Graduation Sunday
Join us this Sunday for a special Youth & Family Ministries-lead service celebrating the process of transitions, as we honor our recent Youth of Unity (Y.O.U.) graduates and enjoy inspiring readings, uplifting music, and great fellowship.
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Sermon Notes
Invocation
"There are no square pegs in round holes. You are where you are because there is a need to be supplied, perhaps in the way of lessons in the positive development of the faculties that will enable you to get out of the present place into a more desirable one. If it seems to you that you are a square peg in a round hole, make yourself fit into the hole you are in, or else get into another one. Don't stay there, rattling around and getting nowhere.
Your work, as you no doubt realize, is not for the purpose of supplying your own physical needs. These are supplied as gifts from the Father. Work, of whatever nature, is to render living service, in obedience to the law of giving and receiving. For you, it is for the purpose of expressing your God-given faculties and powers, to the end that you may manifest the divine ideas God has implanted, the perfect pattern of His Son.
Our work is our means of expressing what God is unfolding through us. And if our work does not do that, we are failures, even though we may keep money pouring in. The sooner we recognize that we are falling short, and make changes, the better. God is ever with us, taking care of our needs, while we are making adjustments. God momently provides what is needed. Our part is to recognize that we are getting what we need, and to rest in the assurance that when we are ready for something different, it will come."
-Myrtle Fillmore, How to Let God Help You
Scripture Verses
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.” —Romans 12:2
“Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” —1 Timothy 4:12
“I can do all things through him [(Christ)] who strengthens me.” —Philippians 4:13
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” —Luke 12:34
Reading 1
The metaphysical meaning of Talent, by Charles Fillmore
Spiritual gifts--life, love, Truth, substance, intelligence, faith, power, judgment, will, in fact, every inherent attribute of man's being--have their roots in God. All the gifts of Spirit are to be used to man's fullest ability.
The confident one uses that which is given him...[leading] into greater possibilities. The too cautious one buries his talent, because of fear that he will not meet the requirements. In [their] caution [they do] nothing, and [meet] with condemnation in consequence.
The world is full of persons who have a talent that they are afraid to use because it seems so insignificant. The fact is that the one includes all the others, and [those] who boldly [launch] out into the activity of spiritual gifts with a single perception of Truth soon [find] that there is a steady increase, and in due season [they enter] into the joy of the Lord.
Industry, activity, boldness, should be the motto of those who lack confidence in their ability to do things spiritually. Cultivate your spiritual nature with the same industry that you do your art or music or business.
Be bold and fearless in making the highest claims for yourself as a spiritual being.
Reading 2
The Tables Turned, by William Wordsworth
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless—
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:—
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.