Therefore, I shall offer up prayers of thanksgiving and gratitude; I shall work harder, being more particular in the preparation for my greater work, than I have been in the past—­never doubting but that every moment spent in this greater preparation will bring added interests, and a greater success in the future.

Even as Moses did not doubt the wisdom of the Lord for a greater future (when in the land of Midian for forty years), so shall I not doubt His ways today.

I claim, with a joyful heart and an attitude of thanksgiving, that my life could not have been as great in the future had I been denied my present experience.  I know that greater things are in store for me, because God’s thoughts are greater than my thoughts; because He is giving me that training now, in my land of Midian, which I most need.  I trust the guiding Spirit of Infinite Love to lead me, at the right time, into my life’s Promised Land.

The success today, in my land of Midian, is attracting unto me the greater influence and power in my Court of Pharaoh, and in my leadership, as I lead others into that promised land which the Lord has prepared for me and mine.

I smile—­I sing—­I rejoice, and offer thanksgiving and gratitude for my success now and forever.  Surely I believe more and more:  “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord,” and all things are now working together for my good.

Therefore, I have faith and conviction in my ultimate success—­in my greater success—­in my greatest success!

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ABUNDANCE

(See also Abundance, page 11)

“There is abundance in the world for me given by the bountiful hand of Omnipotence.  I gratefully claim and accept all the supply for my needs.”

The old idea of orthodox prayer was that of supplication and begging.  I have spent a whole night at a time begging for a few pennies and supplicating for the salvation of others.  What waste of energy.  Each time that we send up such a weak supplication as the attitude of a beggar, with the timid, frightful thoughts that only a beggar’s mind can have—­this condition of mind, cross circuits the power to bring into our lives the very things we most desire.

When the beggar extends his hand for a copper, he knows that not everyone who passes is going to give him a coin.  He, therefore, solicits more or less mechanically, with a mind not positive or sure.  His hand is extended in timidity and weakness.  Now and then he gets a coin from a sympathetic passer-by.  The same principle holds true for the man who prays in the old orthodox fashion.  He utters his petitions with doubts and misgivings, with timidity and wonderings.  Some of his prayers are answered—­just as the occasional coin is cast to the beggar.  But most of the orthodox prayers sent up in the fashion of begging and supplicating are never answered.  Of necessity, they cannot be, because the concentration is filled with fear and trembling.