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"Troward
says, "I am that which I contemplate." You become what
you claim and feel yourself to be. Except you now believe and
accept as true that you now are what you long to be, you will remain as
you are. In other words, you will die in your sins, meaning
you will fail to reach your mark in life. If a man who is
poverty-stricken refuses to enter into the mood of opulence and the
belief in a God of abundance forever supplying all his needs, he will
remain poor regardless of the church he joins or what creed he
adopts." - Dr.
Joseph Murphy, "Peace Within Yourself: The Meaning Of The
Book Of John"
With the continuing
news reports of the financial challenges being experienced by the Global
Community, I thought it best to keep us on track with the spiritual
truth of money and prosperity. One of the great seeming challenges
of people who are new to metaphysics is to understand that "money
has no power" of itself. Money only has the power that we
give it. If we believe that lack of money creates problems and
obstacles for us ... we will experience problems and obstacles when we
lack money. And we will only lack money ... when we believe in
lack. And by "believe in lack," I mean, when our
thoughts are focused on lack, worrisome thoughts about money, fear of
loss of money, etc. In other words, the thoughts that we think
about money create our beliefs about money and our beliefs about money
will become our experience with money in due time. But, for many
of us, negative thoughts about money is a difficult habit for us to
break.
What we believe about money, for many of us,
has been our belief for a long time. And this is why many of us do
not demonstrate the good things that we desire to experience because we
give power to money, rather than power to our mind; our thoughts and
beliefs. As we can read from Troward's statement above, "I am
that which I contemplate." So, we must think about what to
contemplate, because so often what we think we want, is not a true
desire of our heart, but a whim of the moment. To work in mind for
something we must be absolutely certain that it is something that we
truly want. And to be certain that we truly want something, we
must contemplate our life with it, being it, or doing it. If I
begin to contemplate myself as a concert pianist, and this contemplation
does not lead me to search out a qualified piano teacher and to take
classes, it is a whim. If, I think, where is the money going to
come from to pay for the teacher, to pay for the piano, etc. ... it is a
whim. When our mind is focused on what we want, our mind has power
over money. We know that all that we need will show up when we
need it. What we truly want, we will contemplate to the point that
it is as real to us as if it were already manifest in the physical ...
and any thoughts that would distract us from it will not enter our
mental household. "The knowing of the truth is simply a
movement of our mind whereby we identify with our desire, accepting it
completely," writes Dr. Murphy.
From Dr. Robert H. Bitzer, "Be ready for
your demonstration. You create your opportunity in consciousness.
Your design or pattern must be clear, and your direction must be
unmistakable as you envision yourself fulfilling this design. Your
visual power keeps your imagination constantly working until it becomes
so real that you could almost reach out and touch it. ... You prepare
yourself to move into this new expression. When you have prepared
yourself in consciousness and accepted your idea with your entire being,
then you are ready. It is an inevitable consequence that
consciousness makes itself manifest. ... Your acceptance is a state of
inner consciousness. Any delay would indicate your lack of
acceptance; any opposition, interfering beliefs. You work on
yourself. It is your awareness that must be ready. You do
not look to outside conditions, influences, or people. You ready
yourself. Your inner acceptance knows when you are ready.
Like the fruit falling from the tree when it is ripe, so your maturity
or ripeness precipitates your opportunity."
As we know, prayer is not
for the purpose of making things happen, but rather to provide within
ourselves an avenue through which the conditions we desire to experience
can happen. And we realize the only thing we can ever change when
we pray is our own consciousness. And it is a blessing that this
is the truth for all of us. As we realize that God can only do for
us, what God can do through us, we also become aware of the power of our
mind. Our mind, aligned with God-Mind through contemplation,
prayer and meditation is All-Power ... and is not dependent on anything,
including money. Mind over money moves us from wishing for that
which is good, to claiming our Good!
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the faith!
Rev.
Dr. Henry Lee Bates
Visit Rev. Bates BLOG: Living
the Science of Mind
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