Mankind's desire for regeneration and salvation is met with assurance in these words: "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord." Prov. 16:1 Christian Science reveals that God, Mind, is the infinite source of right ideas, the divine intelligence directing the expression of those ideas, and the supreme power making the ideas potent, effective, and safe. Through heavenly inspiration God prepares and God directs, and the effect of inspiration is to turn human consciousness from materiality to spirituality, to the discernment of the perfection, completeness, and reality of the spiritual universe.
The preparation of the heart is an experience to be earnestly and constantly sought in a spirit of humility and obedience. The Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy mark out the way, counseling, correcting, and comforting. Consistent evangelization of the human consciousness can be realized through the study of these books and through the heartfelt prayer they direct.
After giving cogent instructions regarding prayer in her Message to The Mother Church' in 1896, Mrs. Eddy refers to the heart that is reaching out prayerfully to the Father-Mother God and says: "If this heart, humble and trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the bread of heaven, health, holiness, it will be conformed to a fitness to receive the answer to its desire; then will flow into it the 'river of His pleasure,' the tributary of divine Love, and great growth in Christian Science will follow,—even that joy which finds one's own in another's good." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 127
