CONTAINING quotations from our replies to those writing us for help in their Spiritual problems.

Each day at 12 o’clock noon, we take the names of those asking for such help in the Silence of the Spirit, and “Speak the Word” for them. Many hundreds have testified to receiving the blessings of such ministry.

YOU MUST realize that in the past you built up in your consciousness many pictures from wrong ideas gained from orthodox Lutheran training, and that you were led to search for Truth by your Higher Self, and later to this Work, because you had grown ready for these higher teachings. The Lord within knows what you need and always provides it, but He does not make you accept and use the truths that He brings. He waits to see if you want them enough to use them. Then and then only does He release the power that enables you to use them.

Think you if you really wanted to study this Course and would make yourself do what is required in it, He would not give you the power to do it?

Therefore we say that it is up to you to take advantage of the opportunity for rapid growth and accomplishment provided in this study, or to drift along as you have done in the past and let life itself teach you what you need to learn the hard way. We feel that we have done our part, and that it is now for you to decide whether you will do the part your Higher Self wants you to do or not.

ABOUT your seeming inability to express yourself, do you not realize that that is only a belief in your mind and it alone is limiting you? If you would but get out of the way with that mind of yours and allow the Loving One within to speak, you would find yourself speaking as freely as that time when half awakened from a dream you heard yourself talk to those whom you were instructing. Try to realize this and to convince your mind that You have all power and that it is but your instrument of expression, and therefore it must step aside with its fears, self-consciousness and belief in limitation, and let You do all the talking. And then prove it by talking to Your mind silently until it becomes accustomed to waiting upon You and hearing You talk, when it will then be easy for You to talk in the same way to others.

YOUR kind letter of the 26th received and we note the seeming reaction and cessation of needed supply.

You will notice we said “seeming,” because that which appears is only what appears to be so in your mind. Try to realize just what we mean. The way Jesus performed all of His miracles was to refuse to see what appeared, and then go ahead seeing what He wanted to appear and acting as if it were already there.

In these words is hidden the great secret. Instead of doing this, you have been doing nothing and just waiting for guidance. That is not what your Real Self has taught you to do in providing you with all these truths; He expects you to apply and use them.

What are these truths? He has given you the power to think—to think only good and perfect thoughts, those that God would like to have you think. Then you are to know that God loves and cares for you and is giving you every good thing.

If you really know this, you will see as Jesus did, see it actually so on the mental plane, will see Him giving you all good things, and will ACT as if you have them—instead of sitting around waiting for them to come into manifestation.

But how can you act as if you have them? In many ways, but principally by refusing to see and or to consider for a moment that there is a lack of any good thing. In other words, you must live in that mental world of goodness and plenty so realistically that it is for you the only world, thus believing what is there is so—when it must manifest in the outer world.

Think this over carefully, listening all the while to what you are shown from within, and we believe that you will soon get the full meaning of it and begin active work on the inner planes. And by active work we mean the doing of the things you would like to do and which you know God wants you to do on the inner planes, being wholly unconcerned about the outer planes, until there is a direct urge from within for you to do something outwardly. Then obey it unquestioningly, unconcerned about results. By following faithfully this method, the inner must come forth into the outer.