Blessed Are You . . .

In a recent article, I referred to this scripture found in Proverbs,

“Where there is no vision, the people perish; but blessed is he who keeps the law.” (Proverbs 29:18)

 

In that article I focused on the first part of the proverb, and today I want to focus on the second half of the proverb, “. . . blessed is he who keeps the law.”

 

What does it mean, to “keep the law”? The scripture is referring not to man-made law, but to Divine Law.

 

We live in a Universe of Law, the same law that enabled Jesus to do the great works attributed to him. He said, “I came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it.” Jesus did not abrogate Divine Law, he simply revealed a higher potential of Divine Law or spiritual law that as yet humankind is for the most part unaware of. It’s really up to us to become more aware of spiritual law and its influence in our lives and affairs.

 

When Jesus said, “I came that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly,” he meant what he said. It’s up to us to have a greater awareness of God and have a greater demonstration of God’s good in our lives, for then we are “keeping” the law and we are truly blessed in every aspect of our lives.

 

Let’s take a look at a couple of examples in the scriptures which outline an important key to demonstration. The first is one of “keeping the law.” In II Kings, chapter four, there is the story of the woman who came to the prophet Elisha in desperation. She was a widow, and her creditors were threatening to sell her children into slavery. Elisha said to her, “What do you have in the house? And she answered, “I have nothing in the house, except a jar of oil.” He told her to borrow vessels from all her neighbors and pour out into these vessels from the jar of oil. She did this and filled all the empty vessels, and upon Elisha’s further direction she sold the oil and paid her debts and lived on the rest of the income. This was “keeping the law” through the working of the Law of Abundance.

 

The other example of Divine Law is a promise found in the fourth chapter of Philippians, where Paul says, “And my God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches.”

 

The Law is: There is abundance. The promise, or blessing, is: And my God shall supply every need of yours. The supply is always equal to the demand. But we must make the demand upon the supply before it can be received by us; in other words, we must provide the vessels by which the oil will be increased. You must create a demand so that the supply that is there can fill it. A need is a demand upon supply; it is a vacuum, and nature abhors a vacuum. Get rid of what you don’t want to make room for what you do want.

 

My wife and I are in that process as we speak, getting rid of some things that we don’t want so that new good substance can begin moving in. We are creating a vacuum.

 

Know this: whenever we dare to form a vacuum – whether visualized in the mind or in tangible form – the substance of the Universe rushes in to fill that empty space. This is a fundamental spiritual law. It’s a very simple principle, but it is very important.

 

Remember this – if you want to make change in your life, you must make room for the improvement. Root out those false beliefs and fears of lack, eliminate those thoughts. Make your demand upon the limitless supply. Blessed are you, for the promise is: God shall supply every need of yours.

 

Use the substance you have; make room for more to come to you. You are blessed indeed.

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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How to Achieve Your Dreams

Gaining a clear vision of what you want in life gives you the inner power and energy to bring your dreams into manifestation.

 

Without a clear vision, your soul is deprived of the spiritual energy needed to achieve and it begins to shrivel up and waste away. We read in the scriptures:

 

“Where there is no vision, the people perish; but blessed is he who keeps the law.” (Proverbs 29:18)

 

Do you have a vision for the various aspects of your life, a roadmap for achieving the desires of your heart? It is important for you to have well-defined visions; if your visions are just vague wishes you’re never going to get there.

 

What are your dreams? What do you want to achieve, in your career or business, in your relationships, in your finances. Have you written down your desires in these areas of your life? If not, there’s little chance you will achieve them.

 

I’d like to encourage you to use a vision-mapping process to create a clear and precise vision for your most important dreams, then for each vision to write down the specific goals, steps to take, and any tasks involved. In this way, you’ll have a clearly defined vision and a detailed roadmap to follow in the achievement of that vision.

 

You might be asking, “Do I really have to write it down?”

 

If it’s not an important goal or dream, you don’t have to write it down because it won’t really matter to you in your heart of hearts.

 

But if these things are really important to you, then you do need to write down your dreams and visions and create a detailed roadmap for their achievement.

 

The first step is for you to get a notebook or journal and write down a list of the most important areas of your life to which you want to apply this process. You decide the important areas of your life you want to address.

 

The second step is to go to your journal and make a list of the dreams or what you want to achieve in that particular area of your life. Just write one or two sentences per dream that is important to you.

 

The third step is then to create a goals page for each specific dream or desire of your heart. Write your dream or desire at the top of the page, and under that make a list of the goals you need to achieve to fulfill that heart’s desire.

 

The fourth step is to create a page for each goal and put at the top, “Goals to Steps,” and under the heading list the steps which need to be completed to achieve that goal. (Next, if there is any complex step then break that down into a list of tasks that have to be completed.)

 

The fifth and final step in the process is to assign a target completion date to each task and each step.

 

All that’s left then is to achieve the goal one task or step at a time until you achieve your dream.

 

At first it may seem like an overwhelming project. But remember, there’s no deadline; it’s a life project. Simply apply this process to one dream a month or one dream a week or one dream a year. You don’t have to do it all at once. What is important is that you start, and continue, the process at your own pace.

 

Wherever you apply the vision-mapping process you will be amazed at the life, joy, and successful achievements you bring into your experience.

 

If you want to kick the Law of Attraction into high gear and accelerate the manifestation process to the achievement of your dreams, I suggest you also consider making a treasure map or, better yet, use the Vision Board system, which will provide you with the key to harness the power of visualization!

 

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Watch Your Focus

Here’s a great blog post by Karl Moore at www.karlblog.com

It’s just right on! Here it is:

I don’t tend to listen to the news.

It’s not that I don’t care about what’s going on in the world, but I do feel that all the negative vibes that the media pipes out can have a detrimental effect.

In fact, studies suggest that listening to the news on a regular basis can make you fearful, depressed, anxious, angry and even paranoid!

You see, when you focus your attention on stories of calamity and woe, your spirit can so easily deflate. Energetically, you start attracting more of the same negativity into your own life.

Choosing not to watch the news isn’t ignorance or indifference; it’s choosing to embrace the positive in the world instead.

Because … no matter what … good and bad co-exist.

There will always be calamities and woe in the world whether you follow the news or not. Focusing on it to the point of creating anxiety within you only adds to the negative vibes.

You have a choice; so why not choose to focus on the good stuff?

There is plenty of it out there if you dare to look!

Watching what you focus on also applies to your experiences and choice of words on a daily basis.

To give you an example of focus in practice, consider the approach of an enlightened peace campaigner.

This gentle soul believed in peace but she wouldn’t attend anti-war marches. However, she would attend pro-peace marches!

So what’s the difference?

Well, it’s subtle but actually quite profound! The mere mention of the word ‘war’ (even though it’s anti-war) conjures up negative connotations whereas the word ‘peace’ has a much more positive focus.

Both marches are campaigning for peace but can you see the difference simply by changing the words from anti-war to pro-peace?

It’s subtle but a good example of ‘focus’ in action.

So, as you go about your day, watch your focus.

Look for the positive – even in words.

And remember the saying – As you think, so shall you be!

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Easter Sunday (and Podcast of an Easter Message)

Today, Sunday, April 12, is Easter Sunday. During the forty days of Lent we have been preparing ourselves for this resurrection day, this Easter experience of our own lives.

 

Here is the message for Easter Sunday:

 

Resurrection is the rising of man out of the human thoughts, beliefs and superstitions in which he is submerged. This is the waste of the ages. Instead of discarding this waste in experiencing Truth, man has become enmeshed, mind, body and soul in this waste which results in an outer experience he calls death. Death is the cessation of the activity of breath and life.

 

All breath and life proceed out of the consciousness of life. The awareness of the functions of life which are faith, love, will, strength, imagination, wisdom, the power to listen and understand and the ability to let the love of God move unhampered through the experiences, is the true purpose of every human form.

 

Life is consciousness! Death is the lack of consciousness. Man becomes smothered and lifeless in the machinations of his own mind and the misdirection of his feeling nature. The result is inertia. It is the destination of power to move itself. Life is activity! Death is the result in life of inherent or habitual indisposition to activity.

 

This activity is caused by the forgotten use of the powers of life, such as loving, willingness and ability to serve with joy, freedom and with original power and authority. Death is a forgetfulness of life which results in heaviness and a dreading of the faculties of life. It is the lethal, fatal condition of complete unconsciousness.

 

The overcoming of such a condition is the resurrection. There is a power in man which if he knows and uses, he will never taste death. Man himself makes the cession by yielding his true self, by accepting something less than all truth.

 

Every time we are aware consciously of this indwelling power within, our mind is resurrected. There indwells man one great Truth, that man himself is not personality or even individuality; man is the one unlimited, all knowing, eternal all powerful essence of life we call God. When man knows in mind, body and soul who and what he is, there will be no death.

 

Resurrection is a moment by moment awareness, a bringing to view again that which was forgotten or lost. It is to rise again to an original concept of life and includes the renewal of the body!

 

 

(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

 

If you’d like to hear an Easter Message in two parts, click the play buttons below and Let Your Spirit Soar!

 

Let Your Spirit Soar! – Part 1

Let Your Spirit Soar! – Part 2

 God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Lenten Message (40)

Today, Saturday, April 11, is the fortieth day of the Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.

 

Assignment 40

 

Relaxing is the perfect form for receiving. An old and familiar phrase, “easy does it,” means the same thing as “let go and let God!” They both have the same effect. To be a happy-go-lucky soul is to win the world. To be tight, tense, fretful and anxious, is to close the door of your good.

 

To receive the Divine activity in our lives, to allow our perfect pattern to come forth, there must be a period of rest, complete detachment and non-resistance. Man’s striving, his laboring, his struggling is a detriment to his release of the real power within. To “be still and know” (resting in the Lord) is man’s most difficult assignment. Nevertheless, it is the only way of accomplishment.

 

To contend, contest, to vie, to compete and battle is a hindrance to man’s true development. It has built a world that is a juggernaut and he himself is crushed by its wheels. Wealth, fame, fortune, possessions momentarily takes their toll, as does poverty, lack and loneliness rob us daily.

 

Striving from one to the other is man’s physical destroyer. To find an inner peace and inner calm in the center of the storm is man’s only hope; continual progress is neither possible nor desirable. We must have times of renewal for consolidating our gains and for gathering new strength. If we do not take them, they are pushed upon us by the wise and unrelenting law of life.

 

There must be a resting in God. This is where we fail, we are afraid of the wait and of the inactivity. We all run in such high speed we miss the true power. We need to let our soul catch up with our bodies. Man is afraid of a rest period, but all of nature is dormant at sometime, that it may be refilled. Man runs dry because he will not rest in the Law.

 

Some of the greatest development is achieved in a rest period; many times it is a forced experience. No one has ever gone down in any kind of experience without coming up a new being. We often must be forced out of the race of striving to find the real power through which all things are accomplished. “Our remedies in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven,” Shakespeare said. Nothing is truly ours until we use it and prove it. Do your part, rest in the law and see what God will do. The power that raised Jesus Christ from the tomb is in you today!

 

 

(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

 

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Lenten Message (39) – Good Friday

Today, Friday, April 10, is Good Friday, the thirty-ninth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.

 

Assignment 39 – Good Friday

 

Every individual must become king or ruler of his own being. He must come into wisdom and understanding, listen to his own inner counsel and feel his own power and might. The only way man can become king and ruler of his life is to step forth and prove his power and his own inner Spiritual authority to himself. We must never feel we are proving anything to another, but only for our own inner integrity.

 

We prove God and ourselves when we do what lies before us, although we may tremble with dread or fear. Never try to get out of or avoid an experience, always walk straight through. It is by moving through experiences that we cross out in consciousness the error beliefs of mind that have become fixed.

 

This sometimes means giving up the whole personality of what “we think we are” to become what we truly are. There comes a time when we must let go of everything that holds us in bondage. Fear, hate, resentment, unhappiness, bitterness, human judgment, and the belief that we are something of ourselves must be released.

 

We must release our puffed up opinions about outer gains or acclaim, for it leads nowhere. We must be free from the tomb of our mind so that the living life and freedom of God can come forth. We can never prove our power over all things that hold us to what “we think we are.”

 

Every human being experiences humiliation, fear, unhappiness, frustration that he may rise up triumphant. Crucifixion is to cross out, to subdue completely all alien states of mind. These do not belong to us, for we are sons of God, creatures of love and devotion, and not slaves to a belief of a being “we think we are.” This being “we think we are” is wholly different in nature to our true self.

 

It is incongruous for man to assume the nothingness, the powerlessness he has demonstrated. We do not conform to our true pattern. We must come to a place where even death shall be overcome, but it will only be when man has completely changed the vibration of his being by the crucifixion or the crossing out of all that is untrue and unreal of a God being.

 

God in us has known always, we must know! God’s work was completed from the beginning to bring us to this day!

 

 

 (This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

 

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Lenten Message (38)

Today, Thursday, April 9, is the thirty-eighth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.

 

Assignment 38

 

Everything is done in mind. If nothing happens in mind, nothing is experienced. We must always use our creative power. There is conflict in the mind between what is true and what is nothing. For what is not true is nothing. You cannot “know” an untruth, but you can have “beliefs” about anything.

 

Do not judge another because it may be your vision that is imperfect. Let us get ourselves clear first. Let us free ourselves from human error and the belief in evil and then we will discover the fulfillment of God. Release is our Gethsemane.

 

Giving up the personality or the personal states of mind functioning outside of the Law or without knowledge or understanding of a higher power is the work of the ages, the assignment of all humanity.

 

The human mind wraps itself up in its own error thought based on the conclusion of the senses and the appearances. It is held by a darkness and a desolation that can be released only by an Inner Light!

 

No outer method would or could release man. Neither person nor condition can touch him. Only the light within, only illumination from Spirit can set him free. There is a struggle that takes place within the human being when he realizes the one power, God! The struggle is not in God or His goodness, but in man being able to believe and give up old ideas.

 

We want to be free, we aim to think right, but the pressure of ages of untrue thinking overwhelms us. We think we shall find God in prayer and worship – but there is a time when we must leave both and act!

 

No one can find God within but we ourselves. No one can even watch with us. When we reach the really spiritual issues of life we must go on alone; and we feel so alone. Yet we are not alone, for we are never alone, for God is in the midst of us.

 

Our sacrifice is our old ideas, what we have believed, what our fathers and mothers taught, and what others have believed. We are used to our old ideas; we have made some sort of peace with the physical condition, the family situation, life, business, and the terrible empty feeling within. The breaking up and passing away of old states of consciousness is a wrench for all of us.

 

The deepest place in human experience is when we give up our personal human beliefs. Yet it is the highest point for them – There is only God! Not my will – but Thy will be done.

 

 

(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

 

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Lenten Message (37)

Today, Wednesday, April 8, is the thirty-seventh day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.

 

Assignment 37

 

Sometimes we feel so alone. There may be many people around us but none to whom we can turn and feel release and companionship. It may take much of a lifetime to find such a one. We live with many we love and honor without finding this precious relationship.

 

Strange as it may be the only completely satisfying companionship in the outer comes only when we have made an inner adjustment in regard to the person. Outer companionships do not “wear well” and lead to loss or maladjustment unless we have made our own inner agreement.

 

First we must be able to commune with an inner wisdom, knowledge and understanding. This has been called “native intelligence.” Biblically it is called “the inner voice,” truthfully it is God. All activity in and through us must be common to our thinking mind, our feeling nature and extend to every cell of the physical body. These three must be connected and must participate in every moment of life if we are to be a whole being. We cannot function fully as a partial God.

 

We usually omit one or the other. If we have accepted mind and feeling, we believe the body unfit for spiritual experiences. If we have accepted mind and spirit we exclude the body. In true communion the man and God interchange, mingle and move into true expression. It has been difficult for man to understand God as part of his physical self.

 

The Truth of God’s presence in man as life and intelligence has been something that man could not “bear to hear.” He did not understand it as a “common” condition or relationship. The very ideas of our mind flow from the fountainhead of God. We are to appropriate, accept, and integrate this Truth into our whole being. We must eat and drink, let our whole being absorb all Truth.

 

The relationship of man and God is common to all. To be aware and let it become alive in us is Communion. The consciousness of God’s Presence with you becomes the bread of heaven. Activity and use becomes the wine of life. Man’s relationship to life and to others is the crux of his fulfillment.

 

Man’s greatest and deepest relationship is his kinship with himself. To have true relationship with yourself is to companion with God! Bread is the Truth of your Oneness, wine is the acting, living, and being. Eat and Drink!

 

 

(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

 

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Lenten Message (36)

Today, Tuesday, April 7, is the thirty-sixth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.

 

Assignment 36

 

In you today is a Holy Fire. This fire can burn up all the dross, all the waste matter of your fear thoughts and your beliefs in separation. All that worries you and robs you and causes you untold emptiness and suffering can be consumed by this inner fire. The Scriptures tell, “I have cast a fire upon the world and see, I guard it until the world is afire.” (Thomas) Man has this burning within him, and Isaiah says, “It shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.” (10:17)

 

The fire is the living, believing, and loving in the mind and heart of man. Tongues of fire are the flashes of illumination and the light of intuition that even now burns in our hearts. The Spiritual fire in us never goes out, it only smolders. Spiritual fire destroys all evil and error. It is direct from “that which is within you that is greater than all that is in the world.” The Kingdom is within you.

 

If you know yourself then you will be known and you will know you are a son of the living God and One with all Power. Never fear to cast out all in the Spiritual Fire, what is cast in will either be destroyed because it is nothing or will come forth pure gold.

 

Give all that you are and all that you can hope to be to the Fire of God, that you may know the real, that can stand the fire, or the unreal that is consumed by it. We are in the potter’s hands and we are fired that we may be beautiful and true and withstand all outer pressure!

 

The flames are Truth in action; the fire is in the supreme knowing that burns in the wisdom of the heart. That which is good and true can never be destroyed – but only purified. “Every man’s work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall prove it – man himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire! (I Cor. 3:13-14)

 

We may walk through burning forests of life but Spirit never ceases its life-giving purifying glow. In it all error, sickness, poverty, discord or death or anything else that separates us from Truth is burned up in consciousness and the purified being I am and you are manifests this fire as eternal life. “Our God is a consuming fire” – all will be finished in each of us. We shall be fully aware of our Oneness with our Indwelling Spirit. This is the reconciliation of God and man and brings us to the overcoming of the belief in death!

 

 

(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

 

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Lenten Message (35)

Today, Monday, April 6, is the thirty-fifth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.

 

Assignment 35

 

Man already is above personality and above individuality, a complete being because he is a moving part of all that is. All the division of his being are but the surface judgment – the real, complete of him is not in any way a separate entity.

 

It is only in becoming aware of the whole does an individual lose the separate self. Man is divided into families, cities, countries, religions, races, but above all and through all is the One, the transparent race of God! God, is the one essence that cannot be divided in any way, but only “seems to be” in the realm of man’s conclusions.

 

We feel we are changing, and yet that which we think we are changing into we already are in reality! We always have been the outer expression of a timeless, all powerful essence that in our groping we have named God. We have separated ourselves in our thinking and feeling from this which cannot be divided or changed in reality. We know many things that are not true.

 

We speak of the new being and the new race of men, but we are simply going to shake off our dream world of outer beliefs and consciousness and come into our own, that which we have always been – perhaps it will be coming forth out of a nightmare of unawareness, a maze of illusions, and the cobweb of not knowing.

 

“There shall be a loftier race than e’er the world hath known, shall rise. With flame of freedom in their souls and light of knowledge in their eyes.” (Symonds)

 

We must realize our spiritual nature before we can reap its benefits. You are this which is, which always has been, and which fills all and all. This is true of every living soul. We are the executive power of this which is being. It is being all of us. Why do we not use the power and authority that is ours?

 

We cannot lift ourselves from the heavy drunkenness of what we think we are. We do not conceive of our possibilities. We are only aware of flesh and blood, body and brains. These are but the outer garments of the Spirit. You are the most important thing in all the world to you, for you are all potential Power! This potential includes the body, the human form, as well as the mind and the soul.

 

 

(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

 

 

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

 

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

 

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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham, a Unity minister for over thirty-seven years, invites you to subscribe to his free inspirational newsletter, Spiritual Solutions, at www.spiritualsolutionsblog.com

 

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