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An Experiment

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Try this experiment today. Select one particular thing in your life that is not going well and you wish to make right. Next consider the matter in the light of your knowledge of God and of prayer. Realize that this thing cannot remain inharmonious or negative once you know the Truth about it. Realize that you are now knowing the Truth and claim that the divine Power in you is now healing the condition completely and permanently.
Then give thanks. Remember that praise and thanksgiving are the most powerful prayers of all.
The next day, repeat your thanksgiving, until the answer comes.
In between prayers you must keep your thought right concerning the problem. This is vital. All-day-long guiding of your thought cannot fail to bring your demonstration.
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord (Psalm 104:34).
One who trains and controls their thoughts will control their universe. Our thoughts are where the existence of God and mankind intersect. Let us be sure that those thoughts are glad and joyful in recognition of a relationship with God,
Sweetly thinking,
Z gardener

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When –

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
 
            When your knees are knocking together, and you do not know which way to turn – think of God and His goodness.
 
When prosperity seems out of the question – give thanks for God’s abundance.
 
When you want peace of mind – dwell upon the Presence of God.
 
When your health is under par – speak the healing Word.
 
When you need inspiration – browse through the Bible.
 
When the situation seems to need a miracle – remember that nothing is too difficult for God, and the He is performing miracles every day.
 
I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee (Joshua 1:5).
 
Brothers and sisters when everything in the world fails you – Remember that God never will.
 
Faithfully,
Z gardener

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How Much Can God Do?

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
The Bible tells us that God can heal us, that He can deliver us from our destructions, that He lifts up the weak, that He leads and guides us. But just how much can God do? Well, God can do almost anything. That may sound strange to those who have been taught that with God all things are possible. But there are some things that God cannot do, and it is fortunate for us that this is true.
 
God is a God of love and rules by principle, and because this is so, He cannot change His nature. He cannot break divine law. He cannot bring disease, or suffering, or lack.
 
He is always the loving Father, ready to hear and answer prayer.
 
How much can God do? He can bring heaven here and now – not by breaking the law, which is impossible to God – but by fulfilling it.
 
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law (Psalm 119:18).
 
At some point in time each of us will be disappointed by someone we love and trust. Something we depend on will change and leave us struggling to cope. Someone will break the rules and our hearts at the same time. Even those we love and trust the most are human and will, at some time, act against our best good. That will never happen with God.
 
God is the one upon whom we can always depend, always trust and always, always acts for our best good. So, when the world has let us down, we have lost a loved one, our friends or family have cast us out or those upon whom we depend act undependably; there is One who is eternally faithful, trustworthy and who always puts us first. This One has created a garden for us and waits hopefully, lovingly and dependably there for us. His only desire for us is our best good, and this One will never waiver from that or leave us hurt and without hope. All we must do is turn to God and say, “Lord, I am here”.
 
Lord, I am here,
Z gardener

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Stake Your Claim

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
 
In the gold rush days, prospectors went out in the mountains in search of the yellow metal. Often the task was long and arduous with little to show for days of struggle and privation. But when a find was made, the prospector would stake his claim so that others would know that that particular discovery belonged to him. Of course, some claims turned out to be shallow veins of ore and worth little, while other claims eventually made their owners fabulously wealthy.
 
In metaphysics, we often speak of claiming our good, and it is one of the surest ways of bringing the good we desire into our lives. If we want health, then we have to claim every day that divine Life brings well-being to every part of our body. If we want prosperity, then we claim every day that God is the giver of every good gift, ready to supply our every need.
 
Whatever it is we wish to bring into our life, we stake our claim to it.
 
Of course, we often claim negative things for ourselves without fully realizing it. Every time we say, “My cold,” “My headache,” “My indigestion,” we are claiming those things for ourselves. What one claims for himself he will eventually bring into his life.
 
Affirm your divine kinship. All that the Father hath is ours – if we will stake our claim to it.
 
…It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom (Luke 12:32).
 
How we feel about ourselves is another way to stake a claim. Do we really believe God loves us unconditionally? Or, do we think we do not merit God’s love so we can not claim it? Guess what, both are right. We can never truly earn or deserve God’s unconditional love, but we don’t have to earn it. It is a gift of God’s grace (unmerited love). Think about this way, did we do anything to deserve our parents love? No, all we did was be born.
 
God love’s us because we are his children, not because we are good. We will always stumble and veer from the path of God’s will. Yet His forgiveness is always available if we but claim it. We claim forgiveness by confessing our failures, repenting and turning away from our mistakes. However, if we ignore our mistakes, or even worse, embrace them, then we are claiming all the misfortune and harm that comes from them. If we say, I can not try to change because I am too weak, then we claim that too.
 
When we claim our kinship to God, then work to live into our inheritance as children of God, we will receive strength and grace to work our claim. We do not become perfect or deserving of God’s love, but we do fully receive God’s presence and protection in all things. We also receive the peace that surpasses understanding and are then able to see and experience the beautiful garden God made for us. And, we can then live in that garden and walk with God each day filled with gratitude, love and gladness.
 
Staking the claim,
Z gardener

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Capitalize Your Disability

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
Success consists in the overcoming of difficulties. All men and women who have made a success of any kind have done so by overcoming difficulties. There was a time when laying a telegraph line from New York to Boston presented many difficulties. Then there was a time when doing that was easy, but laying the Atlantic cable presented difficulties. Later on, marine cable laying became a routine business, but radio across the ocean presented problems that for a time were insuperable.
 
If you have a personal disability that seems to keep you from success, do not accept it as such, but capitalize on it and use it as the instrument for your success. H. G. Wells had to give up a dull underpaid job because of ill health, so he stayed at home and wrote successful books and became a world-known author instead. Edison was stone deaf and decided that this would enable him to concentrate better on his inventions. Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, very shortsighted and nervous. However, he worked hard to develop his body and became, as we know, a strong husky open-air man and big game hunter.
 
The owner of a fashionable dress business in London was the wife of a struggling clerk, who was stricken with tuberculosis. She had never been in business, and had no training, and found herself having to support a husband and two children. She started with nothing but good taste in clothes and a belief in prayer.
 
… To him that overcometh with I give to eat of the tree of life (Revelation 2:7).
 
Who would have ever thought that any of the examples above would “be grateful” for their disability. Yet, each would have missed their destiny without overcoming them. The question is not, “Why has God saddled me with this disability?” The true question is, “What new door can a disability open for me and God’s purpose for me?”
 
Looking for the door,
Stan

 

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When God Does Not Act

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
We all believe that the love of God is invincible. We all believe that His intelligence, His knowledge, and His power are infinite. We all believe that God cares for us to a degree beyond imagining, and that each one of us is equally precious in His sight. Yet, in many cases healing and harmony do not follow from this knowledge. Why is this?
 
In most cases it is because we have forgotten that these qualities have to be embodied in ourselves before they can appear in our lives. To know of them as existing in God is not sufficient. We must be seeking to express them in our personal lives before they can do anything for us.
 
The only way to know God is to seek to express Him in our lives.
 
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord … to show forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night (Psalm 92:1-2).
 
This does not mean God only answers prayers for the righteous. It does mean that we must be attuned to God and expressing God’s will and laws in our lives with our best ability to do so. We must believe the truth, accept God’s laws and make them our laws. When our thoughts, words and deeds are driven by our submission to God’s will, then we are expressing God. Then our harmony and healing will become our reality.
 
When we are one with God, we can praise God from whom all blessings flow, as they flow into our lives. Then are hearts will be “grateful for all things” as one who trusts God, even if afflicted with disharmony, ill health, etc. If we stay that course, then we will discover and live in the Eden God created for us.
 
Expressing God,
Z gardener

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The Spiritual Basis

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
One is on the Spiritual Basis or he is not, for there is no half-way house in this.
 
You are on the Spiritual Basis:
 
If you definitely give all power to God, in the most literal, practical, and matter-of-fact sense of the phrase.
 
If you really believe that prayer can do anything.
 
If you really believe that your happiness and well-being are vitally important in the eyes of God.
 
If you realize whatever ideas and beliefs you accept must be expressed in your surroundings, and in all your relationships and activities.
 
If you try to see the Presence of God everywhere.
 
If, in short, you understand that you are in a mental universe, that thoughts are things, and that one’s life history is fundamentally the expression of his belief about God.
 
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you (James 4:8)
 
Living on the spiritual basis is a radical departure from the way most humans live and perceive life. That upon which we mentally focus becomes the reality of our physical existence. When we draw near to God and focus on our belief in God, our world changes from the effects to the causes, form the medicine to the cure and from the carnal to the spiritual. This focus on God allows us to walk in grace, joy and peace. It opens us to God’s infinite power and creates the channel for God into our gardens. When we are one with the spirit, all things are possible and God’s love lifts and protects us. Then even when bad things come our way, we are spared our improved by them.
 
Drawing nigh,
Z gardener

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Prayer Is Always The Answer

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
Prayer is always the solution. No matter what kind of difficulty may be facing you, no matter how complicated your problem may seem – prayer can solve it. Of course you will also take whatever practical steps seem to be indicated, and if you do not know what steps to take, prayer will show you. Prayer is constantly bringing about the seemingly impossible, and there is no conceivable problem that has not at some time been solved by prayer.
 
When we remember that God really is omnipotent, untrammeled by what we call time or space or matter, or the vagaries of human nature, it is easy to see that there can be no limit to the power of prayer. You can pray about a problem and solve it at any stage, but of course, the earlier you tackle it the easier will your work be.
 
… The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much (James 5:16).
 
The key words above are righteous and fervent. Righteous does not mean perfect; it means being a believer who, through faith is striving for righteousness. And, as we discussed yesterday, fervent means charged with feeling; coming from the heart. When we pray in this way, our prayers will be answered even if the answer is no. And when the answer is no, be on the lookout for God’s alternative to your request. It will be coming down the road. And as my Daddy used to say, “If the bible says a train is coming down a dirt road…you better jump in the ditch because it is coming.”
 
Waiting on the train,
Z gardener

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Mental Drudgery Is Not Prayer

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
Expect more from you prayers. The power of your prayer depends upon the amount of faith that you yourself have in it. To pray in the spirit that “even if this prayer does not do any good at least it cannot do any harm,” is not, really, to pray at all.
 
Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long one. Too long a session of prayer usually means the in your heart you really doubt the love of God, and think that a great deal of effort and toil will be necessary to move Him. Pray quietly and sincerely for a reasonable time – and then leave the matter, expecting success.
 
O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou has done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth (Isaiah 25:1).
 
The intensity of feeling is more important to a prayer than its length. When we feel our prayer and focus on communion with God, we are truly praying. If our faith is strong, the length of the prayer is irrelevant. When we believe God is going to answer our prayer, we do not need to burden God with a lengthy prayer. Not that anything is wrong with a long visit with God. In fact, the more we visit with God, the better.
 
In belief,
Stan

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Is It Selfish?

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on March 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »

 
Is it selfish to pray for yourself? Some people think that it is, and say that you should pray only for others, but this, of course, is a foolish idea.
 
You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly – and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like him – and we can do that only through prayer.
 
The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness – it is truly glorifying God.
 
Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy … Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul (Psalm 86:1, 4).
 
Not only should we pray for ourselves, we should also pray for all humans. We are all children of God and not one, especially ourselves, should ever be exempted form our prayer life. Prayer is more than just asking God for what we want. It is a visitation with God, being in God’s presence and God in ours. Prayer should be as much a part of our mentality as is our comfort or our destination at the time. Prayer is as essential to our spiritual life as breath is to our physical life. We ignore either at our great peril.
 
So today, let us pray for ourselves and all those other children of God. And being the Lenten season, our prayers for ourselves should always include awareness of our shortcomings and repentance of them. Lastly, be sure to include the willingness to bury the old self and rise anew with the risen Christ at Easter.
 
Lord, have mercy on us all,
Z  gardener

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