Eliphaz repeated a prayer formula when he said, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee."
Jesus put the same idea in these words: "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do."
All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon this law of soul urge.
What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be yours, if you "faint not."
When we frame our desires in sound words and place them before our indwelling Lord, we are using intelligently the supreme law of God in bringing into manifestation that which He has implanted in us.
A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer.
But above all practice the presence of God in prayer. Divine Mind has given us all potentialities, in prayer we recognize it as the source of these, and with a right understanding of our relation to it our soul grows great with infinite capacity, all potentiality. "With God all things are possible." "All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine."
We have been so persistently taught that prayer consists in asking God for some human need that we have lost sight of our spiritual identity and have become a race of praying beggars. God is Spirit in whom we "live, and move, and have our being." We are the offspring of this Spirit and can make conscious contact with it by turning our attention
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