Workbook · Part I
Lesson 47
God is the strength in which I trust.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “God is the strength in which I trust.” In ordinary English: Trust is not a feeling you wait for. It is standing on God’s strength instead of your plan.
God, in this workbook, is not a distant judge. Love is the name for the mind that is not at war. “God goes with you” means you do not have to fetch a spiritual state, then go live. The next room, the next person, the next fear is already the place.
You do not have to believe it first. You use the words on one real judgment — of someone, of yourself, of a situation — and then you take the next ordinary step.
This is not saying
This is not church language you have to swallow, and not a demand that you feel devout. If the word God gets in the way, use Love. The practice is the same: stop arguing that you are alone.
Why this can change a day
Loneliness, specialness, and attack all need God to be absent. Remembering you are accompanied changes how you treat a stranger, a partner, and the face in the glass — without a speech.
In your day
Same idea, three ordinary places — a relationship or encounter, the case against yourself, and a situation at work or at home. You do not need a special mood.
With someone
You use someone as if their job were to complete you, agree with you, or stay out of your way.
What to do
Say the words as written: “God is the strength in which I trust.” Let them be for God, then treat them decently. You do not have to hang out. You do have to stop using them.
Toward yourself
A thought says you are failing, behind, not enough — and it feels like a report from God.
What to do
Say the words as written: “God is the strength in which I trust.” Let it be a thought. Do not build a self from it. Watch it pass. Then the next decent hour.
At work, at home, or in a situation
You catch your own face in a glass and start a case — failing, unholy, not enough, this is just who I am.
What to do
Say the words as written: “God is the strength in which I trust.” Same sentence about you that the lesson would have you say about them. Then the next decent action — not a new exhibit against yourself.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
I know what they are for. Their purpose is my comfort. Playing God about their path is care.
Jesus’s way
“God is the strength in which I trust.” This idea is a joining, not a theory. Receive it as much as you can. Then treat the next person as included.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #245
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 47
Tina reads the official workbook lesson first. Then she channels. The video is the source. The notes below are study notes of that sitting — not a transcript, and not A Year of Forgiveness.
After the reading
In the video · Jesus speaking
This is the channeled portion — after Tina has read the lesson. Study notes of that sitting. Not a transcript.
- “God is the strength in which I trust.” Not the church’s God of threat.
- He uses the lesson to wean you from a God who was an overlay, so the One who is can be obvious.
- After Tina reads Lesson 47, the channeling is living “God is the strength in which I trust.” He will not let it stay a slogan. Use these words. Do not swap them for a thought you like better.
How to sit today
Part I · Undoing
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
- How often
- Four five-minute sittings; longer and more frequent ones are urged
- How long
- Five minutes, more if you will
How
- Repeat the idea. Spend a minute or two finding situations you have invested with fear; dismiss each: “God is the strength in which I trust.”
- Then try to reach a place of real safety in the mind and rest there.
Longer sitting
Four sittings — five minutes; longer and more frequent ones are urged
- Today’s idea is: “God is the strength in which I trust.”
- Repeat the idea. Spend a minute or two finding situations you have invested with fear. Dismiss each:
- Say, slowly: “God is the Strength in which I trust.”
- Then try to reach a place of real safety in the mind and rest there.
Short / hourly
More frequent ones are urged
- Say, slowly: “God is the Strength in which I trust.”
These scripts follow the workbook’s own method for this number — duration, frequency, and the sentences it asks you to use. They are a study paraphrase, not a replacement. Read the official lesson at acim.org and follow any wording it gives that is more specific than this card.
Words you may not know
Full glossaryCourse words do not mean what church, psychology, or ordinary English usually mean. These notes are for this lesson — tap a word.
Other voices — Tina, Ra, Carla
Short notes from the four streams. The teaching above is the lesson. These are doors if you want them.
Spalding
“God is the strength in which I trust.” Not the church’s God of threat. The Love in which you actually exist. He uses the lesson to wean you from a God who was an overlay, so the One who is can be obvious.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
This lesson is practice in polarizing with the person in front of you. Service to others is not a slogan. It is whether you treat them as the same being you are.
Open streamRueckert
A wanderer on Earth does not need a different lesson. She needs this one, done with her hands. Carla's whole archive is the proof: contact follows a life, it does not replace it.
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