Lenten Fellowship Daily Lessons

Expanding into the light

2006-04-05T11:25:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: ExpansionToday’s Inspirational Reading: (Keep a True Lent)Then it was, in the darkness of intellect's night, that the thinking faculty caught sight of its higher self and joyfully exclaimed, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God," and the response to that gleam of spiritual perception was the acknowledgment of faith as the foundation on which the church of Christ is

A BaIanced Diet for Life

2006-04-04T09:34:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: (Balance )Today’s Inspirational Reading: (Keep a True Lent)The thinking faculty in man makes him a free agent, because it is his creative center; in and through this one power, he establishes his consciousness--he builds his world. Through the volition of this faculty, he can refuse to receive ideas from Christ; he can cut himself away from the realm of original Truth or from

Faith-thought?

2006-04-03T13:19:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: FaithToday’s Inspirational Reading: "The most important power of man is the original faith-thinking faculty. Note particularly the term, "original faith-thinking faculty"; a great deal is involved in this definition. We all have the thinking faculty located in the head, from which we send forth thoughts, good, bad, and indifferent. If we are educated and molded after the

Power in Discipline

2006-04-03T09:20:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: (Discipline )Today’s Inspirational Reading: (Keep a True Lent) page 154Man controls his thoughts and his feelings by the use of his innate power. A quickening from on high must precede his realization of dominion. "Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you."Man is the power of God in action. The power to control his thinking is the highest gift given to man

Allow It To Unfold

2006-04-01T07:26:00.000-05:00

Day 32Today’s Principle: PatienceToday’s Inspirational Reading: Patience is a state of mind that beholds the world from the harmony of the Christ Mind, a freedom from personal thinking. It is an attitude of mind characterized by poise, calmness, and a quiet restful trust, especially in the face of trying conditions. It has its foundation in love. “Great peace have they that love thy law; and

The Perfect Spirit Within

2006-03-31T07:05:00.000-05:00

Day 31Today’s Principle: AuthenticityToday’s Inspirational Reading: You now know the law of righteous thinking that will bring you into a consciousness of your perfect dominion. Life is worth living because you can surround yourself with your highest ideals. Henceforth you are to keep in mind the consciousness of your spiritual origin. Now that you know your being is pure transparent mind,

Appreciate Yourself

2006-03-29T22:35:00.000-05:00

Day 30Today’s Principle: AppreciationToday’s Inspirational Reading:You have been deceived into believing that there are those among your associates who are your mental, moral, or social superiors; that they have by acquired or conferred authority the right to dictate to and to influence you in matters religious, social, or moral. But the meek and lowly yet dignified and all-wise Spirit within you

Let Peace Reign

2006-03-29T06:50:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: PeaceToday’s Inspirational Reading: Would you meet your God in this sacred place? Then quietly enter this holy of holies in the name and though the power of Jesus Christ. Here reality reigns supreme. Neither doubt or fear can enter. You will be conscious only of the great omnipresence of God, where light, joy, peace, and satisfaction with His Spirit abide, where Truth reigns

2006-03-29T06:44:00.000-05:00

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A Healthy Body, A Pure Spirit, Balanced Emotions, and A Focused Mind!!!

2006-03-28T07:59:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: HealingToday’s Inspirational Reading: The real body of God is a living body. Above all it is a beautiful body, a temple. And God himself is in that temple, and it is not necessary to have any light but his light, the light of life and health. It is wonderful how quickly our body responds to a thought of life and health, and how we can feel a flow of health instantly if we hold

Casting My Net

2006-03-27T08:33:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: MasteryToday’s Inspirational Reading: This is your church. You are the high priest without beginning of years or end of days, the alpha and the omega, but without disciplining your powers you cannot do what the Father has set before you. Your thinking faculty is the first to be considered. It is the inlet and outlet of your ideas. It is always active, zealous, impulsive, but

2006-03-25T00:53:00.000-05:00

It ain't my fault! Day 25Today’s Principle: ResponsibilityToday’s Inspirational Reading: Man is never without a guide, no matter how loudly he may be crying out for leading. There is always at hand a sure torchbearer if he will but follow the light. It is too simple, too easy! Man has formed in his mind a far-off God who talks to him from some high mountain in invisible space. By thus looking

2006-03-24T06:32:00.000-05:00

Buyer Beware!Day 24Today’s Principle: OwnershipToday’s Inspirational Reading: Robert Ingersoll paraphrased "An honest man is the noblest work of God" to "An honest God is the noblest work of man." He was not so far wrong. All inventions are first pictured in the mind of the inventor. So we form a mental picture of everything we conceive, and our conception of God is no exception. We do not see

2006-03-22T23:10:00.000-05:00

Honor Yourself!Day 23Today’s Principle: HonorToday’s Inspirational Reading: The Christ is God's divine idea of man, the embodiment of all divine ideas existing in the mind of Being. The Christ is the "Messiah," the "anointed one." The Christ is the living principle working in man. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.""Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God

2006-03-22T09:11:00.000-05:00

Sharing Divine GiftsDay 22 Today’s Principle: ServiceToday’s Inspirational Reading: Love, in Divine Mind, is the idea of universal unity. In expression, it is the power that joins and binds together the universe and everything in it. Love is a harmonizing, constructive power. When it is made active in consciousness, it conserves substance and reconstructs, rebuilds, and restores man and his world

FORGIVE to LIVE!

2006-03-20T23:21:00.000-05:00

Day 21Today's Principle: ForgivenessToday's Inspirational Reading: DIVINE LOVE is the force that dissolves all the opposers of true thought and thus smooths out every obstacle that presents itself. When love ascends the throne and takes complete possession of our life its rule is just and righteous. Even destructive faculties, such as resistance, opposition, obstinacy, anger, jealousy, are

Judge Not, Lest You Be Judged!

2006-03-20T10:59:00.000-05:00

Today's Principle: Non-JudgmentToday's Inspirational Reading: THERE IS A divine goodness at the root of all existence. It is not necessary to give in detail the place of abode of each sentient part of this central goodness, for it is there, wherever you look, and whenever you look. No man is so lowly but that at the touch of its secret spring this divine goodness may be brought to light in him.

Priceless: Small Things With Great Love

2006-03-18T08:57:00.000-05:00

Day 18, SaturdayToday's Principle: CompassionToday's Inspirational Reading: Great heroic opportunities don't normally come our way. Don't wait for that chance. We still can do what Mother Teresa encouraged: small things with great love. We live in a hurting, disconnected world. We live in gated communities, behind locked doors, with alarms set. Beyond that fear we need kindness, a smile, an

The Seesaw's Lesson on Boundaries

2006-03-17T12:41:00.000-05:00

Day 17, FridayToday's Principle: BoundariesToday's Inspirational Reading: The divine command is, "Take time to be holy." I am quick to do the bidding of Spirit and use a portion of my zeal in establishing God's kingdom within me. I do not put all my enthusiasm into helping others; my own unfoldment is of great importance to me. I love to aid my brother, but I do not allow that idea to rob me of

Let's Give It Up! Let's Give It Up for Lent!

2006-03-16T09:47:00.000-05:00

Day 16, WednesdayToday’s Principle: SurrenderToday’s Inspirational Reading: It is possible to get very close to the kingdom of heaven by doing dood works and surrending to Spirit the various faculties of the mind, but we can never fully enter into and abide in heaven, or divine harmony, without surrendering all that makes up the personality, of which the will is the center. The will may be said

Don't Worry, Be Happy!

2006-03-14T21:28:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: Fun Today’s Inspirational Reading: We have been taught that in mature life we have many hard lessons to learn, that trials and tribulations are an essential part of man's life, and that we must experience them in order to deveop our character; that is, our consciousness. But Jesus said we must become as little children before we can enter the kingdom of heaven and that the

Free to be all that I can be!

2006-03-13T20:14:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: Freedom Today’s Inspirational Reading: If the Father is free to do as He wills, the same privelege must be the son's inheritance, else he would not be "the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Keep a True Lent, Charles Fillmore, Pg. 55 Today’s Message: Freedom is a state of mind. This physical world in which we reside would like us to believe otherwise. It places all manner of

The Creative Agent of CHOICE

2006-03-13T09:46:00.000-05:00

Today’s Principle: ChoiceToday’s Inspirational Reading: All things are possible to us, only we must believe. Believe what? We must believe in ourselves, in this innate spiritual man in us and we must encourage him. Encourage him with what? With sound words, with affirmations of almightiness; then we shall have the key to the overcoming world.Our most important study is our own mind, not only the

What I give to myself, I give to the world.

2006-03-12T17:11:00.000-05:00

Day 13Today’s Principle: Conservation Today’s Inspirational Reading: We are resting in God, and at the same time gathering strength for the power of greater demonstrations to follow.Keep a True Lent, Charles Fillmore, Pg.196 Today’s Message: Today I take time to rest in God, I relax into her arms and let go of the cares and concerns, the fears and the doubts, the anger and frustration, the

Simplicity, It's Your Choice

2006-03-07T22:07:00.000-05:00

Day 8, Wednesday Today’s Principle: SimplicityToday’s Inspirational Reading: We can all understand that a creation which involves complex relations must be governed by laws and orderly acts. Those who get the right conception of the creative source and adjust their minds to its wisdom, purity, power, love, and completeness as the ideal source of perfect man are rewarded by a serene peace and

Herein Lies the Peace of God

2006-03-06T21:21:00.000-05:00

Day 7, Tuesday Today’s Principle: PeacefulnessToday’s Inspirational Reading: The real body of God is a living body. Above all, it is a beautiful body, a temple. And God Himself is in that temple, and it is not necessary to have any light but His light, the light of life and health. It is wonderful how quickly our body responds to a thought of life and health, how we can feel a flow of health

It's All Good. Really!!

2006-03-05T21:04:00.000-05:00

Day 6, MondayToday’s Principle: Creativity Today’s Inspirational Reading: We hold that all Truth has its origin in Divine Mind. Whatever we can conceive as being true must manifest itself in creation, and if the creation seems to fall short of the divine perfection in any way, it is a fault on our part--either we are not seeing the whole of it, or we are lacking in understanding. God is the

Be Still and Know!

2006-03-04T05:40:00.000-05:00

Day 4Today’s Principle: StillnessToday’s Inspirational Reading: . . . when you ask in the silence of Spirit to be shown why you do not demonstrate the powers that Jesus of Nazareth demonstrated, the Holy Spirit will in some way reveal to you your lack. How that revealment will come about, no one can tell you. But if you are patient and trustful, you will be guided and directed so that all the

21 Day Fasting/Cleansing Option

2006-03-03T10:43:00.000-05:00

Rodney L. Ellis, MD, PC21 DAY FASTING & CLEANSING PROGRAMI ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. (Daniel 10:3)INTRODUCTIONThis fast and cleansing plan is basically an elimination diet, in which you gradually eliminate for the first 9 days various food groups until, in the middle of the 21 days,

The Daniel Fast Option

2006-03-03T10:24:00.000-05:00

"Daniel Fast"Inner Visions Full Life Fellowship“LENT – Let’s Eliminate Negative Thoughts/Let’s Embrace New Thought”As a community our scriptural authority come from:I Peter2:4, “Come to him, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”This season is a time for renewal, saturation

Stay up! Pray Up!

2006-03-03T01:20:00.000-05:00

Day 3Today's Principle: PrayerToday's Inspirational Reading: The Word of God is the revelation to man of the powers and possibilities of his own being. The searchlight of His Word discloses the presence of secret springs and living streams of energy and life. Man's consciousness is lifted up by the wisdom of the Word, and he finds himself master of the powers and privileges of infinity. He says

Trust releases creativity and ignites manifestation

2006-03-02T00:17:00.000-05:00

Day 2Today’s Principle: TrustToday’s Inspirational Reading: When man praises the Spirit of wisdom within he expands and deepens and enriches his consciousness. As the Christ radiance lights man's mind, he sees with the inner eye and he finds that Truth is a never-failing light that makes straight his way. Keep a True Lent, Charles Fillmore, Chapter 1, pg. 12.Today’s Message: I gently touch my own

Be true to the Truth!

2006-02-28T22:58:00.000-05:00

Day 1Today’s Principle: Truth Today’s Inspirational Reading: To walk with almighty God is to walk with Truth and to affirm the power of Spirit within mind and body as the dominating mind force; it is to walk in the light and thus to apply in our daily living the wisdom that is from above, acknowledging the Father as the source of all our knowing, as the mainspring of all our actions. Keep a True