What if I said I could tell you how to get rid of all your problems without resorting to second mortgages, family counseling or Prozac? And what if I knew this because I practice it, along with millions of other people who know how to tap into the most powerful and potent source in the world. Would you listen?
If you are like most people who don't have time to spare or money to burn, you’ll listen to anyone who has a cheap effective means of making your life worry and problem free. “It must be hard, though” you might think; “or else it requires travel or an investment of some kind. Nothing that important can be easy to come by.” But you would be wrong.
My strategy for a trouble-free, worry-free life requires an investment of less than none and no relocation beyond where your normal daily activities take you. How did I discover this valuable source of all-encompassing life remedies? Well, it was there all the time. I just didn’t recognize it for what it was.
I read a story once about two Native American children of the Chinook tribe who helped their old, poverty stricken grandmother overcome health and financial problems by revealing a source to her that she had possessed for decades but didn’t know how to use. It was a sizeable government check that had been given to her late husband for the purchase of some land. The grandmother, being born in the latter part of the nineteenth century and raised hearing stories of the betrayal of the “white man”, had always felt that the land had been stolen and no compensation had been given. Only a worthless piece of paper. That is the consequence of two worlds coming together. So many things are unfamiliar and only after they have been explained can they be useful and beneficial.
This method will work no matter what race, color or creed you are. And, yes. It involves Jesus. You’ve heard it all before. You’ve heard it said that Jesus is the source of all power that can change lives, cure illness, solve problems and save your immortal soul from damnation. You’ve heard it in many different forms and from many different people, from the simple preacher at your church to the popular evangelist who addresses the masses to your devout parents or grandparents. You’ve probably tried it all, too. The praying. The tithing. Attending church whenever the doors were opened. All those methods work to alleviate all your problems and make your life better, happier and more prosperous, but they haven‘t worked for you. Still you say, “Why me? Why aren’t my troubles going away, my situations getting resolved, my health improving? Why am I losing my job, my family, my faith?” You’ve read the well-known “Footprints” poem that explains how, in your most desperate and trying times, God does not abandon you but carries you. So why didn’t you listen? Why didn’t you understand?
Probably, because, like the Native American grandmother, you live in a different world from the source of the solution. You live in a world of reality where angels are mythical beings, or products of a hopeful imaginations, or maybe real entities but who are confined to their realm in Heaven. You live in a world where the stories in the Bible, read to you as a child, were comforting and believable then, but like Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny, loses sincerity as you mature. God no longer, if ever, speaks to us directly. Jesus cannot appear before us and tell us which way to move in our lives. Miracles are no longer performed or, if witnessed, there’s usually a logical explanation behind it, and if that’s not the case, then they are reserved for only the most pious, the deepest believers, the chosen few. If you were thinking this way, then again, you would be wrong.
I once asked a pastor this question: “How do I hear Jesus? When I pray about a decision that I have to make, how do I know when he answers?”
The pastor replied, “Listen for the small voice and wait for the peace.”
He was right, but at first I misunderstood the concept of “the small voice” and of course, I kept listening but never heard it. I would quiet my mind and listen intensively. My mind remained quiet. Of course it did, because I am in control of my mind. Then one day, in passionate prayer, praying constantly, thinking of nothing else but the problem I was faced with and the communication in my mind that I was sure was being transmitted straight to Heaven, I heard it. The small voice. It interrupted my thought, broke into my mind and told me things that I would not have told myself. Remember. I am in control of my mind. I was not in control of that voice. When it came, all doubt disappeared and the decision was made.
