I meet the experiences of today with prayer and power. Wherever I go, I am in the presence of All-Good. God, the Good, is All -- and in all. Good goes before me and prepares the way.

Surrounded, overbrooded, and upheld by Almighty Good, my heart is filled with a great sense of security and satisfaction. Regardless of the experiences of the day, regardless of the human personalities that voice negation, I shall not doubt, worry, or be afraid. "Only the Good is true. Only the Good is real." Good is the only Power, the only Mind, the only Law of my life. -- Max H. Ballard

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Talking about God is not the same as experiencing God. I have found that whenever prayer becomes an intimate feeling rather than an intellectual analysis, the soul consciousness takes wings, and demonstrations come quickly and easily.

Feeling is the key to prayer. Perhaps you have noticed, too, that we do not always demonstrate what we think. But we always demonstrate what we feel.

-- Max H. Ballard

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There are many kinds of prayer and many ways of praying, from the mantras and prayer wheels of Tibet, the devotional exercises of the whirling dervishes of India, the supplications of the Christians, to the Jesus Christ consciousness -- "I and my Father are one."

I have prayed in many ways, in sorrow and in joy, in need and in prosperity. I have prayed when my heart and my lips could only cry, "Lord, Lord, why hast thou