We are constantly treating everything in our lives
with the thoughts we entertain, if we believe we are defeated, we are. We are
asking for failure if we believe in failure, we are in fact treating for MORE
failure, even while praying for success! How can that be? No one wants to fail,
but if we pray and then spend the rest of the day entertaining negative fearful
thoughts, we are in fact treating for more failure. Remember the admonition
“As a man thinks.” What we dwell on, spend our time reflecting on, we
manifest in our lives, Period. No one manifests peace, prosperity, health and
happiness in their lives if they continue to focus on strife, lack, sickness
and sadness. All prayers are heard, but if we ask not really believing, for any
reason, our prayer will be answered in the manner asked; our lack of faith
rewarded. So, when we feel even the slightest twinge of doubt, we must stop and
treat the doubt with prayer before praying further! We do not allow ourselves
the illusion that by pretending it is not there deals with it. So we pray with
all our heart and expect to receive, but we don’t limit God by outlining in our
mind how we think our prayers should be answered. When outlining we become so
fixed looking in one direction we overlook anything that does not fit our
imagined solution. Our path is to trust in God’s unlimited vision and refuse to
be limited by outlining.
In the movie Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade there is a nice visualization of this teaching: Indiana is on the brink of finding the Holy Grail. He has surmounted monumental difficulties to reach this point where he finds himself looking across a chasm that appears impossible to cross. He reaches into his pocket and retrieves his father's note book, looking for guidance he opens the book to the page that describes the challenge facing him, and "Step out in faith" is written there. Closing his eyes, with fear and trepidation, he steps out into space and discovers the bridge had always been there, it was just invisible from his perspective. Faith is like that. Trust in God and when that inner voice screams: Are you crazy! There’s no frakking bridge! Step out in faith.
In the movie Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade there is a nice visualization of this teaching: Indiana is on the brink of finding the Holy Grail. He has surmounted monumental difficulties to reach this point where he finds himself looking across a chasm that appears impossible to cross. He reaches into his pocket and retrieves his father's note book, looking for guidance he opens the book to the page that describes the challenge facing him, and "Step out in faith" is written there. Closing his eyes, with fear and trepidation, he steps out into space and discovers the bridge had always been there, it was just invisible from his perspective. Faith is like that. Trust in God and when that inner voice screams: Are you crazy! There’s no frakking bridge! Step out in faith.
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