Mind’s Triumph Is For Us

Mind’s Triumph Is For Us

 

By

 

Julio C. Rivas, CS

 

 

All our needs are being met by the ingenuity of Mind, by the dynamic resources of Love.  Mind-Love is the source of creative solutions, of progressive ideas.  Its expansive and exponential energies are generating new strategies and tactics, new developments, and boldness in execution.  These produce success. 

 

Our success on all fronts is taking place within the dynamic realm of Love.  We are a part of the teeming universe of Mind.  We are being thrust forward by Spirit-might and it sweeps away all insidious, treacherous and ignorant opposition.  On our side is the unstoppable momentum of Principle. 

 

Mind-given vision, ingenuity and penetrating insight are orchestrating our decisions and actions.  Truth-Mind is presenting us with unanticipated and effective answers.  It is providing a banquet of brilliant solutions and inexhaustible capacities. 

 

Every individual who is a necessary part of our success is a part of Mind’s harmonious symphony of productive ideas and effective execution.  The Christ-Science is anointing everyone with the requisite talents and resources.

 

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter; that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth;” said Jesus.  Well, this Comforter is comforting us and magnifying our accomplishments.  

 

Brilliant theologian and healer, M. B. Eddy wrote, “This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.”  We can echo her and say, “I understand that Mind-Knowledge and Mind-Wisdom are on our side.”

 

Divine Science is generating the same kind of spiritual conviction that tore down the walls of Jericho.  Therefore, our spiritual certainty is tearing down any and all opposite resistance to our Mind-mandated health, fulfillment and achievements. 

 

Mind’s emboldening spirit and nurturing love resolve dead-ends, stress, confusion, and remove any constraints.  Invidious and insidious machinations are decapitated by Love’s armies of “angels.” 

 

We now say “Thank you, Holy Mind-Love” for giving us the keys to your ever-present realm of limitless goodness – to your kingdom of heaven on earth, and for proving to us your indomitable reign of grace, power and success. 

 

 

 

 

 

We Are Transfigured by LIFE-SPIRIT

                                               We Are Transfigured by LIFE-SPIRIT


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                                                                 Julio C. Rivas, Cs

This biblical story has given me wisdom, self-correction courage and protection over the years.

Whatever Saul gave David to do, he did it—and did it well. So well that Saul put him in charge of his military operations. Everybody, both the people in general and Saul’s servants, approved of and admired David’s leadership. … This made Saul angry—very angry. He took it as a personal insult. He said, “They credit David with ‘ten thousands’ and me with only ‘thousands.’ Before you know it they’ll be giving him the kingdom!” From that moment on, Saul kept his eye on David. The next day an ugly mood was sent by God to afflict Saul, who became quite beside himself, raving. David played his harp, as he usually did at such times. Saul had a spear in his hand. Suddenly Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall.” David ducked, and the spear missed. This happened twice. Now Saul feared David. It was clear that God was with David and had left Saul. (TM, I Sam. 18:5-12)

When we tie the story to these sentences by M. B. Eddy we augment our spiritual enlightenment: “If man is not victorious over the passions, they crush out happiness, health, and manhood.”  And, “Progress is born of experience.  It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for the immortal.  Either here or hereafter, suffering or Science must destroy all illusions regarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense and self.”

Saul destroyed himself because he did not excise his invidious and insidious motivations.  David’s ongoing receptivity to LOVE-MIND augmented his wisdom and talents, sheltered him from evil, and generated great victories. 

 

But when we are befogged by carnal passions we cannot seize the spiritual treasures LOVE is pouring into us.  

 

It is never hopeless, though, because even terrible misery, despair and chaos can be turned into moments of spiritual metamorphosis, enhancement and triumph.  We can submit to TRUTH-LOVE and appropriate more health, life and goodness than we ever imagined was possible. 

Spiritual Consecration Heals

Spiritual Consecration Heals

By

Julio C. Rivas, CS

The surgeon happened to see the growth on my leg while we were in the men’s dressing room changing from our exercise clothes into our street clothes.  He proceeded to warn me that I needed immediate surgery to have it removed in order to avoid more serious complications, maybe even death.  He also said that after the surgery the leg would require several procedures of skin grafting and it would be a year before my leg would return to normal.

I’ve always meditated with many spiritual concepts as a daily discipline and joy.  The appearance of the growth on my leg focused my prayers to heal it.  I pondered my incorporeal wholeness within the comprehensive preeminence of SPIRIT-GOD.  I made diligent efforts to replace the surgeon’s predictions with the expectancy of complete healing.  I claimed that the spiritual “surgical” efficacy of spiritual understanding was going on. 

Two weeks later, while on a return trip from Europe, the growth became excruciatingly painful.  I was determined not to buckle to pain and fear. 

I thought of many beautiful and uplifting ideas.  This biblical passage was very encouraging: “… no instrument forged against you will be allowed to hurt you, and no voice raised to condemn you will successfully prosecute you.  It’s that simple; this is how it will be for the servants of the Eternal; I will vindicate them.”

I also clung to this one: ^“I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him will I trust."

Here are two more by M. B. Eddy, the revolutionary, spiritual thinker: “The elements and functions of the physical body and of the physical world will change as mortal mind changes its beliefs.”  And, “Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things.”

This is one of many prayers I wrote and utilized: “Evil – sin, illness, deficiency, failure and suffering -- cannot reach, penetrate nor disrupt superabundant health, which is enforced in everyone, and in me, by imperial MIND-GOD.  I trust in the thoroughly sanative effects of spiritual thinking.  I yield to MIND and enjoy its superlative power.”

The growth opened up and began to drain.  Within a month I was completely healed.  I resumed my usual activities, including my athletic involvements. 

The surgeon and many others who had seen the growth were most surprised with my healing. 

It was not a quick and easy healing.  Some healings come to us in a moment of inspiration.  This one required repeated instances of inspiration and moment-by-moment consecration. 

TRUTH-LOVE invalidates everything harmful and obstructive.  Pain, disease, decay, failure, lack and guilt are material counterfeits which cannot oppose the preeminent and amplificatory energies of SPIRIT-GOOD.   MIND-TRUTH feeds our health, talents, opportunities and success.  Cognizance of our MIND-impelled excellence and exuberant wellness ignites and re-structures our lives.

The resolving of human distresses is one way of proving that SPIRIT-LOVE is the superlative substance of everything.  Even more rewarding is how spiritual consecration makes us a better person and capacitates us to achieve for ourselves and others.

MIND’s Victories Are Ours

MIND’s Victories Are Ours

 

By

 

Julio C. Rivas, CS

 

 

Severe personal and business downfalls can puncture hopes, confidence and motivation.  When this happens we can be catapulted to victory by the preponderant energies of LIFE-GOD.  In my work with clients I’ve seen this occur repeatedly. 

 

After years of unsuccessful attempts at developing a large real estate project, a radical shift in thinking and approach brought it to marvelous fruition. 

 

Spiritual education connects us to the imperial and dynamic energies of MIND-GOD.   Divine intelligence alters everyone’s mental outlook.  This induces creative and new implementations and fruitful results.  Stubborn obstacles melt away and unexpected pathways open up. 

 

These Biblical ideas catalyze us to victory:

 

“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” (ESV, Is. 40:3).  MIND’s compounding and impelling forces clear the way for what seemed impossible. 

 

“But blessed is the man who trusts me, God, the woman who sticks with God. They’re like trees replanted in Eden, putting down roots near the rivers— Never a worry through the hottest of summers, never dropping a leaf, Serene and calm through droughts, bearing fresh fruit every season. (MSG, Jeremiah 17:7-8)  While experiencing repeated failures and disappointments we can replenish ourselves by accessing LOVE’s supreme might, SOUL’s resources and LIFE’s creative energy. 

 

 

“The Lord is my Light and my Salvation—whom shall I fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid? (AMP, Ps. 27:1) For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring.” (AMP, Acts 17:28)  Fear, confusion, paralysis and failure are ejected and supplanted by SPIRIT’s transformational power. 

 

 

“The Spirit himself endorses our inward conviction that we really are the children of God. Think what that means. If we are his children we share his treasures, and all that Christ claims as his will belong to all of us as well!”  (Phillips, Rom. 8:16)  We are LOVE’s heirs to infinite talents, intelligence, innovation, means and solutions. 

 

 

A Victory-Inducing Prayer:

 

“All present and future parties can “bear the fresh fruit” of MIND-GOD.  In spite of all present obstructions, we can know that MIND enables them to comprehend and act on its intelligent directions.  INTELLIGENCE-GOD is revealing answers and obliterating obstructions.  LOVE-GOD moves in them and us to banish blind greed, fear, resistance, pride, stupidity and ignorance.  It clears the way for the necessary legal, financial and resource expediencies.  The present “drought” is turned into a fertile arrangement for all to benefit from.  All can discover and act on the treasures to be seized.  The Christ-spirit is working in everyone as a dynamic, progressive, amplificatory, exponential and result-bearing power.”

 

These are dynamic, successful, supernal, self-enforcing laws which heal, resurrect, transform and propel our lives to experience outstanding results.

Limitless Success

Limitless Success

 

By

 

Julio C. Rivas, CS

 

 

Spiritual awakening takes us on a discovery journey that reveals the wonders of immaculate MIND-GOD and our incorporeal, divinely endowed essence. 

 

Spiritual knowledge brings about amazing results.  Having proven this repeatedly, 19^th century theologian, M. B. Eddy, wrote: “Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses.” 

 

Our everlasting identities and glorious possibilities come from the immortal EGO-GOD.  SOUL produces us and we have a correlated, eternal and profuse relationship with it. 

 

We are SOUL-MIND’s immortal opus.  This insight capacitates us to abjure a born-today-die-tomorrow view of ourselves.  Incessant and abundant life, health, resources and purpose reign in us.  In some measure many are proving this now around the globe.

 

Down through history millions have proven the spiritual law undergirding this scriptural verse: “And I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing, and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing” (Ezekiel 34:26, KJV)

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A friend of mine began to experience pain and immobility in her hip and legs.  It was the end-of-the-year holiday season and she had been planning to host many friends and family members at her home.  She was sad and worried about this sudden turn for the worse. 

 

We talked and prayed together.  It dawned on her that her physical deterioration was, in part, a result of how much worrying she had been doing about the troubles in the lives of her adult children.  We began to reverse her worries by emphasizing LOVE’s deluge of blessings for them.  We talked about how she and they were united to LOVE’s wisdom and health.  As these beautiful, spiritual views altered her mental/emotional state her physiology underwent a complete restoration.  She resumed her active life.  Her gratitude and joy overflowed during her holiday gathering.   

 

LOVE’s all-encompassing and overflowing goodness is available to everyone.  All who align their thought with LOVE are lifted out of their troubles.  Moral failures are corrected, others’ hatred and malice are annulled, physical impediments are removed, and conflicts resolved. 

 

LOVE-SPIRIT holds everyone securely within its fecund ambience.   Prolific spiritual abilities and resources are flowing into our lives for us to express.  With this knowledge we can exude greater intelligence and social skills, and seize more opportunities  and success.  

 

Difficulties represent materiality’s attempts to mesmerize us with false arguments.  But suffering, sinful and restrictive conditions cannot fool us when we are in touch with our spiritual make-up.  Spiritual sensibility abrogates evil and promotes our wellness.

 

SPIRIT is propagating health, love and success everywhere.  When we are in rhythm with SPIRIT we move with divine confidence and authority.  We succeed and help others to do the same. 

 

Being LOVE’s Singing

Being LOVE’s Singing

 

By

 

Julio C. Rivas, CS

 

 

When our actions attest to the imperiousness of SPIRIT-LOVE then our lives are LOVE’s singing.  To put off the worship of matter and to live in accord with the ALL of SPIRIT-LOVE is to be a part of MIND’s divine chorus.

 

The Christians of the 1^st through 3^rd centuries often faced severe persecutions and they responded to these with an impressive commitment to the All-in-All of LOVE-SPIRIT.  They lived their worship.  Their lives were songs of TRUTH -- deeply felt songs and boldly lived with liberty, power and grace. 

 

They sang of a new life in SPIRIT even as they were being tortured, crucified, thrown to wild beasts, placed in large vats of boiling oil and engulfed in flames. 

 

When life is seen as transcending physicality then we are imperious over material troubles.  Our natural atmosphere is the boundlessness of SPIRIT-BEING.  Those persecuted early century Christians did not just participate in religious gatherings and rituals.  They lived their understanding of SPIRIT-LIFE. 

 

While Rome ruled materially, these bold and victorious Christians proved that they were a part of the imperial reign of TRUTH-LOVE.  Their life, relationships, progress and health took place within the domain of SPIRIT. 

 

The Passover meal, which celebrates the Jews’ exodus from Egyptian slavery, was for Jesus an exodus from materialism, including from restricting religious rules and their choking ritualism. 

 

As he supped with his students his heart must have felt the melancholic strains that came from knowing about the ordeals before him.  He continued preparing them as best he could for the loneliness they might feel, and for the threat of torture and death they would contend with. 

 

When he washed their feet he was showing them once again the spiritual courage and strength found in drawing on divine LIFE-LOVE.  Humility and grace are spiritual energies that flow from GOD-TRUTH into us.  Jesus was showing them to put aside their personal egos and matter-enslaving concepts, and to feel the might of the all-encompassing and all-causative EGO-SOUL.  He was showing them to draw on the SUPREME EGO so that they would experience divine power.

 

He accented this holy occasion by having the disciples sing a hymn with him before going to the Mount of Olives, where he would be handed over to the Roman authorities by the traitor Judas.  This communal hymn was not just a mournful expression, but his first attempt at a victory song over death, over hatred, over all evil. 

 

Jesus knew at the core of his being that the spirit of LIFE-LOVE would triumph, as it eventually always does.

 

When we inhale and exhale this kind of courageous spirituality it ejects whatever holds us back from grander accomplishments. 

 

King Hezekiah is another example of someone who found his spiritual courage and might.  Young (25 years-old) and inexperienced, newly crowned King Hezekiah turned to MIND-TRUTH for needed wisdom, courage and leadership. 

 

Barely on the throne and he was faced with the threat from the large, experienced and well-armed Assyrian army.  He responded to the impending assault by first repairing his people’s confidence in mighty SPIRIT-POWER.  Their alignment with divine power assuaged their fears and self-doubts and infused them with spiritual fortitude.

 

What about us?  Is anything restraining our spiritual courage and love?  How about our success?  Is anything keeping us from health and happiness?  Is it others’ misplaced ignorance, prejudices, anger, resentment and outrage, or our own?  Have we allowed these Satan-type attitudes to bind us?  Have we been bound up for years? 

 

It is irrelevant to Christ what has bound us.  Christ’s command is: “Be loosed from these bonds!”  

 

Christ liberates us.  Christ produces a new genesis for our lives. 

 

Paul experienced this and he wrote, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he (she) is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.”  

 

Like the early Christians we can leave behind materialized worship, we can shed outworn habits, and cast off fear-and-guilt-loaded rites.  We can respond to the propulsive, creative and sanative rhythms of SOUL. 

 

We can make our lives into victory songs to the healing efficacy of spiritual understanding.  Inspiring each other with spiritual proofs we constitute a sacrosanct chorus to the transformational power of LOVE.

 

From Mt. Sinai-like levels of inspiration we can see that we are GOD’s spiritual man, and that we are living in His limitless universe of spiritual goodness. 

 

We and everything that exists are LOVE’s song of perfect being. 

 

 

 

Sharing in Christ’s Glory

Sharing in Christ’s Glory

By

Julio C. Rivas, CS

 

All who follow the leading of God’s Spirit are God’s own sons. Nor are you meant to relapse into the old slavish attitude of fear—you have been adopted into the very family circle of God and you can say with a full heart, “Father, my Father”. The Spirit himself endorses our inward conviction that we really are the children of God. Think what that means. If we are his children we share his treasures, and all that Christ claims as his will belong to all of us as well! Yes, if we share in his suffering we shall certainly share in his glory. (Phillips, Rom. 8:14-17)

Eddy: “The belief in sin and death is destroyed by the law of God, which is the law of Life instead of death, of harmony instead of discord, of Spirit instead of the flesh.”  And, “Jesus marked out the way.  Citizens of the world, accept the ‘glorious liberty of the children of God,’ and be free!  This is your divine right.”

Spiritual comprehension, or Christ, compels us to bury an egotistical, corporeal, sinful, sick-bound misconception of who we are.  We can revel in our immaculate, magnificent, SOUL-authorized, matter-free selfhood.  Christ-sense is morphing difficulties, failures, sufferings and faults into sublime victories.  With adventurous expectation we welcome MOTHER-FATHER-LOVE’s new lessons, plus augmented resources, abilities and attainments. 

A patient with an advanced stage of cancer experienced a radical change in their thinking and character, and a glorious healing of their body by imbibing these sin-disease-obliterating insights. 

Having absorbed more of our SOUL-enforced wholeness, and while celebrating our marvelous SPIRIT-bestowed inheritance, we can declare, “I am ready, MOTHER-FATHER-LOVE, for my next spiritually enhancing adventure.”