Prayer has power, not through repetition, but by belief and acceptance. Prayer is to be simple, direct, and receiving. The secret of prayer and its power in the outward life depends upon an unconditional faith in, and reliance upon this inner Presence.

All our experiences are working to the end that we learn the lesson of life and return to the Father’s House as freed souls. We should not despise apparent failures – the temporary chagrins of life – for they are salutary, leading the soul to the inner Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. When the experience is complete, the lesson will be learned and we shall enter the paradise of contentment.

All our experiences are working to the end that we learn the lesson of life and return to the Father’s House as freed souls. We should not despise apparent failures – the temporary chagrins of life – for they are salutary, leading the soul to the inner Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. When the experience is complete, the lesson will be learned and we shall enter the paradise of contentment.

That which we call Personality/Character is the instrument through which Spirit operates. Nevertheless, Spirit can operate for the individual only by operating through the individual. Spirit is never bound by the form It takes, and is not affected by any apparent cause or condition, but is forever free.

James speaks of being convinced of the law viewing us as transgressors. In essence the law response to our mistakes as well as our goodness. He does not say that God is convinced we are transgressors, but that the law is convinced. God is natural Goodness, Eternal Freedom, and pure Loving-kindness. However, the Law is a cold, hard fact, returning to each the result of their own, acts, be they false or true.

Very definitely James 1: 13 tells us that God never tempts any man. James says God cannot be tempted and that all temptation is from man's owns mind. Evil is man created while God – the Eternal Goodness – Knows nothing about it. He is too pure to behold evil and cannot look upon it

We are to believe in ourselves because we believe in God. The two are ONE. We are to know those passing negative events cannot hinder the onward march of the Soul. The temporal imperfection of the human cannot dim the eternal integrity of the Divine.

A Simple Guide for Behavior. Jesus is saying do not pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults — unless, of course, we want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It is easy to see a smudge on our neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on our own.

The Beatitudes! All spiritual things must be spiritually discerned. This goes to say that Jesus’s teaching must also be spiritually discerned. The full meaning of Jesus’s teaching can never be completely clear to us. However, in the record of his teachings, there is much which bears witness to our own belief. Let us look at the Beatitudes:

There are no enemies external to our own mind. This is one of the most difficult problems to understand, and simple as it sounds it penetrates the depths of creative connection