What follows is a blog I read from a New Age woman I really respect, even though I totally disagree with her beliefs. And while her methods differ radically from mine in that she delves into the soulish "energy/true self" stuff, which I highly oppose, she does, however, hit on some valuable truths: that much, if not ALL of what we struggle with, IS spiritual ("For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12).
Rather than completely avoid anything that even smacks of Spiritism or the occult, we can rescue the baby from the bath water. Remember, Satan cannot CREATE, he can only POLLUTE what has already been created by ALMIGHTY God. God can use even secular and anti-Christ stuff to bring us truth; just as He used ravens to bring Elijah bread and meat in the desert (1 Kings 17).
I turn now to the aforementioned blog written by Melanie Tonia Evanst titled, "How To Empower Your Children and Protect Them...." [Read it, even though every Christian cell in your body revolts!]:
"What my true mission is however, in stark contrast to practical support, is the imparting of how energy works. That is why my suggestions and work is always about coming home to yourself – connecting to your true inner power and your ability to affect the world around you through tending to your own vibration. I wanted to really share that message today in regard to changing the torment we have regarding our children.
Firstly it was a story I just happened to stumble across, purportedly a real one, about a man whose son was bed-wetting. The story was about how this man was frustrated and upset each morning waking up to his son’s wet bed every morning, and how no matter what advice he took and what actions he implemented from child behavioural experts and doctors, nothing seemed to solve the problem. That was until someone told this man to change how he saw the situation. He took time out every day to visualise and deeply feel that his son was waking up with a dry bed, and how happy they both were that there had been this breakthrough. Within a few days of committing to this dedicated practice. That is exactly what started to happen and kept happening. The bed wetting stopped altogether.
This hit a very strong chord with me. Around the same time I had been watching a pile of Ester Hicks Law of Attraction DVDS. In one of the Abraham sessions a woman expressed how distressed she was about her daughter who was lost, destructive and irresponsible. What unfolded in that conversation with Abraham (channelled through Ester Hicks) was about to change my life and my parenting forever. It resonated so deeply with me that I felt it as absolute truth and knowing. The basis of that conversation was this: The focusing on the problem of how her daughter was being was simply holding that in place and manifesting more of it in the mother’s experience. Because the mother ‘saw’ and ‘felt’ her daughter as ‘lost and hopeless’, her daughter was reflecting back to her more of the mother’s emotional energy on that topic. Ester told the woman to start seeing and feeling her daughter as she ‘wanted her to be’. To let go of trying to fix, change, prescribe and control, and trust that a greater force was at play. Ester stated that the more we try to fix, control, change or alter anything from a state of angst and pain, and feeling a heightened state of what we don’t want to happen, all we do is exasperate it with our energetic offering.
So I got to work. I cleared and cleared, letting go of the agony of everything I felt connected with my son. When I had cleared out everything that ‘hurt’, I was able to anchor into this new way of feeling and seeing him. In my journal every night, I wrote about how he had incredible inner wisdom, how he was connecting to the deeper, wiser part of himself, and how he was stepping into his true light and rising up into Who He Really Is. I deeply felt that everything was in perfect and divine order and that he was not only going to find his way, he was going to thrive. I made it so real for myself that I felt it through every cell of my body. This was no small task – everything previously was screaming inside me that I had lost him forever, he could kill himself, that it was my fault because of what I had subjected him to, and I was a complete failure as a mother – but I knew how important it was to shift these feelings. Not only did my wellbeing rely on it (I was breaking down with the emotional devastation), but it was the most loving thing I could ever possibly do for him.
Three weeks later we were in contact, having lunch and hugging. He had already started to make huge changes and get his life on track. Truly, he has never looked back since. This complete turnaround occurred against all odds and literally out of nowhere. My son now five years later is amazing, creative, successful and a total inspiration to me in every sense. He is one of the most amazing people I know. He doesn’t even resemble the person he once was. [See more at: http://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-to-empower-your-children]
The point of the above (if you were able to get past trigger words like "vibration, visualize, channeled and energy") is that GOD wants us to EXERCISE the verb FAITH in our lives, through HIM and His Holy Spirit, not by soulish witchcraft.
I myself often inadvertently practice witchcraft by imagining the worst of a situation and/or person by dwelling on it and thinking forth and speaking forth my reality through spiritual laws set in place BY GOD. I forget that I'm a powerful being with God-endowed authority to speak into life things that are not or are in the process of dying or even already dead! "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit," Proverbs 18:21.
Thoughts as well as words can bring forth reality: "For as [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he," Proverbs 23:7.
So we must CHOOSE to think on what is good: "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things," Philippians 4:8.
We are not tiny, powerless beings who can do whatever we want in terms of thought and deed and not expect to impact the universe. We are God-created Warriors who affect the very laws of nature by our actions, words and thoughts.
“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned," (Matthew 12:33-37).
I love the song "Words" by Hawk Nelson:
They've made me feel like a prisoner
They've made me feel set free
They've made me feel like a criminal
Made me feel like a king
They've lifted my heart
To places I'd never been
And they've dragged me down
Back to where I began
Words can build you up
Words can break you down
Start a fire in your heart or
Put it out
Let my words be life
Let my words be truth
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You
You can heal the heartache
Speak over the fear
God, Your voice is the only thing
We need to hear
Let the words I say
Be the sound of Your grace
I don't wanna say a word
Unless it points the world back to You
I wanna speak Your love
Not just another noise
Oh, I wanna be Your lightI
wanna be Your voice...
It's time for us to ignite faith. Time to speak life not death, and time to be people of God who own our authority! Not people of death whose negative thoughts and words not only poison our world, but actually keep Life from springing forth.
"Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing," Proverbs 12:18.
"I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak," Matthew 12:36
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