Right now, we are in this position. We do believe in a Power greater than we are, and we do believe that It is ready and willing to meet our needs. We are just now beginning to learn how to hook this Power up with what we are doing. We are beginning to understand the relationship of this Power to our belief and to our faith. We are beginning to understand that the way we believe and the faith we use is actually our individual way of using this Power.

This is not a new idea at all, for thousands of years ago, it was stated that “as [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he.” But we have so long been walking through the maze of human opinions that we have shrunk our outlook to comply with the wisdom of men and not with the power of God.

The adventure in faith in which we are now engaged is a reopening of the horizon of the power of God. We are beginning to accept the idea and to use it by believing certain things in certain ways to get certain results. This is why, even though a man might be afflicted with some physical condition or some physical illness that we direct him to reach beyond the present condition to believe in perfect health – not only to believe in perfect health, but to believe in it for himself.

Our beliefs are the things that direct the power of the Law of Mind, but we do not get these beliefs that we have by accident. Each and every belief has been formed by previous experience until it has become a habit of thought. Because this is true, we see the possibility of changing our old beliefs and forming new ones until, too, become a habit of thought. This is what we mean by scientific prayer and affirmative meditation. For, of course, our prayers and meditations do not change the Divine Nature: they merely put us in a position to express it affirmatively. They make us obedient to the Divine Law so that we may use it in everything we do.

We wish to know how we should use this Law of Mind and just what it is that may be obstructing its affirmative operation through us. In doing this, the very first obstacles we come