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Saturday, October 6, 2007

October 6, 2007 & "Go For It"

Now is the time to set our sights high and "go for it" ... whatever that "it" may be ... now is the time. There will never be a better time and we will never be more capable of doing that which comes to our mind now to do. Whatever it is ... we must act on it in mind ... and we must dwell on the possibilities of how accomplishing it will change our lives. Begin with a treatment:

There is that within me which is God ... and that which within me is guiding me through the desires of my heart to be, to do, or to have something greater in my experience. This Life within me is calling me to go higher in my thinking ... higher in my self-evaluation ... and higher in my faith in God working as me, for me, and through me. I claim the desires of my heart now ... and I act on them by knowing this treatment is developing my consciousness of success and accomplishment. I am on my way to a better and better life experience ... I am going for it ... now. And so it is.

Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates

Friday, October 5, 2007

October 5, 2007 & Spiritual Strength

Spiritual Strength is confidence and self-assurance. As we understand that God is in the midst of us, our confidence is not of the ego, but of "knowing" that we are a part of the Living God as us. Let's affirm this today:

Knowing that I am living in God ... one with God, I can open my mind to my magnificence. There is nothing in me that denies that God is in the midst of me. I am confident and strong in my conviction of my ever-lasting One-ness with the Spirit. I know that Spirit animates every organ and muscle of my body and renews Its perfection in me. I accept and believe that every Good idea that comes to me is a gift from God. I know that my consciousness of prosperity and success brings me ever closer to living the Life that God desires for me. I am strengthened by my faith and belief in God's ever lasting Love for me. I know this Love created me, heals me, and frees me to choose that which I desire to experience in all things. I am aligned with the Divinity within me ... I know It is God ... and I know that It is magnificent ... and in this knowing I let It express through me, as me, and for me, creating within me greater confidence and a increasing capacity to love and be loved. God and I are One ... and this is the Truth for me now... and always. And so it is.

Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates

Thursday, October 4, 2007

October 4, 2007 & Open To Receive

Knowing that my mind is one with the One Mind, and that this One Mind does not know limitation ... I open my mind to more of the abundance that is available to me in the Universe. I know that all that I can accept is mine ... and I am open and receptive to tremendous increase in all Good things; love, peace, happiness ... and money! I know that money is God in action and so I actively accept the flow of financial abundance streaming through my consciousness. My prosperity consciousness knows no limits and the flow of money in my life comes to me in greater and greater abundance. There is no limit to this flow ... and I am in it ... accepting it, and grateful that it is so ... and so it is!

Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

October 3, 2007 & Wholeness Revisited

It is important, from time to time, to check our understanding of what "wholeness" means to us. In the scripture we can read that we are "whole because I am whole" ... and what this is telling us is that we are a part of God ... not all of God, but all that we are is God. And so we realize that "wholeness" has nothing to do with physical perfection ... but spiritual perfection. In spirit, we are perfect, whole, and complete ... and in the final analysis this is all that matters. No matter what we may be dealing with in our life experience, as long as we remain centered in our "wholeness" ... we know that we already have all that is necessary to master whatever it is that we are confronted with. Let's affirm this as so:

Knowing that I am an expression of the One Infinite Presence, God, I know that in spirit, I am always perfect, whole and complete. I am of God and in God ... this is my ultimate Truth at all times. And in this realization, I know that I always have the wisdom and the strength to accomplish that which I choose to accomplish. I am always centered in the Spirit ... always mindful of my wholeness ... and in this I remain confident and assured for I know that the Spirit guides me and directs me to that which is for my highest and greatest Good at all times. And so it is!

Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

October 2, 2007 & Forgiveness

"Forgive" - that is the central point of the spiritual life - love. And let us remember that these are not arbitrary words, telling us of an autocratic Judge who refuses to forgive us until we have done something on our part. No. These words of the Prayer embrace and express the supreme law of the spiritual life. If we do not forgive those who trespass against us, neither can God forgive us our trespasses; not because He refuses to do so, or does not wish to, but because our soul is in such a condition that it is impossible for us to understand or receive the divine forgiveness. - H. B. Jeffery, "The Lord's Prayer" -1940

As we understand the words of the great H. B. Jeffery above, we realize that our mind must be free of anything that binds us to the negative ... forgive, or "give up" ... for Love will not hold any of us accountable for that which we do ... only the human mind can hold someone in bondage to their actions, or words spoken, in the past ... and in doing so, we hold our own self in bondage. Let us know together that Love frees our mind of anything unlike Itself:


Knowing that my mind is one with the One Mind, which Is God ... I know that Love flows to me and through me from this One Source. I accept this Love freely and with ease as my mind is free of anything unlike Love. I know that Love is what I am ... for I am Love expressed. I let loose of all "human" ideas of forgiveness ... and instead, I look within my consciousness for more and more ways in which to express the tremendous Love within me. "No thing shall offend me" ... for I know that we think in the blink of a moment ... and we speak in the blink of a moment ... and in the blink of a moment all thoughts and words are history ... I live in this moment ... and in this moment I am One with forgiveness and Love, now and always. And so it is.

Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates

Monday, October 1, 2007

Sept. 30 / Oct. 1, 2007 & One Power

We can read in scripture, "I, I am the Lord, thou shalt have not gods but me. Besides me there is none other" ... in this statement we can know that this One Power ... Is All Power. And as we realize that there is "none other" ... many of our "seeming" troubles will be resolved instantaneously. Let's affirm our faith in the One:

I know and accept that there is only One Power, One Presence, and One Intelligence, living through All things and All people, as Life. I know this One Life, is my life now. As I turn to this Power of Good, I know that I too, can give life to all things that concern me. I affirm the Good, recognize the Good ... and in doing so, I am spontaneously aligned with the Power and Presence of God. No matter what I see ... I always know, without doubting, that there is more Good in it than what I see with my physical eyes. I affirm this Un-Seen Good, as God ... and I know this Omnipresent Spirit responds to me ... always. And so it is.

Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates