Believing, Receiving, and Time Travel
Let's do a little psychological time travel. The topic is "how you can go to the future to remember your past and thereby change your present."
Does that sound strange? All things are possible with God and all things are possible to those who believe, according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
"Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mark 11: 24) Notice the tenses of the verbs in this saying from the Gospel of Mark. "Believe that you have received (past tense) and it will be yours (future tense). This suggests that you look at whatever you seek as being already yours in the past, and what you seek will be yours in the future. The verb "will be" can also be translated as "is being." So the advice can be translated, "believe that you have received and it is being yours." That is, if you believe the good you seek is already yours, it is being established now.
This suggestion would seem to involve a "law of psychological time travel." According to the theory of relativity in physics, time is relative to perspective. If you could travel at the speed of light, from your perspective time would stand still. If you could travel faster than the speed of light, time would go backwards. That certainly does not seem any stranger than imagining yourself in the future, looking back at the present or past.
Based on my own experience, I believe that believing gets results. I believe it works through a process involving alignment of conscious thinking, subconscious reactions and the activity of the God, the Universal Mind that contains and permeates every individual mind. Conscious thinking conditions subconscious beliefs. The Universal Mind creates conditions in response to subconscious belief.
To establish a belief in your subconscious, you can think as if you are in the future looking back at the present and seeing the good received. The following is a mental experiment whereby you can test this idea of believing for receiving. Follow the experiment step by step and take your time in getting into the feelings suggested:
(1) Choose some good you would like to establish in your life or some problem you would like to solve.
(2) Imagine yourself in the future, having solved the problem or received the good, and consider this question, "what did it feel like to have had that problem or to not have had that good?”
(3) Next consider this question, "what actions did you have to take or resources did you use to solve the problem or receive the good?”
(4) Finally, consider this, "what does it feel like to have that good or to have solved that problem now?”
(5) Give thanks that the problem is solved, the good received.
Pay special attention to any resources or actions taken that you recall from your future state of mind. Your resources might include knowledge, skills, possessions, ways of thinking and ways of praying. Your ultimate resources are your own inner spirit, Christ in you, and the Omnipresent God. Take action, use your resources and expect good results.
Try doing this experiment day by day, several times a day. Give it a month and note any results in your experience.