The Universe

 

This week I had a conversation with a friend.  Our paths have intertwined on various levels and paths over the years. We both have always subscribed to manifesting and abundance.  I discovered recently that she too is renewing her faith in Jesus. 

We are both being revived in the faith. We discussed the layers of “new thought” and it's place in God’s plan. She shared with me some revelations about several conversations that we’ve previously had.

I thought back over my entire journey.  I grew up underneath the church pew.  As a young adult I got distracted but returned to my faith in a fringe capacity.  I permanently occupied the “backsliders’ row” on the church pew.

When I was far from the cross, I missed the discipline of faith.  I missed the inspiration,  promise of abundance, and prosperity that results in being sprit filled.  When I was introduced to meditation and  manifesting,  I found great comfort in the language and ideology of how people who don’t name God, define what people who do worship God, know to be his peace, provision, and goodness. I always admired how people who didn’t have religion, could have virtues, and discipline. They had joy, and peace.  They were wise and intentional. Many of them are prosperous.

I spent an entire decade removing the name of Jesus from my language, and the power of God from my life.  In part, to be included in secular circles. In part, because of life choices and decisions I had made that didn’t fit into a religious box.  Although I had not removed Jesus from my life, I was spiritually void. I was around the faith, but faith wasn’t flowing through me.

“The universe” ,“ Infinite Intelligence” and “one source” are ways to define the character and demonstration of God. When you don’t know someone personally, you can only talk about them, how they behave, what they do, and how they impact you. When you develop an intimate relationship with someone, the conversation changes. You become familiar and your language becomes intimate.

Now that my consciousness and life experiences are returning to Jesus with me,  I see Jesus in everything. I now understand how the forced discipline of “spirituality” without the power of the “supernatural holy spirit” is like having luxury items, but not being able to pay for their maintenance and upkeep.  It’s not a sustainable model. (For most people, especially me.) You end up losing the prize possessions you so desperately desired.

I still love the language of how people define/describe God, his little universe, and the wonderous mysteries contained therein. In my best attempts to do so, I‘ll continue to use such language.

 In this season,  I feel like I am in an intimate exchange with the creator of it all. Its raw and real.  I’m imperfect, and yet he is perfecting me, one broken piece at a time.   I have less of a need to judge others, or myself. I am focused on moving forward.  I can do all things through Christ.  God created me with an extra measure of “confidence”.  Now, my super-sized ego is shrinking.  Through my broken life, I know that Jesus has been at the center of it all.   It’s such that  I CAN’T claim credit, because by myself, I could never.  Through my broken life, God is completely magnified by his miracles displayed in me. Every time I think about it, I’m humbled and amazed.

 It’s interesting.  Everything I ‘ve ever needed or desired; God has provided.  Knowing the simplicity of his creative laws is astounding! Manifesting is a part of creation. God said, “Let there be”, and there was.  We are made in his image.  We have that same power in us.  Without that frequency and power being alive in us, we are limited.  The true miracle for me, is how God places desires in our hearts to be MORE and do MORE. Things we couldn’t imagine for ourselves.  The version of us that is scary.  The wildest dream version of us.

There is nothing we could describe in this existence that is separate from the love of God. I revel in the comfort of knowing that I’m the apple of God’s eye.  In this season of my life, things are simple.  I am growing faith that is as simple as James 4:2-3

There is something very familiar and liberating to be able to freely write and share these thoughts without fear of the judgement of others. As I share how God is improving me,  I’m excited to speak of the goodness of the Lord.  I’m ready to share how I went from using man’s best attempts to describe/experience God’s majesty, to his inviting me to personally access him directly, and the miracles he has yet to do in my life.

Wherever you are on your spectrum of peace and prosperity, I pray that you get to the place where you love yourself how God zealously loves you. See yourself as a precious new baby, blameless, innocent, filled with wonder and magic. Love yourself in this same manner. I pray that you are filled with this joy and love such that it overflows you and is shared with others. May your faith make you whole, and you access all the provision of the universe that is waiting for you with a grateful heart. I’m believing this for me, and you.

Abundance Always.

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