Edna Lister’s Lectures, 1931

Declarations for a New Life
Edna Lister outline, Summer 1931, Edinburgh, Scotland

“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”–Romans 13:10.

I am radiant with the Love of God.
I am filled with the flaming Love of God.
I am overflowing with the Love of God.
I am radiating the complete Love of God.
I am lavishly expressing the Love of God.
I am pouring out the selfless Love of God.
I am loving all men and all things.
I am ready to be filled with God's abundant Love.
I am joyously loving the whole world.
I am loving all my family, perfectly and selflessly.

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God…and joint-heirs with Christ.”–Romans 8:16-17.

I am ready to collect my great inheritance.
I am accepting my marvelous inheritance.
I am ready to bring forth my inheritance.
I am satisfied that I am a joint heir with Christ to the kingdom.
I am prepared to use my inheritance wisely.
I am giving freely from my inheritance.
I am joyously giving from my inheritance.
I am acting as if I had it in my hands.
I am steadfast in my thankfulness for this inheritance.
I am praising God for the release of my inheritance.

“Before form was, I AM. Before manifestation was, I AM Life.”

I am filled with the Life of God.
I am possessed by the Life of God.
I am radiant with the Life of God.
I am ready for the Life of God to fill me.
I am accepting the Life of God as my life.
I am alive with the Life of God.
I am alert with the Life of God.
I am alight with the Life of God.
I am energetic with the Life of God.

“I am become rich, I have found me out substance.”–Hosea 12:8.

I am ready for my new position.
I am ready to give great service in my new position.
I am eager to serve in my new position.
I am confident that my new position is ready for me.
I am serving God in my present place.
I am knowing that I can give greater service in my new place.
I am accepting my new and greater position.
I am thanking God for my new position.
I am praising God for my new position.
I am thanking God that I can assume greater responsibility with this new position.
I am thanking God that He will help me and sustain me in this new position.

“I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”–John 12:32.

I am being lifted up into perfection.
I am ready to be lifted up.
I am accepting my responsibility as one of God's lifters.
I am a joyous lifter.
I am pouring out Love, which lifts the world.
I am faithful in my lifting.
I am receiving my reward for lifting.
I am complete success because I am lifted up.
I am lifting through great understanding.
I am thanking God that He has given me the power to lift.

“Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”–Luke 6:37.

I am filled with a complete sense of God's forgiveness.
I am radiating this sense of forgiveness continuously.
I am forgiving the whole world.
I am forgiving myself for all past negative thinking.
I am forgiving myself for all unlikeness to God.
I am forgiving others as God has forgiven me.
I am knowing that God has forgiven me for all past unlikeness to Him.
I am filled with desire to forgive all men.
I am faithful to the idea of giving something up to receive something greater.
I am able, by the power of forgiveness, to release my whole life from all bondage to the past.
I am resting in assurance of God's complete understanding forgiveness.

“When He giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?”–Job 34:29

I am radiant with the perfect poise of God.
I am living in the poise of God's kingdom.
I am happy in the use of the poise that is of God.
I am ready to receive the poise of God.
I am accepting the complete poise of God as part of my present life.
I am safely held in the poise of God.
I am confirmed in the continuous use of God's poise.
I am poised with the Spirit of the Living God.
I am poised under every outer condition.
I am calm with the perfect poise of God.

“I AM THAT I AM.”–Exodus 3:14.

I am that radiant life, I AM.
I am that radiant Light, I AM.
I am that radiant love, I AM.
I am that radiant health, I AM.
I am that radiant strength, I AM.
I am that radiant Power, I AM.
I am that radiant peace, I AM.
I am that radiant rest, I AM.
I am that radiant joy, I AM.
I am that radiant happiness, I AM.
I am that radiant harmony, I AM.
I am that radiant poise, I AM.
I am that radiant confidence, I AM.
I am that radiant assurance, I AM.
I am that radiant completeness, I AM.

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”–Hebrews 13:8

I am endowed with the completeness of God.
I am accepting this inner completeness as mine.
I am seeking to bring forth this inner completeness into outer form.
I am reflecting this inner completeness to the world.
I am manifesting this God-endowed completeness.
I am expressing this completeness in everything I do.
I am receiving my reward for lifting.
I am living the complete Life of God as man.
I am completely surrendered to this inner completeness.
I am possessed with this radiant completeness.
I am completely perfect within.
I am becoming completely perfect without.

“He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.”–Psalm 91:15.

I am confident that God's Life fills me to overflowing.
I am filled with confidence in God's Power.
I am possessed by the idea of self-confidence.
I am radiating perfect self-confidence.
I am confident that the Life of God fills me.
I am confident in the perfect Love of God.
I am glorified with the confidence that all things shall be added unto me.
I am expressing the confidence of God to the world.
I am holding fast to my confidence in God's Power.
I am pouring out this confidence to the world.
I am releasing all things through my confidence in God.

“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”–Psalm 37:25.

I am filled with the assurance that God is all in all.
I am resting in the assurance that God is all, in all, through all.
I am assured that there is only one substance, of which all things are made.
I am assured that from this one substance I can give form to my desires.
I am assured that God works through me.
I am radiating this complete assurance in God's Power.
I am filled with the idea of perfect self-assurance.
I am assured that to me has been given all power and dominion over life.
I am assured that I can create in God's perfect image and likeness.

“The Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”–Psalm 34:8.

I am ready to trust in the perfect will of God.
I am accepting God's ability to protect me.
I am trusting God to heal me and my affairs.
I am safe because I trust in the Power of God.
I am filled with confidence because I trust God.
I am filled with joy because my trust is in God.
I am abiding in God through my perfect trust in Him.
I am trusting God with all my affairs.
I am putting all my affairs in God's hands.
I am leaving my affairs in God's hands.
I am living a perfect life because of my deep trust in God.

“The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”–Philippians 4:7.

I am filled with the peace of God.
I am understanding what the peace of God can do for me.
I am ready to receive the peace of God.
I am complete in the peace of God.
I am resting gently in the peace of God.
I am secure in the peace of God.
I am enfolded in the peace of God.
I am surrounded by the peace of God.
I am bathed in the blessed peace of God.

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”–Matthew 11:28.

I am ready to rest.
I am accepting the fact that God's rest is my rest.
I am resting in the Everlasting Arms.
I am giving myself up to the rest of God.
I am permeated with a sense of complete rest.
I am surrendering to the idea of rest.
I am letting go and I am resting in God's arms.
I am possessed by the rest of God.
I am aware that the perfect rest of God is also mine.
I am assured of the perfect rest of God operating through my whole life.

“All kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.”–Psalm 72:11.

I am ready to be promoted.
I am ready to accept my promotion.
I am faithful to my service where I am.
I am ready to be faithful in my new place of service.
I am gladly giving of myself where I am.
I am accepting my new place.

“He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be prospered.”–Proverbs 28:25.

I am seeing my business as a complete success.
I am seeing my children as a complete success.
I am surrendered to this new idea of complete success.
I am filled to overflowing with ideas, which I can bring into outer forms of success.
I am a complete success and tomorrow I shall be an even greater complete success.
I am successful through my deep understanding of law.
I am filled with the Wisdom of God, which makes me a complete success.
I am completely abandoned to this idea of success.
I am faithful to this idea of success.
I am praising God that I am a deep success.

“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”–Isaiah 40:31.

I am filled with the strength of God.
I am ready to receive God's great strength.
I am accepting God's wonderful strength.
I am alive with God's strength.
I am abounding in the strength of God.
I am radiant with the strength of God.
I am strong with God's glorious strength.
I am strengthened with the energy of God.
I am energetic with God's vital strength..

“Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me.”–Acts 1:8

I am filled with the Power of God.
I am strong with the Power of God.
I am strengthened with the Power of God.
I am alive with the Power of God.
I am ready to receive the great Strength of God.
I am applying this Power of God as my energy.
I am able to do all things through this Power of God.
I am serving with this Power of God.

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Your Royal Birth
Edna Lister outline, November 30, 1931, Edinburgh, Scotland, Esther 3:12-13, 4:10-17, 7:1-6

  “There was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring. And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.”–Esther 3:12-13.
  “Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai; all the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words. Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.”–Esther 4:10-17.
  “So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom. Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage. Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman.”–Esther 7:1-6.
  To be of royal birth is a high heritage to live up to, and implies an inheritance; for example, a kingdom to inherit. One must be well born to inherit or wear a crown. One must be born to it and live up to it.
  The story of Esther holds two important ideas, preparation and renunciation. Your preparation must begin early in life and be constant throughout life. It includes obedience to all commands, self-discipline and mastery of the self. Renunciation requires consecration to a life of service, and thinking first of what is best for all. For example, Abraham had to be willing to serve God, not holding onto anything, even his own son.
  “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”–Romans 8:16-18.
  According to this proclamation, we are joint-heirs with Christ to the kingdom of God. We may share in his life, wisdom, love, companionship, health, wealth, success and power. For example, you breathe life from the Holy Breath of Life as you inhale. Health is simply a matter of having enough life fill you.
  When you give enough love, love then fulfills the law. Companionship involves being with someone to whom you may give understanding and empathy, as well as to receive it.
  Wealth is your inheritance. Success is persevering despite any obstacle, taking life’s blows on the chin without quitting or turning back to old ways.
  What do you think about life? How do you view it? Some people see only the lack, not having enough when the money is all spent. “There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal [generous] soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.”–Proverbs 11:24-24.
  Some people are spendthrifts, others are so devoted to saving that they give resentfully and grudgingly. They so want to hold onto what they have that they can let nothing go. Grasping and holding onto the past, they have no room for the future.
  “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”–Luke 6:38. You receive in the same way that you have given, by quality and quantity, according to the emotion behind your giving.
  What are you looking for now, today? What do you expect? What are you planning to have when Christ comes? “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”–Revelation 3:11.
  Esther’s story proves that being born into an earthly royal lineage is not necessary, for if you live up to your royal heritage as a joint-heir with Christ, you will be promoted and exalted.
  Yet, you must hold an expectant attitude every second. Renunciation of the world’s values is your consecration to live a kingly life. Obedience to all commandments, spiritual and temporal, is essential.
  You must live as royalty, a king or a queen, where you are. Remain in command of your temper, never doing anything mean to demote your own soul.
  The fellow who must tell everyone who he is, needs the recognition and adulation. If you know who and what you are, it never occurs to you to talk about it. When you know who and what you are, you live it because you are it. So, hold fast to your royal birth and live by royal honor.

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