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to know very much about anything, but thank you that you know it all. Therefore, Lord, I do not have to tell you anything. My problem is given into your keeping, Father, and I just know that something wonderful is happening. From this moment I am expecting miracles to floodlight my life morning, noon and night. And all night long while I sleep, miracles will be pouring into my whole being and preparing me for another wonderful day.”
Something like that, boldly, enthusiastically, vividly, and extravagantly expressed, linked with faith and expectation, opens the way to wondrous events. It is no use abiding in the Father for five minutes and then living the next five months outside the orbit of that divine activity.
We have to encourage the patient to have a consistent and exciting expectancy of the wondrous power of God shining into his or her life, morning, noon and night, week in and week out, month in and month out. Then the patient truly enters into a miraculous experience of the real miracle of life itself unfolding in partnership with the Lord.
In this sense it is the role of the patient. The patient, the healer, and everyone else is really adventuring in living and learning how to live adequately. We only know, in the light of modern research and experience, that everyone has the responsibility of discovering the great laws, the great spiritual laws, whereby life can be lived more fully, more wondrously and more idealistically.
We are really emerging out of darkness into light. The healers, in the very many ministries in the world today are the way-showers into a new generation in which people will eventually from cradle to grave know, feel and believe in prayer and in spiritual principles as being basic to the science of well-being and creative fulfillment. Can the patient be benefited simply by his proximity to a healer without conscious volition on the part of the healer?
