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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Helping Others
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[Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters]
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Instead of thinking of the people whom you have believed to
be evil and an undesirable influence, think of the goodness
of God in the life of all His children. Think of God as
everywhere-present light, love, peace, power, and life.
Think of all men, all women, all children as abiding in
God's presence and expressing God's qualities. As you do
this, you will touch the reality of individuals, and you
will invite only the best from them. Spirit will respond as
you expect it to, for the Spirit of God is in every person.
Some persons have not yet wakened to this realization; but
as you declare the Truth for them and expect it to express
through them toward you, you will receive only loving and
considerate treatment from them. As you read these
explanations of the way in which a soul may lay hold of its
inheritance from God and exercise its God-given freedom in
the endeavor to develop and use its powers, pray for more
light to enable you to see how precious these individuals
are and how important it is that we all have freedom to
correct our mistakes.
The best way to help your brother is to pray for him to be
spiritually illumined. Then if he has come to a place in
his soul development where he is ready to accept Truth, he
will have the understanding and desire to seek the
indwelling Christ.
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It is never wise to try to force Truth upon anyone. Place
your brother "lovingly in the hands of the Father," and
know that his own indwelling Lord will take care of him
until he is open and receptive to ideas of Truth.
You are good, yes. But it is a negative goodness. You
haven't realized your powers and made positive and
purposeful use of them. You have been made to feel that
nonresistance, and righteousness, and Christianity, and
loving service are all passive. You have allowed your
personal ideas of love and goodwill to make you too
sympathetic and inclined to give, without seeking and
asking for wisdom and good judgment to direct you.
Now while it is a virtue to be always ready to help others,
we must be sure that we are truly helping them, and not
hindering them by allowing them to continue in the unwise
habits that have brought them to lack.
The greatest help is to be able to show others how they may
help themselves and become self-supporting and resourceful.
Study and prayer, along the lines of the Unity literature,
will give you the knowledge and power to help others
understand and bring forth their prosperity.
You have a store. Have you taken God into partnership with
you? Do you start every day with quiet, purposeful
communion with God? Do you ask God to show you what to do
in every transaction?
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Do you bless your store, the room, the stock, the accounts,
the customers, the salespeople? Do you fill the atmosphere
with thoughts and words of love and wisdom and prosperity?
Do you demand of others that which you demand of yourself,
that they use good judgment, and self-denial when
necessary? Do you make them understand that God prospers
those who do their part and that you expect them to do
their part to pay their bills, so that you can pay yours
and go on with the store, the service you feel led to offer?
Or do you think of the sickness, and the poverty, and the
inharmony about you? Do you let folks have merchandise
because you think them in need, or because they are God's
children, and you are in this way helping God to prosper
them and make them happy; and because your business is
going to prosper all and result in greater blessings? Do
you pray for their prosperity? Do you expect God in these
people and God in you to prompt them in doing that which is
right by you?
By studying this matter you will come into a better
understanding of the law of prosperity and you will be led
into a much happier and more successful handling of your
everyday problems.
Don't feel that you must open your hands and pass out
everything that you have. Conservation is one of the rules
of success. You must expect others to do their part. And
everyone, no matter how many failures he has had, can do
his part.
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You aren't giving Spirit much credit for ability to work in
your brother's consciousness and affairs, are you? You say
in the same breath that he has been upheld by the Spirit
these months and that you feel he cannot stand the strain
much longer! Don't you see what a mixed state of
consciousness that is, and how foolish it is to pray and to
expect Spirit to express its harmony and order and light in
yourself or another, and then to feel that you or the other
may at any time collapse because of the lack of spiritual
power or light or life or substance?
Suppose "his mind," this tense, mortal state of mind that
has been causing him the worry and anxiety and weariness,
gives way! What then? Why, that's the very thing that must
come! This old fixed state of mind must give way, or be
given up, that the Christ ideas may flow freely through his
consciousness and give him the new life and light and poise
and power and substance that he needs! Encourage him to let
go, to place himself in God's care and keeping. It is
personal assumption of responsibility that makes him feel
he must cling so tenaciously to some of his opinions and
ways of working. This is the only thing that keeps him out
of the kingdom of heaven and its blessings! The treatment
he has had, if he were cooperating, would have raised him
into the Christ consciousness of peace and order and
success long ago.
We are asking you to place him confidently in the care and
keeping of his indwelling Lord and to take
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your mental hands off! Don't treat him! So long as you are
trying to force something into him, you keep his attention
divided, and he doesn't get within and quiet enough to let
his soul commune with God. Leave him in the secret place,
with the Father. Jesus has promised, you know, that those
who go to the Father in secret shall be rewarded openly!
The spiritual light coming to him from within will show him
the utter foolishness of struggling and worrying and
striving. It will reveal to him the right relation of
things spiritual and things manifest. He will see clearly
how the right mental attitude and physical poise and health
will result in instant and constant progress and prosperity
and satisfaction. You can't give him this. Nor can we. It
is the free gift of the Father within him.
What are you believing about this Father, who Jesus Christ
proved was willing always to hear and to answer every call
in the name of His Son Jesus Christ?
You are looking for a call. Do you know when you are
called? You are to go straight to God to talk over these
things. Go into your closet of prayer, into your "secret
place of the Most High" (Ps. 91:1 A.V.) and shut the door;
then pray.
We are not promised the Father's attention when we merely
cry out, "Oh, I long so to do something for this ailing
one." Did Jesus Christ perform any healing by wishing that
He had the power? No. God
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gave Him the power; all He was required to do to lay hold
of it was to recognize that "I and the Father are one" (Jn.
10:30).
So, dear friend, if you believe in the works of the Father,
believe also in His Spirit in the midst of you, waiting to
be recognized and put to practical use. Through "Christ in
you" you are the "beloved Son" in whom the Father is well
pleased.
All power is given unto you in all the affairs of mind and
body. Exercise your God-given power, authority, and
dominion and rise out of bondage to conditions of lack and
discord.
There is a saying that "God helps those who help
themselves." You are God's executive, and your indwelling
Lord depends on you to make His glory manifest. Then be up
and doing. Do the will of Him who sent you. In so doing you
are not only helping yourself, you are helping others.
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