TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO: WEEK 1: TRUE ABUNDANCE Hi! I'm Lisa and welcome to the Teachers Of God 6 Month Program. We are so happy you signed up and this is Week 1. So welcome and I'm gonna do four things on this video today. The first thing, I'm gonna go through this week's lesson, which you should have received by email, and you're gonna receive an email every single week for the next 24 weeks, and we're gonna be sending them out on Friday night, because we really want everyone to have a full weekend to have time to relax with it, to watch the video, have time to print these out if you can. Really just take the lesson in, read it, so that you can just practice for the whole week because this 6 month program is not about learning. You're not gonna learn anything new. You are gonna hear some new ideas, in a different way. We're gonna offer really simple, practical things that you can begin to apply in your life, so you can see really fast changes. So that's the first thing I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go through the lesson. The second thing I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna talk about the MOST amazing Bible story and that's why we have Jesus here, up on the wall. This is one of my favorite paintings of Jesus, it's by a woman named Glenda Green and Bill and I normally have it in the bedroom but, for today's video, because I'm gonna be talking about Him, I really just wanna have Him present. He's really overlooking this whole project that we're, that we're really stepping forth into, for the next 6 months because, as A Course In Miracles says, Jesus is the leader. For us, who have A Course In Miracles, He's the leader. What I'm gonna talk about today, is the story of the fishes and the loaves and I'm gonna read it from the Bible. You're gonna be amazed! There's a formula, in this Bible story. I've never heard it talked about in the world before but I'm gonna talk about the metaphysics of it today and it is described in here, how Jesus did the things He did, like how He took five loaves and two fish and fed 5,000 people. So I'm gonna do that second. The third thing I'm gonna do today, in this video is, I'm gonna read from A Course In Miracles, Lesson 71 and chapter 21, and the final thing I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna talk about tithing. So I know a lot of fear came up, I know a lot of you really just stepped right out of your comfort zone. I know a lot of people don't know about tithing, have a lot of questions about it and maybe you still have some concerns about it. I know I didn't know about tithing and one of the things about this program and you're gonna discover, as you go along, it actually is part of the program. I know a lot of people think we put it in there because we're trying to make money, you know, whatever ideas you had about it but what you're going to discover, it's an actual principal. It's gonna change your life. So even for the people that didn't sign up for the tithing option, it's awesome you're here and we just love just all the yes. The yes was the only thing that was necessary here and we're gonna be sending out messages on Tuesdays, reminders to tithe and I'm gonna talk about that at the end. That email, that you're gonna receive on Tuesdays is also going to have, like an inspirational message about money, money, prosperity, so it's not gonna just be a reminder to tithe, it's gonna be really something that's gonna just help teach you about this principal.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna go through the lesson. So I'm just gonna read through it and the 40 day program was a catalyst. It really was just a fast way for anybody who said yes to that, for you to see that you ALWAYS have a choice, in every single decision, in every situation, in every circumstance, with every person, you decide the outcome of what's gonna happen. So before, you might have thought, well I don't have a choice. Life is happening to me, people are doing things to me and the 40 day program is really just showing you that, you caused the whole world. That the world you think you see, is coming from you and that, as you change your mind, the picture of your whole world changes and so, when you get to the end of the 40 days, it's like you have every tool you need. You have the Course, you have everything you need, you have your guide. Nobody needs a 40 day, nobody needs a 6 month but, for extra support, it can be very valuable. So the 6 month is where we're just gonna take these principals from A Course In Miracles and we're just gonna practice them, we're gonna apply them. So the 40 days was really, you probably experienced some shifting back and forth, between fear and Love. The 6 month, we're really gonna be encouraging everyone to live centered in Love and so this is just an experiment ground. We're gonna hold that vibration consistently. So week 1, welcome, is True Abundance. We're gonna start off, right with the beginning, just the most exciting part of really seeing True Abundance in your life. So, what is True Abundance and this is what I want everyone to look at this week. What is True Abundance? It's not just about money, it's not about things and true Abundance, for me, is knowing who I am and when I start to talk about the Jesus story, with the fishes and the loaves, you'll understand why that is, because once you know WHO YOU ARE, one with God and that, that power of God is within you and we can access it, that's True Abundance, because everything you need and want, from that moment on, comes to you with NO effort. So, A Course In Miracles says, " Once you accept His Plan, God's Plan, as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you, without your effort." So once you accept His Plan and so what we're gonna ask everybody in the 6 months is a couple of things. We're gonna ask you to go buy a notebook. We're gonna ask you to take time, every single day, to read this lesson. Just to connect with it and what we're gonna ask of you, because this is not just something that you're gonna do for 6 months, we're really inviting you to start developing new patterns and behaviors, new ways of thinking, right from day 1. Right from today and we're gonna ask you to begin to practice these things. So the first thing, I'm gonna actually go to Lesson 71 right now because this is really part of it. The very first thing, that we really are asking everyone in this program to do, every single morning is, acknowledge God's plan for you. So you can wake up, get up, get the coffee, you know, brush your teeth, but whatever you do in the morning, before you start your day and you start moving through all the places you're going to go, you make that connection first. This is the 2
MOST important thing. So what it's like, it's like plugging into God. You know, plug in. So when Bill Thetford, I love this story, asked, he wanted to know, how can I hear Jesus' voice, the way that Helen Shucman hears it, so Bill asked Helen to ask Jesus, what can I do? Jesus told Helen to tell Bill, here's what Bill needs to do. He needs to say, Lord, here I am. Lord, here I am, what miracles do you want me to perform today. So we want you to get in this practice. Every single morning, you are going to be developing and making this connection with your guide, with God and your journal, really just use your journal. We're not gonna give much instruction, through the 6 months, about that journal. You're gonna receive questions with the week's assignment. They're self- reflection, they're self- study, they're just ways for you to activate parts in yourself, to seek answers, what your beliefs are but the journal, for me, is where I'm actually sitting quietly, in a friendship with Jesus and I'm asking Him, hey, here I am! What do you need me to do today? So Lesson 71. We're gonna ask you to read this lesson this week and the part that I really just want to bring to your attention here, it says, "Remembering this, that only God's Plan will succeed, so Lesson 71 is, only God's plan for Salvation will work. "Remembering this, let us devote the remainder of the extended practice periods to asking God," You'll see, you're not gonna be asking anyone outside of yourself anymore, what you should do. You're developing a real relationship with God now and it's gonna be your daily practice and as you go along, you're gonna see the strength in that. You're gonna see, like this quick ah, I'm gonna ask the Father now and we're gonna be asking God to reveal His plan to us. You're gonna be asking god to reveal His Plan to you, then it says, " Ask Him very specifically. What would you have me do? Where would you have me go? What would you have me say and to whom? and then give Him full charge of the rest of the practice period and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you, in His Plan for your Salvation." I Love this, He says, " He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His voice." So that's all you need, just willingness to be quiet, willingness to open yourself up and ask Him, what do you need today lord? What do you need today God? Refuse not to hear, the very fact that you are doing these exercises proves that you have some willingness to listen." So you're just gonna start that as the practice. That's gonna be the daily practice, everyday, just plugging into God. Just acknowledging that God knows the whole plan and now, you're getting direction right there, every morning. So True Abundance. So here's a big question. So we know all of these things from A Course In Miracles right? We know that joy is our natural condition. We know that we are meant to be truly abundant. We know these things right? So the bog question is, how come that doesn't seem to be happening and I'm gonna tell you why, because you don't know who you are. Once you know who you are, everything that Jesus says, in the Bible, in A Course In Miracles becomes true. You ask and it instantly becomes manifest in your physical world. Why, because everything in your physical world, is a thought that you've been having. So the problem, why most people do not have an experience of perfect health, perfect wealth, perfect happiness, that perfect joy, 3
that perfect freedom, that full expression, of who they are, is because it's that flip- flopping back and forth. You have a thought that's opposing that one true thought, I am Spirit. I am one with God. So A Course In Miracles says, and this is probably my favorite sentence in the whole Course In Miracles, it says, " Unweakened power, with no opposite, is what creation is." Unweakened power, so that's the power of God, with no resistance from me, no opposition, no opposing thought, is what creation is but see what the human being does, what I did, for years and years is, you have a thought, I'm the Light of the world. You'll have an affirmation, instantly, the mind brings in something that opposes the thought, well I have no money, like I have cancer, like using your eyes to look upon the conditions and the appearance in your life, to start to doubt the thought that you're having. What Jesus is really inviting us to do and what I'm inviting you to do is, just stay with the thought. Just stay with that thought. " If you had one thought, with no other thought opposing it, whatever you need and want has to manifest. Its the law but this is not normally what happens. Normally what happens is, that you want something and then you doubt it." So you have one thought and then you have a second thought that opposes it. So then nothing happens, the two thoughts cancel each other out. " When you are creating with the Holy Spirit, listening for His guidance and instructions, all things that are needed are given immediately and with no effort." So what I wanna do now, I wanna tell the story about Jesus, this story, about the fishes and the loaves, it's so good and what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna read it straight out of the bible and this is gonna be the funnest Bible instruction you ever had! So this is from Mark 6. There are several sections in the Bible that talk about the fishes and the loaves but it says, so Jesus, at this point of the story, He's already gone through the 40 days, He already has His 12 disciples and He also has many more people that are starting to listen to Him and He has about 5,000 people that have come, to really hear His message and He's got them out, in the desert. He's got them far away from where there's shops where they can buy food. " In Jesus, when He came out, saw much people and was moved with compassion toward them because they were as sheep, not having a shepherd." So I'm just gonna go through the metaphysics of this. I'm just gonna go right through it but this part here, this is what's gonna happen for you, as you go through this 6 months, is that you are going to really see and have compassion for other people who are lost and perhaps you're still feeling lost right now but you're not without a shepherd anymore. So it's an amazing thing because whenever you're in a condition of suffering or doubt, you're given exactly what you need, to lead you out of that condition and so, " He felt compassion towards them and He began to teach them many things and when the day was now far spent, His disciples came unto Him and said, this is a desert place and now the time the time is far 4
past." So, they're coming to Him, this is the human voice. They're coming to Jesus and they're saying, look at the conditions, look at the appearance, look at the lack, look at the limitation, look at the world and He said, " Send them away, that they may go into the country round about and into the villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat." So the disciples are saying, we have a problem here, these guys are hungry and we need to do something. Let's go and do the human things we know to do and buy them bread. " He answered and said unto them, give ye them to eat and they say unto Him, shall we go and buy two hundred penny worth of bread and give them to eat?" And Jesus said, this is beautiful, "He said and sayeth unto them, how many loaves have ye? Go and see." Ok, so this is the first part. He only wants to know, what we're working with. What do we have that we can work with? In one version of the Bible, Andrew, who is Simon Peter's brother, goes out and he finds a young boy who has five loaves of bread and two fish and so they find this out, this is what we have, " And when they knew, they say, five and two fishes and He, Jesus, commanded them to all sit down, by companies, upon the green grass and they sat down, in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties." So what this is, this is a practical instruction about True Abundance. So, there is a need and there also is, a picture of limitation and there's also an idea of how we solved this problem in the past and Jesus is coming along and He knows who He is. He knows He's one with the Father, so He already knows the True Abundance that He's living in and what this means, here, " He commanded them to all sit down by companies upon the green grass." He's putting it into Divine order, okay. So He's not wishing for something to happen, He knows whats gonna happen. He knows that everybody here is gonna be fed and so, you have to start putting your own world into Divine order. You're not gonna wait for things to happen, in this program. You really just wanna get rid of everything that's not serving you right now. You wanna put things in order because now, you are expecting money to flow in. You are expecting perfect health, you are expecting perfect relationships and now, you're just getting ready. So it says here, " He takes the five loaves and the two fish and He looked up." I love this. So He takes, and one of the stories, I love this, about the young lad, that a young lad has what he needs. Like one of the things we're really gonna start encouraging you to do, during this 6 months, is to be super alert of the young lad, that there is always somebody who's coming to you, or who is around your vicinity, who has exactly what you need to fulfill God's Plan, in that moment. So you're just gonna, instead of looking to the limitation of, we don't have enough, instead you're gonna start to say, we have. Like what have we got, that what He says here, " How many loaves have ye?" What are we working with? And so just be on the lookout for all the abundance that you have. So, He takes these five loaves and fishes and He looks up. So He's not looking to God, because He knows God is not 'out there', He's not up in the sky. This is, He's looking away from the appearance. He's looking up. So you're vision now, during the 6 months, it's gonna go. You're no longer gonna be just looking here and telling a story about it. It's always this connection here and what did He do? He blessed. And that's this week's assignment, you're gonna be blessing everything and then what did he do? He brake the loaves. So there was an 5
action involved. So this is a movement away from waiting and hoping and wishing and wondering, before you're giving and that's one of the reasons we introduced the tithing element here because we want you to get into the flow now, where you're giving. You're actually receiving and giving. " And He gave them to His disciples to set before them and the two fishes divided He among them all. So what we do, in the world is, we have a need or want and we just pray, with all our hearts that it comes, right? We're just hoping for the thing to come, then we think, once it comes, then I can be in an action. Then there can be a movement. Jesus is saying, no, it doesn't work that way. It's all contained here, right here, in the fishes and loaves story. Take what you have, so even if you have one dollar, that is all you need. If you only have the teeniest bit of health, that's everything. Bless it! Bless the health you have, bless the money you have, if you only have one friend in the world, that's enough. Just bless the friendship that you have. Bless it and it will multiply and you'll see, you have two friends. You start blessing the little health that you have. Can I breathe? Am I breathing right now? Oh thank God! Thank God I can breathe but what the human mind wants us to do, it says, oh but I can't get out of bed and all you're gonna do, with that kind of a thought, is get more effects if that exact thought, more I can't get out of bed. So when you're saying, I have no money, all you're gonna get is more effects of, I have no money. So this 6 month program is a complete reversal of everything you've been doing. So see, you're not gonna learn anything here. We're just gonna be really encouraging you to just keep living in a new way, for 6 months. So, I love that story. So, that's what it is, it's using what you have, blessing what you have, looking away from the appearance and taking an action. Just starting to give and what you're gonna see is, you have a storehouse that's flowing through you. You're just gonna be amazed, when you start to see that when you're not blocking the flow of your own stories and holding onto it, with your own fears, there's gonna be more and you are gonna be so amazed and you're just gonna keep giving, it's like, oh my God! This is for real! This is for real, this Law, of trusting in God and knowing who I am and now there's no fear. There will be no fear in you around money anymore, there will be no fear around giving because you will know that there's an unlimited supply of everything. Amazing right! So, this is so simple and there's always an action element involved in miracles and we are going to be working a LOT with that in this program. " You will no longer be waiting and wishing for the miracle to occur, so that you can take the first step." Now you're taking the first step and then the miracle comes. So A Course In Miracles says, " The only way to heal is to be healed. the miracle extends without your help but you are needed that it can begin. So this is what I'm gonna talk about next and this is REALLY important, is that, everything you want, it's already available to you but it's like, in a 6
different frequency. It's in a different place. So you have to make the first movement, to really get yourself into that place. You're needed that the miracle can begin. So you're no longer telling your story, of lack and limitation and how I don't have enough and how other people are doing things to me. You're literally moving out of that. You're leaving that story behind. " Accept the miracle of healing and it will go forth because of what it is and then you do something to prove that you know, that God has given what you have blessed and given thanks for. So now, we just have a few practices that I'm gonna go over. These are in your email. You're gonna get one of these, every single week and again, we just ask you to really sit with this lesson, every single morning. Just sit with the lesson and then, you're gonna be asking God, every morning, to reveal His Plan to you. This is lesson 71. You're accepting god's Plan as the one function you would fulfill. So you're really just coming now, from a place of, I'm Spirit. You're really just living now, as that invisible substance. You're no longer using your body to define who you are. You ARE the Love of God, you're the Joy of God, you're the Peace of God and you're no longer blocking it anymore with your stories. So it can be good to come up with a phrase. Like, for me, I just say, I'm the Light of the world, at all times. It's the only reason I'm here. I'm here just to help Jesus and I take that with me wherever I go. I go out in the world and I go to the bank, I go to the store, I go wherever I go and I just remember, I'm only here just to bring Light to all these situations and that's it and you're blessing everything. So you're no longer just talking about the lack and limitation and we want you to ask, what is True Abundance for you? What does that mean for you and then you're just gonna use this affirmation, every day this week, my Holiness blesses the world. I am as God created me and then you're just gonna answer these questions, you're gonna do more questions here, you're gonna use your journal. Just what's your experience, of looking away from the appearance of lack and limitation? What's your experience of acknowledging God in everything and what you're gonna find, in this work, is a lot of buried stuff starts to come out. A lot of fear starts to come up, you have emotions, alright, I'm not feeling happy all the time. Good! Awesome! You know, just don't worry about it but you're really just having this experience of saying, ok, I'm just willing to look at all my resistance. I'm willing now, to not tell a story about the fear but just to recognize it, just to acknowledge it and not try to fix it. Just to say, ok I am afraid about tithing, I am upset about the work I'm being asked to do, and just not fix it. Then you're really gonna start looking at what it is to start having a relationship with your guide, with God and what need did you have this week? Just think about that. Just really just see, what's needed this week? Whatever is needed this week, is the exact thing you need to start blessing. If you need more money, that's what you're doing, you're blessing your money and you're keeping it in circulation. Just remember the story from Jesus. He used what He has, looked away from the appearance, He blessed what He had and then an action, He broke the bread and then He gave it away. He didn't hold onto it. He just knew, it's just gonna keep flowing, and what is your experience of blessing and giving thanks? 7
So we're just gonna go quickly to Chapter 21 and then, we're gonna end this with just a really short description on tithing because I know, a lot of questions were coming up on that. So Chapter 21, Projection makes perception. " The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that but tho it is not more than that, it is not less, therefore, to you, it is something. Therefore, to you, it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause and that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with Vision is healed and Holy and nothing perceived without it means anything and where there is no meaning, there is chaos." So that's a pretty important message, that what you think you see, is where your perception is. If you have projected out there, becomes the world that YOU have made and you believe it's true and now, you're relating to it and you keep getting more of it. So what the practice is here, for 6 months, to stop looking at your problems. Stop talking about your problems and, if you can remember, when we first started the 40 day program, for those of you who were in the Facebook group, we asked everybody to come into the group and not announce yourself. Not tell your stories, not come here and say, well I have this and I'm sick and I'm lonely and I'm upset and for a moment, you're just coming in and you're having a willingness, to really plant a stake in the ground, where you say, I choose Heaven. I am Spirit. I am the Light of the world and this is the place where I now live. Those stories, that's not me. That's not me. Now, it might be my temporary experience because of the thinking. It's that constant thinking, I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick, and when you have constant thoughts like that, you literally get the effects that look like tumors, that look like pain, that look like something in the body not going right. So I know you're getting real effects. I know that. So what you need to do, you need something that's gonna stop, like that's enough of that! Like do I really wanna have a new experience and we want you to and so, we really want you to and it is going to be so simple, if you allow yourself to just practice in this way. To say, ok, I'm in the 6 month, I'm just in the 6 month and I'm gonna give it everything I have. What have I got to lose? And you will begin to see the picture of your world begin to change. We guarantee it, we absolutely guarantee it and the only way it will not change and this is important, is if you keep flipping back and forth, fear, Love, doubt, Joy, problems, Peace. You keep going back and forth. You keep having one thought and you oppose it with another thought and they cancel out totally. So what you wanna do is, you just wanna have a thought, I am the Love of God, I am one with God, I am generous, I am so blessed. My Holiness blesses the world and you're gonna see how quickly everything changes. So, we're just gonna end with everyone's favorite topic, tithing and a LOT of fear came up around this. A lot of fear! A lot of people don't know what tithing is, so I just wanna spend just a few minutes talking about it. You guys, two years ago, I didn't know what tithing was and I had 8
no money. I had three large credit card debts and at our Unity Church, someone just said, this is a practice. It's a practice that we do and it will change your life and I just thought, I have nothing to lose and the one thing i know with A Course In Miracles is, whatever you do, if you wanna see results, you have to do it a hundred percent. You cannot be in two places at one time. You know, I'll do it when I feel like it. You can't. It won't work. If you're doing it and you're only doing it because you think, oh this is how I'm getting into the 6 month program but I really don't want to tithe, it's not gonna work for you. It's really not gonna work for you and so, what you wanna do is, you really wanna look at, do I have a grievance about it and we don't need your money. I need to say that. This is not why we've asked for tithing. We have added tithing into this program because it's part of the program. Like we wanna see your fear around money completely dissolved. The people who tithe, they'll tell you, it works! It absolutely works but, if you come in with a judgment and you're only giving and you're still holding on and you're like, oh I need this money, it's not gonna work. That s all I can say. So when I first learned about tithing, I knew, I'm gonna give this 100%. I counted every penny. I was in a space now where, I just let go of every idea I had about it. I said, alright, what have I got to lose and I started keeping a little notebook. I kept a little box, I kept a notebook and every single dollar that came in, I was like, ah it came from God. I just acknowledged that the money came from God and what I did was, I wrote down the 10% on a little piece of paper and I kept it in a box and at the end of the week, I tithed the 10% and, very quickly, I began to see money coming in. All three of my debts were paid off, within 9 months. So now, I'm fearless around money. Totally fearless around it and I always have lots to give and so, one of the things that I really wanna state here, at the beginning, we have received so many messages from people, saying I have no money but see, I know you do have some money. Everyone has money but what happens is, the " I have no money" statement, is that you've already done the accounting, on what you think needs to get paid and at the end of all of that, you have said, "I have no money." So let's just say, even if you have a dollar, you have money. If you ever have taken money in your hands and go put gas in your car, you have money. So it's just, you begin to see like, oh I guess I do have some money but it's not mine, I need it for bills. No but, you have money. Everyone has money and so, what usually happens is, let's say, you have 100 dollars that comes in once a week, but your rent is 700 dollars, let's say, so you've already determined, I have no money, because I can't even pay my rent, but see, you do have money and you were only living in lack and limitation with a story around it. What this practice is, you're gonna take that 100, you're gonna look away from the appearance, you're gonna look away, you're gonna acknowledge God and you're gonna tithe 10% on it, 10 dollars and what you're gonna see is, that this unlimited supply of abundance, which also comes in divine ideas, is gonna start flowing to you and you are gonna start going places, there's an action involved, where you're no longer being a victim, you're no longer sitting around, feeling sorry for yourself thinking, I have no money, I have no job. It's like, you're gonna be alive! There's like, the Spirit comes upon you and there's movement in you now. There's this excitement and you are going to feel the flow now. You are gonna feel like, ok wow, things are moving. 9
So we really just are so grateful, for you saying yes to this program. This is week 1 and we really just want you to practice this idea of True Abundance this week. You know, really just looking at what it means for you and really this practice of sitting with God every morning and asking Him to reveal to you, His Plan and just living in this new way. Like this program really is about, that you have been centered in fear and that's why you were getting the conditions of your life, the effects of being centered in fear and now you've shifted, like your yes to this program, shifted you over here, centered in Love and now, you're gonna get the effects of being over here but just don't oppose that thought anymore. Just really just let this be your dedication. So, thank you. Have a great week! 10