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Introduction
Have you ever wanted something and you did everything you knew how to do to get? Then you realized months or years later that your situation is now worse than when you decided to go after your desire? Now you’re disappointed. You don’t set goals anymore; what’s the point, because you won’t get them. You may even be mad at God if you’ll admit that. And now you have a limiting belief that you don’t know how to shake.
Have you ever wanted something and did everything you knew to get it, achieve it, or receive it?
You:
- Researched precisely what you wanted, and knew everything there was to know about what you wanted.
- Were now an expert on your desire. You cut pictures out of magazines, searched for photos on the internet, bookmarked all the best sites, and made a vision board.
- Looked at that vision board every day and got excited when you saw the pictures of your desire.
- Thought about it constantly, whenever you got a spare moment. While you stopped at a red light waiting for it to turn green, you saw yourself with your desire.
- Talked about your desire to other people so much that they got tired of listening to you. As the days and weeks started to pass your enthusiasm started to wane, and you thought about your desire less and less, you walked past your vision board as if it was part of the painted wall, no longer seeing your desire the way you had seen it initially.
It now seems like a daydream, something you did to pass the time one day when you were bored.
No, it wasn’t a daydream, it was indeed something that you wanted, but you didn’t realize that you had to receive the desire before it manifested in physical form. There are four primary elements to belief, and receiving it is an important one. When you believe something, you have to:
- Accept it – believe it’s existence, say yes to it, welcome it into your life
- Consent to it – give it permission to happen, it doesn’t just arrive – you have to create it
- Form an impression in your mind of what you are receiving – you have to see to receive it
- Serve as a receptacle for your desire. You plant the belief for your desire in your soul
- Provide space for it, make room for your desire – literally and figuratively
- Detect it or pick it up like a broadcast signal, whatever you focus on you attract
Too many times, we give up on what we said we wanted.
We put in hours of prep work, and as soon as we don’t immediately see the manifestation of what we want, we get discouraged and quit. That discouragement or lack of enthusiasm can take on many forms like:
- Anger – which is a secondary emotion, and masking the real feeling you don’t want to deal with
- Disappointment – which is sadness caused by the unfulfillment
Then we stop and usually quit.
Now filled with regret and a limiting belief that may sound something like:
- “What’s the point in trying, I’m not
- Smart enough
- Pretty enough
- Old Enough
- Young Enough
- Rich enough
- Popular enough
- Tall enough
- Small enough
- Any Enough will do
- Then we rationalize
- It’s not for me
- God didn’t want that for me
- When one door shuts another door opens
- “People” are always trying to keep me down
The truth is none of those things was the issue.
They were just roadblocks, obstacles, situations that stood in between you and what you said you wanted.
When you really believe something, you know that it doesn’t just walk in the door until you have manifested it. If you’ve just started believing, then it’s like the muscles in your body. You have to exercise them so that they get stronger and can handle the weight. You also need to stretch them to keep them flexible and healthy to maintain a range of motion in your joints.
The receiving part of your belief works the same way. Your belief is flexible, healthy, and has a solid range of motion to handle the weight of receiving your desire.
Pick up from where you stopped believing; you don’t have to start over. Go back to your vision board, continue to look at it; See your desire in your mind, say it out loud, talk to your desire and tell it to come to you, prepare your physical environment to handle your desire. Train your mind and your thoughts as well.
Go ahead and receive your desire; it’s waiting for you. Whenever obstacles – extra weight applied to your belief, remember that you have trained for this, and you can handle whatever comes your way. Your desire is yours, and you will overcome, respond to, figure out, go over, around, under, or through until you physically receive your desire.
I know you know this already, but I want to remind you that you can achieve anything you really want, and put in the work for.
When you believe it, you will receive it.