Another attitude toward money that needs to be clarified is this: Don’t be afraid to pray about money or to get specific about your financial affairs. Many great Bible leaders prayed for money. Jesus prayed that the 5,000 would be fed by looking up to heaven and giving thanks for the few loaves and fishes which were then multiplied to meet every need. This is the same as praying for money.

God never intended men to suffer in this lavish universe – we are fooling ourselves if we think that we must live in lack. Remember the promise “Ask and it shall be given you” (Matthew 7:7) – there is nothing hidden in this command. How about this from the Book of Job “If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasure.” (Job 36:11) – we must obey the laws of the universe.

The biggest problem is that most of us do not ask “big enough” and we do not continue in prayer until it comes.

How to Demonstrate Money

You can mentally claim money, financial assets and rich supply if you wish to use a strictly mental method. Put this powerful statement with the mental picture of the specific amount desired “All financial doors are open, all financial channels are free and xxxx (the specific amount) now comes to me.”

It is useful to speak specific words of riches for yourself and your possessions. Declare often “I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial situation is in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.” Don’t be afraid to declare that “large sums of money”, “rich pleasant surprises”, and “rich appropriate gifts” are manifesting for you. Do NOT be vague about money unless you want money to be vague in its response to you.

Thinking in definite terms opens the way for definite results. Don’t limit your income by saying “just enough to get by”. Try this – make a postcard with this on it “Your money starts growing now. Your earnings double.”

Remember that money adores the prosperous attitude and responds appropriately to it.

Terrie



To envy another’s money indicates a belief in lack of sufficient supply for everyone. Remember that you will experience what you most strongly give your attention o. When you hear of another’s good fortune, rich inheritance or wealthy possessions, you should do so with great joy and appreciation. Another’s demonstration of riches is but further proof of a God’s divine bounty – which is available to all mankind. You should rejoice in that!

Money has divine intelligence and it can tune into what you’re saying or thinking about it. It responds accordingly. Through positive, appreciative attitudes toward money, you can make money your servant, instead of becoming its slave. Deliberately cultivate the habit of appreciating money.

If you make excuses about your appreciation and depreciate money, it seems to know it and it will be repelled from you by your depreciation.

More from Charles Fillmore “Watch your thoughts when you are handling money, because your money is attached through your mind to the one source of all substance and all money. When you think of your money, which is visible, as something directly attached to an invisible source that is giving and withholding according to your thought, you have the key to all riches and the reason for all lack.” “Keep a True Lent” ~Charles Fillmore

Give Up Mixed Attitudes

Our mixed attitudes about money give us mixed results. Remember what John D. Rockefeller, Jr. said – man could use money to feed the hungry, cure the diseased, make desert places bloom and bring beauty into life.  and Solomon said “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.” (Proverbs 10:15)

Just as you should not turn your nose up at money, you should not make  a god of it either. Money is filled with the desire for life, movement, expansion and activity. It does not like to be grasped, clutched, or restrained in idleness. It is the active circulation of money that brings prosperity. Depressions and recessions are caused by the miserly hoarding of money. Our individual prosperity depends on the active circulation of money  just like the national economy does.

Never say “I can’t afford….”. This sows seeds of poverty and limitation. Phrase your financial ‘no’ in a more positive and prosperous manner such as “I choose not to purchase that” or something similar.  Try saying often “I use the positive power of God’s rich substance in wisdom, love and good judgment in all my financial dealings and I am prospered in all my ways.”

Don’t magnify financial troubles. If you brag or excessively talk about your financial issues, you will have them forever. “I have faith that this too shall pass.” Then continue holding to the high financial vision of success toward which you are working.

When you give money to another person or to an organization, do not give it with the thought of need or obligation. Such thoughts only attract more needs and obligations to be financially met. Rather, give to “add to their prosperity”. This applies to all money you give out – to individuals, organizations or the government. Your attitude makes the giver and receiver feel richer.

Pay attention to your thinking concerning the receipt of money or other financial supply. The prosperous way is to graciously receive your good in all forms and make no excuse for your acceptance. It is an offense to both the gift and the giver to say “oh, you shouldn’t have done that”.

“All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty comes to me now.”

Terrie



Stop saying “Oh, it’s JUST money” – once you start appreciating rather than depreciating money things start to click for you.

Why is it so important to cultivate a sicncerly favorable attitude about money, in order to attract happier financial situations. Money is filled with the intelligence of the universe – from which it was created.

Money actually reacts to your attitude about it. With The Law of Mind Action you attract whatever you appreciate and repel whatever you depreciate. Money acts accordingly. If you think favorabley about money, you multiply and increase it in your midst; but if you condemn or criticize it in any form, either your own money or another’s, you dissipate and repel it from you.

This law works in regards to your moods as well. Have you noticed that you are able to purchase more  for your money when you are in a good mood.  But if you shop in haste or while in a bad mood, everything seems to go wrong, including the purchasing power of your money.

Since your thoughts make your world, your thoughts about money have to be appreciative in order for moeny to appreciate you and be attracted to you. If you look at yours or other’s lives – when they do not have enough money to meet their expenses, it is because they have been scoffing and condemning money in financial matters, their own or another’s.

The Golden Rule of Prosperity

People sometimes bring financial hardship on themselves by declaring that they personally are prosperous and blessed but that someoene else doesn’t have a cent to their name. These folks discuss the troubles of others triumphantly and at length. If you think of yourself as prosperous but of others as living in lack, through the law of actiona nd reaction you are inviting the same thing to happen to you.  The Golden Rule of prosperous thinking is that you should not think or say anything concerning another’s financial affairs unless you would want to experience that in your own life.

Terrie



If you study the lives and experiences of prosperous-minded people, you will find that they have a friendly attitude toward money. On the other hand, you will discover that a more general attitude is that there’s something wrong with having money and being prosperous.

People often discount the importance of money in one breath and yet they admit that they are working very hard to get it in the next breath. they do not realize the cross-current they are setting up in their thinking, which, in turn voids most of their efforts. Through such crossed-up thinking about money, they are working at cross-purposes, and often they will experience a crossed-up result. Remember how  we talked about this a few days ago – you have to be consistent in all your thoughts, words and actions.

Money Is Divine

Money is wonderful because it is divine substance; money is good when rightly used. Money is divine because money is God’s good in expression. If this shocks or bothers you, you must examine your beliefs about money. You cannot achieve prosperity if you have old, limiting beliefs about money and prosperity.

Most people are sensitive about their capacity to earn money. In most instances, a person’s capacity to earn money would increase if his attitude toward money were positive and friendly. “Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.” ~Mike Todd

The Good News About Money

Many people are confused about the correct spiritual attitude toward money. The most misinterpreted passages in the Bible is “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.” (I Timothy 6:10). But the context of this passage reveals that Paul was simply reminding Timothy to teach the people in the city of Ephesus that they should not set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but on God who gives us richly  all things to enjoy – God is the source of man’s supply!

There is nothing wrong with money, or in wanting money. It is a God-given medium of exchange, and there’s nothing evil about that. The moment we let go of those ideas that someone ignorantly taught us years ago – that money is evil – we will find that money circulates in our financial affairs much more easily and more satisfyingly.

Terrie



When you become discouraged in your efforts toward  greater prosperity, remind yourself that to think according to the general beliefs of the human race is easy – and useless. But to think prosperously in spite of appearances to the contrary is worth every effort because it produces rich results.

Train your mind to never be disappointed! If certain things do not come at certain expected times in the way you wish, don’t consider it a failure. You can be firm in the faith that something much better is on the way and will appear at the right time. When you seem to fail, remind yourself that it is because you have not asked big enough. Expand your viewpoint and expectation, and a larger answer than you originally anticipated will come. Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way.

Avoid Hurry

Remember there is no hurry, force or push on the prosperous plane of life and there is no lack of opportunity. Do all you can do in a successful manner every day, but do it as calmly as possible without undue haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you ca but do not hurry. That may sound like a dichotomy but it’s true if you think about it. The moment you begin to hurry, you cease to be prosperous in your thinking and become fearful, which is the prologue to failure.

Whenever you find yourself hurrying along trying to force a result, call a halt. Fix you attention on the mental image of the thing you are working toward, and then begin to give thanks you are receiving it and accomplishing it in God’s own wonderful way.  If you find yourself in a hurried atmosphere surrounded by people who don’t understand the law of increase, simply declare to yourself “peace, be still”.

Free Yourself From Petty Thinking

Don’t waste your time holding grudges, even toward those who have treated you unjustly. You will meet people like this as you go along. Others who are not making the grade will try to hold you down to their mediocre level, but they can’t if you refuse to be bothered by what they say or do. Nobody can keep your success and prosperity from you but yourself.

If some people try to (or maybe even succeed) dissuade you for a time, remember that success has endless doors ready to open for you and endless ways and means of  providing your good.

You can free yourself of petty thinking in regard to others’ success and free yourself from their petty thinking by declaring “Refusing to criticize another’s prosperity,k I turn to God , ask his direction and I am prospered, in like manner, others refuse to criticize my prosperity, instead, they turn to God, ask his direction and they, too, are prospered. There is plenty of success and prosperity for all.”

Never become discouraged, disappointed or upset by what others say or do in an effort to hold you down or take your good from you as you begin to rise through prosperous thinking.

Terrie