PRAYER DOES CHANGE THINGS

  

PRAYER DOES CHANGE THINGS

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

May 9

 

Prayer does change things.

Let us be perfectly clear about this.

Prayer does change things.

Many people say that prayer is a good thing

because it gives us courage and fortitude

for meeting our troubles.

They say that prayer often gets a man out of difficulty

simply by giving him self- confidence

that he would otherwise have lacked.

Of course, this is not spiritual Truth.

The fact is that seeing the Presence of God

where the trouble seems to be

does not merely give us courage to meet the trouble;

it changes the trouble into harmony.

Prayer heals the body by changing the tissues,

and it does this by first changing

 the mind that forms them.

Prayer brings man his salvation

by changing his nature fundamentally;

not by making the best of him as he is.

The body, the environment, the universe itself,

is plastic to our thought;

and it always reflects our sincere belief.

 

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he”

Proverbs 23:7