This reminds me of one of my many favorite Neale Donald Walsch quotes from Conversations with God:

"The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you, in effect, acknowledge that it is there…in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate.”

Frankly, that whole passage you pull quoted from Goddard sounded to me as if it were the same voice I read in Walsch's book--the voice of God/Creator/Source etc.