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God's thoughts but His energy. You do not wish to hitch your thinker to His thinker, but to unite your will to His will. You will readily see that if there is a purpose in the universe, there must also be a will behind the purpose, and this will must be the source of all will power. Get rid of the notion that there is any connection or similarity between stubborness and will power. Will power is power to control and direct your own thought. It is spiritual energy and comes by connection with the universal will, in like manner as physical energy comes by connection with One Life.
What manner of prayer then will connect your will with the will of God! Only this, and no other
"I will to do Thy will, oh God!"
That is all the prayer you need. "Not every man that sayeth unto me Lord, Lord, but be that willeth to do the will of my Father shall enter the Kingdom." To will to do the will of God is the sum of all religion. It is the highest possible assertion of selfhood. It comprehends all possible good effort, and shuts off all evil. It suspends all activity but God's and holds the soul in silence before him. It is the greatest assertion of will power of which man is capable. Angels can do no more. And that within you which wills to do the will of God is the power which can direct and control your thought. Exercise
