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A series of special articles to empower you to live abundantly now. Read, save, share, archive for later inspiration. They are for the purpose of inspiring you to live the more abundant life you are here to live — and to do it now. The principles shared are the same for everything, prosperity, health, happiness, harmony, peace. Rev. John W. Adams

April 27, 2016 By Prosperity

How to Stretch Your Money

– by Lowell Fillmore* – Guest Author

*Son of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore,
the founders of Unity School of Christianity.

Live Abundantly NowMONEY was invented for the convenience of men in expediting the exchange among themselves of services and goods.  Money should always be a servant of man and never his master.

Man’s attitude toward his money determines whether it will be a curse or a blessing to him.  If a man curses his money or curses others because he fears they are trying to get his money, then a curse will return to him. If he blesses his money and makes it a blessing to others, blessings will come home to him.

Money has no value except that which is given it by man, and its value is dependent upon a man’s faith in his fellow men.  No one would be willing to accept money if he did not have faith in those who co-operate in using the money.  God created the universe and all things in it.  Therefore, God is greater and more important to us than these things.

When we remember that we remember that we “live, move, and have our being” in God we shall not feel that we are adrift on an uncertain sea of materiality, but we shall know that we are safe in the care and keeping of our loving Father, who has created all things for our good.  When we abide in this realization we shall not be unhappy if there seems to be a temporary lack of money, for we shall know that no material thing can stand between us and God’s blessings.  When we go direct to God in faith and acknowledge Him in all our affairs we shall be sustained by Him.

Money is merely a symbol of values.  When we place our faith in the symbol rather than in the true value we are disappointed.  We must train ourselves to look to God direct for our prosperity and not trust too much in money, as good and desirable as it is.

If our income seems to be inadequate because of high prices we must not be dismayed, but we must steadfastly realize that our good comes from God, not from money.  Placing the power of God’s blessings upon our money will actually make it possible for us to buy more with a given sum than we could purchase by ordinary methods.

If we realize that money represents only a symbol of true substance, our faith will call out the true substance by blessing the symbol.  When we realize that there is no limit to God-substance, our faith will call God-substance into service for us and all our needs will be supplied.

Jesus understood the truth of His faith, and He lacked for no good thing.  The fish provided Him with tax money; the multitude was fed from God’s invisible substance, and Jesus was always welcome to partake of food in every village He entered.  He was neither beggar nor a financier, but He had close communion with His Father, God, the Source of all good things.

It is not necessary for God to perform miracles in order to take care of our daily needs.  His wonders are performed before our very eyes through material channels when we have made contact with His substance through our faith.  God will stretch anybody’s income so as to cover all needs, even as He multiplied the loaves and fishes to feed the five thousand.

By blessing what we have we increase and multiply it.  We need to become attuned to the great universal spiritual ideal behind money, which can be manifested as money or as anything else that is good.  There is security in God, and we are very near to it when we go within and consult Him sincerely in spirit and in truth.

God is Spirit, and we must therefore worship Him in spirit and in truth.  If we attempt to pray to God for money and then while praying, because of our fears and worries, fix our attention on our need for money rather than on giving thanks to God for His abundance, we shall not be making a very successful prayer.  When we give thanks for His substance and withdraw our attention from the thought of lack and place it upon God in faith and thanksgiving we shall be heard and supplied by the Father.

Paul tells us in the 11th chapter of Hebrews that “what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.”

We know that certain invisible gaseous elements when combined will form a visible substance.  For example:  Hydrogen and oxygen gases combined in right proportion become visible water.  But while Spirit is invisible, just as gases are, it is much finer substance.  Jesus explained Spirit to Nicodemus by likening it to the wind that blows where it pleases; man cannot see where it comes from nor where it goes.

So it is with Spirit.  We cannot see it, but it is never-the-less the invisible substance out of which are formed all things that appear.  An oak tree grows from a little acorn and expands into a mighty tree on a seemingly lean diet of water, sunshine, and microscopic amounts of chemicals in the soil.  So does the mighty substance of God come forth out of Spirit and take its place in our affairs through natural channels to supply our needs.

If your present income seems to be inadequate for your needs, do not worry; do not complain; do not be critical; do not be afraid.  Instead, give thanks to God for His rich supply and bless the symbol of substance that you presently have.  Your action will cause it to grow and increase in buying power.  Like the mustard seed, which grew from a tiny seed into a tree, its increase will amaze you.

God-substance is present everywhere and in truth is more real than the things you can touch and see.  Bless the good symbol (money) you have and see substance miraculously increase in your hands!

The above is excerpted from: The Prayer Way To Health, Wealth, & Happiness

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If this article is helpful to you, kindly let me know. RevJohn@GoldenKeyMinistry.com

Filed Under: Live Abundantly Now Tagged With: abundant living, live abundantly, live abundantly now, Lowell Fillmore

March 30, 2016 By Prosperity

Prosperous Attitudes Toward Money

by Catherine Ponder – Guest Author.

Catherine Ponder is the world’s foremost author and lecture on Prosperity.
Her many books have helped and inspired millions of people worldwide.

Live Abundantly NowLive Abundantly Now! This is one of a series of special articles to empower you to live abundantly now. These will occasionally appear in your inbox. Read, save, share, archive to later inspiration. They are for the purpose of inspiring you to live the more abundant life you are here to live — and to do it now. The principles shared are the same for everything, prosperity, health, happiness, harmony, peace.

RECENTLY a friend sent me a comic postcard which read, “Rich or poor, it’s good to have money!” I’m sure most of us would agree.

All sorts of wonderful things are being written about money, and of our potential for having and enjoying more of it. It has been pointed out that more fortunes have been made since World War II than in any comparable period. Fortunes are still being made, according to the figures of the Internal Revenue Service. One writer recently declared, “you can still make a million!” Another boldly stated, “Your chances of making a million are better than you think.”

[Note: Since Catherine Ponder first wrote the above, more people have legitimately become millions and billionaires, and they keep increasing.]

As you study the lives and experiences of prosperous-minded people, you will find that they have a friendly attitude toward money. Whereas, you will discover that the more general attitude is that there’s something wrong with having money and being prosperous.

When I was the guest speaker at a club luncheon at a hospital, an executive was given a check to aid in furnishing a new wing of the hospital. In response to receiving a check to aid in the furnishing of the new wing of his hospital, this executive declared, “It isn’t the money that is so important. It is the club members’ love and interest in this new hospital wing that really counts.”

Somehow I wondered if he realized what he was really saying, because my first reaction (which I suspect was the silent reaction of a number of others) was, “If the money isn’t important, why is this man here? He is a very fine and busy executive, and I wonder if he would have come to the lunch with these ladies had they merely sent him word that they were impressed with his hospital expansion program.” Surely this man was taught as a child what many of us were erroneously taught — to dislike money.

If you listen closely to the conversations of people about you, you will discover that this is a general attitude. People often discount the importance of money, while they are working very hard to get it. They do not realize the cross-current they are setting up in their thinking, which in turn voids most of their efforts. Through such cross-up thinking about money, they are working at cross-purposes, and often they will experience a crossed-up result.

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I will never forget the first time that, as a minister, I lectured on the importance of money for successful living. When I declared that money is wonderful because it is divine substance; that money is good when rightly used, a lady sitting on the front row gasped and almost fell out of her chair! When I stated, “money is divine, because money is God’s good in expression,” she almost passed out! She had come to this lecture because she was interested in having greater prosperity in her life. Yet when I mentioned money as a legitimate form of prosperity, it shocked her completely.

After the lecture, one of the members of the church board cornered me and said. “Don’t you think you put it a little too strongly about money being good because it is divine substance?” I found myself replying, “I hope I put it strongly; I surely meant to.” The board member then said, “Yes, but you shocked that lady on the front row so much that she may never come back.” My reply was, “If I shocked her, it was because she needed to have some old, erroneous ideas about money shocked out of her thinking, as we all do.”

I then pointed out that my whole purpose in teaching the spiritual and mental principles of prosperity was to help people to learn God’s good truth about prosperity being their divine heritage, so that they might be freed from failure, poverty and all the other sins of lack. I realized that sometimes the process was a shock.

At the next lecture that lady was back, sitting in a front seat. The only difference I could detect in her attitude was that she had pulled her chair up a little closer toward the lecture platform, happily awaiting further shocking truths about prosperity!

After she attended a number of lectures, she calmed down considerably in her strong attitudes regarding the pros and cons of prosperity. In due time she came to see me and confessed that, when she first began attending the prosperity lectures, her life and affairs had been in dire shape, financially and otherwise. Her husband had left her, her children seemed to have turned against her, her physician predicted that she was nearing a nervous collapse; she had a good job, but her money never seemed to go very far, and she could not get along with her fellow workers; she was even involved in a lawsuit concerning her previous job.

But week after week as she began to entertain new ideas about prosperity and successful living, her whole attitude changed, as did her way of life. Before long her husband returned; she gradually was able to establish a more harmonious relationship with her children; she did not have a nervous collapse; the lawsuit regarding her former job was quietly and amicably settled out of court; and she began to find joy and satisfaction in her work. Indeed, before long she seemed a transformed individual, and it all began the night she dared to change her thinking about money.

Most people are sensitive about their capacity to earn money. In most instances, a person’s capacity to earn money would increase if his attitudes toward money were positive and friendly. It was the late Mike Todd who has been quoted as saying, “I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.”

What about your attitude toward money? It might be worthwhile for you to check up on this. Sometimes, negative attitudes toward money can be rather subtle.   Most everyone can upgrade their attitude toward money realizing that it is divine substance, a wonderful medium of exchange. The more you can make money your friend, the more easily you will attract money, and all the other good things of life. Money truly is divine! When you have an abundant flow of money in your life, you are divinely happier, healthier, and more peaceful, too.

The above is excerpted from:  The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity.

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March 21, 2016 By Rev. John Adams

Ask For More!

By Lowell Fillmore – Guest Author, Son of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore founders of Unity School of Christianity.

Ask for MoreLive Abundantly Now! This is one of a series of special articles to empower you to live abundantly now. These will occasionally appear in your inbox. Read, save, share, archive to later inspiration. They are for the purpose of inspiring you to live the more abundant life you are here to live — and to do it now. The principles shared are the same for everything, prosperity, health, happiness, harmony, peace.

REMEMBER that the divine supply is greater than the human demand.

Man asks too meagerly, calling for inferior things when he might just as easily call for the best, and plenty of it. The average person prays as if he felt that he might be robbing someone else if he asked for enough to supply all his needs, or as if the supply in the divine storehouse were running low.

I heard recently of a man who prayed that he might get to his mother’s bedside before she died, and his prayer was answered. He could however just as well have prayed that his mother be healed. Another man prayed that his brother be allowed to die without pain. God would have healed his brother, if he’d just known the Truth for his brother.

On a cold, snowy day a tired woman with a big bundle of groceries in her arms prayed that she might get a ride at least part of the way home. Sure enough, when she had gone two-thirds of the way a friendly neighbor picked her up in his car and took her the remaining one-third of the way. She could just as well have asked a ride all the way home.

When I was a boy I was impressed with the philosophy of an old doctor, a friend of our family. He said that he had prayed all his life for just enough to supply his daily needs, but had not asked for a bit more, and he said his prayer had been answered; he had never lacked for anything, but God would have given him more or if he had asked for more.

If you were hungry you could just as well ask for a square meal as for a crust of bread. Remember that the divine invitation is, “Ask, and you shall receive.” Jesus Christ, the great abundance Teacher, said, “Hitherto have you asked nothing in my name: ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be made full.” He also promised: “And whatsoever you shall ask in my name [nature], that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.” [As a divine spiritual being, you are the Son.]

When we ask for a pittance we usually do so because we feel that there is not enough for all. This feeling shows that our faith in God’s inexhaustible abundance is weak. All things in nature have been provided lavishly. More seed is produced by plants than the soil can accommodate. Compared with the universe of stars and space our earth is so small that it is hardly a speck of dust, and compared with the size of the earth our personal needs are infinitesimal!

Surely the few extra grains of microscopic supply that we might ask for would make no difference to an infinite God Who controls the vase universe. In what way then is man’s supply limited if it is not limited by God’s will? The limitation is in man’s own capacity to receive. The very fact that he cannot ask largely proves that his capacity is limited.

Man’s capacity is limited largely by the fact that he lacks a sense of spiritual values. He thinks material things are more important than spiritual things. The power to use and enjoy material things depends upon a better understanding of spiritual things. The things of Spirit are far more valuable than the things of the physical world.

If you were to pray: “God, give me a million dollars,” you probably would not get it because you would not have faith that you would get it, and you would not have the ability to use it wisely. It would be much better to pray for wisdom, love, and understanding enough to be able to appreciate a million dollars. We need to pray for a greater capacity to live and understand life. God has already given us more than we are using. We must learn to use what we have.

God does not withhold His blessings just to hear us pray and cry for them. He has already given us all things, and He desires that we enjoy them. Our prayers should be said for the purpose of opening our own consciousness so that we may be able to see, understand, and use the omnipresent good that God has given us. Jesus said: “Seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.” Instead of praying for a large sum of money in order to bring you happiness, why not pray for happiness in the first place? [Be happy as if you already have the money, and the money come more easily.]

We should never make the mistake of praying for something that belongs to another person or that will interfere with another’s liberty. To pray that Joe will do this or do that is not a large or a fair prayer. It is a little, narrow, selfish prayer. But to pray that Joe be freed to do the will of God takes all condemnation and limitation from him, leaving him free to do the will of his highest nature. This is the big prayer because it asks that Joe’s highest good be fulfilled, not just our own idea about his good.

Make your prayers definite, but do not make them inflexible. Always be ready to receive something better than the particular thing you have prayed for, and always remember that happiness, health, love, wisdom, harmony, and peace are much more to be desired than material things. In fact, when you have found the spiritual blessings you will have entered the kingdom of God in your earthly experience, and the other things, the material supplies, will be added.

When you pray, do not assume the role of a beggar but of a master. God to God unhampered by fear, worry, suspicion, or doubt. Do not question in your heart God’s ability, but rather give thanks that He is now answering your prayers. Ask largely. Give your whole self to God, and gratefully accept His riches freely.

God is your loving Father. Do not allow your selfish personal reservations to hold back your spiritual impulses, and God will not hold back anything from you.

It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you His treasure in marvelous measure! Accept this as so and live like you believe it. Gratefully claim and accept the vast good God has for you now.

The above is excerpted from: The Prayer Way To Health, Wealth, & Happiness.

If this article is helpful to you, kindly let me know. RevJohn@GoldenKeyMinistry.com

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Filed Under: Live Abundantly Now Tagged With: happiness, harmony, health, live abundantly, peace, prosper, Prosperity

March 21, 2016 By Rev. John Adams

40 – Day Abundance Prayer Program

40 – Day Abundance Prayer Program

The more often you present to your mind a logical and true proposition, the stronger becomes the inner feeling of realization. 
– Charles Fillmore – Co-founder of Unity School of Christianity.

This Special Prayer is lovingly sent to you to empower you to expand your acceptance and experience of God’s rich abundance for you. Join with us in this exciting and powerfully prospering activity. Please read everything here.

Follow these easy directions and you will experience a big and delightful boost in abundance.

  1. Speak this Prayer twice daily for 40 days. (See check off numbers below.)
  2. Relax in the faith and understanding that it is so now. BELIEVE it is true for you now. It is!
  3. Speak this Abundance Prayer with feeling, belief, acceptance, and thankfulness.
  4. Keep your thought and talk positive and uplifting each day.
  5. Refrain from all lack and negative thinking and speaking. Do not engage in worry or fearful thought or talk. Focus on God, love, faith, joy, and peace.
  6. For 40 days refrain from all Criticism, Condemnation and Complaining – about anything!
  7. If you “mess up” on any given day, start over!
  8. Accept that you are love and deliberately send love to everybody. Bless everyone in the Golden Key Ministry-Unity Abundance Prayer Program.
  9. During this 40 days, give special attention to tithing. Abundance is really about giving, so give! You may give a faith offering to Golden Key Ministry-Unity.
  10. Focus on just one-day-at-a-time for 40 days and enjoy your growing abundance.

A partner is not required, but it is often helpful to have one for this type of program. You can support and help each other stay on track. “Where two or more gather together and agree upon a thing, it is done unto them.”

Let us know that you are joining with us by sending an e-mail to us with:THANKS! COUNT ME IN! in the subject line. Please include your FULL NAME.

After you have successfully completed the 40 days, you may repeat if you wish. Be sure and write a report to me about your experience. I love to hear good news! We are praying with you. Start increasing your abundance, today!

Lovingly, Rev. John

Golden Key Ministry-Unity
40-Day Abundance Prayer

I dwell in the midst of infinite Abundance.
The Abundance of God is my infinite Source.

The River of Life never stops flowing.
It flows through me into lavish expression.
Abundance comes to me through unexpected avenues.
God works in myriad ways to bless me.
I now open my mind to receive my good.
My mind is open and I am now receiving my abundant good.
Nothing is too good to be true. No amount is withheld or limited.
Nothing is too wonderful to happen NOW.
With God as my Source, nothing amazes me.
I give freely and fearlessly into Life and Life gives back to me with lavish increase.
Blessings come in expected and unexpected ways. All channels are open and the flow of good has already begun.
I freely give my tenth to God and God gives abundantly to me.
Thank You, God for the Abundance that is mine today!
And so it is!

It is beneficial to be very still for a few minutes after you affirm the Abundance Prayer. At night peacefully go to sleep assured that God is providing for you richly and abundantly.

Start date _______________   End date ________________
Morning   (For your convenience, mark off a number after you’ve spoken the Prayer)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Night
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

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