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OVERVIEW
The title of Sunday’s message can be interpreted as “HAVING ENOUGH.” For when recognizing our Truth, “I AM ENOUGH,” we live out of our “PROSPEROUS HEART,” the term described by Julia Cameron in her book, The Prosperous Heart, always recognizing our HAVING ENOUGH. A Prosperous Heart does not recognize or live out of anxiety, knowing I AM ENOUGH! A Prosperous Heart is an honest heart that leads us to break from addictive behavior, knowing I AM ENOUGH! A Prosperous Heart uses time and money living true values, knowing I AM ENOUGH! A Prosperous Heart experiences loss as a gain in disguise, knowing I AM ENOUGH! For those living out of a Prosperous Heart, Prosperity feels like magic, much as living the Truth, I AM ENOUGH, feels. So, join us this Sunday as we are reminded how to experience HAVING ENOUGH by living out of our PROSPEROUS HEART, and coming once again to recognize our Truth, “I AM ENOUGH!”
TRANSCRIPTION
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Reverend Aimee, please invite me back again. I was going to pick up the microphone. Good morning, good morning, good morning To everybody out there. I love what John said. Those of you who are with us now, those of you who watch the projection of this or whatever, whenever you get it, just Hi. Hi. That song was so perfect. I remembering Jackie and that song was so perfect because I went metaphysical on it. Okay? The umbrella, if you always hold the umbrella, have your umbrella. That is those phenomenal thoughts and feelings. Indeed, the rainbow God is always there. It’s always over there. It’s always hanging over there. It’s always hanging over you. And it’s only because we let go of the umbrella. We let go of the right thoughts, the right feelings, that we get wet and think the rainbow’s not there. Thank you so much for that song and all y’all, all the musicians, we love it.
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Oh, this morning title is, guess what Does my Shirt say? I Am Enough. That’s what the title is. That’s what the title is. And when I was so happy when Reverend Amy said, and you are doing chapter two, having enough, oh, because that’s our truth. That’s our truth. And as we get started, I want all of us to really hold on to thoughts of truth about what’s happening in the Middle East today through this particular session. As you go forward, ours is a understanding that thoughts and feelings create. I know that. I know you know that even when you don’t want to know it and you’re in the middle of a mess and you say, wait a minute, how did that happen? But the whole world right now has to hold on to thoughts and feelings of truth. God is present, peace exists and all is unfolding in a way we may not understand, but it’s all right.
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It’s all right. Now listen, repeat after me please. I am enough. So having enough now, so having enough now is my truth, is my I am enough. I’m so having enough now enough now is my truth’s, my truth. I’m enough. I’m enough. So having enough now, having enough now is my truth, is my, I want you to hold onto that truth. I want you to hold on to that truth. So whatever, whenever anything occurs in your life, you’ll remember, Hey, I am enough. So notwithstanding apparent difficulties right now, having enough is my truth and want you to hold on as we discuss some of the challenging habits or erroneous beliefs that we may have about money, okay? I want you to hold on to that. I love what Reverend Amy said last week. She said, hold yourself in grace. Don’t blame yourself. Don’t beat yourself up.
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Don’t say I shouldn’t have done it that way for all these years. No, no, no. All you have is now. All you have is now and now is so wonderful. It’s so full of all the kind of good things. And so as you recognize any challenges or any erroneous belief that has been operating in your system, I want you to say, okay, it’s all right. It’s all right because right now I know I’m enough. So having enough now is my truth. I love what John Randolph Price said. He wrote, money is my own natural energy yield, my own natural energy yield. That’s what money is. And what he is saying is we are energy. We are tell your neighbor, I am energy. I’m energy. That’s what you are. That’s your energy that has coagulated into some kind of body. But energy is something that I am and it’s something that I use.
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That’s what you use. You use your energy according to John Randolph price, your energy is what causes yields, effects. Energy is the cause. The effect flows from that. So what is this energy? What is this energy? What is this energy creating? What is this energy? I want you to step back. I want you to think, oh, I’m energy. How does that show up? Well, how does that reflect energy? Your thoughts and your feelings? They come through just like, look, I don’t know an analogy, but if you turn a stove on, the flame comes up and that which it is, it effectuates and makes something happen. Energy are your thoughts and your feelings, and so your thoughts and your feelings create yield and effect according to John Randolph. Price, thoughts and feelings, they join together and then your words and your actions flow, right? So it’s important in our discussion about prosperity, however you think about it from past times.
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Now it’s important in our discussion about that is that the condition of our feelings, the conditions of our thoughts, followed by the words we use, those that’s important. That’s the makeup. It’s like the artists use paint to paint the makeup. What we are creating in our lives as it relates to prosperity or our thoughts and our feelings followed by our words and our actions. And so in discussing having enough, do I have enough this morning or at any time and any situation, whether you are talking about a financial situation or a relationship or whether you’re talking about in your professional life, you’re talking about having enough. If your thought pattern or thinking includes lack, if your thoughts and your feelings include lack, if it includes anything other than I am enough, I promise, I promise you this, you’ll learn what Julia Cameron has written that poverty is not the opposite of prosperity, but anxiety is anxiety is if you get into any situation, whether it’s in your relationships or finances or your professional life and you have thoughts that I don’t have enough, that there’s something wrong, then you’ll recognize immediately all kinds of anxiety.
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And Julia Cameron points out so wonderfully when we are anxious. Now we are talking about we want to reflect prosperity, right? Because that’s what I am, because, well, I’m jumping ahead of myself. Let me come back to this being anxious. When we are anxious, what do we do? She says, we react. We react. We are reacting to facts. And when I react to facts, I usually make irrational decisions, right? Say, right, yeah, when all the time. I love how she all the time, and that’s why that song was so perfect all the time. We could have responded and recognized all the choices that we had because the rainbow is always there. As Ms. Cameron so rightly writes, with choices come opportunity. There’s so many choices and with choices come opportunity and opportunity is in the midst of every apparent adversity. Opportunity is in the midst of every apparent.
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How do I know it? How do I know that? How do you know it? You know it too because we know at least we profess to know that God is everywhere, evenly present. God is everywhere, evenly present. How often have I said that? How often have I professor believe that and the best way to tap into that God, the best way to look at what choice I have to use the real opportunity to go into the gold at the end of the rainbow. The best way to do that is to turn within. Is to turn within, is to leave the apparent adversity out there, turn within and remember, I am enough. Having enough now is my truth. And allow all that you are to come forward, to come through your thoughts, to cleanse all that other crap out and watch things happen. There’s a song, watch it happen. Watch things happen. It becomes miraculous, okay? For every apparent adversity, recognize where you are. Where are you? You’re right. In God’s presence, release any significant facts and turn the facts about the apparent adversity and turn with to touch the hem of the garment. Remembering, I am enough, having enough, having enough now is my truth.
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As Ms. Cameron wrote and as John read a short while ago, thank you, John. Thank you. The prosperous heart seeks God. Why? I mean the prosperous heart seeks God, and I could tell you why because that’s where prosperity is. That’s what it is. We think we want a new car. We want just a little bit more of God to ride on. That’s all. Rather than relying upon itself the prosperous heart, you and I rely upon a higher power. Got to knowing that God is all powerful God trust. We trust that God is all powerful and that therefore the indwelling spirit. I loved Reverend Amy said, okay, so some people don’t like God, spirit, I don’t care what you call it, tree, that which indwells us, that which created us. If we tap into that, that power will come through us. I’m an instrument. You’re an instrument. You are here to represent God. You’re here to do the work, a purpose for which God placed you here. And so the power can channel through us, through our direction for we are one. I love that I’m one with God. Can you say that I’m one with God?
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I can’t think of the author of the three magic words. Anybody remember that book, the author of that book? I got to remember, I always want to refer to it. Three magic words. I won’t make you say it. I am God. Don’t say it. Don’t worry about it. But guess what? There’s only one thing. There’s only one thing. You tell me there’s only one thing and that’s God. And so you’re a piece of that. God created you out of itself. God created you in its image and likeness. Yeah, that’s it. God is not pulling against me. God is not pulling against you. God dwells within me and God’s will for me is absolute good. Can you hold onto that? God’s will for you is absolute good. Is that what you learn? Is that what you believe? Is that what you hold onto? God’s will for me is absolute good.
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All I need to do is align myself with God’s will and prosperity will flow. Prosperity will be mine. Let’s think about this. If I’m created in God’s image and God’s will for me is absolute good, then being anxious, being anxious about so-called shortage of any kind, being anxious about so-called adversity is a misuse of my power. It’s a misuse of your power and it simply means that I must recognize once again and remember what to turn within to be guided, to be guided, to be guided to my prosperity. You always have it. The rainbows are always there. As long as I hold up the right thoughts and feelings, I will be guided to the pot of gold. At the end of the rainbow, I’ll be guided to my prosperity. Another misuse of our thoughts and feelings as written by Julia Cameron is something I thought about it like this thinking, feeling that something in the external is our source of comfort or a source of prosperity.
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You know what that is? That’s an addiction. I know I love the woman back there. I came up with that, but that’s it. It is something, Julia Cameron didn’t quite write it like this, but something outside of me is a source of my comfort or prosperity, and that’s how I can function, so-called function. Ms. Cameron describes several types of addictions and she leads us down the path to the understanding that no matter what form addiction takes, it takes us out of ourselves. Remember, it takes us out of ourselves. It takes us into the world. It takes us looking and relying on things and the addiction to money is no different. She says, Ooh, the addiction to money is no different. See, I am enough. So having enough is my truth. That’s my truth. And an addiction will make me put a mask on. An addiction will have me, as she calls it, a disease of denial because I have left the truth that my prosperity is within me.
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Walks with me is always around me and my joy and my comfort is there. I’ve left that truth and I, I’ve aligned myself with some facts out here to provide me that. That’s denial. Eric Butterworth reminds us in his book In the Flow, which is a phenomenal book about if you’re looking for Prosperity in the Flow, is a really good book to read. He says that we are in the flow and he writes, life ask only that you flow with it, that you do not crawl into dark corners of insufficiency and erect barriers. That is really what an addiction is. You’ve erected this barrier. You’ve blocked yourself from going within. You’re using something out here for your joy and your comfort. He says, he writes. Thus, a secret of prosperity according to Butterworth is that it comes through you and not just to you. It comes through you and not just to you.
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It comes back. He brings us back to understanding. One second. He brings us back to understanding that prosperity is with us always the rainbow’s with us always because it’s indwelling God. It’s a source of our prosperity. It comes through you and not just you. Of course, he writes that this contradicts the wisdom of the world, the world that has asked, do you want to earn more money? Do you want to make a living? Do you want to achieve security and gain fame and security? That’s what the world asks. And then the world tells you it’s all to be had out there. It’s all to be had out there. Oh yeah, we know. We know that with the job we just had to have the honey. We just had to have the car we just had to have. It’s all out there for us to gain fame and be secure and addiction to money may be seen in addictively spending money.
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If I’m addictively spending money, I have chosen to have something to use my money for something because that’s the only way I’ll have value. That’s the only way I’ll be comforted. Okay? Or perhaps she writes. Ms. Cameron writes that a addictively using money is hoarding money. I’ve got to hoard all the money even though I need something. I’ve got to hoard the money because there may come a time when I won’t have money. Do you understand what she’s writing? That’s an addiction. She says she also describes another addiction is to, she calls a debting, and I think Reverend Amy lifted it up a little bit last week, making unsecured loans. Ms. Cameron writes, and when you make an unsecured loan along with other addictive behaviors, you know what you’re going to do. You’re going to cause yourself to mortgage your life to anxiety. You’re coming all the way back through these addictions, which are supposed to bring you prosperity, make you feel good, make you look good.
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It brings you back to anxiety. Why? Because you have left the God within to go outside to try to get your prosperity, to try to feel comforted, to try to feel secure. And you know what you do with anxiety. You’ll recall what I started with. You go within you go within you turn and see guidance from the indwelling God. And that’s why, because that’s where your prosperity is. That’s where the truth is. That’s the rainbow. Addiction as with any dis-ease, requires us to secure assistance in our healing process, a process through which we will once again come into a consciousness of what I am enough if you addiction of any kind, I have enough is what you want to come back to and there’s a healing process that’s required. So I am prosperity reflecting all that goodness’s mind. That’s where you want to come back to.
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I love this book because Ms. Cameron is great with practical implementation of principle with this book, the Prosperous Heart. She writes, the prosperous heart is an honest heart, so if you want to manifest prosperity, part of that is recognizing and being an honest heart. And so she challenges the reader to look at his or her own addictive patterns and she writes number of times to fill in the blanks, and I want you to think about as I’m saying it right now, we won’t have time to really do it, but just to get a sense of what she’s doing, she says, she writes this. She says, I want you to fill in the blanks. I think I have a problem with fill in the blank. I think I have a problem with fill in the blank. I think I have a problem with, and those of you who are joining us online, fill in the blank, fill in the blank, and then she takes it even a little bit further, which I said, stop.
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I don’t want to do this. She says, fill in the blank this way I know I have a problem with fill in the blank. I know I have a problem with fill in the blank. And she does that. And as she says, she says, you have to have honest heart. So if you find yourself in any way in an addictive pattern, take care of it. Take care of it, seek the help always starting with the indwelling God. God will tell you how to proceed. God will tell you, oh, I better call Reverend Amy because I need to get some help. I better call whoever God will direct you. Don’t just do it out of your intellectual capacity. Turn within and touch the prosperity of your being and let it lead you so that you can release any addictive behavior so that you can start the process and end up recognizing your prosperity.
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You got that? You got to read the book to hear the whole list of things, but it is a great way to think releasing or being honest or being honest. Now also she says, which I really, this was a good one because this was for us, for those of us who live in America where our value is sometimes tossed aside to impress somebody, our value, our value is tossed aside because somebody is inconsistent with what somebody else is thinking. She says, a prosperous heart is joyfully living his or her values joyfully living his or her values. So I’m going to ask you a couple questions.
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Does the use your use of your money reflect your values? Does your use of your money reflect your values as you think of your home? It’s furnishings. Do they reflect your value? What about its location? What about she takes you? I mean she takes you here. You have to think about what about the clothes hanging in your closets? Do they reflect your value or do they reflect what society think you ought to be wearing? What about your car? The car you’re driving, not able to pay the car note for a whatever, you get a whatever because that’s will make you seem prosperous to the world, has nothing to do with their values.
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Julia Cameron in her book described how one afternoon she began listing the things she loved and this is really good. And she said, after creating this list, it became apparent she was not living the things she loved, the things that she loved, that she valued, that she deemed to be prosperity were not reflected in her life. And when you, Julia Cameron, her money, her phenomenal place in New York, are you kidding me? What is she talking about? That was our value. That was our assessment. She says, check yourself. Are you living the things that you love? And what is so great? I taught a book, Neil Donald Wash, when everything changes, change Everything. And when she recognized, when she went in to the house of prosperity within her, she talked to her in dwelling God.
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And she didn’t write it like this, but I know she had to do it because how she ended up, she got a whole new list of activity and movement and changes to make that the world would look at and judge, what are you doing? And yet as she lived out of her values, her values then aligned with the indwelling God. She was living prosperously. She was living happily, she was feeling generous. She was waking up knowing that she was in the right place, doing the right thing. It wasn’t in New York anymore, but guess what? She knew that that change had to happen and it had to happen because before the world saw her as successful, but she was not living her values and a prosperous heart lives his or her values. Do you get that? Some of us are afraid of changing what’s going to happen. God’s right there. There’s lots of choices if you need to change because that’s going to bring you true joy, not the comments from everyone. Oh, that’s really good. You have that. Oh my goodness, you got that? Is that where you work? Oh my goodness, you got a new car? Oh my. You got that kind of car.
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Your value will reflect living. Your value will have prosperity. That is a heart of love, a heart that’s generous, a heart that is absolutely overflowing and therefore bringing you joy and comfort if you’re living your values. And as she went, that list that she was writing, her conclusion was that she wasn’t happy. And in her current life experiences, she made the, and she did make the change. She wrote before she made the change when she was living what seemed to be an ultimately successful life, her heart felt pinched. Her heart felt pinched, and she longed for something that made her heart feel more generous. She practiced what was written about. She practiced what I’ve been saying. She turned to God. If you check your life out, go and stand in the middle of your closet and turn to God and let God direct you the next time you think you have to spend whatever for whatever She lived her spiritual truth, as she said, as she turned to God, God never closes one door.
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You know the end of that without opening a window, without opening another, a prosperous heart recognizes true prosperity as an inside job. How many times can I say that? Not enough. It recognizes that prosperity is an inside job and worldly success is not the true measure. It is when we fulfill our desire from within. Do we know prosperity? I’m fulfilling my desire from within. I’m touching the hymn or the garment. I’m asking God, how do I do this to live all that you would have me live to experience all that you would have me experience. That’s prosperity. That’s prosperity.
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Ms. Cameron made the changes, as I said, and she wrote, I found myself to be loving and generous. In other words, she was living with and out of a prosperous heart. Eric Butterworth teaches us that when you get started into the consciousness of the flow of the creative process within you, the flow of the creative process within you get in that flow. There will be a constant inner direction in your life and inner direction. That’s what we want to stick with. I need to have that over my door, inner direction. It’s not what they say, it’s not what they think inner direction. It’s what God has told me. It’s what God thinks. That’s what will lead me to a deep sense of meaning. And incidentally, as it flows forth leading to all that I deem to be prosperity, he writes the houses, the cars, the money, it’s all of that, but it flows from the inside out.
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He says strongly that that concept of the flowing of the going to God to going within to get the direction is tied to what Jesus was saying. Seek he first. The kingdom and the kingdom of God is a universal flow within you. Ye first the kingdom. Mrs. Cameron’s message is to explore options. Explore options. Don’t be afraid of change. Don’t be afraid of change. It’s so interesting because if you were really to think about it, we are constantly changing. Everything about us is constantly changing and aren’t you getting better and better? Aren’t you getting better and better? Yes. Okay, so turn within to confirm what direction to take turn within to confirm what change to take. Because as the author so powerfully writes, the prosperous heart does not waste time or money. The prosperous heart spends time and money along the lines of its true values.
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Of its true values. There’s one other area before I close. I want to lift up really quickly and it’s to learn, how do I put it? How does she put it? I’m going to go right the way she puts it. Loss is always gain in disguise. I know that’s what I did too. I said, what loss is always gain in disguise. Loss is always. And another way of contemplating that statement and this concept is there is nothing lost in spirit. There’s a change of energy. There’s a change of the situation. There’s a movement. I want to always connect it to nature in the sense that in a few minutes, the trees, all the leaves will be gone. They’re not lost. They serve their purpose and the energy of the tree is turning within so that new leaves can flow next spring. The principle of non-attachment is really important. When you think about losses always gain in disguise, that is, I’m attached to God. That is what I’m attached to. Anything else has to be subject to my non-attachment. I’m attached to God. And also I believe in the reality of divine order right now in the midst of our world, if we don’t hold on to the truth of divine order and allow our thinking to lead us into action that will express that truth, we are going to be in big trouble.
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Remember, the loss is always gained in disguise. According to Ms. Cameron and I totally agree with her, understand that grieving is what we do in our human state and that it’s a good thing. I had to hold onto that as I released my sister who made her transition. Now a year and a half ago, I had to know that her journey was not my business, and though I would prefer to have her in a body, it wasn’t happening. And I can always have her in a spirit as I wear her necklace, as it says, believe and hope and faith. I can know that she’s always with me. So grieving I did and grieving I do sometimes, but I know I that her movement was a gain for showing me, for teaching me, for letting me know that all is all right. I want you to think right now of a situation that seemed like a loss of some kind. Yet if not today, at some point when you reflect on it, it’ll show up. It will make a way. It’ll help you think for something good and very good in your life. So Ms. Cameron gave you some examples as you read a book.
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But what she says to help you understand in the big picture, lost cracks are hard, outer shell and exposes our vulnerability. And vulnerability is a source of strength. Vulnerability is a source of strength. Vulnerability is a source of strength because in our vulnerability, what do we do? We turn within and we touch the hem of the garment. We turn within and we lean on the God that dwells there, the spirit that dwells that. And we remember I am enough. So enough now is my truth, and so it is. I am going to go into a prayer and I’ve shared this book with you before a friend of mine out in California wrote it,
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And this poem is called The Power. So take a deep breath and relax and listen. I am the power within you that meets your every need. The garden that will flourish as you nurture precious seeds. I meet you in the sunshine of each beloved face. I hold your hand and whisper. I am amazing grace. Cherish quiet moments. Embrace your soul. Divine. Be open when I prompt you with what I have in mind. I’m ready when you call me, our partnership ordained, I am the voice that whispers together, yes, we can. I’m with you. When you wander or fail to take a stand, I redirect your footsteps. I am your promised land. I give to you the courage that as you take my way, the gift of new beginnings, turn darkness in today. Savor the joy of living, the recreated you, the gift that keeps on giving a love forever, ever true. Breathe deeply recognizing God’s spirit flowing through you in you available to you. Thank you. God, thank you for being with us. Thank you for guiding us. Thank you for allowing us to turn within and know prosperity, allowing us to turn within and share prosperity. God, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And so it is.
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Thank you.