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Ancient Wisdom Taught in a Modern Way!

Using Your Power for Good

04-01-01

Rev. Linda S. Siddall

There is a Power in the Universe that is greater than we are, and we use it. We use it every moment of every day. We use it consciously and we use it unconsciously. We use it wisely and we use it unwisely. Our use of it can result in good fortune or it can lead to misfortune. We determine the results by our beliefs. As the architects of our lives, we decide the outcome by choosing faith or choosing fear. And to use our Power for good, we must choose faith. Yet, how easily we forget and allow fear to overcome us. Fear can steal our spirit. It’s time to reclaim our true nature—God’s blueprint for our life—and use our innate, divine power for good.

Revered architect Frank Lloyd Wright said, “The thing you believe in always happens and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” In this simple statement of plain words lies a basic truth of metaphysics—“We are what we believe.” If you doubt that statement, I want to tell you a short news story that proves the point.

Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message “He’s lying” was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn’t telling the truth. Believing the “lie detector” was working, the suspect finally confessed.

It is true that this particular suspect was not the “sharpest knife in the drawer.” However, he deeply believed that he was, in fact, connected to a lie detector machine. His belief resulted in a confession. “The belief in the thing made it happen.”

Now, the suspect also clearly believed in ideas that led him to a life of crime in the first place, perhaps ideas such as lack and scarcity. Although we aren’t criminals, we often harbor beliefs in lack and scarcity, in limitation, in failure—in all those qualities that are not of God. This becomes especially apparent when we are bombarded daily by the press and the media of a “downturn” in the economy, of job losses and plunging values in the stock market. Assaulted by doom and gloom, we grow disappointed and disillusioned, wondering why our lives are a mess while others around us are doing well. What are they doing that we aren’t doing?

The wise ones believe that there is a Power in the Universe that is greater than they are, and they use it for their highest and best good. Their consciousness holds and supports that belief. And so can we. Here’s how.

The Law of Mind—one of the laws of the Universe—brings our consistent thoughts and beliefs into form. It is an impersonal law, which means that it acts on ALL of our consistent thoughts and beliefs, whether they are harmful or helpful. In the book, Collected Wisdom of Dr. Raymond Charles Barker, Barker describes “consciousness” like this: “You do not think with your mind; your mind thinks, and what your mind thinks, you think throughout. Consciousness is not locked up in gray matter. Consciousness extends throughout the entire body. Your etheric body is exactly the same as your material body, except it is about an inch larger. It stands out around you about an inch.” When I read that passage, I finally understood the significance and the magnitude of consciousness. It affects our entire being. What we give it, it returns to us.

Barker goes on to say, “The Universe does not play favorites…As a Universe it never restricts anyone. Thus, all limitation is self-limitation.” Ernest Holmes stated this another way. He said, “The Law is no respecter of persons and will bring good or evil to any, according to the use or misuse of it.” He goes on to say, “The Law of Mind, the giant within and around us, is always creating for us. But what specific direction are we giving it? Our every thought is a direction.” In other words, the Law doesn’t decide what is good or bad for us. It simply carries out what we give it. Think about that for a minute. What are we giving it to carry out for us? Are we giving it fear or faith?

Fear is belief in limitation, a denial that the Divine is the Center and Source of all good. When fearful thoughts and beliefs become the blueprints for our lives, we create dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Belief in not being good enough, or smart enough, or thin enough, or rich enough—belief in not being ENOUGH—runs counter to the very idea of God being the Center and Source of our good. God is ALWAYS enough, for in Spirit is all that we ever need. And it is ours right now if we only accept and belief that with deep conviction.

What is fear anyway but False Evidence Appearing Real? Fear is a mental attitude that we can convert into faith, faith in the knowledge that our unlimited Source and Supply lies in the Spirit that is in every atom of our being. We have only to believe that and rely on the Creative Power to “help our unbelief.”

Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems we face can never be solved at the level of thinking that created them.” When we remember that beliefs are changeable and Spiritual Laws are changeless, we are well on our way to using our power for good. We realize that we must change our thinking—change our consistent thoughts and beliefs from those of lack into those of unlimited potential—to use our Creative Power intelligently. Like any good architect, we must know how to read and understand the God’s blueprint before we can build a better life for ourselves.

To build a stronger foundation, we must first examine what we really believe in. Do we think of ourselves as being separated from God? Are we be limited by this thought? We are bound by nothing except belief and misuse of the Creative Process.

Here is how the Creative Process works. God gives of Its Infinite Goodness. We receive this Infinite Goodness. We speak our word by consistently thinking and believing ideas that are of God or not of God. The Law of Mind acts impersonally upon our word. Our word manifests into form. And the rest is history. We get to choose how the Law works for us!

The Law gives to us what we give to It. It works for us by flowing through us. It works for us according to our belief. It is no respecter of persons and will bring good or evil to any, according to the use or misuse of it. And we get to choose to use it intelligently. How great is that?

Demonstration depends solely on our belief, our acceptance, and our willingness to comply with the Law through which all Good comes. Look at your own lives now. Are you in or out of compliance with the Law? I once believed that all my romantic relationships would be unsuccessful because of the disastrous history I had with them. That was the design I drafted on the blueprint of my life. And that was the product I manifested—more failed relationships. “And belief in a thing makes it happen.” Well, now! Here is the good news. We can change all that through the power of right thinking.

The power of right thinking cancels and erases everything unlike itself. Howard Chandler Christy said, “Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God: and so there is no room left for worry-thoughts.” Is belief in lack and limitation like God? No! Is belief in imperfection like God? No! The power of right thinking leads us to absolute and universal truth, and that is, God is all there is. God is Substance and Supply. Because we are in God and God is in us, we can change the design of our blueprints from limited thinking into right thinking. By doing that, we allow the Law to act upon the awesome and loving qualities of God. Then we can know with the DEEPEST CONVICTION that the Creative Process is always working FOR us and not AGAINST us. Oh, hallelujah! When we can do THAT, we are using our Power for Good.

Here are three things we can do to and reclaim our true nature.

1.                  Choose faith over fear. Fear has no basis in the Reality of Spirit. There is no fear in the Mind of God and, since God’s Mind is your Mind, there can be no fear in yours.

2.                  Examine what you believe in. the Law of Mind acts upon your consistent thoughts and beliefs to bring them into form.

3.                  Change your limited thinking to right thinking to cancel and erase everything unlike itself. God is All there is, your Substance and Supply, your natural blueprint for a fulfilling and purposeful life.

By taking these three action steps, we regain our true nature of wholeness and perfection, and we can use our Creative Power intelligently for good. It is as simple as that!

Consciously practicing these principles will lead to greater demonstrations faster. So! Your assignment for this week, should you choose to accept it, is this.

1.      Write down the steps of the Creative Process.

2.      Post them where you can read them everyday at least three times a day.

3.      Be aware of your consistent thoughts and your words throughout the day. What are you thinking and saying to create hardship? What are you thinking and saying to create goodness?

You really CAN change your thinking and change your life. There is a Power in the Universe that is greater than we are, and we can use it. Use it wisely and intelligently. Thank you for being here today. And so it is!

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