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Demonstrate Prosperity Now!A Mini Course
Based on the teachings of Dr. Emmet Fox
Written and published by:The Emmet Fox Resource Center Golden Key Books
P.O. Box 21 Farmingdale, New York 11735 USA
This material is copyrighted 2008. All rights are reserved. No part of the material maybe used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from The
Emmet Fox Resource Center Golden Key Books
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Introduction
Making the decision to take this mini study on prosperity is opening the door
to the source of all success, wealth, achievement, and material gain. You
are now taking the first step in building your prosperity consciousness. You
are going to change your consciousness out of the old mental equivalent of
lack and limitation into the new mental equivalent of plenty. If you follow
the simple laws of prosperity outlined in these three essays, you will be
amazed at the beneficial changes and rich blessings that will manifest in
your life.
The purpose of this study should be that of increasing the understanding (the
raising of the whole consciousness, both thought and feeling). Often people
talk about prosperity rather than absorb the principles. Since we use the
intellect to assist us to lift the understanding, but not the fullness of our
approach, then it is important to remember not to struggle with new ideas
and concepts. Place them gently in the depths of your consciousness. It is
most important to establish the attitude, within yourself, that you are
absorbing Truth principles and that they are being consciously incorporated
in to every fiber of your being.
In remarkable ways, divine activity will move into your affairs to bless and
to prosper. In expected and unexpected ways you will draw all that is good
to you!
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Read through each lesson slowly and absorb and think about each paragraph,
read it not just with your mind but with your heart as well.
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Whatever you may require, God will provide, and will furnish ifyou are about His business. E.F.
Prosperity Lesson 1
To most people the word prosperity means nothing more than wealth in
terms of dollars and cents. Prosperity is a full rounded state of well-being.
It is health of circumstances, as well as the health of the physical body. It is
harmony in relationships, work, and our environment. It is centered in the
realization that God is all in all. Prosperity is really the Presence of God.
Prosperity is really a state of consciousness.
When you made the decision to take this study, you made a decision to
enrich and re-vitalize your life. You made a decision that can transform and
improve everything in your world. You are starting a flow of prosperity
action that will drive lack and want out of your life, opening the door to the
source of all Good.
Emmet Fox wrote: "You can get all the money you want for any wise
purpose through treatment (Prayer). There is no need for anyone who knows
how to treat to be in money difficulties. But you must treat. The first thing
necessary, is that you should be genuinely convinced that it is the Divine
will for you to have all that you need. If you have any lingering doubts onthis point, they will make it difficult for you to demonstrate, and in that case
you must begin by treating for wisdom." With this in mind, it is always wise
to realize that, regardless of what anyone elses financial situation might be
or the state of the economy, there is always plenty for you, and for everyone.
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This is true because we live in an extremely prosperous universe. Remember
that God is everywhere present, and He is the source, so all of His vast
riches are always where you are.
What are you seeking in life a better job, a house, a new business, more
money, better health, to be debt free? Then take this idea of prosperity, and
plant it in your subconscious mind and cultivate it with faith. As you begin
thinking thoughts of prosperity, Divine Substance is shaping itself around
those thoughts, and manifesting them in your life. It is important to keep
your thoughts off of lack, limitation, and difficulties, and keep them centered
on God. Begin here by thinking I Am Prosperous. Make this a basic
thought. Emerson said, A man is what he thinks about all day long. It is
important to change your basic thought. Edward Beals, in an early written
booklet titled The Law of Financial Success stated that a piece of paper once
folded in a certain manner will fold along the same lines the next time.
The same law is observed in clothing and gloves, they form into creases
according to the person using them, and these creases will always be in
effect, notwithstanding repeated pressing. Likewise, he tells us, rivers and
streams of water cut their course through the land, and therefore flow along
the habit course. This law operates everywhere. It is important to realize
that when you know how to change the basic thought, you will know how to
change everything in your life. Remember this does not happen
instantaneously. You will have to make new mental creases.
Dr. Emmet Fox once said, Whatever we name, we claim. In the book of
Genesis, the second chapter, the nineteenth verse, we read that the Lord God
brought all the lower forms of life that He had created to Adam, to see what
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he would call them. And whatever Adam called every living thing that was
the name thereof. Dr. Fox in his notes on the Bible refers to this as a
powerful lesson. Adam represents the intellect and the human will. Here
Adam is given the chance to name the creatures; he is given the power of
free will and choice. Whatever he named it; that is its name. So it is with
our life and our prosperity. If we call ourselves poor, hopeless or limited,
then through the law of mind action, we are accepting and attracting
limitation. We are claiming it and giving it life. The object is to train
ourselves to give a good name to a seemingly negative situation. For
example dont say things like I do not have enough money in the bank, I
cannot afford this, I am poor, Things dont work for me, I never get a break,
or I always seem to struggle. Remind yourself that your needs are always
met, then, whatever your situation name your supply as good, as abundant,
not as lack and limitation.
As you build this faith of prosperity and infinite Supply with conviction,
divine activity will move into your affairs and bless and prosper you. In
marvelous and unexpected ways you will begin to draw good into your life.
Dont say that you want to get rid of poverty or lack. Be affirmative and say
what you mean. If your thoughts are centered on getting out of poverty, you
are increasing poverty in your consciousness. You are going to think
prosperity even if the rent is due, if your bills are behind, or if you think you
cannot afford something. We must understand completely that God does not
give attributes or things to us because we are good. It does not give
opulence as a reward for Spiritual acquirement; but if we want Spiritual
qualities, we must use certain laws to receive spiritual things, and if we want
material things, we must use the laws which govern the distribution of them.
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It is time to release debt. The concept of debt is bondage. Since we know
that our life is the out picturing of our consciousness, it is necessary to learn
the basic of freedom from burden and debt. In the Lords Prayer we read,
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. This forgiving is the
cleansing of our consciousness through divine Love and through a building
of our faith. It is when we establish ourselves in the realization that supply
manifests through our faith in the invisible working of Spirit. When you
work in harmony with universal law, your every need will be abundantly
supplied. Your part is simply to fulfill the law; that is to keep your mind
filled with mind substance. You are not fulfilling the law, when you allow
thoughts of lack, poverty and limitation to dwell in your mind.
Erase the idea that prosperity is not for you, or that you are unworthy.
Overcome any thought that you were meant to be poor. Deny any
appearance of failure. Think prosperity, talk prosperity, affirm supply and
give thanks for the abundance in your life. Law plus acceptance plus belief
is the key. Keep your thoughts centered on I Am Prosperous. This with
faith is the nucleus for it to grow.
If you and your personal finances are in a state of misfortune, you can turn
that around. If you have experienced a financial crunch, a job loss, chaos,
failure, a sense of helplessness or discouragement, you can turn that around.
We realize now that the first step to be taken is to make a new beginning in
our mental outlook.
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Emmet Fox tells us, lack of any kind is Always traceable to the fact that we
have been seeking our supply from some secondary source instead of from
God, Himself, the Author and Giver of life. He says, People think of their
supply as coming from certain investments, or from a business, or from an
employer, perhaps; whereas these are merely the channels through which it
comes, God being the Source. The number of possible channels is infinite,
the Source is one. The particular channel through which you are getting
your supply is quite likely to change, because change is the Cosmic Law of
manifestation. If your eye be single, thy whole body will be full of light.
The eye is spiritual perception. Whatever you give your attention to will be
what governs your life. If you direct your attention to God and infinite
Supply, your eye will be single and infinite Supply will manifest in all areas
of your life, your life will be full of life.
Many believe and have always believed that certain things are not for them.
Sometimes we have limited our good by thinking and saying, I dont want
great wealth I only want to be comfortable. We limit our good when we
say, I only want enough to meet my needs. Mary Katherine MacDougall
in her book Prosperity Now, asks us to earnestly question ourselves. Do
we really think deep down in our heart that there are some things too good
for us to desire or have? Is there a height beyond which we are not to go in
our thinking, our desires and our asking? What do we really think? If we
have reservations about our good, about what we can expect, she says, then
we need to start to correct them. The promise is given in the Old
Testament. Those who seek the Lord, lack no good thing. Here is the
promise that nothing is too much to ask. The Psalmist says: No good thing
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does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly. Mary Katherine
said, One good thought is worth countless negative thoughts. No matter
how many negative thoughts and words we have thought, felt or expressed,
we can start using wealth consciousness words, we can start feeling wealthy;
we can start acting wealthy. Our powerful good words will counteract all
the negation.
If we believe that we can have only a little good, we can expand our mental
and believing horizons, so that we can know with all our heart and mind that
there is unlimited good ready for us NOW. Think of yourself as always
going forward. Realize each day that you are nearer to your goal and your
ideal, than you were the day before. Know that within you lies the power to
progress. Nothing in the world can keep you from advancing; nothing can
keep you from your prosperity when you know this truth.
Now we have come to realize that we must look to God within as our
Unfailing Provider. That we must pay no attention to outer appearances of
failure, lack, or fear; that we must set our face to the Author of Power, and
be immune from lack and limitation. We have come to realize that thoughts
are things, and things are thoughts that are manifested visibly. Mistakes in
thought produce discomfort. Correct the thought and the discomfort
disappears. Jesus came to destroy false beliefs and to establish the Kingdom
of God or Truth in this world. P.P. Quimby.
Dr. W. John Murray tells us that poverty is a disease of the intellect through
which foolish men convince themselves that prosperity is only for the few.
The belief that poverty is an insuperable obstacle in the path of progress robs
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man of initiative, depletes his energies, and produces the very thing he
fears. We have read over and over again of the creative power of our own
thoughts and that the Source of all power is unlimited. Therefore it follows
that the Source of all Substance is unrestricted. The difficulty does not lie
with any sense of limitation in the Source; it lies in our ignorance of how to
draw from the source. Opulence is ours by divine right, but we can only get
it as we comply with certain conditions.
First, we must know that it is.
Second, we must know that we have a right to opulence as children of God.
Third, we must affirm that we have it. This is what Jesus meant when He
said, when you pray (affirm), pray knowing that ye have received. That is
when we pray or affirm that we are one with the Source of all supply, we
must know that this Source is willing to give as we are to receive, and that it
is only awaiting our demand upon it as a reservoir awaits the turning on of a
tap before it can flow through the pipe.
When you are afraid of approaching financial distress, it is time to affirm
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. This will impress the
subconscious mind with hope and expectation; and as these increase, fear
and doubt will decrease. Dr. Fox tells us not to outline. That is to say, we
must not treat or look to any particular channel, person or position for our
increase. We must not treat for any particular solution. The Source selects
its own channels with greater wisdom than ours. Emmet Fox explained that
we never know what is best for our future, although we may think we do.
He instructed to leave the question of ways and means to Divine Wisdom.
Gothe, the German philosopher, said the highest and most excellent thing
in man is formless, and we should guard against giving it shape in anything
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less than noble dress. This is another way of stating that within is the
capacity to receive larger and richer gifts.
Things to remember
1. Supply is an invisible thing. It is receiving into consciousness the
Spirit of God, Infinite Supply.
2. Demonstration begins when prosperous ideas are put to work.
3. Poverty is a state of mind
4. We do not outline look to the world for things. We look within.
5. We can be prosperous if we believe we already are.
6. Prosperity is not a matter of more training, working or saving. It is a
matter of understanding the Law.
7. Prosperity happens when we mold our thoughts to God substance.
Assignment
1. For one week, affirm twenty five times a day There is no limit to my
prosperity.
2. Write a note to God.
In your note list your desires. Real wants - not just mere wishes. This
could be an increase in pay, a new job, a house, a relationship, etc. State
your thankful heart. Bless your note and give thanks that your desires
have already been achieved. Keep a positive attitude.
(Optional) E-mail it back to us for prayer and let it go. Or if you prefer,
tuck it away in your Bible or favorite book.
Next week you will receive lesson #2.
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Prosperity Lesson # 2
Everyone wants to express financial success and that is perfectly alright.
Everyday challenges, of making money, are a major part of living, and the
answer can be summed up in these words: Financial success is here foryou
now! It only awaits your recognition and acceptance. Charles Fillmore
tells us that Prosperity is the consciousness of God as the abundant,
everywhere present resource, unfailing, ready for all who open themselves to
it through faith. Man is both the inlet and the outlet of the activity of God.
Since Substance is limitless, we need never fear that it becomes depleted.
We must open the gate of our own consciousness for its consistent
uninterrupted flow. Let us explore opening the gate to true prosperity.
Let us re-cap from lesson one. Prosperity is not completely a matter of
capital or environment, but rather a condition brought about by certain ideas
that have been allowed to rule in the consciousness. When these ideas have
changed, the conditions are changed in spite of the environment and seeming
appearances, which also must change to conform to the new ideas. Dr. Fox
tells us that people who come into wealth suddenly without building a
prosperity consciousness, soon part from their wealth. Those who are born
to riches usually have abundance in their lives, even though they never make
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the effort to earn a dollar for themselves. Charles Fillmore tells us, This is
because the ideas of plenty are so interwoven into their thought atmosphere
that they are a very part of themselves. They have the prosperity
consciousness, in which there is no idea of any condition under which the
necessities of life could be lacking. Riches, is the out growth of a rich
consciousness. Preparation of the consciousness to receive the increase is an
important key. Fillmore once wrote, If you pray for rain, we should be sure
that we have our umbrella with us. We read in the book of Kings how
Elisha caused the water to come from the invisible to fill the trenches in the
desert. An angel, a pure thought came to Elisha, and said, Make the valley
full of ditches. Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet the valley
shall be filled with water. Metaphysically speaking, Elisha was being told
that his demonstration was not going to come from the outer nor in a great
drama, but from within. A valley is a low place or low spot in life. We
often experience situations that seem hopeless. Elisha was instructed to dig
ditches. As an act of faith the King had the solders dig ditches all over the
valley. The trenches, had to be prepared, they had to be open and receptive
to receive the rain. This was the transformation from natural life to a
spiritual life through the power of thought, word and action. You have to
prepare your consciousness for the inflow of spiritual substance. Emmet
Fox gives us the key for preparing the way for supply.
1. Start where you are, no matter what the outer appearance seems to be
2. Choose your thoughts, words and actions.
3. Give. Tithing is an act of faith also include paying your bills
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4. Seek. Seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness (right mind-
ness).
5. Believe that you are one with infinite Supply.
6. Expect the highest and the best
7. Be open and be ready for supply, which can come from any source.
The key to success in life is to build a mental equivalent, by thinking rightly.
Emerson taught: Let man learn prudence to a higher strain. Let him learn
that everything in nature, even motes and feather, go by law and not by luck,
and that what he sows he reaps.
One of the great teachers of Truth, F.L. Rawson once told his congregation
that he was addressing the fact that when he began his ministry, he was in
need of finances. He decided he would treat fifteen minutes a day for one
year solely for money, ease, comfort and prosperity. He reported that withina few weeks his whole financial condition changed. He never had to worry
about money any more. He maintained the treatment for one year and told
his students, I will never again lack in my life. I have erased lack out of my
mind once and for all. It will never again happen to me. Regardless of a
time of war and depression, F.L. Rawson never experienced lack again. He
had built a prosperity pattern in consciousness.
Law governs everything we do and have in life. It has been well known, that
those that have get more, and those that have not, get not. This may seem
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like an unfair law of life, however, if you analyze it you will understand why
this is so, and how each and, every one of us set up our own set of laws that
govern our lives. Everyone has a particular comfort zone. Unless you make
a concerted effort to change your comfort zone, you will not change very
much over the years to come. This has been proven many times over by
people who have come upon large sums of money through inheritances,
lotteries and the like. Research on this states that after a few years the
majority of these people, have spent or in some way have lost the money
they had acquired, ending up back in their comfort zone, where they began.
Many people are not prepared to receive more than a meager supply in their
life. Where would you feel comfortable? That is an important question you
must answer within yourself. In a large home, a mansion, with hired help,
with an expensive car and driver, belonging to a country club??? Could you
adjust your comfort zone to fit such a lifestyle? If not, you need to think
about what level of wealth you would feel comfortable. Once you
determined that level then you can start thinking about manifesting at that
level with all the amenities it would provide. Please do not make the
mistake that many people do in their quest for wealth. That is, to think the
quick way to wealth is to change what they are doing. The key is not in
changing the thingorplace when you start, but to change yourself, and your
thoughts. So you see just obtaining wealth is not the whole answer. You
must mentally see yourself living comfortably in the lifestyle your wealth
will place you in. Emmet Fox said that it is never good to condemn things
that we wear or items in our home. Dont say things like My wardrobe is
outdated, this is just an old shirt, I have nothing in my closet to wear, or
things like this chair is shabby, my furniture is old. He said, We must
praise, watch our words and keep always the idea of richness and
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abundance. We must realize that our home is a magnet of love and
prosperity always drawing to it good. See Substance everywhere and affirm
it not only for yourself but for everyone else, especially for those who may
owe you. Your thoughts at all times should be worthy of your higher self,
your fellow man and God.
To begin to remedy any limited state of finances or ill health that has been
brought about by worry, one must begin to eliminate the worry. We must
free our mind of the burden of debt or the burden of a difficulty. Most
people who get into financial difficulties become worried, fearful and even
depressed. Their thought of lack becomes an obsession and they cannot
think of anything else. This is the very thing, that hold them back and
defeats them from demonstrating. The outcome depends entirely on their
attitude and their thoughts. Emerson said, assume a virtue if you have it
not. What he is telling us is to make God the center of everything we say,
think and feel. This is raising our consciousness. This is the Golden Key!
Refuse to be depressed or disappointed, refuse to feel doubt, uncertainty,
troubled or fearful. Follow the advice of Paul who said, None of these
things move me. Know that you can change your circumstances by
changing your consciousness.
We are told by R. Ingalese in his early writings that there are three classes of
workers. The physical worker, these are the people that make up the mass of
humanity; then there is the physico-mental workers, these folks recognize
the laws of mind and their powers to aid in drawing prosperity to
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themselves, but use physical means for manifestation. The purely mental
workers or the third class are those who use their minds fully and
completely, that they receive whatever they desire without manual or
physical labor of any sort. Each person places himself in one of these three
classes of workers, according to his evolutionary development. Those who
only work physically will earn a good living, plus some, but will never
acquire true prosperity. Those who work on the second level will begin
slowly manifesting as they develop and grow up through to the third class
where manifestation will be expressed in fullness. Every person in the
course of his or her evolutionary career must pass through each of these
three classes. Most persons in Truth have reached the second point of
development. This class is working with the laws of nature consciously
while having a career or project in which money comes.
For illustration, lets look at Dr. Emily Cady who was a member of the third
class. She has a record of remarkable cures and has helped so many people
around the world through her writings as much as any metaphysician of hertime. She used the law in healing, and her faith was great enough to believe
that she could demonstrate on a more material plane. Her deep faith
brought her into the third class by demonstrating and receiving a large sum
of money she needed and was affirming for, to continue her work. She
worked with the laws of prosperity, she accepted in her mind the amount she
needed at that time, she claimed it and gave thanksgiving for it. Within a
short time, she received a gift of what she needed from a stranger who had
heard about her work. According to her faith it was given to her.
Three things are necessary to put the law of prosperity in work.
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First to realize that everything you want exists now in Divine Mind. There
is no lack of anything in the world.
Second, realize that all things belong to God, and you can only have
temporary use of them. While we are alive here, we can borrow of God
something or nothing according to our thinking.
Third, we must realize that all things are distributed by Infinite Supply
according to law. One man is not a millionaire and another poverty stricken
by chance. Everything is distributed according to the law of mental demand,
or of asking and receiving.
Here are a few important rules for achieving opulence.
1. Meditate asking God if there is any reason you should not have what
you desire. This will remove uncertainty, if you have any, from your
mind.
2. Keep a mental focus on your desire.
3. Be positive that your demonstration will manifest. Dont ask for input
and dont listen to suggestions from others. Dont petition or beg God
for something to manifest. Stay mentally and spiritually centered.
4. Be specific. For example: I now accept a better paying job. Demand
what you want, not what someone else wants you to have or thinks
you should have. Not what you think you ought to have, not what you
believe its your duty to want, but what you yourself, deeply desire.
Never demand what you do not want. If you want money do not
demand work. This is a mistake made by many people. Unpleasant
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situations are the result of demands we have made in the past for
things we do not want now. Unhappiness, ill health and negative
situations are the realizations of demands made in ignorance.
5. Ask only when your desire is strong
6. Be still and know. Enter into the silence and give thanks for your
successful demonstration.
7. Realize that anger, resentment, fear, worry, lack of self control, envy
discontent or depression repel and delay a demonstration.
8. Release the belief that God is going to reward you. That He will look
upon you with special favor. Realize instead that you are using
immutable law and that what you demand comes to you because you
are using the law correctly.
9. Tithe and have faith in achieving your desire and give thanks.
10. Dont give up. If you are persistent in your faith, there can be no
limit to your possibilities.
Ingalese tell us - If you can cure a headache, you can in the course of time
cure any disease. If you can be happy a week, you can be happy for a life
time, If you can demonstrate a seat on the train, you can demonstrate a seat
in Congress, because what you have done in small degree, can be done in a
large degree.
God loves a prosperous man. The more completely we realize and accept
good in all its many fold expressions, health, wealth and happiness, the more
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completely we do express God, that is; the more God becomes personified
through us. We must realize that God is a creative Thrust, a Principle that
we all respond to and give more dimension to. When you dont express
success, prosperity, health and happiness, we are actually depriving Spirit of
its celebration of itself in our life. This concept places everything back into
your hands. And this is where it is at. What prosperity means to you will be
different from what it means to someone else, but the specific attention you
give it will be your own response. The law of attraction is the reason for
supply. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all His righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you. The law of supply is not salary,
checks, gifts, handouts, honorariums. It is the formless Substance of God,
the same substance that awaits every man who will recognize it and use it.
This was a major concept I worked on understanding for many years. There
is no reason why every minister in every discipline should not be
prosperous. It is simply a matter of understanding the nature of God. The
firm of God and man never fails. No matter what the junior partner does, the
senior partner, God is always there. Gods infinite resources are always
there waiting for you. Success and prosperity is an inside job and it will
only happen as you allow it to happen.
J. Lowrey Fendrich, Jr. said, We cannot live the law by knowing it we live
the law by living it and living so profoundly as to be unable to escape a
conviction of its eternal operation.
Assignment
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Fill out your personal partnership agreement with God and look at this and
review it every day. Copy and paste it back to us as an act of the acceptance
of your Good.
A PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH GOD for self growth.
PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT (Print out, fill out and sign) 2008 between (Write
your name here) _____ and God.
1. NAME AND BUSINESS. The parties hereby form a partnership under the name of: GOD AND
MAN INCORPORATED. The firm of God and Man Inc. never fails, no matter what the juniorpartner does, the senior partner, God, always makes good. Pay clerks may come and may go,
but Gods infinite resources are always there. The principal office of the business shall be in Heart
and mind.
2. TERM. The partnership shall begin immediately and shall continue until terminated.
3. AGREEMENT. As I enter into this agreement, I feel worthy. My past is behind me. I am the
worthy son/ daughter of God.
4. POSSIBILITIES. I accept my possibilities. I must rely on the promises that the Father is the
source of all good. Being in partnership with God does not mean that I must limit myself to arelationship of a human agent and a divine business manager. The possibilities of variety, in
kinds of partnerships are infinite. A single drop in the ocean is in partnership with the ocean. The
branch is in partnership with the tree. The focal point of individual life is in partnership with the
vast Universal Substance, by means of which it lives and moves.
5. RESERVATION. I remove reservation about money. I accept money because it is a necessary
channel to the prosperity life I want and should have. Money is one of Gods gifts. I accept my
prosperity now.
6.THANKFUL. I am thankful. If I want good to increase I must bless it. Everywhere I look, there is
divine surplus.
7. THINKING. I change my thinking about prosperity through prayer and affirmations. I place my
complete trust in God. I am now open to receive my good. Blessings come in expected and
unexpected ways.
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8. BANKING. I dwell in the midst of Infinite abundance. All good shall be received and accepted
into my life bank. All withdrawals are tithes I send forth in the name of Love.
9. ACCEPT. I now accept this partnership. I am now willing to say not my ideas, but yours God.
Not my decisions, but yours. I do not worry because with complete faith I know the Senior Partner
will: inspire me, give me ideas, supply my every need and do all things right. With God as mypartner, I have only good in my life. God and I succeed and prosper beyond my deepest
anticipations.
10. REVIEW. I review this partnership agreement everyday for one month. I believe I am Gods
partner. I shall think about it and meditate upon it. I shall think as Gods partner, act as Gods
partner and speak as Gods partner.
Executed this ___ day of ___, 2008___ in _____ [city], ________ [state].
Signed God...
Sign your agreement______
Next week you will be receiving lesson # 3.
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Prosperity Lesson 3
Do you want to pay off your credit cards, save enough money for a down
payment on a house, have enough money to travel, have enough money
saved for a childs education, get ahead with bills, a job where you can earn
more than $50,000 a year, be able to tithe without fear or reservation, get
ahead in your payment of bills? It can happen. You can achieve all or any
of these goals. The power is within you! Through our goals, our desires and
our ideas, we are prompted really by Spirit. Sometimes we get a feeling of
Spirit nudging us saying there is so much more.
Ask yourself right now what goals you want to attain. Make your goals
specific and realistic.
Goal #1_____
Goal`#2_____
Goal#3______
Listen to your desires. Listen to the feedback within telling you that you no
longer want to be where you are. Telling you that there is a lot more for you
to experience and explore, a lot more to express and realize. Remember God
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meant for you to live on the top, not on the bottom. We have a right to be
prosperous and successful, we have more than a right we have a
responsibility. Through our thinking, Spirit seeks a fuller, richer, conscious
expression of Itself. Before that can happen, we must understand and accept
totally within our belief, the laws of prosperity, not just intellectually; we
must become fully entrenched with our new direction. Here is where tithing
comes in. Emmet Fox once said, You must tithe to thrive.
Also, it is time to release negative money memories. The old theologies
warned us that money is dangerous and that money is sinful. It is amazing
how many people believe that. While they believe that money is the root of
all evil (Jesus did not say it was), they are the same people asking their
employers for a raise. If money is so evil, then why work for it? Why use
it? Prosperity is the action of God. The moment you realize this, and shift
your attention from money being evil, to the belief that money is wonderful,
you will begin to have a greater circulation of money in your life.
When I was growing up my dad was sick and unemployed. I had a negative
money memory when I saw a special doll carriage in a department store
window. Mom told me that she did not have money for bills and groceries,
no less a doll carriage. Her words, we are not rich like other folks,
remained with me for many years as a rooted fear that would pop up every
now and then in life. As I came into new thought and began my prosperity
path, I realized that I had to erase the negative money memories of my past
to move forward. We all, at some level have experienced negative money
memories. Dr. Fox once told the story of a young woman who arrived in
New York from Ireland with little money and the promise of work. She
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went to him for help when the job she was promised only lasted a few
weeks, and her funds were low. When she told Dr. Fox that she feared her
father was right by telling her that she would always be a poor peasant girl
and never amount to anything, Dr. Fox told her it was time for her to erase
your negative money memory. She had to deny that thought and begin to
affirm success and happiness in her life. As she worked with the laws of
prosperity, her life changed dramatically. She eventually became a very
successful business woman who married a man of great wealth. Emmet Fox
wrote, When you go down to the seashore, you find what is practically an
unlimited supply of sea water at your disposal. There are billions upon
billions of gallons there, but the amount, which you can carry away, depends
on the vessel with which you have provided yourself. If you take a ten
gallon can, you can get ten gallons, but if you only take a pint pot you can
take away only a pint, and if you have nothing bigger than a thimble, you
will not be able to take any more than a thimbleful. So it is with divine
abundance. The only limit is the limit of our capacity to receive.
If we are walking around with the thought of poverty, then that is our
concept of God. If I am disappointed in life, locked in a terrible job that I
cant get out of, then that is my concept of God. What I am really saying is
that God intelligently expressing as me, is locked in and cant get out. It is a
ridiculous thought. So, we set ourselves up for the experiences that we have.
Mind expresses consciously what we give it. You already have prosperity
because of who and what you are an expression of God. If we dont put
value on ourselves, Mind is saying, If thats how you see it, thats how
youll get it. If you were God, would you invest in you? In terms of what
you have brought to this day and what you are thinking right now, would
you invest in you? Or would you step back and say think I will wait
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awhile? Our mental posture is the key. Our mental posture determines
what value is coming into our world.
How do we spend our consciousness? What do we give our consciousness
too? How much time do we give to people who are really boring, who dont
give to us in terms of mental stimulation and a sense of the joy of living?
This is one area where we determine what value we place upon ourselves.
Another crunch of our own self-evaluation comes when we use money.
Who and what do we spend our money on? Do we invest in good clothing,
education, healthy food, and spirituality? This is where we determine the
value we place on ourselves. If we dont invest in ourselves, how can we
expect the Creative Principle to respond? Money is a symbol of exchange.
It means to you not only freedom from want, but beauty, abundance and
refinement. It is merely a symbol of the economic health of the nation.
When your blood is circulating freely in your body, you are healthy. When
money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy.
When people hold tight and hoard money, they become charged with fear.
Money should not be your sole aim. Love of money and wealth with the
exclusion of everything else will cause un-balance. You are here to use this
power with wisdom. Here is a statement about money given to his students,
by Dr. Joseph Murphy: I like money, I use it wisely, constructively and
judiciously. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it with joy,
and it returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very good.
Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, and I
am grateful for my good, and for the riches of my mind. Joseph Murphy
believed strongly that all one has to do in life is to unite mentally, spiritually
and emotionally with the good you wish to embody, and the creative powers
of the subconscious mind will respond accordingly.
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An important part of the prosperity principle is the law of giving and
receiving. Through practicing the law of giving and receiving we open the
way for increase of good in our lives. Helen Zagat once wrote, The law of
giving and receiving applies in two ways. First in giving to God the Source,
giving to His work and second, giving to our fellow man. This second
giving can be in the form of prayers, blessings and material items. Emmet
Fox tells us that we must also learn to receive as well as give. When we do
not receive from others we are stopping their flow of expression. Receiving
from others, does not mean simply taking from others or asking for freebies.
This is not working with the law of prosperity, but the law of greed. A
number of years ago there was a nun who would sit in New Yorks Penn
Station with a donation basket. For many years she took her seat every day
in front of a main stairway. Scores of people would stop and give her a
donation. One day she was simply not there. Someone wrote an article
about the little nun who peddled money gifts at Penn Station. It seemed she
was no nun at all. She was a single mom raising children. It was estimated
she collected over five hundred dollars a day in her little basket. She had
accumulated a great amount of money over the years. A large sum of that
money went to medical expenses. While carrying her folding chair down the
steps and trying to juggle, her basket and some food and beverage her heel
caught into her make shift robe and she fell forward down the steep steps.
She was taken to a hospital but had no medical insurance. Her out of pocket
medical fees were exorbitant. Dr. Fox wrote, Too often we choose to use
our free will in a negative way. Instead of understanding that it is our
essential nature to express God, to be about the Fathers business, we try to
set up our own account. We abuse our free will, trying to work apart from
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God; and the very natural results are sickness, sin and trouble that we find on
the physical plane.
Those who give to the service of God, not with the primary motive of
getting, but simply because they feel it is the right thing to do, find that their
prosperity increases by leaps and bounds. Many questions arise as to the
subject of tithing. Tithing is one aspect of the law of giving and receiving.
Author Helen Zagat tells us that God is omnipresent and there is nothing
outside God, we know that all things remain in the universal Substance,
taking on different forms or quality. For instance, wood burns and is
apparently consumed, but really there has been a transmutation into
chemical elements needed to make up the component parts of the earth, the
atmosphere, etc. So, all returns to the Source, in the invisible spiritual
realm. It is our act of tithing that returns to the Source, to God.
If we think about it, a kernel of grain that lay in King Tutankhamens tomb
is still but a kernel of grain; but another from the same years harvest
planted, and its seed in turn replanted through centuries may have fed
nations. A dollar hidden away in a misers hoard is only a dollar. Put into
circulation it may serve a thousand uses. A man may treasure a thought
within his mind and never using it permits it to die. Or he may share that
thought with others and see it take form in countless lives, multiplying in
usefulness and power with rapidity, returning to him with increase that shall
bless him immeasurably. The practice of prosperity is prescribed in a
number of places in the Bible. Emmet Fox wrote, In all the ages, there
have been many believers in the True God who have made this habit a
cornerstone of their lives and have built upon that cornerstone an edifice of
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prosperity which insured them that freedom from material cares that is so
essential to the development of the soul. In the book of Malachi (3:10) we
read Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in
my house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, If I will not
open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to receive it. Most successful business men, and
heads of corporations attribute their success, and rightly so, to having
formed the habit of tithing and maintaining it. Thousands of Truth students
have grown out of what looked like long standing poverty, into security and
comfort by the practice of tithing, and more are doing so at the present time.
Getting ready for wealth is like playing a game of catch. Obviously the
game cannot begin if you dont release the ball. Neither can you hang on to
the return throw, if you are not ready and properly positioned. You cannot
just hold out your hand and wait for the ball to drop into it, no; you must
open your hand, reach out, and grasp the ball. You may be thinking how can
I tithe when my finances are in such terrible conditions? Lets analyze a
body of water. A lake will become stagnant unless it gives up a small
portion of its water. It is through this giving that the lake attracts new water.
It is the giving and receiving that keeps the water in the lake fresh and clear.
The water that the lake receives is the tithe from the inlet Source. It is
through freely giving and receiving that you will attract wealth into your life.
By tithing you are no longer thinking I cant, and you are now taking on
the attitude of opulence. Once you do this you will place in motion the
mechanism that will provide the opportunities for wealth to enter into your
life. Dr. Fox said, To be rich in life, you must first be rich in
consciousness. When you can believe and expect wealth and work with the
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laws of prosperity, you will begin meeting your goals. It is just as important
for you to feel good about receiving. What you receive is someone elses
tithe and opens the channel in their lives to receive.
When we understand the realization that the one and only source of our
supply is God, then our prosperity is secure. Business, employment,
investments, customers, and clients are only channels through which supply
is at the moment coming to you from God.
Dr. Fox in his booklet The Magic of Tithing tells us, Tithing does not
include general charity or material giving. It is devoted to the spreading
abroad of the knowledge of Truth in some form or other, usually in support
of those institutions or activities which are thus employed. Anyone one who
understands the Spiritual Idea, knows that the one and only thing that the
world needs to deliver it from its difficulties is knowledge of Spiritual Truth;
that until a man comes to this knowledge, no other thing will really benefit
him; that until this knowledge becomes general, no amount of secular
learning, know scientific discoveries, no schemes of social reform, no
amount of political reconstruction, can do any real good; and that once this
knowledge once becomes general, all political and social problems will
adjust themselves automatically, and all forms of charity and patronage
become unnecessary. We know that by virtue of possessing the knowledge
of the Truth of Being, we are nothing less than trustees for humanity. Those
who are without this knowledge will continue to donate their money to the
promotion of general good works, but we know that our first duty is the
dissemination of Truth. Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall
make you free. There is no set amount when you begin tithing, and not the
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least obligation upon anyone to tithe at all until he reaches that state of
consciousness when he is ready to do so. Fox tells us, to give grudgingly or
with misgivings from a supposed sense of duty, is really giving from a sense
of fear, and no prosperity ever came out of fear. He goes on to say that a
tithe is an extremely efficient act of Faith. Whatever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap; no man escapes that law.
When we are afraid of approaching financial stress, we should say with
conviction, The Lord is my source and supply, I shall not want, and this
will impress the subconscious mind with hope and expectation, and as these
increase, fear and doubt will begin to decrease. Jesus said in effect, seek
spiritual riches first and material riches will be added unto you. The
prosperity you affirm must be supported by a rich consciousness.
With this understanding of the laws of prosperity, you have taken the first
step on the road of demonstrating opulence. Dont get discouraged if there
are delays. If your sights are low they need to be raised, if your faith is
weak, it needs strengthening and if your vision fades it needs to be
brightened by the light of God. Victor Hugo said: Nothing is so powerful
in the world, as an idea whose time has come. When you come to know
that all that your Father has is yours, when you see with a bountiful eye,
when you realize the boundlessness of your spiritual inheritance, when you
can share and give thanks, then nothing shall be lacking in your world.
Keep on keeping on until the Light breaks through and the shadows
disappear,
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Assignment
Take some small business cards and place an affirmation on each card.
Place these cards strategically in view; in your office, at the breakfast table,
on the night stand, wherever you can readily see them. Use them throughout
the day. Repetition and realization is a major key.
1. I am prosperity, abundance is everywhere
2. I draw to me the highest and the best
3. I accept success in all areas of my life
4. God has a perfect plan for me, my good comes to me in perfect timing
5. Gods blessings flow into my life from all directions
6. The law of prosperity, operating in and through me, blesses and
enriches all who touch my life
7. I give freely of all that comes to me from the one Infinite Source
We would love to hear about your thoughts and your progress. Please share
a line about what you gained from this mini study it will help us prepare for
other mini studies.
We see you as prosperous, successful, healthy, happy, peaceful, and filled
with the Infinite Wisdom, and we accept this and nothing less in your life.
God Bless!
God will provide us fully with everything we need. E.F.