What you believe is what you see. As you paint reality with the inner sub-modalities that you have accepted as true remember that your canvas might not be the same as mine. It is in the commonality of beliefs that we see eye to eye and forge a mutual understanding.
The truth is black and white and our beliefs color the truth with our own perception of the reality. We are comforted in adding color to our world for it resolves our longing for closure. When we see things occurring in how we believe they are, it reinforces our belief and anchors that pleasure in our subconscious mind. We program a favorable response and we feel secure as a result.
When circumstances arise to challenge our accepted beliefs we become edgy, uncomfortable and reactive. Why? Because our security lies in what we ‘know’ is real. Anything that flips our programmed image and belief is very unsettling. This is the point where we can all allow the guidance from the Divine and put our egos in the back seat.
It is the point where we make a decision. We cut off any other possibilities and choose a path that supports our growth and expansion. We proceed toward fulfilling our Divine purposes in Divine order. We have made a ‘life-supporting’ choice.
Choosing life requires complete trust in the Divine. Not just belief, but faith in the reality that you were created to express certain talents, skills and abilities to fulfill ‘God’ plan for you’; your Divine purpose.
You are unique. You are loved. You are already fulfilled. You just need to realize it, accept it and allow the Divine to guide you into complete and utter fruition of your Divine purpose. Be ye therefore perfect. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Elizabeth and I would like to invite you all to our site ‘Service In Prayer’. For many months we have been led to offer a way for our online friends to have a forum to share our prayer needs with each other.
The purpose of this website is to connect with one another and share our needs for healing in whatever areas we feel we need. Please visit the website or go to the Facebook forum to post any public prayers on the Wall or PM us for private prayers.
We will pray for you or help you to find Prayer Partners to assist you in healing and realization of your Divine purpose and the unfolding of it in Divine order.
Thank you all for your support, kindness and for blessing us with your ongoing friendship. Peace and blessings to all of you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:
http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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CHANGING OF THE GUARD
We are so blessed to be alive in this time. We are watching the old school fight its way trying to maintain its survival. Every day their arms are getting more and more tired from treading water. The weight of selfishness, greed and avarice are pulling them down as we watch. They are nothing more than bullies on a playground forcing their opinion on others. They are devious, deceptive and brandishing an image of being contrite. Don’t believe it!
We are a part of a movement of souls dedicated to respecting the rights of ALL! If any one of us is denied our freedoms and liberty, then it affects us all. Whether we are black, brown, white, multi-racial, men, women, adults or children, we are all Americans! We need to stick together in our diversity to complete our unity. We all have the Spirit of God within us and we need to respect our individual beliefs and spirituality; and that includes non-believers as well.
We have NO right to enforce our opinions on anyone else to control, dominate or manipulate others to manifest our selfish agendas. We need to recognize this in our leaders and vote them OUT! Choose representatives that have proven that they represent us and NOT the corporate banking interests that have one goal and one goal alone; to keep us in financial slavery.
It is no longer about our race, religion, national origin, creed or sex. It is about our money and how much of that they can bilk from us through governmental influence in taxes and corporate influence in higher fees and charges. Give to Caesar what is Caeser’s; but not one dime more.
Give to your community and to those families who need our help. Go out into your community and be the love you were created to be. Stop the backbiters, the haters of good and the evil politicians who thrive off of our adoration. Send them home packing November of 2014.
Elect representatives that have OUR best interests at heart and NOT that of the corporations. It IS within your power individually and OUR power collectively. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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DANGLING ON
THE PRECIPICE
Is that you? Are you dangling on the precipice? Do you say, “I want to make that leap of faith but I just can’t bring myself to take that first step.” Are you standing there looking down at that gaping chasm and fearing death if you jump and don’t make it? Well, welcome to the human race. From our early education as children we are taught the facts of how to live our lives. We learn about being burned, taking too many risks and being too confident. Our brains become programmed with self-preservation so much that we create giant walls around us. But are these walls real? To us they are. These are the walls that we filter our perceptions through in order to maintain a level of safety. Not just physical safety, but emotional safety. Does a sane person purposefully put themselves in harm’s way physically or emotionally? Hardly.
But what about risk takers? People who purposefully push the envelope to stretch human potential. Are they insane or are they reaching for something we cannot see? Are their perception filters less dense than ours? Are they closer to reality than us? Perhaps. But that’s not the point. Each one of us can benefit from others’ experiences by paying attention to their observations and how they handle their experiences. We appear to be islands in the human race but in reality we are all connected. We can share our observations, experiences and methods of handling those experiences. We can teach each other ways of becoming the best we can be.
Throughout history many great teachers have given us methods, sayings and parables to learn about our reality and how to make it work for us and not against us. But do we pay attention? In the picture above we are dangling on the precipice of the Holy Land and looking down at Nazareth. Jesus taught those who listened from this place. His wisdom and insight into our relationship with God laid the groundwork for human potential beyond the time before his birth. In fact, since his teachings we have grown in our awareness as co-creators with God. God has given us the power to be, do and have more of life than was ever experienced before. The only thing that’s required is that we take that leap of faith. Jesus told us that God would be with us always. If that is true, then why are we afraid to leap?
Whatever teacher gives you the wisdom of God and His universe, it is all pointing to the same God. Religions argue with each other about who and what God is because of how He appears to them. Their perception of God is what they think God is and they do not embrace what He truly is. The creator, giver and manifester of all life. He created us, the stage, the props and the dialogue. We have to immerse ourselves in the play of life and act out the desires God has given us. When we come to edge of the cliff we need not fear. God is with us. When we are overwhelmed by people, our jobs and our finances, God is with us. He is transcendent and imminent. When we take the leap of faith and we don’t believe in His promises, we will fall. But fret not. He will catch us. We are His prized creation. We have the ability to carry out His promises and manifest our desires. But we have to take that leap of faith! If we don’t do what desires He has planted in our hearts it’s like telling God that He didn’t know what He was doing when He created us. I for one don’t want to tell the Creator of this universe He didn’t know what He was doing when He created me. That’s not my place. My place is to be thankful for His wisdom.
Move forward in your life by basing it on the promises of God. What are those promises? Living in love, being fulfilled and sharing your best!
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What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:
http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Welcome to our new Sunday Morning Service by Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Every week Dr. Dean will be engaging subjects that are pertinent to your growth and expansion into recognition of; respect to; and communication with your inner spirit.
Please feel free to comment or suggest topics for review. May the Divine always bless you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
We need checks and balances in our weapon acquisition system in order to MINIMIZE the threat of gun violence from those who are not responsible with weapons. Those who choose to arm themselves ARE living in fear. That is their choice and I respect the fact that they can make that choice; even though I don't agree with it!
When those who choose to arm themselves come to the realization that they are living in fear and conscientiously choose NOT to, then, and only then, will we begin to work together to make this world a safer and more loving place in which to co-habitate.
Until then, fear will rule from the ego because they have chosen NOT to live from the Spirit of God within each and every one of us! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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CHOOSING LOVE
Whatever you resist, or should we say 'react to with anger', persists. Whatever we allow, or should we say 'pro-act with love', is in the now.
Choosing to love AFTER we release the anger is healthy. Choosing to manifest that reaction of anger into anything else but love is dysfunctional and aberrant behavior.
Feeling anger is healthy; holding onto it and manifesting it as verbal or physical violence isn't. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
COMMANDS
When I got up this morning I was thinking about writing a piece on how our computers were originally designed to emulate our subconscious minds. I was going through the commands in my head and correlating them with the keys on the keyboard. I poured myself a cup of Dark Roast Martinsens jave and turned on the TV and Joel Osteen was on. He was speaking about how we are like computer software and we need to learn to delete any negativity in what people say to us about our aspirations. He said that words are like seeds that if repeated and accepted take root in our minds and grow into limitations. How true. What was interesting to me was the synchronicity of my inspiration and his sermon.
Most of us use the Windows operating system and I will use the keyboard analogies in relation to Windows. Sorry, Mac users, your commands might be slightly different. When we type our thoughts on the computer keyboard we hit letters that correspond to the words that are coming to the forefront of our minds. We organize these thoughts into phrases, sentences and paragraphs to relay a story, illustrate a point or simply elaborate on a topic. When we are done we save the file, run spell/grammar check, reread the essay and resave the file. We then either file it away or we share it with others. When we finish a paragraph we hit enter to move onto the next thought or point. We mostly type in lower case and we capitalize the beginning of sentences or titles with upper case. Some people type everything in upper case and that is generally interpreted as either yelling or emphasizing.
Let’s look at the lower case as our lower selves and the upper case as our higher selves. We spend most of our time with our lower selves and when we start a new thought or direction we emphasize their beginnings with our higher selves. We have a shift key that allows us to change from lower case to upper case in a sentence. The shift key allows us to jump to a new level and enter the emphasis we need to illustrate our thoughts. We also have the delete key. As Joel kept emphasizing in his sermon this morning we need to repeatedly hi the delete key when others impose their negativity upon us. However, when we hit the delete key what we are deleting goes into the Recycle Bin. The Recycle Bin is where we store items that are supposedly ready for permanent deletion but aren’t permanently deleted because we might change our minds and want to use them again. It is like a buffer or virtual storage tank of ideas that we aren’t sure about in the present. When we are ready to delete these files permanently we can select the command, “Empty Recycle Bin”.
Too many of us are so wishy washy about what we need and don’t need we never empty our recycle bins. We hold on to things we can ‘fall back on’ in case we fail or get rejected. There is a way around this. The next time you decide to delete something that is not working for you or edifying your being, hit the shift key simultaneously with the delete key. This way, you bypass the Recycle Bin and permanently remove those undesired files or ‘thoughts, beliefs, action and behaviors’ that you no longer ‘think’ that you need. The shift key is the key to this. Just as the shift key elevates you from your lower self (lower case) to your higher self (upper case) it provides the additional command to permanently remove the things that you don’t need to fulfill your Divine purpose in Divine order.
You can capture any screen image that you desire by hitting the print screen key and pasting it into your document. You do this by hitting the control key and the ‘v’ key at the same time. Make your commands (v)ictorious by capturing the thoughts, beliefs, actions and behaviors that contribute to your growth and expansion and that of others. Program these actions into one of the function keys as a macro. A macro is a set of commands that are executed simultaneously to yield a desired result. You can enter a single character or word to perform a whole series of actions when you program a function key or regular key as a macro.
The four aspects of Divine communication are all macros that you can program into your ‘personal computer’. Program yourself daily with prayer, meditation, service and fulfillment. Make the time each and every day to purge your system from the viruses of negativity, lack and limitation. Communicate with the Divine and be cleansed with Divine love. If not, you will always be hitting the control, alt and delete key to select the Task Manager and reset the programs you are running in order to access enough memory to complete your tasks at hand. Instead, just hit enter; you will surely enter into the Kingdom of Heaven within and experience all of the bounty and joy of life. Be ye therefore perfect. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
COMPLAINING
What is complaining? It is a natural occurrence when you feel something isn’t right or the way it should be? Or is it your ego desperately trying to take command of the way it believes it should be instead of accepting the way it is? According to its definition, complaining is the act of “expressing dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; finding fault: It is telling others of your pains, ailments, et. al.; it is expressed as a formal spoken accusation to be considered complaining” [dictionary.com].
Why do we complain? Is it that we want to share our grievances with others in order to gain allies or feel secure in having others who feel like we do? Or is it that we have a legitimate ‘gripe’ that needs to have a light shined on it for others to see that it might hurt all of us? Whatever it might be, complaining incessantly is allowing our egos to be in command and legitimize its rule over us. If we don’t speak out with a formal complaint about the anomalies of life that hurt others then we are complicit in the results that these anomalies yield.
Doing something about anomalies isn’t necessarily just complaining about them. It is praying for the hearts of others to be moved to what is fair for all, meditating on how to proceed to alleviate the anomalies and being of service to those who are directly affected by these anomalies. Complaining is the ego lashing out at what it feels angered about; anger is the overwhelming feeling that we are not being treated fairly. This feeling doesn’t always mean that we aren’t being treated fairly; it means simply that we ‘feel ‘we aren’t.
When we feel angry we sometimes begin to complain verbally to others in order to feel good about our values concerning their stance against what we are angry about. We are, in essence, resisting what we are angry about instead of allowing it to be without attaching any emotion to them. Complaining is a natural function of humankind when we don’t understand that when we express ongoing complaints that we are fighting and resisting and NOT seeking peace and allowance. In these heated moments we must allow the Spirit of God to guide us and reveal within that we don’t know the entire picture of what is unfolding and that our complaints are creating more of the same.
When we complain we are asking for just what we don’t want and it will be given. When we allow the ‘how’ to unfold in Divine order we are asking for alignment with the greater good of our Divine purpose AND the Divine purposes of others. Ongoing complaints of events, occurrences, situations, circumstances and the behavior of ourselves and others create more of the same experiences being repeated and us never resolving our perceived problems over the anomalies that anger us.
Stop complaining because it is a prayer of anger and disgust with the way things are and it is NOT making things any better. It is fueling the same thing to happen over and over again. Turn your complaints into allowing the Divine ‘how’ to unfold in your life. That is ‘when and where’ the ‘what’ will unfold in Divine order and you will have NOTHING to complain about whatsoever! Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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CREATING FULFILLMENT
Have you ever bridged the gap between what you are thinking, feeling and manifesting? Is it just in a crisis situation that you do or do you practice ‘bridging’ that gap every day?
In reality, there is no gap between these experiences; it is a perpetual and ongoing connection that just ‘seems’ to be a gap at times when we identify with the separation of the perceived dualistic reality. The more we focus on separation, the more we become accustomed to operating within its parameters.
The ego thrives on separation in order to validate its own existence. Remember, the ego’s main job is your self-survival at all costs. For example, you are driving down the road and a car darts out from a side road right in front of you. What do you do? You react! You instantaneously move the wheel of your car to go around the car in front of you. Hopefully, there wasn’t somebody else in the next lane over. A crisis infuses the connection between thinking, feeling and manifesting in a split second. However, non-critical experiences in our lives are more subtle and we sometimes don’t bridge this perceived ‘gap’ because we become distracted from focusing on the actual connection we have between thinking, feeling and manifesting.
The process of creation is first thinking about something, adding feeling to what it is you are thinking about and then actually bringing it to fruition. If you are thinking about something and you are harboring negative feelings about it, the process has started in creating the outcome of those negative feelings. It is up to us at this point to treat those feelings as the car that darts out in front of us. We need to react to them and get out of their way first; then proact from them by co-creating positive feelings of joy by projecting the manifestation into the perceived dualistic reality. Our feelings are our internal barometer to awaken us to what mindset and heartset we need to choose in order to manifest our deepest desires. We move in that direction by ‘expecting’ positive results without controlling, dominating or manipulating ‘how’ they will manifest.
When we begin to see the positive manifestations blossoming in our lives we move into the realm of simply ‘allowing’ them to happen. Just as we automatically sway away from the car we are attuned to the fact that harboring negativity creates more negativity; and switching the channel instantaneously to positivity redirects that emotional energy to create positivity. We are in control by learning that we are not in control.
As a novice in Spirituality we program ourselves for positive results through consistent expectation of our innermost desires. As we grow in our Spirituality we learn to bring them to fruition by accepting our worthiness and allowing them to manifest in our lives. Before any behavior becomes automatic it requires consistent and diligent practice. Spending at least an hour a day in prayer, meditation and service of others keeps us focused on positive results; no matter what car darts out in front of us! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE
Without laws we would have anarchy in our society. Without judgment of right or wrong we would have the ongoing senseless death of innocent people. Without protection from evil we would have those who dedicate themselves to genocide. Without common sense we have senselessness, ignorance and posturing.
If you defend the use of weapons to ward off evil then you are only exacerbating the problem. Weapons are associated with power over someone and stem from the ego going out of its way to protect itself at all costs. It does not care to negotiate. It does not care to compromise. It just wants to be victorious; no matter what it takes to be so.
Those who desire to possess weapons are living in fear; they are NOT trusting in the Divine completely. They favor what the ego tells them and NOT what the Spirit of God guides them to do. Bottom line; no argument you could EVER present could sway that conviction. It is your choice to live in fear or live in faith.
Stop making excuses to defend the very thing that denies the unfolding of your Divine purpose in Divine order. Peace and non-violence. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
If a person’s character is revealed during the discourse of an argument, it is because what they value most is being attacked and discredited. It is at this point that any and all arguments are no longer about what is being argued, but what the person believes is correct and aligns with their values. It has nothing to do with the facts or the content of the argument. It has become personal and anyone in the argument ultimately HAS to consider the character of the individual and their ego in the ‘investment’ it has in ‘winning’ the argument.
If one attacks that person’s character unjustifiably, then it is considered an ad-hominem attack, meaning an attack on the character of the individual. However, it the person’s character is being used to espouse their values at the cost of winning an argument, then it is no longer about the facts and content but more about the participant’s ego. Therefore, don’t be afraid to express what is considered an ad-hominem attack if the other person’s character and values are of more import to them than the facts.
Perception of the truth depends on the observation of the facts and the reflection on a person’s individual values. If they feel threatened by ‘facts’, then they are not seeking the truth but seeking to convince others at all costs in order to justify their own perceived values and protect their own fragile ego. Stand up for the truth and don’t back down to those who try to twist your words, malign the truth and validity of your thoughts and set out to manifest their selfish agendas at your expense. Be diligent; be focused and be pure; and most of all, be factual. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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CONTROL
When we allow our egos to retaliate, we have lost control.
When we allow our egos to judge another instead of their behavior, we have lost control.
When we allow our limited senses to misdirect us, we have lost control.
When we allow our beliefs to blind us to the truth, we have lost control.
When we realize that we have lost control, we have gained insight.
When we have gained insight, we realize that we were never in control.
When we know that we were never in control, we start to allow that which is beyond our control to control our lives.
When we allow what is beyond us to control our lives, we are becoming whom and what we were created to be.
When we live in grace, Divine love and ongoing peace we are allowing and being whom and what we were created to be; now and evermore. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CONVERSION
Do you believe that if you study hard, observe successful people and buckle down into hard work that you will possibly feel fulfilled some day? Do you think that your perception of struggling along the way is sanding off the rough edges so that you will smoothly and magically become successful? Or do you believe that in order to transform your possibilities into probabilities that some Divine awareness will befall you and you will become enlightened enough to understand your part in the grand scheme of things?
Actually, yes to all of the above questions and surprisingly no to their occurrences for you to discover and maintain your Divine purpose. A purpose driven life is beyond setting goals, working diligently toward them and coming to an ongoing realization of whom and what you perceive you are. When you become one with an understanding of your Divine purpose and make the necessary steps toward the fruition of it in natural order, the omniverse is moved by Divine order to fulfill your Divine purpose. It’s as simple as that. What gets complicated is the ‘reading of signs’ and perceptions of ‘faux benchmarks’ by your ego that ‘measures’ your progress against the scale expressed by others.
The ego is continually trying to ground your Divine purpose in the perceived dualistic reality to justify its own existence and take the credit for all of your accomplishments. Your Divine purpose is limitless and boundless. The ego can’t deal with or control anything that is beyond its scope of its own limited purpose; it will try and always fail. However, your inner divinity is what feeds your heart with the sense of your Divine purpose and it aligns your physical expression of it through the manipulation of natural order by the power of Divine order.
The key to co-creating an ongoing state of expressing your Divine purpose is to simply ‘allow’ it to happen. Anything that is forced instead of driven by allowance slows down the complete manifestation of your Divine purpose in Divine order. It moves you out of alignment and you perceive the results as a ‘struggle’. Alignment requires letting go of any perceived control of manifesting your purpose. When you allow Divine order to move through you unfettered by the control of the ego is when the bounty and abundance of the omniverse is completely realized by your mind and your heart.
It is, and always has been, you that has stifled your forward progress. Complete trust in the Divine is what is necessary in order to convert possibilities into probabilities. Nothing else transforms omniversal energies in rapid succession as complete trust. You might perceive that things are not turning out in your favor in the present, but rest assured that the omniversal clock is set into motion to fulfill your Divine purpose in Divine order. The delay between the determination and the manifestation of your Divine purpose must be fueled by consistent allowance or the gaps will create uncertainty and it will eventually happen; however it will take longer.
The longer it takes the more your ego has the opportunity to convince you that you cannot obtain the manifestation of your Divine purpose without its ‘help’. Your ego is always seeking to be in command and when you finally learn to just simply ‘allow’ the Divine to guide your every step you will experience the ‘conversion’ from possibilities into probabilities. It will be seamless, hardly noticed and totally effective.
Complete trust IS the faith that you need to co-create the life that you desire. The desires of your heart are ‘of the Father’ (de-sire; Latin) and were planted there for you to water them with faith, trust and Divine love. Diligently practicing them every day will lead to the complete fruition of your innermost dreams. God is your pilot; NOT your co-pilot! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
We have all heard different positions by spiritual ‘leaders’ and ‘guides’ on the topic of desires. Some say that desires should be avoided at all costs; others say that they should be welcomed and fulfilled; and still others say that we should balance our desires with ‘God’s will’. Since there are so many varied positions on ‘desires’, we should know exactly just what they are. Desire, by definition, is a longing or craving for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment. It is an internal and emotional request for something that you believe will fulfill you and make you happy. In its original Latin meaning it is de (of the) – sire (the Father). In other words, the Divine seed that is planted in our hearts that defines whom and what we are.
Pure Divine desire is the awareness and good feelings that there are always new possibilities for the fulfillment of your inner spirit. It is the anticipation of the expansion of your being into the manifestation of your individual Divine purpose. Nothing in our experience would ever occur without desire. Life grows and expands by the commitment to manifesting desire through the expectation of it occurring naturally. Life IS the feeling and manifestation of desire that flows through us every day.
Over the centuries the term desire has been bastardized into meaning an uncontrolled ‘yearning’ for something that we perceive we don’t have. We preoccupy our thoughts with the perceptions of not having what we yearn for and in the process we co-create NOT having it. This yearning is a function of the ego mind and produces a condition of lack and limitation. The ego bullies its way to the forefront of our beings and continues to ‘fight’ for the acquisition of what we perceive we don’t ‘have’. Why? Because it wants to validate its own existence and pat itself on its back for its ingenuity in winning the ‘fight’.
Pure desire only comes from an understanding of the abundance of creation and not the perceptions of lack and limitation that is fostered by the ego. The ego resists the perceptions of lack and limitation and continues to fight to gain what it perceives it ‘needs’ to survive. The more it resists feelings of lack and limitation, the further what it seeks to attain gets pushed away. This will persist until one understands that ‘fighting’ and ‘resisting’ is NOT the way to live in abundance. When the ego focuses on what it perceives it desires, external reality reveals that it is not in ‘possession’ of what it desires. Its awareness is based on dualism and not the singularity of purpose. That’s why it remains in its comfort zone of ‘resistance’ instead of the Divine state of ‘allowance’.
When we accept the ongoing vibration of living in the ‘lack’ of fulfillment, it will keep re-creating itself until we ‘change’ our vibration to one of the allowance of Divine expectation of abundance. But how do we do this, some might ask? We reject what the outer world reveals in the now and we ‘imagine’ what it will be in the next moment. Just because things are a certain way in the now does not mean that they will not change in the future. Just as many religious schools of thought erroneously teach that being ‘wealthy’ will not bring you into spiritual ‘alignment’, some schools teach that desires are not ‘good’. The Buddha taught that ‘lower’, ‘selfish’ or ‘basal’ desires are to be avoided; NOT the Divine desire of spiritual ONENESS! His simple teaching that YOU are the enlightenment reveals the ‘soul’ of this message.
Pure desire is from the Divine heart of hearts that grows from the Divine seed within each and every one of us and blossoms into the expression of Divine love into the outer world! It is NOT a ‘bad’ thing! Some say that Jesus said that a good life has nothing to do with being wealthy. Hogwash!!! Jesus NEVER said that. What he said was that it is more difficult for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven because he is attached to his worldly possessions more than the fulfillment of his inner desires. The more the ego ‘possesses’, the more it wants to repeat the process of ‘possessing’. It becomes an addiction of the feeling of ‘conquest’ and ‘winning’ over another.
It is like the gambler’s addiction; the ego wanting to ‘beat’ the other person and pat itself on the back for its ‘ingenuity’. This feeling generates the ‘juices’ of feeling alive within the gambler. Some say that greed is the desire for what we don’t have; greed is the ‘insatiable’ and ‘obsessive’ yearning for what we perceive we need in order to feel ‘satisfied’. True satisfaction only comes from fulfilling our inner heart’s desire to be spiritually fulfilled.
Desires come from what we naturally experience in our environments AND from what we spiritually experience from within our heart of hearts! When we ‘let go’ and ‘allow’ the Divine to guide our lives we move toward aligning ourselves with the process of ‘spontaneous co-creation’ of the complete fulfillment of our Divine desires. We learn to share what we have been blessed with from the Divine and we participate in the unfolding of our Divine purposes in Divine order. We cannot ‘will’ this to happen with our ego’s ‘storming the beach and raising the flag’! We can ‘allow’ this to occur by trusting completely in the Spirit of God to unfold the seeds of greatness that have been planted in our heart of hearts.
The ego will focus on the perceptions of negativity that result from ‘not’ having what it perceives it needs; whereas, the inner spirit will focus on the pure desire of complete and utter fulfillment of unfolding our Divine purposes in Divine order. Staying aligned with the Divine source of infinite abundance requires the daily prayer of the recognition of infinite abundance; the daily meditation on the presence of infinite abundance; and the daily ‘acts’ and ‘behaviors’ of expressing infinite abundance by giving to others what we feel inside we truly desire. This ongoing Divine ‘communication’ releases our ego’s resistance to what it perceives we don’t ‘have’ and its embraces the spirit’s allowance of Divine order in the unfolding of our Divine purposes. It takes our ego-self out of the equation and promotes our spirit-SELF into the abundance of the omniverse.
We move our consciousness from the perceptions of lack and limitation into the Divine reality of infinite abundance. Then, and only then, will we be co-creating our individual vibration of allowance that brings everything that we ‘desire’ in our heart of hearts. In order to feel worthy to receive the bounty of the omniverse we must identify more with our inner spirit than with our selfish egos. Focus on what the Divine brings to those who truly live in Divine love. Focus on complete an utter fulfillment by trusting completely in the Divine; now and evermore! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
One of the driving principles of wealth creation is for the initiator to use what is called leverage. Leverage is “the use of a small initial investment, credit, or borrowed funds to gain a very high return in relation to one's investment, to control a much larger investment, or to reduce one's own liability for any loss” [dictionary.com]. Leverage is a financial tool where an entrepreneur uses OPM (Other Peoples’ Money) to seize an opportunity and derive a profit. Much the same way and electrical relay uses a small and safe low voltage to control a large and higher voltage.
Seeing opportunities and having the foresight to act on them are two different things. How many times have we had an idea how to do something and thought of a simple and effective way of doing it, only to see that same idea marketed six months later? The human mind requires discipline in order to seize opportunities that the heart feels are happening. Discipline comes from developing the right attitudes.
Yeshua’s famous Sermon on the Mount ‘relayed’ the Beatitudes, or ‘attitudes to be’. These simple but effective aphorisms ‘sharpened the saw’ of the mind in order to channel the feelings of the heart into positive and correct action. Yeshua said that we would do what he had done and greater. Haven’t we? Look at what the ingenuity of humankind has created despite its gravitation toward more basal activities; violence, death and war. We have excelled despite our commitment to the external appearance of separation.
How do we move even further? By developing new and effective ‘attitudes to be’ in accordance with where we are currently in our lives. The creation of personal beatitudes frees us from the self-imposed constraints of OPT...Other Peoples' Thinking! When we observe, accept and believe other peoples’ assessment of whom and what we are, we are leveraging those thoughts to please their assessment and create the prophetic results of their limited thinking. In essence, we are giving away our personal power to THEIR way of thinking!
When we create our own personal set of Beatitudes that direct our personal power toward the manifestation of our Divine purpose in Divine order, we are leveraging the thoughts of others to not restrict us, but to edify us. We are stating simplistic principles of OUR existence that will train our minds to listen to what others say and learn from it; and not emotionalize their perceived outcome as the truth. Leveraging the negativity of others to be aware of the possible pitfalls and developing a set of principles or Beatitudes to keep our focus on target, opens our hearts to ‘our’ truth.
Make the time each and every day to create an individual set of Beatitudes to guide your ego when it vaults forward to assume command. Keep it in check by using your heart memory to feel the end result of manifesting your Divine purpose in Divine order. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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