Every great thing at last becomes for you a possibility. William James, the famous psychologist, said, “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of your venture.” To learn to believe is of primary importance. It is the basic factor of succeeding in any undertaking. When we expect the best, we release a magnetic force in our mind which by law of attraction tends to bring the best to you. But if we expect the worst, we release from our mind the power of repulsion which tends to force the best from you. It is amazing how a sustained expectation of the best sets in motion forces which cause the best to materialize. When we keep asserting that things are going to work out well. That we can do the job, that we will not have a flat tire, that we will get there on time, by talking up good results we invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well. On a roadside billboard an advertisement of a certain brand of a motor oil has a slogan which reads, “A clean engine always deliver power.” So will a mind free of negatives produce positives, that is to say, a clean mind will deliver power. Therefore, flush out your thoughts, give yourself a clean mental engine, remembering that clean mind, even as a clean engine, always deliver power. So, to overcome our obstacles and live the “I don’t believe in defeat philosophy, cultivate a positive idea pattern deeply in our consciousness. What we do with obstacles is directly determined by our mental attitude. Most of our obstacles as a matter of fact, are mental in character. We do not need to be a victim of worry. We were not born with the worry habit. We acquired it. And because we can change any habit and acquire attitude, we can cast worry from our mind. Fear is the most powerful of all thoughts with one exception and that one exception is faith. Faith can always overcome fear.
Faith supplies staying power. It contains dynamic to keep one going when the going is hard. Anybody can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to enable you to keep fighting when it seems that everting against you. Its s a great secret, that of never being “defeated by the discouraging vicissitudes of the game.”
Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. day by day as we fill our mind with faith there will ultimately be no room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear. So, the process is – empty the mind and cauterize it with God’s grace, then practice filling your mind with faith and you will break the worry habit. Fill your mind with faith and in due course the accumulation of faith will crowd out fear. Surround your mind with healthy thoughts, thought of faith and not of fear, and you will produce faith results instead of fear results. This strategy must be used in the campaign against worry habit. A frontal attack on the main body of worry with the expectation of conquering it may prove difficult. Perhaps a more adroit plan is to conquer the outer fortifications one by one, gradually closing in on the main position. To change the figure, it might be well to snip off the little worries in the farthest branches of your fear. Then work back and finally destroy the main trunk of worry. Let this verse ِ ِ ه َل َت ْحَز ْن ِإ َن َّللاَ َم َعَنا َيُقو ُل ِل َصا ِحب ِإذْ “When he (Muhammad) said to his companion, ‘Do not worry, Allah is with us.’” (9:40) be a reminder to us all to never lose trust in Allah. To be patient in the trials that He gives us, to realize that if we make Allah’s pleasure our main objective then we will get far much more than anything we may lose along the journey, and that in order to achieve this objective, we must try and keep company with the righteous believers who will always and continuously remind us of exactly all the above every time. We can overcome any obstacle. We can achieve the most tremendous thigs by faith power. Faith supplies staying power. It contains dynamic to keep one going when the going is hard. Anybody can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to enable you to keep fighting when it seems that everting against you. Its s a great secret, that of never being “defeated by the discouraging vicissitudes of the game.”
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