Welcome to Pre-Paving for Prosperity with Florence Scovel Shin.
This is adapted from excerpts from the chapter,
What Do You Expect?
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Found in the book,
The Complete Works of Florence Scovel Shin.
After the reading,
There will be a few reflection questions to contemplate.
Faith is expectancy.
According to your faith,
Be it unto you.
We might say,
According to your expectancies,
Be it done unto you.
So what are you expecting?
We hear people say,
We expect the worst to happen,
Or the worst is yet to come.
They are deliberately inviting the worst to come.
We hear others say,
I expect to change for the better.
They are inviting better conditions into their lives.
Change your expectancies,
And you change your conditions.
How can you change your expectancies when you have formed the habit of expecting loss,
Lack,
Or failure?
Begin to act as if you expected success,
Happiness,
And abundance.
Prepare for your good.
Do something to show you expect it to come.
Act of faith alone will impress the subconscious.
If you have spoken the word for a home,
Prepare for it immediately as if you hadn't a moment to lose.
Collect little ornaments,
Table cloths,
Etc.
I knew a woman who made the giant swing into faith by buying a large armchair.
A chair meant business,
And she bought a large and comfortable chair,
For she was preparing for the right man.
He came.
Someone will say,
Suppose you haven't money to buy ornaments or a chair.
Then look in shop windows and link with them in thought.
Get in their vibration.
I sometimes hear people say,
I don't go into the shops because I can't afford to buy anything.
That is just the reason you should go into the shops.
Begin to make friends with the things you desire or require.
I know a woman who wanted a ring,
And she went boldly to the ring department and tried on rings.
And it gave her such a realization of ownership that not long after,
A friend made her a gift of a ring.
You combine with what you notice.
Keep on noticing beautiful things.
And you make an invisible contact.
Sooner or later,
These things are drawn into your life.
Unless you say,
Poor me,
Too good to be true.
You can expect any seemingly impossible good if you do not limit the channels.
Do not say how you want it done or how it can't be done.
This is a wonderful age for people are becoming miracle minded.
It is in the air.
People are beginning to realize the power of their words and thoughts.
They understand why faith is the substance of the thing hoped for the evidence of things not seen.
Think of the blessings which seem so far off and begin to expect them now under grace in an unexpected way.
And listen to this final affirmation from this chapter section.
I expect the unexpected.
My glorious good now comes to pass.
What are you hoping for?
How can you prepay for prosperity without insisting that things go a certain way?
Maybe you want to take it even further and hope and prepay for a world that looks different than it is now.
Thank you for sharing your energy and your vibrations for a better world.
