The Value and Power of Thought

Question 1

Thought is…

Answer 1

the CONNECTING LINK between God and Humankind

Question 2

The thoughts of the conscious mind are what to the subconscious mind? What does the subconscious mind do with these thoughts?

Answer 2

The thoughts of the conscious mind are instructions given to the SUBCONSCIOUS mind, which carries them out by PROJECTING them onto the screen of life.

Question 3

What is God’s plan and purpose for us in our thinking?

Answer 3

God’s plan and purpose for us is that in our THINKING, we are to bring forth on EARTH (outer) the good that already exists for us in HEAVEN (inner).

Question 4

How do we establish firm inner contact with God?

Answer 4

We want to establish firm inner contact with God in us through our open mind and our constructive ways of THINKING.

Question 5

God as UNIVERSAL MIND is:

(Hint: 3-part answer)

Answer 5

1. The One Mind essence, the SOURCE, and the beginning of all ideas.
2. The all-encompassing, UNLIMITED, OMNIPRESENT Mind that permeates everything we see and everything we do not see.
3. God teeming with DIVINE IDEAS to be distributed throughout the world through humankind.

Question 6

Why do there appear to be many “minds”?

(Hint: 3-part answer)

Answer 6

1. Each individual has CONSCIOUSNESS in the One Mind.
2. That CONSCIOUSNESS is determined by the kind of thoughts, feelings, words, actions, and reactions the individual has.
3. Humankind uses this One Mind accordign to their LEVEL of UNDERSTANDING.

Question 7

Thinking is…

(Hint: 3-part answer)

Answer 7

1. The MOVEMENT of IDEAS in MIND.
2. Imaging.
3. The PROCESS by which we bring into our lives what we CHOOSE.

Question 8

How does wrong thinking affect our HEALTH?

(Hint: 3-part answer)

Answer 8

1. BODY does not control thinking.
2. Thinking controls the BODY.
3. THOUGHTS produce according to their CHARACTER (after their own kind).

Question 9

How does wrong thinking affect our circumstances?

(Hint: 2-part answer)

Answer 9

1. Limited thoughts do not impair the REAL Self; they merely CLOTHE or veil it, producing INHARMONY in its garment (the body) or its immediate surroundings (circumstances).
2. Circumstances out-picture the character of our THINKING and FEELING.

Question 10

Why should we not judge according to appearances?

Answer 10

We should not judge according to appearances because “appearance” is LIMITED, not the REAL, and does not always out-picture the DIVINE IDEA of perfection.

Question 11

What are the two (2) ways in which the Judgement Faculty operates?

Answer 11

a. Guided by SPIRIT.
b. Based on OUTER APPEARANCE.

Question 12

Where do Divine Ideas come out of? How can we know the difference between a Divine Idea and the manifestation of a Divine Idea?

Answer 12

Divine Ideas come out of the INVISIBLE; aspects and qualities of God.
a. What is VISIBLE in the PHYSICAL word is NOT a Divine Idea.
b. What is VISIBLE is a MANIFESTATION of a Divine Idea.

Question 13

What three (3) words describe Divine Ideas? What are some examples of Divine Ideas?

Answer 13

Divine Ideas are Eternal, Invisible, and Absolute.
Examples are: Faith, Love, Strength, Wisdom, Power, Imagination, Understanding, Will, Order, Zeal, Elimination, Life, and many more…

Question 14

What three (3) words describe manifestations of Divine Ideas? What are some examples of these manifestations?

Answer 14

Manifestations of Divine Ideas are Limited, Observable, and Relative
Examples are: UFBL, JCTS, a church, a house, a car, a hospital, a television, a diamond ring, a credit card, a lover, an employer, etc.

Question 15

How can we use Denials to change our false beliefs about God?

(Hint: 2-part answer)

Answer 15

1. Deny NEGATIVE beliefs about BLAMING God as a cause of trouble.
2. Deny all thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of being AFRAID of God.

Question 16

To change our false beliefs about GOD, we must:

(Hint: 4-part answer)

Answer 16

1. DIRECT our thoughts to Principle.
2. DESIRE something better.
3. ERASE all beliefs in untruths.
4. CLAIM true inheritance of all divine ideas from God as an offspring of God.

Question 17

How can we change our false beliefs about others?

Answer 17

Deny all limited thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of humankind as being true or real.

Question 18

What are two (2) “tools” to help us change our thoughts?

Answer 18

Denials and Affirmations

Question 19

What are Denials? What is True Denial concerned with?

Answer 19

DENIAL is the ERASING, the cleansing, and the RELEASING from consciousness all beliefs, thoughts, and concepts contrary to TRUTH.
True DENIAL is concerned with negative BELIEFS, not negative things.

Question 20

What happens when denials are properly used?

(Hint: 1 main answer with 2 elaborating points)

Answer 20

Inharmonious conditions are dissolved when DENIALS are properly used.
a. Through DENIALS, negative thoughts that produced inharmony are ERASED.
b. We CLEANSE our mind and soul consciousness of negative thoughts, emotions, and false beliefs to make way for good thoughts, true thoughts, loving, and kind emoting.

Question 21

What are the four (4) denials from Lessons In Truth?

Answer 21

First: There is no evil.
Second: There is no absence of LIfe, Substance, or Intelligence anywhere.
Third: Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death cannot master me, for they are not real.
Fourth: There is nothing in all the universe for me to fear, for greater is He within me than he that is in the world.

Question 22

What is an Affirmation?

(Hint: 5-part answer)

Answer 22

1. A statement of TRUTH used to establish in our CONSCIOUSNESS the TRUTH about God, humankind, and the universe.
2. A PRAYER technique of positive ASSERTIONS that produce a triumphant attitude of thinking, feeling, and acting.
3. A “YES” attitude of mind.
4. A firm STATEMENT that makes firm in our own mind that which already is.
5. A statement of TRUTH that puts us in contact with the LAW.

Question 23

What are the four (4) affirmations from Lessons In Truth handbook?

(Note: handbook differs slightly from the ones in Lessons In Truth)

Answer 23

First: God is Life, Love, Intelligence, Substance, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence.
Second: I AM a child or manifestation of God, and every moment Its Life, Love, Wisdom, Power flow into and through me. I AM One with God, and I AM governed by Its Law.
Third: I AM Spirit, Perfect, Holy, Harmonious. Nothing can hurt me or make me afraid. I manifest my Real Self through this body now.
Fourth: God works in me to will and to do whatsoever God wishes me to do, hence God cannot fail.

Question 24

What is the first affirmation, and what type of affirmation is it?

Answer 24

“God is Life, Love, Intelligence, Substance, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence.”
1. This is an affirmation of RECOGNITION.
2. Recognizing God as Creator, as Spirit, as First Cause, as Creative Cause, as Father.

Question 25

What is the second affirmation, and what type of affirmation is it?

Answer 25

“I AM a child or manifestationof God, and every moment It’s Life, Love, Wisdom, Power flow into and through me. I AM One with God, and I AM governed by Its Law.”
1. This is an affirmation of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
a. Being a child of God shows your relationship to God; therefore, you automatically realize that love, wisdom, power not only flow into the soul but to the body, affairs, and your world.
b. This realization acknowledges our oneness, and being one with God we would naturally let God’s Laws govern and lead us.

Question 26

What is the third affirmation, and what type of affirmation is it?

Answer 26

“I AM Spirit, Perfect, Holy, Harmonious. Nothing cna hurt me or make me afraid. I manifest my Real Self through this body now.”
1. This is an affirmation of IDENTIFICATION.
a. I AM is my spiritual identity.
b. “I manifest my real self through this body NOW.”
i. Do not get into the bad habit of condemning your body or terming it just “the flesh.”
ii. Keep on knowing that your body is the TEMPLE of GOD, and anything that has to be changed is YOUR WRONG THINKING ABOUT THE BODY.”

Question 27

What is the fourth affirmation, and what type of affirmation is it?

Answer 27

“God works in me to will and to do whatsoever God wishes me to do, hence God cannot fail.”
1. This is an affirmation of REALIZATION.
a. “God works in me.” How does God work?…By the movement of God ideas.
b. “To will and to do.” God’s will is humankind’s will, for us to know all good.
2. God cannot fail, and because I am one with God, I cannot fail.

Question 28

In what three (3) areas do practical changes take place when we use affirmations?

Answer 28

1. Practical changes take place in mind.
   a. CONSCIOUS phase of mind (thinking faculty, intellect) becomes alert, strong, and receptive in action.
   b. SUBCONSCIOUS phase of mind (feeling faculty, heart) becomes loving, peaceful, and compassionate in reaction.
2. Practical changes take place in the BODY: it begins to manifest WHOLENESS, radiant HEALTH and STRENGTH.
3. Practical changes take place in the daily living: Our affairs manifest peace, order, harmony, justice, love, and wisdom

Question 29

What is the verbiage from UFBL’s website about the principle of The Value and Power of Thought, along with the corresponding Bible verse?

Answer 29

It is through thinking that humankind forms that which we have in our lives.
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” - Proverbs 23:7 (KJV)”

Question 30

What is the value of our thinking? What is the power of our thinking?

Answer 30

The value of our thinking is the connecting link with God-Mind.
The power of our thinking is as we change our way of thinking, we change our life, world, and affairs.