Does God Want You To Be Poor, Sick and Broke?

My special Sunday edition!

Many people around the world, when they become aware of their spirituality and spiritual needs they are introduced to religion, or they are brought up being taught religion as truth.  All religion is bondage and binds people up in a prison of false teachings.  Religion primarily teaches and upholds the concept of poverty and lack.

Hear me out here for a moment!

A person will say, “I’m a Christian” or “I’m a Muslim” etc. and others will immediately assume that they are ‘religious’.  Others will say “I’m a Universalist” or “I’m a Spiritualist” or they just believe in universal consciousness and they don’t think they are religious.  The truth is that the Christian may not be religious at all while the Universalist is bound by poverty thinking and is far more religious.

Don’t read something in here that I’m not saying!!  MANY Christians are religious, not because they are followers of Christ though, rather that they are followers of other men’s teachings of which Christ never taught or lived.

One root of the word religion is ‘religare’, which means ‘to bind fast’; or the Greek word is ‘deisidaimonia’ which means ‘to fear a pagan deity’.  Religion is a bondage or prison to a set of man-made rules, which normally include that lack and poverty are not only OK, but sometimes even righteous!!  Even God Himself was and is against religion … not only the bible tells us that, so does common sense when we understand that God is love.

A short time ago one of The Secret Teachers wrote on FaceBook “Where is God?” I responded with biblical quotations referencing my answer to the bible.  He wrote back saying that he didn’t believe any religious books as they were all written by man.  I had to chuckle at the stupidity of the reply.  Does that mean he doesn’t believe any inspired writings nor does he believe what he writes himself! Hmmm … interesting!

Nothing in the story of Jesus was about bondage except what others did to Him.  His whole life’s example was setting people free from captivity, sickness and poverty.  He scolded the religious leaders of the day for their abuse of the poor.  Jesus’s one message was salvation.

The word ‘salvation’ when we go back to its Greek origin is “soteria.” Soteria denotes deliverance, preservation and salvation … but from what!  In context of its usage; deliverance from danger and apprehension, from prison, from sickness and disease, from poverty, from sin (feeling inferior because we have missed the mark), and from the wrath of God by His grace.

So might this mean that when we study the Word of God written in the bible, rather than listen to false doctrines from religious leaders seeking to bind us,  that we will find it is more about abundance and prosperity than lack and poverty?  And that God’s will for His children is more life not less!  Jesus said in John 10:10, “I come to give you life and life more abundantly.” Did you know that there are twice as many bible passages that speak of riches, abundance, prosperity and health than there are that speak of the opposite.  That doesn’t sound like lack to me.

Does that mean if we are suffering lack, poverty and disease that we are outside the will of God? OUCH!

Our God is a god of life, love and abundance beyond our comprehension or wildest dreams.

I challenge you:

• that if you believe you should be just happy with your lot in life,
• or that it is wrong to be financially wealthy,
• or that having riches is some sort of curse,
• or even that it is OK to be poor or mediocre …

… I challenge you to find out why you believe that.  And to ask yourself where those ideas came from, are they truth, and are they serving you.

If you haven’t downloaded and listened to my free Science of Getting Rich seminar, I encourage you to do that immediately:  http://www.SignpostsToFreedom.com

The Secret To Wealth: Where Does Money Come From? – Part 1

Since The Secret DVD and book, I am known around the world as the “Checks-in-the-Mail” guy!

If you have watched The Secret more than a few times you will remember me saying:

“Today I just get checks in the mail. I still get a few bills but I get more checks than bills.”

There have been times in my life when that has not been true … when the money coming in has been less than the money going out … where the end of the money comes before the end of the month!

So where does money come from? How do I get some?

To fully answer those two questions will take me weeks … maybe months! I invite you to come on the journey with me as I share my insights and little known secrets on wealth, abundance and prosperity.

First there are two key concepts you must accept:

1. That money is an energy which flows according to your thoughts; and
2. The source of money is NOT other people.

These two concepts may challenge you initially, however I will prove to you their validity.

To create real wealth you have to abolish the idea that there is only so much to go around. The fear of poverty is the greatest and most destructive fear in the world today. It stems from the taught thinking that there is a limited supply of money.  Did you know that the study of economics is the study of lack?  That which a person studies they create.  While ever you live on that mental plane of lack and poverty thinking you cannot attain financial freedom.

Financial freedom means to be set free from the worries and doubts of money, to have no fear that something can be taken from you or that you will be left with less and not more. Money is most people’s god and master. They are ruled by debt, interest rates, mortgage payments, credit cards and bills.

Freedom /fri:dem/ noun:

1. the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraint
2. immunity from an obligation or duty

Oh, you can have stacks of assets and money in the bank and still not have financial freedom! You cannot be happy or feel that you have achieved success while you are constantly fearful of getting ripped off, losing your money, someone stealing from you or that you simply don’t have enough. Chances are though that you will remain in lack and never acquire any wealth.

While you operate on the thought plane in lack, thinking there is only so much to go around; you will always be operating from the level of competition.  “What can I get for me?”

The only lack that exists is in a person’s mind … and that, my friend, causes the lack to show up in their circumstances.

So here are some questions for you to ask yourself … about YOU. Please take a sheet of paper (a journal is better), write today’s date on the top of the page, and answer these questions:

1. Do I willingly tolerate poverty and accept whatever compensation life offers without protest?
2. Do I lack initiative, imagination, enthusiasm and self control with money?
3. Am I in the habit of allowing others to do my thinking?
4. Am I envious of others who are successful or do I criticize them?
5. Do I drink alcohol in excess?
6. Do I look for what can go wrong in every circumstance?
7. Am I in the habit of putting off until tomorrow?
8. Do I always have a ‘back up plan’ … just in case?
9. Do I believe there is only so much money to go around?

Tomorrow we will look at the symptoms that show up when a person has a fear of poverty.

How To Apply The Secret – The 7 Steps To Creating Abundance & Prosperity By Using Your Imagination. The Secret behind the Law of Attraction and all success and wealth.

The Secret Book & DVD

Like many of the Secret Teachers, I get a constant influx of emails regarding The Secret DVD and book. These days the comments are “I just watched The Secret DVD and it is amazing, thank you for your contribution” or “I’ve watched The Secret DVD over and over again, I try to do what it say and nothing has changed. What am I doing wrong?”

These questions certainly highlight missing links between The Secret movie and how to apply the Law of Attraction. Many people watch the movie, get all excited about manifesting abundance, think about a life of prosperity yet never take any action towards achieving it. It’s like sitting at the kitchen table and humming in meditation while expecting money to fall through the ceiling!

It may be possible however we don’t seem to have evolved to that level of manifestation yet. Let me share a few key steps that you can do to massively speed up the manifesting of abundance and prosperity in your life. When I mention abundance and prosperity I mean in all areas of your life: Spiritual, Mental, Physical, Social and Financial.

Know Exactly What You Want

The biggest reason people keep getting poverty and lack in their lives and not having the abundance and prosperity they seek is they do not have a clear mental image of exactly how they want their live to be. Most people know what’s wrong in their lives and can give you a big long list; some even know how they don’t want their lives to be but very few know the perfect life they would like to live every day.

By another name it is called a Vision – “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 28:19); perish into the grips of poverty, lack, sickness and fear.

I experienced this personally before I understood the law of attraction. I was over $50,000 in debt with no electricity and the phone switched off because I couldn’t pay the bills, no job, no education, on government social security benefits and a wife and four children to feed. Every day I focused on the bills coming in the mail and how much money we didn’t have. I felt paralysed with the fear of poverty and couldn’t see a way out. (The fear of poverty is the most distructive of all fears – we will share more about that another time.)

Once we truly understand the Mind, its connection with God and our Body, and our minds’ purpose, we can no longer live by focusing on our current circumstances. One of the six faculties of the conscious mind is our imagination.

The purpose we were created with an imagination it to be able to create the image of how we want things to be regardless of how our life presently is. The challenge is that for most people their imagination faculty peaks at about 8 or 9 years old and hasn’t been used much since. By the time we become a teenager we are told to get our head out of the clouds and be realistic. Most people become really good at imagining how terrible things will be, they become filled with doubt and worry. We must re-train our imagination, create beautiful pictures of exactly how we desire our life to be and then live in that image with faith, expectation and love.

Here are steps to re-focus your mind and re-train your imagination:

1. Know exactly what you want. Take out a pen and paper and write down what is NOT working in your life how you want it. Could your marriage be better? Do you have the money you need to do and buy the things you want to? Do you have an illness or are you often sick? Are you unhappy? Are you working at a job you hate? Do you live in a home or area you don’t like?
2. Now write out on another sheet of paper in present tense exactly how you do want each of those things to be. Don’t just write “I want a better relationship.” Write out, in detail exactly what you want to do have and become. For example, “I have a loving fulfilled relationship with my husband. We spend time every day together communicating and falling more in love. We enjoy frequent romantic times together, like walking along the beach hand in hand or sitting enjoying a coffee together.” Describe your life exactly how you want it to be.
3. Once you have completed that task, throw away or burn the first list you made of what is not working. You don’t want to read or focus on that ever again.
4. Re-read your new life at least twice a day. When you wake up first thing in the morning and just before you go to sleep at night. Just like a child pretend that it already is, add emotion to it as if it has already happened. Re-writing your new life increases clarity, emotion and expectation.
5. Only speak to others of how your new life is. Our words create our world so our confessions or what we speak out about our circumstances creates our circumstances. If you continually speak to others about what’s going wrong in your life then that is what you attract. Start speaking with excitement about how your new life looks.
6. Have Faith … only believe! Many people just want good things to happen and want abundance and yet doubt about whether it can happen or worry about the worst happening. This is using the law of attraction to create a life that you don’t want as we will always attract what we emotionally focus on. Worry and doubt create the huge emotion of fear. We must LET God, let the power, work through us without being anxious about whether the end result will happen or not!  I think Jesus said it so well when he told us in Mark 11:24 “For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.”  Note the words “Have faith that it HAS been given to you … and you WILL have it” Some translations say “If you have faith…” or “If you believe…”
7. Be expectant and grateful. Expectation propels you into action and draws you closer to your goals. If you really desire something in your life there are certain steps you must take. For example if you desired to travel to Hawaii for a holiday you would have to decide when you are going, buy a suit case, inquire about tickets, hotels etc. What do you need to do right now if you truly expect your new life?

Gratitude is the other key ingredient which is often overlooked by people but absolutely essential if you want to attract anything more into your life.

If you are grateful for what you already have and expect more with the faith that you will have it, your life will be filled with a greater abundance that you now cannot comprehend. You must be grateful for your new life as if you already have it!

There are conditions of receiving and that is first of all knowing what you want, asking, and then believing you have it already! In less than 30 days and very little effort you will completely alter your focus and bounce out of bed every day with the vision of your new life.

Your life and circumstances will begin to change and you will see miracles start to unfold.