On
November 15, 2014 this ministry celebrated 15 years of service to the
global community via the Internet beginning on November 15, 1999.
Initially, the purpose of this work was to accept prayer and spiritual
treatment requests from anyone who sincerely was seeking prayer or
spiritual treatment for whatever issue they were experiencing.
As time went on I was asked to elaborate on the words and principles
that I used in prayer and so I began to write weekly messages on
October 22, 2000 ... after almost a full year of daily prayer for
myself and for others.
Throughout these 15 years I have been blessed to have participated in
many seeming miraculous healings. Yet, the greatest effects that
I have witnessed is the displacement of fear and depression with faith
and enthusiasm for life. Faith conditions our soul to recognize
absolutely that facts change but the Truth does not. This simple
understanding along with a quiet confidence allows the Spirit to work
through all things for our good. This is no Pollyanna theory,
but an absolute truth that I have had the pleasure of sharing with so
many others as they experienced transformations beyond their
expectations.
With the
completion of these 15 years, I would like to share my first published
"Weekly Message" with all of you:
Turning
God Loose [October 22, 2000]
God loves Big -
Really BIG! Look at the Universe - it
is proof that God loves big. The bigger we make our lives, our
visions and our thoughts, the more room there is for God to move
through our affairs, visions and thoughts. But if the focus of
our thoughts is on the finite piece of the world that we see, we are
limiting God in our lives and therefore our lives become rife with
limitation and restriction. We must open up our thinking to the
panoramic view of all things. We must open
our minds to the Infinity that Is God. We must go beyond
our past experiences and history, our past thoughts and beliefs that
have created limitation thinking in our minds.
We must see ourselves in the BIGGER PICTURE OF
LIFE. But this won't happen unless we expand our thinking
and take the steps to allow it to demonstrate in our lives. It
all starts with a "desire" for something better. Most
of us want what we have already to be better. We want greater
compensation for our jobs. We want whatever ails us physically
to be healthy. We want our relationships to be happy and loving.
We want our friendships to be easy and comfortable. We want a
home fairly similar to our friend's homes. What most of us
imagine for ourselves is "something a little better."
Or, perhaps we think "someday" I will be ready to live a
more fuller Life, a more dynamic Life. These ideas of
"something a little better" or "someday" catch up
with us quickly and soon we become dissatisfied with Life, we lose our
Joy for it and the more we postpone making significant changes in our
thinking and the ideas we have about ourselves the more receptive we
are to depression, to inactivity, a feeling of futility and resistance
to change. We have to rid the thought of "something a
little better or someday" from our minds. If we are not
feeling "alive and vital" with what we have right now,
"something a little better" will not be enough to create
much more than a very temporary moment of mild contentment.
Today is it - there is no guarantee that there will be a tomorrow!
God doesn't work in tomorrow, God only knows Today, Now! We must
give God a bigger field to express Itself in NOW!
BEGIN BY TURNING GOD LOOSE IN YOUR LIFE!
Take time each day and open your mind to something "grand"
for yourself, something "spectacular!". See yourself
in "Love with Life." See yourself totally free and
unencumbered! See yourself living a most wonderful Life!
See yourself feeling alive, awake and thrilled to live each day.
See yourself at the "top" feeling the "best" you
have ever felt! See your Life as vital, interesting, exciting, a
Life that demonstrates the magnificence of God in all that you do!
Get your little ideas of yourself and others, your weaknesses, your
fears, your "some-days" - your worries and doubts out of the
way! Dream a Bigger Dream for yourself! Get
Still. There Is Something within us thinking - which is why we
can't stop thinking. Let It think through your mind. See
in your "mind's eye" what you want in your Life. Lift
up your idea of yourself and your Life to a higher place and trust the
Power within you. And then - turn God loose to make it
happen! Feel the joy of it, Be with it and don't lose faith in
it - know that it is working its way to you! Believe in the
highest thought about yourself and the things that concern you that
you can imagine.
GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST! We
do not Glorify God in our tears and our fears. When we can say
we depend on Principle, not person, place or thing, we are depending
absolutely on the Highest Thought about ourselves and the things that
concern us! <>
Reflecting on this
message, it comes to me that the two most important revelations gifted
to mankind can be found in the Holy Scriptures. The first is
from the Book of Psalms 82:6 ... "I have said, Ye are gods; and
all of you are children of the most High." And the second
was discovered by the Master Mind Jesus and is from the Gospel of Luke
17:21 ... "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for,
behold, the kingdom of God is within you." If we allow our
mind to be enlightened by just these two profound statements we shall
find that our every good desire shall be ours in the right and perfect
time and in the right and perfect way.
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the
faith!
Rev.
Henry Bates
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