A mother wished to visit her son in London, who was graduating from college. However, she did not have the necessary funds.
I asked her what her attitude would be if she were over there now, embracing him and witnessing the graduation exercises. She said, “Oh! I would be so happy! I would be delighted.”
I suggested that she experiment at night prior to sleep, making there here and the future now and to feel herself embracing her son, making the whole scene vivid and realistic—so much so that when she opened her eyes she would be amazed that she was not in London with her son.
Experimenting along these lines, the third night she subjectified the state. When she opened her eyes she was really amazed that she was not physically there.
The answer to her prayer came with the repayment of a loan she had given to a woman ten years previously. With the interest added to it, it was more than the amount necessary for her trip.
She assumed that she was already witnessing the ceremony and conversing with her son, and that joyous feeling and assumption brought about the joy of the answered prayer. She contemplated her objective as an accomplished fact. She understood that all transformations of force are reversible. She knew that her physical presence in London would bring her great joy and satisfaction.
Capturing in her mind the joy that would be hers in being there, this mood, she knew, must produce the answer to her prayer.
“… He … calleth those things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17).
Success in your prayer life is based on laws of mind. Realize that if a physical fact can produce a joyous mental state in you, the joyous mental state can produce the physical fact.
Story Source:
The story shared in this post is from the book “How to Use the Laws of the Mind” by Joseph Murphy.
