What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them. MARK 11:24. Note the difference in tenses. The inspired writer tells us
to believe and accept as true the fact that our desire has already
been accomplished and fulfilled, that it is already completed,
and that its realization will follow as a thing in the future.
The success of this technique depends on the confident
conviction that the thought, the idea, the picture is already a
fact in mind. In order for anything to have substance in the
realm of mind, it must be thought of as actually existing there.
Here in a few cryptic words is a concise and specific
direction for making use of the creative power of thought
by impressing upon the subconscious the particular thing,
you desire. Your thought, idea, plan, or purpose is as
real on its own plane as your hand or your heart. In following
the Biblical technique, you completely eliminate from your
mind all consideration of conditions, circumstances, or
anything which might imply adverse contingencies. You are
planting a seed (concept) in the mind, which, if you leave it
undisturbed, will infallibly germinate into external fruition.
The prime condition, which Jesus insisted upon, was faith.
Over and over again you read in the Bible, According to your
faith is it done unto you. If you plant certain types of seeds in
the ground, you have faith they will grow after their kind.
This is the way of seeds, and trusting the laws of growth and
agriculture, you know that the seeds will come forth after their
kind. Faith as mentioned in the Bible is a way of thinking,
an attitude of mind, an inner certitude, knowing that the idea
you fully accept in your conscious mind will be embodied
in your subconscious mind and made manifest. Faith is, in a
sense, accepting as true what your reason and senses deny, i.e.
a shutting out of the little, rational, analytical, conscious mind
and embracing an attitude of complete reliance on the inner
power of your subconscious mind. A classical instance of Bible technique is recorded in
**MATTHEW 9:28-30. And when he was come into the house, the
blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am
able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their
eyes, saying, according to your faith be it unto j
opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, see that no man know it.
you. And their
In the words according to your faith be it unto you, you
can see that Jesus was actually appealing to the co-operation
of the subconscious mind of the blind men. Their faith
was their great expectancy, their inner feeling, their inner
conviction that something miraculous would happen, and
that their prayer would be answered, and it was. This is the
time-honored technique of healing, utilized alike by all healing
groups throughout the world regardless of religious affiliation.
In the words, see that no man know it, Jesus enjoins the newly
healed patients not to discuss their healing because they might
be subjected to the skeptical and derogatory criticisms of the
unbelieving. This might tend to undo the benefits they had
received at the hand of Jesus by depositing thoughts of fear,
doubt, and anxiety in the subconscious mind….for with authority
and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they came out. LUKE
4:36.
When the sick came to Jesus to be healed, they were
healed by their faith together with his faith and understanding
of the healing power of the subconscious mind. Whatever he
decreed, he felt inwardly to be true. He and the people needing
help were in the one universal subjective mind, and his silent
inner knowing and conviction of the healing power changed
the negative destructive patterns in the patients’ subconscious.
The resultant healings were the automatic response to the
internal mental change. His command was his appeal to the
subconscious mind of the patients plus his awareness, feeling, and absolute trust in the response of the subconscious mind
to the words, which he spoke with authority.