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Unlocking the Door

July 25, 2012 by zgardener

            Work by rehearsing everything that you know about God. God is Wisdom, Truth, inconceivable Love. God is present everywhere; has infinite power; knows everything. It matters not how well you may think you understand these things; go over them repeatedly.
The rule is to think about God, and if you are thinking about your difficulty you are not thinking about God. To be continually glancing over your shoulder in order to see how matters are progressing is fatal, because that is thinking of the trouble, and you must think of God, and of nothing else. Your object is to drive the thought of the difficulty right out of your consciousness, for a few moments at least, substituting for it the thought of God. If you can become so absorbed in this consideration of the spiritual world that you really forget for a while all about the trouble concerning which you began to pray, you will presently find that your trouble falls into new perspective, new relationships, so that it is no longer a difficulty.
…thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all (Nehemiah 9:6).
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? (Job 31:4).
Now we know about the Golden Key (think, God) and about how it is to be used. However, it is we who must turn the key and unlock the gates to our gardens. To walk in love, peace and hope each day, all we must do is use this key. Yet many will not accept the key and many will refuse to use the key, because it is difficult to let go of the negativity to which we are so accustomed.
When we let go of this negativity, deserved or not, then we let God take over and thereby walk with God in the Eden created for us. Nothing less will do, nothing more is required.
Turnkey for joy,
Z gardener

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The Golden Key

July 24, 2012 by zgardener

            Study and research are well in their own time and place, but no amount of either will get you out of a concrete difficulty. Nothing but practical work in your own consciousness will do that.
Scientific prayer is the Golden Key to harmony and happiness. You need take no one’s word for it, and you should not. Simply try it for yourself, and see.
Whoever you are, wherever you may be, the Golden Key to harmony is in your hand now. This is because it is God who works, and not you, and so your particular limitations or weaknesses are of no account in the process. You are only the channel through which the divine action takes place, and your part is first to get yourself out of the way.
The actual method of working is simplicity itself. All that you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead.This is the complete rule, and if only you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will presently disappear. It may be big or little, it may concern health, finance, a lawsuit, a quarrel, an accident, or anything else conceivable; but whatever it is, just stop thinking about it, and think of God instead—that is all you have to do.
The thing could not be simpler, could it? And yet it never fails to work when given a fair trial.
…With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).
Just because something is simple does not mean it will be easy. Changing the way we think is one of the most difficult things we can try to do. It will take commitment, discipline and will. Then, we must apply the new way we think to every situation we face. Yes, this is a lifelong pursuit. But it is well worth it.
What we get in return is every promise made in the Bible. For starters we receive peace, hope and joy. That would be enough, but all of God’s promises come to those who think about God instead of their problems.
Think God,
Z gardener

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God Is Principle

July 23, 2012 by zgardener

God Is Principle
            The seventh main aspect of God is Principle, and this is probably the one that is least understood. What does the word principle mean?
Consider a few generally accepted principles. “Water seeks its own level.” This is a principle. It is not only the course taken by a particular drop of water in a particular locality. It is true of all water everywhere. “The angles of any triangle always add up to 180 degrees.” It makes no matter what kind of triangle one may consider; as long as it is a triangle, this principle holds. These principles were true a billion years ago and they will be true a billion years hence.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8).
Prayer is answered because God is principle, eternally manifest in the same way. When we pray rightly we bring ourselves into harmony with His Law of Being. Prayer does not ask God to change the laws for our temporary convenience, but it tunes us in, so to speak, with divine Principle; if God were to make exceptions because we were in great difficulties (which, because of His nature, He could never do) we should never know where we stood. If the law of gravity were occasionally suspended without notice, say, because a very important man had fallen off a roof, you know what would happen to the world.
Each of the seven main aspects is a distinct quality like the elements in chemistry. A chemical element, as you know, is just itself and nothing else. Oxygen is an element because there is nothing in it but oxygen. Water on the other hand is a compound, a combination of hydrogen and oxygen. There are many attributes of God, such as wisdom, beauty, joy, and so forth, but they are compounds made up of two or more of the seven main aspects. Wisdom, for example, is the perfect balance of Intelligence and Love.
Beauty is the perfect balance of Life, Truth, and Love. In any true work of art, you will find that these three aspects are balanced. There are many such relationships and interdependencies —“Thou canst not pluck a flower without the trembling of a star.”
Now that we know the seven main aspects of God, will it change our lives for the better?  Knowledge without action is merely assent.
Personal conviction creates action on the part of those convicted.
May God’s grace open our eyes and ears to the conviction that reorders our lives and manifests these aspects of God in our gardens each day. Welcome to Eden, brothers and sisters.
Convicted to act,
Z gardener

 

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God Is Spirit

July 19, 2012 by zgardener

            The sixth main aspect of God is Spirit. We know that God is Spirit but what does that mean? Spirit is that which cannot be destroyed or damaged. It is the opposite of matter. Matter wears out, but Spirit does not because Spirit is substance. Herbert Spencer defines substance as that which is not subject to discord or decay. Webster says, “that which underlies all outward manifestation…real, unchanging essence or nature…that in which qualities inhere…that which constitutes anything that is.” All this can only apply to spiritual things.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
(John 4:24).
You are Spirit. Spirit cannot die. Your true self will never die. You are eternal, divine, unchanging Spirit, in your true nature. The whole universe is a spiritual creation but we see it in a limited way. You have sometimes seen a window made of fluted glass, and you know that if you look at the street through this window everything will be distorted.  Nevertheless, you know that the distortion arises from your seeing wrongly. Our false vision causes us to know ourselves only from a seeming birth to a seeming death; but this is illusion too. This distorted vision of Spirit is really what we know as“matter.” Eucken says, “Reality is an independent spiritual world, unconditioned by the apparent world of sense” – and this is substance.
The real you is not made of matter but of spirit. That is the nature of God in us. Our bodies are the housing in which human spirit abides and manifests itself in the material world.
So, when we limit ourselves to that material world we perceive with our senses, we are in essence, walking blind. Let us today open our hearts, minds and our spirits so God can demonstrate his divine will, universal consciousness and holy spirit through us.
When we we do, we will fully know that God is us and we are children of God. Then, watch in wonder as God’s power manifests itself through us in miracles great and small. At once, our eyes will be opened and our spirits lifted so we can recognize and live in the garden God created for his children.
In spirit,
Z gardener

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