Many years ago, in a small town in the united states, a doctor climed his horse and rode to a chemist's shop. He went in through the back door. He carried in his hand an old fashioned kettle and a wooden paddle. He brought these items to the shop clerk with a sheet of paper on which was written the formular for a drink. Both of them began to bargain and eventually the clerk gave the doctor five hundred dollars for the items that he had come to sell. What the doctor sold to the clerk was worth a fortune to the young clerk but not to the doctor who gave away the items for just five hundred dollars. To the surprise of the clerk, the content of the kettle which has since become a household name in the world, began to pour forth gold. The content of the kettle has been heard of in more places on the earth than any gospel. Somehow, the young clerk added something to the kettle, the paddle and the formula. That thing, I believe is an idea. Today the content of that kettle is the greatest consumer of sugar in the world. It is sustaining sugar plantations, the workers and their families around the world. It is one of the world's greatest consumers of glass and has turned the fortune of many men around. The name of this drink is Coca-Cola, and the name of the clerk is Asa Griggs Candler. The same thing that the doctor placed a value of five hundred dollar on has today assume a value that is difficult to estimate. The difference between the doctor and the clerk was one idea. The doctor did not realize that all the while he was holding the kettle, the paddle and the formula, billions of dollars were potentially lying in his hands. Unfortunately he did not find the idea so he could not get the billions of dollars. But one one young man caught the idea and was able to release the potential for the billions.
Picture of Asa Griggs Candler
I share this story to make you understand one of the basic principle of life. Before creation this whole world and the people in it were just an impression on God mind. Everything was sleeping quitely in an idea.
Definition: Ideas are simply thoughts, plans or mental impressions on the mind.
However they are more powerful than we may understand. Creation begins with an idea. God made us with the capacity to produce thoughts and ideas, and the capacity to turn them into physical reality.
Ideas are more powerful than the brains that produce them because they usually outlive those brains. The day an idea is introduced into ur mind, creation begins. Everything visible today today, examples cars,microphones, clothes, buildings and so on, first of all existed in the form of an idea in some one's mind. Every human being is potentially wealthy and prosperous. The soul does not eat phyical food but handles intangible things, that is ideas. So the prosperity of my soul implies the prosperity of ideas in my mind. I have found out that money flows in the direction of ideas. If a person is going to prosper, you will notice that the first thing he gets is prosperity consciousness. He begins to see himself from inside as a rich person.
