We continued our exploration of this month’s series, “Fertile Ground,” on Sunday with a message from Rev. Lola Wright called “Expanding Our Capacity For Good.”
Message Notes
Opening:
Rib Joint – Pentecostal Minister – gospel of inclusion in Atlanta
SLIDE: Poverty – An impoverished thought. A belief in lack and limitation. A lack of the knowledge that substance and supply are spiritual. A result of the inability to perceive that prosperity is ever-present. A denial of good. A limited sense of the Universe.
Lionel Robbins – most commonly accepted current definition of the subject of Economics
SLIDE: Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. – Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Analysis of form imposed by the influence of scarcity
SLIDE: The fear of poverty grew out of the human tendency to prey upon others economically. – Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
What’s your set-point/capacity/temperature for Good?
I am REALLY? How Good can you stand it?!
(Thermostat will always regulate how hot or cold it can get.)
Objectives:
Get your mind right/Expand Your Capacity/Expand Our Capacity
Everything you should ever need and want is right here, right now…we must have eyes to see and ears to hear
Take an honest look at what we believe
Keywords/Stories/Points:
Rev. Charles Hall/Capacity – the ability to receive or contain
Self Mastery – “I have so much good unfolding in my life I am sort of freaking out!” “Your work right now is to Expand Your Container for Good so you have room enough to hold it”
Clarify our mentality and remove the obstructions.
SLIDE: Whatever financial measures we take, if we are motivated by fear or anxiety, then we mine our roadway into the future with booby traps. But if we plan and conserve and keep our thoughts centered in God as our limitless resource of good, then our way will be filled with success and fulfillment. – Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth
Is my life evolving??? Only by expansion can it evolve.
SLIDE: The soul is on a pathway of an endless and ever-expanding experience, and that only by expansion can it evolve. There is no limit to the possibility inherent in all men. Let the timid soul put its complete trust in good and press bravely on. – Science Of Mind by Ernest Holmes
Take a risk!/Staying safe expands NOTHING!
SLIDE: What the writers and teachers who talk so glibly of the “millionaire consciousness” tend to conveniently overlook is that the millionaire models they use, to a person, achieved their great affluence, not because of a desire to find security, but because they were entrepreneurs, risk-takers, and adventurers who launched out beyond the barriers of accepted limitations. – Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth
Summary:
Who arrived here today hungry? Who is worried about where their food will come from today?
2 Kings 4 1:7 – Prophet Elisha
Closing:
SLIDE: Come to the edge, He said.
They said, we are afraid.
Come to the edge, He said.
They came.
He pushed them…and they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
