Myrtle Fillmore’s Healing Letters and PrayerThe difference between blind faith and understanding faith is significant because choosing one over the other directly impacts the way in which we relate to God. A Unity minister once explained it this way: In Unity we don’t teach you what to think, but how to think. Rather than an unknowable God out there, we believe in the power and presence of God indwelling.
Paul said in I Corinthians:
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? …therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit.
He does not say that we should glorify our body, but that we should glorify God in our body and in our spirit. We are not to worship the physical body but to celebrate the presence and power of God within us and all around us, for God is in His creation and working still. In speaking of prayer, Myrtle Fillmore wrote that:
With our eye of faith we must see God in our flesh, see that wholeness for which we are praying in every part of the body temple.
We affirm regularly in Unity I am a child of God, made in the image and likeness of God! This concept is essential to understanding the teachings of Unity, but what does it really mean? Michelangelo made God in the image of man when he depicted God as a large and glorious man-like being reaching out to Adam in the moment of creation. Yet, how could we expect the creator of the universe and all of life to fit into a human body? Why would we want such a limited god?
Jesus said that God is Spirit, that the kingdom of God is within you and that we are one with God. I believe that we are spiritual beings expressing through a physical body and that it is this spiritual self which is made in the image of God. Further, I believe that Christ-like behavior defines the likeness of God, because it is in learning to live from our spiritual center and in choosing to live in accord with His teachings that we fulfill this affirmation.
Myrtle Fillmore said that:
We need to harmonize our thinking and our prayers with actual living experiences.
If I want to experience healing and the fullness of being, then I must be willing to put my feet upon the path and walk in faith and positive expectation. Answered prayer requires a transformation of every thought, word and action in my life, not just a juggling of what little I might be willing to give up in order to feel better, for now. Fillmore continued:
As we pray, the word of life is going down into us, breaking up old fixed beliefs and reorganizing our life. Working in the consciousness of freedom, we will be happy and well and busy and prosperous. But our attention will be upon what we are doing rather than upon outer results. The results will take care of themselves once we have started our foundation in Truth.
Rev. Claudia Naylor
The difference between blind faith and understanding faith is significant because choosing one over the other directly impacts the way in which we relate to God. A Unity minister once explained it this way: In Unity we don’t teach you what to think, but how to think. Rather than an unknowable God out there, we believe in the power and presence of God indwelling.Paul said in I Corinthians:
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? …therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit.
He does not say that we should glorify our body, but that we should glorify God in our body and in our spirit. We are not to worship the physical body but to celebrate the presence and power of God within us and all around us, for God is in His creation and working still. In speaking of prayer, Myrtle Fillmore wrote that:
With our eye of faith we must see God in our flesh, see that wholeness for which we are praying in every part of the body temple.
We affirm regularly in Unity I am a child of God, made in the image and likeness of God! This concept is essential to understanding the teachings of Unity, but what does it really mean? Michelangelo made God in the image of man when he depicted God as a large and glorious man-like being reaching out to Adam in the moment of creation. Yet, how could we expect the creator of the universe and all of life to fit into a human body? Why would we want such a limited god?
Jesus said that God is Spirit, that the kingdom of God is within you and that we are one with God. I believe that we are spiritual beings expressing through a physical body and that it is this spiritual self which is made in the image of God. Further, I believe that Christ-like behavior defines the likeness of God, because it is in learning to live from our spiritual center and in choosing to live in accord with His teachings that we fulfill this affirmation.
Myrtle Fillmore said that:
We need to harmonize our thinking and our prayers with actual living experiences.
If I want to experience healing and the fullness of being, then I must be willing to put my feet upon the path and walk in faith and positive expectation. Answered prayer requires a transformation of every thought, word and action in my life, not just a juggling of what little I might be willing to give up in order to feel better, for now. Fillmore continued:
As we pray, the word of life is going down into us, breaking up old fixed beliefs and reorganizing our life. Working in the consciousness of freedom, we will be happy and well and busy and prosperous. But our attention will be upon what we are doing rather than upon outer results. The results will take care of themselves once we have started our foundation in Truth.
Rev. Claudia Naylor
