Perspicacious pecuniary pejorative. Say whuuut?!? Let’s talk about WEALTH. Actually this conversation is about your expectations, expectancy, hang-ups, limits and glass ceilings.
Perspicacious pecuniary pejorative. Lol. Holy
Spirit is a wordsmith that cracks me up daily. Translation: insight into your hang-ups
around wealth. Where are the areas where
you are desiring wealth, yet disapproving
of it or even actively resisting it? What
is the level of your expectation, what is the extent of your limitation?
I find that overwhelmingly, our preachers are speaking to financial lack, sickness and relationships. These seem to be the big three challenges in Christianity and wealth seems to be top ticket.
We work so hard. We
say ‘faith without works is dead’ so we work our fingers to the bone, we pray
ourselves into exhaustion, we tithe, we offer, we sow seeds. And week after week we return to church to
pray for God to bless us financially.
What
if He won’t?
"Jesus said to him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.’” - Mark 9:23
Dear Christian, what really is your expectation? Of yourself, of your life, of your God? I am not asking what you want, need or
desire, I am asking what do you expect?
"And if you believe in me, you will receive whatever you ask in prayer." - Matthew 21:22
The bible tells us over and over of the power of
belief. We wring our hands with tears
streaming down our faces and cry out ‘Father, I believe!’. Yet the miracles do not come. What is missing?
Perhaps the missing thing is not about the level of your
faith, conviction or belief. Perhaps the
clog in the wheel is your expectation.
Of course we believe that God can, but do we expect that He will?
More importantly, do we expect that we will.
Our beliefs inform our expectation, which is the hope or conviction that something will happen. Expectancy is the joyous anticipation of the fulfillment of your expectation.
Beware the Not-Knots!
What can I say, Spirit loves wordplay. There are two things that may drive expectation. One is pure joy and the other is pain. A singer may say 'I have known that God created me to do this with my life for all my life'. There are many who are blessed with the gift of singing but only a very small percentage of these will make music their life. Even fewer will succeed at it.
There are many who will be hugely commercially successful because of the not-knots. I must become a superstar because I was bullied, rejected and ignored. I’ll show them. And they do. I must be wildly exorbitantly rich because I know poverty and I never want to pass this way again.
Michael Jackson’s story always made me sad. One so gifted, creative, productive, famous, adored
by millions, wealthy at a young age with enough to sustain generations. Yet he died a broken man, isolated, so
uncomfortable in his own skin and hundreds of millions in debt. How does an MJ happen? How does a Whitney happen?
Success earned in the mad race to outrun the not-knots does
not lead to happiness. It creates people
who have everything, and yet inside they are empty, broken and bankrupt.
Joyous expectancy opens the door to true wealth. This is not just about financial wealth, but wealth
in every area of your life.
This is how it works.
Experience fuels expectation.
Expectation can be a very positive thing if it comes from a place of
joy. But it can also be a state riddled
with not-knots. Both states are
compelling, both can lead to tremendous success but only one leads to true
happiness.
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive". - Matthew 21:22
Paraphrasing, all that you ask from a place of joyous expectancy you will receive. It doesn't matter how long it takes, you shall have it. While it is unfolding, the energy of expectancy will be a very different experience than the energy of need, avoidance or desperation.
Picture if you will your beautiful five year old daughter who has gotten it into her head that she will be getting the newest barbie for Christmas. She is gleefully running from store to store ogling the latest barbies and picking out the one she wants. She is discussing it with her friends, she is overflowing with excitement and anticipation. You know you can’t afford it but you will move the earth to get that one for your baby. You could not bear to be the one to break her heart.
You make something happen that probably would not have happened, because of the power of her expectancy.
That is how our Abba feels about us. His delight is to fulfil the delight of our hearts. Trouble is, most of the time our hearts are far from delighted because of our expectations. We really want it, but we don’t really believe it for ourselves. Our expectations can become shackles on our feet, that prevent us from moving into the fulfillment of our dreams.
But sometimes, our not-knots are potent enough that they
fuel a level of motivation that pushes us into realization of our dreams. We have our moment and we relish it. Then our 15 minutes of fame passes and we
fade once more into bitter obscurity.
Have you noticed some cyclic patterns in your life? You’re doing the thing you love, you are
putting all your heart into it and every now and then life opens for you. The success comes, the recognition comes, the
respect comes, the money comes, but then
it slips away again.
Over and over doors open and then close. You seize the gold ring and then it slips
from your fingers. Life becomes a cycle
of exhilarating victories and devastating defeats.
It doesn’t have to be like this. Dear friend examine your cycles and you will
see your glass ceilings.
The SIZE of your miracle is constrained by your CAPACITY to receive it.
Life performs to the level of your expectancy, but life is also limited by your unconscious glass ceilings. These define the limit of your capacity to receive that which you desire. We may allow ourselves to have, but we limit the extent of it. Over and over we reach, grasp, lose. We find we are coming back to the same level of success or failure over and over, fluctuating up and down within the same range of experience. It’s actually about our comfort level.
Your hunger will drive you to a level that satisfies the need,
but when you push beyond your comfort zone you unconsciously begin to push against
the very thing you desire, until it breaks. You plummet and then build back up to the level of your comfort, but even
if life takes you well beyond anything you could have imagined, somehow, again, it falls apart. And you're usually a big part of the falling apart.
This shows up a lot in relationships. One who is so desperate for love may actually
connect with the one who has the perfect love for them. For a while it is so good but after a while
it starts to get uncomfortable. He is
too loving, too sweet, too attentive, too kind.
The things that attracted you start to repel you. He’s so good he’s boring.
You’re likely to attach to the first loser and guaranteed
heart-breaker who passes by. It doesn’t
make you a bad person. You simply were
not capable of receiving a love that was greater than your limit.
The key to true wealth in life lies in understanding
yourself. What are your beliefs in
general. What are your specific
expectations? Are your expectations joyous expectancy, or are they tangled up
in not-knots?
Either way, strong expectation of positive outcomes for
yourself will bring those outcomes into your life. But you may not be able to hold onto
them. Because of free-will, God will only
give you that which you allow for yourself.
Be aware of what you are allowing. Be aware of what you are resisting. Be aware of what you are limiting.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”. - Matthew 7:7-11
Ask. Expect. Allow.
Work with God and He will work with you.
It is His heart for your dreams to come true.
Author: Max Patrick @VibranceMinistries
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