Strengthen Your Prosperity Consciousness

At Unity Spiritual Center Denver, we have designated August as “Prosperity Month.” In support of this, my Sunday morning lessons are focused on the topic. In addition, we will begin offering the 4T Prosperity class on Monday, August 22. Those who participate will develop a greater understanding of prosperity and raise their prosperity consciousness. You may register for the program here. We know that, as Emmet Fox said and we continue to teach, “Life is consciousness.” Our third basic Unity principle states that we experience our lives as a reflection of our consciousness. In order for us to demonstrate prosperity we must increase our consciousness of prosperity. 

Unity cofounder, Charles Fillmore said, “True prosperity is the consciousness of abundance based on the understanding of God as the inexhaustible Resource always open to man.”

We focus on God as the inexhaustible Source so that we can stand strong in the midst of what at times appears to be an expanding collective consciousness of fear stimulated by thoughts of lack and limitation - a collective consciousness of which we are a part and from which it is often challenging to separate ourselves.

Mr. Fillmore also said, “You have doubtless found that there is a spiritual law that brings into manifestation the thoughts we concentrate our attention on, a divine universal law of mind activity that is unfailing.”  We only need to look around us to observe the manifestations of the pervading consciousness.  If we are to demonstrate experiences of abundance, health and happiness, it is up to us to develop a consciousness of prosperity.

We come together in classes, workshops, and at Sunday morning services to strengthen ourselves and each other in the consciousness of God, the all-providing Source. We devote time and energy to renewing our minds with Truth and establishing a prosperity consciousness that enables us to demonstrate prosperity in every area of our lives. Mr. Fillmore stated, “If you are persistent in working this idea into your conscious mind it will become filled with it to the overflowing point, will ooze out, as it were, into all your affairs.”

Unity minister, author and prosperity teacher, Edwene Gaines defines true prosperity as, 

• A vitally alive physical body to provide a comfortable worldly home for the spiritual beings that we are
• Relationships that are satisfying, nurturing, honest, and work all the time
• Work that we love so much that it’s not work, it’s play
• And all the money we can spend

Isn’t that the life experience that we would all choose to live?  The good news is that it is the life experience available for us all to choose!

Mr. Fillmore said,

“The law of supply is a divine law.  It is a law of mind and must work through mind.  God will not go to the store and bring food to your table, but when you continue to think about God as your real supply, everything in your mind begins to awaken and to contact the divine substance, and as you mold it in your consciousness, ideas begin to come which will connect you with the visible manifestation.” 

Simple, right?  We assert that all we have to do is keep our minds stayed on God and manifestation will occur with grace and ease. That is correct, and it is simple, but it is not always easy. That is why it is important that we develop a spiritual practice that builds the consciousness of God and fills our minds with divine substance.

Fillmore encourages us to,

“Think prosperity, talk prosperity, not in general but in specific terms, deny every appearance of failure, affirm supply, support, and success in the very face of question and doubt, then give thanks for plenty in all our affairs, knowing for certain that our good is now being fulfilled in Spirit, in mind and in manifestation.”

 

We can begin today to develop this as our daily spiritual practice. We can make the commitment to ourselves to be aware of what we say – not just what we speak aloud, but what we say in the quiet of our own minds. After all, it is in our own minds that manifestation begins!

I invite you to join us at Unity Spiritual Center Denver as we celebrate Prosperity Month. Sign up today to participate in the 4T Prosperity Program, and join us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 as we explore ways to increase our prosperity consciousness and develop tools to strengthen our spiritual practices. We will learn together how to more fully demonstrate prosperity in every area of our lives.