I know there is only one Source, the Life-Principle, from which all things flow. It created the universe and all things therein contained. I am a focal point of the Divine presence. My mind is open and receptive. I am a free-flowing channel for harmony, beauty, guidance, wealth, and the riches of the Infinite. I know that health, wealth, and success are released from within and appear without. I am now in harmony with the infinite riches within and without, and I know these thoughts are sinking into my subconscious mind and will be reflected on the screen of space. I wish for everyone all the blessings of life. I am open and receptive to God's riches - spiritual, mental, and material - and they flow to me in avalances of abundance.
Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates
Rev. Bates developed The Way to a Wonderful Life to provide answers to situations we face on a daily basis relating to social consciousness, financial prosperity, sexuality and religious/spiritual thought. Also, in Spanish: http://revbates-en-espanol.blogspot.com/
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Prospering Power Prospers Me
Credit to Dr. Carleton Whitehead, "Creative Imagination":
God, the Infinite Giver, is forever giving through all creation. The prospering power of Life is continually prospering Its expressions. As a seed is multiplied by the vital activity within it, so are my creative ideas carried to fruition by the power of life within them. God in me as me is always giving through me. My expanding awareness of this truth assures prosperity in all my affairs.
The illusion of good coming to me from outside myself is permanently dispelled. I look not to fortune, chance, or a hoped-for change in externals to bring me fulfillment. I look to God, the one prospering action, moving in my consciousness as intuition, guidance, love, and creative power.
My crystal-clear perception of wholeness pulses with vitality, and my health blooms. I abide in the fundamental harmony of Life, and my relationships reward me with rich understanding. I know Mind as the unlimited source of money, and my financial activities thrive. Creative power flowing through my God-centered consciousness prospers whatsoever I do.
And so it is.
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
God, the Infinite Giver, is forever giving through all creation. The prospering power of Life is continually prospering Its expressions. As a seed is multiplied by the vital activity within it, so are my creative ideas carried to fruition by the power of life within them. God in me as me is always giving through me. My expanding awareness of this truth assures prosperity in all my affairs.
The illusion of good coming to me from outside myself is permanently dispelled. I look not to fortune, chance, or a hoped-for change in externals to bring me fulfillment. I look to God, the one prospering action, moving in my consciousness as intuition, guidance, love, and creative power.
My crystal-clear perception of wholeness pulses with vitality, and my health blooms. I abide in the fundamental harmony of Life, and my relationships reward me with rich understanding. I know Mind as the unlimited source of money, and my financial activities thrive. Creative power flowing through my God-centered consciousness prospers whatsoever I do.
And so it is.
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Dr. Joseph Murphy - Special Prayer for Eyes and Ears
I am the Lord that healeth me. My vision is spiritual, eternal, and a quality of my consciousness. My eyes are Divine ideas, and they are always functioning perfectly.
My perception of spiritual Truth is clear and powerful. The light of understanding dawns in me; I see more and more of God's Truth every day. I see spiritually; I see mentally; I see physically. I see images of Truth and Beauty everywhere.
The infinite Healing Presence is now, this moment, rebuilding my eyes. They are perfect, Divine instruments, enabling me to receive messages from the world within and the world without. The glory of God is revealed in my eyes.
I hear the Truth; I love the Truth; I know the Truth. My ears are God's perfect ideas, functioning perfectly at all times. My ears are the perfect instruments which reveal God's harmony to me. The love, beauty, and harmony of God flow through my eyes and ears; I am in tune with the Infinite. I hear the still, small voice of God within me. The Holy Spirit quickens my hearing, and my ears are open and free. Amen.
Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Prosperity Promises Kept
Recognizing that G-d, Infinite Spirit, is All-Knowing and All-Present, I feel the deepest and highest level of trust in turning to the Presence, always. Infinite Intelligence is always available, accessible and personal to me and to everyone, now.
Knowing that Intelligence reigns Supreme in the Universe, I know this Intelligence guides and directs me in all things and in all ways. This Intelligence is within me, and is the guiding light that inspires me with ideas, images and thoughts that prosper me. This Intelligence is within, pressing against me, and surrounds me, now.
In this moment I declare that all that I need is mine when I need it. This is the true prosperity that is always present in my life experience. I realize that all my hopes and desires are made manifest in the right and perfect time and in the right and perfect way. I let the Spirit create for me that which is always for my highest and greatest good, knowing that Infinite Mind always fills in the pieces that I might not conceive. I let the prosperity thoughts and ideas fill my mind with faith and confidence that as I align my mind with the One Mind, the All-Good that is G-d, becomes my ever-present experience.
Today, I accept a greater and greater good in all things; success, prosperity, happiness, health, peace, joy and the beauty of the Spirit as It is made manifest through my action of thought and my activity of faith. I accept my blessings today and share these blessings with all in my world of experience. It is a joy to realize the deeply-felt gratitude that is mine today as the Infinite's prosperity promises are kept and realized in my experience.
And so it is.
Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates
Knowing that Intelligence reigns Supreme in the Universe, I know this Intelligence guides and directs me in all things and in all ways. This Intelligence is within me, and is the guiding light that inspires me with ideas, images and thoughts that prosper me. This Intelligence is within, pressing against me, and surrounds me, now.
In this moment I declare that all that I need is mine when I need it. This is the true prosperity that is always present in my life experience. I realize that all my hopes and desires are made manifest in the right and perfect time and in the right and perfect way. I let the Spirit create for me that which is always for my highest and greatest good, knowing that Infinite Mind always fills in the pieces that I might not conceive. I let the prosperity thoughts and ideas fill my mind with faith and confidence that as I align my mind with the One Mind, the All-Good that is G-d, becomes my ever-present experience.
Today, I accept a greater and greater good in all things; success, prosperity, happiness, health, peace, joy and the beauty of the Spirit as It is made manifest through my action of thought and my activity of faith. I accept my blessings today and share these blessings with all in my world of experience. It is a joy to realize the deeply-felt gratitude that is mine today as the Infinite's prosperity promises are kept and realized in my experience.
And so it is.
Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates
Monday, April 20, 2009
Spirit Responds To Me Now
As I recognize G-d, Infinite Spirit, in all things and in all people, there is nothing in me to deny my good or the good for anyone. My faith in the Good keeps my mind focused on G-d's perfect Presence and Power as it is revealed in my life. I am never without the confidence and the faith to demonstrate the good desires of my heart or to see the glorious reflection of the Spirit in all people and all conditions. "Besides me there is none other," the scripture reads, and in faith and hope, I declare this as the Truth in all things that concern me.
Consciously, I identify with the Spirit knowing that Its peace is my peace, Its joy is my joy, and Its love is my love. Within me is all that G-d has created me to be; strength, confidence, harmony, success, and faith. There is nothing in me that rejects the Truth that I am in the image and the likeness of G-d and that It has imparted a part of Itself in me, to express as me, for me, and through me, to be and to do and to have that which It desires for me to express.
In this awareness, I declare that I am free to be the me that G-d has created me to be. I am free to be successful, to be prosperous, to be generous and to be loving and loved. I declare that there is nothing that can obstruct the perfect flow of Spirit's expression as me. I live in the joyous confidence of knowing that all that I do shall succeed and prosper. There is only success and happiness for me, now and always. I live fully in the Spirit and I know and I know that I know that Spirit enlivens my heart with enthusiasm and joy. I accept this as the Truth for me now and for all people. I accept that my soul is satisfied with the life that G-d has given me through my consciousness of trust and faith in Its Divine giving-ness and unconditional love. Life in the Spirit is marvelous indeed.
And so it is.
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
Consciously, I identify with the Spirit knowing that Its peace is my peace, Its joy is my joy, and Its love is my love. Within me is all that G-d has created me to be; strength, confidence, harmony, success, and faith. There is nothing in me that rejects the Truth that I am in the image and the likeness of G-d and that It has imparted a part of Itself in me, to express as me, for me, and through me, to be and to do and to have that which It desires for me to express.
In this awareness, I declare that I am free to be the me that G-d has created me to be. I am free to be successful, to be prosperous, to be generous and to be loving and loved. I declare that there is nothing that can obstruct the perfect flow of Spirit's expression as me. I live in the joyous confidence of knowing that all that I do shall succeed and prosper. There is only success and happiness for me, now and always. I live fully in the Spirit and I know and I know that I know that Spirit enlivens my heart with enthusiasm and joy. I accept this as the Truth for me now and for all people. I accept that my soul is satisfied with the life that G-d has given me through my consciousness of trust and faith in Its Divine giving-ness and unconditional love. Life in the Spirit is marvelous indeed.
And so it is.
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
Friday, April 10, 2009
I Believe In My Prayer And The Answer To It
In the book, “A New Design For Living,” written by Dr. Holmes and Willis Kinnear, Dr. Holmes defines 4-Steps of spiritual mind treatment. Please read these carefully and focus on the words used in each “defined process” of the treatment:
Recognition: I know that there is One Presence, One Power, One Life, One Intelligence, One Substance. It is perfect, whole, complete, and harmonious. It is the source of all things and is in and through all things. There is nothing separate from It. There is nothing that can limit Its action, there is nothing that can be separate from Its action. It always knows what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. It is the limitless source of every good thing. It is all joy, all happiness, love, harmony, and perfection in all that It is and does.
Identification: There is One life , that Life is God, that Life is perfect, that Life is my life, now. There is nothing in me or in my experience separate from God. "I am that which Thou art, Thou art that which I am." What I am is God in me as me. I now rid my mind of any and all ideas of isolation and separation from God, and know that as I now turn to Him I permit and Partake of an increased flow and influx of the Divine nature as what I am. I am one with God--all that is. My mind is a focal point, an individualization, of the Mind of God, the One Creative Power. The word I speak, the declaration I make is the word of God going forth through me into new tangible creation. In accord with the Law of Mind my word is its own fulfillment.
Declaration: This word I speak is for me, about me, is the truth of me. There is nothing in my mind, or the mind of another, that can deny it. Its action and fulfillment cannot be delayed, deferred, or hindered. I know, affirm, and declare that Divine Intelligence, the Mind of God, now guides and directs my every thought, my every action. I know what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. Every good idea I have carries with it the knowledge of the ways and means for its achievement. I am vigorous and whole. I possess the vitality of the Infinite. I am strong and well. God's Life is my life, now. His strength is my strength. His power is my power. My whole being is renewed, invigorated, made alive. There is peace, a Divine harmonious, dynamic, creative action at the center of my being. Every breath I draw, every beat of my heart, is the perfect rhythmic action of Life Itself. The expression of the One Perfect Life in me as me is now perfectly maintaining every atom, cell, and organ of my body. My body is a Divine idea in the Mind of God and no thing, no situation or condition can prevent Its full and complete expression in and as me. God created my body, knows how to maintain it, to remove what doesn't belong, and to rebuild it. This is occurring right now. Without reservation I know I now manifest and experience in all fullness and completeness God's perfect idea of me, and in all respects, every action, function, and structure of my body now conforms to it. There is perfect assimilation, circulation, and elimination. All that I am is one with the One Perfect Life. All the joy there is, all the happiness, all the beauty are now mine. I am born of the Spirit. I am in the Spirit. I am the Spirit made manifest.
Acceptance: I now accept the creative action of the words I have spoken as the law and the thing whereunto they are directed. They go forth into immediate fulfillment. Right now are they fully manifest. There is no delay, there is nothing that can prevent them from now being fully and completely fulfilled in my experience. They are words of power and of good. I accept them, I know they are the truth of that which I am. In and through them God goes forth anew into creation. It is now done, it is now complete. For this knowledge, for this understanding, I am grateful. I give thanks that all this is so. I know and accept that there is One Life, that Life is God, that Life is perfect, and that Life is my life now. Right now.
And so it is.
Special Note: Everyone can learn to write, speak, think, spiritual treatment. Use words that are specific, definite, affirmative and describe the result as being real, now.
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
Recognition: I know that there is One Presence, One Power, One Life, One Intelligence, One Substance. It is perfect, whole, complete, and harmonious. It is the source of all things and is in and through all things. There is nothing separate from It. There is nothing that can limit Its action, there is nothing that can be separate from Its action. It always knows what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. It is the limitless source of every good thing. It is all joy, all happiness, love, harmony, and perfection in all that It is and does.
Identification: There is One life , that Life is God, that Life is perfect, that Life is my life, now. There is nothing in me or in my experience separate from God. "I am that which Thou art, Thou art that which I am." What I am is God in me as me. I now rid my mind of any and all ideas of isolation and separation from God, and know that as I now turn to Him I permit and Partake of an increased flow and influx of the Divine nature as what I am. I am one with God--all that is. My mind is a focal point, an individualization, of the Mind of God, the One Creative Power. The word I speak, the declaration I make is the word of God going forth through me into new tangible creation. In accord with the Law of Mind my word is its own fulfillment.
Declaration: This word I speak is for me, about me, is the truth of me. There is nothing in my mind, or the mind of another, that can deny it. Its action and fulfillment cannot be delayed, deferred, or hindered. I know, affirm, and declare that Divine Intelligence, the Mind of God, now guides and directs my every thought, my every action. I know what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. Every good idea I have carries with it the knowledge of the ways and means for its achievement. I am vigorous and whole. I possess the vitality of the Infinite. I am strong and well. God's Life is my life, now. His strength is my strength. His power is my power. My whole being is renewed, invigorated, made alive. There is peace, a Divine harmonious, dynamic, creative action at the center of my being. Every breath I draw, every beat of my heart, is the perfect rhythmic action of Life Itself. The expression of the One Perfect Life in me as me is now perfectly maintaining every atom, cell, and organ of my body. My body is a Divine idea in the Mind of God and no thing, no situation or condition can prevent Its full and complete expression in and as me. God created my body, knows how to maintain it, to remove what doesn't belong, and to rebuild it. This is occurring right now. Without reservation I know I now manifest and experience in all fullness and completeness God's perfect idea of me, and in all respects, every action, function, and structure of my body now conforms to it. There is perfect assimilation, circulation, and elimination. All that I am is one with the One Perfect Life. All the joy there is, all the happiness, all the beauty are now mine. I am born of the Spirit. I am in the Spirit. I am the Spirit made manifest.
Acceptance: I now accept the creative action of the words I have spoken as the law and the thing whereunto they are directed. They go forth into immediate fulfillment. Right now are they fully manifest. There is no delay, there is nothing that can prevent them from now being fully and completely fulfilled in my experience. They are words of power and of good. I accept them, I know they are the truth of that which I am. In and through them God goes forth anew into creation. It is now done, it is now complete. For this knowledge, for this understanding, I am grateful. I give thanks that all this is so. I know and accept that there is One Life, that Life is God, that Life is perfect, and that Life is my life now. Right now.
And so it is.
Special Note: Everyone can learn to write, speak, think, spiritual treatment. Use words that are specific, definite, affirmative and describe the result as being real, now.
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Love Is The Answer To Every Problem
From "The Art of Being Yourself" by Dr. Frank Richelieu:
I know love is the answer to every problem or discomfort that exists or appears to exist. Therefore, I use love, not a sentimental, concerned love, but the love that stems from the center of my being and radiates out to make right my world and the world of those I love. I feel this love welling up within me. I see it penetrating and absorbing everything unlike itself. I can always depend upon this love, for it is a quality of Divine Mind. It is an ingredient of the universe. I breathe love in. I exhale love. I see love in every person and thing in my life. I recognize that harmony, peace and love are the very substance of my life and beingness.
And so it is!
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
I know love is the answer to every problem or discomfort that exists or appears to exist. Therefore, I use love, not a sentimental, concerned love, but the love that stems from the center of my being and radiates out to make right my world and the world of those I love. I feel this love welling up within me. I see it penetrating and absorbing everything unlike itself. I can always depend upon this love, for it is a quality of Divine Mind. It is an ingredient of the universe. I breathe love in. I exhale love. I see love in every person and thing in my life. I recognize that harmony, peace and love are the very substance of my life and beingness.
And so it is!
Keep the faith!
Rev Bates
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