You might get it! Everyday many thoughts swim through our minds and we either attach to these thoughts our attention or dismiss them as fantasies. Many great leaders and artists have harnessed the power of attaching “I can” to their thoughts. All of us have had those moments where we simply know we can achieve something even though the external environment seems to paint a picture that we can’t. We either choose to accept these outside circumstances as real and true or we embrace our “knowing” thoughts as possibilities. Accepting possibilities is where we can start planning to create the life that we want. When we convert the possibilities to probabilities is when we begin to actualize the thoughts and dreams we have desired.
Take Barack Obama for example. I saw a video clip of him back in the early 90’s outlining the direction he believed America needed to go and then more than 15 years later he is in command of where America can go into the future. Several times Jesse Jackson ran for the presidency and was unsuccessful, but his dream that an African American would someday be president came to pass. Some say that the picture here in the article was his disgust that he wasn’t elected, but I vehemently disagree. The look in his face reflects thanks to God for fulfilling his dream; even though he wasn’t the fulfillment of the dream. I submit this picture as the picture of the decade, or perhaps for the past several hundred years in which this country embraced slavery. Jesse Jackson’s years of knowledge about Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared him and enriched his life so he could believe in the dream. He met challenge after challenge and kept the hope of his dream alive. He asked for a world where anyone could be elected president and he got it! The dream might not have manifested the way he thought it would, but it manifested nonetheless.
How many dreams have you let go by the wayside? Did you pay attention so much to the outside circumstances that you abandoned any hope of manifesting your dream? Did you realize that the outside circumstances are a result of what you thought last week, last month or last year? Start directing your attention to the thoughts in your mind that say “I can!” Know that you can achieve anything that you desire by grabbing those thoughts, thinking diligently about them everyday and manifesting them into your world by ignoring the outside world and believing in your ability to manifest your desires. Remember, the root of the word desire is “of the father.” God wouldn’t have given you those desires unless he had given you the power to create and manifest them.
I remember from seminary school when we studied a book that contained the four gospels on two facing pages. We could read what Christ said in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and compare what Christ said in the original Koinè (pronounced coinay) Greek. Even though some of the wording varied from gospel to gospel, the underlying truth in what Christ said was revealed. It was obvious and apparent. He told us that we could move mountains! But how can we do that you might ask? It’s simple; grab the positive thought of your desire and believe in your ability to manifest it. When Christ approached Lazarus tomb he told Lazarus to wake up. He spoke with conviction and authority. He knew he would arise! Know the gifts that God has given you and use them to create the life that you desire. Don’t listen to the nay sayers who try to beat you up with your own words or “God’s words” as they understand them to be. Read what Christ said and follow his example. Like Jesse and Barack you will win every time!
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