WHEN YOU BELIEVE: Faith Part II

Continued from Part I

“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” -Jesus of Nazareth (Mark 11:24-25)

When you trust GOD, you don’t need to know how it all is going to work out, only that it will and you will watch with faith for the signs that will direct you on your path toward your goals and not miss out on these golden opportunities due to a lack of faith.

“And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than his jugular vein.” -Surah Qaf (50:16) The Holy Quran

“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb, I knew you and before you were born, I consecrated you.” -Jeremiah 1:5

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” -Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 7:7-8)

When you trust GOD, after you have asked, you already begin preparing to receive. There is no question that it or something better is on the way and you want to be prepared when the opportunity shows up. You will be glad to pay every dime that will be asked of you and trust that you will not come up short. Your Daddy is rich and has sent you to the store with enough money to get what you want. If you ask to go to Hawaii, you can begin to pack your bags now. This preparation in faith is what puts you in order to receive. When you have faith, you are exact with your requests just like when going to a restaurant your waiter wants to know more than that you would like something to eat. People who are not used to practicing faith are also not used to naming exactly what it is that they want and so they usually end up with whatever if anything at all and sit unsatisfied while everyone else who knows what they want and how they like it get their orders taken first and served first. "Give that girl a peanut butter jelly sandwich."

If you do not trust GOD, it is because you do not know or understand the laws which means the same thing. So here, I will go over some practices to help remedy this.

THE LAWS

We have already addressed some:

1. The Law of Unity- Everything is connected and from the same source.
2. The Law of Love- Acknowledging, feeling, and acting in accordance with The Law of Unity brings about harmony, health and increased life. The Universe therefore loves you.
3. The Law of Attraction- All forces within the realm of form occur in pairs (duality) of negative and positive forces and are equal in strength. 
• Positive is the outward force, and negative is the inward force and they are reciprocals of one another. 
• The friction that is created when they clash is what creates our material world.
• When you radiate a desire outward, it is positive. It’s material or energy match with which it resonates in kind begins a negative draw inward toward you. The same occurs with fears, worry or any feeling. 
• What starts this motion is either a vision of Faith + Love or a vision of Doubt + Fear, with Faith or Doubt in the subconscious mind being the dominant determining factor. Faith and Doubt are mutually exclusive attitudes. You can not have both. 
• Faith affirms the force of desire or love. Doubt cancels the force of desire or love and replaces it with fear which attracts its confirming match. 
4. The Law of Motion- Everything within the realm of form is in a state of motion. Nothing is ever at rest. 
• The direction of that motion is always either positive (outward, upward, forward, toward, advance) which gives it the quality of expansion, or negative (inward, downward, backward, retreat, recede, decline) which gives it the quality of contraction. 
• Every life cycle has in it a season of expansion and a season of contraction just like breathing. 
• There is no such thing as good or evil with which to judge yourself or others. There are only causes which yields the effect of expansion, harmony and life and causes which yields the effect of contraction, disintegration and death. Depending on the stage of the life cycle, either may be appropriate. 
• Life is an eternal energy force. When it is time to change from one form into another, there will be a contraction or decay of the current form and an expansion and progress into the succeeding form. 
1. Just like seconds are made up of a thousand milliseconds, 60 seconds make up one minute, 60 minutes make up one hour, 24 hours make up one day and so on, each segment is a clock on its own. Within each clock, there will be a period of expansion and then contraction bringing the balance of energy to zero at the end in accordance with the Law of Justice. Each life is a clock of its own, and there are even much longer astral and cosmic clocks in which we are in the midst of its ticking. There is a 30 day Lunar cycle which affects the rise and recession of tides. One cosmic clock which we are most familiar with is Earth’s 365 day orbit around the Sun, called a year, within which we witness the expansion of Spring and Summer when temperatures can reach a peak of over 100* F, followed by the decline of Autumn and Winter when temperatures can drop to a low of below 0* F. When the clock starts over, it is a new life cycle, a New Year. 
2. During the expansion period of a clock, you may have those who have been giving and giving and giving and others who have been taking and taking and taking. When the decline or contraction towards 0 begins, to balance out the energies, those who have been giving, will get and get and get, they will harvest. Those who have been taking more than they give, will be exacted for payment on their debt with interest. Some call this process, Karma. There are clocks that run thousands and tens of thousands of years. Right now, the entire universe is in a mode of expansion and has been since The Big Bang, but there will come a time when its current form will contract in a process called The Big Crunch. Nothing stays the same, because the Universe is alive.
• Taking faith in The Law of Motion allows one to take responsibility for one’s thoughts and actions by considering the yield of an effect of expansion or contraction or which side one would wish to be on at the closing of a clock, being rewarded or paying. If progress becomes stagnant, it is a signal that a contraction has begun. What then can be done to reverse course if the contraction is unwanted, or can a new form be expanded upon its place? 
• An object in motion remains in motion in an undeterred direction until acted upon by an external force. Therefore, if an unwanted contraction has begun, what new and positive element can be introduced to reverse course? 
• Taking faith in the Law of Motion also relieves worry as forms change from one to another. When one form has reached its maximum value and served its purpose, it is time for the contraction to take place to make room for an expansion of the next form building upon the value of the previous one. Consider what happens right after a rose has reached its peak bloom and perfume, it soon begins to wilt and it must. This allows for evolution and things that are alive must evolve. Also, in moments of challenge, those who take faith in the Law of Motion know that this too shall pass. Those who do not understand or respect the Law of Motion resist change and end up including themselves in being swept away with the contraction and not surviving into a necessary evolutionary leap. They mourn the contraction more than they celebrate the expansion of the next form, and so they are doomed to suffer for these things must happen. If a contraction is occurring prematurely, they do not know how to effectively reverse course and often act too late. Lastly, they waste time in a false belief that the current form will remain intact, and so there is complacency with time and the current form never reaches full maturity of value which is what brings on a premature decline. Think of what happens when driving uphill and before you reach the peak, you let up off the gas. You immediately begin rolling backwards, cancelling out on all the rewards of the positive force input which have taken you thus far and never tasting the reward in the decline after the peak. This is what a premature decline is. Think of those who remain in dead-end jobs until death, or waste time quarreling with loved ones and then they soon pass away. These are all examples of premature declines never reaching full maturity or maximum value.
• Appreciate the NOW and make the most of it, because NEXT is coming and the quality of it will depend upon what you do with NOW. 
• Until you have reached that peak to where you can not figure out how to go higher, keep going, keep growing! When you reach that peak, be on the look out for the next mountain. Go down the mountain you’re on and be ready to climb the next one. If you have gone as far as you know that you can go, have the purpose of raising up a successor who can carry your torch forward beyond you and keep it going. Life goes on, always. That is another law, The Law of Life which is subject to The Law of Motion. Like The Law of Love is what happens when The Law of Unity is acknowledged and felt, The Law of Life is what happens when The Law of Motion is acknowledged and felt and the result is eternity, but never stagnation. It will continue to leap from vine to vine through evolution and never cease to exist. 
• When you understand and respect the Law of Motion, you can hear the rhythm of the living universe and dance with life as it moves and you will beautifully and richly. But just a like a dancer must trust their partner, you must allow GOD to take the lead, trust and then follow in step. 
5. The Law of Justice- The Law of Justice is akin to The Law of Attraction which combines the principles of Justice and Motion. The Law of Justice is what keeps everything in balance. In accordance with the Great Law of Motion, like walking, there are periods within a cycle of imbalance, but the full motion forward is always brought to completion with a balancing act, like when the next foot swings forward to advance the whole body in one pace. Think of a mathematical equation. At the equal sign (=), whatever is on the left side must weigh evenly with what is on the right. At the end of each life cycle, everything will be brought to a 0 balance. Every action will paid its equivalent. There is no getting out of this. The Hindu faith call this law Karma. Expansive or positive motions which have created a debt on the part of the universe will be paid with growth, progress, a harvest and evolution. Contractive or negative motions, creating debt on the part of the actor will be exacted for payment usually in terms of life energy, which means death and termination. That confiscated life energy will then be used for more creative purposes. “The wages of sin is death” -Romans 6:23. Sin meaning, ignorance of The Law of Love and resulting in contrary behavior to The Law of Unity. Love is the fuel of Life. 
• When you have faith in the Law of Justice, you have no doubt that your hard work is going to pay off eventually and you go about if following a rule of fair practices no matter what. You do not try to get something for nothing and rack up unnecessary debt. 
• When you do not understand or respect the Law of Justice, you suffer for reasons you do not understand. By not understanding, you resist the Justice being served with further contractive motions digging yourself in a deeper hole. You are always seeking to get something for nothing. Not only this, you do somethings that are negative in quality and not expect it to be repaid with its equivalent. Conversely, there is also no such thing as nothing for something. 
6. The Law of Abundance- In reality, there is no such thing as lack, limitations and poverty even in seasons of imbalance. The Law of Justice ensures that for every need there is adequate sufficiency. They always match. One can not exist without the other. Lack, limitation and poverty are imbalances created when individuals disrespect the Law of Justice, trying to get something for nothing, when individuals believe one man’s fulfillment comes at another man’s expense, and there is disharmony due to ignorance of the Great Law of Love. Competition instead of cooperation under this paradigm is what leads to poverty, motivating individuals to take more than they really require for their fulfillment and when they do, the unnecessary excess becomes poison for violating the Law of Justice and The Law of Love, just as well as too much food can lead to morbid obesity and constipation when you do not give away what has satisfied your needs. Individuals are poor both because they do not understand or have faith in the Law of Abundance and because others have confiscated their portion. “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” -Jesus of Nazareth (Luke 6:36). Those who have experienced more lack than they ever have abundance or generosity are likely to hoard what little they have because they do not believe in abundance or that more is coming. So they never get to participate in The Great Law of Abundance. Just like the distrustful son in The Parable of Talents, they do nothing with the little that they do have and so they lose it and it is turned over to those who are using their gifts to serve others. No one is sent into this world empty handed. The value of every person born if maxed out on potential, each person would be worth at least a million dollars and the maximum would not have a limit that which we can conceive of. If they but stand up and claim their birthright to riches, no one would be able to keep them in poverty. There is enough wealth on the face of the earth for every breathing human being to live as a millionaire and much more is yet to be discovered. The human population continues to grow with each individual being endowed with more value than anyone can ever conceive of. If the water on this planet could be made drinkable, and it can, no one should go thirsty. There is enough land and homes to go around and many are vacant while others live homeless. And if we over populated the land, ocean islands can now be manufactured considering the vast expanse of ocean space. Consider what would happen if the rich who collect more private homes than they can live in at one time, decided to build shelters instead. We just happen to waste and misuse a lot of what we have, and so there are those who go without the basic necessities that they need. There is enough food to go around. Again, that is another resource that is grossly wasted, misused and mis-distributed so that there are those who go hungry in this rich nation. In fact, we have more of an obesity problem than a hunger problem. Consider the food that restaurants and grocery stores throw away every day after they are left with a surplus that they could not sell. So, if you haven’t gotten your inheritance, why aren’t you at least a millionaire? You better go get your money. It’s yours! Start giving generously what you do have and expect and trust that you will be paid back in multifold. Not only is there enough to go around for everyone, but the universe is still expanding. We have been in a bull market since The Big Bang. 

• “ Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the wild grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear? ’For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness (The Laws), and all these things will be given to you as well.” -Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 6:25-34) 
• When you have faith in the Law of Abundance, before your bank account confirms it a reality, you claim yourself as rich and not without anything that you need. You begin adopting the habits and mindset of the rich and start applying it to whatever you have, however little. You are always on the lookout for opportunity, and jump on favorable ones when they presents themselves without delay. You will be generous and by the Law of Attraction and Justice you draw more riches to yourself. You take as much as you need for the fulfillment of your soul, which if millions of dollars, that is fine, but every dollar under your control is used with harmonic and creative purposes and you do not try to hoard more than you can use, and your life in all areas; joy, health, and love are enriched and not poisoned with excess which is like dead weight which weighs the richness of your life down. Whatever is excess, you give it away and you will never be without. Your primary goal as far as money is concerned is to be used to discover what fulfills your soul and not to impress others. Whenever you get into the bad habit of concerns of aiming to impress or compare yourself with others, you have gotten lost and off track from this quest. Finding YOUR heart and fulfilling your soul may involve extensive travel, building a homeplace that creates heaven on earth for you as close as possible, engaging in philanthropy, building a company that leaves a legacy for your life, bestowing benefits upon those you love. In this, always remember that wealth devoid of love is without value and still poverty only of a spiritual kind. Without value, it is that dead weight weighing your life down. You are fully entitled to this quest to find what fulfills your soul, and don’t ever worry about making mistakes so long as you learn from them, this may be how you will learn. While I would caution against recklessness in your search racking up spiritual debt which you will need to pay back later, go after your heart’s desires. This may be one of the primary jobs of your life. Even the preamble to The United States Constitution puts into writing an acknowledgement of your unalienable right to “the pursuit of happiness.” The more money you have, the more resources and options you can use to help you find out whatever that is, and once you’ve found it, give it to the world, and riches on levels that you can not imagine will be poured back on you. It’s that simple, find your heart and give it away. 
• Not understanding or respecting the Law of Abundance is the definition of a scarcity, needy mindset and that is one of the primary causes of poverty for being out of alignment with this natural law. Trusting the Law of Abundance for many is one of the hardest aspects of GOD to trust, when you have needs and desires and you do not trust that the Universe can and is willing to satisfy each and every one of them, if you are willing to cooperate with all of its other laws which will bring them to you. 

These 6 blocks I have given you are always true no matter what. Get some experience walking on them and your trust in GOD will grow. You will trust GOD more than anything else you see happening around you.

PRAYER IS ALSO KEY:

It is not enough to familiarize yourself with the laws and watch them in action. As aforementioned, these laws are alive and intelligent as we are. To further your trust in GOD, you will need to develop a conscious relationship with this intelligence so as to become one with them in conscious alignment. You do this by nurturing this relationship with constant communication. This is all that prayer is. It helps me to see GOD working within my life and responding to my prayers by keeping a paper trail. I write love letters to GOD in the evening before retiring to bed. I always begin my prayers with praise, gratitude, and reverence and then if I have any insecurities of questions concerning what my next right move should be, this is where I write them. Often, the answers begin to come during my dreams. If I get an inspired idea, I write them in a different journal when I wake up and begin acting on them at once. In the morning, before meditation, I read my letters from one year previous to see how GOD has responded to my prayers. Many times, I’ve gotten goosebumbs and lost for an explanation for how all the serendipitous configurations that had to happen to answer that prayer happened far beyond my powers as an individual. I don’t believe in luck. I believe in preparation meeting the moment of opportunity and divine intervention. Opportunities are always out there, they only need to synch with your preparation and Divine Order. Without Faith, there will be no preparation. Why prepare for something that you are not sure to come? At that point of witnessing how my prayers have been answered, you can not tell me that there is not a living GOD who knows me, loves me and walks with me every step of the way. Everyone must get to know this for themselves and can not rely on someone else’s faith. No, you can not borrow Gramamma’s relationship with GOD. You must get your own and begin with faithful prayer as much a part of your day as eating and bathing.

STUDY:

To wrap this up, it is not necessary to subscribe to any one organized religious faith which professes to have figured GOD out. I believe each of them shine a light on the various aspects of the laws I have outlined here and can also lead to great misunderstanding when attempting to explain GOD, overpersonify and overhumanize this entity and ending up greatly distorting the true nature of GOD, which is beyond form. To seek GOD means to study GOD and increase your understanding, knowing GOD is always there and make study your lifelong passion, for I believe it may take many lifetimes to fully understand what GOD is all about and what it is doing in creation, so that you can live your life accordingly. That’s said, accept that you are likely to never fully understand GOD, but if you trust GOD nonetheless, this should become okay with you over time, the more you begin to know and understand and connect the dots. From this overview, you can preview a bit of the important facets of GOD you will run into during your life (The Laws) and keep what resonates with you in your experiences that back up The Laws. Don’t just look at one faith. Survey as many of them as you can find. Look beyond the metaphors and cross-reference them in order to go deeper. Consider the discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein and the burgeoning scientific field of Quantum Physics. As you learn and understand while you experience your life, your faith will grow deeper like a tree planting deep roots within the earth it rose from and you will grow tall and be unshakeable.

This is all important for you as an entrepreneur, because you will not accomplish anything of great value without faith. Your building will be on shaky ground. You could endeavor to have faith in yourself which is advised and necessary, yet, if you go no deeper to the forces which created you and empower you, your faith in yourself will never be as powerful as it could be. You will forfeit much power to accomplish the seemingly impossible. It will be limited to your little self in this quick flash of time you will be spending here in this realm and your work will not likely go beyond that. Remember, your wealth is directly tied to the expanse of value you can serve others. While I believe GOD can use non-believers unknowingly and believers alike to accomplish its ultimate agenda, without being conscious of a power greater than your temporal self, your work will be shortchanged of a richness and vibrancy that can connect with people on a spiritual plane.

This has been another preparatory lesson for those who want to get ready to tackle their business vision head on with The Baldwin Business Institute thebaldwinbusinessinstitute.eventbrite.com and want to get entrepreneurially fit to maximize their results, for these lessons will not be covered in class. Fall Class starts, Saturday, October 7th. Registration deadline is September 23rd. There is a 10 student limit. Don't procrastinate.

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