Gospel According To You

Jesus said: “The Father and I are one” (John 10:30). When Jesus said, “The Father and I are one,” He expressed the truth of your unity with the Father. You and the Father are one.

This is not a goal that you can aspire to reach. This is truth.

Unity with the Father is not a special dispensation given to Jesus because He was special. Unity with the Father is a divine truth given to all of us because we are all special.

In the parable of the Prodigal Son, Luke 15:11-32, Jesus beautifully illustrated this truth of “Unity with the Father.” The younger brother “went off to the far country.” After cutting himself off from his father, he was feeding hogs for a living. This symbolizes life at its lowest level. I t could mean failure and poverty and illness. It could even mean health and wealth with an accompanying lack of meaning, confusion, and frustrations. After spending or losing all that he had, the younger brother came back. When he came back, the father feasted, robed, bejeweled, and embraced him. The father did not punish him. Like our Father in heaven, he cannot hate his son. When the younger brother realized his Unity with the father, he, once again, shared in his father’s abundance.

The older brother, however, became angry and told his father, “Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders, yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends. But when your son returns, who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.” (Luke 15:28-30)

Although the older brother was always home with the father, he did not share in his father’s abundance because he did not realize his Unity with his father. The father told the older brother, “My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours.” (Luke 15:31)

The older brother, although he stayed with his father, was really the “prodigal son” at heart. Not realizing his unity with the father, he was experiencing “lack” in the midst of his father's wealth. He could have had a fattened calf, a ring, and a robe, if he asked for it.

God, the Father, is always with you and all that is His is yours. Listen to what He says. “My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours.” (Luke 15:31)

All you have to do to share in your Father’s abundance is ask for it. Like the older brother, you are a “prodigal” at heart. Although you are always with the Father and united with the Father, you chose to live in the “far country” by going out from a sense of oneness with the Father.

When are you going to come home and claim your inheritance?

What happens when you lose your sense of oneness with the Father? You cut yourself off from the inheritance of your Father’s abundant Kingdom and you begin to experience lack and illness. Confused, you will try to look for your Father in rituals and superstitions. Frustrated, you will pray in a manner that attempts to coax a miracle from a reluctant Father. Lonely, you will pray in tones that remind the Father that he is, supposed to be, Almighty. You will be urging Him to come and help you “flip the switch” to erase the darkness around you. Like the fish in the ocean that is looking for water and dies of thirst, you will die poor and ill swimming in an ocean of abundance in your Father’s Kingdom. The truth is: “You and the Father are one. Everything that the Father has is yours.”

Say with full candor the following affirmations:
I begin this day realizing that the Father and I are one.
I am heir to God’s abundant Kingdom and I claim my rightful inheritance now, for it is the Father’s good pleasure to give me His Kingdom. Amen.

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You claim your inheritance from God’s abundant Kingdom by letting the will of God happen in your life and by letting God be God in you. It is God’s will that you become wealthy. So, let God. It is God’s will that you become healthy. So, let God. It is God’s will that you become happy. So, let God. Jesus, Himself, says that it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom HERE and NOW. The time is not some time later, but NOW. The place is not some place out there, but HERE. The Kingdom is not outside you. Listen to what Jesus says. “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:20 NIV)

The Kingdom of God is at hand. The Kingdom of God is here and now.

Many of us will spend our lives looking for God and His Kingdom out there, somewhere out there. Many of us will not find the Kingdom because we are looking for it at all the wrong places. If we continue to do this, we will be like the fish in the ocean that dies of thirst. We will, likewise, die thirsting for God’s blessings not knowing that the water of God’s abundance is all around and inside us.

Make your affirmations many times every day. Affirm the truth that you are a child of God. Affirm the truth that you are heir to God’s abundant Kingdom. Affirm the truth that God made you in His image. Affirm the truth that you are perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect.

Affirm the truth with sincerity. Affirm the truth that it is God’s will that you become rich. Affirm the truth that it is God’s will that you become healthy. Affirm the truth that it is God’s will that you become happy. Affirm the truth that it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom here and now.

Affirming the truth renews your mind and transforms you from being a non-believer to a believer. You are heir to God’s abundant Kingdom. Claim your inheritance now.

These affirmations are exercises that will strengthen your truth muscles. Soon, you will be strong enough to walk with it. Then, you will be strong enough to run with it. Like a child learning how to walk, you will stumble and fall at the start. You may even get a few scrapes on your knees. Just like the child, you will soon learn to walk and then run. Who knows, you may even “grow wings and fly.”

You are a child of God. You are heir to God’s abundant Kingdom. This is the truth that will set you free. Claim your inheritance now.

Affirmations:
1. I am a precious worthy creation of God.
2. I am a creation of God created in his own image.
3. I am perfect as God the Father in heaven is perfect.
4. I am perfect in health. The energy and healing power of God is flowing continuously through every cell of my body.
5. I am heir to God’s abundant Kingdom and I claim my inheritance now.
6. I am perfect and wise. God has given me the wisdom of the past, the present, and the future for my own benefit and enrichment and for the benefit and enrichment of all humankind through me. I am perfect and rich. All of God’s wealth is mine. God has given me the commitment and competence in my work. God has given me the dedication and efficiency in all other wealth-producing activities.
7. I am perfect and peaceful. All of God’s love is in my heart and in every heart of all humankind. I have forgiven and forgotten. I am facing the present and the future with courage and great expectation of all that is good.
8. I am perfect and happy. All of God’s gifts make all of humankind and me happy. I am enjoying to the fullest every exciting moment of my life like a child on Christmas morning.
9. I affirm all of these because they are true.
10. I am who I am. Amen.

I thank you, Lord, for the wisdom, health, wealth, happiness, love, and peace that you have given me and have given the world through me. Amen.

Next posting will tell you that you and the Father are one.

This is how affirmation works. The conscious (earth) mind makes the affirmation. Every affirmation made by the conscious mind will imprint into your subconscious (heaven) mind the truth of the affirmation. Your affirmations become more powerful if you make it with feeling and emotion. Be sure to put pictures into your affirmations. When you affirm health, see yourself doing things if you have perfect health. When you affirm wealth, see yourself doing things if you have perfect wealth. When you affirm happiness, see yourself doing things if you have perfect joy.

The quality of things imprinted in your “heaven” mind will determine your quality of life on earth. If you affirm that you are a child of God, created in His image, and loved with an everlasting love, you will be a loving person. A loving person projects a positive aura and attracts to himself a positive environment.

If you affirm that you are a child of God, perfect as the Father is perfect, you will have a high self-esteem. When you have high self-esteem, you will react positively to the challenges of everyday life.

People with high self-esteem are fun to be with and are more successful in their endeavors. Oftentimes, we say that they have high self-esteem because they are successful. The truth is: they are successful because they have high self-esteem.

If your affirmation clearly imprints in your “heaven” mind that you are perfect and healthy, you will react to things around you in a manner that healthy people do. You will be active, you will eat the right foods, and you will exercise.

If your “heaven” mind has a picture of a healthy you, the “heaven” mind will cause you to do things that will validate the picture of a healthy you.

If your affirmation clearly imprints in your “heaven” mind that you are perfect and rich, you will react to things around you in a manner that rich people do. You will recognize opportunities to make more money. You will recognize opportunities to get a better job.
If your “heaven” mind has a picture of a wealthy you, the “heaven” mind will cause you to do things that will validate the picture of a wealthy you.

The transformation is automatic. The transformation happens as if the whole universe is conspiring to make things happen for you.

Affirmation is a powerful prayer. It is a prayer believing that you will receive. Jesus says, “Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours.” (Mark 11:24)

Next posting will tell you how to stake your claim.