Unlock this Ancient Secret for Stress Relief
To the individual believer, who is, by the very fact of relationship to Christ, indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God, there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the Spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for. — G. Campbell Morgan
God desires to communicate with ordinary human beings and to impart His love and blessing through them.
Simply because you don’t hear doesn’t mean He isn’t speaking. Messages available to radios, computers, telephones, and televisions are always passing through the atmosphere, but an appropriate receiver is required to make use of them. You must believe that such unseen signals are available to you and will provide worthwhile information and life-changing new ideas. When Adam fell, he fell lost the full capacity for communicating with God—for tuning into his spiritual bandwidth. He went from a satellite type of communication to AM type communication; from fiber-optics/digital to analog.
If you want to progress in life, you’ve got to think progressive thoughts, and the best place to receive them from is the Creator. But don’t be surprised if you encounter resistance from people confined by preconceived analog-assumptions limited by what they’ve only known before now. Be willing to shift your paradigm even when those around you are not. That is how game-changing innovation happens and life-altering spiritual technologies discoveries are made.
Guglielmo Marconi dreamed of a system for harnessing the intangible forces of the unseen world. When he told his friends he had discovered a principle that would enable him to send messages through the air, without the aid of wires or other direct physical means of communication, they insisted he undergo a psychological evaluation. He went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.
Do you need a new product for your business? A new insight for your marriage or your ministry? Are you ready for God to open the doors of opportunity to take you to the next level in your career? There are treasures hidden in Creation since the beginning of time that God is going to reveal through a human being who is asking, knocking, and seeking; who is ready to obey; and who will give Him the glory for the results.
Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God (Proverbs 2:3-5 ESV).
Adam and Eve spoke directly with God in the cool of the evening as they walked in the Garden. But after the Fall, the mind of humans was veiled, separating their mind from the truth and reality of God’s perspective. Today, says C.S. Lewis, “God walks everywhere incognito.” He chooses when to reveal Himself—when to pull back the veil and allow you to “see”—when to give you knowledge and insight, and when to show you treasure buried in a field. God wants to manifest Himself at a moment’s notice to the one who is ready: “If any of you wants to serve Me, then follow Me…ready to serve at a moment’s notice. The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves Me” (John 12:26).
Celtic Christians often spoke of “thin places,” a place where the curtain between this natural world and the eternal world has been worn thin through prayer. Enoch discovered that thin place and walked out of time into eternity. This “thin place” is where what is real, yet in another dimension, appears through a veil into this world—like the hand that appeared in the book of Daniel and began writing on the wall. God is ready to download thoughts, answers, solutions, and ideas and to pass them through your thoughts and mind to benefit the world. Are you ready to receive it?
“Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs. ”
We don’t often think of “effortlessness” as a characteristic we should cultivate in our lives. Most of us were raised to always try harder and do more in order to maximize our potential. Although my life mission is to empower people to maximize their potential, I believe the key is not in maximizing one’s “doing” as much as one’s “being.”
Effortlessness
When I think of effortlessness, I think of entering God’s rest—a major theme throughout the Bible. In Matthew 11:29 (NLT), Jesus said, “take My yoke upon you. Let Me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
Living authentically has much to do with living effortlessly—not striving, conniving, manipulating, clamoring to get ahead, etc.
I came across this entry in a classic devotional called God Calling that sums up this idea: “Do not be too ready to do, just be. I said, ‘Be ye therefore perfect’ not ‘do perfect things.’ Try and grasp this. Individual efforts avail nothing. It is only the work of My Spirit that counts.” The entry closes with this verse: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10 NLT)—but brings to my mind this verse: “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord” (Zech. 4:6 NIV).
When you rest in God, you are operating from a place of supernatural power, causing everything you do to seem effortless. It may take effort to enter that place (Hebrews 4:11 talks about striving diligently to enter that rest), but it will energize you once you’re there:
He energizes those who get tired…those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, they run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind (Isaiah 40:28-31).
Think how effortlessly the eagle soars on invisible currents—as Job declared to God, “through Your know-how…the hawk learned to fly, soaring effortlessly on thermal updrafts” (Job 39:26). Or as David declared, “God, You floodlight my life; I’m blazing with glory, God’s glory! I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the highest fences” (Ps. 18:28-29).
Where do you need more “know how”—or where in your life are you feeling opposition or boxed in? What does not feel effortless?
Try putting effort instead into pursuing God’s rest. Practice “being still” and trusting God to lift you up so you soar—no, vault—effortlessly over the highest fences. Keep company with God so you learn to live freely and lightly.
Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to Me. Get away with Me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with Me and work with Me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with Me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly (Matthew 11:28-30).
“Repose is a quality too many undervalue. In the clamor one is irresistibly drawn to the woman who sits gracefully relaxed, who keeps her hands still, talks in a low voice, and listens with responsive eyes and smiles. She creates a spell around her, charming to the ear, the eye and the mind. ”
