Rev. David McArthur
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September 19, 2010 – Discover The Divine Mystery
Reverends Revs. Larry Winn and David McArthur
When you made the commitment to come into this life, everything was put in place for you to accomplish your purpose. When you are on purpose, the universe shows up. But we get the amazing experience of “interruption”. There is value in that experience– our interruptions are divine invitation to a greater purpose.
For example, when you complain, you draw complainers to you and you are surrounded by complaining people. When that is interrupted, you have a choice. We know every thing is God, even when it seems something is not of God. If divine order really is in that interruption, then there is a greater purpose calling to us. We are free to choose it or turn it down.
Jesus, as we need to do, met life in the consciousness in which he lived, and then stepped to the next level, and then the next. In the story of the Canaanite woman, she asked that her daughter be healed. Jesus responded that he was to heal the children of Israel, not to throw their bread to the dogs. She responded with non-resistance, no ego. She knew that her daughter could be healed. Her love for her daughter and her faith that she could be healed awakened Jesus, and He recognized the beauty of the spiritual self of anyone. This interruption awakened Him to a greater purpose.
With every interruption we can journey from our head to our heart. If it’s all God, it’s all love. Look at the interruption as being a call to a higher purpose. The universe loves us so much we have many, many interruptions. At those times, say,
“Divine Love, I am Your instrument. Live Your purpose through me.”
September 12, 2010 – Live Your Purpose Through Me
Rev. David McArthur
When you made the commitment to come into this life, everything was put in place for you to accomplish your purpose. When you are on purpose, the universe shows up. But we get the amazing experience of “interruption”. There is value in that experience– our interruptions are divine invitation to a greater purpose.
For example, when you complain, you draw complainers to you and you are surrounded by complaining people. When that is interrupted, you have a choice. We know every thing is God, even when it seems something is not of God. If divine order really is in that interruption, then there is a greater purpose calling to us. We are free to choose it or turn it down.
Jesus, as we need to do, met life in the consciousness in which he lived, and then stepped to the next level, and then the next. In the story of the Canaanite woman, she asked that her daughter be healed. Jesus responded that he was to heal the children of Israel, not to throw their bread to the dogs. She responded with non-resistance, no ego. She knew that her daughter could be healed. Her love for her daughter and her faith that she could be healed awakened Jesus, and He recognized the beauty of the spiritual self of anyone. This interruption awakened Him to a greater purpose.
With every interruption we can journey from our head to our heart. If it’s all God, it’s all love. Look at the interruption as being a call to a higher purpose. The universe loves us so much we have many, many interruptions. At those times, say,
“Divine Love, I am Your instrument. Live Your purpose through me.”
September 5, 2010 – From Heffalumps to Wholeness
Rev. David McArthur
Like Winnie the Pooh, we can be stuck in “not enough”, projecting the past into the future. Like Piglet, we see what we expect to see. And we keep repeating the pattern. Is there something that we would like to change? We forget how. Life is the reflection of our consciousness. Our thoughts/feelings create it, and we ourselves keep it the way it is. But whether we want to change things with co-workers or relatives or financial situations, know that these things are all really spiritual problems needing spiritual solutions.
We need to go to a higher power, like the woman who touched Jesus’ garment. The “twelve years” of her suffering signify she had completed her spiritual work and was open to healing. Her new perception was that she would be whole by touching a greater power, the presence of God. Today, when our energy is drained, our life force drawn from us, we have to touch the higher consciousness– that which is conscious of the Presence. We have to touch God, the higher awareness. It is there. It needs to be there. (That goodness, wholeness.) Transform your consciousness. Touch the wholeness which is God.
The Bhagavad Gita asks, “Do you have the patience to wait till the mud settles and the water is clear,” until you are able to be filled with a higher consciousness? Then “the right action will arise. Not seeking fulfillment, …open to all things.” See the Presence; open to It. It brings that which is highest. Welcome all things. The Divine teaches, “I Am the Self abiding in the heart of all beings.” The Divine Presence is what is there that guides us to wholeness.
When we smash through to the higher vision, then we are free to see something different– we go from lack to plenty– in the consciousness of the Presence saying, “How I do love you!” and answer, as Pooh does, “me too!”
August 29, 2010 – Sharing Enlightenment
Rev. David McArthur
Our work is to know the spiritual truth. Within each person there is a perfect pattern, a pure thought of him in Divine Mind within him. It is within the very energy, the DNA, of every molecule of that person’s being. It is in that person’s mind, and that person has full access to it. That person is One with the Presence and All Power. There is nothing or no-one in the world that has more power. That is the truth.
Who do you know who is in need? Physical, emotional, financial, etc.? Look through their “bandages” with so much love that the truth that you know is shared with that other person. You have the spiritual capacity to know the truth. The illumination flows from the truth within, and it is when you love.
We can only have that which we can give away. It is our job to share enlightenment rather than to seek it. Call them into their power– to know the truth when they begin to forget. Don’t settle for less than the truth of who they are. You are unable to settle for something less for that person– even for yourself. Hold to the total truth of your being– a radiant, powerful child of God–powerful, intelligent– who can call into manifestation the truth of their being. It is our job to know that. It is our job to be very much in touch with the truth of everyone’s being. For each there is hope. The total truth of their being is fully there within them. Carry that awareness for everyone.
August 22, 2010 – Going Somewhere
Rev. E. J. Niles
Among many things, the Bible is a history of a people’s evolving identity and their evolving relationship to God. For the first time in history, we see not only where we have been, but where we are going. We also see the need for a higher level of consciousness. As Albert Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
There are those who say we are in the worst of times, but we know better. We know we have latent within our DNA everything we need to deal with the conditions of our world. Margaret Meade said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Society is moving out of it’s “teen years” in which it wanted all the benefits without the responsibility. Now we are willing to accept the responsibility that we create our world. We can now envision every person on the planet having their needs met. We can see an end to poverty, an end to war.
You have within your very DNA that which you need to meet every challenge and move beyond it. We know only 4% of who we are. The other 96% of our being is one with the Universe. You are part of a living Universe. You cannot get out of it. “We are part of a challenge where one day we will know that we all are One!”
August 15, 2010 – Prayer That Works
Janet Conner
Do your prayers “work”? Jesus advised that before you pray, you first “reconcile with your brother.” You must release the “prisoners” you drag around with you. You must release the anger you harbor toward those you have imprisoned deep within your consciousness that you feel have wronged you. Simply open those dungeon doors and tell them to go. And yes, you must release the anger so deeply held against yourself, too. Open that door. Release. Let go. Only then are you free to affirm the good you seek.
Receive that good without worry as to the why or how of it. Be open with your affirmations. Don’t try to fit the Infinite into your consciousness with detailed requirements, but rather expand your consciousness to the Infinite. And know that you are worthy to receive. You are made of the substance of your Creator. You are a “godlet”.
We have so much to be thankful for. Thank You, God! Thank You, God! Thank You, God!
August 8, 2010 – Manifesting Spirit’s Dream: An African Tale
Rev. David McArthur
God is life. The nature of God is pure love and goodness. We worry whether something is true or false instead of whether it is useful. We know the phrase “life is suffering” is not a truth. However, it is an effective denial that our whining will change anything. Denial is to withdraw your energy from something. So withdraw your power from that which limits you and apply it to that which is seeking to lift you. Apply it to that which infinite power and abundance and intelligence wants to bring forth because it is your own.
That deep desire in your heart is not there by accident. Desire on the heart is God inviting you to what is yours, not what is possible. Withdraw your power from the idea that someone else has control. Withdraw your power invested in reasons that say it can’t be so.
Say, “life is suffering” and then “get on with it.” Apply your power to these steps because they work:
Don’t ask what is possible. What is your hope? What are you about now? Write it down. Prepare. (You have been preparing all this time.)
It can happen for you. Not because it’s possible, but because it’s given. Everything you need is already given.
August 1, 2010 – Flowing With Ease
Rev. David McArthur
Jesus said, “…My yoke is easy. My burden is light.” When we are connected with the Christ consciousness, there is a feeling of ease in the heart where struggle doesn’t happen. There is an intuitive response without the need of control in which things flow.
We are so ready to ease others through any difficulty. Imagine what Divine Love will do for us, Its spiritual children! Life is the experience of Divine Love guiding and unfolding who we are with such grace and care and compassion that every moment It is there for you. Every moment It is in you. Every moment It would enfold and lift you in those things that are difficulties and obstacles. It is infinite intelligence and it knows how to move you through them successfully. That’s what life really is. That’s the truth. When we choose to see obstacles and complain, when we choose control, we are out of the heart, and it is uncomfortable. Ease is touching the feeling of that care flowing through you. There is a flow of such goodness and kindness, of such compassion and love here guiding you, responding to you, One with you.
When you are open to the Tao, open to that ease and amazing presence of life and energy and intelligence and power that we call Spirit that we are one with and that is moving in and through our lives, you are open to insight. You can use it. It is “hidden in the heart”, everywhere and in everything. You no longer feel separation and the need to control. You are guided. So flow. You are one with It, and everything will fall into place.
Breath ease and enjoy the flow!
July 25, 2010 – The Fifth Dimension
Rev. David McArthur
When we connect with the Spiritual Presence that is in us, we move beyond our 3 dimensional world into the 4th dimension. By immersing ourselves in the appreciation of the good things that fill our lives and by being at peace, we shift our perception. Everything around us shifts as well. We learn to live from the inside out. We become aware of That flow in our life, like we’re aware of a river’s flow when we’re rafting on it.
In the 5th dimension, we perceive that we are the Presence, we are one with God. It’s as if we were river-rafting but have been flipped into the water. We have a change of perception from being “on the river” to being “one with the river”. We go from being aware of God flowing in our lives to perceiving our oneness with the very nature of the Divine Itself. When we change perception we live life differently. For example, if we are faced with catastrophic illness, we know we are connected with that very nature of God which is wholeness. We experience wholeness as the very essence of our own being. We know that even if our body were to be taken, that whatever the purpose, the wholeness is still fulfilled.
Knowing these things, we sometimes have the misconception that we build our lives from the ground up. But we are also pulled from above. That wisdom that flows through life guides you to be where you need to be to experience that place– the 5th dimension. We are all one. It’s all God.
It’s fun to make the journey. Head down the river your life tells you to go on. It’s safe. It’s all love. It’s only God.