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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Let’s talk about fear. Fear is a useless emotion. Think of the word FEAR as standing for False Evidence Appearing Real. Fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course, as with all things involving the Laws of Thinking, you have to choose to let fear become a factor in your life. If you do, then you reap the results. Fear brings pain and struggle to your life because it prevents you from taking actions that benefit you, but that’s not fear’s greatest effect. The most damaging effect of fear comes in the mind. Here is something you should know:
~ THE MIND ACTS ON THE IMPULSE OF THE STRONGEST SUGGESTION GIVEN TO IT ~
Whatever you are focusing on, that is what will come into being. You must be focused on waht comes from your spirit in order to control the suggestion that influences your mind, or you will be subject to negative suggestions from your mind and the world. You see, Spirit is the original creative force; Spirit exists to manifest on this physical plane. So when you are operating fearlessly and boldly in Spirit, you do not need to work to create the result you want. Spirit will create them for you.
The purpose of Spirit is always to self-express, but Spirit has no physical self, so it cannot manifest on its own. Spirit is always seeking self-expression through manifestation. Spirit has goals; it is not static. But the only way Spirit can have manifestation is through us! That means man’s purpose is to be the vessel for Spirit – something you should take very seriously. The fact is, only man can move creation forward. Only man, working in Spirit, knows what to do with creation. When Spirit has no physical being through which to express itself, it is stuck being. But when it passes into a willing vessel – a man or woman – Spirit passes out of being and into becoming. Spirit becomes through us.
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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.
Many people come to me and ask for help in changing their lives; they ask what steps they can take to live in God’s image. The answer is fairly simple; the practice, not as much. How do you locate the center of your transformation? The key to your transformation can be easily found in between your two ears. If youw ant God to transform your life entirely, allow Him free access to the sacred soil of your mind. Allow His word to become your primary focus. Renew your mind through prayer and meditation. The word renew literally means to make new again, to restore, or to bring into being again. Mind renewal can be compared with the experience of being born again. Every time your mind becomes renewed in an area, you are being born again into a new awareness.
If you haven’t had a mind renewal in the area of healing, then you will remain sick and diseased. You won’t be sick because that is your plight, but rather because you are not aware of the access that you have to healing. Your mind does not see healing as an option because it has not been renewed, thus preventing it from becomming aware of infinite possibilities concerning health and wholeness. You will make routine visits to the doctor every time you feel bad because going to the doctor is the only solution that you are aware of.
You can even go to the doctor’s and continually get sent back hom with misdiagnosis, feeling just as badly as you did before you went to see him/her. The next time you feel sickly, intuitively you go right back to the same doctor that could not help you the last time. Why is that? The reason you do that is because you are not aware of anything other than that. Once you become aware of higher truths, then youw ill become open to a level of transformation available to all, yet few seize its benefits.
God has already supplied your need. He has already made you wealthy. You are healed. However, none of those things will matter at all if your mind has not been renewed to that reality. You must become aware of those things in order for you to partake of its fruit. Have you ever driven by a certain building in town but you did not know what it was? It may have been a retail store, selling niche goods that you were looking for. Instead of stopping to look in the store to see what was inside, you just kept on driving by. You did that for years. The goods that you could have purchased at a nearby store that you drove by every day, you ended up purchasing somewher else. You may have even purchased an inferior product. Why was that? You were not aware that the store was there, and you were unaware of waht the store offered. Your mind had to become renewed, reprogrammed if you will, to the many options available to you.
Mind renewal will bring you to a place that you will be rebuilt, reconditioned, reconstructed and restored. You are being made over again! Dare to believe this by faith! Faith is the key that will change your present and bring your future to pass. In order for God’s will to manifest in your life, you have got to believe it into manifestation by an act of faith.
