Trapped in ( i ) Mind

Our mind can be a trap.  It has the insatiable desire to figure everything out.  Everything has to have a point and everything has to make sense.  That is how it functions.  We call it left brain activity because that is where 2 + 2 = 4.  Our left brain is where we make all of our logical decisions.  The mind creates a figure to satisfy our greatest and most powerful instinct – Self Preservation.  We need to feel safe, accepted and in control.

The mind tries to create a figure (idol) by using the process of figuring out.  A figure is an idol.  It is an image in our mind which we attach meaning.  When we don’t know what to do in a situation, our mind tries to fix it by creating a figure or idol that explains our situation and lets us feel safe. 

 

This is what the children of Israel did in the desert when they created the golden calf.  Moses had been on the mountain for a while and the Israelites started to get scared.  They needed to create a god to protect them.  When we try to figure things out (create a mental idol) on our own, we lose the capacity to rest in the Lord and put our trust in Him. 

So stop trying to figure everything out and trust in God.  Stop worrying, but in everything let your desire (vision) be made known to God and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding shall guard your heart and mind.  So relax and let God.

Trying to figure things out (creating idols) keeps us under the curse.  When I use my mind to figure an I-d-o-l, i am surrounded by my problem and i end up looking like an I-d-i-o-t.

Rest in the Lord, get a word from Him and see it in your mind as already done.  There.  Now you have put your trust in the creator of creation and your heart and mind will be at peace.

 

5 Levels of Intimacy

    Which one are you? (check one)

1. _____ There is no God (one way relationship)
2. _____ Acknowledging there is a God, but ignoring Him (one way relationship)
3. _____ Opening your heart and allowing God in (one way relationship)
4. _____ Relationship but no surrender – do it my way (one way relationship)
5. _____ Surrendering to His will – waiting for Him to do things in your life and
              then complaining when He doesn't (one way relationship)
6. _____ Pushing into God and taking possession of the land or vision He gives you
              by declaring it in your life (two way relationship)

 

His mercy and grace follow me all my days. He is relentless. He is like the hounds of hell with a scent on my trail. He never gives up. I am being stalked. He cares nothing for my abrasiveness. His angels follow me and trip me up so they can hover over me and pour out His love. 

 

But, I fight off His attention because I know it wouldn't be fair. I don't deserve His love. I have not honored Him. I need to prove myself and justify what Jesus did on the cross. I need to do my part and sacrifice my time and energy to supplement what Jesus did on the cross. Surely what He did is not enough. I need to sacrifice myself and save myself from my sins. 

 

Then I will be able to receive His love and justify what He did on the cross. It is the only right thing to do. So please Lord, stop following me and haunting me with your grace, mercy and love. I am sure one day, I will be able to qualify for what you did on the cross. And if for some reason, I don't reach that place, I apologize for not being good enough.

 

My prayer: Forgive me Lord if I have ever taken away from what you did on the cross by trying to do it on my own. I surrender my self to you and await your guidance to do your will.

 

 

Procrastination comes from ignoring the nudge. Yep!!

You can stop all procrastination by overcoming or surrendering to the nudge.  You see, the nudge (small hints or feelings) is what causes procrastination in every other area of your life.  Or should I say, ignoring the nudge causes you to freeze or block and atrophic (waste away from disuse) every other area of your life.  Overcome the nudge and it creates more energy than you can dispell in a day.  So if you want to stop procrastination, surrender (give-in) to the nudge.  That's really the problem.

Your hurt.  Some call it broken hearted or angry.  You don't believe God is going to do what He said He would do.  This is called a core fear.  Listening to the nudge overcomes the core fear and destroys it the same way bungy jumping breaks the fear of heights.  The good news is you don't have to jump off a building, just surrender to the nudges and God will do the rest because you were obedient to the still small voice rising up from the center of your being (nudging you). 

Alright it's simple - your ego (Egor) wants to keep you in the flesh (left brain) drone state where you are safe and ieffective.  Egor drives you like a mule so you can't think.  Egor makes you believe that the more you do - the more you'll get paid and the more you'll get credit for.  Problem is - that's a lie.

The less you do the more you make.  Look at any business.  The highest paid positions are furthest from the toilets.  I can't tell you how many entreprenuers I know who still clean their own toilets because they refuse to slow down and listen to the nudge everyday.  Bondage - Mule.  Sorry just trying to make it a clear picture in the mind.

Surrendering to the nudge everyday for a week or two brings so much freedom into a person's life that they usually become emotionally exuberant.  That's right - back into the hands of Egor - just on the other side of being grounded and stable where we listen to the nudge.  This can be more dangerous than not listening to the nudge, because now people think they are invincible and do destructive things. 

The chemical released when a person suprisingly makes a lot of money (lottery) is the same chemical that is released when taking crack cocaine, so we need to protect ourselves from emotional exuberance because it can be debilitating. 

Listening to the nudge creates the life of your innermost dreams.  As a matter of fact, if you are listening to the nudge, you won't be able to stop the dream.  You could stop the dream as much as you could stop a dam from breaking when a stick of dynamite is exploded in the middle of the dam wall.

Listening to the nudge is a skill.  Dealing with the incredible results is a skill.  The fastest way to learn a new skill is to have a coach.  That's what this site is for.  Enter you email address at the top right and receive the new blogs as they come out.  Keep your feet on the ground and your head on your shoulders.

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The Greatest Secret in the Universe

Now listen to me, because what I am about to tell you is

the greatest secret in the universe....

No one has ever felt more full or complete than when they are totally committed to allowing God to move through them to break open the hearts of others so that He can become as close to them as He now is in you....

If you will surrender your whole heart to God, He will begin to flow through you with a violence that doesn't just fill your soul but overwhelms your being to the point of not being able to contain His presence.  You will feel that you are in heaven at the very throne of God - overwhelmed by His goodness.  You will experience times when you will physically not be able to handle God's love... 

The secret to remember is that God now has you, and He is looking for vessels (You) on earth to funnel through to touch others the same way.  The only way he can reach others is through the portals of souls that have surrendered to the flow of His Spirit.  Each day as you awake, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Become a portal...  you see the ego will try to trick, steal, deceive, and get back control of the land you have just surrendered to God.  It has to in order to fulfill its purpose which is to keep you safe - self preservation.  Each day surrender your will back to God, because as you slept, the ego has the ability to process out anything that it feels will hurt you...  For example: stepping out in faith to please God and do His will. 

So you must see yourself as one of the few portals in this world that allows God to reach His people without which He would be totally cut off.  As you allow and become partners with God, His Spirit becomes comfortable with you and you with Him.  As time goes on, your healing increases and your ability to work in obedience to His will increases and you will find yourself doing things you never imagined - in your family, school, work, church, community etc... 

Remember - you are a portal for God's love and will.  Picture that and never forget it.  Get paper out and draw your new life, put it on your screensaver, email yourself, make up a song, put this blog in your favorites and read it everyday until it becomes so real you easily fulfill your purpose in God.  Keep reading books that move you closer to God and find people God leads you to.  Find poeple of like mind that are growing in God and believe anything is possible.  They live in every city. 

Send this blog to every person you know, and create your own group to share and grow with.  God Bless and by God's grace I will always be here to help .  My greatest joy is to serve my saviour.  He saved me with His love.  I needed His love and now I need nothing else.  His love is sufficient.  I give everything to Him.

How deep can you allow this love to go....

How deep can you allow this love to go....

How deep can you allow His love to push.  Even as His love flows into the deepest part of your soul, He is able to open up doors into caverns that you didn't even know were there.  Caverns of hidden hurt that are immediately healed as His hand turns the knobs on the doors and His love floods in.  As the flow gets stronger and stronger, the thoughts that earlier stopped the flow have now lost their power and are easily overcome by the flow of God's love pouring itself into your empty deep soul.  All of a sudden, you realize that your thoughts of hurt and pain are becoming overwhelmed and overcome by God's love and that those thoughts can no longer stand up against the love of God.  You are now succombed to God's love, surrendered to the one thing you have been truly searching for your whole life - God's love. 

Now you feel invincible.  Not you, but God in you.  You experience for the first time a presence of love in you but not from you.  You pushed into God and let His everpresent love have its way with you by simply surrendering to its aggressive nature to overwhelm you and bring saturation to your souls need to be complete.  Saturation.  You are now saturated with God's love.  Saturated with God's healing anointing.  Saturated with God's forgiveness.  Saturated with God's salvation.  Saturated with God's power.  Now surrender.  Give in.  Let your self go.  Let God have your - self.  Let Him change it.  See your - self - in His hands as he changes you.  Let Him put His hand in your heart and heal it. 

If you are willing to let Him, He will give you what most people only dream of and fight for their entire life - a complete heart.  A complete heart is when He comes in and attaches His cord of virtue to it so that you never again have to experience fear, loneliness, or hurt again.  These things are not able to attach themselves to a human heart that continously exerts virtue.  Virtue that flows from the innermost parts of your being like a river of living water - virtue, virtue, virtue from the throne room of God, the blue thread of righteousness that pores from the very being of God's nature. 

His holiness; an anointing of His essence that is available to those who know how to surrender to His will.  You now know how to surrender to His will and allow Him to flow through you.  No one can take this from you, they can only experience the integrity of your new nature to allow God's will to flow from your new heart that allows God's love to touch others.  No one will be able to deny your change, because you can never be the same.  You can never act or react the same, because you are not the same.  The deepest parts of your being have been changed to reflect your new nature which is now saturated with His being. 

You just let God and His essence and virtue into the very core of your being and it now pushes not to get in, but to get out.  It must get out to touch others the way it has just touched you....  The same tenacity God pushed with to get into your heart, He now uses through you to get into others hearts.  As you allow Him to flow through you with His love, the flow of His Spirit will intensify and become greater and greater.... Each day as you surrender the deepest parts of your soul, thoughts and being, He will increase in you. 

The greatest relationship you have in God is to allow Him to flow through you to touch others....

We control relationships in our life by withholding love.

We control relationships in our life by withholding love. 

We do the same thing to God.  We withhold access to our soul.  We deny Him the access to love us.  We'll show Him.  Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to find love on our own.  We try to fill the insatiable void by our own will.... We try to play God and satisfy our own soul by staying busy, by creating a fantasy world that we believe we can control to extract love out of when we feel we need it.....

Wow, love is so full, so vast, so complete, it has no substitue.  No substitute.  We know this in our soul, yet we still try to duplicate it because that would be the only way to be self-sufficient.  If I can just fill the void.... I can control my own life and not need anything or anyone else.  This is true, but the source for this euphoric state of being is God, and we have to give up control and our will to experience it.  Problem is, we have been hurt and it's not right.  So we have to make a decision whether we want to be right or righteous.  Whether we want to be right or rich.  Whether to be right or happy.  We do have rights, and we also have control.  Both of these cost us our relationship with God through Adam and Eve.  We still, to this day, make the same choice Adam did - to live in our own will and choose seperation from God. 

The difference is we have the ability to get back our surrendered state of obedience.  We get it back by allowing God to love us.  This happens when we begin to surrender to God's presence which is already pushing in on us from every direction.  Even as you read this, you can  begin to feel God's love pushing into every crack of hope beginning to develop in the walls of your heart.  The hope that God really does have your best interest in mind.  The hope that if you trust God, that He will begin to move in your favor and your innermost dreams will come true. 

As you read this God is pushing on those cracks, but even now your thoughts fight back against believing, because if it's not true, it will hurt too much, so why take the risk.... but what if you did take the risk?  What if you chose to believe and take the risk....  What if you surrendered all your deepest hurts to God and allowed Him to push through the cracks and caress your soul with His love....  Even if for just a moment to see what would happen....  He pushes 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  His love never stops pushing to find a crack to get into your soul.  Never ever ever ever.....  God is pushing right now against your soul.  The only thing that can stop Him from actually coming in is you.... 

What if.... you just let Him in.  What if you just let His love have its way with your soul.... What if you let Him touch you deep in your soul....  What if you let His love touch you at the deepest parts of your soul, to travel deep into parts you have never let another even know was there.  What if you allowed His loving peace to saturate the very pores of your soul and seep into the depths and crevises of the core of your being until every place was full.  Even if just to experience it once in your life. 

We try to control relationships in our life by withholding love.

We try to control relationships in our life by withholding love.

God honors faith.  He is God - He doesn't have a choice.  Love honors faith - it doesn't have a choice.  God is love.  His very essence is love.  Not love like we sometimes think of love in all its distorted definitions, but love as virtue - totally pure and holy.  The world tries to dilute the word, but in its purest form, love is all powerful and overcoming.  It overcomes every human need -Love in its purest form overcomes every human need. 

When someone moves into love - and you have to move into it because it respects man and will not push itself onto you - love quenches and satisfies every human need.  Surrender to it and it will melt any hurt and transform the inquisitor (to inquire) from a state of insatiable hunger to a state of satiated fullness indescribable to the human mind.  It's a state of sanity that can't be matched in this lonely world.  Remember the inquisitor that pushed into God with his/her spirit will experience this love. 

Now how to push into pure and holy Love.  God is Love.  It's the essense of His being, issuing out of Him, the same as a proclamation is issued to the people.  It is constant and everlasting.  God's love is in a state of issuing.  It never stops flowing from His throne.  The only thing that can keep God's love from us is our inner will to not allow Him to love us.  We do this because we have been hurt. 

In the deepest levels of our heart, where we dwell on the existence of God, we blame God for our failures and misdeeds.  It is at this level that we wall ourselves off from the touch of God.  We say to ourselves, "If God loves me, why is this happening to me?" then in the deepest part of our soul, we take our hands and push God out of our life.  The only way we can make Him pay for our lives not going the way we want it to is to not allow Him to love us. 

In our deepest will, we know this and our selfish will punishes God by withholding relationship from Him.  We know in our deepest core that God wants relationship with us - too pour out His love on us.  It is truly our only defense against His unending and all-powerful love.  Denying His love is the only way for us to control the relationship with Him.  We have two choices. 

1.  Try to control our relationship with God by denying Him access to love our soul. 

2.  Surrender to His love and let Him have His way in our life. 

We push God away because we don't actually believe He is going to do what He said He would do; what He would do as defined in the deepest desires of our heart - His will planted in the deepest parts of our soul.  The ego stands there with his sword of self-pity and self-destruction and hacks away at any sapling of hope that breaks the wall of our heart and makes sure that we stay in our safe place by destroying any seed of our dreams even as God moves over us, calling out the seeds of greatness He planted before we were born.  Simply surrender the sword and stop sabotaging the flow of God in your life.  Let it flow.

We control relationships in our life by withholding love. 

We do the same thing to God.  We withhold access to our soul.  We deny Him the access to love us.  We'll show Him.  Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to find love on our own.  We try to fill the insatiable void by our own will.... We try to play God and satisfy our own soul by staying busy, by creating a fantasy world that we believe we can control to extract love out of when we feel we need it.....

Wow, love is so full, so vast, so complete, it has no substitue.  No substitute.  We know this in our soul, yet we still try to duplicate it because that would be the only way to be self-sufficient.  If I can just fill the void.... I can control my own life and not need anything or anyone else.  This is true, but the source for this euphoric state of being is God, and we have to give up control and our will to experience it.  Problem is, we have been hurt and it's not right.  So we have to make a decision whether we want to be right or righteous.  Whether we want to be right or rich.  Whether to be right or happy.  We do have rights, and we also have control.  Both of these cost us our relationship with God through Adam and Eve.  We still, to this day, make the same choice Adam did - to live in our own will and choose seperation from God. 

The difference is we have the ability to get back our surrendered state of obedience.  We get it back by allowing God to love us.  This happens when we begin to surrender to God's presence which is already pushing in on us from every direction.  Even as you read this, you can  begin to feel God's love pushing into every crack of hope beginning to develop in the walls of your heart.  The hope that God really does have your best interest in mind.  The hope that if you trust God, that He will begin to move in your favor and your innermost dreams will come true. 

As you read this God is pushing on those cracks, but even now your thoughts fight back against believing, because if it's not true, it will hurt too much, so why take the risk.... but what if you did take the risk?  What if you chose to believe and take the risk....  What if you surrendered all your deepest hurts to God and allowed Him to push through the cracks and caress your soul with His love....  Even if for just a moment to see what would happen....  He pushes 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  His love never stops pushing to find a crack to get into your soul.  Never ever ever ever.....  God is pushing right now against your soul.  The only thing that can stop Him from actually coming in is you.... 

What if.... you just let Him in.  What if you just let His love have its way with your soul.... What if you let Him touch you deep in your soul....  What if you let His love touch you at the deepest parts of your soul, to travel deep into parts you have never let another even know was there.  What if you allowed His loving peace to saturate the very pores of your soul and seep into the depths and crevises of the core of your being until every place was full.  Even if just to experience it once in your life. 

How deep can you allow this love to go....

How deep can you allow His love to push.  Even as His love flows into the deepest part of your soul, He is able to open up doors into caverns that you didn't even know were there.  Caverns of hidden hurt that are immediately healed as His hand turns the knobs on the doors and His love floods in.  As the flow gets stronger and stronger, the thoughts that earlier stopped the flow have now lost their power and are easily overcome by the flow of God's love pouring itself into your empty deep soul.  All of a sudden, you realize that your thoughts of hurt and pain are becoming overwhelmed and overcome by God's love and that those thoughts can no longer stand up against the love of God.  You are now succombed to God's love, surrendered to the one thing you have been truly searching for your whole life - God's love. 

Now you feel invincible.  Not you, but God in you.  You experience for the first time a presence of love in you but not from you.  You pushed into God and let His everpresent love have its way with you by simply surrendering to its aggressive nature to overwhelm you and bring saturation to your souls need to be complete.  Saturation.  You are now saturated with God's love.  Saturated with God's healing anointing.  Saturated with God's forgiveness.  Saturated with God's salvation.  Saturated with God's power.  Now surrender.  Give in.  Let your self go.  Let God have your - self.  Let Him change it.  See your - self - in His hands as he changes you.  Let Him put His hand in your heart and heal it. 

If you are willing to let Him, He will give you what most people only dream of and fight for their entire life - a complete heart.  A complete heart is when He comes in and attaches His cord of virtue to it so that you never again have to experience fear, loneliness, or hurt again.  These things are not able to attach themselves to a human heart that continously exerts virtue.  Virtue that flows from the innermost parts of your being like a river of living water - virtue, virtue, virtue from the throne room of God, the blue thread of righteousness that pores from the very being of God's nature. 

His holiness; an anointing of His essence that is available to those who know how to surrender to His will.  You now know how to surrender to His will and allow Him to flow through you.  No one can take this from you, they can only experience the integrity of your new nature to allow God's will to flow from your new heart that allows God's love to touch others.  No one will be able to deny your change, because you can never be the same.  You can never act or react the same, because you are not the same.  The deepest parts of your being have been changed to reflect your new nature which is now saturated with His being. 

You just let God and His essence and virtue into the very core of your being and it now pushes not to get in, but to get out.  It must get out to touch others the way it has just touched you....  The same tenacity God pushed with to get into your heart, He now uses through you to get into others hearts.  As you allow Him to flow through you with His love, the flow of His Spirit will intensify and become greater and greater.... Each day as you surrender the deepest parts of your soul, thoughts and being, He will increase in you. 

The greatest relationship you have in God is to allow Him to flow through you to touch others....

Now listen to me, because what I am about to tell you is

the greatest secret in the universe....

No one has ever felt more full or complete than when they are totally committed to allowing God to move through them to break open the hearts of others so that He can become as close to them as He now is in you....

If you will surrender your whole heart to God, He will begin to flow through you with a violence that doesn't just fill your soul but overwhelms your being to the point of not being able to contain His presence.  You will feel that you are in heaven at the very throne of God - overwhelmed by His goodness.  You will experience times when you will physically not be able to handle God's love... 

The secret to remember is that God now has you, and He is looking for vessels (You) on earth to funnel through to touch others the same way.  The only way he can reach others is through the portals of souls that have surrendered to the flow of His Spirit.  Each day as you awake, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Become a portal...  you see the ego will try to trick, steal, deceive, and get back control of the land you have just surrendered to God.  It has to in order to fulfill its purpose which is to keep you safe - self preservation.  Each day surrender your will back to God, because as you slept, the ego has the ability to process out anything that it feels will hurt you...  For example: stepping out in faith to please God and do His will. 

So you must see yourself as one of the few portals in this world that allows God to reach His people without which He would be totally cut off.  As you allow and become partners with God, His Spirit becomes comfortable with you and you with Him.  As time goes on, your healing increases and your ability to work in obedience to His will increases and you will find yourself doing things you never imagined - in your family, school, work, church, community etc... 

Remember - you are a portal for God's love and will.  Picture that and never forget it.  Get paper out and draw your new life, put it on your screensaver, email yourself, make up a song, put this blog in your favorites and read it everyday until it becomes so real you easily fulfill your purpose in God.  Keep reading books that move you closer to God and find people God leads you to.  Find poeple of like mind that are growing in God and believe anything is possible.  They live in every city. 

Send this blog to every person you know, and create your own group to share and grow with.  God Bless and by God's grace I will always be here to help .  My greatest joy is to serve my saviour.  He saved me with His love.  I needed His love and now I need nothing else.  His love is sufficient.  I give everything to Him.

www.michaelpdunn.org

Cindy was frustrated - How could he treat me like this?

Cindy had given birth, raised, and taken this kid to all his ballgames and now he was a foreigner in her house treating her like she was part of the trash to take out and throw in the garbage.  With no man in the house her teenage boy had become distant and disrespectful with no regard for the family or his little brothers and sister. 

Cindy was at her wits end and didn't know what to do.  My wife and I listened again as we had with so many moms in the same situation.  We already knew the story well.  The feelings of failure, hurt, and anger, but most of all - "How can he treat me like a doormat, he treats me like I'm his personal attendant."

We took hands with Cindy and did what we had done many times before.  We all closed our eyes and asked Cindy to take all that emotion and bundle it in front of her - in her hands.  All the hurt, the fear, the anger, the humiliation, etc...   We told her to get it all in that bundle.  Every feeling and seed of disgust at what her relationship with her son had become.  We told her to let us know when every root of frustration was pulled up out of her soul and heart and in that bundle.  Cindy began to cry.  It took a while as she worked to get it all out.  We encouraged her lightly to make sure nothing was left behind.   

Then we asked her to see God standing before her and to lay it down at His feet.  Lay it down, even if just for a moment to see what God would do with it.  As she did, she began to cry harder.  We knew, as had happened so many times before, that God had intervened in that bundle, and for the first time in a while Cindy remembered what she knew as a child - God loves her and He always did.  That as a father, He would begin, with her permission, to intervene in her situation. 

As a gentleman, He will never interfere where He is not wanted, but when released by our asking will move with vengence in the life of His children who call out to Him the same way I would move in my children's lives when I see them struggling, but saying, I can do it Dad.  Finally, when they realize they are over their head, I swoop down and do what I want so badly to do - rescue them.

After a long cry and surrender of all the pain and blocks, Cindy is free, but not finished.  Now there is a big space in her soul where before so many bad things and thoughts dwelt at their leisure and they would love to come back and have their way.  Next, we ask Cindy to join us in thanking God for taking these horrible things and intervening in her life. 

Thank you Lord.  Thank you so much for taking the hurt, the anger, the pain.  And now Lord, what if my relationship with my son could be normal.  Cindy had a hard time receiving this thought.  We asked her to just imagine - pretend and say, "What if it was normal."  We closed our eyes again.  Cindy began to wonder what it would be like.  Those thoughts or seeds began to take root and Cindy began to cry again. 

What if your son came home from school everyday and hugged you?  What if he let you know that he appreciated the things you do for him?  Everything starts with a thought and when you think/pray like this, it is very powerful because something happens in the air (spiritual realm) that begins to change everything.  Highly emotional and passionate prayer from the heart changes things when surrendered to God.

What if, when you were sitting and watching television at night, your teen boy came and snuggled up to you?  What if.... What if....  All of a sudden - Cindy changed.  She became a different person.  She was now a mother who believed that anything was possible and that her son some how - some time in the future - would change.  She did not know how and she did not know when, but she knew in her heart that something was different.  She now believed and had faith that her son could be different.

Then we asked Cindy to imagine her son being all that she imagined/prayed.  Imagine that he was 10 times what she imagined - 10 times better.  Now imagine that he was 100 times better.  Now 1000 times better.  We then asked her to give thanks to God and surrender her son to Him.  To push him to God.  Imagine your son in front of you facing God.  Then take your hand and push him towards God and see what God does with him.  Use both hands if you need to, but push him all the way into the hands of God.  It is your right.  It is your flesh and blood.  So push and take authority over your child.  Don't worry, if he refuses to go, the angels will help you, literally help you push him to God. 

You have authority given to you to intervene in his spirit and bring him to the brink of God.  I know this because my mother did it to me.  God's conviction was so strong in my life when I was living for my self as a teen, that I would have to consciously deny Him as He pulled at my heart.  I was very bitter and hurt.  I knew God so well by the time I gave into Him, because I had had so many conversations with Him prior to my surrender, because He was responding to my mom's cries.

To this day, I can still feel the same tugging on my soul especially when I give into His nudgings.  We asked Cindy to thank God for taking her son and working with him.  She began to cry again as she saw God begin to deal with her son.  Cindy saw God take her son by the shoulder with one hand and then reach into her sons chest with His other hand and take her sons heart out.  It was hard and rotten. 

God raised it to his mouth and dust came off the heart.  God put the heart in His mouth between His teeth.  As he cracked down on the heart it cracked open and the shell dropped down to the earth leaving a fleshy pounding healthy heart.  As the shell dropped to the ground, God lifted His foot and smashed it to pieces and looked in Cindy's eyes as if to say, this is not from me, but I will crack your sons heart and break it so it can become soft again and alive.

Cindy, crying, began to see her son as a child of God that needed to have his hurt and anger healed just like hers.  She began to see him as a child who had been hurt by the fights between herself and his father.  She began to see a young man who wants to snuggle up with his mom, but can't because of all the anger and desperation to feel love. 

I want to read you a poem my sixteen year old son wrote to me the other night when my wife and four kids and I sat and watched TV.  I had fallen asleep and the next morning I found this paper my wife put on my desk.  It had been made into a paper airplane and my son had thrown it at me as I slept on the couch.  My son is a junior in a 5A High School and plays football, basketball, and golf.  He works out everyday and stands six foot tall weighing 200 pounds.  This is the poem.

"DaD"

Dad Dad laying on the couch

you look like you're tired

like kind of a slouch.

I would love to lay with you

but you don't want too.

Dad Dad laying on the couch

Dad Dad quiet as a mouse.

We all just want to be loved.  Surrender everything to your Father.  You can probably feel Him waiting now.  I know I do while writing this.  I am going to spend some time with Him now.

www.michaelpdunn.org

         

Fear of Success

The secret to living a fulfilling life is not overcoming your fear of failure, it's overcoming your fear of success.  If you are only working on your fear of failure, then you aren't reaching for success but surviving in a dry land where there is no water and a culture of scarcity. (Sounds bad) 

If you are working on your fear of success, you will overcome both your fear of failure and your fear of success.  When you break through a fear of success, you begin to live in the land of prosperity. 

So, focus on Success and breaking through to the next level.  What you focus on expands.  You reap what you sow.  You sow with your thoughts and that creates your future.  Think of negative thinking as an attack on your dreams, your family, your finances, and your future.

When you begin to think of thoughts as your future, you can never again allow a negative thought to take root in your soul.  Think of them as poison trying to stifle the good things flowing your way.  Keep your mind fresh.  The mind has a tendancy to incubate thoughts, nurturing emotions that are stored in your soul and then used by your ego to control you. 

Give your soul the weapons and nutrition it needs to guide you to prosperity.  Stop craming worry, fear, depressing thougths, and anger down there.  What you focus on expands and clogs the system.  It takes over as a stronghold.  What do you want taking a stronghold in your life?  Good thoughts or bad?

By the way, change occurs externally little by little; your finances, relationships, and environment.  But internally, it can change quickly by gaining control of your thoughts which are the rudder of your emotions.

Enjoy this poem named "Our Deepest Fear." 

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

This inspiring quote by Marianne Williamson

  

The Number One Question I Get From People

 

As some of you already know, I also work as a business and personal coach besides working with real estate investors.

Here is the number one question I have gotten asked over the last 20 years.

“How do I know God’s plan for my life?”

Another way the question is asked is “How does God talk to me?” 

Well, I have good news and bad news….

Which do you want first?

Good – I can answer that.

Bad – you might not like the answer.

God speaks to us all the time, but we are too busy running around living the American Life, and we don’t have time to stop and listen.

Here is the answer:

God speaks to us in 2 ways –

1. Logos – written word
2. Rhema – spoken word

• Logos is simple; it is the word of God referred to as the Bible.
• Rhema is the spoken word and key to what God has called you to do.  So how do you hear it?

It is written in your heart as the scripture says, “Delight yourself in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”  The word desire in Latin transcribes as from the father.  De = from and Sire = father, so the desires of your heart are from the father. 

“If ye abide in me and my word abides in you, you shall ask what ye will and it shall be done”.  You’re asking for the desires God has put in your heart.  Desires would be relationships, success, happiness, peace, fulfillment etc. 

OK – so how do I know God is talking to me? 

There are two ways that I have learned that bring the fastest results.

1. Get a notebook and a pen and find someplace quiet to sit down and relax with some classical or instrumental music in the background. (Take a few deep breaths)  Then begin to write down anything and everything you have ever wanted to do in your life.  You have to do this with the idea that time and money are no object.  If your ego or a voice in your head starts to tell you that it is impossible or tries to figure out how to do one of the goals, ignore and keep writing.  This isn’t about how, this is about what.  Nothing is impossible.  Don’t be afraid to get a little crazy with this.  Whoola – this is the start of what God is calling you to do.

Here are five areas I like to set goals in:

1. My relationship with God
2. My relationship with me
3. My relationship with my family
4. Finances, work, business
5. My purpose

Disclaimer:  I know some of the stuff you are about to read might seem a little strange, but try it anyway.  If what you are already doing in your life works then don't change it.  If you are seeking for something that does work, then do this.

2. Probably the best time to hear God’s voice is when you are stuck; you know emotionally blocked.  You don’t know what to do in a situation.  Maybe you are unhappy with life in general.  Emotional blocks are probably the number one cause of sickness both physical and mental in the world today.  Suppressing the natural flow of life is crippling.  “Worry about nothing, but in all things through prayer; let your request be made known to God.” 

1. First – you have to repent for the sin of unbelief that has you blocked.  So find someplace quiet. (later you will be able to do this anywhere and anytime) Begin to think about what has you blocked.  Sometimes you won’t know what it is.  Maybe you are depressed or lonely.  Put your full attention on the blockage or fear or sin or whatever you want to call it.  (Remember, we reap what we sow, so if you are living in fear of something like bills or sickness, you will reap that in your life – that why it is the sin of unbelief)  After you have your full attention on the problem, move to step two.
2. Second – take that blockage or mass of feelings and emotions and put it in your hands out in front of you. (acting this out in the physical is optional, but not necessary since you are now moving in the spiritual)  Make sure all of the blockage is out of your body, mind and soul and in your hands.  Once you have all of the unbelief, emotion, blockage or whatever you want to call it out, move to step three for God to talk to you.
3. Three – Now see God standing before you.  (He is already there and always has been)  Give Him what is in your hands and see what He does with it.  Now begin to thank Him that He is taking this from you – Here is where God might talk to you.  Wait and see if there is anything that comes to your mind that He is guiding you to do.  At this point, your heart and mind are very aware and open to guidance.  Even if you feel moved to take action in a certain area, always move on to the next step.  You created a void in your soul and you must fill it or it will fill itself through your ego.  Now move to step four.
4. Four – What is it that you really desire?  Now let your request be made known to God.  Speak to God in His language.  Imagine what you want.  See it, feel it, hear it, taste it, smell it and experience it with all your heart.  If you truly desire it, share it with God and begin to thank Him for giving you the desire (from the father) of your heart.  Now move to step five.
5. Five – Now give your request to God the same way you would give your car keys to a trusted family member or friend.  Let Him have it and let your soul trust in Him to handle the situation.  Totally release any desire to hold on to it or beg.  Don’t beg, move in faith knowing that your father loves you and will honor your faith.  Move to number six.
6. Six – Now sit quietly and wait for a thought, intuition, a small voice deep in your soul, a vision, but probably just a thought and write it down.  Then wait to see if there is anything else.  Now move to number seven and the most important step.
7. Seven – Whatever God told you to do – do it.  Do it now.  Do it as unto the Lord.  If you do, your life will begin to spiral upward with inspired actions that open doors to your dreams.  If you don’t act, you will simply become blocked again except this time with guilt.  So do whatever God tells you.  If He tells you to do nothing – then do that. Move to step eight.
8. Eight – “When you have done all you can do, then stand” and wait on God.  Stay in a state of gratitude for what God is doing in your life.  Remember - You reap what you sow.  What you focus on expands.  So don't allow the smallest doubt.  When doubt comes, simply say, "I don't know how you are going to do this God, I just know you are working in my favor to bring forth the desires you have put in my heart."  You might want to write that down.  Move to number Nine.
9. Nine – repeat.  Do this once a day for 365 days and your life will change more in 365 days than the rest of your life put together.

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