The Greatest Works of Joseph Benner. Joseph Benner

what you shall wear, for your loving Father knows that you must have all of these things. But if you will seek first His Kingdom, that is, His Consciousness, where you must think only His thoughts as we have shown you how to do, and then do what He tells you to do when His thoughts come into your mind, He will provide you with all the good things He has had in store for you from the beginning.

      We know that we are telling you to do what now seems almost impossible. But, dear friend, this is the only way to win these blessings; and you say you will do anything to obtain them, if it is humanly possible.

      It is not only possible, but it is the very thing ordained and intended for you by your Higher Self or He would not have brought this message to you and placed this ultimatum so squarely before you. You have tried your way, and you have tried the world's way, and you know where they have brought you. And now you are given the opportunity of trying God's way!

      The way laid out for you in the beginning. Can you not see that it is now the only way out for you? Thus God brings His children that love Him finally to realize that they cannot serve both God and Mammon. For they must be shown that they are serving Mammon just as much by fearing Him and yielding to the power of money, as they would be by openly worshipping money and becoming its slave when having great quantities of it.

      They must be made to see that by fearing money's seeming power they are making it first and God second in their lives, and until they truly want to serve God more than any other thing, and prove it by their right thinking, speech and action, they are not yet where His help can reach them.

      Chapter 2

      The Ultimatum

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      So this is the ultimatum that you are facing. You have now come to the place where God holds out His hand to you, and says: "My child, I would help you. But it means that you must give yourself and your ideas over wholly to Me, must learn to think only My thoughts, speak only what I would say, and do only what I would have you do. It means that you must not let into your mind or believe any other thoughts, no matter what appearances are or how much such thoughts beg for admittance.

      You have had your chance and you see what a sorry mess you have made of things.

      Now if you are willing utterly and completely to trust Me, and to wait upon and serve Me only, and will keep your mind and heart clean and empty of all untrue thoughts so that I may fill them with My thoughts, I will inspire in you the ideas that will lift you quickly out of your present consciousness. Which means out of present conditions into a place where peace, harmony and plenty will be your mental children, that will ever come to you to be fed with loving trust in Me, confidence in your power to express Me, and with the pure joy of living. You will then feel this as the natural and continuous state of your consciousness.

      Is this worth reaching for? Do you really want it? Then what are you going to do about it? If you are willing to make a supreme effort and to put all the power of your will into it, make yourself a positive agent of your Father's Will, looking only and always to Him to guide and inspire you, you will truly receive all the help you need. You will find, if you persist, despite any discouragements that may come testing your determination, that you will then walk straight into the good that has long been waiting for you.

      Chapter 3

      Appearances

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      This means that from this moment you must pay no more attention to appearances, for what is now appearing is but the outmanifestation of what you formerly visualized in your thinking, and which your fearing and worrying crystallized into facts and fastened upon you.

      Try to realize the great significance of this.

      It is not what you see as conditions surrounding you that really counts, it is what you believe is so. And when you know, as we have proven to you, that what you believe is the cause of what is manifesting outwardly, as it now appears, you will definitely begin to change your beliefs into those you want to manifest.

      Think this over, for it is the only way you can change conditions and their appearances, you must remove from your consciousness the beliefs you are holding there, by replacing them with beliefs you want to see manifest in your life and affairs.

      How can you do this when you cannot help but believe the things that stare you in the face, no matter which way you turn?

      Chapter 4

      The Way Out

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      We will now show you the way, a way so simple and easy that anyone can do it, if they will obey exactly what we tell them to do. All that is needed is to say over and over again to yourself, until you believe it absolutely, letting not a single doubt of its truth ever enter your mind, the following words.

      "GOD LOVES AND CARES FOR ME AND IS GIVING ME ALL GOOD THINGS.

      I LOVE HIM AND THINK HIS THOUGHTS AND DO ONLY THE THINGS HE WANTS ME TO DO."

      Try to realize the full truth of these words, to feel it, to see yourself actually living in the consciousness of it, going about your daily work in that consciousness. If you do this, it will bring the greatest possible blessings into your life. The first statement should not be hard to believe, for you surely know that He loves and cares for you; for whether you know it yet or not, everything that has come into your life has been good for you, for through these things He has brought you to the place where you should be willing to look to and trust Him only, so that His love and care can give you all the good things He has had for you from the beginning.

      And it should be easy to love Him, and through consciously loving and trying to think His thoughts, you can see that it opens your mind so that His thoughts come into it, and can thus direct you just what to do that will bring success, prosperity, health, harmony and happiness into your life.

      Dear friends, we wish that we could reveal the truth of the above wonderful statements so clearly to you that they will live with you and will motivate your every thought, word and act forever afterward. They are so mighty in their truth that if lived they will make you more than man.

      So do not pass them by because they seem so simple and commonplace. Stay with them until all their glorious import dawns upon you and you feel the change that they will surely and quickly bring into your consciousness and therefore into your life and all your affairs.