PUSH: Persevere Until Success Happens Through Prayer (11 page)

The ear is part of the reproductive organ of the sprit. Everything that you and I hear carries with it seedlings of possibility that are planted within the soil of our heart. What we hear from God is the kingdom being cultivated within our spirit being.
“To whom shall I speak…that they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot give heed”
(Jeremiah 6:10). We must be careful how we hear and what we allow to go into our spirit. We must be sensitive to the voice of God, rightly divide His Word to us personally, and sanctify it in our individual lives.

Your heart is fertile soil that will grow whatever is planted in it. Your spirit is like an inner garden that is sown with either the seeds of heaven, which are the purposes and promises found in the truth of God’s Word, or the seeds of deception and destruction received from the messages of the enemy and the temporal world. One will bring a harvest of peace and righteousness, the other nothing but death and despair. What you put into your heart through what you hear and believe will ultimately determine the quality of your life. This is why we are told in Proverbs,
“Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life”
(Proverbs 4:23 AMP). Springs of death can also flow from the heart as well.

God conveys His will and His kingdom into our hearts through our spiritual ears. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that
“the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God…because they are spiritually discerned”
(1 Corinthians 2:14). The Spirit of God communicates with the spirit of man; however, because of circumstances or situations, we often may feel as if we really don’t want to hear God anymore. We are overcome by disappointment and can get discouraged, allowing our spiritual self to disconnect with our life source. This is when a person becomes indifferent and hopeless and despairing of life because it is the spirit that sustains and upholds us. David cried out in the Psalms,
“Grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me”
(Psalm 51:12 NIV), and Solomon taught in Proverbs,
“A man’s spirit sustains him”
(Proverbs 18:14 NIV).

God designed your being to be sustained by your spirit, and your spirit to be sustained by your hope in Him. Look what happened to the nation of Israel when they lost hope in God:
“We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone”
(Ezekiel 37:11 NLT). And Proverbs tells us,
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick”
(Proverbs 13:12). Hope is a powerful force. It is an anchor and a lifeline. The writer of Hebrews put it this way:
“This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary”
(Hebrews 6:19 NLT). The Message gives this interpretation for the same verse:
“It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God.”
And John added that
“everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure”
(1 John 3:3).

We have this hope because
“He has planted eternity in the human heart”
(Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT). In other words, His eternal purpose for our lives and even for nations—everything in the world—is hidden in our heart. This hope protects and purifies because it brings with it a sense of expectation and purpose.

As a seed is hidden in the womb of a woman and is germinated and incubated there, our spirit holds the developing seeds of our destiny. Have you ever been at a point in your life when you just felt like giving up, where you were so tired and weak you felt you couldn’t continue exerting yourself? Yet somehow, at some point, you were able to push past that feeling—something on the inside pushed you past the discomfort, past the point of despair or discouragement, and past the pain of stretching and expanding your abilities.

As a mother pushes to give birth, ready to give up at any moment from sheer exhaustion, an irresistible force compels her to keep pushing. We are not always in tune with what God is doing in and through us as He is birthing His purpose for our lives. Nevertheless, a force greater than ourselves prompts us to press through that threshold, that invisible barrier, and then we are able to see the new life that has come forth from our trial.

This is what makes inventors, scientists, artists, authors, activists, entrepreneurs, educators, and heroes of every kind so profound. Where an ordinary person would have given up, they were able to tap into the divine assignment hidden in their heart. They had the drive and the fire on the inside of them that they could not shake off. Jeremiah said,
“His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not”
(Jeremiah 20:9). Jeremiah determined to never preach again, yet he could not keep from delivering the prophecy he was created to deliver. This is something God hides deep within your spirit. It is time sensitive and has a statute of limitations for remaining hidden. When it is time for it to be expressed is when the urge to push comes. There is no holding it back when the time for delivery is due.

Your assignment and purpose are hidden in your spirit. This hope—God’s eternal purpose—is what God hides in you and will reveal through you in due time. Jesus said,
“There is nothing hidden which will not be revealed”
(Mark 4:22). Guard your heart and listen for God’s voice. Be faithful with what He gives you to do and say each and every day. Practice bringing what God shows you in the inner sanctum of your heart to the surface, bringing what He whispers to you in the darkness into broad daylight. For Jesus said, “
Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops”
(Matthew 10:27).

Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
—I
SAIAH
42:23

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
—J
OHN
7:38

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
—G
AUTAMA
S
IDDHARTA

T
houghts are not only produced by a series of neurological processes, but by what is the mystery of the spirit of the mind. When God created man, He created him as a thinking being—in His image and likeness. God created humans with the ability to think, imagine, and create. Paul asked the Corinthians,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”
(1 Corinthians 2:16). In the same verse he also gave the answer,
“But we have the mind of Christ.”
You and I have been given the mind of God in Christ—the great womb of all creation. Like God’s mind, our mind has been endued with divine creative power. The power of our thoughts, intentions, and words can manifest new realities, create something from nothing, and they can even alter the physical universe.

Dr. William Tiller, author of
Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics
, has set out to scientifically prove that mind affects matter. “We humans are much more than we think we are and Psychoenergetic Science continues to expand the proof of it,”
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he writes. His experiments to demonstrate the effect of mind over matter began by imprinting electrical devices with a specific intention. He started by instructing four experienced meditation practitioners to focus their minds on the device with the intention to change the pH of water. The device was wrapped in aluminum and sent by overnight shipping to a laboratory two thousand miles away. When a jar of water was placed in the vicinity of the electrical device, the water’s pH changed by as much as one and a half full units, which is a very large amount.

It was when the same experiment was repeated over and over that the really significant effects began to show. Tiller has discovered and scientifically proven that when intent is repeated in the same space, eventually it becomes permanent. And when
that
happens, the laws of physics in that space no longer operate as they did before. When they kept running the same experiment over and over again, Tiller says, the laboratory began to become “conditioned” so that the same result would happen more strongly or more quickly. And eventually, it would happen even after the device was no longer in the room.

“In one of the spaces that we have used,” Tiller says, “the alteration in the space of the room has remained stable for well over a year, and it’s still going strong.”
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In physical terms, what does this mean? What has actually happened to the “space” of the laboratory room? Tiller explains:

The experimental data we gather seems to indicate that it raises what is called the “physics gauge symmetry” of the room. In a “normal space,” the magnetic force is proportional to the gradient of the square of the magnetic field. In this “conditioned space,” we’ve raised the gauge symmetry from the U{1} Gauge to something approximating what is called the SU{2} Gauge. Very big effects…. That says that we are producing domains of order in the vacuum!
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What this basically means is that a law of physics has been changed in this space. Tiller has shown that the order thus created in the vacuum is affected by human intent, proving that the power of the vacuum can actually be harnessed through our consciousness.
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Quantum mechanics and relativity theory are the two prime theoretical constructs of modern physics, and for quantum mechanics and relativity theory to be internally self-consistent, their calculations require that the vacuum must contain an energy density 1094 grams per cubic centimeter.
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In other words, if you multiply the volume of a single hydrogen atom by the average mass density of the cosmos, you will discover that within the amount of vacuum contained in this hydrogen atom there is, according to this calculation, “almost a trillion times as much energy as in all of the stars and all of the planets out to a radius of 20 billion light years!”
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He continues:

If human consciousness can interact with that even a little bit, it can change things in matter. Because the ground state energies of all particles have that energy level due to their interaction with this stuff of the vacuum. So if you can shift that stuff of the vacuum, change its degree of order or coherence even a little bit, you can change the ground state energies of particles, atoms, molecules, and chemical equations.
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Our future, Dr. Tiller is telling us, lies in harnessing the energies that lie hidden in the spaces between the particles, atoms, molecules, planets, stars, and galaxies of the physical universe. “Matter as we know it,” Tiller concludes poetically, “is hardly a fragrance of a whisper.”
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Our minds truly do act as the wombs of creation. What we see as the inalterable physical universe is but a ripple in God’s imagination echoing His intentions. God said,
“Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority”
(Genesis 1:26 AMP). Not only do we have God’s mind, but we are also His holy temple (1 Corinthians 6:19).

I found it interesting when I studied the etymological history of the word
womb.
The ancient Sanskrit word for “temple” or “sanctuary” was the same word that was used for “womb,” carrying the connotation of a “gateway” or “portal.” The oldest oracle in Greece was named Delphi, derived from the word
delphos
, or “womb.” This is how the brilliant Swiss painter Paul Klee described the meaning of the word: “From which all functions derive their life….In the womb of nature, in the primal ground of creation, where the secret key to all things lies hidden.”
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Consider for a moment the possibility that the secret key to all things lies hidden in your mind—the gateway or portal, the sanctuary or birthing place of all things. That thought is pregnant with possibilities.

So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him.
—G
ENESIS
1:27 AMP

Ah! From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth. And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
—S
AMUEL
T
AYLOR
C
OLERIDGE

D
r. Deepak Chopra is a traditionally trained medical doctor as well as an expert in alternative forms of treatment and psychoneuroimmunology. He is the author of
Quantum Healing, Perfect Health
and
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
, both of which teach the underlying essentials of achieving vibrant health and longevity. In these two books, he introduces readers to the concept that the human body is an exquisite biochemical, self-sustaining mechanism with infinite regenerative power.

The human body can be compared to a computer, which stores vast amounts of information on its hard drive. The key to health then is the ability to read, interpret, and manage the data being stored while responding to the prompts and signals our bodies give, indicating the need for adjustments. Our bodies are nothing but a system of telecommunication networks that simultaneously control the smallest to the biggest processes—from the reactions of a cell to the contractions of major muscle groups. If we can get in touch with these processes, we can undoubtedly eliminate ninety percent of our biological or biochemical or bioelectrical malfunctions, conditions, sicknesses, and diseases!