Sunday, July 7th, 2024 Roundtable
God is an Ever Present Living Power
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: God
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Morning Prayers
Each day I pray for the pacification of all national difficulties, for the brotherhood of man, for the end of idolatry and infidelity, and for the growth and establishment of Christian religion — Christ’s Christianity. I also have faith that my prayer availeth, and that He who is overturning will overturn until He whose right it is shall reign. Each day I pray: “God bless my enemies; make them Thy friends; give them to know the joy and the peace of love.”
— from Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy, 220: 14-23
The ‘liberty of the sons of God’ is for each one to desire God and for each one to desire for his mortal neighbor just what he desires for
himself.
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 220
Discussion points
496 — WATCH that you realize that you are a terror to error, that your consciousness of God is so effective and powerful, and you are the custodian of such vast power, that the moment you apply it, it does things, it dissipates error and leaves the infinite good filling all space. The time must come when we recognize ourselves as aggressors, rather than merely defenders of the faith. There is a temptation to feel that there exists a great lie claiming to be power, and that we must forever protect ourselves against it. Like the knights of old we must ride forth with shield and sword to defend ourselves against error, so that we may destroy it. Yet this conception does not fit Mrs. Eddy’s statement that she used to do her work with the realization that God is All. The answer is that this phase of our experience is a necessary but passing one. We must recognize ourselves as terrors to error, until we can rise to the realization that there is no error, since God is All.
— from 500 Watching Points by Gilbert Carpenter
GOLDEN TEXT: ISAIAH 45 : 5
“I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me.”
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I tell you truth when I say there is only one source of all good — God. The conscious recognition and acceptance of this fact acknowledged by every activity of the mind, not two or three times a day — but every few moments all day long — no matter what the outer self is doing, and this maintained will enable anyone to express his perfect freedom and dominion over all things human.
— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, the “Blue Book,” by Mary Baker Eddy, page 158
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