9/25: Acts 17:28

9/25: Acts 17:28

  1. What a lovely voice and message to wake up to. Thank you, Mark.

  2. Thank you, Mark!

  3. God and His thoughts, period! We are His thoughts…KNOW the Thinker, and we navigate His realm in unending joy, discovery, and unity.

  4. what a great insight--if it makes you afraid it can't be real---and that is true on the face of it as being afraid is not good--God is all & God is good.

  5. I love it! Thank you Mark. Just what I needed this morning.

  6. If there’s no place where God is not, and if we are His image and likeness, as Genesis 1:26, 27 says, then it’s true that “in him we live, and move, and have our being”! Acts 17:28.

    Then God must be the sum total of our wonderful existence!

    Oh, but wait: this shows sin, sickness and death as unreal; our material existence an illusion; and us, His spiritual image and likeness… inseparable from God.
    Always protected, just reflecting Him…
    “If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there” Psalm 139:8

    ESPAÑOL
    Si no hay lugar donde Dios no esté, y si somos Su imagen y semejanza, como dice Génesis 1:26, 27, ¡entonces es cierto que “en el vivimos y nos movemos y somos”! Hechos 17:28.

    ¡Entonces Dios debe ser la suma total de nuestra maravillosa existencia!

    Oh, pero espera: esto demuestra que el pecado, la enfermedad y la muerte son irreales; nuestra existencia material una illusion; y nosotros, Su imagen y semejanza espiritual… inseparables de Dios.
    Siempre protegidos, solo reflejandolo…
    “Si subiere a los cielos, allí estás tú; si en el Seol hiciere mi estrado, he aquí, allí tú estás” Salmo 139:8

  7. I LOVE this lift!! Thank you so much! How wonderful to think, that if I am afraid of something, that's a guarantee that it does not exist!

  8. I love this down to my toes! God is completely good!

  9. A beautiful message to contemplate; thank you Mark.

  10. Thank you for that great message.

  11. Thanks Mark ! You make it sound so simple (what did you say?) It IS SIMPLE ! And hear hear to Elena #6 your comment sums it up well !

  12. What a powerful lift. I am so grateful to hear it this morning. Many thanks

  13. Many thanks Mark for this very inspiring lift. Yes. In Him [divine Love] we [all] live move and have our being [in total harmony], the kingdom of heaven." "Till time and space and fear are naught/ My quest shall never cease,/ Thy presence ever goes with me/ And Thou dost give me peace." Christian Science Hymnal #136).

  14. Thanks Mark-It is simple when we listen as little children to God-thank you for sharing this beautiful message.Michael.

  15. Wow! what a treatment! powerful stuff!

  16. Thank You for this lift, and I will keep this as my ceaseless prayer for today.

  17. My hero. This morning a rainbow appeared over my apple tree. God speaks to us in the clearest possible terms!

  18. Thank you Mark. This is great for sharing in the Sunday School. Just perfect, just needed :-)

  19. Thank you so much for regularly sharing your inspiration - it is always simple and profound

  20. Thank you,what a wonderful way to start our day -- God is Good. Thanks

  21. thank you mark

  22. Thank you so much, I love the clarity and the freedom of this thought. Simple and divinely powerful!

  23. Very helpful. Thank you.

  24. Thank you Mark

  25. Thanks Mark, in Good we live,move and be. Thats all there is. Loving day to all!

  26. I loved it Mark! So simple and so true. If I fear something, then that is a guarantee that it doesn´t exist. Just wonderful. Thank you for this lovely and powerful DL.

  27. Thank you for this wonderful lift this morning. We are going on a trip tomorrow and I know that all will be well, nothing to fear. Perfect Love casts out fear. Barbara

  28. Alan from Boston - 9/25
    Thank you Mark. Beautiful thought to maintain all the time.

  29. Es tan dificil comprender que lo único que existe realmente es Dios, ¿acaso no lo sentimos diariamente?
    esa es la maravillosa Verdad, que la vida humana es sólo ilusión, alegoría no realidad, y SÍ somos imagen divina manifestando sus hechos espirituales ya que no hay otros hechos, a medida que nos vamos dando cuenta y apartamos todo lo humano, TODO aún aquello que nos parece genuino recien ahí comenzamos verdaderamente a comprender, y si anhelo ese día en que lo logremos en Su totalidad.

    Muchas gracias Mark, por el inspirado mensaje y despojémosno de lo alegórico y vivamos en el espiritu..

  30. Great message! Thank you.

  31. Thank you,"This for unfolding is God's day,..." splendid Christian Science treatment. (Science and Health, page 584, by Mary Baker Eddy.)

  32. Thank you so much Mark. That is it - all there is is God's goodness. Thank you too for saying that if one is afraid of something it practically guarantees that it doesn't exist because one can never be afraid of anything good. I wrote this down, thought about it in the light of what I had been thinking about, and it immediately cleared the air, broke the mesmerism about what had been going round and round in my thinking so that I felt free and feel free now. Thank you so much.

  33. A very healing message - will listen, re-listen, and share... So grateful for these Daily Lifts and all the healing resources of Church. Thank you, Mark, and all!

  34. Thanks so much, Mark, for such and inspiring and timely message. This is just the thought I need for a friend I'm helping.

  35. Thank you Mark for this early morning focus on PRESENCE today and spiritual creation everywhere we look. In

  36. Good lift for the day.Thank you,Mark.christy nworu.uniport,nigeria.

  37. How much light this has brought to each of us and thus to the world. Thank you...

  38. Thank you, Mark, for “Acts 17:28 … ‘In Him we live and move and have our being’ … the ‘Him’ … is God … it’s just God … completely good …” What if I lived, accordingly? How much “ungood” would fall away from my experience? How much good am I ready to accept? I’ve learned through Christian Science that it’s our right and responsibility (and quite doable!) to apply the Truth of being to the human condition; to challenge sin, sickness, disease, and death (even to extinction!) through the understanding that nothing unlike God/Good is real. So, IF “In Him we live and move and have our being;” THEN, I’m free to “rejoice and be glad” by proving this simple but profound Truth of being every day. To expect, witness, and express only all good unfolding, uninterrupted is like living an ongoing testimony. Wow! Thanks again, Mark.

  39. Thank you Mark - simple and profound! Wonderful:-)

  40. Outstanding, Mark...Thank you so much!

  41. Thank you Mark! That is absolutely wonderful. Very simple. As someone said, a treatment for all unlike good. I had to listen right away twice and then will no doubt come back later today. The hymn that comes to me is " The dawn of all things real is breaking oer me..." (# 64)
    I feel healing coming on.....!!!

  42. Mark, I love your lift today. I love the way the daily lifts always bring God's perfect being to the forefront of our thought to bless us and others each beautiful day! Thank you.

  43. This is a wonderful assurance that there is no fear---in Him, perfect Love, there is no fear--and, therefore the only place we can ever be is in His Love, where all is now and forever all good. There can never be any loss in this all-embracing perfect Love..for now and for all eternity. Thank you!

  44. A purely perfect statement to cherish for today. Thank you Mark! And thank you #13 and all.

  45. Beautiful Mark!! Such a powerful thought to get rid of ALL fear. This is a lift I'll share with many and especially two friends recovering from knee replacement surgery and another having challenges with arthritis - no impediments to motion for those who keep in thought that all being and therefore all motion is in and of God and we can never be outside of His loving care.

  46. Thank you Mark. Excellent.

  47. I loved what you said about "If I am afraid of anything that is the proof that it is unreal."

  48. Thank you, just phenomenal Mark! Thanks to Malcolm for the hymn reference and to everyone else for sharing their loving comments.

  49. Hi Mark thank you God is Good.

  50. Outstanding message, Mark. It is truly divine Love meeting
    every human need for the world. Thank you!

  51. Without a doubt. AMEN! Thank you Mark for this clear and simple thought.

  52. What a powerful Lift! THANK YOU, MARK. How freeing to know there is no time or space as we live, move, and have our being.

  53. I just love you message dear Mark. Thank you so much for always uplifting our thoughts. Blessings, Sylvia

  54. Thanks Mark.....I love the guarantee!

  55. I loved this, Mark. Thank you. I watched a documentary of a young man who rode his bicycle out onto Lake Eyre, which is a salt lake, so all glittery and very bright. He set up camp and just waited out there, all by himself, day after day; and nights passing in that immensity, until a storm came and he had to leave, lugging his bicycle and all his gear to go in search of the land. From the start he was quickly bored, and then he came to the place where he had to think, and watch what he was thinking. People phoned him, and he exercised - but I couldn't help thinking that he is in the same place as I am right here: with God, inseparable from God, and "in Him we live and move and have our being." His photos, in all this, were the most unimagineably spectacular 360 degrees of an ever changing blue sky; and the crystals of the lake; and his little one man tent.
    Thank you Nate and the team; the Board of lectureship and lecturers; and the world wide Lift family.

  56. Muchas Mark! That statement is all-embracing, fulfilling every need!

  57. Hallelujah. thanks. So be it!

  58. What a great way to start the day knowning All things that are real are from God!,Thank You Mark.

  59. So be it! Thanks ever so much.

  60. Thank you, Mark!
    How wonderful to know that if I'm afraid of something, it doesn't exist - how simple, yet true.

  61. Thank you , Mark; simple truth.

  62. Aren't these Daily Lifts the BEST! Thank you so much for the insight on Acts 17:28....loved it...and will use it!

  63. Thank you Mark, and all those who lift us as well, we are blessed in His being.

  64. That verse was a major turning point in my dad's healing of the symptoms of polio. My grandmother often told us grandkids about it. She filled her thought with the truth of that verse, and knew its power. He was very young and many other young kids were experiencing this problem. He became able to walk again, gained full strength, and lived a vigorous life, including being dad to four of us and granddad to many! I love Acts 17:28!!

  65. i like the music. I listened three times to this. I will hold on to God is All Good today.

  66. As usual, Mark, you give us a clear understanding of the ever presence of God

  67. What a wonderful sense of safety that thought of God's ALLNESS and ONENESS affords us in all situations. Thank you Mark for stating it so clearly.

  68. This is so powerful .
    Thank you Mark.
    Important to realize that if something makes us afraid it is NOT real
    because of the fact that we do live, move, and BE
    in Spirit, God.

  69. Knowing that God is All in all makes it easy to be grateful.

    You are super!

  70. To say it another way. 1) Mortal Mind tells us we have disease and names it. 2) Question: "Did God create it, make it or cause it to happen?" Answer: NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT. 3) Then we who lives and moves and have our being in God can not be afraid of it or experience it. PERIOD!!

  71. Thank you so much for this inspiring lift!

  72. Thank you.

  73. Heartfelt thanks to the Lift Team for attaching lectures to each Daily Lift when possible. I just watched Mark's in the former SS building given last Oct and it was TOTALLY UPLIFTING! I'll never forget his point that merely yelling "go! go! go!" at a football team on TV has no effect on the game. Nor can the human mind alone affect the "game" of human life. We must pray with divine Mind. Thanks, Mark.

  74. Thanks Mark. Truly uplifting! It's so simple, yet profound to understand that being is "just God and what God is doing." And that this doing of God is completely good. In infinite goodness we live and move and have our being!

  75. Thank you Mark. Great lift, and great comments.
    Beautiful day to all!

  76. Thanks for such an upbeat message.

  77. What a truly friendly message which give a caring comfort and Peace. Thanks.

  78. I love this...the bottom line is...no ifs, ands or buts...God is, so we are!

  79. Wonderful lift Mark; Thank you so much!! we are being reminded that Truth is absolute and error is nothing in the light of Truth, no matter how fearful it seems to be!!

  80. What a great way to start off the day. I love putting God first. It is the only way.
    I look forward to sharing this lift with my Sunday School class.
    What wonderful thoughts! Thank you for sharing them with the world.

  81. Thank you for this powerful message!

  82. Thank you Mark. How simple. How strong.
    Infinite Good. Eternal Good. Omnipotent Good.
    And we embraced in the midst of it.

  83. I add my imperfect thanks as well today!! ahh those"Divine Messages" saving us each day in our every need!

  84. I liked how you said we live and move and breath because that makes me think that there is nothing that can harm us and we can't forget that God is our father/mother

  85. You're so very welcome! You can tell that I loved recording this Daily Lift. We all sure owe deep thanks to Nate and the whole staff of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship for making these Lifts available for everyone...thank you!

  86. Thank you, thank you, Mark, for this wonderful Lift. How beautiful and powerful it is, how uniquely expressed, and how clearly. As others have said, I too value all that you are doing for the world in sharing such love and truth.

  87. So simple, yet so powerful! Thanks

  88. It is good to apply this verse to all the world leaders meeting at the United Nations this week. We are all one with God, Mind, moving in accord with Him.
    Thank you Mark and the Lift team.

  89. can't get much clearer than that, Mark. thank you

  90. so simple and concise... very powerful truth. if it scares you, it can't be real. will meditate on this forever. thank you Mark.

  91. So strengthening! Many thanks.

  92. Thank you Mark,
    That is just perfect for me this morning

  93. Thank you so much for this strong message. And thank you for your recent article (Oct. 1 Sentinel) Prayer for the heart that rejects God. I study it over and over, as it really speaks to me. I substitute words that apply to my experience. Like, 'disturbing thoughts' don't deserve a place or life in my consciousness. I am so grateful for all of these avenues of inspiration.

  94. Thank you so very much for this timely and timeless message. It is just what I needt o know today, and everyday. .

  95. that is all we really need to know and hang onto always .It is absolutely wonderful when we do.Thank you so much Mark for putting it so simply.love and peace to all.

  96. Wow!....Simply put!... and abbreviated to its essence.....

    God and what He does.....
    Thanks, Mark

  97. Wow, that truly puts it into perspective!

  98. Thank you Mark, really helpful!

  99. "...whenever we feel threatened or afraid of something, that's a guarantee of it's unreality..."
    We can throw the light of truth on any threat or fear.
    It works! Let's live in Him...
    Thank you Mark

  100. Such an important message for me and delivered with such conviction. Thank you, Mark. I will make an effort to remember this often during the day - the guarantee that anyting scary could not possibly be real because of the overriding, overpowering presence of God, good - the only reality.

  101. Wow! I especially liked the part about "if we're afraid of it, that shows it's not real." Good and so good with the Christian Science Bible Lesson this week on the topic "Unreality". Looking forward to hearing your lecture in Maine in the next couple of weeks.

  102. I really needed to hear this this morning. I am fighting a fear and I will work with this wonderful mesage today and unceasingly. Thank you so much Mark, Nate and BOL.

  103. Wow . . . thank you so much, Mark. Over and over in the comments people have mentioned the simplicity of this Lift. Then #96 Bill B nailed it by saying "abbreviated to its essence." Exactly. The profound simplicity of "God is--we are." I can go in the strength of this meat 40 days and more in the wilderness. Thank you. And Nate, the music is sublime.

  104. What a wonderful and inspiring message for today and always to think about!
    Thank you Mark.

  105. Powerful! If i am afraid of something it means its not real . God is All - not All and something else. Thank you mMrk for this enlightening truth!

  106. Perfect, thank you.

  107. Great inspiration, thank you Mark.

  108. In Him
    That’s God

    We live,
    We’re God’s creation.

    And move,
    That’s freedom

    And have our being.
    That’s our existance

    Wonderful Lift! Thanks!

  109. Thank you!

  110. Thank you for the clarity of this message, simple and profound It is freeing. Thank you to all for additional thoughts and comments. They are helpful and much appreciated.

  111. I'm home! Thank you Mark, for simple, but strongly reasonable thoughts on threats, fears, even worries, which are only shades of fear hiding multiple ways. If I won't accept an outright fear, I might let a "little" worry slide into my thinking, and soon it multiplies. Some worries grow into fears that seem to begin within, so are less likely to be rejected, than if presented in a more direct way from a so-called outside source. This Lift is a good one to share, for I love the connection of the Bible verse to your saying, "If I'm afraid of something, that guarantees it doesn't exist." I need to apply that more often and vehemently to the little worries swimming in and around my thoughts as I do daily tasks, and read daily news. Some begin as, "I'm running out of time and/or space", (this Lift reminds me I never had any to use up or waste). My physical world is only what my eyes take in, my ears hear, and my body feels. But these and everything else are mental, a world teeming with more of God's ideas, living, loving, serving. If anything is presented as wrong in that world, through physical sense or news reports, I can prayerfully heal that thought, not shove it aside, but heal it, because I know all is in divine Mind, with no one in need, or doing wrong. If my sink needed cleaned, I'd wipe it out, or scrub, if necessary. I can effectively "houseclean" my thoughts, dusting, wiping, and when needed scrubbing. That's my daily healing task to work for myself and the world.

  112. Dear Mark,
    Thank you so much for this lift and also for your lecture in Vancouver on Saturday. It was well worth the ferry trip!

  113. Great Lift, Mark! And one which has recently been my own inspiration in dealing with various problems. To know that God is all, and therefore the only Mind which we reflect----is a powerful idea. God knows only good: harmony, completeness, infinite supply....not material, but spiritual.

  114. Super,super,powerful,to the point,lift.Good is all there is!!Thank you for your understanding and clear explanation.

  115. Thank you for a perfect lift that is the essence of Christian Science. I will not delete it anytime soon.

  116. Anything fearful or repulsive must not be true, nor worth pursuing. Get thee behind.

  117. Dear Mark, I tuned in to the Daily Lift just as the light of morning was appearing outside my windows. And as I listened to it I began to see another dawning was appearing ...a higher, fuller sense of the
    message of Acts 17:28. I'll continue to let in this light.
    Thank you so much.

  118. What a beautiful Lift with beautiful music. Heavenly!

  119. Many,many thanks for your message from God today, Mark. It healed a great challenge for me as I know it will for others also. It is so cleaar and understandable. I also sincerely thank Nate, the lecturers and all
    who make these Lifts possible.

  120. That's good to remember Mark. Thank you. And thank you to the BOL and Nate and all the contributers.

  121. Wow!

  122. Thank you Mark for your wonderful Daily Lift today. I also want to thank Nate and all the lectures and those who make the Daily Lift possible.

  123. Thank you, Mark.

  124. I have always loved this statement and now I will love thinking about it in an even more helpful way-- thank you!

  125. Thanks again, Mark... had to tune in to this again before bed...... been using the thought all day.....

    wonderful..!

  126. Thank you, Mark! I love the insight that if something or some thought seems frightening, that immediately alerts us to its unreality. Your Lift is a great blessing.

    Lesley, UK

  127. I keep coming back to this. As with the original Bible declaration, there is a lot here!
    Thanks so much for the clear powerful insights shared so simply. Love it!
    And thanks to the guitarist, too, for leading us in and out.

  128. I learned as I child that God is everywhere and still there was a lot that I was afraid of - even God. As an adult someone read to me the scientific statement of being on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook. My fears started to vanish one by one as I began to study the Bible together with Science and Health because this statement and others in both books assure me that all being is in God because God is all. Your Daily Lift says it so well. Someone I love is looking deeply into spiritual ideas and really wants to know more about what Christian Science teaches. Thank you for this message that I will share with him today.

  129. Thank you, Mark. At a time when my health and joy were in crisis, the thought came, "There is just God. Nothing else matters." I stuck to that thought tenaciously all one night and was healed by morning. Recurring breathing problems no longer occur, and a whole new life experience unfolded after that night of healing. That thought of "just God" is my bottom line when I need to wake up from any difficulty.

  130. Just catching up on some of my missed daily lifts...this one made it to it's own post it note AND is saved in the favorites file :) Thanks for this extraordinary lift about conquering fear.

  131. Also, just catching up on missed Daily Lifts...so clear, so very clear and absolute...that's all there is...
    "in Him, we live, and move, and have our being"...Mark, thank you so much for the simplicity of this message.

  132. Sincere gratitude for this wonderful Lift. So very clear and peaceful.

  133. "If I am afraid of something really that garanties that it doesn't exist."
    It is so wonderful to get it that clear. Thank you so much!

  134. Thanks Mark - an excellent and most helpful Bible reference - now noted!

  135. Thanks so much...the test for completeness in auditing is 'all' and 'only - that is all the transactions under audit but only the transactions under audit. I love this feel of completeness...all good and only good!

  136. Thank you so much Mark. Very nice.

  137. Thank you Mark this lift has melted away the fear I was holding onto and I have received a healing of a severe back ache. I think your comment ALL WE GET IS GOD AND WHAT HE IS DOING sunk in as the only truth all the rest is illusion. Much love Inge

  138. Thank you Mark for this woderful Lift! It is woderful! You always give a good lift every time you do one! Truly inspring! Thank you so much for your good work!!

  139. This has always been one of my favorite Bible verses, yet I find each time I listen to your Lift I'm blessed with a deeper understanding and better perspective! This week I stood firm in this truth when dealing with a near hysterical person and found the strength and courage to see through the material picture of fear and hopelessness. Great improvement in this person's countenance and situation followed that afternoon and each day this week. It definitely helped overcome a Golaith thought, and I send gratitude and love to Mark and all!

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