today I am going to tell you what true success story it is about a man well
past middle age who learned how to use the power greater than we are at a time
of life when he was both discouraged and impoverished I'm going to tell you a
story about a man who has passed 60 he was driving a bakery truck when he first
became interested in knowing more about this thing called life Charlie before
this his daughter had healed herself of a physical illness through prayer and
faith and this had him to wondering about his own condition at one time he
had been very successful but through a change in affairs he had lost his
business and he was now driving a bakery truck he came to me one day he told me
about his daughter's healing and asked why can't this power that healed my
daughter do something for me naturally I answered God can do anything he believed
in the power of prayer and his faith was now supported because his daughter had
been healed and so we worked out a very simple method of procedure for him it
would be a good thing for him to take a few moments each day to meditate and
pray and with this one idea in my - there is a law of good that is able to
do anything there is an intelligence in the universe that wishes me to be
successful God is right where I am therefore I do not have to go anywhere
to find him the law of good is right where I am
therefore I do not have to go in search of it I live and move and have my BA in
this divine spirit and this perfect law I believe it will respond to me
therefore I am going to trust it he was trying to accept the answer to his
prayer even though he had not yet experienced its fulfillment as Jesus had
said when he pray believed that she had and he shall receive let us say that he
was in this position he had a garden plot and seeds to plant in it he
believed the soil could produce the desired crop and he had complete
confidence in the creative ability of life but he hadn't actually planted the
seed he was hoping for a crop without first having complied with the law of
nature which says plant the see plant the seed and let the law of good do the
rest or shall we say he was like a man who had a him and a dozen per day and he
wanted to raise some chickens somehow or other he had to get the hen and the eggs
together now the eggs were Willy and the end was Willy and he was willing but if
he kept the hand in the yard and the eggs in a basket nothing could happen it
is necessary to put the eggs under the hand because she knows what to do with
them she just sets on them for 21 days she
rolls them over once in a while and sort of chuckles to herself as she
contemplates the happy event that is to take place you see the hen doesn't know
how to make a chicken any more than you and I know how to create a cabbage but
by some divine guidance she knows how to set on an A and there she says as though
she were guided by God's intelligence which of course she really is but the
Hannah Bayes this divine urge within her and so she says and sure enough in due
season life stirs within the shell and the little chicks come forth ready
to start the business of living on their own well you and I are not chicken and
we are not eggs but we could learn a lot from the end what she simply sets on an
idea until it takes place have you and I ever sat on an idea consistently for 21
days without ever leaving it have we rolled it over each day in our
imagination like the hem does the eggs in happy anticipation of what is going
to happen it was exactly this that our friend needed to learn and he needed to
do you already have the making so to speak he merely hadn't put them together
right you see he already had the M and the eggs with his belief in prayer and
his confidence in the power greater than me he just hadn't got the AIDS under him
as I said before the eggs were Willy and the hem was Willy and so was this thing
called life the power greater than we are Willy what he had to do was to place
his faith in a relationship to this power which would make it possible for
the law of good to do a definite thing aurilla well this man really said on his
eggs for three months before anything tangible happen but he did sit on them
and he did roll him over in his imagination every day that is he had a
quiet period each day when he definitely meditated and pray and generated faith
and conviction and came to a complete acceptance
he was waiting in faith waiting on the law of good and resting in the knowledge
that God never lets anyone down I used to ask him from time to time how is it
with your faith are you anxious do any doubts come into your mind
and he would always say doll I am sure something good is going to happen turn
up one day when he was making a delivery at a retail store the owner said to him
you know I have been thinking about you lately I need someone to help me in my
business how would you like to do that this our friend took is the first sign
the first leading of the spirit with definite conclusion so he answered why
this happens to be the kind of a business I used to be in and I
understand it and I would be very very happy indeed to accept your offer so
there was another period of several months during which he worked for the
owner of the store then one day the owner said I really want to turn this
whole business over to you I want to retire and you can take your own time in
paying part it is a very successful business and it will pay for itself
let us add just like all God's ideas it will take care of itself naturally the
man accepted this offer and he himself became the owner of the business and
Rani or many years and ran it successfully but always with this
thought in mind this is God's business a Power greater than I am is directing it
I am in partnership with this power now this is a simple and a true story of
something that actually happened just one among hundreds of similar stories
just the simple story of a man who was willing to sit in an idea or three
months because he believed and because he was persistent in his faith and
because he trusted where he could not trace well this is what they did
there are several viewpoints we can take of this story we can say oh well it
probably would have happened anyway or it was just chance or good luck or we
can say perhaps his story applied to this man
alone and what meaning does it have for me for I don't want a grocery store
I don't even drive a bakery truck I have problems but greater than here well
perhaps you have but do you think that your problems are too great for a divine
intelligence to solve do you think the power that controls everything finds it
more difficult to hatch out a planet then it does to hatch out an egg Jesus
used just one power and only one to heal the sick raise the dead them multiplied
the loaves and fishes and he didn't say that this power is big in one place and
little in another you see our friend kept faith with himself and he kept
faith with a law of good and he took definite time every day to meditate to
pray to except he didn't even know what the law of good was going to do or him
or how or when or where daily he gave thanks for what he couldn't see daily he
believed that a way would be open before him and surely he had the faith of a
little child how much you and I need this childlike acceptance for we all
have problems we are not different from each other because we are all human
beings we all wish to be happy and all the most interesting thing about it all
we all have faith it is born with us it is just as much a part of us as our
hands and feet we just haven't been using it right so then let's get us a
hem and some eggs and see if we can't put them together let's take some
definite idea and stay with it in complete acceptance let's take all our
wants and deeds to that divine source which alone can meet them
and believe that it will meet them I have no secrets to tell you I have no
power to give you you just forget all about me I've just told you simple true
story about a power that you have access to about a law of good waiting to be you
and about a simple approach to it that you and only you can make for yourself
though I have nothing to give you I have nothing to offer this thing I am
talking about is life itself life which is already given to you and to me the
intelligence to know the power to do and the faith to believe what are we going
to do with this wonderful gift of life that's up to us isn't it of course it is
and the power and the glory of the kingdom of good will embrace us in our
abreact and in our every for