“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Colin Powell
Religion cannot be simply a dogma that we go practice on a day of the week so that we can condemn all the losers [supposedly all those who don’t subscribe to a belief] to hell that don’t believe as we do.We must be willing to find patterns that have stopped us from being the person we should be, not excuses to continue bad behavior.“Human need psychology” includes finding the tools we need to help other people.
“Where focus goes, energy flows.”The Messiah said this same mantra like this:
Mat 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart shall be also.
Mat 6:22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, all your body shall be enlightened.
The eye being the part of our body that speaks of focus.A man does not go into the light by being focused on the darkness of the abyss. You will not quit smoking by fixating on cigarettes or any other behavior you do not want to continue!We continually do the things we do not desire to do because we fixate on the negative (quitting) instead of the positive behavior that we desire. We empower the things we focus on and by removing focus from these objects, we move forward towards our goal.We must be focused on our goal, which being healthy as the goal for cigarette smokers (for example) being the correct focus, not quitting.If we train our minds to quit smoking, our brains react by telling the body to continually quit.
In the example of the smoker, they should consider that they do not smoke at night, not because they are non smokers at night but because they do not think about smoking while they sleep.They remove the power of focus from smoking to sleep. If they continued this practice during the day of not empowering the things that they don’t desire by thinking about “quit smoking” and focus on the things they do desire, it would be automatic.Clean up the area, remove the temptation and then stop focusing on the problem and think about anything else.
Mat 6:23 “But if your eye is evil, all your body shall be darkened. If, then, the light that is within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
You will not find the savior in a horror picture and the spirit is not given out in measure..
Joh 3:34 “For He whom Elohim has sent speaks the Words of Elohim, for Elohim does not give the Spirit by measure.
…and so you must reject that which does not edify the manifestation of the spirit of light and truth.
Mat 6:24 “No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.
You must FOCUS on that which you desire to manifest and be singular in this goal.
Mat 5:14 “YOU are the light of the world. It is impossible for a city to be hidden on a mountain.
“I am the light”.Light is used as an analogy to explain the effects of spirit.Smile and the world smiles with you is another axiom to illustrate spirit.Spirit spreads and is infectious on all those around you and so maintaining positive spirit must be our focus in the now.The next recognition is, that YOU are the light and effect all those around you by that light [positive spirit] within you.If you are the light then no darkness [evil] can dwell inside of you but do not delude yourself, light does not reside in the darkness.
Mat 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father who is in the heavens.
Your good works do not including sitting around watching horror movies and playing violent video games or singing evil lyrics that pollute your being.If you focus on death and evil, you become darkness and if you focus on goodness, you will become that goodness, it’s that simple. Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
The failure of most is the first recognition that all has been given into YOUR hands.
Psa 82:6 I, I said, “You are elohim, And ALL of you are sons of the Most High.
Psa 82:7 “But as men you die, And fall as one of the heads.”
You are the sovereign of your destiny for whom else but a sovereign has authority to choose life and death?
Deu 30:19 “I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed,
If then, you have been delivered the choice; you have either passively acted [subconsciously] on a choice of death in not choosing life or not believed or worse still, lied to yourself.
Tony Robbins says, “If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” And he is right.
Aldous Huxley says, “We protect our minds by an elaborate system of abstractions, ambiguities, metaphors and similes from the reality we do not wish to know too clearly; we lie to ourselves, in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes:
The poor wretch who has learned his only prayers From curses, who knows scarcely words enough To ask a blessing from his Heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o’er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no meaning and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound: As if the fibers of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang: as if the wretch Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds, Passed off to Heaven translated and not killed; As though he had no wife to pine for him, No God to judge him.”
Stop telling lies to yourself and focus on the truth and this truth will set you free.
Joh 8:32 and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
The lies we tell ourselves only work to keep up mired in self delusion.
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