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Cityside welcomes back Rev Mark Anthony Lord with ending our September series HEALING The use of denials to become freed from fear, sickness, false beliefs, and ultimately all suffering can be found throughout transformational scripture. But you must know when and how to use it because the ego, fearful thinking, can hijack denials and use them to keep you delusional. Be delusioned no more – discover how powerful a denial can be when used correctly, in easily moving you out of fear and quickly moving you along your spiritual path.
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Good morning. Morning. I’m so happy to be here. It feels like I walked in this morning, I was like, Oh, it feels like home. So that’s, yeah, it’s a wonderful feeling. So, and I’m very glad to be here. Always glad to come and share and connect and work with uh, these amazing musicians. You guys are the best, the best. Thank you. So today I wanna talk about the power of denial, but we need to look at what that is exactly, where we’re focusing it and how to use it correctly. So have you ever said something like, Please God, not this, don’t take this, don’t let this end. Not this diagnosis, not this thing happening. That is the misuse of denial that is trying to make something in the world of form change.
These statements are the wrong kind because they don’t work. Trying to use a denial against something that’s appearing in the physical world is really going to corner you more and more and more into the energy of suffering. Unity describes denial as a mental process of erasing from consciousness. The false beliefs, denial clears away belief in evil as reality and thus makes room for the establishing of truth. So denial is a spiritual tool and when used correctly, it is a holy no, a holy no. It’s a nice way to think about it. And there’s a way to, I wanna actually do a little uh, demonstration here on this chart because this is a great way to really get it at a deeper level. Many of you know this. Um, I’m gonna do a version of what’s called the science of buying symbol. It’s really just taking consciousness into or experience of life into three parts. I’m gonna call the top part heaven.
I’m gonna call the middle part mind and the bottom body. Have you guys heard of this? This is familiar. So this is what you are. This is what you are. This is where your spiritual truth is. This God is, that is what exists. In fact, there’s a line in course of miracles. One of my favorite lines says, You are heaven. I think that’s awesome. That’s awesome. So this is what you are, this is absolute truth. Then we come down into the mind and this is where the split occurs in the mind. There’s fear and there is, I’m gonna call it the Holy Spirit or love, fear, love.
This does not happen up here. This happens in the mind. This is where the split exists and it’s such a common experience. It’s such an accepted way to be in the world that it’s not even questioned. It’s not even questioned. How often do we spend our time, energy, and conversations here versus here? This is pretty magnetic, isn’t it? This gets you attention. This gets, gets people activated and participating and you feel this connection. It’s a false connection, but it’s something we love to talk about this and that’s why you’re here and it’s a wonderful community to anchor us in this. But let’s be honest, you’re not spending the hours of your day in your workplace and your families and your systems really diving into what this is and how it works and where it is and and the goodness of it. It’s easier to gravitate over to here.
So this is what causes this and this is where I hope you can follow me cuz it’s a new idea, new thought teaching says many of them, this is here but it’s not. And that’s trippy, but it’s not. Fear creates form. And so when we, when we move into what we don’t like, when we experience this using of denial, very often we try to do it down here. We do it when an experience, when your thought has come into form and then when it’s so dense then you go, Oh, I don’t like this, change this. But the reality is that’s way too late. That’s not how it works. The effect is done. So when you’re looking at the fact wanting it to change, obsessed by it, consumed by it, entertained by it, believing it more, you become more and more and more trapped. And this is where again, trying to deny it at that experience is futile.
Metaphysic spirituality says you’ve got to move back up into the mind because this is where the problem began. You need to go to the core of the issue. And so we move up into the mind and this is where things shift and change. This is where you can use the power of denial to begin changing your experience of life. This is where it is a holy no no. I will not be that. Which I’m thinking no, I will not agree any longer to the limitation that I’ve been entertaining and experiencing in the world. It’s too late to deny you don’t have the money when the bill is on the table. That’s gonna be your experience. You’re not gonna change it there again. But if you back it up to where the belief is, if we back it up to where the source is of the lie, this is where transformation happens because this part is not of God.
And this is where it’s confusing. This is course miracle says, God doesn’t even know this. Love doesn’t even know what fear is. Light does not know what darkness is. And so a, a real spiritual meta physician has gotta meet the gateway where they say, Am I willing to walk through this gate that makes me absolutely have to choose impeccably, impeccably of whom I serve? Who am I serving One moment at a time? It’s tedious. It’s tedious at the onset. It feels overwhelming in the beginning, but there’s enormous support for you. Why? Because we can go to what you are, which is this. You have infinite, unlimited support to reveal the glory of being that you are. You don’t have infinite support for this because it comes from not who you are. Take a breath on that. That’s important. The fearful thoughts, the fearful experiences, they do not come from who you are.
I know that sounds crazy, you can go, Yeah, but Mark, they’re pretty real. But what I measure with is are they real capital R, are they real of your eternal nature or are they changing? Could they go? And if it can go then you can guarantee it is not of your true nature. It’s a real easy measuring tool. But people, people get shy around using it and we get lazy around using it because if you really are consistent at measuring everything up against the idea that if it is not of the nature of my divine being, it is not real. Therefore denial. It has no power over me. That’s where your authority lies. Your authority lies pre split. Pre split. And you are a chooser. There is choice given you in the mind. So many people say, Why would I choose this? Why I would never choose this experience.
So I’ll meet you halfway, I’ll meet you halfway. Cuz the reality is you did. But the deeper reality is you chose it in a subconscious way, in an unconscious connection. You chose it as a pattern of agreement long ago when you were little. Let’s give you total get outta jail free cart. You chose it in the womb, you chose it. When you started absorbing the thoughts and the beliefs and the energies that were there, you chose it to belong. You chose it because it was all, it’s all around you. So you didn’t consciously say, um, hold on.
You didn’t consciously say, Wow, my whole family’s a bunch of drug addicts and alcoholics. I’m gonna be that. You didn’t choose that as a conscious point, but you did choose it in a, in a subconscious way that that craves connection. You come here, Oh I’m just gonna like listen and go here you come here into this fearful reality. You come here into this suffering world which is not of God. And I’m really freaking bored of people trying to make God work there. It’s just a pointless task. And you’ll never heal. You’ll never heal. So we come into this division, most people hanging out here, you’re like, well I wanna belong so I’m gonna join this gang cuz the people over here, there’s only three of ’em that’re probably wearing orange robes and bald and not you. So I’m gonna go hang out over here. So we choose this and it’s like you can choose one idea, you choose one false belief, but what you don’t realize is that one false belief is packed full to overflow of all kinds of other agreements, sub agreements and sub sub agreements and sub atomic agreements.
And you just said yes to a pervasive pattern that is now this energy that is in your vibration that is going B, B, B, B, B, B, B. And it’s just drawing and attracting. And you go, how did that get here? I didn’t choose that. And again, like I, I give you grace. That’s true, that’s true. But I’ll say it’s true if you’re wi, if you’re willing to stay in the game of I didn’t consciously choose it, but now I’m responsible for it. And that’s what’s key because although you can argue with me all day long, I didn’t choose it. Bottom line my friend, you’re the one who’s got it and you’re the one who’s gotta change it. So however you get there, that’s the point. If you didn’t choose it, fine. But if you can go, okay, I didn’t choose it but it’s mine and I’ve gotta transform it.
This is where you return to power. This is where you can begin shifting back into who and what you are. This holy spirit is a thought, It is a thought of God that was planted in you the moment you thought you were separate. It’s like the moment you denied your reality capital R, that very moment, the grace of being established within you, a never ending pulse of who and what you are. It’s in, it’s in this suffering dream. It’s like okay, God isn’t gonna meet you in the dream but you’re given a gift of light that will lead you out of it when you align with it and when you choose it. But if we spend our time thinking God is here, if we spend our time trying to deny this, then you’re never going to move forward. And spirituality largely today has become so commercialized and so common in some good ways, in some good ways.
But everything, every time something becomes commercial and common, it also becomes watered down. And this is the challenge that you as a spiritual community face, are you willing to bring the truth at such a high vibration that people come far and wide cuz they can’t deny you? Are you willing to entertain I am heaven? Because see, this is the other misuse of denial. To deny your divinity, to deny your ability to change, to deny your ability to heal. This is, it’s so pervasive. You’ve gotta get that every time, not every time largely you go to the doctor because you’re sick. You’re denying the healing ability inside of you. Unless you pause, unless you say the divine healer of wholeness is in me now. And inside of this I walk into the doctor’s office and from this place I generate a conversation where I will attract to me that which is helpful and good form on form.
I’ve talked about this before here, I think again, really trippy idea, but it’s just true. Like it or not, these laws don’t require your agreement. Form, form is nothing form forms at at real fact of it. I am sick of being stuck here, hold on. There we go. I just gotta get out here a little more. Um, so form on form is nothing. The Advil to kill the headache is not actually going to work in form. Now the Advil works because in mind you’ve given it power. So I’m not denying the use of the things in this world that we have come to rely upon, but I do want us to remember that where does the healer really live? Where is the real transformation happening? And it’s inside the mind. It is you. It is you. Jesus was such a master healer walking, I just always, I like this image of him just like floating through the crowds and just like throwing some healing this way, throws a meal that way just kicking it out.
And but the reason he could do that, why? Because he did not see sickness. Because he was so powerfully centered in the consciousness of heaven and oneness. And anything unlike that doesn’t isn’t real. And if you know that to an absolute truth, then that which is not real must dissolve. It must darkness in the face of light must dissolve. It will never win. It will never win. And so when he could, when he would go pick up your mat and walk sin no more, that’s not who you are. That is like a blessing from mind to mind. That forever changes the their journey, their path. And this is what real healing is. And this is what you are in this space and you practitioners and ministers, you are here to continue to be so certain and convicted. There’s some real good measuring tools. This is either love and God or it’s not real.
That’s it. That is the only measuring tool. Walk through this week looking at the world from that vantage point. Watch the news and see how much God is there. Watch what’s happening in the world and notice how many people, all expressions of the divine. But how many people are walking in a pattern, not their divinity and how seductive that is for us. I’m not judging anyone or anything on that. I’m just calling myself up with you. I am heaven say that I am heaven. Take a breath and inside of you, even that ringing of that high and holy truth causes a denial to be activated already. That which is unlike it will begin to stir. We’ll begin to rise up either to dissolve or challenge. And depending on how empowered you are is how well you will do with the challenge. There are some real clear denials that I want to bring forward today.
Universal denials. There’s five of them. Number one, and these are pure metaphysics people. You write these down, you take these home and you work them and they will work. They will absolutely work. Number one, in my idea of good or God, there is no mixture of evil. Therefore there is no evil. Well that’ll take a couple lifetimes in and of itself. There is no evil. How is that possible? How is that possible to look at the world and say there is no evil. It’s only possible if you begin releasing yourself from your human eyes and from the agreements of fear and suffering and allow Christ’s eyes, the vision, the spirit of your being to see in back of all of this appearance of evil is the light of God just waiting, smiling, serenely. And if your mind says, Why doesn’t God come and change it, then well that would require God to make it real.
How can God change nothing? It’s no thing. It’s a made up dream. It’s a false idea. How do we know this? Let’s measure it against what we began with. Is it? Is it eternal? Can it change? If it can change, then it is temporary. If it is temporary, it’s only here because we are entertaining it. There is no evil in God, therefore there is no evil in me. I am not that poor. That denial into your being, there is no evil in me. Release yourself from all of your unholy judgements. Release yourself from judging what you do, what you say, what you don’t do, what you don’t say. Release yourself from all of your expectations. Release yourself. There is nothing wrong with me. And when you release yourself, you kind of take the backseat. And this is interesting. This is what happens is it doesn’t mean the dream of suffering just instantly ends.
It does for some, not for most, but the dream of suffering. Think of it like a uh, speed train like going hundreds of miles an hour. And that speed train is the, is your life of suffering. And so you have this great thought, That’s not me. No evil. I’m not that. And you step off the train temporarily. That doesn’t mean the train has lost its fuel, right? You can turn the train off. It’s gonna take a while for it to slow down and then finally stop in the station. And the thing that happens is you get off the train, you go, Oh, that’s not me. And then you jump back out in the train and you go, Okay, well it is me. And then you get off the train, you say, It’s not me. So this is what we’ve, You gotta get off the train and stay off the train and then watch it.
Isn’t that interesting? The world of suffering is still appearing. Yeah, that’s okay. It had a lot of fuel. You gave it lifetimes of energy. Give it a moment. Let it dissolve slowly and slowly is a gift, slowly dissolve and gives you the time to keep finding your center and your anchor in the truth. So there is no evil in God. There is no evil in you. Number two, true. There is no matter, there might be four. I think I messed up <laugh>. There is no matter, Oh, this is interesting. All is spirit. There is no matter. This form is not real. It’s not real. It is a dream. It is made up in your mind. It is. It is so much more space than anything else. There is no matter all is spirit. And this is an upliftment that you must take to use denial, to purify your mind and heart and to be a healer in the world.
You must not be seduced by the world of form, the ever changing tide of form. When you begin to look at it clearly through the eyes of the the highest divinity, it begins to dissolve. It begins to look like dots. It begins to become so elusive that you literally can just kind of practice wiping it away. But it begins in the mind. This is a much harder one, but it’s worth a pause. It’s worth a pause to just say, there’s nothing of this world that is solid and therefore it doesn’t have power over you. There is no matter in God. That is solid spirit is what you are. And the third one is, there is no absence. There is no absence. I love this one. I love this one because this is one of our greatest lies. There’s not enough. There’s not enough. Something’s missing, something’s wrong, something’s not here.
This idea implies that you believe that there’s lack. You believe that there’s something missing. And so you’ve to deny that that is not true everywhere. This presence and power is everywhere you go. It’s like a fish swimming in the ocean going, I can’t find water. I can’t find water. And yet there it is all around. There is no absence, which means everywhere you are, this life is present. Everywhere you are, you have access to what is important, what is good, what is true, what is holy, what do you want? There is nothing lacking. Take a breath on that.
There’s nothing lacking in you. You can not be lacking if you are a creation of God and God lacks nothing. It’s such simple math, y’all. I’m in second grade here. God is, you are that. Stay there. Stay there. What would be possible for you if throughout your life, like if, if someone could just come in and take out of your thinking, out of your mind, out of your subconscious mind, the belief that there’s lack or there’s something missing, you would be instantly transformed. You would be instantly looking at a world where everyone’s yelling. There’s not enough fighting for, for having theirs and taking nod and all of the things that happen. You’d be looking going, Why are we doing this? There is an infinite, unlimited supply. And we will never, ever be without. You will never be left alone. You will never be denied, never.
This is what we anchor ourselves in. This is what you have been denying. Every time you say there’s not enough, every time you say there’s not something here that I need. Every time you do that, you are using denial incorrectly. And what does the, what must happen is when you use incorrect denial is it must appear that way. There’s not some codependent parent God going, Oh sweetheart, you made a wrong choice. I’m gonna let you not have that one. There’s just a, an undeniable presence that just says yes. And so as you say, there’s not enough here. That’s a denial statement. Then you have the experience. There’s not enough here as your experience. And then you come here and I tell you, that’s all a lie. And you probably think I’m crazy and I’m good with that because I know, I know that even if you don’t get this today, maybe there’ll be a day where you’re looking at an appearance of lack and something in you is just gonna say, No, no. I’m so done playing this. It’s really boring. It’s really boring when you look at it. Let’s go a couple more. There’s nothing to hate. Uh, let’s skip that one. No, I’m kidding. <laugh>.
Next. There’s nothing to hate. Hate is a misuse of denial. When you hate, you reject. And when you reject, you have put yourself in the position of picking and choosing, dividing, and you’re stuck in that painful world. And this, again, all of these are such high holy truths that we must circle around. We must live by. We must. You must as a community circle around them and, and chant them and, and, and practice them and, and everything to go deeper and deeper inside of them. There is no hate. Love knows no hate. That’s kind of obvious, isn’t it? Love knows. No fear. Love knows no hate. Love knows no division. Love knows no division. I remember reading years ago this idea that Jesus didn’t say, uh, love th that love th love th enemies. Jesus didn’t say that. Why could, Why could Jesus not have said that?
Any thoughts he had? None. It’s not even a language he could have known. How can you walk into oneness with God and have an enemy again, if we just take pause and look at this, it’s like it becomes weirdly obvious in such a simple way. And that’s what I want. I want it to be so obvious. And yet I want you to have great patience and love for yourself, for the grappling, for the becoming. Because the worst thing you’re gonna do is take these truth principles that are high and holy and then flip ’em over and use ’em as a bad again on yourself. That’s not the point. I’m not here saying feel bad about that. I’m with you in the illusion. Trust me, I got it. But we’re also together in the truth. Something magnificent, stirred and caused this gathering right here where a new vibration is being made.
And you are a part of that. Don’t make yourself an observer. Make yourself the one, the one that is drawing forward this idea. And then the fifth one, there is no sickness and death. There is no sickness and death. And this is one in the metaphysical world and centers for s living in the new thought. We get the Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that. Yeah, I know that you know it as a fleeting thought, but do you know it in your very soul? Do you know it When some kind of diagnosis comes your way and your immediate thought is there is no sickness or death in God. This is not my reality. Doesn’t mean the body might not move through the experience, but it doesn’t make it who and what you are. This is the difference. Who and what you are. And so we rise up into this because it’s what you are. You deny all that is made up and all that you’ve been giving your attention to because it’s not what you are. Now here’s the crazy, I don’t know if it’s a paradox, it’s not. But the crazy flip that occurs, the moment you give reverence to this as you’re being, then this becomes what flows through and it doesn’t. And it this dissolves, this disappears. Oh that’s nice.
And then all of what you are goes here. And then it comes into form and you have a whole new reality. It’s right here, you guys. And it’s not even in the brain. But we point to that cuz that’s where we think the mind is. That’s not correct. But we’ll use that for our purposes. It’s right here. This is where your freedom is. This is where when you learn to use denial in a way that releases you from the false and gives you an opportunity for the true, you’re a magic maker. And people will go, How did you do that? You’re amazing. You’re a healer, You’re special. And you’re gonna know, No, I’m really not. I’m just what I am. Just what I am. Take a breath on that. Let’s move into some prayer. Did that work for you? Y’all look a little stunned. You’re like this, Take a breath, open your hands, lift your chin up a little bit so your heart is open. If it’s comfortable, close your eyes. Breathe, Keep breathing
Oh, holy, Holy Spirit. Take our heart. Take our hands. Take our life. The power of love that I am was and always will be. Help me to remember this. Help me to know the truth of my being and to allow this truth to have its healing way with everything else, all that I have agreed to that is less than holy. Shine the love and light upon it and watch it disappear. And the part of you that lived in the center of it easily returns home. All these fragmented pieces of your being a little stuck in here, a little stuck there a little there. All this suffering world, may it be healed in this holy instant of remembering I am the glory and the light of God and the glory and light of God only knows itself and the glory and light of God only knows how to be that. And that is eternal. That is perfect. That is whole and complete. There is no evil in your light. There is no lack in who and what you are or what you have. And there is no way that God created you to be sick and to die. That is not who and what you are. Holy Spirit in this moment bestow a healing upon us. Now
Fill our minds. Fill our hurts, fill our bodies. Fill our being. Fill all of us with your light. Make it so undeniable and dissolve and heal everything else.
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A breath.
Take mama.
Just say, take it. Take it.
Take my past and take my sin.
Give it up. Offer it all up man. Give it to the Holy Spirit like
An ocean takes
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Let yourself be purified.
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In this moment, I give thanks for this healing energy within yourself in this prayer just within yourself. Just say, Thank you, Holy Spirit, thank you for this healing. Thank you for helping me to remember. Thank you for teaching me how to deny that which has no power over me and to realign with the pure power that I am and to steer it and guide it into that which is good and holy and beautiful and healthy and vibrant in life giving. We give thanks for this healing of the mind because the mind healed reveals the glory of God in the world of four. And this is the gift we have been given today. Say yes within yourself. Say yes. Say yes. I’m grateful for the fulfillment of this prayer. We let it be. And so it is.