Prayer power and the power of positive thinking

Psalm 78:72 with upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilled hand.

Sustsinable skills: eg planning, public speech

Nehemiah 1:4

Today's devotion is about Aaron standing b/w the living and the dead with incense and atonement.

Incense represents the prayer.

That reminds me of the book Power of Positive Thinking by Peele:

Altogether too many people are defeated by the everyday problems of life. They go struggling, perhaps even whining, through their days with a sense of dull resentment at what they consider the "bad breaks" life has given them. In a sense there may be such a thing as "the breaks" in this life, but there is also a spirit and method by which we can control and even determine those breaks. It is a pity that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is also quite unnecessary.

 ... You can permit obstacles to control your mind to the point where they are uppermost and thus become the dominating factors in your thought pattern. By learning how to cast them from the mind, by refusing to become mentally subservient to them, and by channeling spiritual power through your thoughts you can rise above obstacles which ordinarily might defeat you. By methods I shall outline, obstacles are simply not permitted to destroy your happiness and well being. You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.