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How to Deepen Your Faith

Article Abstract by: johnsnipe     

Original Author: Norman Vincent Peale

The First thing the person who wishes to deepen his/her faith must do is change that negative image of

himself as a faithless person to something else.
One way to accomplish this change is by using a powerful imaging technique that consists of just three words: act as if. So you think you don't have much faith? No matter: act as if you did. Act as if the whole of the gospel story, the good news proclaimed by Jesus that God loves us and care for us, the marvelous promise He gave us that He would never abandon us, His assurance that we could have forgiveness of sins if we repented of them, His pledge that if we obeyed and believed we would have life eternal-act as if it were all true. Never mind if you feel it is too good to be true; never mind if your doubts seem overpowering ; act as if you believed.
If you do,your unconscious mind will respond. It will say to itself, " Here is this person acting like a believer, so I am going to program him or her toward faith instead of away from it." And once your unconscious mind takes hold of that idea, you will find yourself being swept along by a current flowing ever more strongly from the arid deserts of doubt to the green fields of spiritual certainty.
Another thing: while you act as if,give thanks that this change in your life is actually taking place now. Even when you can't see it happening ,even when you don't know for sure whether it is happening,give thanks,because the act of giving thanks for as-yet-unglimpsed benefits is in itself a powerful form of faith.



Published: July 21, 2008
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