Freedoms Testimony

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I recently heard testimony from a woman shoes history described her as a five-time felon confined to death row. Not surprisingly, she began to think about God, rather then the impending doom awaiting her. As her relationship with the Spirit deepened, it overtook her consciousness as being the Supreme Reality, and profound changes began to occur. At first, it was small things: she was allowed to exercise in the yard; she joined the prison choir and began to sing the good news about the Spirit. Eventually, her death sentence was reduced to a life sentence. Today, she is free, and spends her time visiting churches singing and speaking about the empowering Presence of God.

The truth is that she became free the moment she turned to the Spirit within her own being as her refuge and strength. As she merged her mind with the One Mind, she sloughed off the sense of a self separate from the Essence of her life. Her union with God became so complete that she experienced a new incarnation right within this very lifetime. Divine Law responded and everything around her conformed to a new birth in her identity. She would have been free had she never left the confines of the prison cell because she was inwardly free already!

Many people give themselves death sentences served out in the prison of their own minds. They are prisoners of fear, jealousy, lack, limitation, greed and selfishness.

Today, examine the self-centered prison into which you have confined yourself. Then, be willing to step into your God-consciousness without any thought of personal reward. Watch the shackles of your false beliefs, unwanted habits and negative thought patterns fall away as the revelation of your true Self unfolds. Desire freedom of the Spirit. Set your intention to live your life in the freedom consciousness that is already yours!

I claim the Truth that I was created free, born free and live in my true state of spiritual freedom. I feel, sense and know there is only a Law of Freedom and I am governed by it now.
Michael Beckwith