As You Go To The Next Level of Success....

As each of us goes to the next level of our success in the world, we are invited to activate even greater gratitude, love, appreciation, fearlessness, and actions that demonstrate our abundance. Almost always, the next level demands the clearing out of the old--old patterns, old relationships, old outmoded habits, old ways of being and often an experience of living in the void between creations. The old is barely gone and the new has yet to completely show up. We are living a little betwixt and between forced to cultivate deeper reserves of trust and faith and put our gratitude for the abundance we currently have into action. It helps to steep ourselves in the works of leading prosperity writers and teachers . One of my favorites is Catherine Ponder, former Unity minister and author of The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity, among many, many other books.

In the following prayer, Ponder writes about 'God' or 'Lord'- and as I see it, and often share with people in The Prosperity Circle, 'Lord' or 'God', for me, is a Creative Force of Intelligence, Energy, Infinite Light and Love, animating all things, animating us, the Substance of things seen and unseen, the Power inside of all Creation. 'God' - that Creative Force of Infinite Love and Light - is in us and at our disposal. We are a Creative Force of Infinite Light and Love - when we remember and act upon the highest within us. Many people - because of their experience with organized religion and because of the great persecution they have experienced or witnessed at the hands of organized religion, have a pejorative relationship to the concept of God. In that case, I would suggest you replace the word 'Lord' or 'God' with the name of any deity you choose. Call it 'higher power', 'Source','Divine', 'higher self'....anything that allows you to access a power larger than yourself.

In Catherine Ponder's words:

"WHEN I FIND MYSELF IN A FINANCIAL WILDERNESS, IT IS BECAUSE I AM PREPARING FOR A GREATER ABUNDANCE THAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN BEFORE.

MY WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE IS MY DIVINE INITIATION INTO THE HIGHER LEVELS OF SUPPLY.

I AM BEING FREED FROM ALL FEAR OF LACK. AS I LOOK TO GOD FOR GUIDANCE AND SUPPLY, I AM BECOMING FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT ON A DAILY BASIS.

"I CAN BEGIN TO GATHER MY MANNA BY DOING SOMETHING FEARLESS. THE ACT OF BLESSING WHAT IS ON HAND INCREASES IT MIGHTILY. SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS HAPPENS WHEN I BLESS THE SUBSTANCE AT HAND. INSTEAD OF ENVYING ANOTHER'S PROSPERITY, I OPEN THE WAY FOR INCREASED SUPPLY TO COME TO ME.

"SINCE WORDS ARE CREATIVE, I CAN GATHER MY MANNA THROUGH SPEAKING FORTH DEFINITE, RICH WORDS OF SUPPLY..... MY MANNA IS ALWAYS SOMETHING CLOSE AT HAND, AND I ALWAYS HAVE IN MY IMMEDIATE MIDST WHATEVER IS NEEDED TO BEGIN GATHERING MY MANNA. AS I BLESS THE MANNA CLOSE AT HAND AND FEARLESSLY USE IT, IT MULTIPLIES. LORD, I DO GIVE THANKS FOR THE ABUNDANCE THAT IS MINE NOW!" Catherine Ponder