Edna
Lister
November 27, 1964
Buffalo, New York
How many thousands of times a day have you declared it good? God works
all things togther for good for those who love Him. Love is a Principle,
absolutely solid, and to be depended upon. It is firm, it is final
and it covers everything.
We have free choice, not free will. Every word that is uttered creates
after its own degree and kind. God’s first Word was “Let
there be Light,” then He thought a form, declared it good, and
that is still the Law. Salvation is free, but you have to work for
it. The secret is to declare it good. “Let there be Light.”
Your physical is the out-picturing of the fourfold man — your
thoughts, your prayers, your devotions and what you do with your emotional
life. You are the sum total of your life. The Laws of God include
disintegration as well as integration. There is no age limit, no time
when it does not work. Every time you utter a word, you put your name
on it, it goes around the world and returns to you.
God sent us here with a built-in computer. Haven’t you any idea
that God is exciting? We have an instant contact with the Source.
Without breath there is no life, and without life, there is no breath.
The Hindus laid all the stress on just breathing. That breath is not
complete unless we are cognizant that it contains everything we need
for our life. Einstein gave us the secret of life — mass becomes
energy when you raise the vibration, and energy becomes light when
you raise it higher. If we are stingy with our breath, old age is
creeping in, and starving our atomic body to death.
You obey the mental laws. This is good. Every word you utter collects
its degree and kind. One sentence goes around the earth five and a
half times before it’s even finished. This is why you declare
things good. “This is good and very good.”
We are not going to a higher plane until we have learned what we must
learn on this earth. Read II Peter, Chapter 3, which says, “Therefore,
since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought
you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening
the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be
dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent
heat?” “Forever” is the length of time it takes to
consume heavy evils until they return to the gas stage.
Healing comes from deep breathing, declaring things good, standing
and never wavering. You have to plant your feet, stand and look
into
the face of evil and destruction. We are lifting the effects of evil
because God Himself has us in the hollow of His hands.
Science is backing up miracles. You can make over your body with the
right kind of thinking and emotional life. You can build a new set
of nerves because the desire body nerves are perfect and untouchable.
Declare it good: “Every hour of my life is perfect and it is
good.” It is good to receive the same lesson repeatedly until
we learn it.
Do you want to change your pattern? It is up to you. It is up to every
single person to make up his mind.
The Bible is a psychiatric textbook. The Law of Nonresistance is the
greatest power on earth. Jesus the Christ is known in every corner
of the world. He is the Door, the Life, the Way, the Truth, and that
is the Law of Nonresistance.
All you have to do is to fold your arms, stand and say to the person
who is handing you guff, “You are having such a good time. I
am enjoying listening to you.” This is how to agree and adjust,
to work it together for good. God neither slumbers nor sleeps.
If you don’t like work, you are not going to like God. You are
going to think that nobody loves you, nobody understands you. Perhaps
they understand you only too well.
You can do anything, and we are going to do everything. There are
enough of us in the U.S. to turn the world over. We are not in any
more of a mess than we have been in a thousand years.
You have only blessings and curses. You have to eat every word you
utter. You say, “it is good. Let the Light move through and heal,”
and according to the degree and kind of your Desire, the work is done.
Do you know what a miracle is? It is someone’s burning Desire
going forth.
You don’t know how wonderful God is. It is exciting to go on.
Your soul has to be singing with life and on fire. If enough of us
walk with our worlds right, it will happen. The best of it will be
when we have Godly men and women serving.
Let’s have a healing treatment. Offer what you want to happen
on an Altar of Light, and declare perfection for their healing. We
must love ourselves first. We love our neighbor exactly as much as
we love ourselves. None of us is happy unless our spiritual life is
possessing us. “Move in, Father, and possess me.”
Jesus is the only teacher who said, “Use my name. If you use
my name, that Life will be yours.” When we do, we have become
faith without any hindrance that earth can produce. We agree that
God is Love and we adjust to the world by giving them their own. What
does it matter as long as the Light is going forth to conquer evil?
“Just make us perfect instruments of Thy Love and Glory. Give
us to eat of that inner manna. Touch us with Thy Light and Glory,
oh Father. Let us go through these endurance tests on the outer, knowing
that we have lift so much evil by our endurance. Oh, Father, wipe
our minds free of idle words. Let us speak in terms of Love and Ascension,
not only Resurrection and Ascension. Let Thy Light move through every
individual today, wiping their hearts and minds free of all darkness.
In Thy Name, we declare that every word of good that we have declared
in the past shall bring vast good to us. We now lift all. It is melted,
dissolved and only the Light, the good and the Glory can be returned
to us, even though we have sent it forth colored and dark. We are
Thine, and we shall have miracles of going forth from this hour. Thank
You, Father. Thank You so much. Amen.”
You have to visualize and stamp the River of Life with $1000 bills.
The River of Life is flowing by unstamped because it refuses to take
negatives and curses — they go out into the world, but this visualization
comes from above.
You can’t sleep at night unless you are rested when you go to
bed — that means mental freedom from any strain, emotional freedom
from anxieties and things that never happen. You spread your wings
like an eagle and soar, and when you go to bed, you move up. The other
side is so beautiful.
God is Principle and Personality, and Heaven is a place and a state
of consciousness. If you apply logic, you know that you are in a place.
Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.”
God is interesting, and He has not even started yet! We are just children.
We haven’t awakened the brain cells to take it in. Ministers
are so far behind the scientists. Ministers are supposed to lead the
way, but scientists are doing it.
Too many people have God and. We have God as every cell of life there
is. A lot of people would rather suffer than be healed. Get up and
reach for the stars. The Power moves through and the collapsed atoms
become inflated. Praise and pray into being Spheres of Light around
everyone. I see all my people enfolded in a bed of Light, blanketed
in the Light.
Just talk to God without petitioning Him. Just say, “Here they
are, Father. Please take care of them.” I go into the Golden
Silence. The Power is moving forth. Do you see this picture of activity?
“Father, open my eyes. Let me feel, let me see this Glory that
has been Yours from the beginning.”
How often have you said, “I want to see. I want to hear. Move
in and possess me.” You must declare what you want and move up
out of the puddle of the past. “Forgetting those things which
are behind and pressing onward toward to the high calling of Christ
Jesus.”
I know some people have never lost contact once they have touched
it. I see them a year later, they have remained under the Light and
it shows. I love life. I love the life I am leading, the books I am
writing, the classes I am giving, the services.
God is giving every fellow in every grade 100 percent. You have to
have faith and love God first, before you declare everything good,
but you can begin to say it from the teeth out. You can even say,
“This is good,” and get rid of your repudiations.
Some people are so self-satisfied. Yet our whole Ascension must be
the burning Desire to become this Law. The Father wants you home more
than you could possibly desire it.
When your atomic body is not collapsed, you can fall asleep fast.
The atoms hold the energy we use, and you must replace it as you breathe
from the Source, knowing that it is the pure Light of God recreating
you. You have to move up and hold your hands up high. God is wonderful.
“All that works that I do, ye shall do also and greater works
than these.” Do you believe this?
