So it becomes a question of whether our faith is greater than the obstruction; whether we are becoming confused over conditions or thinking peacefully and calmly about them. When it comes right down to a rock-bottom fact, the only questions is whether or not we believe in a Power greater than we are that we can use, and whether or not we actually believe that this power is ready, willing, and able to respond to us.

Let us turn back to the instruction of the one who knew what he was talking about when he said: “…it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Life has made the gift, but we must accept it. We cannot doubt that there must have been, particularly in the beginning of his ministry, doubts that arose in his mind just as they do in ours. We can visualize Jesus standing in the midst of a multitude who were clamoring for healing, bringing their sick and lame and blind to him, and as he looked out over this vast sea of faces, perhaps the question came to him: “Can I make these people whole?”

But we know what his answer was, for he said: “I can of mine own self do nothing … but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” We can almost sense that triumphant concept that arose in his consciousness – the realization that one man with God is supreme; that he, as a human being, had no power of himself at all, but that all power was given to him in heaven and on earth because he had acquired all love and because he had become intimate with the Divine Presence which flows through everything.

The power that Jesus manifested was Divine. It was not the will of an individual, but his willingness to believe that gave him power. It was not a concentration of spiritual forces that Jesus exercised, but rather, a childlike and implicit faith in the reality of the Spirit in human affairs.

One of the most amazing things about this man was that he never tried to influence anyone. He was not at all like the alleged psychological individual who had developed such a terrific personality