JULY 12

I AM SUCCESS

They that seek the lord shall not want any good thing.  Psalm 34:10

Success does not mean the accumulation of wealth, the maintenance of position, nor supremacy of power.  Success means a life free from the burden of anxiety and liberated from the thralldom of fear.  There is no successful life without peace or without that inner spiritual certainty which knows that the soul is on the pathway of good, forever expanding into the conscious union of God with man.

Today I expect every good thing to come to me.  Everything that is worthy of the soul, I anticipate. Everything that belongs to the Spirit, I accept.  Everything that partakes of the nature of the Divine Reality, I claim as my own. Today I identify myself with abundance and success.  I know that my destiny is divine, that my destination is certain, that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  I know that this Kingdom contains everything necessary to my well-being.  In gratitude and with joy, I receive this Kingdom into myself.

I live in the consciousness of success.  I awaken its greater possibility within my imagination.  I feel it at the center of my being.  My whole consciousness expands, and my enthusiasm glows with the heat of Divine Fire.  There can be no obstruction to my success.  Every path is open before me, and “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

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

JULY 11          

GOD IS MY IDENTITY

Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.  Matthew 5:48

There is a pattern of perfection at the center of everything.  This the saints and sages of the ages have told us.  There is, as the Platonists taught, a prototype of perfection at the center of every form.  It is this spiritual prototype with which the mind should identify itself, for this is the Father in heaven within us.  Nothing has ever violated the integrity of this inner kingdom.  It exists forever in the bosom of God and we are in Him even as He is in us.

The most High is enthroned in my soul; the Divine Spirit exists at the center of my being.  Knowing that Divine Power can accomplish anything and realizing that faith in this Divine Power draws it forth into my experience, today I exercise complete confidence in the Invisible.  I permit that mind to be in me which was also in Christ Jesus.

Today I consciously identify myself with the Supreme Presence which inhabits eternity, and finds a dwelling place at the center of my own soul.  By some deep inner spiritualization, I penetrate the mask of separation and discover the unity of all life.  I identify myself with this unity, finding Christ within and knowing that “Christ is God’s.”  I recognize my union with all the Power, all the Presence and all the Life that there is. 

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

JULY 10     

I AM SPIRIT

Now there are diversities of things, but the same Spirit … It is the Spirit that quickeneth.

  I Corinthians 12:4 and John 6:63

Out of unity comes variety.  All things are made from one formless Substance.  The invisible essence of everything is pure Spirit.  It is a realization of this Spirit at the center of everything that enables us to see God in everyone.  “It is the Spirit that Quickenth.”  When we recognize the Spirit in anything or anyone, there is an equal reaction from the Spirit back to us, and we are made more alive through the divine influx which follows our recognition.

I believe there is but One Presence in the universe, which is God, the living Spirit Almighty.  Therefore, disregarding any appearance which seems to contradict this divine fact, I press forward with the certain knowledge that I am forever one with the invisible Presence which is able, ready and willing to direct all my ways.  I know that “her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.”  Today I walk in these ways of pleasantness and “no wind can blow my bark astray.”

Today I am resolved to see the Spirit in everything therefore; today I know that my own spirit is quickened.  I know that there is an inner Presence in everything I shall contact which will respond to me.  I know that everything is alive, awake and aware with this Presence; that in all the changing scenes of my experience I shall be contacting this one Presence.  Therefore, I go forth to meet the Divine, to enjoy His bounty and consciously to live in His house forevermore. 

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

JULY 9

I AM MIND

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.  

Philippians 2:5

This means that we should recognize the Divine Incarnation, universal in essence but individualized in personal experience.  The spiritual genius of Jesus enabled him to see that each is a unique representation, an individualized expression of One Mind.  The Mind of God in us is the Mind of Christ.  At the center of every man’s being the Eternal Christ waits, knocking at the door of his intellect for admission.  This is not a faraway Presence, nor a future advent.  The recognition of Christ can come to anyone at any time and under any circumstance.  The consciousness that walked over the troubled waters of human experience, the inner calm that stilled the tempest, is accessible to everyone.

The indwelling Christ tells me that the words which I speak are Spirit and Life.  There is a Divine Authority at the center of my being which announces Itself in every act.  I have implicit confidence in that invisible part of me which is my share in the God nature, my partnership with the Infinite, my oneness with all that is.  Therefore, I shall not doubt nor fear, for my salvation is from on High and the time of its appearing is today.

I know that the Christ in me is always triumphant.  I know that Christ in me is one with God; there is no separation, no isolation, no aloneness.  There is a Divine Companion who walks with me and in whose Light I see the Light.

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

JULY 8          

MY SPIRITUAL BODY

Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? 

I Corinthians 6: 19

Emerson said that “God builds His temple in the heart,” and Seneca that “He (God) is to be consecrated in the breast of each.”  St. Augustine said that ‘the pure mind is a holy temple of God.”  To realize that God is in us, with us and for us, is the first step toward understanding that we are the temple of the Holy Ghost.  Bishop Wilberforce tells us that “the conscious mind … is the temple of the Christ Mind.”  We must so control the conscious mind that the Christ Mind may function through it.  We must permit the Spirit to control the intellect.

“This is none other but the house of God …” “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the living God?”  Then this body of mine is none other but the house of God.  Therefore, Infinite Power, let me know only Thy perfect life flowing into and through me.

Today I realize that my body is the temple of God; that there is the divine pattern of perfection at the center of my being.  I shall not think of my physical body as being separated from this spiritual Presence.  The Presence is the Cause, the body is the effect, and the two are one.  Therefore, I too shall exclaim: “In my Flesh shall I see God.”

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

JULY 7

I AM THE TRUTH

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

  John 8:32

Jesus implies that there is a truth which known automatically will demonstrate itself in our experience.  What could this truth be other than a consciousness of our union with life?  It is wonderful to contemplate this spiritual and exalted idea of truth, that truth which frees us from the tyranny of fear and the thralldom of fate.  It is not in our stars, nor in our environment, that we should look to discover this pattern of truth.  The truth that Jesus proclaimed would make us free, lies only in the conscious union of man with God, the conscious union of the heart’s desire with the Source of its being.

“Be yourself today regardless of what happened yesterday.”  We are in bondage only to a false sense of the self.  We are in bondage because we judge the possibility of the future by the limitations of the past.  We are in bondage because we do not realize that “He maketh all things new.”

Today I commune with the spiritual truth in everything.  Today I know that the truth makes me free from fear, doubt or uncertainty.  Today there is a song in my heart as I gladly proclaim that truth which is the revelation of Divinity through humanity.

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

JULY 6     

I HAVE PROTECTION

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 

Psalm 91:1

This is a song of hope, a psalm of praise, the acknowledgement of an overshadowing Presence, the Most High Good, to which Jesus gave the name, “Our Father which art in heaven.”  We have a right to know that in so far as we live in accord with the Divine we are protected by Its omnipotent Law.  “His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.”  The knowledge of truth will ward off the darts of evil, for evil is as night before the onrushing day; it is as darkness dissipated by the rising sun; it is as a fire extinguished by the waters of Spirit.

“Fear thou not for I am with thee … I will strengthen thee … I will uphold thee.”  “For I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand.”  It is when we turn from all belief in separateness that we find the indwelling Spirit.  When we have dismissed all fear, then we know that God is Love.  When we have turned away from every sense of weakness we know that God is Strength.  Jesus said we cannot serve both God and Mammon, and the Gita tells us that we must do away with the Pairs of Opposites before we can enter into peace.

Today I put on the whole armor of faith.  I place before me the shield of Divine Wisdom.  I surround myself with the conscious knowledge of the overshadowing Presence.  Therefore, I fear no evil, for thou art with me.

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

JULY 5    

I RECEIVE MY GOOD

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 

Mark 11:24

How simply Jesus tells us that whatever we need we shall receive if we believe that we have it!  Is it so hard, then, for us to believe that the divine gift is forever made?  Prayer is a sincere desire to enter into conscious union with the Divine Presence and to receive from It every good thing that makes life worthwhile.

The Truth leads me into a more abundant spiritual life.  It also leads me into the possession of everything necessary to my well-being here on earth.  When I discover the inner kingdom, with its spiritual gifts, the material gifts which shadow forth this inner kingdom will also make their appearance.  I now learn to forget the wrong that may have appeared in my outer world, and turning with gratitude to that inner Light, I think upon those things which are good.  In doing this I become emancipated from my previous bondage.

My prayer today is one of affirmation.  It incorporates a complete acceptance of the Divine beneficence and the eternal givingness of the Spirit.  Today I lift high my cup of acceptance, knowing that the universal Horn of Plenty fills it to overflowing.  This shall include everything I need, whether it be health, happiness or wisdom.  Today my mind is open and my consciousness receives the kingdom into itself.

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

JULY 4     

I AM LOVE 

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear … for God is love.  I John 4: 18, 16

There is no fear in love and there is no liberation from fear without love.  Fear is based on the supposition that we are unprotected, rejected, and friendless.  If the fearful mind would entertain love and the harmony and peace that go with it, it must turn from everything that denies this love, and trusting in Divine Guidance, open its being to the influx of love, not just love of God but love of everything, for love is all-inclusive.

“I will fear no evil for thou art with me.”  Today Divine love and infinite tenderness sustain me. In order that I shall not separate myself from this love, I endeavor to see it reflected in everyone and everything.  I shall permit only that which is loving, kind and true to find entrance or exit through my consciousness.  Thus I shall be assured that I am bathed in the warm glow of that Love which casteth out all fear.

Becoming conscious of myself as I really exist in the Mind of God, I shall find that I am walking in pathways of peace; that something within me like a magnet attracts that which belongs to itself.  This something is Love, the supreme impulsion of the universe.  I know that I have no existence apart from this Love.  As I grow in the knowledge that I am one with the Spirit, I know that I shall grow in the ability to use the Love within me.

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