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Nugget
Prosperity Nugget
May 2010
In This Issue
Prayer Circles
Service = Prosperity
Charles Fillmore: "Prosperity"
Opportunity Fund
Prosperity Prayer

Prayer Circles
During the months of April, May and June, Prosperity Prayer Circles, each lasting thirty minutes, will be facilitated by Rev. Chris Jackson at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. We encourage you to join us in prayers for personal financial well being and the financial well being of Unity on the Bay.

Sacred Service
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Service = Prosperity
 
Sacred Service Month just ended last week but the prosperity that comes to Unity on the Bay and each Sacred Server continues.  That is because, as taught in so many prosperity courses, the giving of your time and talent to your Spiritual Community allows for the flow of prosperity into your life.  All service provides you with the opportunity to grow in consciousness including through realizing the abundance already in your life.  Consider giving of your time and talents at Unity on the Bay and watch your prosperity grow.
 
There are a few prosperity teams at Unity on the Bay that more explicitly work on prosperity consciousness building. 
- Ushers & Greeters Team on Sundays receive and bless  the love offering from our congregation. 
- The Accounting Team works behind the scenes on Sundays ... Think about how you would feel blessing each individual offering with your love.
-  Prosperity for All, is an outreach team that takes prosperity teachings to Community Partnership for the Homeless.
 
Always remember that Service is a path to the prosperity consciousness for which you have been searching.  To discuss how you can get involved,
Bible Reading
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"And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all,
just as we abound in love for you." 1 Thess 3:12

Brought to you by
Unity on the Bay's 
 

Prosperity Council

whose purpose is to cultivate and raise the Prosperity Consciousness of Unity on the Bay to secure a committed Spiritual Community that dwells in the expanding conscious awareness of Abundance.

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Love Offering
Greetings!

The emphasis of this month's Prosperity Nugget is being conscious of our thoughts which become our actions and ultimately our reality.  Body, Mind, and Spirit, We are prosperous!
 
Your Unity on the Bay Prosperity Council
The Power of Prosperity

SunflowerThe Prosperity Council has teamed up with Unity Churches International to bring you The Power of Prosperity - monthly thoughts for reflection on prosperity, along with ideas for practices you can use to build your own consciousness.
 
The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
Chapters 7 - 8

"The time has come to relax and enjoy what you have already learned." Catherine Ponder

You might think by this statement that your work is done. Well, that depends on how prosperous you want to be. Do you just want money? Is your objective to have more things? Do you truly believe that prosperity can be yours? These next two chapters are all about conscious thinking and attitude.

Catherine tells us in Chapter 7 that we are always using either the Law of Increase or the Law of Decrease. It is always one or the other. Being conscious of our thoughts which become our actions speaks volumes about whether we are working the increase side or the decrease side. Remember if you are not happy with the prosperity you are experiencing, you are the only one able to change that by changing your thoughts.

When prosperity seems elusive, check your thoughts, not only about your own prosperity but of those around you. Catherine tells us, "When people criticize, condemn, or belittle others, they do not realize that through the law of mind action, they are asking for the same things to happen to them." ...

In this day, it is easy to get into what Catherine calls "hard-times" talk. When you ...engage in hard-time thoughts, talk, or action you create cross currents which neutralize your efforts of prosperity. ...

In chapter 8 we learn our attitudes really do have great effect on our prosperity. Attitude is driven by thoughts and beliefs you hold. What is your attitude around money? Catherine tells us, "Just as you should not turn your noses up at money neither should you make a god of it." Money is just a tool to acquire wants and needs. It is a physical expression of God's good for you.

Remembering that money and how you get it is not the source of your good to meet these wants and needs. Money and the avenues in which it came are just channels of God. Remembering that God is Source and creating an attitude of gratitude are crucial in continued prosperity. Plus keeping that prosperity in the divine flow by giving back allows the cycle to continue to flow to you.

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 The Power of Prosperity - Practice Exercises

JournalTake time with your journal to list what you want to increase, and what talents you have that, with faith, will bring that increase. Write what that increase will look like and how you will feel when it is made manifest.

Now with a prayer partner share your goals of staying in principle by practicing the law of increase. Ask for support in holding the high watch by gently calling to your attention times when you are practicing the law of decrease. Then together hold friends, families and the world in a space of increase.
Overcoming the Thought of Lack
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from Charles Fillmore's book "Prosperity"

THE KINGDOM of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind; which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach; and they sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but the bad they cast away."   

The mind of man is like the net catching every kind of idea, and it is man's privilege and duty under the divine law to separate those that are good from those which are not good. In this process the currents of unselfish, spiritual love flowing through the soul act as great eliminators, freeing the consciousness of thoughts of hate, lack, and poverty, and giving the substance of Spirit free access into the consciousness and affairs.

Each must handle his own thoughts and overcome them by aligning them with the harmony and order of the divine thought. There is an infinite, omnipresent wisdom within us that will deal with these thoughts and guide us in making the discrimination between the right and the wrong when we trust ourselves fully to its intelligence. We can establish a connection between the conscious mind and the superconscious mind within us by meditation, by silence, and by speaking the word.

The superconscious mind within you discriminates among the kinds of food you assimilate, controls your digestion, your breathing, and the beating of your heart. It "doeth all things well," and it will help you do this important work of directing you in the thoughts you should hold and the ones you should cast out. As you develop this mind within yourself you will find that you can gradually turn over more and more of your affairs to its perfect discrimination. Nothing is too great for it to accomplish, nor is anything too trivial for it to handle with perfection and dispatch. This mind of the Spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so. But you must will to do its will and trust it in all your ways. It will lead you unfailingly into health, happiness, and prosperity, as it has done and is doing for thousands, if and when you follow it.      
Opportunity Fund

FieldWe would like to express our gratitude to all of you who responded to our time of economic challenge.  To date, we have received over $17,000. Thank You, God!

We ask you to continue to hold Unity on the Bay in prayer, to seek spiritual guidance regarding your financial support of your Spiritual Community.   As each of us reflects on the value of this spiritual home and the many ways this ministry blesses our lives, we will know what is ours to do.  Perhaps you have been blessed by the prayerful support of our Prayer Emissaries.  Has the music or message been particularly relevant on a given Sunday, or touched your heart and brought you peace and hope?  Has your awareness of God's presence expanded through an educational opportunity?  Ask yourself, "How has Unity on the Bay changed my life?" "What is that change worth to me?"  Then give generously as you are guided.

We invite you to invest time daily in the use of our prosperity prayer:
"I am awake and aware that God is my source. 
God provides for all my needs. 
I am prosperous! 

I live like it, act like it, love like it, speak like it and give like it!  Thank you, God!"

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One of Unity on the Bay's Core Values is:
 
ABUNDANCE - We recognize the inexhaustible substance of Spirit as our source.
We are prosperous!