Page 184 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

MAY 1950

In Matthew Chapter 8 we read these words of the Master, “Now everyone
who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be a sensible man
who built his house on rock. . . . . And everyone who listens to these words

of mine and does not act upon than will be like a stupid man, who built his
house on sand.” This is true as regards the faith I will speak to you about.
Real Faith is the practising of the “Presence of God.” You will readily see that
you cannot practise the Presence of God and struggle with the outside world at the

same time, for this is the double-mind that gets nothing from the Lord.
Struggle with the outside world reveals a belief in separation from God,
a belief that God is separate from ourselves.

Have you ever thought what place God occupies in your life and schemes?
You have read about it in the man Jesus, but you have never connected yourself
with God in this way. Yet only by doing so can you realize your own faith and

creative ability.
When you apply this to your own life, your affairs, your body, your
circumstances, you will bring into operation this self same faith that was his.

This makes all things possible and God becomes a Reality in your life and
experience.
We must dwell upon the faith of the Master and attribute this faith to
ourselves, the law being that thoughts are things, thus we make his faith a

Reality in ourselves.
When we dwell upon the unlimited nature of God, His inexhaustible
resources, His Eternal Nature we make these our own, knowing that we cannot

be separated from Him in anyway whatsoever.
Whatever we are consciously aware of, so is it established in our lives.
You habitually weave into your minds the impression and ideas that come
from the outside world through struggling with it.

If you would cease this by understanding that these are but effects and
not causes, and weave into your mind what you know to be true of God, making
His Presence a conscious Reality in yourself, you will find that your actual

experiences would coincide with your awareness of His Presence.
Thought being the creative action of your consciousness what you then
create in the inner must necessarily be produced in the outer. Thus the “Presence”

would be translated into your daily activities. You will soon realize that by the
practice of these instructions the faith of the Master becomes yours.
Let us look into the minds of those who are all the time struggling against sin,

how miserable they become and they want everyone else to become like them.

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