Prosperity Consciousness

You can be spiritual while looking through the window of first class jet plane or while enjoying a luxurious hotel suite. The universe is lavish, abundant, extravagant, and it is all meant for our use and enjoyment. We live in a lavish universe, and there’s plenty for all. Why should we go through life impoverished while living in a universe that is abundant in all things that are meant for us? True abundant on all levels of life comes as a result of developing a prosperous consciousness. And consciousness is the result of ideas held in mind. Open your mind to receive. Affirm:

“Wealth flows to me in avalanches of abundance.”

Be sincere and mean it, and your subconscious mind will respond. When you daily declare that you are receiving, your words make a believer out of your subconscious mind which then starts working with you to help make it so. We talk about the power of words. It is important to put into verbal form only those statements that you really want to see manifest in your life.

You must be careful what you notice, talk about, or give your attention to, because that is what you are identifying with, and that is what you will bring into your life.
Thinking it a joke, a man placed this slogan on the back of his T-shirt: “Born to be a loser!” No wonder he remains as a loser and going nowhere. Unconsciously he had mentally identified with a loser. Identification with a certain state of mind will bring that state of mind and affairs to you, so be careful!

Whatever you notice, you are inviting into your life.
Whatever you give attention to, you are inviting into your life.
Whatever you talk about, you are inviting into your life.
Whatever you identify with in your thoughts, words and actions, your are inviting into your life. Whatever you get all worked up over emotionally is what you are inviting into your life – whether you mean it or not.

And according your thoughts, your faith, and your feeling, it will be done unto you.
Open your mind to prosperity by noticing, giving attention to, and talking about what you want to bring into your life – nothing else. Stop talking about lack if you want to prosper.

Affirm daily, “Wealth flows to me in avalanches of abundance.” This kind of affirmation gains the corporation of your thought and feeling which then begins to work for you. Finally, declare that you have received, and then released it. This causes your accumulated good to move from the invisible plane and to become visible results.

Elimination of something from your life, which no longer serves you, is always an indication that something better is on the way. Release frees you from unwanted conditions and possessions. So often we try to force new good into our lives when we have not yet made room to receive it. Release helps us to turn loose the old to make way for the new. Release and letting go of something of your life which is no longer for your highest good will bring you peace of mind and freedom.

Sometimes our casual words do not manifest results so quickly, but casual decrees persistently spoken do manifest results for us in due time. One oral utterance, which boldly states how you want your life to be, is worth more than dozens of books read or lecture attended. Spoken words describing the good you want help you claim it and quickly release it into your own life. As you continue to speak them forth every day, your spoken words will work miracles in your life – sometimes slowly, sometimes suddenly.

As I change my words, I change my world.
As I improve my words, I improve my world.
As I transform my words, I transform my world.
I decree the good now – for myself and for all mankind.

You can turn the tide of your life from the negative to positive results through your constructive words.

Through the imagination – you deliberately picture the good you want to bring into your life. If you do not picture what you want in a constructive way, you unconsciously picture what you do not want in a destructive way. You are always picturing something because it is the function of the mind to picture.

In your quite thinking select your future, accept it as normal for you, and then expect it to happen. Give thanks that the ways and means to bring it to pass are already in action. You must mentally accept in the present what you want to literally happen in the future. Picturing it brings acceptance much quicker.

Generalities do not produce results because they lack substance and power. Vague hope and indefinite goals are not convincing to the mind and do not produce constructive results, whereas a clear-cut picture of the good you want activates people, places and events to corporate with your pictured desires. You can hasten your good through picturing it. All the forces of heaven and earth will get busy cooperating with clear-cut picture of the good you want and will help bring them to pass.

Many people have pictured vacations, better jobs, increased incomes, the healing of health problems, the sales, the loss of weight, and freedom from desire to smoke or drink. Picturing can free you from all kinds of problems, both large and small.

A young girl learned the power of pictures. She visualized the man of her dreams, an engagement ring, wedding clothes, a beautiful wedding, and a happy marriage. Her method worked. After six months she met her dream man and was soon wearing his engagement ring. Her wedding was as beautiful as the one pictured.

Set aside a definite time everyday and speak forth bold words of good, describing your life as you want it to be. Such a practice can work miracles in your life.

Many people feel guilty about receiving so much and therefore they do not. Learn to give something to yourself. It might be a new book you wish to read, an item of clothing or something for your home or office. It might be a treat of going out to dinner, to the theater, to a party, or taking vacation. It might be a deliberately setting aside of some daily time for prayer, meditation and inspirational study. It might be something big or small, tangible or intangible.

Let go of the old belief in the grace of poverty and the sense of guilt in having things, along with the feelings of unworthiness – attitude that has such detrimental influence upon human consciousness.

Many people often have been conditioned to expect less than the best and to settle for less than the best in life, thereby settling for and living in limitation. Part of this conditioning goes back to the erroneous belief about the nature of God and man, and their relationship. If you believe than man is a sinner and thereby limited in everyway; then, of course, you have been conditioned to settle for less than the best in life. You didn’t dare to claim anything more! An affirmation that has worked miracles for many people is

“Life is tremendous and I am so richly blessed. Today and everyday I expect the best. Everything I do turns into good for myself and others. Wonderful things are happening to me now. ”

As we develop a prosperous consciousness, we are freed from being slaves to a material existence, we are freed from all earthly and material care, so that we have the time to grow spiritually and help our fellowman.

Expecting the best works on all levels of life. It opens the way for increased health, wealth, and happiness, and spiritual understanding become a part of our daily experience.

Too many people are trying to solve the problems of the world when they haven’t straightened out their own lives. The frustrations of the world would more easily be resolved if we first resolved the frustrations in our own lives.

Your consciousness (thoughts and feelings) is the result of the ideas you have held in your mind. You can change your consciousness by changing the ideas you are holding in your mind to mentally and emotionally.

All of the people in your world are there through the law of attraction. Either consciously or subconsciously, you have attracted them through your thoughts and feelings, either in this life or perhaps from some other time.

It is both humbling and inspiring to realize how much of our good comes to us through other people. How often we have cut off the channels to our lives by not appreciating the people that are already in our lives.

If a thing is good for you, in the long run it is good for everyone involved. Many of your problems would be solved if you would stop catering to opinions of others. Claim your freedom from other people’s opinions and start thinking about what is right for you. What is right for you is also right for others. Never mind what people think. The point is what you think that counts. If you do what is best for you, it will also be best for everyone else. The course of action that makes you feel right inside is your highest good. Take it.

The way to tell what is right for you is to do that which gives you a sense of peace. Whatever gives you a sense of struggle and strife is false. Whatever gives you a sense of peace is right. So whatever gives you a sense of peace is the thing to do. Whatever gives you a sense of mental struggle and strife is the thing not to do.

Stop discussing what you do not want. Stop discussing the people who have made you unhappy. Stop feeding unpleasant situations with your negative talk. This only keeps them alive. Clear out your social circle of those people who are negative, who drained you mentally and emotionally. Deliberately bring into your life socially other people who have a positive impact on you, people who are constructive. Socialize only with positive and constructive people. Remind yourself often,

“A Loving Father wants me to be happy. I have a divine right to be happy, so I claim my happiness now.”

There is prospering power in patience. Learn to relax, take what comes, digest it and learn from it. Some people are too much of hurry and their impatience kept them from succeeding.

Challenges seem to be necessary to lift you from a static physical state into one of mental and spiritual development. If everything you needed comes to you without effort on your part, you would stagnate and die. By meeting and overcoming the obstacles that life presents, you are continually impelled upward. The urge to develop, to grow and to expand is born within you. It is part of your divine nature. Through life’s challenges you are forced forward on the path of growth into maturity, depth and understanding. Progress is made by overcoming the difficulties of our everyday life, not by running away from them.

Advancement in science, medicine, art and economics all arise from the same source, the creative mind that taps into The Power Within and eventually finds expression in actions.

Most physical ills are considered to be psychosomatic in origin, so we must begin to face the possibility that financial problems may be the outer manifestation of inner states of consciousness.

Prosperity is not just having things. It is consciousness that attracts things. The truly prosperous person is what psychologist called the truly functioning person, one who is experiencing the life more abundant.
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.
Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Considered the broadest sense, prosperity is spiritual well being.

Prosperity comes from consciousness which unfolds from within. The starting point in realizing prosperity is to accept responsibility for your own thoughts, thus taking charge of your life. Talk only about the things you want to see live and grow. Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. Keep your thoughts centered in the ideas of abundance, sufficiency, and well-being. And give yourself a consciousness booster by affirming:

“Wealth flows to me in avalanches of abundance.”

If we keep ourselves centered in that inner realm of wholeness, and persistently do it, we can experience mastery over all that happens around us or to us. The centering process of your attention to your major definite purpose is the key to achieving prosperity.

When we use the word of Universe, we are not just referring to the vast cosmos of galaxies out there, for all that is simply the accumulation of an infinite number of other worlds. No, we are using the word in a more transcendent sense. The word Universe, in its literal meaning, is “the whole body of things,” the basic unity of all life. The words God and Universe can be used interchangeably, referring to the whole of things, or Allness, which is present all and through all.

“Wealth flows to me in avalanches of abundance.” If you speak these words over and over, you impress them on your subconscious mind and thus they become true for you.

Peaceful and secure is a person whose real treasure is always the affluence of prosperity consciousness. He or she feels rich no matter how the market fluctuates. And the great thing is that this feeling will prompt him or her always to make right and wise decision in the management of his or her affairs. The mind flourishes with creative ideas, the hands tingle with ingenuity, opportunities unfold, and blessings abound – all because of the feeling of abundance that came fist.

Lack is a state of mind and the condition cannot be remedied until the state of mind is altered. Many people are centered in the awareness of poverty. In other word regardless of what you have, your thoughts are subtly centered of what you do not have, with the subconscious fear that you do not have enough. Let what you have in your job, your possessions, your resources be the symbol of the presence of limitless substance. To the extent that you can do this, your job will prosper and your assets will increase.

It is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind. It is creating the condition in mind that makes the result inevitable. Affirm,

“My good is flowing to me now, ceaselessly, tirelessly, joyously, and copiously.” And Infinite’ riches will flow into your receptive open mind.

“Day by day I am prospering spiritually, mentally, and financially. I am open and receptive to new ideas; therefore I am successful; very successful; very, very successful. Wealth is flowing to me freely, joyously, endlessly, and ceaselessly. The law of increase is working for me now.”

Prayer: Thou should make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. I now give a pattern of success and prosperity to the deeper mind within me, which is the law. I now identify myself with the Infinite Source of supply. I listen to the still, small voice of God within me. This inner voice leads, guides, and governs all my activities. I am one with the abundance of God. I know and believe that there are new and better ways of conducting my business. Infinite Intelligence reveals the new ways to me. I am growing in wisdom and understanding. My business is God’s business. I am divinely prospered in all ways of conducting my business. Divine Wisdom within me reveals the ways and means by which all my affairs are adjusted in the right way immediately. The words of faith and conviction that I know speak open up all the necessary doors or avenues for my success and prosperity. I know the Lord (Law) will perfect that which concerneth me. My feet are kept in the perfect path, because I am child of the living God.

There is a great idea that you will encounter again and again on your quest: you are a living magnet, constantly drawing to you the things, the people, and the circumstances which are in accord with your thoughts. In other words, you are where you are in experience, in relationships, even in financial conditions, because of what you are (which is where you are in consciousness), so by change of consciousness, by change of the level of thought that has put you where you are (or at least contributed to it), you can change the experiences of your life.

You see things, not as they are, but as you are. Your perception is shaped according to your previous experiences, according to your faith, according to where you are in consciousness.

Your personal welfare begins with your consciousness. It is not what happens on Wall Street. It is not the state of economy or market. It has its inception in the state of your mind. You can be prosperous even business is poor and vise versa. By your thinking, you are either adding to your good or you are taking away from it. In the process of seeing it mentally and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. You will always receive what you actually expect.

Your negative thoughts of fear and worry are depleting your good faster than inflation erodes the value of the dollar. Because in the fear and anxiety, you are visualizing the end and creating the means in mind for its manifestation. And your positive and optimistic thoughts add to your good more dramatically than compound interest increases in the bank savings. Because through visualizing yourself in a secure and well-paying job, in time new opportunity and eventual success will come. It is your responsibility to keep watch over your thoughts.

You are constantly attracting to you the conditions you make inevitably by the quality of your thoughts. Your fortune is determined by the shape of your consciousness. That’s why the only one way by which you can achieve prosperity is to take charge of your mind. If you persistently establish yourself in the consciousness of oneness with Infinite Source, then your perception of things will reflect an attitude of that is optimistic. The ideal, of course, is to think the kinds of thoughts that lead to the kinds of conditions that you want to see manifest in your life.

The market or business conditions always tend to reflect the level of confidence of the people. Economy does not refer to a monolithic entity but rather to a financial climate chiefly influenced by the collective consciousness of the populace. This why the economist have such a difficult time predicting economic trends, because no one really knows how several billions people are going to feel tomorrow morning. Economics is basically a psychological phenomenon.

The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it. This is often called “prosperity consciousness.” It is getting yourself centered at the root of reality within. You see abundance, not dollar signs.

You will always tend to act like the person you conceive yourself to be. This is your self-image. You surround yourself with the image of yourself. If your self-image is faulty, you project its limitation into every existence. Many inadequate job situations are the direct results of the self-image of inadequacy being impressed on the job experience. But you can change the way you see yourself. You are born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness. Why not synchronize yourself with the divine flow and affirm:

“I see myself experiencing great success, for I am born to win.”

It is not that by voicing these words you make something happen. But through the consciousness implied in the words, you begin to will the means to the realization of the end.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. It is a shocking truth that we should never forget. It may seem beyond belief, but it is a fact that you can test for yourself. In sales work, you can prepare yourself for a good day by imagining yourself giving an effective sale and actually see the customer signing the order. As a secretary you can visualize error-free work being handled on time to an appreciative employer. As a golfer, an actor, or a violist, you can spend leisure moments in visualizing with tremendously beneficial results. Whatever your lifework, whatever you have a need for improvement, try it. The law of visualization works.

Whatever you can really visualize as being possible in your life, if you can believe, you can achieve. Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. Dare to conceive of greater things for yourself. Dare to see yourself as strong, confident, capable, successful, and possessed of the patience and stability to keep on moving in the direction of your dreams.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream you shall become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.
Your idea is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistic or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible. There are only limiting thoughts about it.

You may pray for improved financial conditions, but if you are feeling poor, your feeling is the consciousness you will be projecting. The grateful heart draws itself great things. The ungrateful heart, the discouraged, complaining, covetous level of thought, will draws to itself limited things.

Do what you can with what you have right where you are. Begin not with subtle resistance for what you do not have, but with what you have – a job, no matter how inadequate; some money, even if you are down to the proverbial last penny.

You are always projecting some kind of thought toward everything you have or hold. Sometimes it is negative, limiting, and restrictive. But you can bless your home, your job, or your money supply, and thus confer a consciousness of abundance upon them. It is not something you do to these things. Rather it is a correction of the mentally that you are projecting to them. Blessing changes your thoughts and feelings, and the consciousness you project into your world.

Plato said, “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.” A tremendous insight! A grateful person is great because he or she has turned on all the lights within. The grateful heart actually opens the way to the flow and becomes an attractive force to draw to itself great things.

The grateful heart will always attract to itself in one way or another, through human hands or through wonder-working ways, the great things needed to solve the particular situation. It is an outworking that you can stake your life on. You do not need something to be grateful for. You need only the desire to feel grateful. As you feel grateful, you become attractive, not only in your beauty and radiance, but in your relationship with people. More important, you release a vital energy that draws to you opportunities, employment, and a secure flow of money. Everything begins to work in your life in an orderly and creative way.

Your prosperity will always be a reflection of your consciousness, the degree to which your thoughts are centered in the divine flow. You spend most of your life engaged in some kind of gainful employment; thus if your attitudes about work in general and your job in particular are not right, then truly you are working against yourself. Unless you learn your error thoughts about work, you will forever be out of “sync” with the creative flow of the Universe. A corporation prospers by consciousness too, the collective consciousness of its workforce.

The true origin of our activities and creativeness lies in our increasing impulse to embody outside of ourselves the divine and spiritual element within us. Let your work, whatever it may be involve, be an outworking of the creative flow, engaged in through the sheer joy of fulfilling your divine nature. The company pays me for doing what I would gladly do for nothing, if I could afford it. Work should be an experience of growth. If your are not growing in the process of doing your work, then something must be wrong. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, then you should look for another job.

What you do in your work everyday may not affect your salary, but it vitally affects your focus on consciousness that regulates the flow of affluence into your life:
1. Your consciousness will bring about a change in the job, making it right for you and you for the company, or
2. Anther job will open up for you where a transfer will be affected in a way that is beneficial to all concerned.

Refreshing in the holism of Ralph Waldo Emerson:

“No matter what your work is, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation is, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be your bones. In this way you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.”

It is a beautiful insight dealing with prosperity as a divine flow from within. When you work in the right consciousness, when your work becomes organically a part of your whole self, and when you do your work out of that commitment, no matter what other people do, no matter what the compensation may be, doing it for the health of your own soul, you open the door by which the affluence of the Universe flows forth into your life.

In his classic work The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran says:

When you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And keeping yourself with labor you are in truth loving life,
And loving life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe. In other words, the only one who can keep you from succeeding is you by blocking your own creative flow. Success is earning the right in consciousness to be there. Two persons may arrive at successful positions at the top of their field. One has clawed his or her way up and continues to fearfully hold on for fear because within, he or she is not sure of belonging there. The other is there because he or she has earned his or her wings everyday. By appearances you cannot really know the difference.

Of course you can succeed in your work, you can reach the top and become the best, without limits. Just be certain that it comes out of the expanse of your inner growth and not at its expense. Think of your work not as a place to make a living but as an opportunity to learn and grow. Think of yourself as a channel through which creative activities flow, and there is no limit. Wonderful ideas and boundless energies will flow forth easily through you, making you indispensable and appreciated in your work. We have erroneous belief of success as “getting there,” while actually success is “earning the right to be there.” And earning means learning. Setbacks, even failures, may be an important part of that learning. We must live through our experiences in order to gain wisdom and fly higher.

All that really counts is what is happening within you. How are you reacting to the experience? Where is your faith? Within you is a limitless, unborn potential of creativity, and the present experience can be your great opportunity to give birth to it. Experience, even if it is a setback, can be a precious jewel. Any experience of life can become the best thing that ever happened to you, for you know that in the happening there is revealed a new lesson to learn and some new growth to experience.

The starting point in changing your life from financial reverses to an experience of abundance is the realization that you can change your life by altering your thoughts. Admit to yourself that your present experience, even the condition of your bank account, reflects your present level of awareness. You are not a victim of circumstances. Consciousness creates circumstances or at least sets the climate in which they happen. When you establish yourself in this awareness, then you are in the position to change things. Because if the cause is in you, in your level of consciousness, then the cure can be affected by changing your thoughts, by altering the cause. If, however, the cause is “out there” in other people or circumstances, then you should get out of it. Again, the need is not to find the way to get something but to alter the inner states of mind that have been blocking the natural flow of substance/wealth in your life.

Life is for expressing, for growth and expansion. Humanly, we seek to settle down, to be safe, to build fences, and to be secure. Divinely, we are created to express, to grow, and to extend our horizons. When people think only of being safe, they stifle the urges of personal growth and advancement.

It may be wise to have at least minimal insurance coverage in the major area of life. The same as it is good to start off on an automobile trip with a spare tire so you can relax and enjoy the journey. The spare tire is not a symbol of fear but rather an evidence of wisdom and good planning.

There is little likelihood that your life can become fully functioning with prosperity unless you have a positive and creative attitude toward money. Money is innocent. It is the obsession toward money that is the cause of limitation. The right attitude toward money is a root cause of all kind of prosperity. Money is good, very good. You don’t have to feel guilty about having it. It is currency or creative flow of divine activities.

Money is an extension of the person who uses it. Your thoughts and feelings color it. If you think positively and creatively about money, you actually multiply its effectiveness. If you criticize and depreciate it, you actually tend to dissipate it and repel it from you. Don’ repel money. Money is good, very good. Feel good about making contact with the divine current of wealth. Handle the currency with the joyous feeling that you are in the flow. If you constantly imbue the money with the idea of abundance, it will begin to work for you in a positive way. Your money needs your creative ideas to become of use to you. In analogy, the falls at Niagara would not be of use to us without the power plants that line the banks top convert the raw energy into usable electric current that blesses thousands of homes with electric power.

Money is not real wealth at all. Rather it is a device for measuring wealth. Note, for instance, if the Federal Reserve System should increase the quantity of money in the country by dumping a billion dollars into circulation overnight, it would not add one thing to the country’s prosperity or wealth. Money is a symbol of the currency or wealth but it is not wealth itself. The true wealth is in your mind.

The real substance that creates wealth is idea. It is the mind power which creates wealth. It is important to remember that wealth is not in money. Wealth is in ideas. And ideas can be controlled through the discipline of mind.

Poverty is not corrected by dollars but by nonmaterial substance. You can give the man begging for money ten dollars to buy something to eat, before the day is out he will be hungry again. Unless there is a change in his consciousness nothing has really changed. Poverty is a state of mind.

You are always as rich as you think you are. So you can begin to do something about your financial position in life by reshaping your attitudes about yourself, your work, and your investments as the source of your money supply in particular.

Money is good, very good. Money is divine flow of wealth. Money is directly or indirectly involved in everything we do all day long. So it is imperative if we have a positive attitude about it. Appreciate it, bless it, and keep open to its flow. Watch your thought when your are handling your money. Never allow money of any kind to pass through your hand without blessing it, weather it is coming to you or going from you. In handling money, be sure to give it the imprint of positive attitudes. When it comes to you, give thanks that it has flowed from the Infinite through your job or investment. When it goes from you, give thanks that there is no depletion, but actually an increase because you have kept it flowing. Determine that your money will always be a symbol of your abundance, not of limitation.

Any study of prosperity fails unless it teaches you how to give. Giving does not refer simply to money. It is a process that may involve money, but it also involves your work and the many ways in which you make contact with life. Giving is basically an attitude with which you touch things. The purpose of life is not acquisition but unfoldment and personal development.

Life is giving and receiving process. It is how the wealth is flowing. Thus your subtle motivation in all your ways is to give yourselves away, in love of what you do, in service, and in all that many helpful ways you can invest yourselves. With this mental attitude, you are always secure, for you intuitively know that your good flows from within. It is knowing that life is not something to get but something to become. If all you get out of your work is only a paycheck, you are shortchanging yourself. If you discover the wonder of giving, you will find a great blessing of inner fulfillment in your work, which will lead to better work, and by the law of causation, to a greater experience of affluence, which may come through your job or through many different channels. The law is exact: If you give, really work in a giving consciousness, you must receive. Through my service I am prospering beyond my fondest dream.

Meaning is something you release from within yourself. We place meaning of everything we do. You put meaning into your work, into your experiences, and into every relationship with people. In the long run the work that will prosper is the work you can put yourself into with the most enthusiasm. If you take that which offers the greatest immediate return, you may well frustrate your own potential, even your eventual earning power. You may ask, “But shouldn’t I find the job with a future? The future has more to do with you than with the job. The future is in you. Analyze your attitude toward work. Your life is lived from within out. No matter what conditions prevail in your work place, what happens in you is the result of your consciousness. You might find a co-worker in your department who is perfectly happy there and the other co-worker not. The difference is not that he or she in treated differently but that he or she treats the work to be done differently. Begin to think give, and the resistance and the fatigue that it spawns will quickly leave. You will no longer be working for money. It will be an added compensation for doing things you love to do. You will have a strong urge to do all that you can to the utmost of your skill.

If there is a lack of any kind, weather it is a need for employment or for money or for guidance or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective remedy is: Give! Look for some way to start the giving flow. It could be a thank you for any help you received; It could be greater giving in your work; it could be doing something for another person who is in need; it could be even simply giving away some seldom-used possession. Jesus clearly articulated the divine law: “Give, and it will be given to you” (Lk. 6:38).

The divine flow requires but one thing of you: your consent to be a receiving channel. It is like the water faucet which must be opened to the flow in order that the water may pour freely. Jesus was stressing the need to get into a giving consciousness in order to sustain the flow of good into your life. He did not mean simply money giving. The giving is a state of consciousness that may take form in many different ways. But the important thing is to think, give! Think give, and you will sustain the flow of good into your life. A committed giver is a happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person. When you discover the wonder of giving, it can be one of the great discoveries of your life.