“If you’re not aware of God’s nature, you’re not aware of your own nature.”
These are the exact words of Master Prophet Bishop E. Bernard Jordan. These are among the tons of prophetic principles he shared with us in his bestselling book, “The Laws of Thinking”.
Are you aware of God’s nature?
The Master Prophet Bishop E. Bernard Jordan started the book with prophetic principles regarding the “Law of Becoming”. In this Chapter, he explained to us the divinity of our nature. In this Chapter, he exclaimed the power of the words “I am”. He stated the fact that we are created by God in his image and likeness. Therefore, when we say the words “I am”, we are hereby acknowledging the divinity we have as god.
So what really is our nature? Master Prophet Bishop E. Jordan states:
The simple, cosmic truth is that God wants you to walk in divinity and experience Him the way you’re supposed to: as His partner in bringing the Word into flesh in this world.
Many people look at God as the punitive, angry man up there. This is completely wrong. It can even be considered absurd. Remember, God created us exactly like Himself. We are what God is. Meaning to say, if we do not know what God is then we do not know what we are.
Master Prophet Bishop E. Bernard Jordan explains the right way to start our journey to the good life lead by God – the “Law of Becoming”. “The Law of Becoming” is the 1st Chapter to the best-selling book of the Master Prophet, “The Laws of Thinking”. This is because knowing our own selves is vital in our improvement. We cannot take one step forward if we have yet to understand what the “Law of Becoming” is.
The Master Prophet opened the chapter with a verse on the Bible that best explains his prophetic principle:
Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.” — Exodus 7:1
In the Master Prophet’s terms, he elaborated the prophecy as:
When you declare “I Am,” you become god.
But what does this mean? As you noticed, the Master Prophet Bishop E. Bernard Jordan stressed the phrase “I am”. Remember, we are created by God in His image and likeness. Therefore, when we say “I am”, we hereby acknowledge the divinity of our nature. This is the Law of Becoming. Knowing and understanding that we are of divine power as we are made from God’s image and likeness – this is the message of the Master Prophet Bishop E. Bernard Jordan in his prophetic principle: The Law of Becoming.
Having your prayers answered is quite easy according to the Master Prophet. Walk in the light God shines down on you. Embody the whole moral standard God had laid down. Never forget to seek His advice and guidance in all that you do. These would help you be that much closer to being worthy of the hailed answer of the Lord. The content of your wishes should be pure and beneficial to many. And most of all, no trace of selfishness or evil should be present. No doubt, by this you are guaranteed a clearer path towards your prayers being heard and answered.
The Man of God in your Midst Determines your Blessing
How you treat the man of God in your midst will determine your blessing. The man of God in your midst is more than just a messenger of the creator, more than just a prophet, he is most importantly he is the representation of God. The embodiment of himself. So when this man is in your midst consider yourself in the presence of the Lord.
Stop Letting Folks Drive and Park in your Life
Stop Letting Folks Drive and Park in your Life. There are those that we meet in the middle of life that come out of nowhere and offer us friendship that is true and promises loyalty that will cost you no more than just your friendship. As natural Samaritans, we pass by many of these character types and offer them a hand but be vigilant as there are those that consume you and what is yours like a tube of toothpaste then throw you in the garbage bin after. They drive through you park on top of you then drive away. There is a thin line between being paranoid of people afraid of being abused and being careful yet giving to those we might be just too blinded by fear to see the truly needy. Sometimes your gift instead of help may enable an individual to do Satan’s bidding. That makes you an accessory to evil.
The Laws of Thinking are being revealed to you for one reason: to empower you to manifest the prosperity in your life that you were born to realize. When you embrace this wisdom, good things are going to come into your life. And the harsh reality is that when that happens, people are going to be envious of you. They will be envious of your favor (never mind that favor isn’t fair) and of your sense of clear purpose.
Understand this: Envy is not evil. The true sin is want, covetousness, the desire by others to possess what you have manifested and the knowledge that they cannot because they have not alled themselves to be centered and focused on their prosperity. Take their envy as a compliment, because it means they see what you yourself may not even be able to see: Success. Focus on your thoughts and focus on the words you speak and you’ll be well on your way!
From last week’s leason: whatever you are focusing on, that is what will come into being. Your words and thoughts determine your day, who you are, where you are and where you are bound. Words and thoughts have power to shape reality, so you should never think or say what you do not want to come into being. Excersize the power of the word with utmost care. It is a loaded gun and a slot machine about to pay off, both at the same time. When you name something, you give it a nature. When you say something, it takes on that form. Its reality reflects your perspective.
Each time you focus your attention on something, sending your energy and concentration out, you begin to draw it closer to you. You begin to make your thoughts manifest. You enhance your perception and increase your ability to be, do and have. Focused attention that does not faint or waver is sending a constant stream of creative energy into the future, declaring what you desire to bring it into being. Attention is magnetism that attracts whatever it falls on to itself!
We can’t leave our discussion of attention without talking about persistance and its opposite, distraction. To employ the power of attention to manifest good, you must apply it with persistance. You must remain focused over time in order to allow it to create and bring forth what you have envisioned in your mind and set in motion with your words. If you speak a word and then move your mind and your attention to something else, your vision will not have the chance to form from the incorporeal. Persistence of thought, word and focus is all-important to getting what you want…
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Who are you? You may have thought you knew the answer to that question, but you probably did not. Don’t tell me your name; that’s what you’re called, not who you are. Until you know who you are, you will not understand where you belong. Once you know who you are, it will become abundantly clear why you are here on earth, in your body, at this time.
Once you find who you are, do not be put aside from your purpose or discouraged by people who do not or cannot understand the nature of your true self. The path of each life is a choice, and some will choose to become aware after you do, and others will never be aware at all. Do not pity them, but also do not listen to their negative or doubting words. Be true to yourself.
This teaching is this foundation for all that comes later. Learning the Laws of Thinking turns many traditional teachings on their heads and reveals them for what they really are: methods of controlling fearful, small-minded people.
Everything comes in stages. Everything and everyone is evolving, changing and becoming something new, moving towards what it will be tomorrow. And when it reaches that state, guess what? It begins to become what it will be the next day! Every moment, you are moving toward a new state of being – either toward your potential or away from it, but you can never stop moving. You are always on the road to becoming someone other than who you are at this very moment. The question you must ask is: Who am I becoming?
I’ve received some great comments on the Mind Renewal/Transformation posts. What can these things get you? It’s a popular question, one to which the answer is far to long for any blog! For the sake of a teaching, I’ll summarize it: Wealth and Prosperity! Just like any other blessing, these things can come in many forms – it’s up to you to really pick them out and capitalize on them. As Master Prophet, I, Bishop E. Bernard Jordan, will be sharing the things you can expect!
Your wealth and prosperity begin in your thoughts. They begin in the songs that you sing and meditate on in your mind. Before you can become physically rich, your mind must be wealthy first. And the way that your mind becomes wealthy is by depositing real assets into the rich soil of your mind. Your transformation in life will only come through the renewing of your mind, not the removing of your mind. Your thoughts are the living and tangible expression of your passions and desires. The reason why your thoughts are tangible and not solely ethereal is because all thoughts are things. So you must possess a desire before a blessing manifests. Desire is proof that your visions exist.
So many people go through life and instead of allowing their dreams and visions to guide them, they walk through life allowing negative things to pile on their plates such as fear, indecision, confusion, pain and antipathy. All of those things crowd one’s ability to properly focus and meditate. The ultimate goal of meditation is not to aquire things. Quite honestly you can have a whole lot of things without using meditation at all. Hard work can get you things. Stealing can get you things. So the goal of meditation is to usher you into a perpetual state of praise.
In this realm of praise you will catch a glimpse of continuous victory. Things that you could never perceive with your natural eyes are ever so clear in your mind, because this state has the unusual ability to make the invisible become visible to you. To the onlooker who does not understand the power of meditation, they’ll look at you and wonder what in the world you are praising for. They will look at your present conditions and where you are right now in your life financially, emotionally and relationally and then believe that you should be in a depression rather than in a praising state of mind. The bottom line, you should not wait for manifestation to begin your praise – transformation can only be manufactured in the minefields of your sustatined thoughts.
There are so many people who attempt to transform their lives through external means. Some people will change their clothing, color their hair, have plastic surgery, or go on a drastic diet all in an attempt to change their internal disarray. While none of those things are necessarily bad, those alone cannot produce the kind of change necessary to bring about lasting results. Transformation must be achieved by exercising other muscles, not just your biceps and triceps.
In order to attain transformation you must regularly exercise the muscle of your mind. As with any bodily exercise, if you don’t work your muscles on a regular basis, they become flaccid. The principle reason why you are not able to produce much needed changes in your life is becasue your mind has been weakened through lack of exercise – lack of exercise with the traction of the truth. Be sure to read through my Mind Renewal post from late January!
How then can you possess the dicipline to stengthen your mind and focus on the path ahead to bring about the transformation you seek? Here is a word of comfort for you: Don’t worry about your mind being or appearing perfect as a requirement for transformation to begin. Change is usually forced out when your world is all out of sync, all confused and chaotic. Your new beginning starts at midnight – your new day actually starts in the evening, when it is darkest outside.
Get excited if your life seems like a scattered puzzle. That is a clear sign that you, your mind and everything that pertains to you are all going to be born again. It has been said that “necessity is the mother of invention;” most inventions arise becasue there is a point of confusion or a problem in desperate need of a solution. Right now there is something that is inside of you that is frustrationg you. Most often than not, the thing that frustrates you the most is the very thing you are called to solve. God bless.
Meditation… Such a “tricky” topic to cover. There are so many ins and outs that make the scope too large to cover in any one blog post. With that in mind, I give you the following: Five Practical Steps to Meditation. Know that these are not ironclad rules, simply suggested guidelines. Each person will customize these guiding principles to best fit their personality and the personal objectives that they are reaching for. I’m going to keep this teaching very secular; I believe the principles herein can help everyone, not just those devoted to a ministry.
Keep the following two points in mind as you inctroduce meditation into your life: 1. Meditation is not a “once in a while” impulse that you act on sporatically – it is a lifestyle formed through daily habits. 2. You will not master these principles on your first day or even in the first month. It can take years before you truly master the art of meditation. Be of good cheer! Unlike many other disciplines, meditation is one where you receive peaceful exchange as your reward early on. You don’t have to be a master to encounter the rewards – they will come quickly, usually in the form of an overwhelming sense of peace. This should be your self-motivator for moving forward, let’s get started!
1. Learn How to Enter Into the Silence. Revelation comes through meditation. It comes in silence. The path to prosperity will never reveal itself to the busy mind, this is why it’s often so elusive. You must quiet your mind. Turn off the television, cut off your favorite music. Above and beyond that, turn off the noise that reverberates within you and just hear and listen. That’s all. Don’t expect too much at this stage. This step is all about getting you to appreciate the discipline of an inner sanctity of silence. It is understandable that if you were not taught this from early on, that it might be a bit awkward at first. But in time you will not only appreciate the silence, but will find that your life will not be able to progress forward even one step until you have begun your day by entering it.
2. Grasp an Image of the Thing that you Desire. You have to have a concrete image of what your focus is. Remember that whatever you behold you become. So in order to get the best results from meditating you have to have an image alwasy before you in your mind. As long as you hold the image in your mind, you will become that. The things that you take hold of can be material or immaterial. The principle works regardless of waht kind of thing it is. So you must have an object of desire – again, the object may be tangible or ethereal.
3. Understand that Visualization Brings About Materialization. You must practice the art of visualizing the thing that you desire. You have an object of your desire before you, but now you must take the next step and begin to visualize what you see to the point that you actually start to feel like you have what you are beholding. This is not a trick on words, this is very literal. And for anyone who has entered into this area of visualization, they would agree that anything that they have ever visualized, their desires only manifested after they sensed a strong feeling associated with the thing desired. This is a powerful aspect of entering in – you will feel like the car, you will feel like the promotion, you will feel like the new home. Your feeling will guide you safely to your desired destination.
4. Mediate With the End in Mind. This is sometimes a difficult area to understand since so many people focus more on their beginning or the draining process of becoming what they envision. You have to see yourself at the end, place the thought of fulfillment on being there and then begin to meditate on that end result. You don’t have to worry about starting from the beginning, your physical body will travel from the beginning to the end. What you visualize, you see it as an end – you then travel to that place in consciousness. Your body will always have to catch up to the place that you are in consciousness. You see, your body is bound by nearly every earthly restriction. Your mind is not. Your mind can travel outside of your body at will – no need to make prior reservations or worry about whether or not your travel plans will be overcrowded with fellow travelers. You can travel anywhere, at any time, for any reason that you so choose. There are no contraints except for those limitations you conjure up in your mind.
5. Understand that Meditating is Contemplating You Out. Look at the word contemplate. It means to look at or think about intently. When a person contemplates something they have the thing in mind as a possibility. They make plans concerning the things with which they are contemplating. Again, this principle works both ways. You become what you behold. Whatever you meditate on you will become. That is what contemplation is all about – what you meditate upon, you are actually contemplating, or in other words you are making a template for what you continually focus on. If you change your focus then you will recreate your template. If you want to change your life, then destroy your old template and create a new one through new focus seasoned with vast imagination and you will begin to see new things happen in your life.
