Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 13 October 2010
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Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 13 October 2010
TACKLING THAT BUGBEAR
When what seems an especially difficult problem or a great emergency presents itself, many students of Truth start by thinking, "This is very serious," and then proceed to brace themselves mentally for a seupreme effort; and plan to pray exceedingly "hard" in order to meet the difficulty.
All this is quite wrong. It simply builds up the problem into something far bigger than it was originally. The right attitude, the one that brings Victory, is to think "God can and will solve this problem."
Instead of speaking the Word from the low altitude of fear and limitation, and trusting to effort to magnify the Lord, stop thinking of the problem altogether, and rise in consciousness. Having now attained a higher level - speak the Word gently from that level, and your problem will be solved.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful... (Hebrews 4:12)
When what seems an especially difficult problem or a great emergency presents itself, many students of Truth start by thinking, "This is very serious," and then proceed to brace themselves mentally for a seupreme effort; and plan to pray exceedingly "hard" in order to meet the difficulty.
All this is quite wrong. It simply builds up the problem into something far bigger than it was originally. The right attitude, the one that brings Victory, is to think "God can and will solve this problem."
Instead of speaking the Word from the low altitude of fear and limitation, and trusting to effort to magnify the Lord, stop thinking of the problem altogether, and rise in consciousness. Having now attained a higher level - speak the Word gently from that level, and your problem will be solved.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful... (Hebrews 4:12)
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Ya know....there isn't a part of that reading for today that made sense early in recovery. The concept of NOT fighting for what I wanted, NOT planning and scheming to get my way, NOT "bracing" myself for the onslaught, and then not "praying hard" to meet the difficulty........it just seemed so opposite of everything I "knew."
In practice, I still don't have the proposed solution down yet...... I do it "right" sometimes but not always. I'm still a work in progress.
In practice, I still don't have the proposed solution down yet...... I do it "right" sometimes but not always. I'm still a work in progress.
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