Love, Power, and Abundance

One of my goals as a father is to teach my family spiritual truths that they can investigate and apply to their lives for themselves. I have found a way to live a life that is filled with love, power, and abundance. I'd like to share that with you. 

My family lives next to a mountain in Boulder, Colorado. Just about every summer weekend, we enjoy hiking up to the top of that mountain. When we begin the hike at the mountain base and look up, the destination sometimes seems so far-off and unreachable. But there is a way, a route to take where the destination can be reached. 

Spiritually speaking, my family's destination is God and a life of love, power, and abundance. We want to have Spirit in our lives, in our hearts, in our minds. I know that I can be a better man and father than I am today when I'm closer to fully, experientially knowing God's power, abundance, and love in my life. That's the destination: God, love, power, and abundance.

In relation to love, life without love is not life at all. Life is all about love, and unconditional love is the greatest love of all. That's what I want in my life. 

In relation to power, I believe that we can manifest into our lives anything we'd like. We can bring forth into reality that which we think about and act upon. Power is the ability to make things come into reality. I want to experience that power. 

In relation to abundance, I want my family and friends to have abundance in their lives. Genesis tells us stories of God providing abundance to enjoy. Today, we can live abundantly -- physically (health, home, work, money), mentally (prayer, meditation, consideration, focus, mindfulness), and spiritually (by manifesting spiritual abilities that we have been given). 

​To teach my family how to live a life of love, power, and abundance, there must be a way. What is the way? What's the path we can take, the route, the walk, to reach a life, filled with Spirit, love, power, and abundance?

The Way

A couple thousand years ago, a man provided us with a great example of how to live such a life. The stories about him are available in the bible, and they tell us of a man who experientially knew God's power, love, and abundance. And he shared that knowledge with others. In John 14:6, he, Jesus, said that he was the only way, the real truth and the real life. And that no one could come to God but through him. Seems a bit boastful. Yes? But it's quite interesting to me how this man was so bold and fearless. He had no fear in breaking the rules, abruptly changing the ways in which people at that time thought, lived, and worshipped. He was brazen in the way he denounced religious leaders and discarded their dogma. He made believing in God as simple and clear changing one's mind. 

Without Religious Dogma

Jesus Christ changed everything -- spiritually. He showed how everyone can have direct access to God, Spirit, without the unnecessary burden of man-made religious dogma (religion just ruins everything). He showed how to do it. He was the example. The way. The way to a life of experientially knowing love, power, and abundance. 

To Be One
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God is the author of life. God is our destination. We want to walk with God in our lives. But let's be clear, God is not a man or a woman. God is not an old man with a long gray beard, floating in the clouds, waving his finger, doing good and bad things to people. That's delusional. God is light, love, power, abundance, and everywhere present. And when I walk with spirit in my life (in my heart, in my mind), I walk with God. It's as if God and I are one. In John 10:30, Jesus said that he and his father, God, were one. They were in alignment and harmony with one another. They were of one purpose. 

If you've ever played sports, you've probably felt those moments in your performance when everything seemed to "click" or just go well. You moved and performed better than you ever had before. You were "in the zone." Enlightened folk around us seem to live their lives in that zone, where they are apparently in this beautiful alignment and harmony with everything and everyone around them. That's what Jesus was saying in reference to being one with God. It's as if by walking with Spirit in your life, you can experience everyone and everything around you, and you're peaceful and not wanting anything. 

Standard of Truth

I do better at walking with Spirit in my life when I can refer to a standard. A standard is that which I can refer to and see how I'm doing. When I was younger, I was a home builder. I built homes for lots people. I was very knowledgeable and capable of everything related to building a home -- from felling trees and digging the foundation with a backhoe to fastening roofing shingles and installing the bathroom fixtures. To build a house for someone, you have to build it to a standard, something that you can refer to in order to see how a really good, safe, well-constructed house should be built. And as a home builder, that was my goal (my destination) - a good, strong, safe house. And I was successful in my home-building profession, because I had a standard.

For many of us, there are no standards by which we can live a life that is powerful, filled with love, prosperous, no fear, and abundant in all things. There are many standards in the world from which we can choose. There are hundreds of religions and gods. There are many religious and spiritual leaders to listen to and follow. There are many good books. The great writings of all time have many great truths in them, and they offer various standards to live by. But what is a good standard by which I and my family can live a life that is powerful, filled with love and abundance? We each have to decide what is our standard of truth.

John 17:17 says that God's word is the truth. In 1 Thessalonians 2:13, it says that I'm continually thankful to God for this, that when I received the word of God, I welcomed it not as the word of mere men, but as it truly is, the word of Spirit, which is effectually at work in me as I believe and exercising its inherent, supernatural power.

Here's an example of how the Word of God brings peace in my life. In Philippians 4:9, is says that the things which I have learned, received, and heard, seen in other believers, I should do. I should go and practice these things in my daily life, and God, who is the source of peace and well-being, will be with me. 

As a man, husband, and father, I'm not just interested in learning the truth of things, but I'm also concerned with the practical application of those truths. A mature man is not one who just thinks and concentrates, but one who also acts. Real men learn what how to do what's right, then we practice it until we can do it correctly and successfully.

We can learn a bit from Deuteronomy 30:14-16, 19-20: 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

So, there we see that the word can be in my heart, mind, and mouth. But I must do it. Act. And to be blessed, I am taught to "love" God, "walk" in his ways, and "keep" his commandments. Then, I'll see blessings in my life. 

Consider the Way

In Psalm 119:59, it says to consider our ways. In verse 59, "I considered my ways, and I turned my feet to follow and obey God's testimonies." 
Why?

Why should I consider my ways? Why should I be mindful of what I'm thinking and doing? Because, ultimately, I want to be free. 

In John 8:31-32, it says that Jesus said to the Jews which believed on him, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." 

That's the destination. That's what love teaching my family -- spiritual truths that they can investigate and apply to their lives. I have found a way to live a life, free from fear and pain, a life that is filled with love, power, and abundance. And the standard is applicable and filled with truth. And that way is available. And that's what I wanted to share with you.