When
Jesus said, "All things whatsoever
ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive
them and ye shall have them," he
was uttering one of those many deep truths
that were so clear to Him and that we
are just beginning to see. He knew that
everything is made out of mind. and that
without that positive acceptance on the
part of the individual there is no mold
into which mind can pour itself forth
into form. In the mind of God there is
the correct mold, the true knowing, but
in the mind of man there is not always
true knowing. Since God can do for
us only by doing through
us, nothing can be done for us unless
we are positively receptive, but when
we realize the law and how it works, then
we will provide that complete inner acceptance.
By so doing we permit the Spirit to do
the work, to make the gift.
The
reason we can make our requests known
with thanksgiving is because we know from
the beginning that we are to receive and
therefore we cannot help being thankful.
This grateful attitude to the Spirit puts
us in very close touch with power and
adds much to the reality of the thing
we are dealing with. Without it we can
do but little. So let us cultivate all
the gratitude that we can. In gratitude
we will send our thoughts out into the
world, and as it comes back it will come
laden with the fruits of the Spirit.
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