We’re in the fortunate position in that in our small town we’re hosting two of the World Cup Soccer teams namely Denmark and France. These teams couldn’t be anymore different. The French team are very security conscious and have a permanent police presence to their hotel. The Danish don’t. We’re in the lucky position in that we’re currently building a family house for us in the Estate where the hotel of the French is situated.
So to go there during the day requires a stop in the queue of cars at the police barricade, waiting for your turn to get to the front, showing your Estate access card as well as your ID Document. The police then take this and go and check on their systems that you’re allowed access after which you may enter.
Now quite frankly I never thought much of the French team in the first place. I would have ignored them if I saw them. I don’t even know the players. Our son’s school has been teaching them about everything French in the last few weeks so we do now have a bit of knowledge of the French. Still I wasn’t going to support them during the World Cup. Being South African I would have supported our team while they’re in.
Denmark on the other hand is the other team here. They decided to have a public open day yesterday and the day before of their practice matches. They signed flags and shirts for people. I got to see them warm up and practice. They were very relaxed and open to the public.
So where am I going with this, well, the Bible tells us that we should treat people the way we want them to treat us. Maybe this is actually a built in human mechanism.
Here the French came in treating everyone as an enemy and guess what….in return we’ll treat them as the enemy. The Danish came in and treated us like friends, and well I love that team. I’ll admit that I still don’t know who the players are, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I’ll find out now. In future I’ll even follow these players after the World Cup. They’re friends now.
Why didn’t the French just go to a bush camp in the first place where no-one would see them anyway. They’ve come into other peoples homes and treated them as the enemy. So maybe the Bible was right. No-one will treat them as friends but rather as the arrogant individuals that they want to be treated as.
So in conclusion, I’d like to thank the World Cup Soccer for teaching me a valuable lesson. Fundamentally the Bible does work. Thanks Denmark you’re great friends.
Here’s a different manifestation technique that I learnt about from the manifestmiracle.com site. If it works for you then let me know. All the best Madi
Today I want to tell you about a technique that I came
across that can dramatically enhance the speed of your
manifestations.
This technique IS NOT for everyone.
Also, you may never be able to make this technique work for
you.
I came across this technique shortly after writing my
Manifest a Miracle book. I was out taking a walk on a
beautiful spring day, and was asking the universe to provide
me with a method that can help people experience results
with the Law of Attraction, quicker than they ever have done
before.
(Believe this or don’t believe this…)
I was hit with inspiration and felt as if someone started
to talk me through the process. My memory isn’t perfect, so
I cannot word-for-word exactly what was given to me, but I
certainly do remember the gist of the instruction.
Step1. Find something to appreciate and feel the love for
it.
When my vibration is super sky high, I can noticeably feel
when I’m feeling at the top of the vibrational scale. I
actually get a physical feeling usually in my chest or solar
plexus that is a bit like a pulse. It is a pleasant
experience, and I know when I feel the love for something
because I can literally feel it. That is the level which I
was being asked to take the feeling to.
My first time I ever did this process, I used a beautiful
looking flower as something that I could appreciate and feel
good about.
Step2. Keep the thought alive but start to hold the
feeling.
At first, I didn’t understand this part about “holding”
the feeling. I quickly understood as I tried the process
myself. As I kept the thought alive and kept the physical
feelings within me, I was able to hold the feeling by giving
it my full attention.
Step3. After 60 seconds or so, take the thought away, but
keep holding on to the feeling.
Amazingly, I discovered that it was simple to hold on to
the feeling that a thought gave me. After the 60 seconds of
thinking about something beautiful, I was able to stop
thinking and simply hold on to that feeling and keep it
there by giving the feeling my attention.
Step4. Hold the feeling for as long as is comfortable.
I found that I could hold on to this feeling for many
minutes. Sometimes only a few seconds, other times several
minutes. The longest “hold” I achieved was about 6-7 minutes
in length.
I also noticed that if I switched back to the original
thought that made me feel good, I could compare the
feelings. Sometimes the feeling would slightly change after
I held it for a while, and so by thinking about the thought
again, I could re-assess whether I was holding the right
feeling or not. More often than not, I was holding the right
feeling, but it was nice to check every now and then.
So there you have it. That is what I call EMT (Enhanced
Manifestation Technique). The idea came to me from no where
and did not feel like I was thinking it up at all, it just
came to me like an apple falling out of the tree, the idea
fell into my head.
The technique works so well because you’re keeping a pure,
positive vibration for several minutes at a time. In those
periods of being connected to sustained pure positive
energy, you will be moving closer and closer to your
desires, whatever they may be.
You can also use this technique and think about your
desires and hold that thought. Of course, that only works if
you can get excited enough about your desire in the first
place.
This technique really is not for everyone. I’ve found that
it is only possible to do when you are feeling on top of the
world and when your vibration really is vibrating love, joy
and happiness.
By all means, try it when you’re not so vibrationally
high, but in my experience, you won’t be able to generate
the physical feeling required in order to hold it for
sustained periods of time.
Give it a go if it resonates with you?
Today was one of those days where everything I planned just did not happen, but yet I am grateful because everything happens for the best of all. I wanted to go cycling but had to stay at home because of my son, who was very sick. Later I took him to the doctor who then wanted to admit him in to the hospital because of dehydration. I was heart broken. She told me to take him home get his stuff together and return in half an hour’s time. On my way home I said a little prayer that some how he can please stay at home and not have to go. I received my miracle and my son is at home, and not in hospital.
This whole experienced made me realize how Abraham must have felt when God asked him to sacrifice his only son Isaac to God. For so long Abraham and his wife could not have children and then one day God promised Abraham that he will bless him with a great offspring. God gave Isaac to Sarah and Abraham, because that was Abraham’s greatest wish in life to have a son, and yet God then asked of Abraham to sacrifice that child to Him.
Being a parent I can just imagine what Abraham must have thought, and how he felt. I was very upset just thinking of my son having to go to hospital and not having him around for the night. Abraham had to sacrifice his son. But instead of fighting or arguing with God, Abraham obeyed. He packed the donkey and took his son and they left. Abraham was willing to give his most valuable possession to God. When Isaac asked his father what they were going to sacrifice to God Abraham replied that God will supply.
We so often ask God to help us when we are in need, but are we willing to give back to God for all the blessing we receive on a daily basis. We so often think that being religious and serving God is lame. We blame time for the fact that we go to bed without reading our Bible or saying a prayer. We hardly have enough time for ourselves or our family let alone serving God on a daily basis. My friend laughs at me when I talk about going to church. Yet this is all God asks from us.
We get upset when our prayers are not answered yet we are not willing to give God the glory and time He deserves in our lives. God blessed Abraham with a great offspring because he was always on his post ready to serve God.
What are you willing to give God today?
Everybody wants to be happy. No matter who you are or what you believe in. Happiness is one thing we all desire. Whether it is in our relationships, our work or in life in general.
There is just one little snag, unfortunately no one can make us happy but ourselves. Your happiness is in your own hands. Now I know there are a lot off people who disagree. People often think that God is responsible for their happiness or that happiness is something you get from you friends and family.
They are the people close to us and the ones that hurt us. God, well He let bad and good things happen to us that determines our happiness. Unfortunately that is not true. God gave us talents, emotions and decision making abilities. The most important thing that we receive is free will. The will to make decisions about our lives and our happiness.
If you are in a work situation where you are very unhappy, and you want a way out, you might have prayed about it and asked God to give you a way out. Yet, you feel like He is not hearing you, because you have not yet found another job, or that promotion that will help you out of your missery.
I know we cannot just pack up and leave our jobs when we feel like it, because we have to provide for our children and families, but we do have a God given ability to change our situations. If you are unhappy in your work situation, ask yourself why? Why are you doing the work that your doing? Is it because of the money, the perks, the status that comes with it, or is it just a job to have one.
If you are unhappy at work because of your boss that is always in a bad mood and picking on you, maybe you must not look outwards for a solution but look inwards. We cannot all like each other but there are ways for us to get along. Jesus once said look for the log in your own eye before you look for the splinter in your brothers eye, and I like to live my life by this.
Charity does begin at home and in most cases I found that if someone makes me unhappy I look at my actions and change them. Most of the time I am the one that makes me unhappy by the things I do and think. I personally have the bad habit of always thinking that people don’t like me or that they are angry with me and yes this makes me very unhappy. It was only once I started looking inwards to myself that I realised that I dont like myself and that I am upset with myself. That is why I experience this from the outside as well.
Once I started changing my mindset the people around me changed. I know change is not easy and it is very hard to admit that you might be wrong.
The great secret about true happiness lies within us. We all received talents. Thing that we are great at and things that we enjoy. These talents determine who we are in life. Most of us however ignore our talents.
When I went to university I had to work to pay for my studies. I decided to study law. It is a job where you can make a lot of money. That was the thing that motivated me. Meanwhile I was doing very well in my job because what I was doing at that stage was aligned with one of my talents. I love creating things and I was in a job where I could be creative and technical, but I did not make money.
I quit my job and started working in court. This was the worst time of my life. I was very unhappy in my job, I did not get on with my boss and my colleagues, and I never seemed to enjoy the work I was doing. Yet I was doing what I was qulified to do. It was only when I faced retrenchment and I received work at a high school as a teacher, that I realsed that although I was not making a lot of money I was always happy. It was a talent that I received and I was good at it. I then became a teacher and did not regret one day of it.
I am not saying that it is wrong to make money, but you can make money and be very happy in life when you do the work and live the the life you are made for.
Our Talents makes us who we are. When we are good at something we enjoy it and we thrive on it because we succeed. We succeed because we received the manual for our success at birth when we received our talents from God.
True happiness involves the full use of one’ s power and talents – John W Gardner
If you find yourself unhappy in life today, are you are doing what you were born to do?
I was driving home the other day and I could not help but notice the backpacker at the side of the road. There was something about the young man that just got my attention. He was different to the other backpackers we always see around here – this young man had no shoes on his feet. At first I reckoned he was a beggar and I carried on driving, yet there was something bugging me about this man. Almost as if I had to take care of him somehow.
On my way back home from golf I noticed the man again. He was standing talking to one of the security guards, and that is when I noticed the printing on his T shirt. I suddenly knew why he had my attention from the start. This man was carrying a remarkable life story with him throughout the country. A story that made me think and one that I would like to share with you.
The young man is Jaco Swart. He was a professional black-water tubing guide, until a very fatal day. In March 2000 their party was on an ill-fated kloofing outing in the Storms River gorge. A flash flood washed away the party to their death, but Jaco managed to cling onto a tiny ledge just above the raging water. He had a badly injured knee and was stranded on the ledge for 27 hours before he was rescued. While Jaco was holding on for dear life waiting to be rescued he made a promise to God, that if he survived this terrible ordeal he would do a long and tough hike as a sign of gratitude.
Jaco started his journey in Cape Town at the V&A waterfront, before heading down the Cape Peninsula, past Camps Bay and around Cape Point. He will continue his way up the coast of South Africa until he reaches the border at Mozambique. He will then turn inland towards Swaziland before heading to the boundary fence of the Kruger National Park. He will then continue north to the mouth of the Orange river, and from there head back home to Cape Town. I would like to appeal to all South Africans out there. If you meet this extraordinary young man along the way please assist him with something to eat or any donations . He is out there being a true pilgrim for God.
I cannot help but think what do we do to say thank you to God for all we have in our lives. Some of us might say that we never turned around at death’s door step. My live is pretty ordinary. Well think again because although God might not have saved your life in an extraordinary way on one specific occasion that changed your direction. He is doing it every day by granting you another day to live your life.
Every day is a gift of life from God.
What do we do to say thank you for that gift?