Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Dealing With Fear

When you fear any person, place, thing or condition, you have given something other than God power over you, and that will effect your life in an undesirable way until you change your belief about the false cause of your Good.


"If you feel the shakiness of fear, you can say, 'There is nothing to fear, I am clinging to the loving God.' You can say, 'I will not doubt the Good. I believe in the loving God.' You can say, 'I do not believe in appearances. I believe in God here present in loving kindness.' ...you will find it most comforting in the world to say, 'I do not believe in the power of a whole army of evil conditions. I believe God is bringing us all through safely.'" 
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Scientific Christian Mental Practice p.209 (Written in late 1800's)

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Being Guided From Within

“Our inner voice whispers ever so gently… within us are all the answers to our problems. Success increases dramatically when we still the inner nature of our being and it is then that we hear the directions being given us. Our intuition becomes sharpened and, if we trust it, leads us to the paths of peace and gain.”
John Harricharan

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Believe in Yourself

Believe in Yourself

You exist that Divine feeling, fire, imagination, and creativity may be expressed through you. The Spirit comes to you with a new and fresh creativity. You need not ask what others have done or how they have done it. Be yourself and express life as you find it. Never imitate. Trust the self. Find the self in God and God in the self.

There is a pattern of perfection at the center of your being which has never been touched by disease or misfortune. Your intellect senses this through intuition; your imagination feels it by divine right; your inward consciousness knows it through faith. What you are trying to do is awaken your whole being to spiritual awareness.

From "This Thing Called You" by Ernest Holmes,

Friday, July 15, 2011

Changing Our Devils Into Angels

This world may present pictures of inharmony which are contrary to my standards of good, but when this happens it is my right and my duty to transform the way that I am reacting to them so that I will not be seeing myself as a victim of my circumstances. I recently answered a lady who had a "deep hurt from two years ago" that she had difficulty getting past. She also wanted to know if you could hurt and forgive at the same time.
My answer to her second question was "No, you haven't fully forgiven yourself, or another, until the pain has been transformed into a much higher emotion than what you are experiencing. This is possible, but it will take work on the part of anyone who has yet to forgive. I then shared my own thoughts about how to deal with the hurt so that it wouldn't run her life:

I found that by allowing the energy of the pain to be there, and then changing my self-dialogue from "I hurt," to "Forgive them, they know not what they do," or "I live in a loving, supporting, joyous Universe" (or something similar), has worked wonders for me. If I make a positive affirmation out of the negative, it tends to diffuse the negative energy. I once used this method to forgive someone and it only took about 5 minutes to do, where before, it had been eating at me for months. I had to have the same intensity of my new attitude that I had when I first accepted it, the lie about myself and/or others, as what was really true in the whole situation.

"If we are seeing less than God, we are seeing incorrectly."
Joel S. Goldsmith, 1892-1964, a Christian Mystic and Healer that had a worldwide ministry and wrote over 30 books.

Update:

The hardest part of forgiveness, or anything else that is uncomfortable, is taking that first step. Once that first step is taken it will get easier to do.

Update II

I just ran across this article on forgiveness which coincides with much of my post:
Forgiveness Brings Healing Like Nothing Else

Thursday, March 24, 2011

We Must Stand Firm in Truth

We must stand-fast in our knowing and affirming the Truth, as that is what changes and clarifies the distorted pictures of "reality" into ever unfolding, higher concepts of Good. We have been told by all of the Great Lights that have walked on planet Earth to "Have Faith," as that will bring the Good into our lives that is rightfully ours by our Divine Birthright, but we must be firm and not give in to appearances.

"You have the power to be firm. God is, and God is present. Be firm. Call on God. Call again. Be determined not to be refused. God in you has Supreme rights in the universe. The God in the universe can be plainly seen by insisting."
Emma Curtis Hopkins, The Judgment Series

One moment of seeing the "Face of God" will totally transform our experience.