121 — WATCH lest you go from fear to the fear of fear—to the point of being afraid of fear itself. This warning covers a strange phenomenon that has arisen in Christian Science, due to a misapprehension of the right way to handle fear. The scientific way is to expose the fact that you have nothing to fear, and nothing to fear with, rather than to try to dispose of the fear, believing that if you do not, the fear may result in some unpleasant manifestation.
All fear is based on the belief that man has an existence apart from God. Fear is not the result of something; but something is the result of fear. We must handle fear on the basis of God's ever-present care, as Elisha did in II Kings 6:16 when he declared, ".... they that be with us are more than they that be with them." This realization opens the way for the next step, namely, to know as a scientific fact that you have nothing against you, since God is All.
As you take the footsteps leading to the destruction of fear, it is necessary to watch lest you give fear power of itself, believing that, if you once let it in, it can rob you of the infinite care of God. The following words in regard to fear are attributed to our beloved Leader: "Do not fear your sense of fear. It is nothing. We are as safe as omnipotent God. God's idea absolutely cannot fear; he knows there is just one Mind. Is he going to use that Mind to fear with? Is he living in God and still afraid? Is there anything outside of or beyond God? Is there anything inside God to fear? God made all and proclaimed it good."
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To The Watchers
from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, as given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 49
“Hear, O Israel, for the Lord, our God, is one God.”
You are not to come in your own name to pray.
You are not to control any mind.
You are to come only in the divine strength, and know that God will rule and does, and that hypnotism and evil minds cannot, and do not, control men or governments.
All power is God, good.
This is my only formula to Christian Scientists for prayer, and God will give you faith that will remove mountains.