Hi it's Agnes and this is 'Neville Nugget' number 13 and it's from the book 'Feeling Is The Secret'
by Neville. Okay, today it is: 'Whenever you are in the state of mind "I should like to but I
cannot" the harder you try the less you're able to yield to the wish. Prayer is the art of assuming
the feeling of being and having that which you want.' So as an example I have a friend who..
..he was renting, he was in resentment of people owing him money and he made a decision to write
himself a blank check with $500,000 dollars on it. And he set a date 6 months in advance
so he did that and stuck the check in his wardrobe and every day when he got dressed
he would open the wardrobe see the check and he would give thanks for this money. So
5 and a half months go by and he says to himself 'gee I haven't received the money yet.'
And he just never ever had the desire to play lotto, he just had no desire to get a scratchy,
nothing what so ever. He just knew that anything that he was inspired to do he would do
and nothing came to him. So he drops his daughter off to work one day
and it's - there's 2 weeks left to the 6 month mark and she goes into work and then
she rings him probably about an hour and a half later and says
'um Dad I think that I've won some money with some people at work, we've played the lottery.' And
he picks her up - he said 'oh well that's great you know that's good I hope um you know
you all enjoy that' and and just kind of made a general comment about it. And he picks her up
after work that day and she won $19 million dollars with her colleagues,
so they all ended up winning $1.5 million dollars and she received the money the day that her father
uh came up to his 6 months and it was 3 times what he had written on his check. So some may
say well she won the money he didn't but to start off this story - and I forgot to tell you this bit
it - was at one o'clock in the morning he got his whole family out of
bed and said 'In 6 months we're going to have $500,000 dollars what are we gonna buy?' and
the kids kind of said 'what dad you got us out of bed for this at one o'clock in the morning?'
Anyway he decided to get a sheet of paper and he and he wrote 1:10 am and he wrote down what
everybody wanted. And it was all different things within the house you know - number one a street
address and a pool and you know a big kitchen and all sorts. Everybody wanted something different.
So they went on to buy that house that they had written down as a family and the wife
used to walk to work and say 'wouldn't it be lovely to have a house without a mortgage?' So
telling you this story because these people were renting in a very tight, small house and he was in
his late 50s when this happened. So little story for you about the art of prayer because he did
pray every day in the state of giving thanks as if it had already happened. So there's a
little story for you for today about prayer. See you soon in the next 'Neville Nugget' bye-bye.