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Terrie Wurzbacher

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You Can’t Beat Spiritual Law

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The Law is that what you give out comes back to you multiplied.

Then the way to success of any kind, is to begin giving out what you want to have come back. If you have no money, find something else to give. Money is the mere symbol of service, and you can always give service of some kind.

Give something knowing that God is your paymaster and that He is the best of all paymasters. He will begin paying you when you begin working exclusively for Him. God always gives signs of approval. God will give because its is His nature to give. He, too, conforms to the law, because He is the Law. Remember that we are working with real law all the time. If you obey the law of giving, you cannot help but receiving.

Learn by heart what Jesus says: “Give, and it shall be given uno you.”
Repeat it, and repeat it, and believe it.

Trust. Believe that the law is going to work. It is; because when we are really willing to do our share, the law, never fails to work.

Let us apply the principle. If you want a job, begin giving service somewhere along that line. God will direct your paths. If you do not know what vocation you should be in, give your services along any line, and your particular line will open to you.

“Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” So you will find everything that your heart desires: health, money, friends, success, the development of your tal-ents, home, prosperity, love, happiness. For God, is Law. He gives, gives lavishly, patiently, joyously. Imitate God.

All that you give out brings its return. These are your planting: deeds, money, words, thoughts-everything. You can’t beat Spiritual Law.

Gardner Hunting


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You Are What You Think

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Thoughtless people sometimes say that our affirmations and meditations are foolish because we state what is not so. “To claim that my body is well or being healed when it is not, is only to tell a lie,” said one distinguished ‘man some years ago.

This is to misunderstand the whole principle. We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.

When you decide to build a house, you purchase a vacant piece of ground and then your architect prepares drawings of a complete house. Actually, of course, there is no such house on the lot today, but you would not think of saying that the architect was drawing a lie. He is drawing what is to be, in order that it may be. So, we build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physi¬cal plane.

To wait for things to “turn up” is foolish, because you will probably die before they do so .. What is your intelligence for if not to be used in building the kind of life that you want? Very primitive men in prehistoric times rejoiced when they found food growing anywhere, and then they waited, perhaps for years, until they happened to find another crop. Today we use our intelligence, and plant in good time the actual crops that we want, and the amount that we consider necessary. We do not sit about hoping that wheat or barley may fortunately come up somewhere. If we did that, civilization would collapse.
The time has come when intelligent men and women must understand the laws of Mind, and plant consciously the crops that they desire; and just as carefully pull up the weeds that they do not want.

The object of treatment is to produce a certain state of mind. That state of mind constitutes a true understanding concerning the problem in question and freedom from fear in connection with it. When this state of mind is attained, the demonstration must and does follow.

Whatever produces the required state of mind is a good treatment. Repeating certain affirmations, reading certain verses in the Bible, using the “Presence Card” or the “Golden Key, or any other “method” of producing that state of mind is a good treatment.

Note, however, that using the affirmations or reading spiritual literature is not an end in itself. It is the uplifted state of mind that is the end. Many sincere Christians have come to mistake the means for the end, and think that praying mechanically or going through certain forms constitutes the spiritual life; but this is not so. The spiritual life is the search for higher states of consciousness and nothing else.


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Overcoming Fears

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Overcoming Fears

An important part of opening your mind to faith is ridding your mind of the fears which limit your belief. There are seven basic fears. Nearly everyone suffers from at least one; some of us must conquer all of them. Here are the seven fears:

1. Poverty – This is the most destructive fear and the hardest to master because it brings so much suffering and misery. Much of the fear of poverty comes from our bitter experiences in dealing with others who have proved untrustworthy and willing to exploit us for their own benefit.  If you resent poverty and are determined to be rid of it, analyze yourself fully for signs of this fear. then fasten your mind on substitutes for the negative habits which this fear inspires:

   – lack of ambition

   – Failure to make your own decisions

   – Making excuses for your failures

   – A negative mental attitude

Developing definiteness of purpose is the first step toward replacing a negative mental attitude with a positive one. Find out what you want and look for it all the time.

2. Criticism – Fear of criticism can affect you in ways both trivial and serious. It can lead you to buy the latest fashions, the fanciest cars, the most sophisticated stereo systems because you fear being left behind the times, out of step with what “everyone” is doing. It can prevent you from acting on ideas that are revolutionary, ideas that would give you independence. It robs you of your individuality and your faith in yourself. These are the most obvious symptoms of a fear of criticism:

   – Keeping up with the Joneses

   – Bragging about your achievements

   – Being easily embarrassed

3. Ill Health – This is closely related to the fear of death but is much more dependent on habits for its growth. You may very well have acquired it simply by growing up around others who shared it. It too, can prevent you from taking risks, and its simple presence can actually bring about the very situation you fear.  You want the power of your mind focused on maintaining your health, but certain habits demonstrate your enslavement to the fear of ill health. You must break them:

   – The drugstore habit – do you run to the pharmacist every time some new cure-all is advertised? Have you consumed mountains of garlic, ginseng and oat bran?

   – The habit of self-pity. do the slightest pains and discomforts keep you in bed? Is some condition your excuse for not acing?

   – The habit of substance abuse. It may be drink, it may be drugs, but it’s there only to cover up  your fear of some mental or physical pain.

4. Loss of love

5. Old Age – the fear of old age causes you to slow down and develop a feeling of inferiority. Whether you’re thirty, forty, sixty or seventy, you become convinced that you have let opportunity slip by and that your best years are behind you.

6. Loss of Liberty – No matter where you live, in any country, the fear of loss of freedom is present. The only way to fight this fear is to take an active role in defending the institutions that preserve your liberty.

7. Death – this fear is the grandfather of them all. It is very difficult to whip because it is so universal in our society and because it is constantly reinforced on a daily basis. It can stop you in your tracks a lot sooner than actual death.

Replacing Fear With Hope

The fundamental lesson in dealing with the fear of death is learning to set it aside. This should be your goal with each of the fears, for whatever you fear will follow you around like a puppy. Your mind attracts anything it dwells on. Most people go through life thinking about things they don’t want to happen, and they probably experience every one of them.

Wouldn’t it be a better idea, then, to refuse to think about the things you don’t want and to feed your mind with pictures of the things you do want?  There is nothing more important than learning the art of keeping your mind focused upon the things, condition and circumstances you really want. When your mind has definiteness of purpose, you are in a condition to start having faith. Faith exists only so long as it is used. You cannot develop muscles by not using them; you cannot increase your capital by not investing it. Persistent action backed by definiteness of purpose will pump up your faith.

Source: Napoleon Hill “Keys to Success”

Terrie

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You Can’t Get Something For Nothing

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You Can’t Get Something For Nothing

I agree with Emerson that it is time the law of compensation was emphasized as life’s basic law. I like to think of this basic law of prosperity as radiation and attraction: that what you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life and affairs. But you cannot get something for nothing.

The reason why there is still poverty in this universe of lavish abundance is that many people still do not understand this basic law of life; they do not yet realize that they must radiate in order to attract, and that what they do radiate they constantly attract. Most people today still have to learn that they cannot get something for nothing, but must give before receiving or must sow before reaping. When they do not give or sow in terms of prosperity, they make no contact with God’s lavish abundance, and so there is no channel formed through which the rich, unlimited substance of the universe can pour forth its riches to them.

The truth of this was recently brought to my attention when I had contact with some people in a poverty stricken area. I soon discovered that these people only wanted a “hand-out.” They were not interested in invoking the basic law of prosperity by giving or sowing first. Instead, they were trying to get something for nothing, which simply cannot be done. Thus, they continued to live in poverty.

Catherine Ponder