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Expect the Best and Get It
William James, the famous psychologist, said, “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of your venture.” When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.
This does not mean that by believing you are necessarily going to get everything you want or think you want. Perhaps that would not be good for you. When you put your trust in God, He guides your mind so that you do not want things that are not good for you.
But it does mean that when you learn to believe, that which has seemingly been impossible moves into the area of the possible. Every great thing becomes for you a possibility.
A famous trapeze artist was instructing his students how to perform on the high trapeze bar. Finally, having given full explanations in this skill, he told them to demonstrate their ability. One student, looking up at the insecure perch upon which he must perform, was suddenly filled with fear. He froze completely. He had a terrifying vision of himself falling to the ground. He couldn’t move a muscle, so deep was his fright. “I can’t do it!” he gasped. The instructor put his arm around the boy’s shoulder and said, “Son, you can do it, and I will tell you how.” Then he made one of the wisest remarks I have ever heard.
He said, “Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.” Copy that sentence. Write it on a card and put it in your pocket. Better still, write it on your mind, you who really want to do something with life. It’s packed with power, that sentence. “Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.”
Heart is the symbol of creative activity. Fire the heart with where you want to go and what you want to be. Get it so deeply fixed in your subconscious that you will not take no for an answer, then your entire personality will follow where your heart leads. “Throw your heart over the bar” means to throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and your material self will follow in the victory groove thus pioneered by your faith-inspired mind.
Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart’s desire. Whenever you have a bar, that is to say a barrier, in front of you, stop, close your eyes, visualize everything that is above the bar and nothing that is below it, then imaginatively throw your heart over that bar and see yourself as being given lifting power to rise above it. Believe that you are experiencing this upthrust of force. You will be amazed at the lifting force you will receive.
You can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power. And how do you develop faith power? Saturate your mind with the great words of the Bible. If you will spend one hour a day reading the Bible and committing its great passages to memory, allowing them to recondition your personality, the change in you and in your experience will be little short of miraculous.
Read the New Testament. Select a dozen of the strong statements about faith and memorize each one. Say them over and over, especially just before going to sleep. In time they will modify your thought pattern. This process will change you into a believer, into an expecter, and thus you will become an achiever. You will have new power to get what God and you decide you really want from life.
This is not some theory that I have thought up. It is taught by the most reliable book known to man. Generation after generation, no matter what develops in the way of knowledge and science, the Bible is read by more people than any other book. Humanity rightly has more confidence in it than any other document ever written, and the Bible tells us that faith power works wonders.
The most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual-power technique taught in the
Bible. Very astutely the Bible emphasizes the method by which a person can make something of himself. Belief, positive thinking, faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself, faith in life. This is the essence of the technique it teaches. “If thou canst believe,” it says, “all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23). “If ye have faith…nothing shall be impossible unto you” (Matthew 17:20). “According to your faith be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29). Believe—believe—so it drives home the truth that faith moves mountains.
A woman, compelled by adversity to go into sales work, undertook to demonstrate vacuum cleaners from house to house She took a negative attitude toward herself and her work. She “knew” she was going to fail. She feared to approach a house even though she came for a requested demonstration. She believed that she could not make the sale. As a result, she failed in a high percentage of her interviews.
One day she called upon a woman who evidenced consideration beyond the average.
To this customer the saleswoman poured out her tale of defeat and powerlessness. The other woman listened patiently, then said quietly, “If you expect failure, you will get
failure, but if you expect to succeed, I am sure you will succeed.” And she added, “I will
give you a formula which I believe will restyle your thinking, give you new confidence and help you to accomplish your goals. Repeat this formula before every call. Believe in it and then marvel at what it will do for you. This is it: ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’ (Romans 8:31). But change it by personalizing it so that you say, ‘If God be for me, who can be against me?’ God realizes that you want security and support for your little children and yourself, and by practicing the method I suggest you will be given power to get what you want.”
She learned to approach each house expecting to make a sale, affirming and picturizing positive, not negative, results. As the saleswoman employed this principle she acquired new courage, new faith and deeper confidence in her own ability. Now she declares, “God helps me sell vacuum cleaners,” and who can dispute it? It is a well-defined and authentic principle that what the mind profoundly expects it tends to receive. Perhaps this is true because what you really expect is what you actually want.
Unless you really want something sufficiently to create an atmosphere of positive factors by your dynamic desire, it is likely to elude you. “If with all your heart”—that is the secret. “If with all your heart,” that is to say, if with the full complement of your personality, you reach out creatively toward your heart’s desire, your reach will not be in vain.
At least 10 times every day affirm, “I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.” In so doing your thoughts will turn toward the best and become conditioned to its realization. This practice will bring all of your powers to focus upon the attainment of the best. It will bring the best to you.
William James, the famous psychologist, said, “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of your venture.” When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.
This does not mean that by believing you are necessarily going to get everything you want or think you want. Perhaps that would not be good for you. When you put your trust in God, He guides your mind so that you do not want things that are not good for you.
But it does mean that when you learn to believe, that which has seemingly been impossible moves into the area of the possible. Every great thing becomes for you a possibility.
A famous trapeze artist was instructing his students how to perform on the high trapeze bar. Finally, having given full explanations in this skill, he told them to demonstrate their ability. One student, looking up at the insecure perch upon which he must perform, was suddenly filled with fear. He froze completely. He had a terrifying vision of himself falling to the ground. He couldn’t move a muscle, so deep was his fright. “I can’t do it!” he gasped. The instructor put his arm around the boy’s shoulder and said, “Son, you can do it, and I will tell you how.” Then he made one of the wisest remarks I have ever heard.
He said, “Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.” Copy that sentence. Write it on a card and put it in your pocket. Better still, write it on your mind, you who really want to do something with life. It’s packed with power, that sentence. “Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.”
Heart is the symbol of creative activity. Fire the heart with where you want to go and what you want to be. Get it so deeply fixed in your subconscious that you will not take no for an answer, then your entire personality will follow where your heart leads. “Throw your heart over the bar” means to throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and your material self will follow in the victory groove thus pioneered by your faith-inspired mind.
Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart’s desire. Whenever you have a bar, that is to say a barrier, in front of you, stop, close your eyes, visualize everything that is above the bar and nothing that is below it, then imaginatively throw your heart over that bar and see yourself as being given lifting power to rise above it. Believe that you are experiencing this upthrust of force. You will be amazed at the lifting force you will receive.
You can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power. And how do you develop faith power? Saturate your mind with the great words of the Bible. If you will spend one hour a day reading the Bible and committing its great passages to memory, allowing them to recondition your personality, the change in you and in your experience will be little short of miraculous.
Read the New Testament. Select a dozen of the strong statements about faith and memorize each one. Say them over and over, especially just before going to sleep. In time they will modify your thought pattern. This process will change you into a believer, into an expecter, and thus you will become an achiever. You will have new power to get what God and you decide you really want from life.
This is not some theory that I have thought up. It is taught by the most reliable book known to man. Generation after generation, no matter what develops in the way of knowledge and science, the Bible is read by more people than any other book. Humanity rightly has more confidence in it than any other document ever written, and the Bible tells us that faith power works wonders.
The most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual-power technique taught in the
Bible. Very astutely the Bible emphasizes the method by which a person can make something of himself. Belief, positive thinking, faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself, faith in life. This is the essence of the technique it teaches. “If thou canst believe,” it says, “all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23). “If ye have faith…nothing shall be impossible unto you” (Matthew 17:20). “According to your faith be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29). Believe—believe—so it drives home the truth that faith moves mountains.
A woman, compelled by adversity to go into sales work, undertook to demonstrate vacuum cleaners from house to house She took a negative attitude toward herself and her work. She “knew” she was going to fail. She feared to approach a house even though she came for a requested demonstration. She believed that she could not make the sale. As a result, she failed in a high percentage of her interviews.
One day she called upon a woman who evidenced consideration beyond the average.
To this customer the saleswoman poured out her tale of defeat and powerlessness. The other woman listened patiently, then said quietly, “If you expect failure, you will get
failure, but if you expect to succeed, I am sure you will succeed.” And she added, “I will
give you a formula which I believe will restyle your thinking, give you new confidence and help you to accomplish your goals. Repeat this formula before every call. Believe in it and then marvel at what it will do for you. This is it: ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’ (Romans 8:31). But change it by personalizing it so that you say, ‘If God be for me, who can be against me?’ God realizes that you want security and support for your little children and yourself, and by practicing the method I suggest you will be given power to get what you want.”
She learned to approach each house expecting to make a sale, affirming and picturizing positive, not negative, results. As the saleswoman employed this principle she acquired new courage, new faith and deeper confidence in her own ability. Now she declares, “God helps me sell vacuum cleaners,” and who can dispute it? It is a well-defined and authentic principle that what the mind profoundly expects it tends to receive. Perhaps this is true because what you really expect is what you actually want.
Unless you really want something sufficiently to create an atmosphere of positive factors by your dynamic desire, it is likely to elude you. “If with all your heart”—that is the secret. “If with all your heart,” that is to say, if with the full complement of your personality, you reach out creatively toward your heart’s desire, your reach will not be in vain.
At least 10 times every day affirm, “I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.” In so doing your thoughts will turn toward the best and become conditioned to its realization. This practice will bring all of your powers to focus upon the attainment of the best. It will bring the best to you.
