You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house；and it is just as certain that you can have any other thing or things which you want，and which you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives of others.
You need not hesitate about asking largely；＂it is your Father＇s pleasure to give you the kingdom.＂ said Jesus.
Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you，and wants you to have all that you can or will use for the living of the most abundant life.
If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for the possession of riches is one with the desire of Omnipotence for more complete expression，your faith becomes invincible.
Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano，and vainly trying to bring harmony out of the keys；and I saw that he was grieved and provoked by his inability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation，and he answered，＂I can feel the music in me，but I can＇t make my hands go right.＂ The music in him was the URGE of Original Substance，containing all the possibilities of all life；all that there is of music was seeking expression through the child.
God，the One Substance，is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. He is saying＂I want hands to build wonderful structures，to play divine harmonies，to paint glorious pictures；I want feet to run my errands，eyes to see my beauties，tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marvelous songs＂，and so on.
All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men. God wants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument，and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent；He wants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves with beautiful things；He wants those who can discern truth to have every opportunity to travel and observe；He wants those who can appreciate dress to be beautifully clothed，and those who can appreciate good food to be luxuriously fed.
He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciates them；it is God who wants to play，and sing，and enjoy beauty，and proclaim truth and wear fine clothes，and eat good foods.
＂it is God that worke thin you to will and to do.＂ said Paul.
The desire you feel for riches is the infinite，seeking to express Himself in you as He sought to find expression in the little boy at the piano.
So you need not hesitate to ask largely.
Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God.
This is a difficult point with most people；they retain something of the old idea that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look upon poverty as a part of the plan，a necessity of nature. They have the idea that God has finished His work，and made all that He can make，and that the majority of men must stay poor because there is not enough to go around. They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to ask for wealth；they try not to want more than a very modest competence，just enough to make them fairly comfortable.
I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind a clear picture of the things he desired，so that the creative thought of them might be impressed on Formless Substance. He was a very poor man，living in a rented house，and having only what he earned from day to day；and he could not grasp the fact that all wealth was his. So，after thinking the matter over，he decided that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for the floor of his best room，and an anthracite coal stove to heat the house during the cold weather. Following the instructions given in this book，he obtained these things in a few months；and then it dawned upon him that he had not asked enough. He went through the house in which he lived，and planned all the improvements he would like to make in it；he mentally added a bay window here and a room there，until it was complete in his mind as his ideal home；and then he planned its furnishings.
Holding the whole picture in his mind，he began living in the Certain Way，and moving toward what he wanted；and he owns the house now，and is rebuilding it after the form of his mental image. And now，with still larger faith，he is going on to get greater things. It has been unto him according to his faith，and it is so with you and with all of us.
