"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." Mark 11:24

"...If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." Mark 9:23

But what is a belief? A belief is simply a thought that has been charged with feeling.

When this fusion occurs, the thought has entered into our subconscious mind and become part of our very being.

Now, we can hear many ideas or thoughts but if we do not charge them with feeling they will not affect our being and our life.

It is only when we charge words and ideas with feeling that they reach our subconscious mind and change our being and our life.

So, we must always watch how we feel when we hear an idea or think a thought.

FALSE THOUGHT + FEAR = FALSE BELIEF

We know that our problems and diseases are caused by false beliefs in our subconscious mind. But how were those false beliefs formed in the first place?

False beliefs are simply thoughts that have been charged by negative emotions, such as fear or resentment.  For example, when we were young, our mother may have told us "If you do not study the Bible and go to Church, you will end up in hell!" Now, if we experienced intense fear at that moment, this false thought would have merged with negative feeling and entered our subconscious mind.

Someone may say some harsh words to us and if we feel humiliated at that moment, the words will have fused with negative feeling and created false beliefs and resentments. Our father may have said "You will never amount to anything in your life!"  and, if we felt humiliation, it means we believed what he said even though it is completely false.

When we hear and watch the news, we may also feel fearful and depressed about the state of the world and create false beliefs about the universe. We then believe that the universe  is cruel  and out to get us. But this is a false belief.

 TRUE THOUGHT + JOY = TRUE BELIEF

If we can create false beliefs by means of false thoughts and negative feelings, then  we can just as easily create true beliefs by means of true thoughts and  positive feelings such as  Joy and Love.

 This is essentially what an affirmation is. It is a True idea or thought which we charge with the associated positive feeling.

The only reason these affirmations seem difficult to believe is because our subconscious has been brainwashed for millions of years in negative thought and feeling.

But the Truth is that our higher nature "I AM" is infinitely  rich, perfectly healthy, loving, creative and joyful.

When we say these affirmations, we are simply reconnecting with our true self or "I AM".

When we charge these true thoughts with Joy, Love and Peace, we restore and clear our subconscious mind.

TRUE PRAYER = DESIRE + IMAGINATION + JOY + FAITH

The Bible says that all things are possible if we believe. So, when we desire or ask, we must believe we have already received and it will manifest.

How do we believe we have already received?

If belief is thought plus feeling, it means that we must imagine that we already are or have what we desire and feel the joy of being or having it NOW. This is how we create the belief in our subconscious. Then our subconscious will automatically guide us to our  desire like a heat-seeking missile to its target.

After we have created the belief, we just wait in Faith, Joy and Gratitude.