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Wednesday Meeting Readings

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The Daily Prayer, Part 1
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
w240724WCThe Bible
  1. Matt. 6:9 (to :), 10 (to 1st .)

    9After this manner therefore pray ye:

    ... 10Thy kingdom come.

  2. Matt. 6:6 when

    when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

  3. Luke 17:20 when, 21

    when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

    21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

  4. Luke 18:15-17

    15And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

    16But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

    17Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

  5. Jer. 29:11-14 I (to :)

    I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

    12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

    13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

    14And I will be found of you, saith the Lord:

  6. Ps. 40:8

    8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

  7. Ps. 19:7-9, 14

    7The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

    8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

    9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

    ... 14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

  8. Ps. 119:1-4, 12, 18, 34, 35, 44, 72, 97

    1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

    2Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

    3They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

    4Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

    12Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.

    18Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

    34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

    35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

    44So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

    72The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

    97O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

  9. Col. 3:16 (to ;), 17

    16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;

    ... 17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

  10. Rev. 11:15 2nd The

    The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.


Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy
  1. SH 590:1

    Kingdom of Heaven. The reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent 3Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme.

  2. SH 16:31

    Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.

  3. SH 576:21

    This kingdom of God “is within you,” — is within reach of man’s consciousness here, and the spiritual idea reveals it. In divine Science, man possesses this 24recognition of harmony consciously in proportion to his understanding of God.

  4. SH 109:32-12

        The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omni-110110:1presence, omniscience, — Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, — contradict 3God’s allness learnedforever the belief that matter can be actual. These eternal verities reveal primeval exist-ence as the radiant reality of God’s creation, 6in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wis-dom good.

        Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful 9unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfecti-bility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on 12earth.

  5. SH 265:1-15

    Man is the off-spring, not of the lowest, but of the highest qualities of 3Godward gravitationMind. Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, 6their affections and aims grow spiritual, — they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite, — in order that sin and mortality 9may be put off.

        This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity 12 and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en-larged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent 15peace.

  6. SH 476:28-5

        When speaking of God’s children, not the children of men, Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you;” 30The kingdom withinthat is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God’s image is unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per-477477:1fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour 3saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.

  7. SH 65:11

    To gain Christian Science and its 12harmony, life should be more metaphysically regarded.

  8. SH 115:12-5
    SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF IMMORTAL MIND

    Divine synonymsGod: Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind.

    15Divine imageMan: God’s spiritual idea, individual, per-fect, eternal.

    Divine reflectionIdea: An image in Mind; the immediate 18object of understanding. — Webster.

    SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION OF MORTAL MIND

    First Degree: Depravity.

    21Physical. Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear, depraved will, self-justification, pride, envy, de-Unrealityceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, 24death.

    Second Degree: Evil beliefs disappearing.

    Transitional qualitiesMoral. Humanity, honesty, affection, com-27passion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance.

    116 116:1Third Degree: Understanding.

    Spiritual. Wisdom, purity, spiritual understanding, 3Realityspiritual power, love, health, holiness.

        In the third degree mortal mind disappears, and man as God’s image appears.

  9. SH 192:27-29

        We walk in the footsteps of Truth and Love by follow-ing the example of our Master in the understanding of divine metaphysics.

  10. SH 278:3 (only), 14-16

    Divine metaphysics explains away matter.

    Hence, 15as we approach Spirit and Truth, we lose the consciousness of matter.

  11. SH 122:1-7

        The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord, — 3Opposing testimonyassigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly un-derstood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false 6witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven, — the actual reign of harmony on earth.

  12. SH 208:20

    Let us learn 21of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven, — the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain 24forever unseen.

  13. SH 476:21-22

        Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood.

  14. SH 248:29

    Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, 30health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.

From the Christian Science Hymnal
Hymn 10: “All power is given unto our Lord … His kingdom is forever”
Hymn 519: “… Let the healing reign of Truth and Life … be now established within me”
Hymn 204: “O Father, Thy kingdom is come upon earth”

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