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The Captain is on the Bridge

February 7, 2012 by zgardener

 
The world is not going to the dogs. The human race is not doomed. Civilization is not going to crash. The captain is on the bridge. Humanity is going through a difficult time, but humanity has gone through difficulties many times before in its long history and has always come through, strengthened and purified.
 
Do not worry yourself about the universe collapsing. It is not going to collapse, and anyway that question is none of your business. The captain is on the bridge. If the survival of humanity depended upon you or me, it would be a poor lookout for the Great Enterprise, would it not?
 
The captain is on the bridge. God is still in business. All that you have to do is to realize the Presence of God where the trouble seems to be, to do your nearest duty to the very best of your ability; and to keep an even mind until the storm is over.
 
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. (Psalm 119:165).
 
How comforting it is to know that our creator sits at the control panel for the universe. If we can but manage our part in the universe, then God assures us that all will be well. This does mean it will all be easy or even pleasant. It does mean that we can be at peace knowing that whatever comes our way will leave us strengthened and purified if we abide by God’s will.
 
So today, let us take control of ourselves and thereby our part in the world. Let us, with grateful heart say and believe that, “this is the day God has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
 
Being glad,
Z gardener

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What Does God Expect?

February 6, 2012 by zgardener

 
As children of the Most High we have a divine heritage and therefore a right to expect that God will take care of us in every way. The Bible is full of promises as to what God will do for His children, but perhaps Jesus put it the most plainly when he said,
 
What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:9-11).
 
So you have a divine right to expect all these good things from God. But what does God expect of us? Well, God has a right to expect that we will put Him first in our hearts. Then God expects us to have a lively faith. Faith in itself is a reliance upon the goodness of God.
 
And lastly, God expects us to go to Him in prayer — as a son who knows that even before he has asked, the loving Father has answered.
 
So. here we have it. We must put God first in our hearts, rely on God through our faith and commune with God in prayer. By far, the hardest of these is putting God first in our hearts. It requires us to reverse the priorities the world puts first.
 
When our hearts truly change, we will put our faith in God and commune with God daily. Let us begin today to ask ourselves, “What is our hearts greatest desire..that which we could not live without”.  If the answer is anything but to have faith in and commune with God, then we still have a ways to go.
 
If, on the other hand, we have put God first in our hearts, then we are relying on the goodness of God and can expect God has answered all our prayers, even before we asked. Just as God created an Eden for us before we were created. The heart that loves God and puts God first can walk in that garden every day.
 
Wholeheartedly,
Stan

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Accept No Second-Bests

February 2, 2012 by zgardener

Accept No Second-Bests
 
In the depths of his being man always feels intuitively that there is a way out of his difficulties if only he can find it. The infant, as yet uncontaminated by the defeatism of his elders, simply refuses to tolerate inharmony on any terms, and therefore he demonstrates over it. When he is hungry he tells the world while many a sophisticated adult goes without. Does he find a pin sticking in some part of his anatomy? Not for him a sigh of resignation to the supposed “will of God,” or a whine about never having any luck, or a sigh that what cannot be cured must be endured. His instincts tell him that life and harmony are inseparable.
 
Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have a happy and joyous life. But to do so you must seize the rudder of your own destiny and steer boldly for the port that you intend to make. What are you doing about your future?
 
For not the hearers of the Law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified (Romans 2:13).
 
Who holds the rudder in our lives and what is our intended port. When we give the tiller to God and plot a course for God’s kingdom, we are seizing our rudders and giving them to our creator. By setting our course on the garden God gave, we surrender our ship and our destiny to God.
 
There is nothing more important to our successful future than to give our will, our direction, yes our entire ship to God’s will. Then we will sail safely to our port, to be welcomed in our Eden by God and all those who have chosen the same destination.
 
Accepting the best,
Z gardener

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Alter Your Life

February 1, 2012 by zgardener

There is no need to be unhappy. There is no need to be disappointed, or oppressed, or aggrieved. There is no need for illness or failure or discouragement. There is no necessity for anything but an abounding interest and joy in life.
As long as you accept a negative condition at its own valuation, so long will you remain in bondage to it; but you have only to assert your birthright as a free man or woman and you will be free.
Success and happiness are the natural conditions of mankind. It is actually easier to demonstrate these things than the reverse. Bad habits of thinking and acting may obscure this fact for a time, just as a wrong way of walking or sitting, or holding a pen, or musical instrument may seem to be easier than the proper way, because we have accustomed ourselves to it; but the proper way is the easier nevertheless.
Unhappiness, frustration, poverty, loneliness are really bad habits that their victims have become accustomed to bear, believing that there is no way out, whereas there is a way; and that way is simply to acquire good habits of working with the Law instead of against it.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law (Psalm 119:18).
Today can be the first day of the rest of our altered lives, or it can be just another day. It is up to us. May the creator of the universe open our eyes to the miracle, majesty and magnificence of living in the Eden God created for us. It can start today if we but open our eyes.
Unblinking,
Z gardener

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Your Invisible Dictaphone

January 31, 2012 by zgardener

 
Your destiny depends entirely upon your own mental conduct. You may think that you know this already, but if you do not act upon it, it is certain that you do not really know it. Most people would be amazed to discover how much negative thinking they indulge in. Thought is so swift and habit is so strong that unless you are very careful you will constantly transgress.
 
Suppose that, quite without your knowledge, an invisible dictaphone were strapped on your shoulders the first thing tomorrow morning, and that you carried it about all day until the last thing tomorrow night. Then suppose that this record were played over to you so that every word you had uttered for a whole day was repeated to you. Well, if you are an average human being you would probably be embarrassed. Yet it really does happen that everything we say, and think and do, is recorded – in the subconscious mind – and our daily experience is simply that record being played over to us by the Law of Being.
 
Never forget that the circumstances of your life tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct of today.
 
I have chosen the way of truth…(Psalm 119:30).
 
Now imagine that Dictaphone has a loudspeaker connected and everyone heard every word and thought you had. That would definitely change our behavior, right? Well, we do have a speaker connected to our thoughts and words. Our conduct, facial expressions and body language work in the same way. Yes, it is more subtle, but it still broadcasts what’s inside our heads and hearts; or whispered to ourselves. These “secret” acts also programs our subconscious to accept them as reality. So our future is being set by our thoughts, words and deeds of today.
 
Let us know that our invisible Dictaphones a speaker phones are recording and broadcasting our secrets loud and clear. And may each of us think, feel and say that which is pleasing to God, so that also is being broadcast to those around us. When we do this, our lives will reflect the love of God on our future and and on those around us in our present.
Testing, testing, 1,2,3 testing,
Z gardener

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You Are Always Treating

January 30, 2012 by zgardener

You are continually treating your conditions with the thoughts that you hold concerning them. What you really think about anything, is your “treatment” of that thing. Many people have the idea that they are only “treating” when they call it “treating.” But no matter what you call it, your thought concerning any subject is a treatment. This is the reason visible conditions are always the expression of invisible thought.
If you will begin systematically to treat every side of your life with a series of positive, correct thoughts, and keep to this practice for even a few weeks, you will be amazed to find how much everything will change for the better.
…be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…(Romans 12:2).
Prayer is the highest form of “treatment”. It is focused thought of, communion with and realization of the presence of God. Yet it is, at its core, thoughts, feelings and perceptions of oneness with God. So it is with every thought, word and deed. Each of our reactions to our experience is prayer or “treatment” in that it creates the basis of our reality. Therefore, everything we think, feel and do becomes our prayer.
The truth here is that we determine our prayer and our reality by everything we do. Let us start today with a new outlook on our inlook. Let us think, feel and do that which we would demonstrate in our lives. Then we will see, experience and live in the heaven God created for us. It is up to us.
Treating true,
Z gardener

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God Says Now

January 26, 2012 by zgardener

 

 
God’s time for your demonstration in now. The time God wants you to be healed is now. The time God wants you to be in your true place is now. The Bible says that the day of salvation is now.
 
God is ready the moment you are. There is nothing to wait for except the changing of your own consciousness. People often make the mistake of saying, “I know my demonstration will come at the right time.” But the only time to be harmonious and satisfied is now. The time to be happy is now and the place is here. Did not Jesus say, The kingdom of heaven is at hand, and by this he meant close by.
 
Do not keep yourself out of the Kingdom of Heaven by inventing postponements, but change your consciousness now, for it can all happen in a moment.
 
…that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed (Romans 13:11).
 
 What better news could we hear? We can be happy now. In the midst of our challenges, concerns and obstacle, we can live in the Kingdom of God now.
 
So today, may God grant to each of us the power to change our consciousness from the dark to the light. Then we can claim our healing, our happiness and our birthright as children of God. Then we will see our lives as the Eden God created for us; NOW!
 
In the Kingdom,
Z gardener

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Bluebeard Draws the Line

January 25, 2012 by zgardener

 
            We make spiritual progress by putting God into every corner of our lives. Most people on the spiritual path are willing to give God a generous portion of their lives, but there is often one little corner where they do not wish the divine Light to shine.
 
Bluebeard, you remember, kept open house, with the exception of one little room – and there he drew the line. His current wife, or any of the neighbors could go all over the premises and welcome, until they came to that one little room, the Bluebeard chamber, that was forbidden. Yet that one little locked-up room contained the tragedy of the house.
 
The contents of the Bluebeard room need not be anything that we usually call horrible. There may just be selfishness, laziness, spiritual pride, or any of the more “respectable” but very deadly sins. There may be an old grudge or bitter remorse.
 
Open every door of your soul to God. Have no place where the light of His presence does not shine.
 
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God… (Deuteronomy 29:29).
 
That which we seek to hide from God is usually that thing which is blocking us from God’s promise. Although God knows all, our attempt to hide it has the same effect of Adam and Eve’s hiding from God. It separates us from God although not from God’s love. Our Father would have us open our secret places to can receive all his love and forgiveness so our communion with God and ourselves is total.
 
When we pry open resentments, insecurities and weaknesses, God’s light will shine in on them and reveal their solutions. Then our spiritual health can benefit from God’s healing grace and forgiveness. No matter how certain we are of the correctness, fairness or need for our hurtful ways, we must reveal and abandon them if we are to receive all of the love, peace and joy God has promised.
 
So today, let each us us fling open the shutters of our secret rooms and fly freely with God to our gardens.
 
Flying freely,
Z gardener

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Triumph Over Danger – Psalm 91

January 24, 2012 by zgardener

 
Read Psalm 91.
 
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
 
Here the lion stands for a difficulty of which we are so afraid that it seems to us a very lion in our path, rushing at us in the open. How different, on the other hand, is the attack of the adder, or snake; for it creeps upon us in the dark. And here we are promised that our complexes, dragons though they be, shall be dissolved by the realization of God. There is nothing that can be done by any form of psychotherapy that cannot be better done by the Practice of the Presence of God.
 
The last three verses are in themselves a glorious psalm of ringing joy and triumph.
 
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him. There is nothing hypothetical or contingent here. The statement indicates the fixed decision – I will deliver him. And why? – because he has set his love upon me.
 
I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. In the bible the “name” of anything means the nature or character of that thing. Now the nature of God is perfect, omnipresent, all-powerful good, boundless love; and to “know” this is to be set on hand above all our difficulties.
 
The last two verses gather up all the implications and promises of this wonderful poem, and present them to the fearful or doubting heart as a song of triumph. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
 
There is no threat, syndrome, demon, habit or weakness that God can not overcome. No danger, enemy or challenge too great for God’s love. All we have to do is know and have faith in God’s omnipresent power and love. Neither height, nor depth nor powers, principalities or even death itself can separate us from this love if we have faith and realize God is within us. The way to realize God within us to seek and follow his will. That is our part of the job!
 
Realizing God,
Z gardener

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January 23, 2012 by zgardener

Our Assurance
Read Psalm 91.
For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. This is one of the loveliest of all the promises in the Bible. For tender beauty it stands alone. He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways – and it is meant for you and for me. It might have seemed appropriate enough that some exalted Being should be given an escort of angels to surround him, to support him, to keep him in all his ways. But the Bible is the book of Everyman, and this promise is given to you and to me.
This beautiful promise is true and legions of angels do keep us in their protection. However, if we ignore God’s will or natural law, we can obviate the protection of these supernatural beings and the angels will cry for us when we stumble.
Angelic protection does mean all things that happen to us can be for our best good. It does not mean that our lives will be free from heartache, challenges and life’s hurts. Even the son of God faced such challenges in his earthly existence.
When we do affirm our belief in God by accepting his will and following his truths, then all of the councils of heaven walk with us to guide our paths and ensure that we walk in our Eden each day.
Resting assured,
Z gardener

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