Don’t wait for God (I AM) to do something. God (I AM) will do nothing for you except through your own thought. God (I AM) has given you everything. You are here to awaken through your mind, feeling, and consciousness. The transformation you are seeking you give to yourself psychologically and emotionally. The phrase born of the flesh means the mind saturated with world beliefs and opinions. You are born of the flesh if you let the world-mind and the race-belief govern you. Turn within and let your mind be governed by God’s ideas (I AM). You will then be born of the spirit.
Tonight when you go to bed just say: “I AM.” Add any condition you want to that I AM and believe it. Speak to your imagination as though you are speaking to the God who created the universe and sustains it, for you are. When you imagine something ask yourself who is imagining it, and you will say: “I AM.” That’s God’s name forever and ever. Imagine and fall asleep imagining. Believe that all things are possible to your own wonderful human I AMness. Test yourself! You don’t need to get down on your knees and pray to anyone on the outside. There is no need to cross yourself before any icon, for the Lord is your human imagination, your consciousness, your own wonderful I AMness. Nothing can ever cease to be, for God . . he who is in you as your consciousness . . created it in love.
Do you know what you want? I will tell you a simple way to get it. Simply catch the feeling that you have it and sustain that feeling. Persist in acknowledging the joy of fulfillment. In your imagination tell your friends your good news. Hear their congratulations, then allow him who heard your friends and felt your joy of fulfillment, bring it into your world, for he who can do all these things is within you as your own wonderful I AMness, your Imagination, your consciousness. That is God. Test God, for he will not fail you. Then, when he proves himself in performance, tell a friend, and continue telling others as you exercise this law. And walk knowing all the other I AM statements are yours.
Prove this in the world of shadows and you will prove the other in the world of reality. Your I AMness is the true eternal reality. Living in a world of shadows, as you declare your I AMness you are declaring eternal truth. When you say, “I AM the resurrection,” that is eternal truth. “I AM the life” is eternal truth, as well as “I AM the way.” All of these bold certainties preceded with the “I AM” are eternal truths. So, do not listen to anyone who screams at you from their tower of Babel and tells you of another way, for there is no other way. You don’t have to give up meat or only eat fish on Friday in order to enter the way, for the way to the cause of all life is within you. Believe in your I AMness for there is no other God.
As the Word, you sent yourself into the world to fulfill all that you said you would. In the beginning you were the Word which was with God and was God. You are the Word which went forth from God’s mouth and will not return void, but must accomplish that which you purposed and prosper in the thing for which you were sent. Coming out from the knowledge of being the Father, you brought with you the pattern of salvation. This you will fulfill, as it is this pattern that takes you back to the knowledge of being the Father you have been seeking.
You came out from yourself and entered the world of men by falling asleep to your true awareness. You will return to that awareness when you learn to trust the one and only God, who is your own wonderful human imagination. Forget all the little isms; there is only God! When you say I AM, you are speaking as God. Add any word and you have placed a limit on an infinite being. That which is unlimited, abides by his own law and becomes that which he believes himself to be . . whether it be unwanted, sick, helpless, or poor. Believe in a world of your own creation, and . . because all things are possible to imagine . . the moment you become aware of anything, you have given it the power to project itself on your screen of space.
What we call your mind and my mind are two manifestations or expressions of the One Mind. We do not say you have “an air” and I have “an air,” or that a fish has “a water.” There is one water in which fishes live; one air which we breathe; one Mind of which we are all a part. I AM is the Omnipresent, Universal Mind of God. It is the Principle of divine Unity underlying all creation; when Self conscious in man. There is no separation in Spirit; the individual mind can never be separated from the Universal Mind. I AM is Universal Mind. I AM is Life. I AM is Power. I AM is Health. I AM is Wealth. I AM is Success. I AM is Everything I am or can be, for I AM the I AM! To him that hath (the consciousness of I AM) shall be given; to him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. It is one thing to say that we believe in God and quite another to be conscious of God.
If you think in terms of one little being called Jesus Christ, you miss the truth completely; for Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination who is God (I AM) himself. When you imagine a state, God (I AM) has imagined it; and just as a sound brings a response, your world will respond by playing the part it must play to bring about fulfillment.
By purity of life we prepare the physical temple, and by deep devotion and holy aspiration we stir the depths of the soul into intense activity, and become a magnet for the indwelling Spirit. The soul is of the Creator; it came from that Infinite Source, and through it the spirit will express to the mind and body. The soul in its incarnation into a form of flesh is like a seed that has been sown in the earth. It must be watered by our thoughts of recognition and quickened by our deep feelings of love for the Creator. It has an affinity only for the truth of the Creator’s love; the thoughts and feelings generated by earthly things becloud its faculties and hinder it from receiving its daily sustenance from the I AM within. If the mind of a person is centered wholly upon material things, the soul becomes isolated from the Creator.
Now, the words “God” and “Lord” mean I AM! Awareness is the foundation of all life, while the words God and Lord cover it up, like a mask. Rather than calling upon the Lord’s name, call with his name. To do that you must say I AM! And because all things are possible to God, anything can be called forth with his name. The minute consciousness is connected to desire, you have called it forth with God’s name. If your desire is for wealth, fame, or health, call it forth by claiming: I AM famous, I AM wealthy, or I AM healthy.
An imaginal act is an immediate objective fact. Functioning on low intensities as we are, an imaginal act is realized in a time process. And so every vision as it stands there I assume that I AM; but at the moment reason denies and my senses deny, but I assume that I AM. And if I assume it and it seems to me real and natural, when I break the spell I know I have planted it, and then it has its own appointed hour. Every vision has its own period of gestation, as we are told by the prophet: “It has its own appointed hour, it ripens, it will flower, if it seems slow then wait, it is sure, it will not be late.” If you see it clearly in your mind’s eye, if you were really in the image, it will become just as objective as this room is now . . and again I am speaking from experience.
Sitting in my chair at home or reclining on a couch or in my bed, suddenly . . without my eyes being physically open . . I see a world that I would not see if I know where I am physically, and I can’t deny it. It’s just as real as you are. It’s objective, it is seemingly solidly real, and consciousness follows vision and I step into the world that I am observing. And stepping into my image it closes around me, and this world which is seemingly the only world I should know is shut out, and I am part of the world I contemplated, I am in it. I explore that world and it is just as solidly real as this world.
Jesus, your I AM, is the Word that was sent to transform you into himself. He is the creator of it all, for although you seem so limited and unable to create anything here, you can see everything made perfect in your imagination. You can imagine a state, remain faithful to it and it will be made alive for you. Now, if I AM made everything and you know you imagined it before it appeared, and it appeared because you imagined it, then you have found Jesus Christ to be your own wonderful human imagination.
Through the imagining power of Divine Mind, Spirit propels Itself into creation. Will power is never creative; to suppose that God had to will things into being would be to suppose an opposite or contending force to God. The Substance that you have extracted from your original and associated ideas must now be reproduced in form. It must be translated from the invisible into the visible. It must be materialized so that you can possess it in a tangible way. Each step brings you nearer to the object of your desire. The Universal Substance that you are causing to stand around you idea, whose center is I AM, is permeable, impressible, plastic, retentive and sensitive. The I AM, or Spirit, will vitalize any picture that you visualize. It will draw from the Universal Substance whatever is necessary for its material fulfillment.
There is no other God other than he who is your own wonderful human imagination. Turn to any other and you have turned to a false God. Now, make no graven image of God. “I AM” has no face. Unnumbered artists have drawn pictures of what they conceive Jesus to be, but he has no face. He is simply “I AM.” I did not know that the story of Jesus Christ was mine. I did not know Jesus interpreted the Old Testament with himself as the very center of it; that the human imagination . . our human I AMness . . was He. But now I know that there never was another Jesus and there never will be another, and those who teach another are false teachers teaching a false Christ.
Oftentimes man forgets the Source of his power and becomes drunk with power, so to speak. In other words, he misuses the law and selfishly takes advantage of his fellow man. We find that many times men in high places become conceited, opinionated, and arrogant. This is all due to ignorance of the law. The law is that power, security, and riches are not to be obtained externally. They must come from the treasure-house of consciousness. If you remain in tune with the Infinite, you discover that you are always drinking of the wine of life, love, joy, and happiness. To the spiritually-minded man, God (I AM) is the Eternal Now and his good is present at every moment of time and point of space.
Now I know I AM the center of creative power. The day will come when you too will awaken and exercise your creative power, knowingly. That is our destiny, for we all will awaken as God and use this power to create in the true sense of the word. Try to remember that there is no limit to God’s creative power, or your power of belief. Persuade yourself that things are as you desire them to be. Fall asleep in that assumption, as that is your act of faith. Tomorrow the world will begin to change, to make room for the garment of your assumption.
If there is only one cause, then he who quelled the wind and the sea is the one who caused the storm. There cannot be another. If there is confusion in your life, and you resolve it in your imagination, and the world bears witness to what you have done . . you caused the change. And since there is no other cause, then did you not cause the confusion also? There is only one God and Father of us all who is above all, through all, and in all. If He is in every being who says I AM, and there is only one God, no one can accuse another; for God’s name is not he is, but I AM. No matter what appears on the outside, I am its cause. Assume full responsibility for the things you observe, and if you do not like what you see, know you have the power to change them. Then exercise that power and you will observe the change you caused. If you are truly willing to assume that responsibility, you are set free.
All Quotes from David Allen’s The Power of I AM Volume 3 Are Attributed to…
Benjamin Johnson, Charles Fillmore, Charles Haanel, Christian Larson, Edna Lister, Emmet Fox, Ernest Holmes, Eugene Del Mar, Fenwicke L. Holmes, Florence Gloria Crawford. Frances Larimer Warner, Franklin Fillmore Farrington, H. Emilie Cady, Helen Wilmans, Henry Harrison Brown, Jane Woodard, Joseph Murphy, Nancy McKay Gordon, Neville Goddard, Orison Swett Marden, Robert A. Russell, Walter C Lanyon, William Walker Atkinson / Yogi Ramacharaka