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Emmet Fox
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December 30, 2014 - January 1, 2018
Get to work on some concrete problem, choosing preferably whatever it is that you are most afraid of. Work at it steadily; and if no improvement at all shows itself within, say, a couple of weeks, then try your method on another problem. If you still get no result, then scrap that method and adopt a new one. Remember, there is a way out. The problem really is, not the getting rid of your difficulties, but finding your own best method for doing it.
There is only one way to make spiritual progress, and that is to practice the Presence of God.
Prayer is the one thing that can make a change in your life.
Persistence in prayer is an expression of our faith, for by our persistence we are affirming our belief that God will make his answer plain.
Practice love every day and watch your thought, and watch your tongue, and watch your deed, that nothing contrary to love finds expression there.
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March 25 COMFORT FOR MOURNING Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted (Matthew 5:4). Mourning or sorrow is not in itself a good thing, for the will of God is that everyone should experience happiness and joyous success. Jesus says: … I am come that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly (John 10:10). Nevertheless, trouble and suffering are often extremely useful, because many people will not bother to learn the Truth until driven to do so by sorrow and failure. Sorrow then becomes relatively a good thing. Sooner or later every human being will have to discover the truth about God, and make his own contact with Him at first hand. He will have to acquire the understanding of Truth, which will set
him free, once and for all, from our three-dimensional limitations and their concomitants—sin, sickness, and death. There is really no need for man to have trouble, because if he will only seek God first, the trouble need never come. He always has the choice of learning by spiritual unfoldment or of learning by painful experience. Family troubles, quarrels and estr...
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Understanding; but if we will not do so, then come they must, and for us this mourning will be a blessing in disguise, for through it we shall be “comforted.” And by comfort the Bible means the experience o...
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April 18 SALT AND LIGHT Read Matthew 5:13-16. In the fifth chapter of Matthew are recorded some of the most powerful pronouncements of Jesus. Yé are the salt of the earth … Ye are the light of the world (Matthew 5:13-14). It is possible, and, in fact, only too easy, to accept these vital principles as being true;
to love the beauty in them; and yet not to put them consistently into practice in one’s own life; but this is a perilous attitude, for in that case the salt has lost its savor, and is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot. If you make every effort to practice the teachings of Jesus in every department of your own daily life; if you seek systematically to destroy in yourself selfishness, pride, vanity, sensuality, self-righteousness, jealousy, self-pity, resentment, condemnation, and so forth—not feeding or nourishing them by giving in to them; if you extend the right
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It is simply not possible to get any experience of God worth talking about, or to exercise spiritual power until you have gotten rid of resentment and condemnation.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (Philippians 4:8).
What am I thinking about today? I know that I have experienced a revolutionary moral change. I have finally admitted defeat and that I am an alcoholic and my obsession to drink and drug has been removed. I want meaning to my life. In order to have it, I must keep my mind occupied with thoughts about God and meditate on the way he wants me to live. Spiritual stature develops over a lifetime, and at 59, I have just begun. God's plan for me will be revealed only through honest openness and willingness to do the right thing.
What am I thinking about today? I know that I have experienced a revolutionary moral change. I have finally admitted defeat and that I am an alcoholic and my obsession to drink and drug has been removed. I want meaning to my life. In order to have it, I must keep my mind occupied with thoughts about God and meditate on the way he wants me to live. Spiritual stature develops over a lifetime, and at 59, I have just begun. God's plan for me will be revealed only through honest openness and willingness to do the right thing.
Central to New Thought philosophy was the perspective which saw that love and personal forgiveness were the keys to fundamental transformation: "Love is by far the most important thing of all. It is the Golden Gate of Paradise. Pray for the understanding of love, and meditate upon it daily. It casts out fear. It is the fulfilling of the Law. It covers a multitude of sins. Love is absolutely invincible."
Fox went on to say that forgiveness was an integral part of the Pathway of Love, "which is open to everyone in all circumstances, and upon which you may step at any moment - at this moment if you like - requires no formal introduction, has no conditions whatever. It calls for no expensive laboratory in which to work, because your own daily life, and your ordinary daily surroundings are your laboratory. It needs no reference library, no professional training, no external apparatus of any kind. All it does need is that you should begin steadfastly to expel from your mentality every thought of personal condemnation (you must condemn a wrong action, but not the actor), of resentment for old injuries, and of everything which is contrary to the law of Love. You must not allow yourself to hate either person, or group, or nation, or anything whatever.
"You must build-up by faithful daily exercise the true Love-consciousness, and then all the rest of spiritual development will follow upon that. Love will heal you. Love will illumine you."
One of the cornerstones of Fox's philosophy was to live but one day at a time, to be responsible for one's own thoughts and to clear up resentments, just as AA was to teach that "resentments are our number one cause of slips." For Fox, one of the most important rules for growth was to live in the present: "Live in today, and do not allow yourself to live in the past under any pretense. Living the past means thinking about the past, rehearsing past events, especially if you do this with feeling...train yourself to be a man or woman who lives one day at a time. You'll be surprised how rapidly conditions will change for the better when you approach this ideal."
Emmet Fox emphasized the idea that thoughts are real things, and that one cannot have one kind of mind and another kind of life. According to Fox, if we want to change our lives, then we must change our thoughts first. Many of his simply stated profundities have contributed to an AA philosophy that has transformed the lives of literally millions of recovering alcoholics.
Spiritual growth comes from putting into practice the knowledge we already possess.
Metaphysics, like music, is both a science and an art. In
metaphysics it is absolutely true that you learn by doing. … be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only … (James 1:22).
For over 30 years, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, has served as the foundation of America's national nutrition safety net, working to end hunger and improve the health of low-income people by helping families buy the food they need for a nutritionally adequate diet. In South Carolina over 100,000 households depend on SNAP each month to get the food they need for good health.
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With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again (Matthew 7:2).
The plain fact is that it is the law of life that, as we think, and speak, and act toward others, so will others think, and speak, and act toward us.
raison d’être.
In fact, this doctrine of the Secret Place and the wonders that can happen therein is taught throughout the Bible.
Declaring in Him will I trust means that you have now determined to trust by ceasing to worry and fear. This is the legitimate and spiritual use of the will.
“By meditating regularly on the Presence of God with you, and directing your life in accordance with that fact, you become immune from any kind of danger.”
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer (Revelation 6:2). The White Horse is the spiritual nature, and the man or woman who rides the White Horse achieves freedom, and
joy, and ultimate happiness and harmony. We are told two very interesting things about the Horseman on the White Horse: the Bible says that he that sat on him had a bow. The bow and arrow is an ancient symbol of the spoken Word. When you speak the Word you shoot an arrow. It goes where you aim it. The Horseman on the White Horse speaks the Word. The rider on the White Horse also wears a crown, and the crown is a symbol of
victory. The rider on the White Horse is always the victor. This, then, is the story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. If you want peace, an understanding of God, ther...
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Make a law for yourself today that you are not going to touch mentally any negative thing that has happened up to the present moment—and keep that law.
You are going to live forever—somewhere.
choose your life.
Even if your brain tries to deceive you, your heart will whisper the truth.
December 30 THE PATH OF LOVE All the old traditions tell us that there is more than one path to the great Goal. Just as there is more than one road up every great mountain, and yet all roads meet at the top, so in the spiritual quest there are several roads, all of which lead in due season to the one great End. There is the path of knowledge. True knowledge of divine things is one of the appointed paths to attainment; but that path is by no means for everyone. And there is the pathway of action—of organized activity—and the world needs this too; but this again usually calls for a special gift,
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