A LESSON IN AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER
exerpt from THIS THING CALLED YOU
“There is a God Power at the center of every [person’s] being, a Presence that knows neither lack, limitation or fear, sickness, disquiet nor imperfection. This Presence and Power is the center of all people and all things. But because everyone is an individual, he can build a wall of negative thought between himself and this perfection. This makes it difficult for the true center to come to the surface.
When this happens the mind becomes impressed only by its external environment, which declares that impoverishment and pain must necessarily accompany every man in his experience through life. The whole process is an activity of thought, either consciously or unconsciously entertained. The wall which keeps you from the greater good is built of mental blocks, cemented together by fear and unbelief, mixed in the mortar of negative experience.
Now you are to tear down this wall, to completely destroy it. The view which this wall obstructed is now seen in all its grandeur. The sun never really stopped shining and the River of Life forever flows. Having destroyed the barrier, you may sit on the banks of this river contemplating the beauty of nature, or you may bathe in its refreshing coolness.
Everyone’s experience is an attempt to merge one’s own being with this eternal river, not to the loss of identity, but to the discovery of that self which has never wholly left its heaven. Like an echo from some unknown shore there is a voice seeking to be heard. Like clouds which obscure the mountain tops of vision, thoughts of fear and doubt obstruct the greater view.
Say:
“I know that there is a Presence and a perfect Law irresistibly drawing into my experience everything which makes life happy and worthwhile.
I know that friendship, love and happiness belong to me.
Nothing but good can go forth from me. The good that I receive is but the completion of a
circle, the fulfillment of my desire for all.
I no longer judge according to appearances, be they mental or physical.
I have placed my reliance in the Power, the Presence and the Perfection of God. Therefore, I have dominion over all apparent evil.
I repudiate all its claims, cast out every fear of or belief in that which is not good, and exercise the dominion which by divine right belongs to me.
I know that freedom and joy are mine today.
This freedom and joy spontaneously express themselves in my experience.
There is nothing in me that can obstruct their passage.
I permit them to flow through me in all their wonder and might.
I am conscious of an Infinite Wisdom directing me.
Whatever I ought to know, I shall know.
Whatever I ought to do, I shall do.
Whatever belongs to me will come to me.
I am compelled to recognize my good and understand and accept it, and to act upon it.
Therefore, I declare that every step of my way is guided and guarded.
With joy I enter into the fulfillment of life.” |
