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The Spiritual Power of Strength
Lesson 1 of 3
Any name, or No Name
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Call this God, Allah, higher power, universal presence, principle; any name, or no name, as long as the context is clear. We source from a power greater than self, it is our truest strength, the integrity of our being. Like specific aloeids that combine to make steel, conscious awareness of Oneness with God is our greatest strength and power to endure.
Few have explored the design for endurance and strength in all creation. Even fewer have discerned the human role in working interdependently with creation to realize the power of strength for enduring great changes. Unity and New Thought students aspire to an understanding of the principle of Oneness and, in so doing, discover the divine ideas to answer every problem. God is not doling out answers; God is the very answer as omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience. We, humans, are one with the answers we seek, discovering answers that help all, not just some. Human access to divine potential, and ideas to help us, can be understood through the New Thought and Unity philosophical premise.
"The Kingdom of God is within You."
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Luke 17:22
This implies a divine inner reality for each and every one of us. Our oneness with the divine works through our minds first as ideas of possibility.
Proverbs 20:5
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"The purpose in a person’s mind is like deep water, but a person of understanding will draw it out."
We have all the power and unlimited Divine ideas to meet and address not only our personal challenges but also the great problems of our time. Our mind is our link with Divine Mind, the infinite, creative, intelligence, to innovate, and emerge new options, choices, and current solutions. A clarifying understanding of working within the mind comes from ancient Hebrew insights: the heart (lev or levav) is the center of human thought and spiritual life. Our “heart-mind” is guided in the ways of love, caring, and compassion.
"Divine Mind is the one and only reality. When we incorporate the ideas that form this Mind into our mind and persevere in those ideas, a mighty strength wells up within us.”
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Charles Fillmore (Prosperity, Lesson One).
One early New Thought writer, Ella Pomeroy, suggests: “Strength, in Divine Mind, is an idea of endurance.” To endure is to persist and to persevere. Our human experience of strength can be understood as much more than muscular or mental prowess. Divine Strength as endurance comes from spiritual integrity. It is our dedication to spiritual practices such as prayer, contemplation, meditation, mindfulness walks in nature, singing, mindful breathing, and more, that reveal our ability to endure our inner strength. It is also discovered by working with and acting on divine ideas.
"That which we call God is the source of all Power, the energy of all life, and is the enduring, unending strength from which all lives, moves, and has its being."
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Acts 17:28
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