God is the Strength in which I trust. · Wb.47

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v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license

Workbook for Students

Contents

Opening

Introduction

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Part I

Lessons 1 - 50

50 lessons

1.Nothing I see in this room[on this street, from this window in this place] means anything.

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2.I have given everything I see in this room[on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.

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3.I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

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4.These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

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5.I am never upset for the reason I think.

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6.I am upset because I see something that is not there.

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7.I see only the past.

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8.My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

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9.I see nothing as it is now.

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10.My thoughts do not mean anything.

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11.My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.

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12.I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

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13.A meaningless world engenders fear.

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14.God did not create a meaningless world.

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15.My thoughts are images which I have made.

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16.I have no neutral thoughts.

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17.I see no neutral things.

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18.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.

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19.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.

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20.I am determined to see.

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21.I am determined to see things differently.

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22.What I see is a form of vengeance.

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23.I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.

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24.I do not perceive my own best interests.

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25.I do not know what anything is for.

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26.My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

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27.Above all else I want to see.

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28.Above all else, I want to see things differently.

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29.God is in everything I see.

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30.God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

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31.I am not the victim of the world I see.

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32.I have invented the world I see.

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33.There is another way of looking at the world.

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34.I could see peace instead of this.

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35.My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.

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36.My holiness envelops everything I see.

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37.My holiness blesses the world.

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38.There is nothing my holiness cannot do.

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39.My holiness is my salvation.

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40.I am blessed as a Son of God.

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41.God goes with me wherever I go.

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42.God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

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43.God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

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44.God is the Light in which I see.

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45.God is the Mind with which I think.

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46.God is the Love in which I forgive.

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47.God is the Strength in which I trust.

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48.There is nothing to fear.

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49.God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.

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50.I am sustained by the Love of God.

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Part I

Review I [51 - 60]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 61 - 80

20 lessons

Part I

Review II [81 - 90]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 91 - 110

20 lessons

Part I

Review III [111 - 120]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 121 - 140

20 lessons

Part I

Review IV [141 - 150]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 151 - 170

20 lessons

Part I

Review V [171 - 180]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 181 - 200

20 lessons

Part I

Review VI [201 - 220]

20 lessons

Part II

Introduction

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Part II

Lessons 221 - 230

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 231 - 240

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 241 - 250

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 251 - 260

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 261 - 270

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 271 - 280

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 281 - 290

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 291 - 300

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 301 - 310

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 311 - 320

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 321 - 330

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 331 - 340

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 341 - 350

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 351 - 360

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 361 - 365

5 lessons

Closing

Epilogue

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Part I · Lesson 47

God is the Strength in which I trust.

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1If you are trusting your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious, and fearful. What can you predict or control? What is there in you that can be counted on? What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

2Of yourself, you can do none of these things. To believe that you can is to put your trust where trust is unwarranted and to justify fear, anxiety, depression, anger, and sorrow. Who can put his faith in weakness and feel safe? Yet who can put his faith in strength and feel weak?

3God is your safety in every circumstance. His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protection. There are no exceptions because God has no exceptions. And the Voice Which speaks for Him thinks as He does.

4Today we will try to reach past your own weakness to the Source of real strength. Four five-minute practice periods are necessary today, and longer and more frequent ones are urged. Close your eyes and begin as usual by repeating today's idea. Then spend a minute or two in searching for situations in your life which you have invested with fear, dismissing each one by telling yourself,

5God is the Strength in which I trust.

6Now try to slip past all concerns related to your own sense of inadequacy. It is obvious that any situation that causes you concern is associated with feelings of inadequacy, since otherwise you would believe that you could deal with the situation successfully. It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. But the strength of God in you is successful in all things.

7The recognition of your own frailty is a necessary step in the correction of your errors, but it is hardly a sufficient one in giving you the confidence which you need and to which you are entitled. You must also gain an awareness that your confidence in your real strength is fully justified in every respect and in all circumstances.

8In the latter phase of the practice period, try to reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a deep peace, however briefly. Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

9Repeat the idea for today often. Use it as your answer to any disturbance. Remember that peace is your right because you are giving your trust to the strength of God.