Several months after writing The Belief Formula, I was visiting with my parents and we were speaking about the power to create what we want with our thoughts or prayers. I was telling them that there are no limitations to what a person can create with their imagination; if a human can imagine a thing, it is a possibility. If a human continues to imagine a thing, it becomes a certainty.
I began to give examples of things we take for granted, but were thought up, imagined, and created by humans who believed in something that did not yet exist in the physical world. The airplane existed as a mere fantasy for a very long time before gaining enough mass to become a physical reality. Once people could see it, and therefore believe in the new technology, advances in aircraft technology literally skyrocketed - no pun intended. Belief is the attractive force which brings together the very real, physical mass of our new realities.
As we spoke, my niece, Jessica, came into the room and listened for a few minutes before asking, “So, you mean I could pray for a car and get it?”
I answered, “Sure; but it isn\’t likely to fall out of the sky and land in your driveway.”
Jessica, who I call “Jessie,” said, “You mean a real car? Not a toy or something like that…”
I said, “Yes, anything you want. \’Whatsoever you desire…\’ But there is a certain way to go about asking for things so you will be more likely to get what you want. If you do it right, you can not only get a car, but the exact car you want!”
Jessie asked, “How\’s that?”
At which point I explained to her how such things are created. I told her to be specific and imagine exactly the car she wanted; and to imagine herself already in the car. I told her to spend time telling herself she already had this car, and to imagine what it looked, smelled, and felt like to be sitting in the car. I also told her to spend time feeling how it felt in her heart, and how much fun it was, to have a new car and to have the freedom and good times that come with a new car while imagining being around the car with friends, or going fun places in her car.
Most important of all, however, is the positive attitude with which you think these things. Feeling the joy in your heart is what creates an attractor pattern which leads you to have ideas, thoughts, words, and actions which are designed to take you to the answer to your prayer, or bring your answer to you. Think about what you want and then feel the joy of that reality in your heart. Give thanks for what you ask - as if you have already received it. That is the secret.
Then, you must “listen” and pay attention to the things around you. At the time, Jessie was only fifteen years old and a new car wouldn\’t have done her any good at that moment. Having plenty of time before a car is really needed, it is reasonable that God, the Universe, or whatever you believe answers prayers, might start off by sending a job her way - perhaps allowing her to save enough money to get just what she wanted. Who knows? Just keep your attention on what you want, and keep your Spirits up!
There was a story I heard about an older lady who needed a new car. A church member heard of her need and approached her after church. The church member told the older woman that he had heard she needed a car; and he had one that he thought would work just fine for her. “Only problem,” he said, “is it needs a new part and it will cost $120.00.” The woman replied, “Oh, I don\’t have enough money for the repairs - much less the car.” To which the man responded, “You don\’t understand; I\’m going to give you the car. I just have to get this part fixed first and that\’s just how much it costs… I was intending on paying for the repair and giving you the car if you still need it.”
So, even though cars aren\’t likely to fall out of the sky, just because you pray for one, doesn\’t mean they can\’t or won\’t. “All things are possible to he who believes.” To truly grasp the power of that statement requires a wide-open mind; and I think she got it. I talked to her for a while more and then she said that she understood what to do and was going to start praying for a red Ford Mustang with a leather interior! I said, “Way to go! You dream your dream the way you want!” And that was it.
Within a week, Jessie was offered a job, but she didn\’t want this particular job. Within a few more weeks, she was offered another job which she tried, but found too boring; so that was it for the jobs. But she didn\’t stop thinking about the car.
At a family gathering, a month or so later, Jessie was talking to her cousins about what we had spoken about and how she was praying for a car. She said, “Uncle Pete said all I had to do is think about what kind of car I wanted, imagine myself in it, and believe that it\’s mine; and I\’ll get what I ask for.”
Unfortunately, she was met with little in the way of encouragement. One well-meaning adult told Jessie that there were lots of things that had to be done, and that she had to have a certain amount of money to pay for certain expenses she might not be thinking about. And, of course, there was the insurance and gas she wasn\’t thinking about having to pay for, etc…
When she told me what happened, I reminded her of the stories in the Bible where Jesus healed a person and told them to “go and see that no man knoweth…” I explained to Jessica that all this advice means is that some people will try to convince you that miracles are not possible just because they forgot how to “believe as a child.” Don\’t let someone else\’s “realism” kill your belief. I asked if she still thought she could just imagine herself in her new car; and she said, “Yes.” I said, “Then why not pretend? If you get to a point where you just have to have a car and you don\’t think your prayer has been answered, get a car if that\’s what you want to do; but in the meantime, there are lots of ways to get a car. Keep looking for opportunities in front of you; and expect your prayer to be answered.”
A few months later, just before Jessie\’s 17th birthday, my parents informed me that one of my sisters, and her husband, had decided to get a new vehicle and had also decided to give their old car to Jessie as a birthday present, rather than trade the car in! When I asked what kind of car it was, my dad told me it was a jeep. I said, “Well, I guess she must have eased up on the Red Mustang thing;” and my dad said, “Well, that\’s the interesting part…”
“Every day, as I took Jessie to school,” my dad continued, “we would pass this used car lot; and they had a jeep sitting out in front. Each morning as we passed that jeep, Jessie would say, \’That\’s my Jeep; that\’s my Jeep.\’ And now she has a Jeep!” She declared it; and now it is so.
The really neat thing was that, when they gave her the car, they had it checked out and fixed up so she would have a good, reliable car; and, they put a bow and ribbon on the car and parked it in front of the school where she comes out in the afternoon. It seems that cars fall out of the sky more often than I thought they did!
Jessie is off at college now - on the other side of the state - and that Jeep is serving her well on her way to, and from, home, classes, and wherever else her college experience takes her. And, best of all, it is a constant reminder that “All things are possible to she who believes!”
Pete Koerner, author of The Belief Formula
http://www.ExploreExpandEvolve.com
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