"According to your faith be it unto you."
(Matthew 9:29)
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen."
(Hebrews 11:1)
Everyone has faith in something. Some have faith in failure, sickness, accidents and misfortune. When you hear exhortations to have faith, you must remember that you already have faith. The question is, how are you using it - constructively or negatively? Is it empowering you or disempowering you? Is it helping you or making your life harder?
Our mental attitudes and beliefs, which represent our faith, make our own heaven and hell. What is your faith? The noblest, grandest, and highest faith is that which is based on eternal principles which never change.
Have faith in the creative law of your own mind, in the goodness of God and in all things good, a joyous expectancy of the best, and a firm belief inscribed in your heart that Infinite Intelligence will lead you out of your difficulty and show you the way.
Have a firm conviction in the power of God to solve your problems an to heal you.
Have faith in the invisible Intelligence within you, which created you and is all-powerful, and which enables you to walk over the waters of fear, doubt, worry and imaginary dangers of all kinds.
Your Belief About God Really Is
Your Belief About Yourself
If you think that God is cruel, vindictive, and an inscrutable, tyrannical, cannibalistic Moloch in the skies, a sort of oriental sultan or despot punishing you, of course, you will experience the result of this habitual thinking, and your life will be hazy, confused, and full of fear and limitations of all kinds. In other words, you will experience the results of the nature of your belief about God. You actually will have negative experiences because of your belief.
God become to you whatever you consider Him to be. Above all things, get the right concept of God. It makes no difference what you call God. You may call Him Allah, Brahman, Vishnu, Reality, Infinite Intelligence, The Healing Presence, The Oversoul, Divine Mind, The Architect of the Universe, the Supreme Being, the Life Principle, The Living Spirit, or the Creative Power. The point is, your belief or conviction about God governs and gives direction to your whole life.
Believe in a God of Love
Millions of people believe in a God that sends sickness, pain, and suffering. They believe in a cruel and vindictive Deity. They d not have a good God, and to them, God is not a loving God. Having such weird, ignorant concepts of God, they experience the results of their beliefs in the form of all kinds of difficulties and troubles. Your subconscious mind manifests your beliefs and projects them as experiences, conditions, and events.
Your nominal belief about God is meaningless. The things that matters is your real, subconscious belief - the belief of your heart. You always will demonstrate your belief. That is why Dr. Quimby said one hundred years ago, "Man is belief expressed."
Millions of people conceive of a God of caprice, afar-off in the skies, who possesses all the whims of a human being. With such a concept, they are like the businessman who once said to Joseph Murphy, "I would be all right if god would leave me alone."
Believe that God is love, that he watches over you and cares for you, and that He guides, prospers, and loves you, and wonders will happen in your life which transcend your fondest dreams!
The Power of God
Following is a prayer which has helped numerous people to completely transform their lives. As your meditate on these wonderful truths, you, too, will shortly discover that wonders are happening in your life!
God is the only Presence and the only Power, and I am one with It. God's strength is my strength; His Intelligence floods my mind. This new awareness gives me complete dominion in every department of my life. I am now joined to the One Universal Mind, which is God. His wisdom, power and glory flow through me. I know that the energy and power of God permeate every atom, tissue, muscle and bone of my being, making me perfect now. God is Life and this Life is my life. My faith is renewed; my vitality is restored. God walks and talks in me. He is my God; I am one with Him. His Truth is my shield and buckler; I rejoice that it is so. Under His wings shall I trust. I dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High, and I abide under the Shadow of the Almighty.
» ref. The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power by Joseph Murphy