Affirmation · “The Subconscious Says Yes”
Adoration to the Presence
Address the indwelling ‘I AM Presence’ in the language of love, praise, and gratitude — ‘I adore Thee… I love and thank Thee’ — rather than command, using the warmth of the words to settle into an uplifted, grateful, devotional state.
Turn to the “Mighty I AM Presence” with warmth and speak to it in love and thanks — “I adore Thee… I love and bless Thee… I thank Thee” — asking for nothing. Keep it short and present, let genuine feeling lead (“your feeling is your power of qualification”), repeat until the grateful warmth deepens, and rest in it. It is a gratitude-and-devotion practice that lifts mood and connection — not a transaction that delivers outcomes, and never a substitute for real care.
What it is
This is the devotional, gratitude-toned form of the “I AM” decree that Edna Ballard distinctively compiled and led — the “adorations and affirmations” that fill the decree volumes she issued through Saint Germain Press.
Where Guy Ballard’s originating decree commands and completes the divine name with the good (“I AM health,” “I AM protection” — ), and where the violet flame consumes discord, Edna’s adorations turn the other direction: they address the “Mighty I AM Presence” in love, praise, and thanks — “I adore Thee… I love and bless Thee… I thank Thee” — without asking for anything.
The move is warmth, not demand: you speak to the Presence in the language of devotion and gratitude and let that warmth settle you into an uplifted, grateful state. The reliable effect is the mood-lift and felt connection that sincere gratitude and adoration produce (see Why It Works); the tradition’s framing — that adoration “magnetises” the Presence’s outpouring of perfection into your world — is its metaphysics.
The Method
- Turn to the Presence with attention and warmth. Pause and place your attention on the “Mighty I AM Presence” — for the tradition, God individualized within and above you — in a posture of love, not request.
- Address it directly, in adoration. Speak to it: “Mighty I AM Presence, I adore Thee… I love and bless Thee… I give Thee thanks.” The grammar is praise and gratitude, not “I want.”
- Keep it short and present. Brief lines of love and thanks, stated now, as a settled feeling — not a wish for later.
- Let the feeling lead. The teaching’s constant emphasis applies here too — “your feeling is your power of qualification” — so let genuine warmth, not the words alone, carry it.
- Repeat, building gratitude. Say the adoration over, letting the grateful, devotional feeling deepen with each repetition.
- Rest in the uplifted state. Close by simply resting a moment in the warmth and gratitude you have raised. Use daily, especially to begin or steady the day. (Sourcing note: the “adorations and affirmations” format, the address of love/praise/thanks to the “Mighty I AM Presence,” and the “feeling is your power of qualification” emphasis are from the Saint Germain Press ‘I AM’ Decree adoration volumes and class transcripts associated with Mrs. Ballard; the numbered sequence is an attributed paraphrase. Short fair-use quotes only.)
Source & Lineage
Edna Ballard compiled and led the “I AM” Activity’s Adorations and Affirmations and related decree volumes through Saint Germain Press (Chicago), continuing as the movement’s chief living “Accredited Messenger” after Guy Ballard’s death in 1939. → (with ).
Distinct from its neighbours: this is the adoration / praise / gratitude register of the “I AM” decree — Edna’s particular emphasis. It contrasts with Guy’s commanding identity affirmation and the consuming-flame clearing call, and with Prophet’s later accelerating command-decree.
The devotional address — speaking to the Presence in thanks rather than commanding through it — is what marks this entry as Edna’s own.
The Traditions' versions
Praising and thanking the divine in repeated, heartfelt words is a near-universal devotional practice; Edna’s adorations are an “I AM”-tradition instance:
- Bhakti and loving devotion — adoring the Lord in song and name, love as the path.,
- New Thought gratitude and praise affirmations — thanksgiving and praise as the affirmative move.,
- The Beholding / contemplation of love — resting in being loved.,
- Devotional remembrance of the Name — the Name spoken in love.
Common refinements
Reciting without warmth. Adoration with no feeling is just words — the lift is in the felt gratitude and love.
- Smuggling in demands. If “I adore Thee” quietly becomes “so give me X,” it stops being adoration and becomes bargaining; keep it pure praise and thanks.
- Treating it as a payment for results. Take the genuine uplift; do not read adoration as a transaction that obligates the universe (see Safety).
- Forcing feeling you do not have. Start with a small, true thread of gratitude rather than performing a big emotion; sincerity does the work.