Sermon on the Mount – Prayer – God is infinite and the only power
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Hymn 292
The Holy bible
Matt. 6:9, 13 (NLT)
Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Ps 147:5 (NLT and KJV)
How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is infinite.
Ps. 83:18 (NLT)
[T]hey will learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.
Gen. 18:14 (NLT)
Is anything too hard for the Lord?
I Sam. 17:4-9, 11-14, 26, 31-34, 37, 40-43, 45-46, 47-50 (NLT)
Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the forces of Israel. He was over nine feet tall! He wore a bronze helmet, and his bronze coat of mail weighed 125 pounds. He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder. The shaft of his spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver’s beam, tipped with an iron spearhead that weighed 15 pounds. His armor bearer walked ahead of him carrying a shield. Goliath stood and shouted a taunt across to the Israelites: “Choose one man to come down here and fight me! If he kills me, then we will be your slaves. But if I kill him, you will be our slaves!” When Saul and the Israelites heard this, they were terrified and deeply shaken.
Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, . . . . [who] had eight sons. . . David was the youngest son. David asked the soldiers standing nearby, “. . . . Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?” Then David’s question was reported to King Saul, and the king sent for him. “Don’t worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I’ll go fight him!” “Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”
But David persisted. “The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”
[A]rmed only with his shepherd’s staff and sling, he started across the valley to fight the Philistine.
Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. And he cursed David by the names of his gods. David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today the Lord will conquer you, . . . And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!”
As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him. Reaching into his shepherd’s bag and taking out a stone, he hurled it with his sling and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank in, and Goliath stumbled and fell face down on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine.
Is. 33:22 (NLT)
[T]he Lord is our judge, our lawgiver, and our king. He will care for us and save us.
Job 37:23 (KJV)
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
Job 33:4 (KJV)
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Job 32:8 (KJV)
There is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Zeph. 3:14-17 (KJV)
Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: . . . The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save . . . .
Ex. 15:26 (NLT)
I am the Lord who heals you.
Luke 4:14, 16-18, 21 (NLT)
Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power.. . . he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,. . .” Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”
Mark 5:21, 25-34 (NLT)
Jesus . . . went . . . to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore. A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition. Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him . . . . [H]e said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”
John 5:19, 30; 6:63 (NLT)
Jesus explained, . . . .I can of mine own self do nothing. . . . The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Rev 11:17 (KJV)
We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by Mary Baker Eddy
SH 17:12-15
Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
SH 275:6-9, 14
The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, — that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle. All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. No wisdom is wise but His wisdom; no truth is true, no love is lovely, no life is Life but the divine; no good is, but the good God bestows.
SH 581:3
Almighty. All-power; infinity; omnipotence.
SH 590:1-3
Kingdom of Heaven. The reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme.
SH 593:20
Salvation. Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed.
SH 109:32-3
The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, — Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, — contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual.
SH 119:1-5
When we endow matter with vague spiritual power, — that is, when we do so in our theories, for of course we cannot really endow matter with what it does not and cannot possess, — we disown the Almighty . . . .”
SH 357:26-29
Can Deity be almighty, if another mighty and self-creative cause exists and sways mankind? Can matter drive Life, Spirit, hence, and so defeat omnipotence?
SH 174:4-6
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
SH 202:26
We admit that God has almighty power, is “a very present help in trouble;” and yet we rely on a drug or hypnotism to heal disease, as if senseless matter or erring mortal mind had more power than omnipotent Spirit.
SH 231:7
If God heals not the sick, they are not healed, for no lesser power equals the infinite All-power; but God, Truth, Life, Love, does heal the sick through the prayer of the righteous.
SH 218:17
Why pray for the recovery of the sick, if you are without faith in God’s willingness and ability to heal them? If you do believe in God, why do you substitute drugs for the Almighty’s power, and employ means which lead only into material ways of obtaining help, instead of turning in time of need to God, divine Love, who is an ever-present help?
SH 228:25-29
There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God. The humble Nazarene overthrew the supposition that sin, sickness, and death have power. He proved them powerless.
SH 339:20-25
As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so will our material theories yield to spiritual ideas, until the finite gives place to the infinite, sickness to health, sin to holiness, and God’s kingdom comes “in earth, as it is in heaven.”
SH 567:7-8
To infinite, ever-present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin, sickness, nor death.
SH 430:17-28
Suppose a mental case to be on trial, as cases are tried in court. A man is charged with having committed liver-complaint. The patient feels ill, ruminates, and the trial commences. Personal Sense is the plaintiff. Mortal Man is the defendant. False Belief is the attorney for Personal Sense. Mortal Minds, Materia Medica, Anatomy, Physiology, Hypnotism, Envy, Greed and Ingratitude, constitute the jury. . . . Judge Medicine is on the bench. The evidence for the prosecution being called for, a witness testifies thus: —
SH 431:3-10
[T]he prisoner watched with the sick every night in the week. When the sick mortal was thirsty, the prisoner gave him drink. During all this time the prisoner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at irregular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately after a heavy meal. At last he committed liver-complaint, which I considered criminal, inasmuch as this offence is deemed punishable with death.
SH 433:18-19, 31-1
Judge Medicine then proceeds to pronounce the solemn sentence of death upon the prisoner. Ah! but Christ, Truth, the spirit of Life and the friend of Mortal Man, can open wide those prison doors and set the captive free.
SH 434: 19-21, 30-32
Christian Science turns suddenly to the supreme tribunal, and opens the argument for the defence: — Your Honor, the lower court has sentenced Mortal Man to die, but God made Man immortal and amenable to Spirit only.
SH 437:32-33; 438:5-7
The attorney, Christian Science, then read from the supreme statute-book, the Bible, . . . Behold, I give unto you power . . . over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
SH 441:33-8
We have no trials for sickness before the tribunal of divine Spirit. There, Man is adjudged innocent of transgressing physical laws, because there are no such laws. Our statute is spiritual, our Government is divine. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The Jury of Spiritual Senses agreed at once upon a verdict, and there resounded throughout the vast audience-chamber of Spirit the cry, Not guilty. Then the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.
SH 16:20
Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord’s Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick.
SH 368:2-5, 14
The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal. Error is a coward before Truth. When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error.
SH 268:9-5
Materialistic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final combat. In this revolutionary period, like the shepherd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle with Goliath.
SH 109:?-27
The revelation of Truth in the understanding came to me gradually and apparently through divine power. When a new spiritual idea is borne to earth, the prophetic Scripture of Isaiah is renewedly fulfilled: “Unto us a child is born, . . . and his name shall be called Wonderful.”
SH 568:13-15
Revelation xii. 10-12. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ.
Hymn 200
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