The wheelbarrow Of Faith

The Wheelbarrow of Faith.

Many years ago in Paris, there was a tightrope walker known for his incredible aerial feats. He would perform his acts at tremendous Heights. Oftentimes blindfolded and pushing a wheelbarrow. Word of his talents spread to America, where a promoter decided to bring to tightrope walker to an American audience.

The promoter wrote to the performer, challenging him to a unique performance. In his letter, he wrote, “I don't believe you can do it, but I'm willing to make you an offer. For a very substantial sun of money besides all your transportation fees, I would like to challenge you to do your act over Niagara Falls.” The performer wrote back that he would love to accept that challenge.

Soon the tight rope walker was standing along the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, awaiting his moment to walk across to America. A great crowd had turned out that day, and as the drums begin rolling, the tightrope walker began blindfolded and walk across the treacherous waters below.

As the triumphant performer landed on American soil, he turn to the promoter. He asked him, “do you now believe that I can do this?” The promoter enthusiastically responded, “Of course I do. I just witnessed your accomplishment myself.” The tight rope walker ask again, “No do you really believe that I can do it?” The promoter again said he believed. A third time the performer asked the American promoter about his belief and for the third time the man said he believed in the tight rope walkers abilities. With a sly smile on his face, the tight rope walker said “Good. Now you can get in the wheel barrow.”

We all like to claim a courageous faith in God, but when the moment of truth arrives. are you willing to step into the wheelbarrow?

America’s Hope In Trouble Times by Kelly Wright

America’s Hope In Trouble Times
by Kelly Wright

“You are the light of the world—like a city on a
hilltop that cannot be hidden." (Matthew 5:14)

Kelly Wright

Kelly Wright is an anchor and reporter for FOX News. He joins James and Betty this Monday and Tuesday on LIFE Today.


So, here we are...Americans divided along ideological and political lines. We are divided on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, over how to deal with a crumbling economy, the mortgage crisis, health care, and much more. These divisions are unhealthy and give the lie to our being "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Yet God's Word cuts through all of it. The question is: Are we willing to trust and obey Him? Or will we continue to follow our own way, which will only lead to more rancor and division?

I believe it is time for us to send out an SOS, a distress signal, to God Himself that we are in need of an emergency response. We are in desperate need of urgent care: resuscitation of the American heart, American mind, American soul. If we are not careful to overcome this dysfunction by following God's prescription for redemption, I suspect that we will descend into bitterness, frustration, and chaos. We have no time to lose. As President Barack Obama said so often during his campaign, "This is our moment; this is our time."

It is time that we believe and stand on God's Word to battle the forces of evil that seek to divide and conquer us. It is time that we forge ahead with a new commitment to moral clarity that will enable us to grasp the real essence of "love God and love your neighbor as yourself." It is time to realize that our politicians alone will not save us. We are in need of a Savior.

Let me be clear. I still believe the United States is a beacon of hope to the world. We are still a light that shines where the rest of the world is dim. But I pray that we will be empowered to shine that light even brighter, not allowing it to be dimmed because of our political infighting, nor allowing it to be extinguished because of our partisanship and prejudice.

I seek to awaken all of us to some of the ways I believe we can gain unity in our purpose. I am one who believes that whatever label you may wear -- black, white, yellow, red, or brown -- if you believe in Jesus, you belong with me. And, in Jesus, even in the midst of despair, hope always prevails.

"And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:3-5)

Consider this, pray about it, adopt it into your life, and watch this nation flourish even in the worst of times. Embrace God and engage the world. Hold on to your American dream, but let that dream be rooted in God's Word.

Let us hold on to our American heritage, but let us cast off our petty pride and prejudices. Let us hold on to our common cause to be a nation that reaches across boundaries and borders to help people in need everywhere. Let us together enter a Promised Land of faith, hope, and love. Let us govern ourselves with God's Word reigning supreme within our laws.

We have much work to do. Let us never lose sight of the clear and ever-present danger of idleness and fear, which will only divide us. Let us keep our eyes on God, knowing that He will help us overcome despair, for freedom is our cause and Heaven is our destiny. We are one nation, and we must strive to remain under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We are trusting Him that there will be no diminishing of our destiny.

May God bless America. May God bless the world. Save us all. This is our prayer. This, my friends, is America's Hope.



Adapted from Kelly Wright’s book America's Hope in Troubled Times (McDougal Publishing). Used with permission.

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Healing Rejection

Healing For The Rejection We All Experience
by Kevin H. Grenier

"He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(Isaiah 53:3)


Today's devotional comes from Kevin's book Rejection

My father died on my sixth birthday. Leukemia. I soon found that I had lost my mom as well. Her need to work and her own emotional pain crowded nurturing and time together out of my life. Then, two moves in the next three years made me the new kid in town that got picked on by everyone else.
By seventh grade, things had changed. I was well-liked and accepted. But I had no friends -- no one to whom I revealed my true self. Why? I had experienced enough rejection by then that I was unwilling to risk being rejected again.

There are three different types of rejection we can struggle with. The simplest is performance rejection. This occurs when we experience criticism for our actions that is not given in love. While such rejection stings, it is not devastating. A poor job evaluation is an example of performance rejection.

The second type of rejection is very painful. Personhood rejection occurs when people reject who we are. Our identity is called deficient, not our conduct. I remember a teacher in fifth grade calling me names when I did not attend his class. My inability to please him (performance rejection) resulted in a rejection of who I was (personhood rejection). A small incident? Yes. But I remember it 37 years later. Rejection, like abuse, is not measured by what happens, but by the impact it has.

The lack of affirmation is another part of personhood rejection. Just like flowers need water, we need affirmation. When affirmation is withheld, our sense of being acceptable withers and dies. Even though no one may say anything negative, the lack of anything positive is just as powerful a rejection.

We rejected ones may become people pleasers, keeping everyone else happy regardless of the personal cost. Or we may seek rejection. We don’t want it, but performance rejection is less painful than the personhood rejection we fear. In both cases, we end up living in emotional isolation.

From there, it is a short distance to third type of rejection - self-rejection. In this place, we despise and punish ourselves for who we are. By rejecting ourselves, we are finally able to join everyone else who has rejected us. It has cost us happiness, but we don’t think we deserve it anyway.

Once rejected by others, it is easy for us to believe that God also rejects us. In fact, the more rejection we experience, the more difficult it is to have a relationship with God. We have already learned to perform for others and hide our true self away. When we do that with God, we find our relationship with Him as empty as relationships are with everyone else.

Receiving healing from rejection brings us back to life emotionally. Intimacy is possible again and we feel more alive than ever. A significant part of this healing is found in allowing God access to our true selves. It is scary to do, but possible when we see that He is the ultimate recipient of rejection

Read this short meditation slowly and prayerfully. Allow God to meet you in those sentences that emotionally parallel your own rejection. As you do, it will create the internal space needed for the Lord to comfort and heal.

As the hammer descended onto the nails, the pain experienced by Jesus was intensely physical. Those blows and all the other abuse He experienced also carried with them the sting of rejection (Mark 9:12). Mankind had rejected its Maker.

It was on the cross that Jesus experienced the culmination of a life of rejection.

Herod tried to kill Him before He could do anything to deserve it (Matthew 2:16).
He was thrown out of the synagogue and the people of his hometown tried to kill him (Luke 4:28-29).
His family thought He was crazy and attempted to stop Him from doing His ministry (Mark 3:21).
One of His closest followers betrayed Him for his own selfish purposes (Matthew 27:3).
Another follower refused to admit he knew Him (Luke 22:57).
Jesus experienced performance rejection when He did not do what everyone thought He should do. He experienced personhood rejection because He was not who everyone thought He should be.

Yet, through it all, Jesus experienced the affirmation of the Father (Matthew 3:17). That is, until He hung on the cross. There in the midst of His deepest, loneliest and most agonizing hours, even the Father rejected Him (Mark 15:34).

That rejection by the Father allowed God on the cross, who is as equally God as the Father (Colossians 1:19), to enter into the fullest and most painful expression of all human rejection the rejection of one’s self.

There is no road of rejection that we can walk where we will not find the footprints of the Savior. And in each step He has taken, we will see His blood, bringing forgiveness and healing to all who will receive it.

This Week
Ask the Lord each day to help you identify areas of rejection in your life. As things come to mind, forgive those who rejected you and forgive yourself for believing the rejection. Ask the Lord to heal the hurt and replace the rejection with His love.

Prayer
"Father, thank you that You experienced rejection, too. Thank you that I have a friend who sticks closer than a brother, even in times when I feel like no one is on my side. Lord, I want to have as close a relationship with You as possible. Please heal my rejection so that I can enter into that deeper place with You. Amen."

Kevin Grenier is the author of Rejection . Learn more at gatheringhispeople.org.


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The Drug Compaines Are Killing YOU!

Over the years the medical industry has come up with different theories as to why people get sick. First they told us that it was due to bacteria and germs. The super wonder drug of the day was antibiotics, which were toutted as the cure for any disease. That theory has since been proven to be wrong.

Prople are taking stronger and stronger antibiotics yet they are getting sicker and sicker?
The next theory was that virus were the cause of all illness and disease. However, we now know that antibiotics have NO effect on virues, yet doctors are still prescribing antibiotics to treat them.
The current thoery is that all disease and illness is caused by a genetic defect. And of course, the only way to treat this genetic defect is with drugs? Now isn't that convenient!

So way is it that we get sick? Is it germs, bacteris, viruses or genetics? Well let's think it about it.Your body does not catch cancer: It develops it over time. You don't catch obesity: your body becomes fat. You don't catch a headache, heartburn or chronic fatigue: you devlope them. You don't catch PMS or arthritis, these are " medical comditions" that are developed over time. Its not like a germ or a virus that you catch. A majority of these illness are in fact self-inflicted and drug are not the answer.

There are really only 2 reasons why a person becomes SICK.

* You either "Catch" something that your body's immune system cannot defend, like agerm; generally a virus or bacteria.
* Or, you develop an illness or disease. This means because of some type of imbalance in your body, something is not working right and an illness or disease develops.

In both cases the causes are the same:
* A-Your immune system is weak.
* B-Too many toxins have built up inside your body. You are not taking in enough cital nutrients, and you are taking in too many toxins and NOT eliminating them efficientlty.

What if I told you that it was not until the turn of the 20th century that we even had pharmaceuticals drugs for mass production! I have a hard time believing that our government would allow companies to "profit" from the marketing of drugs that are suppose to save lives. The first Nobel Prize was given out in 1908 to Dr. Paul Ehrlich. The drug Salvarsan was produced by Merck Laboratories and was backed and promoted by the American Medical Association as "The Magic Bullet" in treatment of Syphillis: Even after Dr. Ehrlich himself tried to have it banned because it caused blindness. just a few years later, Dr Alexander Fleming, while working with some causative agents in the fight against influenza,accidentally discovered Penicillin. In a hurry to leave his laboratory for the weekend he accidentally left some bacteria cultures on one of his work tables. While he was away the cultures became contaminated with green fungus that somehow destroyed the disease-causing organisms in the dish. The green fungus went on to become what we now know as penicillin, and Dr Fleming's little "accident" landed him a Nobel Prize. Opps.

Doctors will give you a red pill for high blood pressure KNOWING that it will cause you to have NO sex drive, so then they give you a blue pill to improve your sex drive, KNOWING that it causes blurred vision. So then they give you a yellow pill for the blurred vision. But then they tell you to have your liver enxymes tested to see how much damage all of these synthetic drugs are causing! The reason why people have trouble sleeping at night, I am sure is NOT due to lack of Ambien CR, the latest sleeping pill?
O yeh, and make sure not to get pregnant again, becuase studies have shown these prescription drugs can cause serious and sometimes deadly birth defects?! DRUG ARE NOT THE SOLUTION!

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THE COME-BACK

Why not have what you want? Have you settled down with a notion
that you can't get it?

Are you accepting a disappointment as something you must suffer?

Do you look at the thing that you really desire as being far
beyond your reach?

Do you carry around with you a heartache because you think your
heart's desire is finally and forever denied you?

Do you look on yourself as being down and out, with no chance to
get back?

Do you think you are too poor to buy the things you like or even
the things you need?

Have you done something that you think has brought a penalty on
you -- sickness, poverty, loss of freedom, grief?

Well, before you give it all up as hopeless won't you just read
along a little way in this discussion to see if your case is as
bad as you think it is?

I am not writing to sell you anything or to teach you anything or
to persuade you of anything, but just to share with you the ideas
that changed the life of a man who used to think as you do and
who thought he had good reason to think so, but who has found out
that he was mistaken and that life is not hopeless at all; and
who believes that what helped him may help somebody else who is
under a cloud similar to the one that he once lived under.

Many things you want most are now within your reach.

It has been said that if a man were to offer twenty-dollar gold
pieces for sale on the street at fifty cents each, there would be
few buyers, because nearly everybody would leap to the conclusion
that he was a fraud. If you will study the real reason why people
instinctively feel that way, you will find in it the very secret
of success in getting what you want.

You have heard it said a thousand times that "you can't get
something for nothing." You may or may not think that you believe
this to be true, but it is true, whether you believe it or not;
and everybody deep down in his inner nature knows it is true.
That's why he is shy of any promise that promises too much.
That's why you are probably skeptical about the promise of this
little piece of print.

But just let this idea get a foothold in your mind: If it is a
law that I cannot get something for nothing, then it must be true
of this law, as it is of all genuine laws, that it works both
ways; it must be true that I cannot give anything without getting
something for it. Ever think of that?

Have you ever been surprised to find that when you liked or
disliked a man or a woman, that person was sure to return the
feeling you had for or "gave" to him? Have you ever noticed what
a railroad company does that enables it to take in money? It
gives transportation that is needed by people.

Have you ever wondered why Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller are
so rich? Whatever else you may think of them, you must see that
the world gives them money because they give something to the
world -- the one, a good low priced car; the other, good oil at a
reasonable price. What does a department store do before it gets
regular customers? It gives service, courtesy, good will, a
square deal, accommodation, and so forth, to a community, which
brings in the trade as the direct and inevitable result.

What does an employee do before he gets wages or a salary? He
gives a day's work or a week's or a month's. What gets him a
raise? Giving a little more than he is paid for, nothing else.
What does a farmer do before he gets a crop? He gives the seed to
the ground and gives it water and care.

How does an artist or a writer win fame? By giving the world a
work of art or some great literature. How do I win a friend? By
giving him friendship, and in no other way.

Sometimes people say -- and maybe you are one of them just now --
that there are people who get something for nothing; who give
nothing for what they receive. Did you ever study such cases or
do you take somebody else's word for it, as most of us do in such
matters? Well, are you from Missouri?* If you honestly want to be
shown, you are on the only sound ground that there is.

Now, who gets something for nothing? The man who finds an oil
well in his back yard? The woman who marries a rich man? The
miner who stumbles upon gold? The fellow who wins in the lottery?
The thief who takes a purse or the contents of a bank vault? The
swindler who cheats the unwary out of his property? The real
estate shark who sells worthless lots for big prices?

The bootlegger who makes his own liquor with wood alcohol, puts
bogus labels on it, and sells it as "just off the ship?" The
heirs who destroy the old will or forge a new one so that all the
property comes to them? The counterfeiter who makes hundred-
dollar bills out of mere paper and ink? The chap who raises a
thousand-dollar check to $10,000?

Do all-or any-of these get something for nothing? I used to think
they did. Often it looks so.

But the more you watch the individuals who do these things, the
more you'll see that the law works with them just as it works
with you and me. It's law -- just as truly as the law of
gravitation is law -- and I can't break it. Neither can you.
Neither can anybody else.

Did you ever know a gambler who got rich? Did you ever know a
burglar who had anything left after his pals, his fence, and his
lawyers got through with him? Did you ever know a counterfeiter
who had cars and a country home and a yacht? Did you ever know a
woman who married for money and was happy?

"Maybe not," you say, "but they got away with the profits of the
crooked deal!" Did they? How long did the profits last? Do you
know?

Did you ever know anybody to keep the money he won in a lottery?
Did you ever know the "lucky" finder of oil or gold, who hadn't
given something for it, to profit by it?

If you will let go of the rumors and fabulous stories about
riches' coming to people for nothing, and get right down and
investigate, you'll be surprised. Study the history of
"depressions."

What is success in business made of? I mean any success in any
business. Some persons will say, "Hard work." But that is not
always true. Hard work alone will not insure success. You know
plenty of persons who have worked hard but have gotten almost
nothing for it.

Does honesty make success? Not necessarily. Does dishonesty pay?
No! Terribly upsetting, isn't it, to be told that neither
crookedness nor honesty succeeds? Well, that's where you and I
have been making a mistake. We have swung like pendulums from one
extreme to the other. First we've tried to succeed by one method,
then by the other. When crookedness fails, men preach honesty;
when honesty fails, the preachers are dumbfounded and other men
turn bitterly back to crookedness.

What is the reason? Simply that neither mere dishonesty nor mere
honesty pays; nor mere laziness, nor mere hard work. Nothing
really pays but obedience to law -- not man's law but God's law.

Gravitation is one of God's laws, isn't it? Who uses the law of
gravitation? Anybody? Does it make any difference whether he is
good or bad, honest or dishonest, crooked or straight, saint or
sinner, rich or poor, fat or lean, white or black? It does not;
the law of gravitation works for him infallibly, invariably,
inflexibly, eternally, regardless of who or what he is.

Who uses the laws governing the burning of gasoline to drive a
car? Who uses the laws of friction to stop a car? Who uses the
laws of electricity? the laws of light? Does it make any
difference whether one is handsome or homely, whether he is
freckled or pallid, whether he smokes or drinks or swears or goes
to church or fights or steals or kills or loves?

It does not. A murderer can drive a car or stop it. A clown can
ride in an airplane. A fool can start or stop a dynamo. An idiot
can set a fire. A preacher or a moron can explode dynamite. A
sister of charity or a woman of the street will burn a hand on a
hot stove. Good or bad, saintly or vicious -- law works alike for
all, and everything works under law.

But some laws seem to be greater than others, to include others,
to transcend others. For instance, the laws controlling the
airplane seem to enable it to break the law of gravitation. Of
course, they don't; they simply enable us to counteract the force
of gravitation. The laws of the radio release us from conditions
to which we have thought ourselves limited by other governing
laws -- laws of sound transmission.

By studying these things I see that so soon as I begin working by
any law I begin to benefit by it, and no other law can stop me;
because all the laws of nature fit together, work together, help
one another -- they never work against one another. The law of
gravitation helps me to use the airplane, it holds me down
against the air. If it did not, I'd be flung off the world into
space, airplane and all -- not to mention other things that would
happen.

When I start my car, the laws governing the action of the engine
seem to overcome the laws of inertia and friction -- but no law
is broken. If it weren't for inertia there would be no momentum;
if it weren't for friction my clutch would not grip and my tires
would not take hold of the road. I do not break laws; I use them.

Now, a law that works at all always works. You say conditions
affect laws? No; fog, for instance, only obscures the light of
the stars to my eyes -- the stars still shine. Static interferes
with the radio only as it obscures the broadcasting for me; the
broadcasting is there just the same.

Law always works -- anywhere -- everywhere -- now and forever.
Two and two make four, by mathematical law, in New York or Kansas
City, in Paris or Tokyo, in the cathedral or the prison, in the
home or the dive, on earth or Mars, today or in Caesar's time,
now or in eternity.

If this law that I cannot get something for nothing, and that
therefore I cannot give without receiving, is law, then it works
with the same infallibility and continuity as all other laws. It
makes no difference who I am, where I am, how much I weigh, what
color my hair is, or what my character is, this law works for me
just the same. It is commonly called the law of giving and
receiving, and it can be stated this way: What I give out comes
back to me -- multiplied -- always. The "Come-back" is like the
yield from seed.

Now, if you agree so far, don't you see where this has led you?
It has led you to recognize that you are where you are today
because of what you have given out. You are getting it back
multiplied, just as I'm getting mine.

But what else does it mean?

It also means that what you start giving out now is also going to
start coming back to you -- multiplied. You can change the crop
you are reaping, but there's just one way to do it: you can
change the seed you are planting -- change the sort of thing you
are giving out. I did. It works, and nobody can stop it; nothing
can stop it, no circumstance, no apparent handicap, no apparent
misfortune, no "bad luck," no enemy, nobody who "has it in for
you."

That you give out comes back to you -- what you begin giving out
begins coming back to you. Any man, woman, or child can transform
his life by transforming the thing he gives out.

Of course the first question that comes up in your mind (it was
the first in my mind) is "How long must I suffer for what I've
already done?" That's an interesting point. Suppose we think a
minute about law: If I am working a problem in arithmetic, and I
have been getting the wrong answer over and over and over again;
and if I suddenly find that I've been trying to work the problem
by the wrong method -- contrary to principle -- in opposition to
law; and if I stop going contrary to law and work with law, how
long does it take me to get the right answer?

Suppose I am learning to drive a car, and I try to start it by
stepping on the gas without shifting into gear; the car does not
start. But when I shift into gear -- in other words obey the law
governing the case -- and then "step on the gas," how long does it
take the car to start? Suppose I have a boat with a hole in it; I
find that when I put it into the water, it fills and sinks.
Suppose that I obey the law governing boats, and stop the leak;
how long does it take the boat to float?

If I am locked in a room and don't know how to unlock the door, I
stay there till I learn how, do I not? But when I learn how to
turn the key in that lock, how soon do I get out?

You may think out as many other examples as you like of how law
works for you the moment you begin to obey it, of how obedience
now cancels the mistakes of yesterday, or of last year. Then come
back to our argument and think this one over: So true and
far-reaching and fundamental is this law of giving and receiving
that it extends into our thoughts.

There's a lot of talk these days about the power of thought, and
some persons are disposed to sneer at it. But there's more in it
than these persons suppose, and they suffer because they don't
realize the power of thought. It is true, too, that what you
think comes back to you, multiplied.

Is there a laugh in that for you? Well, can you do anything
without first thinking about it? Is any discovery or invention,
any work of art or book, any newspaper or tool, any manufacturing
or any crime, any deed good or bad ever performed without some
one's first thinking about it?

In other words, everything that you do is first an idea in your
mind. That is where it is first "created." If you make a chair,
or a plan, or a steamship, or a printing press, or a bomb, or a
broom, it must first take shape in your mind, as an idea. As a
matter of fact, the idea of a thing is the real creation of it;
the physical putting it together afterward is a mere copy of the
idea in your mind.

We are accustomed to think that a certain amount of time and
energy is required to make the visible copy of the idea -- the
visible chair, or plow, or broom. But the more perfectly we think
it out -- that is, create it as a complete idea in mind -- the
more quickly and perfectly we can create it in visible form; and
as we think it out better and better, we find that we require
less and less time to make the visible thing -- and less and less
energy.

Newly invented machines, for instance, are usually crude,
cumbersome, heavy, and require a lot of power to operate them.
But as they are perfected -- that is, as they are thought out --
they become lighter, simpler, more efficient, are operated by
less power, and do their work more quickly. In this process the
time always comes when the thing that once took a long period and
much labor to make is made at a speed so high that the production
is in some cases almost instantaneous.

If, when we began making this thing we had
understood all the laws of its making, we
could have made it instantaneously without
going through the process of learning how.

But that would have been a miracle!

Exactly!

The difference between what we call a natural process and what we
call a miracle is largely a matter of the time required to reach
the desired end. But doing a "miracle" is merely a matter of
understanding the laws by which it is done. The first Ford car
required months of grueling labor to build; today the Ford plants
can make about five and one half cars a minute -- or one about
every ten seconds. Is that a miracle? Wouldn't it have been a
miracle to produce a Ford every ten seconds, say thirty years
ago? What makes it possible today? Knowledge of the laws.

Knowledge of the laws involved in anything is not only the most
valuable knowledge that we can have but it is absolutely
essential. Mr. Ford never would have made a car if he had started
with no knowledge of the law. But he began by using what he had
-- probably by using something that he had been told, or had
read, about the laws of mechanics. As he used the knowledge that
he had, his knowledge grew -- just as your muscle grows as you
use it -- or as intelligence grows by use -- or anything else.

And wouldn't Henry Ford have been foolish not to try out his
first bits of knowledge about law?

Think this over and you'll see that anything men ever achieve is
accomplished by knowledge of the law. Health, wealth, happiness,
success, prosperity, freedom! Anything you want literally will
come to you if you will obey its laws just as literally as you
obey the law of gravitation.

Now, of course you see the direction of this argument. A man's
work or a woman 's work is not primarily to do something hard
that brings the sweat, breaks the nails, tires the muscles, and
exhausts the wind -- something that is drudgery. Not at all. The
secret of getting what you want lies in obeying the law governing
getting what you want.

What is that law? Why, it is just what we've been talking about
-- the law of giving and receiving.

Now, what is your first thought at this suggestion? You think,
"What have I to give?" Perhaps you conclude that you have
nothing.

But Henry Ford had nothing -- at the start -- nothing but an
idea. Heinz, the pickle man, of "fifty-seven varieties" fame, had
nothing at the start--nothing but an idea. Sam Walton, the
Wall Mart store man, had nothing at the start-nothing but
an idea. Golden Rule Nash, the tailor, who built a business up
from nothing to $12,000,000 in six years, had nothing at the
start -- nothing but an idea.

But the curious thing about it is that these men all had the same
idea. What was it? It was the idea of giving the world something
that it needed -- something of value. When they began acting on
the idea by giving what they had to begin with, they learned how
to give more, and so received more; and when they gave that, more
came -- until every one of them reached the point where he was
successful and famous, and money rolled in upon him faster than
he could use it.

It will work for you -- this law. It has worked for me. It is
working for you and for me whether we know it or not -- whether
we believe it or not. What you give out comes back to you --
multiplied. If you don't get what you want, it's nobody's fault
but your own. If I don't get what I want, it's nobody's fault but
mine. The law works.

If it works for me slowly at first, that is because I must learn
by giving what I have, before I can get more knowledge of the law
and thus have more to give. But if I will give what I have, where
I am, to someone who needs it, I'll gain the knowledge and the
things that I need.

As I go on giving, I rapidly rise toward the point where I shall
do easily and instantaneously the thing that now takes me a long
time to do -- just as my hand gains skill and speed and ease with
a hammer, or a drill, or a needle, or a baseball, or a boxing
glove, or a hoe, or a tennis racket, or a camera, or a motor car,
or a dynamo. Eventually, by using all the knowledge I have of
law, in giving service to the world, I shall gain the ability to
do seeming miracles -- as Henry Ford, Ty Cobb, William Tilden,
Barney Oldfield, Mary Pickford, Thomas Edison, and Luther Burbank
have done.

If you believe that the foregoing argument is sound, has it
occurred to you that the conclusion is not new? It's at least as
old as the year 33 A. D. In other words, it has been taught to
the world more or less ever since the time of Jesus. In fact it
was and is His teaching. Many people overlook the real teaching
of Jesus of Nazareth. But listen: Didn't He say, "Give and it
shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken
together and running over?"

Whatever you think about Him religiously, did He know what He was
talking about? Did He state a law?

We believe that Jesus of Nazareth did not merely found a
religion, but that He taught a way to live -- to live happily,
successfully, prosperously. Didn't He say, "I came that ye may
have life, and may have it abundantly?" In other words, He taught
not merely a way to be good and moral and honest and industrious
and all that, but a way to live by the law that brings success
and money and fame and love and all the other things that we
want.

And the law He taught was give -- and give first -- if you want
to get anything. He voiced the Golden Rule "Whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." The wisest of
the world's cynics say that you have to pay sometime for whatever
you get. Jesus of Nazareth says, practically, "Pay as you enter."
Select what you want, and pay first.

Maybe this sounds impracticable to you. It did to me. But try it
out. I did. You'll get results. I did. It won't fail you. It
hasn't failed me. Why?

Because there is just one maker of law in the universe and that
is the power we call God, and that power made the law of giving
and receiving. Give the best you have and look for the best in
return. God challenges you and me to prove the promises He makes
in the Bible, and these promises are simply statements of law
that never fail of fulfillment. "Prove me now," says God,
"whether I will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a
blessing greater than ye are able to receive." His only condition
is that we shall "give first" -- that's all.

Commonly we do not take this sort of promise seriously; but it is
sound and true. Is there anything wrong about the foregoing
argument? God is the law. He is the law of love, which is only
another name for the law of giving and receiving. If you will
stop thinking of God as a joke, or as a terror, or as a myth, or
as a dream, or as something far off and outside everyday life,
and will think of Him as the Maker of the law of gravitation and
of the law of love, one of which is just as real as the other --
you'll get somewhere.

If you want to know how, the whole secret lies in beginning. The
way to do it is to do it. Right where you are, now, begin to give
something good to the person nearest to you, and keep on doing
it, no matter what you seem to get back at first. Do! Don't talk!
And you'll lift yourself out of your troubles, no matter what
they seem to be or how deeply you seem to be sunk in them.

Try it. You'll be surprised. I was. Try it as patiently and as
hard as you would try to get a drink of water if you were very
thirsty. You'll get a return, a reward, that you don't even dream
of yet. You will! Don't let anybody fool you about it.

And besides, if it doesn't work, you don't have to keep on with
it. But you will keep on -- if you give it a fair chance to prove
itself. Because -- it works.


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Isn't that great? I hope you enjoyed it and will take its message
to heart.>

God Bless.
John Baca

Bacpro Enterprises
"No eye has seen, No ear has heard, No mind can conceive what God has prepared for those who Love Him."
1 Corinthians 2:9

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