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Life Works – When You Work with the Law

Part 3: The Law of Supply www.advancingthekingdomonline.org

Proverbs 3:1-2 “My son, forget not ( = to be oblivious of) my law; but let thine heart keep my

commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.” (KJV)

I. Introduction.

A. “Law” Review:

1. A law is something that happens every time with every person everywhere.

2. Laws are impartial, do not discriminate are not respecters of persons.

3. The power and significance of Law:

a. God is the Source and power behind all laws.

All power belongs to God and all laws come from God,

and from the authority structure He has placed in the earth.

(Romans 13:1-7)

b. Because God is good, His Laws are good and are designed

for our good.

c. Jesus said He came to fulfill the law, not destroy it.

Matthew 5:17 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law,

or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” (KJV)

d. Everything coming into our lives comes to us through laws.

Each of us rises or falls in life as a function of the degree to which we are either

aligned, misaligned or unaligned with these laws.

This is true for the Laws of Science which govern the universe, God’s prescriptive

Laws of Success in the Bible, and civil laws which deal with the rights of private

citizens.

e. God’s power, which we often seek to help extricate us from troubling

situations, works through the law, not in opposition to the law.

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f. God’s prescriptive Laws of Success in the Bible outline the principles by

which the Kingdom of God operates.

g. All the law if fulfilled in one word: love.

Romans 13:9-10 “For the commandments, ‘You

shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’

‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false

witness,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and if there is any

other commandment, are all summed up in this

saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as

yourself.’ Love does no harm to a neighbor;

therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” (NKJV)

B. God designed you to keep growing!

“Man is never satisfied. This fact is deplored by many, but God did

not intend that man should be forever satisfied. The law of his being

is perpetual increase, progress, and growth . . . Here is the key to

the law as Jesus gave it: ‘What things so-ever ye desire, when ye

pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.’ Every

person, consciously or unconsciously, is operating this law in one

or more of its phases. It works universally and on every plane of

life’s expression. We are all daily drawing into our lives the

things we most desire and expect, and whether we attract good

things or bad things, the principle operated is the same. But as we

want more of the good things in life and less of the bad, it will be

necessary to understand the law more perfectly, and so be able to

adapt our thinking to it in a more direct fashion.” (Working with the

Law, Raymond Holliwell)

C. Current situation.

1. All the poverty in the world arises from a poverty-consciousness,

whether it be collective or individual. Why do millions suffer lack, and

millions more die yearly in India from starvation? . . . Surely it is not

because there is not enough food to go around. It is because the vision

of the people has been limited to such poverty.” (Working with the

Law, Raymond Holliwell)

2. “ You and I have been trained in this field of human experience to make agreement with

lack, and the retraining of our thinking is to remove our agreement with lack and

our agreement with the power of circumstances and begin to make agreement with

our own nature, the nature of the universe and the nature of abundance.” (Mary

Morrissey)

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3. “We affirm repeatedly that God is our supply . . . The difficulty with some is that they can

more easily look to creature for the source of their substance than to the Creator.

Because some people do not see an abundance around them and do not enjoy plenty is

evidence that they do not understand or do not apply the Law. In their blindness they

say that plenty does not exist, and so far as they can see, they may be right. But when

they learn to see with their mind’s eye, they will realize differently.” (Working with

the Law, Raymond Holliwell)

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things

not seen.” (KJV)

II. Kingdom Connection.

A. Designed for dominion.

Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image,

after our likeness: and let them have dominion . . . ” (KJV)

Psalm 8:4-6 “What are mortals that you should think of us,

mere humans that you should care for us? For you made us

only a little lower than God, and you crowned us with glory

and honor. You put us in charge of everything you made,

giving us authority over all things . . . ” (NLT)

B. The power of the Kingdom.

The Bible describes a power available to and within each one of us, that is greater than any

difficulty we will ever face.

1. Matthew 6:31-33 “Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we

drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your

heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God

and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (NKJV)

Luke 17:21 “ . . . For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and

among you [surrounding you].” (AMP)

2. “Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of

outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may

command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he

then becomes the rightful master of himself.” (As A Man Thinketh, James Allen)

3. “If you realize your high privilege, you have only to think and immediately the object

of your thought is called into being. Indeed, well may I have said, ‘Set your affections

on things above, not on things of the earth.’ To dwell in thought on the material, when

once you live in Me, -- is to call it into being. So you must be careful only to think of

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and desire that which will help, not hinder, your spiritual growth. Think Love, and

Love surrounds you, and all about whom you think. Think thoughts of ill-will and ill

surrounds you, and those abut whom you think. Think health – health comes. The

physical reflects the mental and spiritual.” (God Calling, January 20)

4. “Think your thought-way into the very heart of My Kingdom. See there the

abundance of delights in my storehouse, and lay eager hands on them. See

wonders, ask wonders, bear wonders away with you. Remember this

beautiful earth on which you are was once only a thought of Divine Mind . . . ”

(God Calling, December 18)

5. “You don’t work to get things in a Kingdom. The Kingdom shifts things to you. God says, ‘If you submit to Me, I’m going to give you stuff that belongs to you.’ ”

(Myles Monroe)

III. Accountability.

2 Samuel 12:7 “Thou art the man . . . ” (KJV)

Each of us must take personal responsibility for the current state of affairs

in our lives.

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

(As A Man Thinketh, James Allen)

A. Thoughts control outcomes.

“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct

result of his own thoughts . . . A man’s weakness and strength, purity

and impurity are his own, and not another man’s. They are brought

about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by

himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another

man’s. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he

thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile,

and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.

And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse

others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong

and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to

use them as aids to his more rapid progress and as a means of

discovering the hidden powers and possibilities within himself . . . ”

(As A Man Thinketh, James Allen)

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B. Limits are born in the mind.

1. “When we fully realize that thought causes all, we will know there are never any limits

that we ourselves do not impose.” (U.S. Anderson)

2. “Your prayer, your desire, and your inner urge are like a

magnet and the stronger they are, the stronger the power of your

magnet and the greater its attraction. You cannot ask too much

of the Law, for it is unlimited and the supply is

inexhaustible. You can get only what you can conceive, what

you can understand. You can get only the equivalent to what

you give. The Law does not withhold any more than

mathematics withholds its numbers.” (Working with the Law,

Raymond Holliwell)

3. “When you’re dealing with an Infinite supply, you can never take more than your

share.” (The Law and the Word, Thomas Troward)

4. “There will be no limit to what you can accomplish. Realize that.

Never relinquish any task or give up the thought of any task because

it seems beyond your power, only if you see it is not My Will for

you. This I command you. Think of the tiny snowdrop-shoot in the

hard ground. No certainty even that when it has forced its weary

way up, sunlight and warmth will greet it. What a task beyond its

power that must seem. But the inner urge of Life within the seed

compelling it, it carries out that task. The Kingdom of Heaven is

like unto this.” (God Calling, May 25)

5. The bottom line: the only limits in life are the ones we create for ourselves. Health,

wealth, freedom from addictions, peace of mind, etc., are all part of the “dominion

package” granted to us when we were created.

God has built into every man, woman and child the desire to continue to grow and expand,

to come up higher, and to not be limited.

We are to do so by calling upon Him (ask, seek, knock), aligning ourselves with His Laws,

and believing that He will grant that which have requested.

6. It’s impossible to ask for too much. But it is possible to ask for more than you can

believe.

Each of us will receive that which we can believe for. No more. No less.

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Matthew 9:28-30 “And when He had come into the house, the blind men

came to Him. And Jesus said to them, ‘Do you believe that I am able to

do this?’ They said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord.’ Then He touched their eyes,

saying, ‘According to your faith let it be to you.’ And their eyes were

opened . . . ” (NKJV)

C. Wishing, praying and thinking.

“90% of people wish positive, but think negative.” (Bob Proctor)

The Law of Supply is within each person’s grasp, but it is often nullified by negative

thought patterns which are not aligned with God’s Laws.

“A man’s wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with

his thoughts and actions . . . man is the causer (thought nearly always unconsciously) of his

circumstances, and that, whilst aiming at a good end, he is continually frustrating its

accomplishment by encouraging thoughts and desires which cannot possibly harmonize

with that end . . . ” (As A Man Thinketh, James Allen)

D. If we want to change our circumstances, we must be willing to change ourselves.

“People are anxious to change their circumstances, but unwilling to change themselves.”

(As A Man Thinketh, James Allen)

Matthew 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent ( = Change the way

you think): for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (KJV)

E. Begin in your thought life.

Get your mind right. Drop all limitations. Think abundance in every area of your life.

“Lose sight of all limitations. Abundance is God’s Supply . . . ”

(God Calling, May 24)

F. Get in sync with the Law, like the man at the pool of Bethesda.

John 5:5-9 “Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity

thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew

that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to

him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’

The sick man (in accordance with his understanding of the

existing paradigm for receiving healing) answered Him, ‘Sir,

I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is

stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down

before me.’

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Jesus said to him, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk.’ (Here Jesus reveals a new paradigm

for receiving healing. And to his credit, the man shifted his thinking off of the old paradigm,

and onto the new paradigm, and thereby received his healing.) And immediately the man

was made well, took up his bed, and walked . . . ” (NKJV)

G. “It’s already done, and you’ve already won!” (We Win, David Crowder Band)

“See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as

already in your possession . . . See the things as you would have them be instead of as

they are.” (Robert Collier)

IV. The Law of Supply.

Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall

be opened unto you:” (KJV)

“It matters not how much we pray or how loud we pray, our prayers can only be answered as

we work the Law.” (Working with the Law, Raymond Holliwell)

A. Prerequisites for success.

1. Love God.

Proverbs 8:21 “That I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, that I may fill

their treasuries.” (NKJV)

2. Believe God.

Matthew 8:13 “Then Jesus said to the centurion, ‘Go your way; and as you have

believed, so let it be done for you.’ And his servant was healed that same hour.” (NKJV)

3. Trust God.

a. “Rely on Me alone. Ask no other help. Pay all out in the Spirit of

trust that more will come to meet your supply. Empty your vessels

quickly to ensure a Divine Supply. So much retained by you, so

much the less will be gained from Me. It is a Law of Divine

Supply.

When you ask Me to save you from the sea of poverty and

difficulty you must trust wholly to Me. If you do not, and your

prayer and faith are genuine, then I must first answer your prayer

for help as a rescuer does that of a drowning man who is

struggling to save himself. He renders him still more helpless and

powerless until he is wholly at the will and mercy of the

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rescuer. So understand My leading. Trust wholly. Trust completely. Empty your

vessel. I will fill it. You ask to understand Divine Supply. It is a most difficult

lesson for My children to learn. So dependent have they become on material

supply they fail to understand. You must live as I tell you. Depend on Me.”

(God Calling, August 8)

b. If we think supply depends upon people or material conditions and then are worried

when people fail us, conditions go from bad to worse. The only safeguard is to feel

and know that God (the Law) is our supply, and to affirm it constantly. If we

desire success, we must think success, we must talk and act success, and we can

do this more easily if we know that God, the Law, is on our side. ‘No good thing will

God, the Law, withhold from them that walk uprightly.’ The religious-minded man

realizes that He that is for us is greater than that which is against us.” (Working with

the Law, Raymond Holliwell)

4. Know what you want.

“The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the

planting of your seed.” (Robert Collier)

5. Make demands upon the Law of Supply.

Where there is no demand, there will be no supply.

In a sense it’s really not the ‘law of supply and demand.’ It’s really the law of

demand, with the supply provided by God, whether it be a demand for health, finances,

release from addiction, peace of mind, etc.

But we must make the demand . . . and make it in faith.

Our ability to make such demands will come from an understanding and conviction that

God wants us to have, and has already provided, that which we greatly desire.

6. Believe first, then see.

“There may be many of you who are trying to follow the Truth ideas and who have

earnestly affirmed and thought statements for supply, but somehow it has only come in

small amounts or not at all. This may be largely due to the fact that your senses are yet

too strong for your mind to control. You must see first before you can believe. That

is, you are so used to seeing just so much supply or money that in spite of your

statements, you believe more in what you see than in what you are trying to think. To

you it is necessary first to train your senses to come under the control of the thoughts

which you know you must think to conform with the Law . . . ” (Working with the Law,

Raymond Holliwell)

2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” (NKJV)

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V. The Power of the Mind.

Proverbs 4:23 “Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.” (NCV)

A. The mind is like a garden.

“Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to

run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful

seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will

continue to produce their kind . . . As a plant springs from, and could not be without the seed,

so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have

appeared without them . . . Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits;

thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry . . . ” (As A Man

Thinketh, James Allen)

Question: What thoughts have you been holding in mind concerning the issues that are most

challenging to you right now?

What kind of “thought seeds” are you sowing?

What kind of “crop” will they bring forth?

B. Thoughts become habits. Habits determine results.

“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished

at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions

of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it

cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies

into circumstance.” (As A Man Thinketh, James Allen)

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C. The mind and health.

“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they

be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the

body sinks rapidly into disease and decay. At the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it

becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty . . . Disease and health, like circumstances,

are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body . . .

The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly

demoralizes the whole body and lays it open to the entrance of disease . . . Change of diet

will not help a man who will not change his thoughts.” (As A Man Thinketh, James Allen)

Job 3:25-26 “What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come to be.

I have no peace, no quietness. I have no rest; instead, only trouble comes.” (NLT)

“Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace.

The body is a delicate and plastic instrument which responds readily to the

thoughts by which it is impressed . . . There is no physician like cheerful

thought for dissipating the ills of the body.” (As A Man Thinketh, James

Allen)

Proverbs 17:22 “A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind

works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.” (AMP)

D. Raise the level of your thinking.

“We must educate our minds to a larger state of thinking. When we

can think and realize more abundance, we shall receive more

abundantly. This does not mean that the engineer is destined to be rich

while the farmer remains poor. There are poor engineers and rich

farmers. It is not the vocation that determines riches, but the

demands we make of our vocations that determine riches. As we are

able to think and to realize more abundance out of what we already

have, we shall not only expand our thinking, but receive more

abundantly. This is the basic principle of the Law.

Like Nature, we must follow a natural Law. Nature never builds down

hill, always up. To receive prosperity, we, like Nature, cannot perform

magic or miracles. We cannot make health or happiness or dollars out

of nothing. Nature shows us how we can convert much or little of the

available substance into a usable material. The available substance is

our thought, and we charge our minds with CONSTRUCTIVE

thoughts.” (Working with the Law, Raymond Holliwell)

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E. Destroy negative thoughts.

“Like Nature, to accomplish good our thoughts must always be building

upward, must be constructive. If, for example, a drone bee in a hive has

decided to lay down on its brothers and only do a half job, does Mother

Nature agree and find a part time work for the special bee? She does

not. She impresses the other bees, who are working hard to collect the

honey and fill the hive, to send their soldiers after the drone. It is

politely marched outside and stung to death. Nature destroys a lazy bee.

If thoughts enter our minds that are not full strength, are not wholly

positive, like Nature, we must comply with the Law and destroy them.

We dare not entertain a half truth or a lazy thought without weakening our

power of attraction and reception. We should sieve our thoughts carefully

to separate the strong thoughts from the drone thoughts. The drones must

be cast out and destroyed by refusal to accept them any longer. Then

we must carefully guard every thought so that another weak one cannot

unconsciously or consciously slip through to play destruction with others

that are trying to do good.” (Working with the Law, Raymond Holliwell)

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 “(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through

God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing

that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought

to the obedience of Christ;” (KJV)

F. Choose your thoughts wisely.

Proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” (NKJV)

No one can cause you to think thoughts you don’t want to think. You choose

your own thoughts, and the thoughts that you choose determine the course,

speed and direction your life will take.

G. Garbage in equals garbage out.

“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can

never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn,

nothing from nettles but nettles. Men understand this law in the natural world, and work

with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though its operation there is

just as simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not co-operate with it.” (As A Man

Thinketh, James Allen)

James 3:12 “Can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine produce figs? Does fresh water

come from a well full of salt water?” (CEV)

(Video clip: “Take out the garbage.”)

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VI. Stay in Faith.

Matthew 21:22 “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing ( = to entrust to Christ),

you will receive.” (NKJV)

“NEVER let yourselves think ‘we cannot afford this,’ or ‘shall never be able to do that.’ Say

‘the supply for it is not here yet, but it will come if we should have it. It will surely come.’

Persevere in saying that and gradually a feeling of being plentifully supplied and of being

surrounded by riches will possess you. That feeling is your faith claiming My Supply, and

according to your faith it shall be unto you. But it is not the faith expressed in moments of

prayer and exaltation I look for but the faith that lays immediately to rest the doubts of the

day as they arise, that attacks and conquers the sense of limitation. ‘Ask and ye shall

receive.’ ” (God Calling, July 6)

Romans 4:19-21 “And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead,

when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He

staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to

God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.” (KJV)

Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God

must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”(NKJV)

VII. Close.

“Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your

thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as

great as your dominant aspiration . . . The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that

you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become.” (As A Man

Thinketh, James Allen)

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