Chapter 3 - Lesson Three - Faith in the Invisible Substance, the Key to Demonstration

IN THIS LESSON we are considering the subject of faith
especially as it applies to the demonstration of
prosperity. In this study, as in all others, we must start
in the one Mind. God had faith when He imaged man and the
universe and through His faith brought all things into
being. Man, being like God, must also base his creations on
faith as the only foundation. Here then is our starting
point in building a prosperity consciousness and making our
world as we would have it. We all have faith, for it is
innate in every man. Our question is how we may put it to
work in our affairs.

Jesus gave us our best understanding of faith when He
described Peter as a "rock" and asserted that His church,
the ecclesia or "called-out ones," was to be built up with
this rock or faith as its sure foundation. In this sense
faith represents substance, the underlying, basic principle
of all manifestation. "Now faith is assurance of things
hoped for, a conviction of things not seen."

It is quite possible to possess a reality that cannot