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pour out a blessing that there shall not be room enough."
-- Mal. 3:10
What we receive is not limited by the Giver, but by
our capacity to receive.
"When the poor widow applied to Elisha for aid, he
met her need by increasing the oil she had in the house;
and the limit of increase was set, not by the Giver of every good gift, not by Elisha, through whom the blessing
came, but by the widow who measured for herself! The
oil ran until it filled every vessel she had set to contain it!
And when there was not a vessel more, the oil stayed."
As one says, "our failure to receive comes from self
made limitations."
What shall we ask for? Jesus told us, when he said,
"Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven." And David gave
us the right idea of prayer when he declared, "One thing
have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I
may dwell in the house of the Lord forever." -- Psl. 27:4.
The kingdom of God is also God's house; David was
seeking the kingdom of God, or to dwell in God's presence. To become conscious of God's All-Presence is to
dwell in that Presence. If we declare God's Presence as
all, we help our thought to dwell in that consciousness -- to dwell in God's "House."
Jesus said (Luke, 10:42). "But one thing is needful."
This one thing is to recognize the everpresent God or
Good.
Can we concentrate our desires to "one thing?"
When we do, we shall find in that "one thing." whatever
we would ask for. It is His Holy Name or Nature; it is
His One Only Presence and Power, which we are to joyfully acknowledge and accept.
Our past praying, has been so mixed with doubt, because we have not seen God's will clearly, and could not
