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A Treatment Is An Operation

July 9, 2013 by zgardener

 
The word treatment is usually applied to a prayer that is made for some specific purpose, as distinct from a general prayer, which is really a visit with God. You must remember that a treatment is a definite practical action, having a definite object and a definite beginning and end. It is in fact a surgical operation on the soul.
 
            Let us suppose that you decide to heal a certain difficulty by prayer. You know that your difficulty must be caused by some negative thought charged with fear and located in the subconscious mind. You therefore turn to God, and remind yourself of His goodness, His limitless power, and His care for you. As you work the fear will begin to dissolve, and the awareness of the Truth corrects the erroneous beliefs themselves.
 
Thank God for the healing that you believe will come – and then keep your thought off the matter until you feel led, after an interval, to treat again.
 
He sent his word, and healed them … (Psalm 107:20).
 
Father, we know your goodness, limitless power and love for us is infinite. We know that this goodness, power and love is capable of all things. We are facing a difficulty charged with fear that is in our subconscious and conscious selves. We thank you for the healing that we believe will come. Send your word and heal us. Amen.
 
In treatment,
Z gardener

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God Works With Joy

July 8, 2013 by zgardener

 
 
            Don’t pray or meditate as a duty. Realize that prayer is a visit with God and should be joyous.
 
Neither must you pursue your secular activities as necessary duties to be gotten over, that you may return to your prayer. In the light of Truth, there are no secular activities.
 
You must have regular recreation or you will become stale. Recreation, also, is to be enjoyed – as an expression of God – and not as a task to prepare yourself to pray better. An understanding joy in living is the highest prayer of all.
 
…in thy presence is fullness of joy… (Psalm 16:11).
 
If our relationship with God is not joyful, its not God’s fault. If our relationships in life are not joyful, it is not someone else’s fault. We chose to live with joy or not. Its just that simple.
 
If we want more joy in our lives, then we must chose joy, live with joy and spread joy to others. That all starts with a thought. Think joy and live in the garden God created for us.
 
Thinking joy,
Z gardener
 

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Your Own Brand

July 4, 2013 by zgardener

 

 

 

 

 

You cannot claim too much for yourself provided you claim the same thing for all other human beings. In fact, it is our duty to claim all good things and to continue claiming them until they demonstrate in our outer experience. Of course, this law works both ways and therefore you must be very careful not to claim the negative things that you do not want.

 

 

 

On the western ranches the owner of a steer brands it with his name, “Bar A Ranch” or some such cipher. Then if it should wander into strange territory, it will always be returned to him. On the other hand, when an animal without his brand wanders into his corral, he says, “Than is not my steer,” and out it goes.

 

 

 

Many a foolish person puts his mental brand on a steer that he does not want in the least, and is surprised when the animal stays obstinately at home. People say my rheumatism, my forgetfulness, may poverty, et cetera, branding the steers they do not want instead of turning them out of the corral.

 

 

 

When you really want something, brand it deeply with your own name and it will be yours.

 

 

 

… but every one … shall keep himself to his own inheritance (Numbers 36:9).

 

 

 

Every thought, word and deed we create is branded as ours and it can not be unbranded. So, we should always ask ourselves, “Is this thought, word or deed something we want to claim and have in our lives?”

 

 

 

A wise person once said every thought should pass through three gates before leaving our mouths. Those gates are these questions, “Is it true? Is it well intentioned? Will it help? If  a thought cannot pass through these gates, then it should not be expressed.

 

 

 

Branding carefully,

 

Z gardener

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Tackling That Bugbear

July 3, 2013 by zgardener

 
When what seems an especially difficult problem or a great emergency presents itself, many students of the Truth start by thinking, “This is very serious,” and then proceed to brace themselves mentally for a supreme effort; and plan to pray exceedingly “hard” in order to meet the difficulty.
 
All this is quite wrong. It simply builds up the problem into something far bigger that it was originally. The right attitude, the one that brings Victory, is to think “God can and will solve this problem.”
 
Instead of speaking the Word from the low altitude of fear and limitation, and trusting to effort to magnify the Lord, stop thinking of the problem altogether, and rise in consciousness. Having now attained a higher level – speak the Word gently from that level, and your problem will be solved.
 
For the word of God is quick, and powerful … (Hebrews 4:12).
 
Father, we know that you can and will lift our hearts and minds to a place of joy and peace. We look with certainty for your healing spirit to lift our spirits and to comfort us now and forever.
 
With certainty,
Z gardener
 
 

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Bulb and Flower

July 2, 2013 by zgardener

 
 
Who has not at some time or other planted a bulb and enjoyed the pleasure of waiting for the plant to appear and develop, and ultimately produce the glorious flower itself?  Notice here that you naturally plant the bulb and expect the flower – the hyacinth or the crocus – to follow.
 
No sane person would dream of planting the flower and expecting a bulb to come up; yet in our general life many of us do just that!  We expect to begin with the flower. We think that we shall have desirable states of mind or body – happiness, freedom, health – if only we can change outer conditions in some way.  Yet this is really trying to plant a flower, because we are trying to put effect before cause.
 
The law of the universe is thought first, and then expression; and never can this law be reversed.
 
Let all thing s be done decently and in order (Corinthians 14:40).
 
Father, guide direct and control the planting of our thoughts, so that our words and deeds flower with your love in every way; especially when we face tribulation and heartbreak. This, so that we may be your disciples and live in the Eden you created for us.
 
Being guided,
Z gardener

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Be Specific!

July 1, 2013 by zgardener

 
 
Man has dominion over all things when he knows the Law of Being and obeys it. Do not put off your study of the law any longer. Take stock of your life this very day. Write down the things you really wish for. Be specific, not vague. Then write down underneath the conditions that you wish to remove from your life. If you do this candidly, you now have an extremely valuable analysis of your own mentality. In course of time this will tell you a great many things about your self that you do not at present suspect, and as your knowledge of spiritual Truth increases, you will be able to handle the new knowledge about your self in a surprising way.
 
Having forgotten your main points in front of you, work on each one separately with all the spiritual knowledge you possess. Remember, it is not really very important how much of this knowledge you have so long as you make use of all that you do have. Repeat this treatment every day for a month, and by the end of that time it will be very unusual if a change for the better has not manifested itself in your conditions.
 
For those unfamiliar with spiritual treatment, an effective method of working is this: Claim gently but definitely that the great creative Life Force of the universe is bringing each of the needed changes into your life in its own way, in it own time, and in its own form. Do not try to dictate the exact form in which the new conditions shall come about. Do not be tense or vehement. Do not let anyone else know that you are doing this. Do not look impatiently every day for results.
 
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do (Deuteronomy 29:9).
 
Lord, bring to all your children the needed changes into their lives in your own way, in your own time and in its own form. And, let each of us accept it wholeheartedly.
 
Being specific,
Z gardener

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No Buts

June 26, 2013 by zgardener

 
When the devil has been unmasked a number of times, his final refuge seems to be the harmless-looking word but. Students of the teaching of Jesus Christ who would not be deceived by any of the familiar devices, constantly surrender their principles, and therefore their demonstration, to the little word but.
 
“Of course I know that God in the only power – but—.”
“Of course I know that God in omnipresent – but.”
“Of course I know that God is love – but.”
“Of course I know that there is no hurry because I am in eternity – but.”
“Of course I know that John or Mary must be the living expression of God, just as I am – but.”
If truth is true, there are no buts.
 
And they all with one consent began to make excuse (Luke 14:18).
Father, let us not all with one consent begin to make excuses. The truth is the truth. Stand for it, or fall without it.
Standing,
Z gardener

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The Goodness of God

June 25, 2013 by zgardener

Read Psalm 18.
 
In verse 29 the Psalmist, thinking of some of the times in the past when he has been given power to overcome difficulties and to advance on the path, says, For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. Everyone has found himself at some time confronted with a difficulty that seemed like a high and insurmountable wall, but faith in God enables one to clear the obstacle notwithstanding.
 
Next the Psalmist reminds us that the way of God is perfect. God will put you upon your high place. In other words, he will raise you consciousness so that you will automatically demonstrate. Then the author praises God and thanks Him for His goodness. Thanksgiving, as you know, is one of he most powerful forms of prayer.
 
Finally he says that God gives great deliverance to his King; and that He sheweth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed forevermore. God intends us all to be kings through the exercise of spiritual power, and our power to go on increasing – like the seed of David – through all eternity.
Today Lord, let us give thanks for all our blessings and for those to come. Then, let us ask God to lift our consciousness to that place where we can live in harmony with God and each other. That is how God created us to be; and how we can be with God’s help.
Thankfully,
Z gardener
 

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The Kindling of God

June 20, 2013 by zgardener

 
Read Psalm 18.
 
In verse 28 the Psalmist moves to another phase of the teaching. Thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
 
Many similes have been offered by religious teachers to illustrate the relationship between God and man. One of the best known and most helpful is to think of man as a spark from a great fire, which is God. The spark is not the whole of the fire but is part of it, and therefore of the same nature, and possesses, potentially, all the characteristics of the parent fire. It can ignite many things upon which it falls, thus producing another fire essentially of the same nature as the original fire.
Father, may your light shine from us and your fire quicken us. Then, no darkness can prevail against us and no flood can extinguish our light.
Being a spark,
Z gardener

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The Hidden Studio

June 18, 2013 by zgardener

We are all engaged in building our consciousness during every waking hour. This work is invisible, silent, and consequently overlooked by the bulk of mankind. Nevertheless, it is the most fundamental and the most far-reaching activity in life. Hour by hour, and moment by moment, we are building good or evil, failure or success, happiness or suffering into our life by the ideas that we harbor, the beliefs that we accept, the scenes and events that we rehearse in the hidden studio of the mind. This fateful edifice, upon the construction of which we are perpetually engaged, is nothing less that our self – our personality, our identity on this earth, our very life story as a human being.

 

That wondrous building, the spiritual consciousness, is called in the Bible the Temple of Solomon, and we are told two wonderful things about that building. It was built without any noise (and we know that thought is soundless), and it was built upon a rock.

 

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building (1 Kings 6:7).

 

… be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me (Psalm 31:2).

 

    This bears repeating.

“Hour by hour, and moment by moment, we are building good or evil, failure or success, happiness or suffering into our life by the ideas that we harbor, the beliefs that we accept, the scenes and events that we rehearse in the hidden studio of the mind. .”

Nuff said,
Z gardener

 

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