Breaking Through Brass Heavens

As is a habit of mine, I am constantly noticing what I think, say, do, feel, see about situations that come my way. If a person says something to me or asks a question that challenges me, I know that it is a red flag for me to learn something. I love the way the Holy Spirit never stops teaching!

When presented with new opportunities, or meeting a challenge, a wide range of thoughts and emotions will most likely present themselves to you. Noticing what those thoughts are and paying attention to them will open your eyes to the world you have chosen to live in.

Think about the last time that you stood in a cafeteria line. The first thing you do before making your choice of food items is reaching for your plate. Naturally, you will take the first plate off of the stack of plates - and the rest will pop up for the next person in line to take the next plate. If the plate is dirty, you set it aside and take the next plate, and once again the stack pops up, and again a new plate presents itself.

Our thoughts are a lot like that. Problem is, we never look at the 'plate' but just dig in with our choices. What would it be like if we first examined our thoughts? Digging deeper to the 'plates' near the bottom reveal our inner most thoughts.

Instead of plates popping up before you make your food choices. Replace the plates with thoughts that come up before you make choices on how to respond to situations ...

Thoughts such as, “I don’t want to!” will offer the opportunity to learn IF you ask yourself, “Why do I not want to?” The answers are many. It can be that you have other plans – or that it feels like it would be a lot of work and using more energy isn’t appealing – or that it was something another person was suggesting and not something that was thought up on your own.

These are all thoughts I’ve had depending on what was presented to me. Then other thoughts come to support those above …

Thoughts like: “I’m not good enough” or … “People like me do not spend time with people like them” or … “I’m not smart enough.” Or … “I don’t have clothes good enough to wear” or … (there are a million thoughts like these)

(We're digging down deeper into the stack of proverbial plates)

Each of these thoughts reveals a belief system that prevents you from moving forward in your life.

Choosing to act upon the opportunity IN SPITE of how you feel or what you think, shows great courage and potential for great prosperity in every area of your life. This is the battleground of the mind. These are the vain imaginations that we are told to cast down. (II Corinthians 10:5) They exalt themselves against God and the plans He has for your life and for those He wants you to reach.

This also causes us to die daily! (1 Cor. 15:31) Willing to become fools for the Gospel of Christ and for captives who desperately need to be set free (including ourselves) (Luke 4:18)

The first weapon to learning how to live abundantly is to first NOTICE everything that surrounds each opportunity. NOTICE at all times (because opportunities surround us every moment of our lives due to our very generous, and abundant God) NOTICE your thoughts – your feelings – your emotions – your reactions.

Being truthful with ourselves will strengthen our prayer life because we will be truthful to God. There are no brass heavens in truth. Conversations with our Heavenly Father become intimate and rich, filled with instruction, promise, forgiveness and wisdom – when we are first truthful to ourselves. After all – what do we have to loose? He already knows the truth! We’re just getting into agreement with Him!