After the offering plate was passed, Mr. Fillmore gave everyone a piece of paper and pen and said, “I know you just gave, so now, please put on this slip of paper the amount you desired to give. Write it out in your own handwriting in ink, the thing you wanted to give, and put it away somewhere.  “We make affirmations and put them in writing. [Myrtle and I] used to write out our desires, and they would come to pass in the most remarkable ways. A long time afterward, we would be looking over our papers and we would come across these … and there had been fulfillment.  

“So let us put them in writing and give them to God…. Jesus told the story of the woman who put her mite in the offering and she gave more than all the others. Why? It was what she gave in her mind and her heart that she got credit for.”