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JULY 3 

I AM PEACE

Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.  Samuel 25:6

Phillips Brooks said that “peace is the entire harmony between the nature of anything and its circumference.”  “House” is a symbol of the physical body and of “that house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.”  House is a symbol of any of the “vehicles, bodies or habitations of the soul” on any or all planes.  The Bible speaks of the House of Bondage and the House of Freedom.  Symbolically, it tells us that we must come “out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage’; that we must be led by the Divine Spirit into that true home which is heaven.  Jesus said that ‘in My Father’s house there are many mansions.”

Today I permit my mental house to be at peace.  I know that my true home is heaven and the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  Today I enter into this permanent home.  I consciously move in and make my dwelling place in this House of Peace and Gladness.

The perfect Life of God now expresses through me.  As the sun dissolves the mist, so my knowledge of truth dissolves all pain and discord.  There is nothing for me to fear.  God is my life, my strength; I claim my true sonship.  I claim my divine inheritance of perfect life.  Today I am made perfect through conscious union with the Source of all life.  I have peace in the Household of the Lord. 

JULY 2

I EXPRESS DIVINITY

We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory … by the Spirit of the Lord.  II Corinthians 3:18

Beholding the image of perfection in everything, dominion is added to glory.  This refers to the continual progression of the soul.  Since God is infinite, our expansion is progression and eternal.  No matter how much good we experience today, the Infinite has more in store for us tomorrow.  We should look forward to this expansion with enthusiastic anticipation.  The march of life is not a funeral dirge, but a song of triumph.

Grateful for each success and each new advancement, I advance to new and greater revelations of truth.  Knowing that the Spirit within me is free, I am no longer bound by the patterns of yesterday.  Freedom is made manifest through my thoughts, in my words and actions.

The good that I experience yesterday is going to be multiplied today.  I cast this good upon every wind of heaven, knowing that it goes out to bless.  I condition my mind to accept greater good for myself and others.  I wait calmly, but with joy, for new experiences to come to me, for new opportunities for service.  I expect my mind to be flooded with new ideas.  I know that the Spirit of the Lord is with me and that glory of the Lord is around me.

JULY 1   

I AM ONE WITH ALL PEOPLE

Have we not all one Father?  Hath not one God created us? 

Malachi 2:10

Arthur Compton, in The Freedom of Man, tells us that science has discovered nothing which contradicts the idea of a Universal Mind or Spirit to which men are as Its, or His, children.  It would be impossible to converse with each other unless there were a common medium, or, as Emerson said, “one mind common to all individual men.”  It is impossible to depart from this Divine Presence, to be separated from this heavenly Father, which is the Parent Mind.  Since God is everywhere, wherever we are God is.

Today I know that there is one Spirit in everyone I meet.  Realizing that there is one Heavenly Father, I know that there is a brotherhood of humanity.  There are no aliens, no strangers.  The Divine Image in me cannot be separated from the Divine Image in others.  I see God in everyone I meet. The Spirit that is within me responds to the Spirit within them, for we have one Father.

I neither condemn nor make excuses for another’s seeming shortcomings. I endeavor to help him to know that God at the center of his being reveals to him his perfect Being.  In the Kingdom of God within him no false beliefs exist.  No self-frustration nor inner conflict can exist in Heaven within him.  When I can really see God in the person who is in great need, I prove my consciousness of oneness. I am one with the Spirit in all people.

JUNE 30   

I GIVE MY WORLD LOVE, JUSTICE AND TEMPERANCE 

“For all things proceed out this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance, in its different applications, just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.”  Emerson

God must act by means of me, for otherwise I have no purpose in life. I am; therefore that which caused me to be, must have a reason for my being.  I have confidence that the Infinite Mind knew what It was doing as It released me into the world.  I have a divine purpose and a spiritual reason for being.  I am not an accident of fate, nor a victim of inheritance.  I am a living soul equipped to display the attributes of God in my world.  I have within me the potentials of greatness, yes, the glory of God as he acts through man.  To me is given the Mind, Life and Love of God, and I accept my role in the Divine Plan.

I live, because God is life.  I love, for within me is a Love greater than I have ever known.  I am kind to others, because God in me knows their love, their integrity and their hopes.  I have at the center of my being all the Mind of Truth. His Ideas are mine, and His Ways are my paths of peace.  I know the real meaning of spiritual justice.  I judge no man by his outer actions.  I judge only righteous judgment.  God is man in his own real self, and though his outer actions may camouflage this, it still remains true.  I behold the Truth in every person.  I see God in every face.

To live in the Presence is to live always in balance.  I have true temperance, for I am guided by a Wisdom that always guides me rightly.  I indulge in the good, and fast from all evil.  I find my every hunger and thirst satisfied by an inner manna of the Spirit.  I live with wisdom, and allow my fellowman to do the same.  I have the spiritual intelligence to perceive the difference between temperance and intolerance.  I live and let live.  I love and let love happen.  I have faith in my concept of Truth, and respect my fellowman’s concept as well.  I live in God, and I express His love, justice and temperance.  

JUNE 29   

I REFUSE TO EXPERIENCE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND UNHAPPINESS

“Good is positive.  Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold which is the privation of heat.  All evil is so much death or nonentity.  Benevolence is absolute and real.”  Emerson

I have free will as a part of my Divine Birthright.  This great power of mind is mine to use, and the Law of Mind must fulfill my direction.  I now declare my freedom from all evil.  I refuse to be dominated by illness, fear, lack and frustration.  God never made them, and I will have nothing to do with them. God in me knows only my perfect self, and this alone I recognize, affirm and accept.  Having the power to reject the undesirable, I now declare my freedom from evil.  Never again will negatives rule my thinking.  I am the perfect creation of a perfect God, and I know it.

My body is divinely created, and divinely operated.  It is not subject to the ills of the flesh, for my flesh is spiritual substance and cannot be defiled.  No sickness can come upon me, and no medical belief can enthrall me.  I am the health of the Spirit.  I am the Life of God made manifest.  I control my thinking and disciple my emotions. My vitality is sufficient for every demand made upon it. I am never unhappy, for God in me is the joy of living.  Outer pleasure I enjoy, but my inner joy is not dependent upon it.   My real happiness is from my knowledge of God as the joy of my being.

I refuse to experience poverty, lack or financial limitation.  I live in a universe of Divine Design and it knows no lack of abundance.  Everywhere prosperity is rampant.  Money seeks me through every person, thing and situation.  His richness is mine, and I accept it.  I enjoy the money I have, and I use it with wisdom.  There is no virtue in lack, and I now dismiss it from my world.  I am the Child of a rich and abundant God.  The eternal providing Principle supports and maintains me in freedom.  I have Manna to eat which no man can see.  I have a living Water of Life to drink, and I am free of all evil. 

JUNE 28   

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL NO LONGER INTRIGUES ME

“These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, of one mind; and that one mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool; and whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise.”  Emerson

God dominates my whole experience.  There is so much of God everywhere in my life, that I cannot see any opposite.  My health cannot know disease and my prosperity cannot know decrease.  I am completely convinced that God is the only power. Mind is the only reality and Love is the only atmosphere.  Evil is a word without meaning.  I perceive the Truth and the Truth has set me free from all false speculations.  Within me, around me and through me there is nothing but pure Mind.  I bask in Its eternal embrace; I think in Its eternal consciousness of good.

The problem of evil no longer fascinates me, for I see it as nothing.  Negatives are merely my misunderstanding of positives.  I can see only that which is of good report.  My eyes are now too pure to behold any viciousness in creation.  God appears to me in all things, in all people and in my own uplifted thinking.  All resistance to problems is erased, because the problems are merely my opportunities to prove God as the only cause.  I accomplish with ease, where others struggle to make ends meet.

God’s Spirit in me appreciates my recognition of Itself, and out-pours upon me all of Its qualities, ideas and aspects.  All life moves to grant me the ability and the power to do what I know is right and fine and true.  The inner upsurging of Divine Intelligence and Creativeness impels me to right decisions and right actions.  There is nothing to fight; there are no battles to be won.  The victorious Truth of my being expresses as me, and dominion over all the good is mine to use.  All positives are mine.  All virtues belong to me.  All of God is revealed to me, and I demonstrate my happiness.  

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

JUNE 27   

MY SELECTION DETERMINES MY EXPERIENCE

“There is One Mind, and all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all; and I, as a man, may claim and appropriate whatever of true or fair or good or strong has anywhere been exhibited.”  Emerson

The universe is a spiritual system, and it gives to all men alike.  God in His creation knows neither great nor small.  It knows me only as an outlet of Its Ideas and Its Love.  To me is given all power in mind and in control of matter.  My authority is from on high, and the material thought of man cannot negate it. I stand in control of situations, I experience.  As my thinking determines my control of situations, I now assume my Divine Prerogative and think only of the things I desire.  No evil can withstand my determined spiritual mentation.  The gates of hell may open, but the windows of heaven shall still outpour me a blessing and triumph will always be mine.

In the One Mind I am an unlimited action of Intelligence, Power and Love.  This is my Birthright.  This is the Divine Legitimacy of my being.  To this end was I created, and for this cause have I come into the world.  I bear witness to perfect Life, complete Wisdom and ever unfolding possibilities of greatness.  I remain forever unconditioned and free.  My selection of Truth now determines my demonstration of health, peace and prosperity.  Knowing only God and His permanent goodness, I can select only that which will unfold my capacities and enlarge my usefulness.  Today, I definitely do this.

I refuse to believe in evil, to experience it, or to speculate upon its possibility.  All the sense testimony which can be arrayed in favor of evil is a useless argument.  I have set my eyes on the Good.  I have established heaven in my consciousness, and there is no power in darkness and ignorance.  The Light of Life is mine and in me It illumines my mind and maintains my faith.  God alone is my beginning, continuity and conclusion.  Love alone is my outer experience, and prosperity pours into my experience in profusion.  I have selected that which will endure, and God giveth the increase.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

JUNE 26   

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

“The genius of man is a continuation of the power that made him and that has not done making him.”   Emerson

I have faith in an unlimited God, my own unlimited possibility, and an unlimited world in which I function. I see all restriction as temporary negative experience which can be healed by my highest thought of God.  Today, I am determined to live as a free agent of an unlimited Mind that knows only my possibility and is not interested in my own wrong beliefs.  God wants me to express Him today.  God has not finished creating, and His Plan for me unfolds with certainly and with precision.  I let Mind be in me what It has planned to be, and my success is sure.

This twenty-four hours is my opportunity to prove the reality of Truth.  At every moment the Mind of God leads me into my good.  I am never forsaken, and never left alone. No human opinions can govern me, and no wrong decisions can be made.  By my recognition of God as my own real Self, the One Presence actually controls my environment, and Divine Mind dominates my thinking.  This negates all evil, and I am free to express perfect life.  I behold myself as a successful outlet of Divine ideas and a joyous creator of lasting benefits.  I think rightly of God, of myself and of my fellowman.

Today I am born afresh of the Spirit.  No past beliefs hold me in bondage, for God in this day knows only the good of this day.  His Mind in me holds no carry-overs from yesterday.  My past mistakes are nullified, and I shall never again believe in two powers and their resultant disunity.  I have one God, and that One is the power in me to produce for me what I select.  I have good cheer, for I see nothing but good before me.  Today is the day of victorious results bringing to pass greater demonstrations that I have ever known before.  Prosperity of all kinds is mine because I let Divine Mind produce it for me.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

JUNE 25  

I ACCEPT MYSELF AS THE HEALTH OF GOD   

“Mind is the only reality of which men and all other natures are better or worse reflectors.”  Emerson

The natural state of all life is health.  Life is so organized that under normal circumstances It must be health.  Left to Its own devices the action of God in man maintains him in health.  Therefore, I let the Divine be in me what It planned to be, and my health is automatic.  I remove every mental and emotional obstruction to the already perfect Intelligence governing my body.  I am a spiritual being, operating through consciousness and experiencing body.  My body cannot make me ill, for Mind alone is cause.  I rejoice in my victory over disease.

I refuse to believe that I am the victim of any situation.  The Divine in me is always in full charge of my experience, and the power of God is greater than the power of disease.  His Mind in me knows only perfect action and perfect results.  I join with God in the knowledge of perfect man, perfect life and perfect health.  I erase from my own subconscious any pattern, idea or belief that is contrary to God.  I know that deep within me is the cleaning action of Spirit, and my soul is delivered of all evil. I am healed by the perfect thought of the Divine Mind.

My consciousness is alerted to Truth.  My body responds to health.  Today, I shall have all the energy, vitality and strength I shall need to accomplish without strain.  I shall have power at every moment.  I shall have wisdom in every decision.  God can never desert me, and His indwelling action shall maintain me in ease of body and clarity of thought.  His Mind is my mind now.  I am strong, fearless and creative.  I have nothing to fear, and no evil to anticipate.  The radiant eternal health of God is in every cell of my body and the One Mind maintains this health in me today.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker