The Twelve Powers - Disciple: Peter

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Prepared by Marie Ann Shea, TSM Chaplain

The Prayer of Faith

God is my help in every need;
God does my every hunger feed;
God walks beside me, guides my way
Through every moment of the day.

I now am wise, I now am true,
Patient, kind, and loving too.
All things I am, can do, and be,
Through Christ, the Truth that is in me.

God is my health, I can't be sick;
God is my strength, unfailing, quick;
God is my all, I know no fear,
Since God and love and Truth are here.

Hannah More Kohaus

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.”

Hebrews 11:1,2

In January we are beginning a new year. It is an opportunity to start all over, to make new goals, to decide what we want to keep and what to release or let go. I am true blue in my thinking because…

Blue is to remind me of FAITH.
PETER is the Disciple who represents FAITH.

In Faith let us affirm: "Expect a miracle!"

A miracle is when something amazing and unbelievable happens…
and most people don’t understand how!

Scripture says
"...but with God all things are possible."
Matthew 19:26 KJV

January & the Color Dark Blue Reminds us

The Disciple Peter represents the faculty of FAITH . . .
accessed through the center of the brain. (click on the image to the right for an enlarged view)=>

The Disciple named Simon Peter who was first called forth by Jesus ( Twelve Powers of Man - by Charles Fillmore).

Jesus called him Peter because his faith foundation was like a rock (Greek " petros").

"Faith is a necessary foundation for
building up a spiritual consciousness;
the Church of Christ, in the individual"

Faith is the thinking power. Faith thinking is done only by the people who catch sight of the Inner Truths of being and who feed their thinking faculty on images generated in their heart or love center. Let us now affirm: "Faith is assurance of all things hoped for." "Faith in spiritual human beings quickens spiritual understanding." Charles Fillmore writes, "Peter believed that Jesus was the Messiah: his faith opened his spiritual discernment and saw the living Christ back of the personal mask worn by Jesus" (Metaphysical Bible Dict.). He also claims; "Faith words should be expressed both silently and audibly" and that "Faith in the reality of the invisible builds a real abiding substance in mind and body."

We activate the mind power of Faith by affirming words of Faith, giving praise and thanksgiving to God. As we affirm; I have Faith in God; I have Faith in the Spirit; I have Faith in things invisible; these affirmations quicken the mind, making God visible to the mind and strengthens the Faith faculty. This action will bring forth the knowing of the Presence of God, to be received by the giving up of personal attachments and repenting or changing one’s mind.

Paul writes; "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 12:2: KJV)

In the Book of Ephesians 2:8: it is written; "For by grace are ye saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God/"

The words of Charles Fillmore, the co-founder of Unity of Practical Christianity bears to be repeated; "Faith words should be expressed both silently and audibly." All words to God in meditative thought, vocal prayer and good deeds represent words of Faith; bringing forth the Light of Christ into full expression of life called love and forgiveness.

You can read more about developing
the faculty of Faith in Charles Fillmore's book:
The Twelve Powers of Man

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