I just started reading Michael Bernard Beckwith’s new book, Spiritual Liberation. Page 9-10 are amazing and fit right in with our focus on developing a prosperity consciousness. I was particularly intrigued with what I am calling his treatment of prosperity which begins in the 2nd paragraph and continues to the end. He writes:
When Jesus defined prayer, he said to pray believing that I already have so that I may receive. He didn’t say pray believing that I might have it or pray believing that it will happen at some future time. No! So I now pray believing that heaven is already where I live. Ever-expanding good is already mine. I claim it as my spiritual inheritance. So I now enter into a zone where I realize that all of my needs are met. I feel that, right now, regardless of my circumstances. No one is preventing me from feeling that I already have all of my needs net. There’s no outside authority saying, “You know you can’t feel that yet because you don’t have the money you want and you don’t live in the house you want to live in. No, you can’t feel that yet.” I do feel it now, I feel and believe I have all I need, right now. Abundance is the order of the day. No longer do I have anxious thoughts about how my needs will be met.
I speak this word for myself knowing that in the feeling tone of this vibration my life contains all beauty, all love, all wisdom, all peace, all supply, all joy. Life so flows through my entire being without inhibition that the magnetic field within me magnifies the living Spirit in such a way that I ride a tidal wave of its beauty. This is what I’m declaring. This is what I see. This is what I accept. This is what I know. It’s happening NOW [emphasis added].
Into this sacred “now” I speak. I call forth wholeness and well-being in my life. My body temple reflects the fundamental harmony of the universe – the order, the strength, the beauty, the revitalizing power. Oh, the way I am made! So marvelously made! Divine Intelligence within my body temple can heal anything as I allow the condition for healing to manifest. SO I say “yes” to every organ, action, and function of my body. I am made whole. Every cell now vibrates with a luminosity that comes with having an intimate at-one-ment with pure Spirit. Health is the order of my day. Wholeness reigns supreme.
My mental habits and patterns are now refined, are now restored to their original clarity, and I no longer count my failures and obstacles. I count my blessings. As I go through this day, I am grateful. I start counting, “Oh, I’m so glad I’ve got a table. I’m so glad I’ve got a floor. I’m so glad I’ve got a run.” I just count my blessings. It doesn’t matter how big or small they are. I’m totally grateful.
My body temple, my emotional body, my mental body, the body of my affairs, my relationships, my creativity, all are now congruent with the fundamental goodness and harmony of the universe. I see and I give thanks for this. How infinite and divine and perfect is the spirit that indwells me. I give great thanks for the truth that pulses through me in this moment, allowing me to have direct contact with the fullness of my being.
I know that this word I speak is a law of elimination that dissolves anything that previously hindered, blocked, delayed, obstructed, or denied the fullness of life from expressing in and through me. This word is a law unto that which has been spoken. It is now the very condition that allows the divine and perfect spiritual idea within me to evolve into full blossom. I see it even as I declare it. I know it. I walk in a trust atmosphere about it. It governs my steps. It lifts me up. It transmutes anything within me that would hinder or block me. I open and am receptive to the inflow of inspiration, expansion of consciousness, and revelation of my true nature as an awakened being in this very moment. It is done, and so I let it be.
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Mike
