Who's cheating you?
I recently asked a series of questions to a group of people which could work as a gauge to facilitate each person in assessing how their personal limitations were determined. Oftentimes people play themselves cheap because of the defective information they have collected through the years that they have applied involuntarily on themselves. Certain words spoken by people who were influential in our lives, and the images and innuendos have served as a teacher that tutored us in the fine arts of negativity and “I can’t.”
When someone comes along and tries to pour into us words that are enlightening, creative and powerful, we will have a difficult time embracing them because these new words will challenge our present belief system. The things you believe you can do and the things you believe you can have in life are both based on the kind of information you received which developed a mental photograph of limitations.
What would be your response if a very wealthy person handed you a credit card and directed you to go and buy whatever your heart desired?” Let us be honest! Would you buy what you really wanted or would you be economical? Ninety-nine percent of those who were asked this question said they would probably not buy what they really desired.
Our excuses for being frugal would probably be, “I was not informed as to the credit card limit,” or “You never told me what I could buy.” The truth of the matter was that the person was properly informed of what they could both purchase and the limit of how much they could spend.
The problem was that what they heard was not what they believed. The person receiving the credit card, therefore, set their own limit without any assistance and purchased items based on their standard alone. Somehow, we will search for some way to shift our self-imposed limitations onto the person giving the credit card. However, despite how you may personally feel about your life, you have no more or less than what you have come to believe. You have exactly what you want in your world, no more and no less. Change what you believe, and you can change the size of your world.
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Dr. Brown through this last month of your teachings and blog God has began opening my eyes more each day to see the treasure that is in me. I discovered the more I start speaking what I want and what God says I can have it. The more that I believe, the more I shall and will have it. I praise God for giving you a heart after His own heart. Thank You for your obedience.
Lookig back on my childhood, growing up with my grandmother I noticed that we didn’t have much and at times nothing at all. She would say that life is unfair and there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s just the way God made it, some people get all the luck and other’s not so much.
Even as a child I wondered “what in the world is the reson for going to church when everything is just doom and gloom?” I had to overcome this mindset and re-learn of better yet learn what the God says about us in His word and the plan He has for us. Deut 8:18 has been a life changing scripture for me.
It is only when we learn and accept what God has said in His word and apply the principles set forth therein will we began to see the changes and prosperity we so desire.