Chapter 4 - What Do You Expect?

Date:   12/27/2007 10:48:52 PM ( 17 y ago)

Chapter 4 - What Do You Expect?
"According to your faith be it unto you."
--Matt. 9:29
Faith is expectancy, "According to your faith, be
it unto you."
We might say, according to your expectancies be it
done unto you; so, what are you expecting?
We hear people say: "We expect the worst to
happen," or "The worst is yet to come." They are
deliberately inviting the worst to come.
We hear others say: "I expect a change for the
better." They are inviting better conditions into
their lives.
Change your expectancies and you change your
conditions.
How can you change your expectancies, when you
have formed the habit of expecting loss, lack or
failure?
Begin to act as if you expected success, happiness
and abundance; prepare for your good.
Do something to show you expect it to come.
Active faith alone, will impress the subconscious.
If you have spoken the word for a home, prepare
for it immediately, as if you hadn't a moment to
lose. Collect little ornaments, table-cloths,
etc., etc.!
I knew a woman who made the giant swing into
faith, by buying a large arm-chair; a chair meant
business, she bought a large and comfortable
chair, for she was preparing for the right man.
He came.
Someone will say, "Suppose you haven't money to
buy ornaments or a chair?" Then look in shop
windows and link with them in thought.
Get in their vibration: I sometimes hear people
say; "I don't go into the shops because I can't
afford to buy anything." That is just the reason
why you should go into the shops. Begin to make
friends with the things you desire or require.
I know a woman who wanted a ring. She went boldly
to the ring department and tried on rings.
It gave her such a realization of ownership, that
not long after, a friend made her a gift of a
ring. "You combine with what you notice."
Keep on noticing beautiful things, and you make an
invisible contact. Sooner or later these things
are drawn into your life, unless you say, "Poor
me, too good to be true."
"My soul, wait you only upon God: for my
expectation is from Him." This is a most
important statement from the 62nd Psalm.
The soul is the subconscious mind, and the
psalmist was telling his subconscious to expect
everything directly from the universal; not to
depend upon doors and channels; "My expectations
is from Him."
God cannot fail, for "His ways are ingenious, His
methods are sure."
You can expect any seemingly impossible Good from
God; if you do not limit the channels.
Do not say how you want it done, or how it can't
be done.
"God is the Giver and the Gift and creates His own
amazing channels."
Take the following statement: I cannot be
separated from God the Giver, therefore, I cannot
be separated from God the Gift. The gift is God
in action.
Get the realization that every blessing is Good in
action, and see God in every face and good in
every situation. This makes you master of all
conditions.
A woman came to me saying that there was no heat
in the radiators in their apartment, and that her
mother was suffering from the cold. She added,
"The landlord has declared that we can't have heat
until a certain date." I replied, "God is your
landlord." She said, "That's all I want to know,"
and rushed out. That evening the heat was turned
on without asking. It was because she realized
that the landlord was God in manifestation.
This is a wonderful age, for people are becoming
Miracle Minded; it is in the air.
Quoting from an article which I found in the New
York Journal and American by John Anderson, it
corroborates what I have just said.
The title of the article is "Theatre Goers Make
Hits of Metaphysical Plays."
If, said the cynical manager, who shall be called
Brock Pemberton, with a slight accent of sarcasm
in his voice, the other night, on an intermission
curbside talk, you fellows meaning the critics,
know so much about what the New York public wants,
why don't you tell me what to produce?
Why don't you tell me what sort of play the play-
goers want to see?" "I would," I said, "But you
wouldn't believe it."
"You're hedging," he said, "You don't know, and
you're trying to cover up by pretending to know
more than you're willing to say. You haven't any
more idea than I have this minute what sort of
plays generally succeed."
"I have," I said, "there is one sure fire success;
one theme that works and has always worked,
whether it is competing with boy meets girl,
mysteries, historical tragedies, etc., no play on
the theme has ever completely failed if it had nay
merit at all, and a lot of poor ones have been big
hits."
"You're stalling again," said Mr. Pemberton, "What
sort of plays are they?"
"Metaphysical," I said, fouling slightly with a
big word and waiting quietly for the effect.
"Metaphysical," said Mr. Pemberton, "You mean
metaphysical?"
I paused a moment and since Mr. Pemberton said
nothing, went right on spouting such titles as
"The Green Pastures," "The Star Wagon," "Father
Malachy's Miracle!, etc." "Some of these," I
added, "reached the public over the heads of the
critics." But Mr. Pemberton had departed to ask
probably, in every theatre in town, "Is there a
metaphysician in the house?"
People are beginning to realize the power of their
words and thoughts. They understand why "Faith is
the substance of the thing hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen."
We see the law of expectancy working out through
superstition.
If you walk under a ladder and expect it to give
you bad luck, it will give you bad luck. The
ladder is quite innocent; bad luck came because
you expected it.
We might say, expectancy is the substance of the
things hoped for, or expectancy is the substance
of the thing man fears. "The thing I expected has
come upon me."
Nothing is too good to be true, nothing is too
wonderful to happen, nothing is too good to last,
when you look to God for your good.
Now think of the blessings which seem so far off,
and begin to expect them now, under grace, in an
unexpected way; for God works in unexpected ways,
His wonders to perform.
I was told that there are three thousand promises
in the Bible.
Let us now expect all these blessings to come to
pass. Among them we are promised Riches and
Honor, Eternal Youth ("Your flesh shall become as
a little child's") and Eternal Life, ("Death
itself shall be overcome.")
Christianity is founded upon the forgiveness of
sins and an empty tomb.
We now know that all these things are
scientifically possible.
As we call on the law of forgiveness, we become
free from mistakes and the consequences of
mistakes, ("Though your sins be as scarlet ye
shall be washed whiter than wool.")
Then our bodies will be bathed in Light, and
express the "body electric," which is
incorruptible and indestructible, pure substance,
expressing perfection.
Expect the unexpected, my glorious good now
comes to pass.

 

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