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Speaker 1
Also, what’s the difference between praying and manifestation? What is manifest?
Speaker 2
Boy, I think we need more context for us. We work with coaches a lot, and coaches often in that space use manifest to talk about how they will visualize something like you believe it, visualize it, and then take steps to actually make it happen. And it’s almost like the Bible verse where Jesus says with faith of a mustard seed, you could tell a plan to pick up a move or ask a mountain to move. That’s kind of how I see lots of people. Again, in the coaching space, use the word manifest. So if you’re meaning it differently, let us know. But prayer especially is like speaking and opening up your heart to God as a friend. So it’s communicating communing with God. And to me that’s a big difference where a lot of people, they meditate, they manifest, they do all these things and they take God out of the equation. And the Bible is really about us and God us depending on God as Jesus. I think we read earlier, he said, without me you can do nothing. And so when we rely on God and use Him as our strength and use Him as a source of our life, the source of whatever power and ability we have, that’s when we’re really in that safe space of not sinning, not being presumptuous and giving God the ability to do his glorious, wonderful things.
Speaker 2
And he’d be exalted. And reading can see miracles happen, but we get into the waste so much. Any thoughts?
Speaker 3
Yeah, and actually I appreciate this question, Robert, so much. Thank you for asking, because I think there’s a huge difference and I feel like there’s so much weirdness coming into our church and things coming in kind of like the secret and these things that were like you just need to visualize and manifest and things will happen. And the thing is, that’s very different from prayer. And Jesus taught us how to pray. You see this in Matthew chapter six, verses nine through 13. And I want to point something out very important that Jesus. And Jesus practices himself in his prayer. Because when Jesus was on Earth, his disciples only asked Him one thing. They said, how do you pray? Because they saw the prayers of Jesus being answered and they understood that Jesus’s prayers are powerful and Jesus teaches us how to pray. And not that you have to pray this word for word, but basically after this manner and Jesus tells us in again, Matthew chapter six, verses nine through 13, beginning in verse nine, he says in this manner, therefore pray. He says, Our Father, hallowed in heaven, hallowed be your name. So first of all, you give glory to God.
Speaker 3
And then in verse ten, he says, your kingdom come, your will be done. It’s a surrendering to God’s will. And that’s very different from manifestation, because manifestation is all about you. What you want and what you will to come to pass. And that’s very different from prayer. Prayer is you submitting to God’s will and saying, lord, not my will, but thy will be done. And you see that Jesus praying that in the garden of Yosemite before he goes to Calvary on the cross.
Speaker 2
That’s just a big point I have to say. Really a prayer should be about you aligning your will to God and Jesus says when your wills align with God, that’s when the prayers get answered. So that’s a big point.
Speaker 3
Exactly. And like he says in one John 514 15 where it says if any man asks according to his will, we know that he hears us and whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we’ve inquired of him. So yes, the God will answer our prayers according to as we submit according to his will. And I think that’s the biggest difference between prayer and manifestation is I feel these manifestation is us trying to impose our will on saying oh, the universe is going to make this happen, it’s going to manifest from the universe because we will it. But prayer is the complete opposite and that we are submitting ourselves to the will of God and asking God to have his way in our lives and as we submit to God’s will in our lives. That’s why I believe we have true peace and true blessings because they’re coming from the true source of everything good which is only from God.
Speaker 1
I think manifest is a bit of a complicated word today that I think there is a manifestation that is kind of an attempt to force our own will. And there is a manifestation that comes out of that prayer. And out of that connecting to God’s will with our aligning with that and attracting the things that then bring that success about in that path and like things falling into place when we are pursuing God’s will effectual prayer of a.
Speaker 2
Righteous man availeth much.
Speaker 1
Yeah. And the challenge is that the way manifest is typically used is often devoid of the connection to God. And that’s where I think that’s where the problem can often come in is when we take God out of that equation. But when God is part of that equation then personally I don’t believe that the word manifest is by nature devoid of God. I think it’s just the way that it is sometimes used popularly.
Speaker 3
And I hear what you’re saying and I think like you’re saying can things manifest means to combat. It’s not a bad word. I’m not trying to say it’s a bad word or something like that but I think it goes back to how is this biblical? And like in Psalms 37 verse four, it says delight yourself also in the Lord. So put God first, make God the first thing in your life and then he will give you the desires of your Heart. And so, yes, when God is first, when God is the center and you’re aligned with God’s will, then things are going to fall into place as you pursue good things that are according to God’s will. So yeah, I hear what you’re saying, Wendy. So I don’t want to say, like, oh, you can’t ever ask God for what you want or anything. Don’t expect God to give you what you want. No. God can definitely give you what you want. But first, make him first. And last. And best. And then you’ll see him show up in beautiful ways.
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