Manifestation part 5
Here's how powerful belief is: What you believe is inside you... comes out. The truth is the truth (always has been and always will be) but YOUR truth is what defines your reality. YOUR truth is what manifests in your life. If you believe you're free... you'll walk in newness of life. If you believe you're a slave, in bondage to sin and death... you'll spend your three t's (time, talent, and treasure) trying to earn something that can't be earned. If you believe you're loved... you'll love. If you believe you're not worthy of love you'll always look for love in all the wrong places. Here's the thing about love: It has a source, and it only comes from that source. And the source of love, of course, is the God who IS love. The God who loves you! And that's the truth of the matter. That's the ultimate truth of the universe. That's where the Holy Spirit--our love receptor, the Spirit of Truth--leads and guides us. He testifies of our true identity by testifying of Jesus. And when we know the truth--and believe the truth--that's when the truth sets us free and makes us free. That's when THE truth can become OUR truth. And that's when it manifests in our lives. When we know what we've been filled with, we can fill ourselves to overlowing with it. When we know we have the mind of Christ... that's when we can BE transformed (into what we've already BEEN transformed into) by the renewing of our minds. When we LET the mind of Christ, that's already in us, BE in us. When we stop focusing on exterior stuff and start focusing on what's in our hearts. I really think for the most part humanity has this longing to follow. We want something or someone to tell us what to do. Where to go. And the world is happy to do that. But the world isn't looking out for us. The world is looking out for itself. Whereas, "...I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end" (Jeremiah 29:11). God has ONLY our best interests at heart. He wanted the best for us, so He gave the best to us. That's what John 3:16 says. He so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son. On the cross Jesus gave His life FOR us, and He gave His life TO us. So that we could have it. So that we could partake of the Divine Nature. So that we could experience HIS abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life as HE lives it in us, and through us, and as us. So that whosoever BELIEVES should not perish but have everlasting life. You don't have to "get" anything. You've already been given everything. All you have to do is receive it and release it. Know it and believe it. Belief, of faith, is what makes this whole thing go. Faith in God. Faith in love. Because faith works BY love. It's all ABOUT love. Talking about manifestation is talking about love. That's what's inside. That's what comes out, or manifests, when you let it in. It's in there, but you have to let it in. Apprehend what you've been apprehended of. Fight the good fight of faith and lay hold of the gift that you've been given. The gift of eternal life. Knowing the Father and the One He sent. Living in the context of being God's beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. Living a life of love by loving others. Not trying to get anything, but giving what you've got. Giving it away--sharing it--is how you experience it. How you manifest it!