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OVERCOMING
EQUALS RECEIVING
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Preparation to write this gave me once again
the opportunity to reflect back over the past
five years. Yes! For Five years I have been living
my greatest desire as minister of Unity Church
of Sachse. I thought WOW! How far we as
a congregation family have come. There have
been challenges, changes and growth, all filled
with Love and a large amount of Faith.
I also thought about my personal journey to
this fulfillment and silently shouted the words
of gratitude, Thank You Father for all that you
are in my life and my world. Thank you for the
guidance and wisdom, the understanding and knowledge,
the wonderful truth that, regardless of the nature
of our difficulties the same method can be used
to dissolve each one.
When I first began to study and seek TRUTH,
I was told the single purpose of my troubles,
was for me to learn to overcome them. They were
lessons in my spiritual growth and development.
This became a quandary for me. How do you overcome
anything? Then, I remembered when I was a teenager,
I wanted to be a cheerleader, I was filled with
doubts and apprehension. My Mother after listening
to my foreboding. Told me. "Dear one, You
are an Overcomer, there are no obstacles to large
for a person who trusts the power of God
within, Who finds a way to receive the gift
of possibility which vaults you over all the obstructions
of your own manifestation."
I believe my Mother was telling me there is
more to us than our outer appearance. We each
have an inner beauty and an infinite range of
possibilities. That with-in each of us lays the
God--Given potential for perfection. When you
are faced with challenges or obstacles, go stand
before a mirror. Look at your reflection; ask
yourself, what do I see? Do you see a potentially
perfect being, looking forward to life with hope
and prepared to meet any challenge? Is the person
looking back at you self-assured, capable, and
positive? An overcomer with an open heart
to receive? This is what God sees.
Yes, it takes time and practice to begin to
see ourselves as God sees us. Each time
you catch a glimpse of yourself, the image should
be one of a happy, healthy, prosperous individual.
It will be if you keep in mind the following words
from the popular "Prayer of Faith:" All
Things I am, can do, and be. Through Christ, the
Truth that is in me.
Later in years, I once again had the opportunity to experience and
give stronger meaning to the word overcomer. A doctor's conformation,
I had cancer. This was a manifestation born in the darkness of
my fear, and could only be dispelled in the light of the one Presence
and one Power in the universe---God, the Good, everywhere present. God
cannot be absent. So the full presence of God was right where
my need seem to be. I did truly believe this and opened myself
to receive the truth that there was nothing to fear? It was astonishing
how I knew I was healed. I was an overcomer.
There is Truth in each of us, the truth of what
God sees---the perfect you. You may not always
recognize this truth, but you will begin to recognize
it as the Christ qualities within you when you
spend more time in God's presence. Allow
yourself more time to become better acquainted
with your spiritual nature and to see yourself
through the eyes of God. Take time to examine
the inner you in the light of God's Love. As
you practice this you will become more aware of
the Christ spirit within. You will discover your
strength of purpose, untapped ability, and true
potential.
Trust God to help you develop your abilities.
As you understand more fully the potential that
lives within you and begin to think of yourself
as successful, healthy, harmonious, and wise,
you are seeing yourself as God sees you.
Yes! Soon when you look into your mirror, the
reflection you see will be one of an empowered
being, for that is your inheritance as a beloved
child of God. See who you really are. AN
OVER COMER OF ALL CHALLENGES.
Blessings,
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