today’s talk with these words from Romans 12:2:

Do not be conformed to this world BUT BE TRANSFORMED by the renewing of your mind. that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect of God.

There were lots of other princesses that slept on that bed. They probably didn’t have a good night’s sleep either. But they didn’t want to admit it. Therefore, they didn’t get to marry the prince. We are in this life to become better on the inside; it is our hidden curriculum, but it will also reflect for all to see.

It is time to stop tossing and turning. Start enjoying life. Life is a joy. Live each day that way.

Let us pray, right now, and begin the process.

In prayer, I talk to the deep areas inside of me, seeking a renewed life through a renewing of my mind. I speak directly to any lodged error thought. To that error in our thinking, I say “I call upon God’s help to evict you.

You are welcome no more. You can no longer hurt me.”

We have imprisoned thoughts that are thieves that rob us still. To those thoughts we say: I release and let them go. To those thoughts I decree that you have vanished into nothingness.

Dear God, I ask that old embedded thoughts will come up and out so that I have an opportunity to examine each. I am now empowered and strengthened by God during this process. Old thoughts, as they come up, are disarmed

and defenseless. They have no power to hurt us.

Old thoughts are subservient to our command. We are empowered by this process. We smile again in areas of our life where we have not smiled in ages.

The process begins now. We walk with God through the recesses of our mind.

The cleansing and renewal are at hand.

We say, Thank you, God!

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen.

God Bless You!

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God is here. God is your help in every need.

Realize now, in prayer, that nothing is too small or too insignificant to merit God’s help. Most of us do not hesitate to seek God’s help in the big problems of our lives. But often we do not think about seeking God in the small and everyday occurrences.

We are here today to remember to put God first in our life. God is life, love, wisdom, intelligence, peace, order, substance and power within and around you. A problem, no matter how small or how large, is an area of life in which a greater expression of God is needed.

Rest in the presence of God in the silence of prayer …

God is the only true help and answer to our every need, no matter what it is, where it is, or when it occurs.

All of us have had days when we have felt that we got up on the wrong side of the bed. All of our activities have seemed to be out of rhythm. We have dropped things. We have rushed around accomplishing nothing.

We have blundered through these days saying, “It’s just one of those days.”

On such days, there is a need for order and harmony in our thinking, our feeling and in our acting. We need to stop, relax and turn our attention to God. We need to recognize that God is our help right now in this need, because God is perfect order.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

As we let Divine order fill our thinking, feeling and acting, our environment takes on a harmonious rhythm. By accepting God’s help in our seemingly small tasks, our day is transformed into an orderly, happy day.

Through the power of the spoken word, we decree: I AM ONE WITH GOD, AND WITH A DIVINE SENSE OF ORDER. I AM CALM AND POISED. GOD’S ORDER IS MANIFEST IN MY LIFE AND IN ALL THAT CONCERNS ME.

Accept this Truth about you now in the silence of prayer …

Proverbs 3:6 says, “In all your ways, acknowledge God and God will make straight your paths.”

No matter what need confronts you, recognize that it is a need for a greater expression of God. Then, accept. Accept God’s help that is already here.

As you accept God’s help in every aspect of your life, your life becomes orderly, joyous and productive.

Decree: I AM ONE GOD, AND WITH A DIVINE SENSE OF ORDER. I AM CALM AND POISED. GOD’S ORDER IS MANIFEST IN MY LIFE AND IN ALL THAT CONCERNS ME.

It is so. It is right. Rest in the silence of prayer …

Following Jesus Christ, we accept this as true for us right now, in our life, today.

Thank you, God … Amen.

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18Jul

Positive Daily Inspiration – July 18, 2022 – The Love of God is Yours

Positive Daily Inspiration - July 18, 2022 - The Love of God is Yours

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued my faithfulness to you.”
Jeremiah 31:3

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A couple who lived most of their wedded life in Hugo, Minnesota, marked their 84th wedding anniversary. Clarence Vail, 101, and Mayme, 99, hold a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for their achievement.

You have to have patience and says Mayme, to be married to the same person for over eight decades. The couple only recently moved into a nursing home. They had six children, 30 grandchildren, 101 great-grandchildren, and 40 great-great-grandchildren. They hope to celebrate their 85th wedding anniversary and beat the world marriage record set by a couple, since deceased, from Taiwan.

Human love is wonderful, and worth rejoicing and celebrating. We often count the days of its existence. How much more is the love of God.

God has never left your side, and never will.

Today is a day to be in an awareness of God’s steadfast love and care.

Through every circumstance of your life, through every stage of growth, God has provided for all your needs. God continues to care tenderly for your every need today.

God’s power moves through your body, mind, and circumstances of your life as love, light and life itself, enabling you to be blessed and to be a blessing to others.

When problems in living arise, God is there, loving you through each moment. God’s presence inspires the growth that can take place and the overcoming’s that can be obtained. All this is done in love. Remembering this, calms and strengthens your mind and heart and helps you to do what needs to be done by you. You are NEVER alone. You are with someone that loves you and will never leave you.

If there is any sense of hurry or confusion in your life, serenity can be restored with remembrance of God’s steadfast love.

God is with you right now. For this blessed assurance you give joyous thanks. You know that you can turn to God in any time, in any need, and trust God to continually love you.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, I pray that I am empowered my whole lifelong the love continuously.
I realize that as Your love comes through me, I feel it and am blessed by it too.
I pray that I’m a blessing to all that I meet.
I pray others feel my love and care.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I am poised, patient, and positive. I know that God pours out God’s good upon me.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice

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17Jul

Positive Daily Inspiration – July 17, 2022 – SUNDAY FUNNIES

Positive Daily Inspiration - July 17, 2022 - SUNDAY FUNNIES

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows God’s handiwork.”
Psalms 19:1

“I like rice. Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2000 of something.”
Mitch Hedberg

“The best way to get your husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.”
Shirley MacClaine

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A woman goes into a coffee shop and notices there’s a ‘peel and win’ sticker on her coffee cup.

So she peels it off and starts screaming, “I’ve won a motor home! I’ve won a motor home!”

The waitress says, “That’s impossible. The biggest prize is a free Lunch?”

But the woman keeps on screaming, “I’ve won a motor home! I’ve won a motor home!”

Finally, the manager comes over and says, “Ma’am, I’m sorry, but you’re mistaken. You couldn’t have possibly won a motor home because we didn’t have that as a prize.”

The woman says, “No, it’s not a mistake. I’ve won a motor home!”

And she hands the ticket to the manager and HE reads … “W I N A B A G E L”

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On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother.

The note read, ‘The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.’

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A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the bottle. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. ‘Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now. She’s hitting the bottle.’

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As I was packing for my business trip, my 3-year old daughter was having a wonderful time playing on the bed. At one point, she said, “Daddy, look at this,” and stuck out two of her fingers.

Trying to keep her entertained, I reached out and stuck her tiny fingers in my mouth and said, “Daddy’s gonna eat your fingers!” pretending to eat them before I rushed out of the room again.

When I returned, my daughter was standing on the bed staring at her fingers with a devastated look on her face.

I said, “What’s wrong, honey?”

She replied, “What happened to my booger?”

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

The 23rd Psalm:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want

God makes me to lie down in green pastures:

God leadeth me beside the still waters.

God restores my soul: God leadeth me in the paths of righteousness of God’s name sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil: My cup runneth over

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

In Jesus Christ’s name. . Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I affirm I will consciously see the humor in life today and laugh more.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.” Joel Osteen

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16Jul

Positive Daily Inspiration – July 16, 2022 – Miracle Help from God

Positive Daily Inspiration - July 16, 2022 - Miracle Help from God

Jesus said, “Jesus looked at them and said, “With humans this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:26

Does some situation before you seem absolutely impossible?

In human mind, we need to insert God’s hyphen within that negative word to change impossible to I’m-possible!

What may be impossible to your human thinking is completely possible to God, RIGHT NOW. God knows the way, when to your human mind, there may seem to be no way. You can meet and overcome everything when you have the invincible power of God working with you.

Have you been told that some condition is incurable and hopeless?

Do not accept this prognosis. You do not give up because you still have God’s help. The life of God is present in every cell of your body, and this life flows through you in a continuous healing stream.

The truth is that God’s healing is always possible and probable.

Have you thought that some door is closed to you? Have you resigned yourself to some limitation simply because “That’s the way it is?” Do not give in to any belief that your God-good can be kept from you. You remind yourself today, that with God, all things are possible, and that the happiness and fulfillment you seek are right now seeking you. You are free to open the door to new life. You let God’s help, help you, through laying hold of the realization that God makes all things possible. This realization can transform your life and your world.

I love to take impossible situations to God. I love to see what God is going to do with insurmountable problems. It has become a very pleasurable activity for me to watch God work. I am always in awe and wonder at how God works out situations in my life and in the lives of those that I pray for, that to human mind, seem impossible.

Feeling one with God, and all that God is, helps us to be in tune with the vast spectrum of endless possibilities of life. To be in tune with the Infinite is to be in tune with God and God’s marvelous creation. It is to be in tune with God’s power and all that is good, perfect and true. It is to be in tune with the creative force that works through our minds making all things possible. It creates, re-creates, invents and builds anew.

You are carried along on currents of faith and joy. Life becomes fun again. You live in a constant state of thankfulness. You experience Divine order in all phases of your life and being — mind, body, soul and the situations in your daily life. Health and wholeness become the order of everyday. Peace becomes the primary feeling in your mind as all confusion and doubt are cast out. With God directing you, success and happiness will takeover in all that you undertake.

If something is impossible in your life, you are leaving out the power of God. God knows the answer; God knows the way; God knows the solution.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

“With God’s all-powerful help and wisdom, NOTHING is impossible to me!
I agree to work with God by casting out hopeless belief and my personal human mind concept that something can be at a dead-end.
Dear God, I ask, for Your all-powerful help of new possibilities in my life immediately.
I agree to open my mind to new belief and new hope.
I will stay open to Your guidance, and I will not refuse or argue when You tell me what to do to come to a successful conclusion.
I now know that working with You, God, all things are possible in my life.”
In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: My God-given birthright is all the goodness of the kingdom of heaven. I am infinitely blessed.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
W. Clement Stone

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15Jul

Positive Daily Inspiration – July 15, 2022 – GOD TIME

Positive Daily Inspiration - July 15, 2022 - GOD TIME

“In everything God works for good.”
Romans 8:28

I have a clock in the office. This watch adjusts itself to radio signals from the atomic clock located in Fort Collins Colorado. It is supposedly accurate to one second every 20 million years. The clock was on sale for only $21. at Costco.

In the living room of my home, I have a family heirloom grandfather clock that is said to be worth in excess of $8000. It chimes on the hour, every hour, but it is usually off by several minutes every day. Like a human being it gets wound up and uses heavy weights to motivate it’s movement.

As expensive as that clock is, it relies on itself, instead of a higher power. It doesn’t have a choice, BUT WE DO.

We must choose between the wound-up tension of our weight and pressures of daily life, and instead rely on a higher power.

It is so important it is for the human brain to stop many times during the day align and recalibrate itself with God. Like my office clock, we receive the true and accurate signal that aligns our life and our thinking with perfection. It is easy for the human mind to sway from the standard of Christ mind. It is easy for human action and reaction to move away from God’s perfect love.

We all know people that struggled their way through every day, and they are their own worst enemy.

Sleep aligns us with God, we can go to bed at night in a semi-bad mood, and wake up being a whole new person. The last activity of your day before you go to sleep, should be to talk to God, and give your problems over to God for God to handle.

It is so easy for us to recalibrate ourselves to the Jesus Christ method of thinking and become one with God in our awareness. A mind attuned to God can do great things within the genius of creativity of Divine mind.

What a miracle your life is when it is attuned perfectly to God. You have been created in your body temple as a perfect vehicle to travel through a perfect life. With God all things are possible. Every second of every day is God’s time and miracles are continually taking place.

It is reassuring to know that the life of God is with us and within us. God’s life cleanses away all imperfection, strengthens and revitalizes every area and function of our life. The quickening, invigorating life force of God works to restore perfection in our lives. God speedily works wonders, as we realize and affirm; taking the time to go to God in prayer and allowing Divine order to adjust our thinking, feelings and actions.

If today is truly God’s time what is holding you back? Have you been wanting to stop some negative habit or start a positive one, to reconcile with a loved one or begin a new friendship? What is holding you back?

If you need more strength, then call upon the power of God to accomplish whatever it is that will bless you and bless others.

2 Corinthians 6:2 strongly states, “See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation.”

Do you seemingly lack the courage to do what you desire to do – to make a change, or begin something new? Not in God’s time! Never, because as a child of God there is no lack within you. When you begin to believe what is true about you, you feel courage welling up inside of you. This is God’s time and you have the strength and courage of God.

Today is God’s day, it is God’s time.

Now is the time to follow the inspiration of God urging you to live as the strong, wise, and loving person you are capable of being.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, help me today to see all people through Your vision, which is love. Help me, dear God, to look forward with great positive anticipation. Help me to feel well this day, and lead me in mind to wave after wave of well-being. Help me to see past events as past events, and help me to understand that these events are spent energy. It has come to pass and it has passed.

Dear God, I have a choice not to keep the dead past alive. With You with me, God, the best is yet to be. This morning I face a brighter tomorrow and a brighter future. I face more opportunity for happiness than ever before, and I am so grateful and thankful.

Giving thanks in advance, in Jesus Christ name, I say … Amen.

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POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: The light of God fills my mind. I make right decisions in all that concerns me. I know exactly what to do and I do it. I live in God’s time.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua Marine

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Positive Daily Inspiration – July 14, 2022 – PEACE OF GOD COVERS YOUR LIFE

Positive Daily Inspiration - July 14, 2022 - PEACE OF GOD COVERS YOUR LIFE

“With Thanksgiving let your request be made to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6, 7

Everyone has experienced times when it seems difficult to be loving and understanding. But it is possible for you to be at peace with yourself and others, whatever the condition or circumstance.

How? By turning your thoughts to God. God is always at work in your life and in the lives of others to bring forth “right” results at the right time. Your card is to remain steadfast in your faith.

If you are concerned about the outcome of some situation, you need to trust in God, expecting a right solution. God only answers expectations. If you are anxious regarding the welfare of another or disturbed over relationships that you have with others, you can overcome these feelings by knowing that God is at work, blessing you and all people with the spirit of peace, love and understanding. If there is a need for peace and harmony in a human relationship, God will give you the right words to say and the right steps to take in order to establish peace and harmony. God’s spirit of love and harmony will be present with you. God’s Spirit of love and harmony will permeate all conditions and reveal the way to peace and happiness.

Prayer puts you in tune with God’s Spirit of love and harmony. Prayer or opens up your mind to God’s understanding. In prayer, feelings of hurt or anger dissipate, and you will feel love and harmony permeating your being. Love and harmony radiates forth from you to bless every relationship. Peace and harmony are restored as you rely on the Christ spirit to guide you and to give you strength and understanding.

In 1st Samuel 25:6 our Bible states, “Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.”

The attribute that is such an inherent part of you that no person or event can take it away, that is sacred to your soul that only you alone can make the decision to recognize and use it – is inner peace.

Inner peace is the assurance of God’s presence in you and in your world. Inner peace is yours and is active in your soul every moment of the day and night. You can always find that peaceful point of calm in the midst of crisis or that level of Divine understanding you need in a time of great achievement.

Your peace cannot be given to you by others or by circumstances. Peace is the assurance of God’s presence. And always, deep within your soul, peace is waiting to be united with your thoughts and lived in your life.

I pray today that God’s peace covers your life like an umbrella of Divine tranquility.

“And my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”
Isaiah 54:10

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

I become quiet and focused on the Spirit of God.
Alone with the presence of God, I feel a great serenity.
I rediscover how refreshing it feels to be calm and at peace.
I feel as if waves of peace are washing over me and clearing away any tenseness and anxiety.
I know that I am eternally one with God.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: Inner peace comes forth from within me and is united with my every thought and feeling.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” Charles Kettering

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Positive Daily Inspiration – July 13, 2022 – MEETING CHANGE WITH THE COMFORT OF GOD

Positive Daily Inspiration - July 13, 2022 - MEETING CHANGE WITH THE COMFORT OF GOD

“Thou dost show me the path of life; in Thy presence there is fullness of joy.”
Psalms 16:11

Life has to begin again for many of us. We move from one area to another, from one work to another, changes in human relations come. But we can be flexible and able to meet change when we are centered and poised in our faith in the goodness of God. We can meet change with God’s comfort instead of human screaming.

Sometimes a person may seem to exhaust strength and energy in their efforts to handle the changes of life. They may think that their major need would be for more strength. However, the major need is to let go and let God work through them. It’s not always easy to do this. To let God takeover is also a change in the way we go about doing things. Some of us feel that we must keep a tight hold on our life, that we must be personally responsible to see that things work out in the right ways.

We do not fear change when we know that we are one with God and God is one with us. Knowing our oneness with God, we have a deep sense of oneness with all of God’s creation. Knowing our oneness with God, nothing can confuse or shake us. We know that we can ask God’s direction, follow God’s guidance, and lean on God’s inspiration and love. In the presence of God we find comfort.

To let go and let God work through us does not mean that we let go of the responsibilities that are ours. It means that we let go of our anxiety over the change, our worry about the change, our feeling that it is up to us alone to meet this change.

We know that God goes ahead of us preparing the way for better good than we have ever known before. We do find strength through letting go and letting God take over. We are strengthened physically, mentally, and emotionally. Through leaning upon God, wisdom and power come to us to meet the change.

As we keep faith in God, every road we walk along will be beautiful and every life we touch will be a blessing to us, as we are to it. Every change that comes will be a change in which we see the good of God and know, without doubt, that God is with us.

We can exhibit this for ourselves and for others.

“Therefore comfort one another.” First Thessalonians 4:18

When we need comfort, familiar passages from the Bible help to uplift us. The 23rd Psalm is one of my favorites, “The Lord is my shepherd … . Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.”

Jesus’ words, “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives you I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid,” can bring us solace and give us the peace “which passes all understanding.”

Always there is comfort for us. Always the loving presence of God sustains us and imbues us with courage. Always the power of God upholds us and gives us the courage to walk through the “Valley of the Shadow,” to keep pace in the life of God, which is eternal, to turn again toward the light and life and enter into life with a renewed spirit.

People in every corner of the world, in all walks of life, have times when they need comfort and strength in meeting their own changes.

We may long to be able to say something, or do something, to bring comfort to the ones in need. We have something we can give – our prayers for comfort and strength.

Actually, prayer is the most powerful help we can give.

Prayer is a hand reaching out to uplift and steady the faltering.
Prayer is a lighthouse for the sailor on the stormy sea.
Prayer is love felt as a warm rush of well-being.
Prayer is a way where there seems to be no way.

Yes, as we pray, we comfort others and bless them; and we comfort and bless ourselves.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, I know You are with me to comfort and strengthen me. I feel Your loving presence holding me close. I am strengthened and comforted. God, I ask You to help me meet change.

For my loved ones I pray: God is with you (insert name) to comfort and strengthen you.
(Insert name) you feel God’s loving presence holding you close.
You are strengthened and comforted.
(Insert name) God helps you meet change.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: Through God I know, the best is yet to be.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” Truman Capote

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Positive Daily Inspiration – July 12, 2022 – Tuesday Prayer and Meditation

Positive Daily Inspiration - July 12, 2022 - Tuesday Prayer and Meditation

“Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but The Spirit which is from God.”
1 Corinthians 2:12

What a holy time this moment is!

This is a moment when you are turning to God, closing your eyes to the outside world and to its cares and concerns.

This is a moment when you turn to the All-powerful Presence of God. And it’s a moment when you spiritually hear. You hear that your problems are not really so big. And you learn how big God really is.

We do not really know God until we know God as love. We may have an intellectual understanding of God. We may have faith in God as Creator. But we don’t know God until we feel love in our hearts and express love in our daily lives. Even when we think, speak and act from our highest understanding, we find that occasions arise which can only be met by the special calling upon the power of Divine love.

When wisdom is there, a problem cannot overpower us. When wisdom to solve a problem in our human self may fail us, love clarifies it and provides the answer. When there is discord and alienation to be overcome, God’s love works to restore understanding and harmony.

Now, during our prayer time, listen to these words from the Holy Bible

(1 Corinthians 13:4-7):

“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

Allow God’s love to become part of your nature, your mind, your body, your awareness. Allow the love of God to flow through you in this time of silent prayer …

(Silence)

Dear God, I pray that I love more. I pray that I walk away from human judgment and that I see with the eyes of love. I pray that I see all men and women in love. With God’s love, I do not judge. With love, I accept others. I pray that I am able to love You more. Dear God, I know that love compensates for every deficiency in my life. And it removes all barriers to complete and happy living. If I take offense or if I give offense, love erases the wrong and transmutes the experience into something good. If our spirits are down, Divine love is mighty to uplift us.

I pray this hour that love is the wonder working power of God in my life.

I pray that it will take the least desirable things in my life and transform them into objects to be supremely desired. An environment ever so unpleasing – can be transformed as love puts God’s enhancements into unhappy conditions. Joy and peace come in to refashion along me lines of harmony and grace.

Many of us have problems at the workplace. I pray that God’s love comes in. I pray that unhappy conditions in our homes are transmuted this hour into joy and peace. I pray that God manifests as love in many forms and in many ways in every area of your life. I pray that unselfishness is part of my being from this moment on. I pray that I give of self-more. And I pray that I fulfill the law which never fails, which casts out fear, which gives peace of absolute union with God.

Rest in the silence of prayer …

I pray that we know God as unconditional, perfect love. I pray that we may experience the joy of rebirth in God’s love. And I pray that we yield ourselves to its wonderworking power and direct its creative energy towards all that needs to be adjusted, removed, harmonized, or healed in our lives this day.

Prepare yourself, now, for this to occur in the silence of prayer …

In Jesus Christ’s name I decree that you live in God and God lives with you. I pray that your heart overflows with an understanding love and your life is filled with harmony. And I pray that you make that triumphant entry into a new level of Thinking, into a new awareness, into a new life.

In the nature of Jesus Christ, we pray, and we act …

Amen.

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: The Spirit of the Lord goes before me today.

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POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON – Building Faith

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Matthew 20:16 “So the LAST shall be first, and the FIRST – last.”

What does that mean? Often when we first find spirituality, we’re very hungry for Truth, we study often, go to church for every service, and attend every class. We are on fire with enthusiasm. Later that may wane in some.

Some experience miracles and then begin to take it for granted. We must guard against lazy or asleep spirituality.

Have a “beginner’s mind.” That is the concept that everything is new. Every moment is new. Every day is a fresh start with no residual mistakes from yesterdays.

Matthew 18:3 says the same thing in a different way, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

You do not become children again, in small bodies. You become converted in attitude and see the wow and wonder in everyday life. You become LIKE children in your spirituality, and you enter a heaven state of consciousness.

You see, when you spend a lot of time in prayer and meditation, watching your breath or working with whatever focal point you are working on, the mind can sometimes say, “This is boring.”

So, we want to begin to focus on every moment as being rich with newness. What happens is we get information or spiritual truth on Sundays, and the mind says, “Oh, I’ve heard that before. Let’s find something else. What’s new? What’s bigger?

What’s brighter? Where’s the new information on this?”

Beginner’s mind tells us that every moment, every time you hear the same truth, it is new. That is the way it is – because we hear it at deeper and deeper levels.

The Bible says that you must be born again, that you must become like a little child. Another translation of this is that you must begin again that you must look at your spirituality with a childlike wow and wonder to discover the hidden truth.

So let us have beginner’s minds this morning. When we walk outside, let us notice the birds – as if for the first time. When we meet and greet our loving friends as if for the first time, what a gift that is.

We live in a very sped-up world right now, due to technology and all of the changes that are occurring. We are no longer separated by oceans. We are all part of a global community, because we can all communicate with each other so quickly. We care a lot more about what is happening on the other side of the world, because it is right in front of us on television.

There is a lot of energy with this. There is some chaos with it. There are all kinds of human interaction. It is very distracting.

How do we navigate through this? Some people are working out their career goals; some are raising little children, and some are just trying to make it through every day. The lives of people who are retired are just as busy, wild, full of distraction and energy, as they were when they were trying to move up that career ladder. It is a BUSY time.

Even commercials on television now changed their images everyone and 1/2 seconds to keep the attention of the preoccupied mind. We define success by how busy we are – how many projects we have going, how many clubs we belong to, how many things we are doing with our time.

It is an exciting, energetic culture, and it can be distracting. How do we maintain this connection to the Christ through all this distraction?

One way is to pray and meditate. It is the most powerful tool. But it is also counter to everything taught in society – for it encourages you to slow down and stop and notice what is important is it for the first time.

I know you have all heard this before and you are probably saying to yourself, “Yes, I should pray and meditate more, but I don’t have time. I am not really very good at meditating. Maybe there is something else I can do.” Or you may be saying, “I really want to pray and meditate, but the kitchen has to be cleaned first. Then I will get around to it.”

In the past, some schools of thought have given arbitrary amounts of time as to how long you should sit in the silence of prayer. “You should sit in the silence of prayer 20 minutes, twice a day,” or “You should sit in the silence of prayer right after you get up in the morning and right before you go to bed at night.”

We have gotten these kinds of feelings about how it is supposed to be, and that if we do not do it that way, then we are not doing it right. And if we do not do it right, we tend not to want to do it at all, so we do not meditate quite as much as we should. Then we come to church and hear about sitting in the silence of prayer, and we start to feel guilty. We think, “Maybe I should pray and meditate more.” Then, when we get off-center from some of the activity that is all around us–if we get nervous, have some sort of anxiety issue, or maybe a little stress comes up in our lives–we think, “Oh no, I haven’t been praying or meditating enough.” Then, we feel MORE guilt.

Do you know what human beings do when something is not working smoothly for them? They tend to avoid it more. They tend to put it on the back burner. They tend to fall asleep to it.

Yet, that quiet is the way we feel the Christ.

It helps us to be 1000 times more effective in our busy days.

There are MANY ways to pray and meditate. We do not have to just sit and try to be still when our bodies want to move. And we do not have to do it in full 20-minute blocks of time.

We have a belief in this culture that more is better. So, if I pray and meditate for 10 minutes, then I would be a better meditator if I did it for 20 minutes. But time is relative; it is a human concept more than a spiritual concept. The interesting thing about prayer work is that if I spend a moment saying, “God is with me RIGHT NOW, this moment,” that can as valuable as spending 20 minutes saying it. It depends on the depth that the spiritual seed is planted in our consciousness.

In God, there is no time or space; there is only Presence. So we meditate and pray for a moment, if that is ALL the time we have, or if that is all the focus time we have.

When we invoke the Presence of God, God is with us in our awareness, as we go about our daily living.

Sometimes we get a little off-center and it is difficult to remember that God’s help is at hand. We try, but we get distracted. Then we get down on ourselves for that feeling of separateness. We do not have to do that! Life is much more pleasant, and the world is much more loving than that.

If we feel far from God, we need to know that God did not move – we did. God is waiting, and the reconnection is so sweet – as if for the first time.

Do you have one minute to fix yourself?

Time is relative, so one minute of prayer and meditation can be as good as 20, especially if we do it twenty times during the day. Prayer and meditation is a skill. The more you do it, the more skillful you become at it. The more miracles you see in your life because of it, you will move its importance from the back burner to the forefront.

When we meditate, we are really observing the activity of God at work, in us and around us. The natural flow of our minds is constantly going. There are some belief systems that say that the goal of meditation is to stop the mind. If you think of a river flowing, and you try to stop the river by putting a big board in the middle of it, what is going to happen to the water? It is going to go up and over the board even faster and make a big splash. It will be really hard to hold it there. That is what happens if we try to stop our human minds.

Rather than trying to sit down and stop the mind, instead we might try a kind of prayer and meditation that helps us gain insight from God. This is done by observing the mind, by separating from it enough to observe it, so thoughts become like birds flying by. When you can observe your mind, you develop the ability to witness what is going on, and you realize you are so much more than your thoughts. You sense your connectedness to God.

There is also a recharging of your soul that occurs.

Thoughts are reactive. You hear an old song, and it brings back memories when you were in high school. Thoughts are all over the place. We can work with them, but the nature of the mind is just to have a bunch of thoughts going all the time. We like our dominant thoughts to be positive, uplifting, and conscious. But to stop the mind can be a challenge, especially at first. Over time, as the human mind gets used to this, it will literally sit back and relax, much as a person sun him or herself on vacation on a pristine beach.

The nice thing about observing the mind is that it then moves into a quietness, because we are not reacting to all the thoughts. We are saying, “There goes fear. There goes judgment. There goes emotion. There goes greed. There goes boredom.” We are not saying, “I am angry. I am enraged. I am greedy.” We are not taking those feelings in; we are just observing them like one would observe a movie.

We go on a one-minute vacation to the gap!

This is a wonderful tool, because it is the space between observation and thought that creativity and God’s guidance can be felt. It is where newness of life springs up. It is where new ideas come in, new ideas that have no limits or boundaries. That is the gap – through which God-given, creative energy flows. That is where solutions are, and it is also where peace is.

GAP – God-Awareness-Present!

If we can allow our human thoughts to be and not get upset about them beyond just saying, “Okay, there is that thought,” they continue on and leave. The nature of the mind is to move, so that thought just goes. If we look at that thought and say, “Oh no, that’s a horrible thought. This is terrible. I’m a horrible person because I’m thinking this thought,” the thought starts to get bigger and bigger, and we fuel it.

This strength that we learn, this ability to observe this mind flow, is such a gift. We can say, “Yes, there’s that old pattern … ” Don’t you have patterns that you see come back, again and again? It is a part of being a human being. We all have patterns of behavior, patterns of thinking, and patterns of reacting. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could look at these patterns and say, “Here is that old friend again,” instead of saying, “Oh no,” and cursing it? We do not have to feel it or give it that energy surge. Then it can just pass, because we learn how to not react to it. When we do not react, we do not have to give into it, and we develop strength over our mind. This all comes from simply sitting and observing our thoughts a minute at a time.

There is a story about a tortoise that got mugged by a snail. The tortoise went to the police and the policeman said, “What did the assailant look like?”

The tortoise said, “I don’t know … it happened so fast.” Time is relative.

We give ourselves a gift, a spiritual vacation, a moment of meditation and we make our day one minute at a time.

How would you walk across the entire United States? One step at a time. One small step added to another is accumulative.

A mother used to say that every time she would see someone whose mouth was curled down, it made her want to curl her mouth up in a smile. We use the times we might make mistakes as reminders to remember the truth of God, instead of getting down on ourselves. If we are in a human form, there are going to be a few mistakes made. We are doing the best we can. We are listening. We are trying. We care about what is going on.

You know that a minute smiling at another can change a life. Now know that a minute spent with God allowing God to smile at you can change your life.

Another way to fit prayer and meditation into your busy schedule or to try to raise your motivation to do it is to do it with a group of people. Didn’t it feel wonderful to sit in the silence of prayer here in this holy place, together? Meditation and prayer is not just an individual activity. It is a group activity. We cannot underestimate the value of support.

There is a story about a CEO and his wife driving into a gas station. The gas station attendant filled up the tank with gas, and they drove off. The CEO looked at his wife and said, “Aren’t you glad you married me? If you had married that guy, you’d be married to a gas station attendant.”

She said, “Oh no, honey. If I had married that guy, he would be the CEO and you’d be the gas station attendant.” You also cannot underestimate the value of support.

We need to reinforce prayer and meditation. This goes with other life-affirming practices, too.

We need to reinforce these things, so we are not thinking negatively about them, we are not making ourselves wrong for not doing them, but we are opening ourselves to them like excited beginners. It is easier to form positive habits when taken a little at a time until our consciousness gets used to it.

Here is one way to reinforce prayer and meditation. Start associating positive, feel-good reward with meditating.

One woman loves chocolates; she gives herself permission to have a chocolate after prayer. Chocolates are a wonderful way to reinforce prayer and meditation! You will not see that very often in a meditation book. Maybe for you it is carrot sticks; for this woman it worked with chocolate. Reinforcement is relative too. It is whatever excites you about it.

The main thing is we must give ourselves credit for doing whatever we do, whatever it is. We have to say, “Good job!” instead of saying, “It could have been better.”

That is where peace comes from. We realize that through this gap and through this awareness we are one with and empowered by the Christ; we are more than the old human thoughts. We are more than the sum of our thoughts. Our thoughts are just things of this brain.

Have a philosophy. Try to live your life in the GAP.

Try to be gracious and joyous about all things, without overreacting to one, or the other; a sort of keeping that sense of wonder about everything, evenly and joyously, a nice, even peaceful, joy that isn’t rocked by ups and down.

It is your life; you can form a new standard of what is holy in you. We must answer to our own Divine connection. When you have fifteen people coming over for dinner, and if you only have one minute to go to God, you spend that minute in the highest way possible, then it keeps working in you ALL evening.

Let’s try it right now for one minute …

Just take just a moment to close your eyes and take a moment in prayer and meditation. Breathe naturally with no force. This not anything we have to do; it is just being in the loving presence of God. Feel the thoughts of mind and set them aside. This is the moment to observe the in and out of the breath. That is all; just feel the Holy presence of God. If a thought comes you say, “Oh, there goes that thought,” and you go back to your prayer. It is so good. Just be. Thoughts come, and they go by like clouds, or schools of tiny fish. In this gap there is Christ. The Christ has no judgment, no bad. The Christ light is here in this moment.

Now, let’s open our eyes. Congratulations! You just did your minute of meditation and prayer.

Now, it is time for your Chocolate.

Have one Hershey Kiss for each congregant, you hand them the person as they leave.

Remember, meditation and prayer are your gift from God, and opening it is your gift to yourself.

You want to do it – whenever you can. It does not matter how long you do it, it matters how you do. What matters is you enter into each prayer with a beginner’s mind, receptive, ready to learn as a child, and expecting your blessing.

God Bless you!

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Let’s expand our awareness into the light of God.

Being spiritually present, with loving beings of like faith, having made this decision to be present, to be with God in prayer.

If any thoughts come through, maybe thinking about the rest of the day or feelings in the body, we simply allow those thoughts and feelings to sit right next to us. We can think about them later – if we choose. Right now, in this Holy moment, we choose to feel the heart of the love of God.

We open ourselves consciously to a deeper connection with God.

Rest in the silence of God …

Your breathing is natural and easy. There is no force here. The door of your consciousness opens inward. We simply step back and allow it to open to God.

What a gift each moment is! What a gift this moment is, right now – this oneness we feel to God. There is no separation. Our bodies, hearts, and spirits are filled with the light of the Christ. It is warm, recharging, and refreshing.

Just being quiet, breathing, and having nothing to do is so wonderful.

Rest in silence of prayer …

We give thanks for this experience and for the pleasure of knowing the truth that we are one with God. That is being one with the greatest love there is. How refreshing! What a joy! What a gift this day is! We smile; it feels good.

Dear God, we pray that You will help us expand our awareness in our thinking and feeling. We pray that we are spiritually present in this moment of time, and we are ready and willing to have a full spiritual experience. We pray that every time we come in contact with You, we are aware of how holy and sweet that gift is. May we be fully aware of what is happening in us spiritually and how profoundly we are changing.

Rest in the silence of God …

We give thanks for this awareness and all good things to come.

Thank You, God

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

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POSITIVE WRITTEN SERMON – Secret of Life-Long Financial Joy

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“Such as I have – GIVE I THEE!”
Acts 3:6

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Jesus Christ said, “But they that sow seed on the good ground (a solid foundation to live life upon) are the people that hear the word and understand, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some hundredfold, some 60, some 30.”
Matthew 13:23

The 100-fold return is based on planting seeds in a solid expectation of the rich soil of faith.

July marks the midway point between the start of the year and New Year’s Eve.

We are more than halfway through 2022. Twice a year we ask you to consider making an offering to support our work, July, and end of each year. We are entirely supported by our readers.

Know that by the law of giving and receiving, you receive according to your measure of giving. When you give the best that is within you, you make yourself receptive and ready to have best that God has for you.

For EVERY PERSON that signs up for easy recurring monthly giving, I will automatically send an autographed copy of my book (Final Chance – only 139 copies left – we will not reorder) AND a copy of our famous Tear-off Daily Positive Inspiration Calendar BOTH sent as a gift – if you do this soon – supply is very limited. (Final Chance – only 43 calendars left – we will not reorder.)

The reason we are not reordering these popular items, with mailing costs, labor to mail, and product cost- the ministry loses a lot of money on each item. ALSO, we will not sell anything in the future, our ministry model will be to give EVERYTHING FOR FREE.

Easy reoccurring giving is available only through our safe, secure Clover donation portal – (PayPal is not going to be used in the future due to costs, and on-going problems). Please understand we can only ship gifts to the United States areas only.

Also, if you are giving now in a recurring way – we would like to send you one of these gifts, just reply to this email, requesting the same. Include your name and address.

I have been in active ministry for 40 years. One thing I know for certain you can’t out give God. People often ask what I credit my success to. I credit it all to God and to tithing to God. When I was poor, I didn’t think I had anything to give, and I hoarded. I didn’t begin to rise above my state in life until I made a commitment to tithe 10% of everything continuously. My life started to rise, and it never stopped rising. This is the secret of my success – all biblical based. God is real, and God has your back. But in your free-will, you MUST start the action.

An easy way to do this is reoccurring monthly giving. It is automatic, easy, and we won’t forget. When financial demands are harder, and we do not see in human mind how anything could work out – God always knows the way.

We have immediate plans to give back more to you. All of our seminars (that we used to sell) are now available FREE on our website, along with our FREE written prayer archives, and FREE extensive archives of every Positive Daily Inspiration, and thousands of FREE accessible videos.

Soon – we will have an archive of hundreds of sermons for ministers of all faiths, to access FREE of charge. Soon, we will offer EVERY audible one-hour specific intensive prayer (ALL that we used to sell) – FREE of any charge on www.PositiveChristianity.org.

Our quest is always – how can we serve you more. As I have said, our on-going ministry model is now to give everything for free.

Our biggest work is our FREE prayer service. We pray over every prayer request for two months, and our prayer team is comprised of people in almost every state, and many countries around the world. Connected instantly, electronically and caring about you, and those you love. One thing we do best is pray.

Mother Teresa said, “If you can’t feed 100 people, then just feed one.” It has been our goal from the beginning to spiritually feed one person at a time. It begins with one person, and then it builds one person at a time. One by one we commit to God.

We are each part of something bigger than ourselves.

I pray that you have a spiritual glimpse of your worth to God, and the true worth of your gifts through this ministry to God and humanity. Whether you have given one time or made the decision to give reoccurring – you have answered the call of God.

Hubbard said, “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

Winston Churchill said, “We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.”

Our souls are defined by what we give.

EVERY GIFT can make quite a difference. All gifts go to support of the ministry – not to a building or grounds repair. I don’t know anywhere, anyplace, where your offering can make such a difference in individual lives all over the world.

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We actually encourage you to worship at the church of YOUR choice.

Every donation receives a personal, signed thank you letter from Rev. Chenoweth, to use for tax credit.

Outside of the United States, we acknowledge donations quickly by email because we have learned that postal letters can be delayed for great periods of time, sometimes never reaching the person we are thanking.

Positive Christianity will always be here for you, to inspire you, to pray with you, to stand with you in hard times, and good times.

I have often said that our wonderful supporters are not rich people, to my knowledge we do not have one Bill Gates among us. But we have many, many, that are rich spiritually.

We are made up of positive, happy people.

God bless you as you consider your gift back to God. Spiritually it is so important not just to watch from afar, but to be an active participant, in the arena, to reap in the enjoyment, and rewards directly from God beyond that that you can imagine with your human mind.

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POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

Dear God, teach me how to give more.
Help me to get excited about it and learn to love giving first.
Teach me how to love more.
My prayer is USE ME for Your purpose and good ways.
I want to be part of making a difference starting right now.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I am but one person, but I choose to make a major difference in the lives of many.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “Mature spirituality knows that real life is found in giving more than you receive. It discovers the difference one person can make, and the absolute joy of making that difference.” Chenoweth

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You WILL make a major difference in the lives of others, and that fact will make you feel good about yourself as never before.

Christopher Ian Chenoweth

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