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‘Throw your heart over the bar’ means to throw your faith over your difficulty, throw your affirmation over every barrier, throw your visualization over your obstacles. In other words, throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and your material self will follow in the victory groove thus pioneered by your faith-inspired mind.
Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart’s desire.
If you believe in your job and in yourself and in the opportunities of your country, and if you believe in God and will work hard and study and put yourself into it—in other words, if you ‘throw your heart over the bar’, you can swing up to any high place to which you want to take your life and your service and your achievement.
Your expectation must have a clearly defined objective.
So expect the best at all times. Never think of the worst.
Expect the best, and spiritually creative mind-power aided by God power will produce the best.
God be for us, who can be against us?’
faith power works wonders.
Be specific. Ask God for any right thing, but, as a little child, don’t doubt.
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
General Tudor knew how to stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it.
Faith supplies staying power. It contains dynamic to keep one going when the going is hard.
Everyone leaves a meeting at which he speaks with the conviction that they, too, can turn their obstacles into assets.
with the help of Jesus Christ there isn’t any obstacle you cannot overcome.
I determined to go to work on the ‘little negatives’ and root them out of my conversation. I found that the best way to eliminate them was deliberately to say a positive word about everything.
‘the rough is only mental.’
astounding results. ‘The prayer my father used is as follows: “‘I believe I am always divinely guided. “‘I believe I will always take the right turn of the road. “‘I believe God will always make a way where there is no way.’”
Prayer
‘Anxiety is the great modern plague.’
The worrier, so it seems, is not likely to live as long as the person who learns to overcome his worries.
if you want to live long, observe the following rules: (1) Keep calm. (2) Go to church. (3) Eliminate worry.
‘With God’s help I am now emptying my mind of all anxiety, all fear, all sense of insecurity.’
Emptying anxiety
Fear is the most powerful of all thoughts with one exception, and that one exception is faith.
Fill the mind with thoughts of God rather than with thoughts of fear, and you will get back thoughts of faith and courage.
Worry is a destructive process of occupying the mind with thoughts contrary to God’s love and care.
a ten-point worry-breaking formula.
Ten point worry breaking formula
Little faith gives you little results, medium faith gives you medium results, great faith gives you great results.
ten simple suggestions as a concrete technique to use generally in solving your problems:
Solving problems
“We have discovered the psychosomatic cause of high blood pressure as some form of subtle, repressed fear—a fear of things that might happen, not of things that are,”
In the prevention of sickness and in healing mind and body, do not fail to draw upon one of the greatest resources available to you—the faith that heals.
Honestly ask yourself if you are harbouring any ill will or resentment or grudges, and if so cast them out.
Many people suffer poor health not because of what they eat, but from what is eating them.
He reports that many cases of chronic colds occur in children who come from broken homes.
Remember that anger is an emotion, and an emotion is always warm, even hot. Therefore to reduce an emotion, cool it.
“Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.” When angry, say that ten times and your anger will lose its power over you.
Therefore, make a list of everything that irritates you.
Train yourself so that every time you feel the surge of anger you say: ‘Is this really worth what it is doing to me emotionally?
When a hurt-feeling situation arises, get it straightened out as quickly as possible. Don’t brood over it for a minute longer than you can help.
Simply start praying for the person who has hurt your feelings.
‘Even as You can convert a person’s morals, so now I ask You to convert my nerves. As You give power over the sins of the flesh, so give me power over the sins of the disposition. Bring my temper under Your control. Give me Thy healing peace in my nervous system as well as in my soul.’
that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
The Lord is the strength of my life...in this will I be confident.’ (Psalms xxvii. I,3.)
This incident illustrates an important fact about human nature: you can think your way to failure and unhappiness, but you can also think your way to success and happiness.
famous psychologist says: “There is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely like that which you habitually imagine yourself to be.”
This great law briefly and simply stated is that if you think in negative terms you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms you will achieve positive results.
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive them.”
It is as simple as this—put your problem in God’s hands.
Optimistic visualisation combined with prayer and faith will inevitably actualise achievement.
seven practical steps for changing your mental attitudes from negative to positive,
Steps to take negative thinking to positive thinking
God will not give you any greater blessing than you can believe in.
last year in the United States there was a total of seven and a half billion headaches. This works itself out at approximately fifty headaches per head per annum.
