WE WILL NOT FEAR, BECAUSE GOD IS OUR REFUGE

Have you ever stopped to think how much time we spend trying to find some truth, or wishing that we might know some particular truth? We do not have to do that at all. If we can realize Jesus’s saying, “I am the truth”, then we will have it all. I am the truth! And when we have that, we do not have to look for some truth which I already am. Have you ever thought about how much time we spend seekin...

We are surrounded at all times by what Scripture calls angels, which hover about us always. Within us are those divine ideas or spiritual impulses that guide, lead, and direct us, even though as human beings we are not aware of them. As human beings, brought up with the ordinary church experience or with no church at all, we are not aware of the fact that we are constantly under a divine governmen...

Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit to be Tempted . Jesus had prepared for the test by fasting for forty days and forty nights. That left him, of course, in a state of extreme hunger which the Devil took advantage of in the first test: "Since you are God's Son, speak the word that will turn these stones into loaves of bread. Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3: It takes more...

It would not make any difference how wonderful our speeches were, how marvelous our statements of truth sounded; without that indwelling love, it means nothing. If our statements of truth are not imbued with a sense of God’s allness, they will be of no avail. It is not the speech, it is not the letter of truth that is important: It is the degree to which our consciousness is imbued with the unders...

There is a healing process that takes place when we sit in silence and peace . “My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth”. The world can give a certain peace. It can give us an absence of noise, a quiet country place, or a boat cruise. That is the peace that the world can give. People travel to far places, but they travel by themselves and they return home with themselves. We cannot get a...

For what purpose were we born? It cannot be that we came to this experience merely to make a living, do housework, or whatever our lot in life is. Doing only those things means we have not found our destiny. The moment, however, that we identify God, infinite Consciousness, as our consciousness, we will break through our environment, regardless of how limited it may seem to be. The urge to find ou...

Giving thanks is an acknowledgment of the Source. Giving thanks is an acknowledgment of the Cause. So when we say, Thank you, Father, I am, we are showing forth our conviction that our supply does not come from any human being, but comes from the Father. It comes, not from our human cleverness, ingenuity, or personality. It comes forth from the Father. Without the recognition that Consciousness is...

We experience God’s unfolding in our consciousness through a revelation within our being. It is an experience that takes place from within. The Kingdom of God is within us. We are the individualization of all that God is: “Son all that I have is yours.” Therefore, our work is to allow our inner being to be part of our outer. For we will receive from the depth of our being the revelation of God’s n...

We are not finite human beings: we are the life of God in individual expression embodying everything necessary for our experience. It is much like an individual seed. It contains within itself everything necessary for its unfoldment and development into a full-grown tree with fruit on it. The tiny seed, under an activity within itself, draws unto itself from its surroundings its particular needs w...

The goal of all spiritual work is God-Realization. Understanding God’s nature is the most difficult part of our spiritual journey because it involves releasing every concept of God acquired throughout our lifetime. Nevertheless, freeing our concept of God has to be the first part if we are to truly understand God’s nature. We have looked to our concepts of God to bless us, but concepts of God, reg...

When we begin to perceive the nature of God, we will know how to pray. When we know how to pray, all of God’s grace will manifest itself in our life because prayer is the connecting link between man and God. It is through prayer that we bring God’s grace into our individual experience and we are enabled to share it with others so that they, too, benefit to some degree from the grace that we have r...

It is about time that we get over the idea that there is a rewarding or punishing God. There is no God to reward or punish anybody for anything. God is not a man or a woman. God has no human instincts. God is spirit and God is love, and when we remember how parents love their bad children as well as their good ones, how much less cognizance must God take of goodness or badness? We do indeed receiv...

This Christ peace cannot be achieved by praying to God to reform our neighbors not even our neighbors across the sea. It has to begin with us. Let us leave our neighbors alone, and secretly and sacredly go within, silently communing with the Prince of Peace within us, the Prince of joy, health, wholeness, completeness, and of spiritual perfection. Then, when we have attained some measure of Christ...

The full significance of Christmas can never be known except through an understanding of the unchanging nature of God. What took place over two thousand years ago was merely the revelation of an experience that has been continuous, not only since before Abraham but since before time. God did not create anything new two thousand years ago. The meaning of Christmas is that God planted in individual...

THE ARRIVAL OF THE PROMISED MESSIAH unlocked Event Prophecy   Fulfillment Christmas time is always a special time for almost everyone and especially for Christians. Using biblical scriptures the Event, the Prophecy and finally, the Fulfillment: The Birth of our Lord and Saviour are outlined. The Event: Born of the tribe of Judah! The Prophecy : Genesis 49:10: The Fulfillment Luke 3: 23-33: Lu...

To walk this spiritual path we are taking, we need to understand that all conflicts must be settled from within . One may say how can that be if they exist out there in another person in our families and co-workers? It would be an impossibility to settle these conflicts if they were external to us, but the hope and the blessings are that they are not. There is no conflict going on in us, around us...

As human beings, we are made up of theories and beliefs. However, many of those beliefs are false. Much of our religious knowledge is based on false beliefs. These theories and beliefs also include false education and superstitions. For example, only a few people in all this land do not believe that God punishes and God rewards and that God will destroy all their enemies and discord if, through so...

All error is made up of the belief that there is power in certain forms of effects . There is also a belief in the power of germs. In some germs, they think there is an evil, deadly power, and in some germs a good and healing power. Such belief is untrue because it places power in form, in an effect called a germ, and there is no power in form or effect: all power is in the invisible God. The erro...

In seeking the conscious realization of God’s presence, all things are added peace, harmony, joy, health, and prosperity. However, they are the added things that come after some measure of realization of God has been attained. Today we are going to break that pattern. We are going to stop the pattern of seeking person and things, safety and security, peace and joy. We are going to stop it by turni...

The spiritual experience is sacred and should never be spoken of indiscriminately because our pearls would be trampled upon, and our faith may be taken away from us. To expect anyone to believe what unfolds from within would be like trying to tell a blind person about the beauties of an orchid. The blind person has no way of visualizing what the orchid is like, nor do they on earth have any way of...

In the eighth chapter of Romans, Paul tells us that a mortal being is not under the Law of God, neither can be, and it is not possible for a mortal being to please God. Because the people of the earth are mortal, they still have sin, disease, death, man’s inhumanity to man slavery, and poverty in their mists. Believing is, of course, the first step. However, there is still a journey to be taken. T...

To acknowledge that the kingdom of God is within us – the power, the dominion, and the presence of the indwelling Christ is an important step in the direction of bringing about our resurrection from the tomb of sin, disease, poverty, unemployment, or the tomb of bad business. Another important step forward is to remind ourselves daily of the truth of withinness, that all good is already within us,...

When a person comes into some measure of understanding of the nature of God, a change takes place in their life . This coming-to-know God aright is often referred to as illumination, and as illumination changes consciousness from a limited sense to one of greater capacity, a new life begins to unfold. Even a faint glimpse of the real nature of God brings an understanding of the Master’s revelation...

Saul of Tarsus, the Prodigal Son, the woman was taken in adultery, the thief on the cross – what are these but you and me? It makes no difference for the moment whether we are earnest seekers as was Saul of Tarsus, the sinning woman, or the pleasure-seeking prodigal. The reference is still to us, to our human nature, to the mortal side of us, and in that very mortality is buried this Christ, this...

In the Forty-sixth Psalm, there is an introduction to the nature of God. On further examination, it seems that this has been misunderstood and that could be one reason peace on earth and goodwill to men has not been experienced. However, it is up to us not to God, but us. We will not fear, because God is our refuge. If we can gain an understanding of the nature of God and Christ, we shall find tha...