This brings a vivid picture to mmd: You are drawing on29 the bank of the imagination.
A woman who did not have much money was afraid to pay any bills and see her bank account dwindle30.It came to her with great conviction: "I have the magic purse of the spirit.It can never be depleted.As money goes out, immediately, money comes in." She fearlessly paid her bills, and several large cheques came to her that she did not expect.
"Watch and pray lest ye enter into the temptation" of preparing for something destructive instead of something constructive32.
I knew a woman who told me she always kept a long crepe33 veil handy in case of funerals.I said to her, "You are a menace34 to your relatives, and are preparing to hurry them all off, so that you can wear the veil." She destroyed it.
Another woman who had no money decided to send her two daughters to college.Her husband scorned35 the idea and said, "Who will pay their tuition? I have no money for it." She replied, "I kn menace ow some unforeseen good will come to us." She kept on preparing her daughters for college.Her husband laughed heartily and told all their friends that his wife was sending the girls to college on "some unforeseen good." A rich relative suddenly sent her a large sum of money."Some unforeseen good" did arrive, for she had shown active faith.I asked what she had said to her husband when the cheque arrived.She replied, "Oh, I never antagonize36 George by telling him I am in the right."