Really!?

I was like your friend for too long. Eventually I realised that although I talked a good game, I had to start walking the walk too. This year I made a conscious effort to be better in every way. I gave up alcohol, got back into regular exercise, started eating healthier, and became more consistent in my business activity.

Guess what? Life has changed massively in 6 months! What’s more I feel a whole lot more comfortable telling others what they need to do now I’m doing it too!

Good thing is ANYONE can do it!

Mark

Faith without works is dead. For me the works is the change of self talk, learning a new skill and telling myself that I can do it. It is also believing that I am worthy of the change.

I don’t sit glued to the tube. I invested in an Ishuffle and know listen to replays of the message from Unity rather than Lady Gaga. I don’t listen to the radio that much, some books I have uploaded to my pod. This is how I reprogram the sub conscious.

Thanks,
Jim

“Hey, slow it down, whataya want from me? Whataya want from me?

Yeah, I’m afraid, whataya want from me? Whataya want from me?

There might have been a time when I would give myself away

Oh, once upon a time, I didn’t give a damn

But now, here we are, so whataya want from me? Whataya want from me?

Just don’t give up, I am workin’ it out…Please don’t give in, I won’t let you down

It messed me up, need a second to breathe…Just keep coming around

Yeah, it’s plain to see…That baby you’re beautiful and it’s nothing wrong with you

It’s me, I’m a freak, yeah…But thanks for lovin’ me ‘cause you’re doing it perfectly

Yeah, there might have been a time …When I would let you step away

I wouldn’t even try…But I think you could save my life” Adam Lambert

Did you ever ask: What do you want from me? I’ve been questioning a lot lately… Who am I? What is my purpose? What does God want from me?

I’ve been reading several books to help me find the answers… and I keep finding the same answers…answers I didn’t expect…

1.) One of the books “The Passion Test: The Effortless Path To Discover Your Life Purpose” by Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood, is helping me to figure out what my passions really are by asking: “When my life is ideal, I am…” Then they take you through a process to determine your top 5 passions. http://www.thepassiontest.com/

This is helping me to answer what I really want…and realizing that what I love is also what God wants for me. I discovered I had passions I didn’t realize and that my current life is not my ideal life.

There might have been a time when I would give myself away

This made me realize that I have settled. I am not leading the life I want …and it is not the life that God wants for me. And I also realize that surrendering to God is the only way to have a fulfilled life… the only way not to settle for less.

But now, here we are, so whataya want from me? Whataya want from me?

So what does God want from me?

2.) Another book I am reading helped me find the answer…The book is “Living on the Edge: Dare to Experience True Spirituality” by Chip Ingram.
http://r12online.livingontheedge.org/r12online/

Chip also asked “What is it that God really wants from me the most? And how do I give it to Him?…I realized that my double, compartmentalized life had never been God’s intent. He wanted me- all of me! The missing power and absent joy could only come as I understood and applied the truth…only when I learned about surrender.”

Yeah, I’m afraid, whataya want from me? Whataya want from me?

I have heard about surrendering to God before… and I had similar fears to the fears Chip had.

Chip said: “My view of God was so warped that I assumed to surrender to Him would mean the end of the things that I held most dear…I would be miserable my whole life.”

Yeah, there might have been a time …When I would let you step away

What I didn’t realize was that “Total commitment is the channel through which God’s best and biggest blessings flow.”

Oh, once upon a time, I didn’t give a damn

Chip said ” Somehow I got the idea that God is stingy, unkind, and looking to punish me for all the ways my life didn’t measure up…Instead of a God who has a treasure awaiting His children and wants them to surrender- to make a total commitment so that He can give them the very best and biggest blessings…As I was talking to God…I heard the Spirit explicitly say to my heart,”Chip, I want to give you the very best; but you won’t let Me. As long as you maintain control of your life, you will always be destined to get only what you can provide for your life, not what I really want to give you.”

“He that spared not His own son [Jesus] but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also along with Him[Jesus], freely give us all things.” Romans 8:32

Chip realized his issue with God was deeper than his struggle to surrender: “The real issue was I didn’t really believe that God loved me or that He was good.”

I think this can come from false beliefs that we are not lovable, worthy, good enough, etc. Somehow we get these beliefs from church, family, tv, etc… usually when we are young. And we don’t even realize we have these beliefs. These beliefs limit us in our happiness, health, wealth, prosperity, love, etc.

“Authentic followers experience God’s power and presence in supernatural, powerful ways because God has the freedom to do this only in those who are fully His.”

“The Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord gives grace and glory, no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11

God will never withhold any good thing from you as you walk surrendered unto Him 24/7.

“Surrender is the secret to God’s best. Surrender is the key to power. Surrender is the channel through which God;s biggest blessings flow”

3.) In “Awakening: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Purpose on Earth” http://www.awakeningbooklaunch.com/optin.html

Ping Li says:

“Our creator, God holds the solutions and the power of unconditional love to heal our hearts, our pain, our separation, our quiet desperation and wounds that come from being ignorant of the truth of who we really are in this physical dimension… we all know on a certain level that something has to change. The real question is where does it begin? I came to the profound realization that our most important task is not to place blame and demand changes of people and things outside of us. No, the biggest task starts within each one of us…The biggest contribution you can give the world is to heal your own life, heal your own heart and relationships with yourself and others, discover your true passion, find your purpose in this world and live a truly abundant and fulfilled life.”

It messed me up, need a second to breathe…Just keep coming around

“Everything in life is a choice. You can choose to let the world control how you live, or you can live according to what’s most important to you, your purpose and your heart’s deepest desires. Happiness and a fulfilled life are choices.”

“God’s desires for us are the same as our heart’s desires. And God’s visions are our highest visions and purposes in life…God’s vision for us is much more than anything we have desired for ourselves.”

It’s me, I’m a freak, yeah…But thanks for lovin’ me ‘cause you’re doing it perfectly

“Love is the answer to all challenges and problems in life. I knew all my problems would disappear if i could just love more, unconditionally. I needed to forgive myself, others, and everything I had done and had been done to me.”

“Hey, slow it down, whataya want from me? Whataya want from me?

“Your journey of higher consciousness and enlightenment will begin when you stop searching outside yourself for answers to true happiness in your life, slow down, let go and become quiet within. Then everything you seek will come effortlessly and precisely.”

Slowing down was hard at first for me… I always felt like I was always busy… and couldn’t even slow down even on the weekends. Slowing down was what my body was telling me… and what God was telling me.

Yeah, there might have been a time …When I would let you step away

I wouldn’t even try…But I think you could save my life”

Jesus said:

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”