Volume 7 - Neville Goddard Lecture Series

Today's subject is Sound Investments.

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I want to share with you today what I consider one of the truly great revelations of all time.

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On Sunday morning April 12, my wife walked from Ozorily Deep Profound Sleep and as she was waking a voice distinctly spoke to her and the voice spoke to her and the voice spoke with great authority and it said to her You must stop spending your thoughts, your time, and your money.

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Everything in life must be an investment, so she quickly wrote it down and went straight to the dictionary to look up the two important words in the sentence, spending and investing.

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The dictionary defines spending as, to waste, to squander, to lay out without return.

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To invest is to lay out for a purpose for which a profit is expected.

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Then I began to analyze a sentence You must stop spending your thoughts, your time, and your money.

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For everything in life must be an investment.

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As I dwelt upon it, I saw where everything is now, that through the portals of the present, all time must pass, and this psychological now, the state in which I find myself now, does not recede into the past, it advances into my future.

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So what I do now is the all-important thing, and thought is the coin of heaven.

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It is the money of heaven.

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And so the thought I entertain now, the thought to which I consent as tollous and Ephesians.

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All things, when they are admitted, are made manifest by the light, and all things, when they are manifested, are light.

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And the word light is defined as consciousness.

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So the state to which I now consent must be made manifest, and when it is manifest, it is only the state of consciousness made visible, coming to bear witness to the state in which I abide in.

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So every moment of time I am either spending, or I am investing.

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Unfortunately, most of us spend the coin of heaven, morning, noon and night, we live in negative states, for which there is no return.

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When we could easily have spent, not spent, but invested that moment, so at the end of the day we really would have had a wonderful portfolio.

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The religious-minded person invests possibly on Sunday morning, though the service he has lifted for a moment.

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If he is not overly critical, he might be carried away with the hymn.

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He might be carried away with the solo of the organ music, the address from the pulpit, and for a moment he is investing, but the rest of the week he spends.

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Now you know from experience if you put all your money into one great concern It may be wonderful, it may be sound, but at the end of the year the directors may decide to reorganize and therefore decide to pass the dividends, and if you depend on a dividend check for your daily needs, then it is a good, firm, wonderful concern when they pass the dividend.

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Then you must either sell some stock or rise or borrow on it.

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While every moment of time you could have a most marvelous portfolio, and if one passes a dividend check it does not matter.

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If you devoted every moment of time to positive thinking, constructive thinking, By not accepting any rumor that does not contribute to the fulfillment of your desire, no matter what it is, it could be the most obvious fact in the world.

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If it does not contribute to the fulfillment of your dreams, do not accept it.

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If you do, you are spending it, not by denying, but by complete indifference, complete non-acceptance, you turn to what you wish you could have heard instead of what you heard.

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You are investing.

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It's not the hearing that matters.

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It is the admitting the truth of it that matters All things when they are admitted, not all things when they are heard, but if you give consent to it, if you accept it as true, then you either spend by acceptance or you invest depending on the nature of the state accepted.

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So this revelation which came through my wife to me is one of the greatest that I have ever heard.

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Had it been told in our Bible, it would have been told in a strange meter.

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And the Lord God spoke unto her this day and said to her, his servant, and they would have told what revelation would come in that manner, but it came to a normal natural came in a normal, natural manner to instruct not only her, but to instruct her husband.

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For I was the first one to whom she told it, and I can't tell you what it is done to me since I heard it on the morning of the twelfth April.

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For it made me more aware of the moment, made me far more conscious of every moment of the day, so that I am not spending, I must invest, time is too precious, and because these moments do not recede, they do not pass away, they are always advancing into my future, to either confront me with a waste, or to show me some wonderful return.

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If I invest it for a purpose, and therefore I hope, not only hope, I expect to reward.

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I expect a profit on my investment.

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So a moment spent now, this very day, could tomorrow pay you great dividends.