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He was pouring himself out, and you never lose energy and vitality in so doing.
You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind.
“You are trying to sleep every night between fear on one side and guilt on the other, and you are attempting an impossible feat.
One never does wrong by doing right.
“Every problem can be solved and solved right if you pray.”
While I work on your outward being, I want you to pray for God’s relaxation inwardly.”
“You can’t get a man physically healthy until you get him spiritually healthy.”
‘Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished.’”
Jack Smith, who helps men to keep physically fit, believes that prayer is as important, if not more important, than exercise, steam baths, and a rub down. It is a vital part of the power-releasing process.
Prayer power is a manifestation of energy.
the secret of prayer is to find the process that will most effectively open your mind humbly to God.
The formula is: (1) PRAYERISE, (2) PICTURISE, (3) ACTUALISE.
Prayer Formula
By ‘prayerise’ my friend meant a daily system of creative prayer.
"prayerise"
He filled his daily life full of prayer—that is, he lived by prayer.
The basic factor in psychology is the realizable wish. The man who assumes success tends already to have success.
first pray about it and test it according to God’s will; then print a picture of it on your mind as happening, holding the picture firmly in consciousness.
"picturise"
That which you have ‘prayerised’ and ‘picturised’ ‘actualises’ according to the pattern of your basic realisable wish when conditioned by invoking God’s power upon it and if, moreover, you give fully of yourself to its realisation.
For example, I have a habit, which I often use, of praying for people as I pass them.
I do this too!!
he likes to fall asleep while praying, for he believes that his subconscious is most relaxed
Following are ten rules for getting effective results from prayer:
10 rules for effective prayer
Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? The answer—you do!
When I get up in the morning,” he explained, “I have two choices—either to be happy or to be unhappy, and what do you think I do? I just choose to be happy, and that’s all there is to it.”
her playmates (that’s her associates), her school (the place where she works), her church and Sunday school (where she worships), her sister, brother, mother and father (that means the home circle where love is found). There you have happiness in a nutshell,
How foolish to manufacture personal unhappiness to add to all the other difficulties over which you have little or no control!
“I make it a habit to be happy.”
The happiness habit is developed by simply practising happy thinking.
“I will rejoice and be glad in it.”
“I believe this is going to be a wonderful day. I believe I can successfully handle all problems that will arise today. I feel good physically, mentally, emotionally. It is wonderful to be alive. I am grateful for all that I have had, for all that I now have, and for all that I shall have. Things aren’t going to fall apart. God is here and He is with me and He will see me through. I thank God for every good thing.”
Happy thoughts
So affirm happy outcomes at the start of every day, and you will be surprised at how often things will turn out so.
“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John i:4).
As a matter of fact, it won’t be the same world because you are not the same, and what you are determines the world in which you live, so as you change, your world changes also.
Thought Conditioners
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Many people make life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by dissipating power and energy through fuming and fretting.
We need to stop fuming and fretting and get peaceful if we are to have power to live effectively.
A first step is to reduce your pace or at least the tempo of your pace.
The pace of modern life must be reduced if we are not to suffer profoundly from its debilitating over-stimulation and super-excitement.
The only wise rate at which to live is God’s rate.
To help reduce this tension which seems to dominate our people everywhere, you can start by reducing your own pace.
many of them are there because they thought even as you do, that the whole world rested on their shoulders.
Meditate on the solemn fact that when you get there permanently the world will go on just the same and, as important as you are, others will be able to do the work you are now doing.
One way to do this is to sit quietly and pass a series of peaceful thoughts through the mind.
A beginning step, therefore, in achieving calmness is to discipline your physical reactions.
Following is a technique consisting of six points which I have personally found of great helpfulness in reducing the tendency to fume and fret.
Six tips for reducing fume and fret
I discovered that if you expect the worst you will get the worst and if you expect the best you will get the best.
“If ye have faith...nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
Things become better when you expect the best instead of the worst,
Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e., the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish.
Don’t be a “hold-out.” Go all out. Do this, and life will not hold out on you.
“Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.”
