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Filling the Vacuum

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Announcements › Forums › God — January 2nd, 2022 › Filling the Vacuum

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  • December 31, 2021 at 1:49 pm #14021
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    “Vacuity” (SH, 1910, p. 480) signifies vacancy, emptiness, space unoccupied.

    Mrs. Eddy writes, “Desire is prayer.”

    Jesus taught, “Whatsoever things ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.” (Mark 11:24)

    “Believe that ye receive them” means absolute trust that occupies or inhabits the feelings of the desire fulfilled, present tense, regardless of the absence of outward manifestation of the prayer answered.

    The “darkness of vacuity” is dispelled by obeying the command: “Occupy till I come.” (Luke 19:13) Rather than vacate the “house of the Lord” (consciousness of God) I am to be occupied, to be filled with the serene sense of having already found that which I have sought.

    “Occupy” signifies settledness, no flightiness, no stolen visits.

    “Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.” (SH, 1910, p. 1)

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