A Sure Way To Become Financially Secure
Money is a medium of exchange. It is a symbol of freedom, beauty, luxury, power, refinement, and rich and joyous living. Money may be looked upon as a Divine idea, maintaining the economic health of the nations. It should be used wisely, judiciously, and constructively.
You become financially secure by impressing your mind that money is not only good, but very good, and it blesses mankind in countless ways. In your mind, continue to imagine that you are a distribution center, that you possess all sorts of riches and that you are bestowing these blessings on others. As you do this, you are opening the way for still greater supplies to flow in.
Your motive is right, and you know in your heart that you have the right to plenty of money; you expect it to flow in avalanches of abundance. Your security and happiness are the results of the wise use of the power and wisdom resident in your subconscious mind.
Life will reward you when you believe and accept success as your Divine right. The real key to financial security is to constantly feel, know, and imagine yourself serving others in a grander, greater and more wonderful way. Imagine greater and greater success and abundance happening to you. Accept all monies received with a deep appreciation, and use it freely with grateful acknowledgment to the Infinite Being from whom all blessings flow.
Use the following prayer frequently, and you will convey the idea of financial secuirty to your subconscious mind:
“I know that money is an idea in Divine Mind. It symbolizes wealth; I recognize it as a means of exchange. All of God’s ideas are good. God created all things; He pronounced His creation good and very good. Money is good. I use it wisely, judiciously and constructively. I use it to bless mankind. It is a very convenient symbol; I rejoice in its circulation. God’s ideas are instantly available to me; I have a Divine surplus. God is my source of supply; that is my supply now. Wealth of all kinds flows to me in avalanches of abundance. There is only One God and One Mind; every idea in the Mind of God is spiritual. My relationship to money is friendly. It is a symbol of God’s wealth and His infinite abundance. The idea of money is omnipresent; I am one with all of the wealth in the world. I use it for good only and I thank thee, Father, for thy supply.”
1966 by Joseph Murphy. All rights reserved. From the book “Your Infinite Power To Be Rich” by Joseph Murphy.
Joseph Murphy gives a prayer for prosperity and abundance
April 7th, 2009Unique 1 minute video of prosperity affirmations
April 3rd, 2009This is very cool-say these affirmations as they flash quickly across your screen. You can do this in about a minute a day. Great way to start off your day.
Charles Fillmore: Wealth of Mind Expresses Itself in Riches
April 2nd, 2009PROSPERITY, according to Webster, is an advance or gain in anything good or desirable, successful progress toward, or attainment of a desired object. Prosperity does not mean the same thing to any two persons. To the wage earner an increase of a few dollars in the weekly income may seem like wonderful prosperity, for it means an increase in the comfort and welfare of his family. The man who engages in vast enterprises reckons prosperity in larger terms, and does not consider himself prosperous unless things are coming to him in a big way. Between these extremes are many ideas of prosperity, which shows quite plainly that prosperity is not in the possession of things but in the recognition of supply and in the knowledge of free and open access to an inexhaustible storehouse of all that is good or desirable.
In the great Mind of God there is no thought of lack, and such a thought has no rightful place in your mind. It is your birthright to be prosperous, regardless of who you are or where you may be.
Jesus said to all men, “Seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” This does not mean that if you belong to a certain church you will be prospered, for “righteousness” is not conforming to some particular religious belief but to the law of right thinking, regardless of creed, dogma, or religious form. Get into the prosperity thought and you will demonstrate prosperity. Cultivate the habit of thinking about abundance everywhere present, not only in the forms of imagination but in forms without. Jesus did not make a separation between the two as though they were at enmity. He said, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
Put things in their right relation, the spiritual first and the material following, each where it belongs, and render to each its own.
Realize first of all that prosperity is not wholly a matter of capital or environment but a condition brought about by certain ideas that have been allowed to rule in the consciousness. When these ideas are changed the conditions are changed in spite of environment and all appearances, which must also change to conform to the new ideas. People who come into riches suddenly without building up a consciousness of prosperity soon part from their money. Those who are born and bred to riches usually have plenty all their life even though they never make the effort to earn a dollar for themselves. This is because the ideas of plenty are so interwoven into their thought atmosphere that they are a very part of themselves. They have the prosperity consciousness, in which there is no idea of any condition under which the necessities of life could be lacking.
It is not a crime to be rich nor a virtue to be poor, as certain reformers would have us think. The sin lies in hoarding wealth and keeping it from circulating freely to all who need it. Those who put wealth into useful work that contributes to the welfare of the masses are the salvation of the country. Fortunately, there are many in this country who have the prosperity consciousness. If we were all in a poverty consciousness, famines would be as common here as they are in India or China. Millions in those lands are held in the perpetual thought of poverty and they suffer want in all its forms from the cradle to the grave. The burden of the poverty thought reacts on the earth so that year after year it withholds its products and many people starve.
Universal Mind controls all nature and is in possession of all its products. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof” is a great Truth. Puny, personal man uses all his craft to get control of the products of nature but is always defeated in the end.
From the book “Prosperity” by Charles Fillmore. Charles Fillmore is the founder of Unity.
Martha Beck at Oprah Magazine: Prosperity Exercise
March 30th, 2009From the recent issue of O magazine, Martha Beck has a great quote and prosperity affirmation: “Everything good is readily available” Later on she gives a simple exercise for a shift in consciousness:
It’s almost too easy: Simply by taking your attention off thoughts of scarcity and persistently focusing on observations of abundance, you can replace the nervous, just-in-case mind-set that kept our ancient forebears alive but is killing many of us. The best way to effect this shift is to use these simple exercises:
1. List ten times you thought that there wouldn’t be enough of something and you survived.
2. List ten areas where you have too much, not too little.
3. List 20-or 50, or 1,000-wonderful things that entered your life just at the right time, with no effort on your part. Start with the little things (oxygen, sunlight, a song on the radio). You’ll soon think of bigger ones. Most of my clients realize that the most important things in their lives showed up this way.
Why poverty is not spiritual according to Catherine Ponder
March 28th, 2009You may wonder why there has been so much talk of sacrifice, persecution and hard times as necessary phases of the spiritual way of life. History reveals that the inspired yet practical teachings of the Bible continued to be observed during the early centuries after Christ. But soon religion became more secularized, leading to variations and departures from Jesus’ original teachings. Later, the feudal systems during the Middle Ages assured wealth only for the privileged few. During this period, the teachings of “poverty and penance” were offered to the masses as the only way to salvation, in order to keep people in poverty, and to make lack and privation a supposed “Christian virtue.” Unsuspecting millions were led to believe that it was “pious to be poor,” a belief which was useful in forestalling revolution among the masses. Some of those old feudal ideas about poverty as a spiritual virtue have persisted until today, but they are false, man-made ideas and not God’s rich Truth for you and me.
Thus, make no further excuses to yourself or others for wanting to be prosperous. It is a divine desire that should be given divine expression. You can boldly give thanks that prosperity is your diving heritage; that the Father’s desire for you is unlimited good, not merely the means of a meager existence.
1962 by Catherine Ponder. All rights reserved. From the book “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”.
Hana Bobwhite sits down with Dr. Terry Cole-Whittaker
March 26th, 2009Terry Cole-Whittaker is one of the greatest prosperity teachers of all time. This video is a sweet find-a young girl interviewing Terry with a hand held microphone. Even with the home-made production values, Terry’s wonderful energy and truth come forth.
The Purpose of Money
March 25th, 2009An American investment banker was at the pier of a small
coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one
fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large
yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on
the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch
them.
The Mexican replied “only a little while”.
The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and
catch more fish?
The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s
immediate needs.
The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest
of your time?”
The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little,
play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria,
stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and
play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life.”
The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help
you. You should spend more time fishing and with the
proceeds, buy a bigger boat with the proceeds from the
bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you
would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your
catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the
processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would
control the product, processing and distribution. You would
need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to
Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run
your expanding enterprise.”
The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all
take?”
To which the American replied, “15-20 years.”
”But what then?”
The American laughed and said that’s the best part. “When
the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your
company stock to the public and become very rich, you would
make millions.”
”Millions.. Then what?”
The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small
coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a
little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife,
stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip
wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
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