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We must be honest with ourselves.
What have we been seeking these many years? Have we been seeking
the spirit of things or just things? Do we turn to God with
devotion knowing that God is our supply ... or do we turn to people ...
and then turn to God when we don't get what we want?
It is this seeking outside of
ourselves that defeats us. "The Father and I are One,"
stated the Master Mind Jesus ... there is nothing we can have outside of
us that we do not experience within ... within where? ... you might ask.
It is within our consciousness ... that individualized spark of the
Divine that connects us to the Infinite ... CONSCIOUSNESS
... let's not make it difficult to understand because it is not
difficult to understand ... our difficulty, if there is any, is in
making proper use of It. WE MUST LOVE GOD
FIRST ... and God abides in our consciousness ... everyone's ...
all at the same time ... in the same measure ... but few of us
"recognize It" ... because we are too busy loving people and
things that we have allowed ourselves to become "content with
talking about God ... reading about God" ... but continue to place
our hope on people and things. But people and things do not
"cause" us to be happy ... to be prosperous or to be
successful ... the PRINCIPLE in back of
them "causes" them to be what they are to us. "The
Kingdom of Heaven Is within you," .. this Kingdom of Heaven resides
in our CONSCIOUSNESS ... and WE
ARE EXPERIENCING IT AT ALL TIMES. Whatever we have ...
whatever is visible in our lives ... the conditions and circumstances in
which we live ... these are our CONSCIOUSNESS.
Now, don't misunderstand me.
It is right for us to have things and share them with our friends.
It is right for us to demonstrate money and spend it, but where do we go
from there? After we spend our money ... does money continue to
make us happy ... no, of course not ... it is the "spirit" in
which we "use" our money that makes us happy and satisfied.
If we use our money to gain power over others ... or if we hoard it
... it will not make us happy in the least ... nor will it make us happy
to just "pay the bills with nothing left over." This can
become frustrating and self-defeating. If we are not experiencing
the things that we desire ... then perhaps we have been looking at
things and disregarding the Power behind them. This Power is
dependent on our Creative Thought ... in other words, Principle.
If we say we have faith in God ... the Good ... but our thoughts do not
support this faith ... then what we desire to create falls apart or
leaves us flat. If we seek to be prosperous ... but our mind is
"stayed on poverty and lack" ... worry that there is not
enough ... then we will demonstrate the lack or not enough.
There are
four important factors in demonstrating Greater Good in our lives.
Feel free to modify these factors to fit your desire.
1) Remove every impediment
and obstacle to the idea of prosperity.
2) Create a deep and
continuous desire for abundance.
3) Become conscious of more
of everything in our mind.
4) Use what we have.
We cannot fail if we follow this pattern.
It is just a matter of learning to make the most of what we are and what
we have. THE LAW IS SIMPLE, WE WILL ONLY
RECEIVE MORE IF WE USE WHAT WE HAVE. The same Principle that
"caused" what we have ... will "cause" the Greater
Good ... if we don't Love It ... by not loving what we have already
demonstrated ... we cannot demonstrate the Greater.
"Use" is the key that will unlock the doors of our
consciousness and give us whatsoever our hearts desire. The rule
is simple ... we must have faith in ourselves and work with the Law.
And
So It Is!
Maximum Love,
Rev.
Hank Bates
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