Hebrews 4:2 used as the standing explanation of why the same words work for one hearer and not for another, and — more usefully — as the scriptural warrant for feeling. The verse is never quoted for its own sake: it always arrives at the moment Neville has to account for failure without blaming the technique. Good news came to us just as it came to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers. In 1053 the verse is made to do a piece of work it does not do elsewhere. He asks how a thought can be planted at all, answers with Hebrews 11:3 (the word created the world, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear), and then draws the consequence that decides the evening: the word created it, but without being mixed with faith it would be impossible to create anything. From there the bridge is one sentence — I have discovered from my own personal experience that I do it when I feel it — so that assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled is presented as the operational form of this verse rather than as a method of his own. He says it flatly at the end: it must be mixed with faith, and I call that feeling. The corollary is that a thought alone does nothing — a thought, unless it moves man into action, is not creative — and that you cannot sow a thought in itself, you have to embed it. COUNT: mine and provisional — ten lectures found by probe (1053, 1169, 1206, 1268, 1447, 1535, 1759, 1812, 1847, 1965), with 1169 giving the exhortation form (let us not now fail as they failed by not mingling what we have heard with faith) and 1812 the consequence for those who did not (they were called the children of the wilderness, because they kept on moving through the wilderness).