Thus to have faith in the law is not to dishonor God by seeking to manipulate Him, but to honor Him by believing that He not only can but desires to rule His world in such a way as to give man the greatest freedom and joy. This He can best do by putting into the mind of man himself the power to initiate the train of causation which is to bring him the desired good. Faith is this power. Prayer is this power put into expression. Without it, man would be bound by natural forces; and his freedom would be only seeming. With it, he may rise to heights and destiny beyond even the imagination of the present hour. And any of us who view intelligently the discoveries of modern science and psychology, to say nothing of psychic research and the vision of the metaphysician, ought to be able to dream of that time to come, here on this very sphere, when man, having risen in mind and character to those levels of consciousness which make him worthy, shall be using forces so much finer than any known to the present hour that he shall literally live in a new heaven and a new earth while still in the body.n5583 ¶1
Meanwhile, do not leave to another day nor another person the glorious possibilities that lie inherently within you. Again with Jesus declare, "As the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given it to the son to have life in himself. Whosoever believeth in me (takes my word to be true), from within him shall flow streams of living water." Declare for yourself this truth, — "I am endowed with all the nature and powers of the Son of God. I am a spiritual being.n5583 ¶2
possessed of unlimited resources. ' All that the Father hath is mine.' 'Whoso calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' 'If he shall call upon me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; with long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.' This I now affirm to be true of myself; and from this hour, in infinite faith in God, I shall go forward to do the work He has given me to do and to draw from heaven the high gifts that belong to me as His child.' 'n5583 ¶3