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    Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within
    Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within
    Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within
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    Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within

    By Emmet Fox

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    In this classic text, the master teacher whose works have moved and inspired millions presents inspirational advice and simple self-help that will bring true success and happiness. These seventy-two meditative essays, each accomplished by a brief affirmation and a biblical quotation, are the keys to have a better and more prosperous life.

    When one becomes depressed or discouraged, nervous or frightened, when one needs to change one's mental and physical habits of living, Fox's direct and easy techniques help overcome life's difficult stretches and bring on health, happiness, and peace of mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 7, 2010
    ISBN9780062010735
    Stake Your Claim: Exploring the Gold Mine Within
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    Emmet Fox

    Emmet Fox (1886-1951) was one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the twentieth century and a pioneer of the New Thought movement. His bold, dynamic message proclaiming that our thoughts shape our reality has changed the lives of millions across the world and influenced many key contemporary spiritual writers such as Wayne Dyer, Esther Hicks, and Louise Hay, all of whom have tapped into the power of positive thinking. Fox's other key works include Power Through Constructive Thinking and Alter Your Life.

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      Stake Your Claim - Emmet Fox

      Putting Isaac on the Wood Pile

      And God said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. —GENESIS 22:2

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      VERYONE knows the story of the temptation of Abraham. The important point is to realize that it is not just an incident that happened thousands of years ago, but that it happens to everyone on the spiritual path in all ages right down to the present day.

      Abraham was required to sacrifice the thing that he loved best on earth, his only son, the child that had come to him by a miracle. No other conceivable sacrifice could have caused him as much grief, and undoubtedly he had a dreadful struggle with himself before he could decide to do it. However, he won the struggle and having overcome his fear and doubt, through faith, it turned out that he did not have to make the sacrifice after all. On the contrary, an angel spoke to him and an extraordinary blessing, which he could never have expected, was bestowed upon him. I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore. This refers to future demonstrations or answers to prayer, and to rapid growth in spiritual understanding.

      The above promise is followed by a still greater one, Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. You know that in the Bible enemies are always our fears and doubts, our troubles and problems. The gate was the most important place in the cities of the ancient world. The gate was where the enemies would naturally attack, and whoever possessed the gate would be in control of the city; and so you see the importance of this promise for the city which is your soul.

      The account says that God tempted Abraham. Of course this is figurative. It was Abraham himself who had to prove his own faith.

      If you are on the spiritual path there may be some particular thing which is keeping you back from demonstrating and from your overcoming. It may be anything, as no two people have quite the same weaknesses, but whatever it is it must go. Cost what it may it must go. Only thus can you prove your own faith, and then you will find it is no sacrifice at all, much as it seemed to be, but only the prelude to great triumph. Reread Genesis 22:1-18.

      A Member of the Audience

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      HERE are no short cuts to Heaven and the way to the Higher Consciousness is by taking yourself in hand. If you are in earnest, begin to watch yourself. Get off the stage of your life, and get into the audience. Watch yourself and be impartial in your judgments. Do not make excuses for yourself but do not be too harsh either in your opinions.

      It does not matter where you stand today. The fact that I is watching Me means that you have taken one of the greatest steps forward. When you see yourself doing things that are useless, or perhaps even mean or petty, stop them. When you find that I can laugh at Me, it means that your life is commencing to change for the better. Finally, you will find that Me is beginning to get in step with I, and when that happens you are truly on the road to having dominion over your life.

      There are no short cuts to Heaven but you can have fun changing your life over if you become a member of the audience.

      The Sunshine of God’s Love

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      EHIND every problem or difficulty lies the Truth of Being. This means that in spite of the appearance, you must believe that Divine Mind has already healed the situation—that in reality there is nothing but God, or good. Jesus referred to this when he said that when you pray, believe that you have received, and you shall receive. And at another time, he said, The Father worketh hitherto and I work.

      These statements by Jesus make it very clear that we do not deal with symptoms, but that we must work in our consciousness to lift it above and beyond the mere seeming to the love and goodness of God Himself.

      Often, however, we are so close to a problem that, spiritually speaking, we accept the cloudy day as a permanent state of climate, forgetting that the sunshine of Divine Love and Power has never ceased to shine, although obscured for the moment.

      In prayer or treatment, we remind ourselves again that, no matter how bleak or overcast the picture may be, we believe that God has already healed the difficulty, that in Divine Mind there is nothing but good and therefore only good can express itself in these circumstances.

      This is the basis of scientific prayer. What words you use, or what portions of the Bible you read, should depend entirely upon what appeals to you at the moment. The important thing is to raise your consciousness above the level where the difficulty seems to be. When you have wiped the problem out of your mind—and put God there instead—you will soon find that it has disappeared from the material world also.

      Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Matthew 13:43).

      Persistence Brings Results

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      RAYER is the one thing that can make a change in your life. It matters not what your religion may be or whether you adhere to none. If you will go direct to God in simple, affirmative prayer, you can heal your body, bring peace and harmony into your life, enlarge your social contacts, and make prosperity a reality.

      Of course, those in the Truth teaching already know this, but sometimes discouragement sets in because the demonstration does not come immediately.

      Now, if there is one rule we should make in regard to prayer, it is that we must be persistent. Of course, we should always feel that the prayer we are making is the one that will demonstrate, but we should also always be ready to pray again if the demonstration does not come.

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