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| How to Pray Our Chief asked if a desire could be fulfilled as soon as it was expressed. Our hostess answered that if the desire were put forth in true form it would be fulfilled. She then went on to say that desire is but a form of prayer, that it was the true form of prayer which Jesus used, as his prayers were answered, that prayer which is always answered must be true prayer, therefore must be scientific and, if scientific, must be according to fixed law. Continuing, she said, "The law is 'As you know your prayer is granted', and 'What things you desire, when you pray, know you receive them and you shall have them'. If we know positively that whatever we have asked for is ours already, we may know that we are working in accordance with the law. If the desire is filled, that we may know that the law is fulfilled. If the desire is not filled, then we must know that we have asked amiss. We should know that the fault is with us and not with God. Then the instructions are, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength'. Now go deep, deep down within your own soul - not with foreboding, fear, and unbelief, but with a glad free, thankful heart, knowing that that which you stand in need of is already yours. The secret lies in getting the at-one-ment, getting the consciousness of it and then holding firmly and never deviating, though all earth should oppose. 'Of myself I can do nothing', said Jesus. 'The father that dwells in me, He does the work'. Have faith in God. Have faith and doubt not. Have faith and fear not. Now remember there is no limitation to God's power. 'All things are possible.' Use positive words in making your request. There is naught but the perfect condition desired. Then plant in your soul the perfect seed idea and that alone. Now ask to manifest health and not to be healed of disease, to express harmony and realize abundance - not to be delivered from inharmony, misery and limitations. Throw these off as you would discard an old garment. They are old and only outgrown things, you can afford to discard them joyfully. Do not even turn to gaze upon them. They are no-thing - nothing. Fill the seemingly blank spaces about you with the thought of God, Infinite Good. Then remember the word God is a seed. It must grow. "Leave the how, when, and where to God. Your work is merely to say what you want and to give forth blessings, knowing that the moment you have asked, you have received. All the details of this bringing forth is the work of the Father. Remember, He does the work. Do faithfully your part, leave and trust God's part to Him. Ask. Affirm. Look to God for what you want, then receive God's fulfillment. "Keep the thought of God's abundance always in mind. If any other thought comes, replace it with that of God's abundance and bless that abundance. Give thanks constantly, if need be, that the work is done. Do not go back again to the asking. Just bless and give thanks that the work is done, that God is working in you, that you are receiving that which you desire, for you desire only the good that you may give out the good to all. Let this be in silence and in secret. Pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees the secret of your soul will reward you openly. When the demonstration is complete, you will look back upon the time faithfully given as one of your greatest treasures. You will have proved the law and you will realize the power of your word spoken in faith and blessing. Remember that God has perfected His plan. He has poured out and is continuously pouring out, lovingly and lavishly upon us, all good and every good thing that we can desire. Again He says, 'Try Me and see if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing there will not be room to receive it.' |
With All My Heart
In the heart of my being, Father, I am one with You, and I recognize You
as Being, the Father of all. You are Spirit, Omnipresent, Omnipotent,
Omniscient. You are Wisdom, Love and Truth, the Power and Substance and
Intelligence of which and through which all things are created. You are
the Life of my Spirit, the Substance of my Soul, the Intelligence of my
thought. I am expressing You in my body and in my affairs. You are the
beginning and the end, the very All of the good which I express. The
desire of my thought which is implanted in my soul is quickened by Your
Life in my Spirit, and in the fullness of time, through the law of faith,
it is brought into visibility into my experience. I know that the good I
desire already exists in Spirit in invisible form and but awaits the
fulfillment of the law to be made visible and I know that already I have.
With All My Soul
The words which I now speak outline to You, my Father, that which I
desire. As a seed it is planted in the soil of my Soul and moved upon by
Your quickening Life in my Spirit. It must come forth. I allow only Your
Spirit - Wisdom, Love and Truth - to move in my Soul. I desire only that
which is good for all and I now ask You, Father, to bring it forth.
Father, within me, I ask to express Love, Wisdom, Strength and Eternal
Youth. I ask to realize Harmony, Happiness, and Abundant Prosperity, that
I may have the understanding direct from You, of the method of bringing
forth from the Universal Substance that which will satisfy every good
desire. This is not for self, Father, but that I may have the
understanding so that I may be of service to all Your Children.
With All My Mind
That which I desire is already in visible form. I form in mind only that
which I desire. As a seed begins its growth underground in the quiet and
in the dark, so does my desire now take form in the silent, invisible
realm of my soul. I enter my closet and shut the door. Quietly and
confidently I now hold my desire in mind as already fulfilled. Father, I
now await the perfect outpicturing of my desire. Father, within me, I
thank You that now in the invisible the fulfillment of my desire is always
established and I know that You have poured out lovingly and lavishly to
all an abundance of Your treasure, that You have filled every good desire
of my life, that I may partake of Your opulent supply, that I may realize
my oneness with You, that all Your children may realize the same; and that
whatever I have, I may pour out to help all Your children. All that I have
I give to You, Father.
With All My Strength
All acts and thoughts of mine shall confirm that I have already received
in Spirit the fulfillment of my desire and it is now brought forth into
perfect visibility. In spirit, in soul, in mind, in body, I am true to my
desire. I have perceived my good in Spirit. I have conceived it as a
perfect idea in soul and I have given true thoughtform to my desire. I now
bring into visibility, or true manifestation, my perfect desire.
I thank You, Father, that I now have Love, Wisdom, and Understanding,
Life, Health, Strength, and Eternal Youth, Harmony, Happiness and Abundant
Prosperity, and the method of bringing forth from the Universal Substance
that which will satisfy every good desire.
The above excerpt is from the book series Life and Teaching of the Masters
of the Fast East by Baird T. Spalding.
