Awaken into the kingdom of God

“There is only one presence and one power in the universe and in my life, the all loving goodness of God.” Sometimes it doesn't look that way. It looks like our way is strewn with thorns to keep us from our good. The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty is really the story of how we mature spiritually, how the soul unfolds to know that it is true that there really is only one power.

Often the pain and loss we experience in life shuts down our feeling nature, we fall asleep. We engage in a transient perception that our experience has polarity, that there are other powers over us. We see fire-breathing dragons flying overhead. As the Prince, we overcome false perceptions with the Shield of Virtue (we remain true to ourself) and the Sword of Truth (God is good all the time). At this higher level, then, the Prince (that part which knows the truth) kisses Sleeping Beauty (that part of ourself which feels the truth). In this “mystical union” we are awakened to know and feel at every level who we are-- spiritual beings in a spiritual world governed by spiritual laws. We understand with great compassion the pain and loss in our polarized experience, yet we also undestand that we are much more than we can ever percieve. We are power and love-- that bring forth life itself-- a purpose so sacred on our heart that the universe is aligned to bring it forth.

We stay in the awareness of the presence of the Divine. This is the kingdom of God. This is the “happily ever after”.

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Love God in all things

Jesus taught that the greatest commandment is, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and that the second is like it, Love your neighbor as yourself. The experience of love for self is experiencing God because God is love. Appreciating the frequencies, the energies, the textures of life is part of the experience of heaven. The sweetness of life is God; the wonderful flavor and richness of life is God. God's love is the only way that the richness of life is open to you. Your body is love with a physicality to it, so that you may play in the things you love. Every moment there is divine energy moving through you – you don't even have to be right! It's absolute love. God is everywhere and in everything. God is abundant. Let the love of God in.

The people in your life are God expressing, asking you to step up to be who you can really be. You are loved. There's not people and God, there is only God. The child falls, and gets up, it does something wonderful, it makes a mess. Regardless, the parent delights in the child. And God delights in us, messes and all. We are so blessed.

So let in that which fills your heart. You are loving yourself; you are feeling God. You don't have the power not to have it, only not to feel it. Let it in, fill you up, overflow in and through you, as you. You are the love.

from Mike McGuire, PrayerTeam
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Experience the Now Moment

When we react to events, we project our past experience into the future. But there is a different potential that can be brought forth, another dimension in which we live, in which we access an amazing goodness and love. The doorway is through the heart. Go into the Silence. It is a place with the most amazing power to it, a place where we step through dimensions of consciousness.

Be present in the “now moment”, and add in appreciation. And for the power, add to the moment your awareness of the presence of God. Right now that amazing everywhere-present life force is flowing into you, filling you with life and illuminating your mind every single moment. It is there loving you. It has been in this eternal moment of now since you stepped forth into being. It folds you in infinite love. Even as you breathe, It breathes you. It is so unlimited that we literally cross dimensions of consciousness and activate higher levels of our soul purpose and bring forth higher creation. It is how we create with unlimited possibilities. In the now your higher purpose has nothing to stop its full expression as you bring it forth, and it has the power to transform whatever it is that's before you because it is not limited in the mind.  It is the unlimited presence of divine love moving in and through you. You are one with that. And when you open to that, when you say yes to this moment and this Presence in it, you are blessed ... There is no limit.

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

I am a spiritual being

The movie “Avatar” is a cinematic marvel that dazzles the eye and metaphysical sense of the viewer. It recounts how we dwell in two different worlds – our human experience of this three-D world, and another of a single life which is omnipresent. The latter is the kingdom of God that Jesus spoke of, where “kingdom” refers to the state of consciousness in which we are fully aware of the presence of God. Thus, learning that we have a spiritual nature is the first step toward spiritual maturity. Leaving behind that perception that we are separate beings that need to take from each other, we become aware of our connectedness to each other and our one-ness with God.

On the next level of spiritual growth, balancing our human and spiritual natures, then, becomes key. We come to know that only by mastering our fear(s) can we be free to fly, to progress to spiritual maturity. However, moving from the state in which the individual says “I have a spiritual nature” to that of “I am a spiritual being” sets up conflict between harmony and abundance, and our human fears. That is when our human foibles attack our spiritual core. Are you living as a spiritual being or are you serving the sleeping consciousness of a human?

Though we do not have the power to overcome our human-ness, we can master the instrument that transports us above the shadows of ignorance. That is why we say “it is not I, but the power within, a power greater than myself, God as I understand Him|Her.” The “still, small voice within”. The gentle spirit. The intuitive sense there is something greater here. After all, there is only one power.

So no matter how much we know about having a spiritual nature, it does not free us from living and dying locked within our 3-D consciousness. But the knowledge that “I am a spiritual being living in a spiritual world governed by spiritual law” frees us to soar above fear and ignorance in harmony and abundance in the light above the shadows.

Now when we greet one another, we can acknowledge what we know to be true of every one of us. We can greet each other by saying “I see You.”

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Experience gratitude for omnipresent goodness

“If you pour your words of faith into the omni-present substance, you will be prospered though all the banks in the world be closed.” --Charles Fillmore.

Our journey to prosperity thus far has outlined 6 steps. Today they are united in the 7th step.

The 6 steps are 1) be clear of your purpose, which is defined by your passion-- those things that are important to you. The Universe is as committed to your success as you are, providing all that you need to manifest it. 2) by healing and forgiveness, clear away that which blocks your success from coming to you. 3) jump into the flow of God's giving nature by your giving, your tithing. 4) Attune to God's goodness through the power of prayer. 5) since that which we affirm with our focus is manifested, strive to live complaint free. Use your powers for good. 6) our caring actions bring into manifestation the love of God in this 3D world.

The 7th step is to express your gratitude for God's goodness even in the face of challenges. Do not thank God as a victim, however, and bring on more of that. Instead, knowing that there is no thought of lack in God's mind, when we perceive a limitation, as Spritual beings, we know there is something good, something wonderful and whole coming. Often we can't see it, but we know it's got to be there. “Thank You, God, for the goodness that is there that must come forth.” Facing challenges, if you are willing to let God's goodness flow in and through your life, say, “Thank You, God!”

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Care is applied Love

When we love, the One we are really loving is God. When love is present, the limits we normally see do not bind us. The state of love can change us from moment to moment. Commit to love and care.

Care is applied love. How powerfully we care expresses our love. Our first assignment is to be the love we are and care for ourselves and others.

The gift of love opens us to see others as they truly are. However, they do not need to choose to bring forth the truth we see. We often combine our vision with our expectations, but love need not return through the ones we love.

The gift of love frees us. Through the feeling and practice of care, we are being the instrument of love. The gift can come any way. Sometime it gives us time to be alone. The assignment is the same, to love and care for someone, even if it is yourself.

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Our words create our world

Do you want to affirm your limitations? Do you want more of what you are complaining about? Then keep complaining! When we speak our words, we put our power of creation out into the world. We put our thoughts into three dimensional being. We must become conscious of our creative power. By putting our thoughts into the three dimensional world we draw to us that which we speak.

The nature of God is wholeness which is always present. Let us affirm the wholeness of the goodness of God. Acknowledging even the darkness as part of the whole, let us speak the world we want to exist. Break through to the next level. Join others in creating a Complaint Free World. Join in the “ripple effect which will become a cascade of positivity around the world bringing about greater harmony, understanding, prosperity and peace.“ – from the vision statement, AcomplaintFreeWorld.org

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Circulate abundance

Here are the steps we have covered so far for bringing abundance into your life this year.

Step 1. Go into the Silence. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God.” Affirm “God is my instant, constant, abundant supply."

Step 2. Attune to your purpose. Make your choices in your heart; follow your passion.

Step 3. Open to receive. Remove those blocks to your abundance by freeing yourself through forgiveness. Unburden yourself. “Divine Love lifts me, frees me, and prospers me.”

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Step 4. Expand the flow of good in your life through giving. “As you give it is given to you.” Everything is God's after all. But it is not ours to give all. Our abundance is to be used with wisdom. Seek guidance to find what is yours to say “yes” to. The greatest tool for expanding your flow is tithing. It is the acknowledgment that God is your source. It is acknowledging the beautiful goodness that is flowing in you, through you, creating and expanding your physical world. It is knowing that God is your partner. Even loss is God coming through. Yet loss is minimized and gain maximized. Bring your highest perceptions through into the physical. Become an instrument for transformation in the world. And tithing is saying, “Thank You God!”

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Transform barriers to your good

To prosper, we have to transform that which blocks out our good. We need to remove or transform the barriers of anger, resentment, hate, and fear we have built which block our propserity from flowing. We need to unburden ourselves, to free ourselves. Forgiveness is not about the other person, it is about letting go of our pain again and again until it is gone. To do this, we need to bring the awareness of the goodness of God into the feelings of hate, etc. You must really want to be free of the burden. Ask for the pain to be healed. Bring the love and compassion, that Divine Presence into the pain to be healed. Find it in that deep peace. That Divine Love has the power to free us, to lift us.

Affirm: “Divine Love lifts me, frees me, and prospers me.”

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Live On Purpose

Sometimes we are sure of our purpose in this life, but the universe does not seem to be saying “yes”, we are not meeting with much success at all. So we go within and check our guidance, and the purpose we were sure of is affirmed! Why, then, is the universe not responding with abundant success? This is when we need to re-align ourselves with our purpose. We need to re-align our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects. We need to ask ourselves, “What are we showing up with?” Even addiction and childhood trauma can be transformed if we walk through them aligned on purpose.

So to re-align yourself in every aspect, change your consciousness. Bring the power of your heart into it. Our individual purpose is in our hearts, not our heads. It is passion that points us in the direction of our purpose. You have the capability of creating abundance, it is the work you are about. You are to give form to the Universal Energy. Make a choice in your heart. Show up and transform. The universe will say, “yes!” and abundant succes will flow in and through your life.

Marianne Williamson said, "Your playing small serves no one." Well, living on purpose, manifesting your pupose, is playing "big". You are not just creating what you are about. Your abundance, your purpose flows into the world transforming it as well. You are creating a different world!

Make your choices from your heart, from your passion.

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Experience your oneness with Creative Energy

We are one with Creative Energy. It is never depleted. It always responds to us. It must give; that is its nature. (from Charles Fillmore, Prosperity)

How many forests are in a single apple?

Thoughts of lack limit your wholeness. There is no thought of lack in Divine Mind. Abundance is in every level. It is your birthright to prosper. You are a spiritual being. Call prosperity into manifestation here and now. Prove it.

• Set a time for this every day.
• Go into the silence. “Seek first the kingdom of God.”
• Look to God as the Source. Everything is God.
• Pour your living faith into the substance of Spirit.
• Affirm “God is my instant, constant, abundant supply.”
• Affirm that in gratitude.
• Affirm it in your power.
• Affirm it in joy.

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Be an Instrument

The angels of the Christmas story show God communicates with us directly, that we are connected with God and that it is a two way street. And the message in the Christmas story calls us each to be an instrument for bringing forth that which is greater. With our willingness and commitment to do so, and our moving on it, we need not know for what end. We might be an instrument of healing of body or heart. Or maybe we'll bring peace into a family. We likely will never know, but the world will change because of our faithful action.

So with each Christmas carol you hear this season, with every gift you choose and every cookie you bake, celebrate. Celebrate because you got the message, God is talking to you. If you listen, if you reply, "What is mine to do?", and open up to it, then, just as on that first Christmas night, the angels will sing “Glory to God in the highest; peace to all of good will”.

from Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

Invisible Reality

“Now... scientists have realized ...that the invisible, immaterial realm is far more important than the material realm... The new science ...shows that your thoughts, your attitudes, your beliefs, and the invisible environment, are more primary in shaping your life than anything in the physical world is.”


--Bruce Lipton, author and leading proponent of Epigenetics.

How lucky we are to live in these times in which science is actually proving our spirituality rather than treating it with disdain! And how lucky to know that we access our inner power and the “invisible environment” simply with the most basic of all life-giving steps-- our breathing.

“I become centered now... With each breath I take in... I affirm ... I am in the presence of God now and always. As I exhale, ... "Thank You, God!"... As I breathe in rhythm with God-life, I am renewed and energized.”

Daily Word — June 1, 2009

Let us this week remain aware of our inner, direct connection to the power that created and sustains the universe. Let us “breathe in rhythm with God-life”. 

Mike McGuire, Prayer Team
Summary of Rev. David's sermon

This Prayer's for You

Many people were moved by the video below that we played at the April 5th Sunday Service. So I am posting it here on my blog so that you may conveniently veiw it again whenever you need a moment of inspiration.
--Rev. David McArthur

A Stroke of Insight

On Sunday, April 20, in my talk on "Aladdin," I used a video clip many people were interested in pursuing further.

I invite you to view the full 18-minute video, in which Jill Bolte Taylor discusses the insights she gained about human consciousness during her own experience with a massive left brain stroke.

Peace Within - Forgiveness

Must want inner peace MORE than righteousness and justice... in order to let go and forgive.
In this video I discuss how a consciousness of forgiveness is the key to inner peace. When you want inner peace MORE than you want to cling to righteousness and justice... then you can let go, forgive, and be free.

Inner Peace - Nonjudgment

Judgment is the biggest obstacle to inner peace, and to world peace.

In this video I discuss how our everyday life experiences give us daily opportunities to develop spiritual muscle, maturity, and wisdom, by remembering to choose peace and acceptance rather than harsh emotional judgments.

Happiness Choice

Make the "Happiness choice" -- regardless ouf your outer circumstances, choose to align your consciousness with the inner energy of God's ever present goodness.

I invite you to watch this video in which I explore the problems and suffering that arises when we pin our happiness on outer events. Instead, by cultivating a steady inner alignment with the creative energy of God within, we can achieve a reliable state of happiness regardless of outer challenges.

Compassion and Understanding

The healing power of compassion frees and restores wholeness to both victim and attacker.

In this video I explore the healing power of compassion and understanding. The experience of deep caring compassion is a state of consciousness that broadens into a level of understanding in which we recognize that the assailant and the target are both victims of the destructive power of hate, fear, judgement and blame. Through the development of mutual understanding and compassion, both the victim and assailant can experience healing and wholeness.