Thursday, June 9, 2011

Weekly Bible Lesson, mybiblelesson.com, God the Preserver of Man


“Shook off  the dust
of their feet” comes from Jesus’ advice to his disciples when he sent them out to heal (see Luke 9:5). He said that if they encountered opposition and felt unwelcome anywhere, they should
simply shake the dust off their feet and leave. So that’s what Paul and Barnabus did when they left Antioch— and immediately started healing in Iconium, which was a political and economic hub in south-central Turkey.”  
Weekly Bible Lesson, mybiblelesson.com, God the Preserver of Man

Friday, May 27, 2011

"There are Christ's That Would Deceive"

"There are Christ's that would deceive, if it were possible, 'by the very elect, by instituting matter 
And it's methods in place of God, Mind.'" Misc Writ p175. 


The truth is, you must declare that you have no short comings, 
any mark's that can injure, deform any part of you or mar you; 
not one spot, 
not one single stain; 
no fault; 
no taint; 
no imputation; 
never any disgrace.  


Because, you are made in God's perfect image not the image or images that mortal man advocates! 


God beholds you as such so listen and love his way.  

The body, some past experience or event will sometimes take the shape of a false Christ but it can only limit you or harm you if you chose to give it power.


God and his angel's will always be there to refute, repudiate and defeat the devil's works.  "Angels: God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality."  
Science and Health with key to the Scriptures p. 581

Monday, May 16, 2011

5/16/2011 "Soul (God), the All-knowing Architect and Builder"








"Soul (God), the All-knowing Architect and Builder

True concept—
Man: idea of God; spiritual, genuine; perfect; immortal; indestructible; eternal
shows it to be impossible that a material body, though interwoven with matter’s highest stratum, misnamed mind, should be man, — the genuine and perfect man, the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal. Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated.

Question. — What are body and Soul?
Answer. — Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love. Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but no in matter.  Soul can nver reflect anything inferior to Spirit. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy)

Reflection
peace hope humor poise
wholeness harmony goodness beauty balance innocence
humility strength nobility serenity gentleness
quietude reflection brilliance control flexibility
artistry modesty patience
joy inspiration reflection strength intuition immortality spiritual sense morality control
courage agelessness nobility
calmness symmetry quietude
boldness artistry serenity humor purity hope clarity
grace virtue agility"

Soul and Body May 16–22, 2011, Weekly Bible Lesson, mybiblelesson.com, Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, MA.

Monday, April 18, 2011

My Job to Do


I have a job to do!   My job is expressing to the fullest God’s infinite glory.

I am so grateful to be about doing this job.  I am at-one-with Life and I express abundance, peace, strength, compassion, fellowship, friendship, prosperity, courage; and I have dominion over hatred, belligerence, war, judging, condemning, anxiety, self-will, self-justification, age, blight, poverty, homelessness.
My hope is an expression of expectancy, God's ever present Love.  My joy is a reflection of the trust I place in God. ‘The Lord is good to all (me, my family, my neighbor) and his tender mercies are over me, and mine, and all.’ Ps 145:9
I am deathless, spiritual, because the infinite divine Principle, God, is my true path.  Matter has no claim to me, stomach pain, suffering, heart condition, drugs, past mistakes are the work of mortal man.  And today, right now, I claim my true spiritual heritage.  
“2 | Ezekiel 18:32 I have
I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.”
Probation after Death - 2 Apr. 18–24, 2011, Christian Science Weekly Bible Lesson mybiblesson.com

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Isaiah 41:10-13


Isaiah 41:10-13
New Living Translation (NLT)



 10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
      Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.
   I will strengthen you and help you.
      I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
 11 “See, all your angry enemies lie there,
      confused and humiliated.
   Anyone who opposes you will die
      and come to nothing.
 12 You will look in vain
      for those who tried to conquer you.
   Those who attack you
      will come to nothing.
 13 For I hold you by your right hand—
      I, the Lord your God.
   And I say to you,
      ‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you.


New Living Translation (NLT)Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
  

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Steep Yourself in God Reality


How about some God reality? 
“Steep yourself in God-Reality
Don’t fuss with what is on the table at meal times or in the clothes in your closet are in fashion.  There is far more to your inner life that the food you put in your stomach, more to your out appearance than the clothes you hang on your body.  Look at the ravens, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, carefree in the care of God.  And you count far more.  
Has anyone by fussing before the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch?  If fussing can’t even do that, why fuss at all?  Walk into the fields and look at the wildflowers.  They don’t fuss with their appearance--but have you ever seen color and design quite like it?  The ten best dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.  If God gives such attention to the wildflowers, most of them never even see, don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?  
What I am trying to do here is get you to relax, not be so preoccupied with getting so you can respond to God’s giving.  People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works.  Steep yourself in God-reality, God initiative, God-provisions.  You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.  Don’t be afraid of missing out.  You’re my dearest friends! The Father wants to give you the very kingdom.  
Be generous.  Give to the poor.  Get yourselves a bank that can’t go bankrupt, a bank in heaven far from bank robbers, safe from embezzlers, a bank you can bank on.  It’s obvious, isn’t it?  The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.”  
                                                                                  
                                                                              the Message Luke 12:22-34

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

This week's Bible Lesson, "Christ Jesus

This weeks Weekly Bible Lesson published by the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, MA, is entitled "Christ Jesus"  Here is a an exert from the lesson.


269:11–25 (to 1st .) Science of Being
Metaphysics is above physics, and matter does not enter into metaphysical premises or conclusions. The categories of metaphysics rest on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul. 

These ideas are perfectly real and tangible to spiritual consciousness, and they have this advantage over the objects and thoughts of material sense, — they are good and eternal.

The testimony of the material senses is neither absolute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of the prophets, and on the testimony of the Science of Mind."

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