On the blog Help From Above, written last February, we have left a hanging issues on the importance of coincidences. We have discuss how this Divine intervention are often overlooked and considered just as pure luck....Now maybe I have called your attention enough to draw your focus on its Role in our evolution.
Considering tiny details that somehow caught our attention but have no significant value at the onset or at least for the time being have no connecting direction on our daily lives...may be just a waste of time, BUT looking at the bigger picture, these little strokes create the situations that compromises our future.
Why therefore I encourage you to have a Journal (see The Benefit of a Diary) to retold the story to yourself...and on my case I create Visual Manuscript, which does not only retold events but also preserve images. All may seems irrelevant or pointless yet base on my experience these re-focus and gives new light to random events, that when I take it to a deeper understanding create the fullness of my life story. These collections of tiny events (details) transpose into a bigger picture of the process being taught in my life.
(1) How to create instances that draw more divine guidance?
The main point of our existence as a human being is to live for others and for GOD.
Now, after our game we return to our REALITY. The reality that we want for our life by creating opportunity and situations that we want to linger into. If you do not want to stay in poverty don't focus on want you do not have...give your attention to what you have already and make it grow. Some guru of positivism will teach you to focus on what you want and advise that you attract those want to you. Positivism in concept are nice sounding but they just doesn't work on the long term. How can you give something you do not have? Or how can you create without the raw material?
LOOK FOR THE SEED
Some preacher would even quote you uplifting verses to utter daily, which is a very sound advise and I believed that should be our attitude most specially in crucial moment YET as I will say again, these does not totally solve everything. We must create the situation...this step is further than positivism or declaring faith. Some people will pray for fish but a wise man will hunt for fish. Inspiration usually comes to a busy body.
We must create a total atmosphere for prosperity to attract prosperity. We pray to God for the right person to come but of course you must take step to meet someone.
There was a guy who is keep on praying to God for a good job but when someone ask how many company he went to submit application he replied he visited only one establishment. Most believers in God look for miracles in almost every aspect of their lives but what they fail to realized that God often gave important lessons along the way. He can give to you a House and Lot instantly according to His riches and glory, after all He is the owner of the universe, But do you think that is His ultimate plan for us? Why would God promise the Land of Milk and honey to Moses and the rest of the Israelite and yet allowed 40 years to pass before it was realized? In fact most of the elders including Moses who had been given the original promised did not enter the place. Why is that? There are many reasons and one of them because of disobedience. The lesson we can draw from Israelites Exodus are the importance of our "readiness" to received the blessing. God seeks the heart.
Can your emotion really handle the situation we are dreaming? Do you really know how to love or take care of a baby before rally having a baby. Most failure happen because of unpreparedness. Is your psychological wallet ready for the Millions you been targeting?
Now if we want the situations...create the situation...by preparing to received it.
PREPARING FOR THE BLESSINGS
Reading or educating ourselves Make us Prepared.
"Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ." -- Romans 10:17
Hearing the word of God is not a one time event. Attending Bible study should be an activity one must include in ones itinerary as well as having "Quiet Time" as devotion. Quiet time mean a one on one talk with God. Jesus Christ as an example regularly pray and we can read many situations in His ministry that He often prayed long hours, from dusk till dawn. "Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed." (Mark 1:35) When we are awake early in the morning while it is still dark we can follow Jesus' example and pray to God. More so, to us being only human that have the tendencies to be tempted on a regular basis.
How Jesus Christ prepared on the night before he was crucified should be our guiding principle. "who, in the days of His flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered, and having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him." (Heb. 5:7-8).
So when we want some Divine guidance to happen to us to avoid making decission that might imperil our life and our family, we have to be Spiritualy prepared. Realizationism on the other hand gathers experiences that will equipped us with the readiness for future challenges. The importance of focusing to coincidences or rather Divine Inspiration may bring us more clarity to where our direction is heading. Coincidence can deter a wrong action if we are aware of the situation, having prepared (previous knowledge) our mind from past experiences.
(2) Understanding the value of the coincidence, what it was trying to say to us.
Pre-knowledge is central to Bible Prophesy as a warning. I have a blog in Wisdom of a Fool that discusses the value of a prophesy and I suggest you take a thourough reading of it too.
While Prophesy focus on things to come in general theme, most coincidences happen for our personal directives. Both are important to be learn or none of them should have been written or revealed to us. Coincidence gave us a short glimpse of the future as well. Sometimes this are in symbolic form too like a prophesy.
I can not pin-point the purpose of your own coincidences because as I have said, these are for your personal benefit. And often, you alone can determine if the situation is indeed a coincidence or just a daily routine. Seeing someone as a long lost friend may ring a bell to you but to your friend it simply mean a reunion. Seeing the person may remind you of a project you have forgotten to finish or a former advocasy you have set aside.
THE CASE OF URGENCY
Divine guidance although important doesn't RUSH. Inspiration from coincidence are often soft-spoken and not intimidating. It usually happen in series and not a one time blow. That is the difference between an Evil thought which are always intimidating you with the urgency to be accomplish at once. I think Satan want temptation to act fast for fear we might renew our mind and "realized" the truth.
When in doubt DONT.
One of the reason for early pre-knowledge by educating and exercising our mind is to alert us on matters that are guided by God and not that of a devil. When I first had the coincidental moment of seeing my purpose as an artist for God (1985) it have to be impress on me by another 10 years and then another 10 years to put this into writing.
Before Paul was called; he have to be educated first with Jewish laws and religion. He had the faith already in him prior to the Damascus incident. Although he had accused first-Christians of spreading blasphemy against the God of Israel, it is clear that he had strong devotion to obey God. That same knowledge of the scripture he had from past education was utilized by God to spread Christianity. Before David killed Goliath using slingshot, he had vast experience as a sheperd hitting lions as practicum.
Determining a situation whether brought by an angel or a devil requires a discerning heart. This is in parallel to knowing what kind of sufferings you are experiencing. One must know he is in pain because of past sin and or must determine if this is a test from God or suffering for the right advocasy.
The effect of right guidance never change and constant. The rule are always the same and the purpose doesn't alter or contradict itself.
(3) Why coincidence occur on this specific problem and not on other trivial matters.
The answer to this are what we have already discussed above. This simply mean that the trivial matters are not God's intention but are self-inflicted. God want you to focus on the real issue and not on the issue you want to be address. He simply want you to take a pause, look at Him and listen. "Never mind those other daunting images because that is not yours to fix but mine." That is what God is trying to say here.
Divine intervention are there because you needed them. God doesn't want your help on matters He will take care for Himself. He alert you on situations that you have the power to conquer. If you think God is not helping you pay your bills by giving you financial breakthrough or employment, He maybe is fixing something first so you are ready for your request.
God want to give you everything But first He want to see that you are worthy of the gift.
"Let us prepare our hearts and mind for His blessings."
"And when He had sent them away, He departed to the mountain to pray." (Mark 6:46)
When we give constant attention to something it will grow. Like when we daily tend to our garden, regularly removing weeds, watering and cultivating the soil...in like manner, our brain should be cultivated as well. We must always educate or re-educate our mind...practice your mind to think. To think of what? To think what we want to happen and must resist evil thoughts like discouragement and impossibility. It may seem hard at first especially when an immediate daunting problem knock your focus and steals your attention from the beautiful images we are trying to cultivate. It would be very helpful to divert your mind for awhile into a activity you like doing...caution here though is that we might get addicted to these activities and become dependent on its temporal joyful source.
We must remind ourselves that these activities like playing the piano, singing, or dancing are just diversion and not the destination we want to reach. It must be clear to us that we are playing for FUN and remind our selves that these are not our ultimate goal. With that kind of thinking we are able to detach ourselves as well if our diversion also fails. Playing or doing a hobby for the fun of it guarantees a more satisfied life. The problem to some is that they becoming disappointed if they did not win the game and therefore would seek another venue that might even lead them to addiction or feeling of frustrations, guilt and revenge.The main point of our existence as a human being is to live for others and for GOD.
Now, after our game we return to our REALITY. The reality that we want for our life by creating opportunity and situations that we want to linger into. If you do not want to stay in poverty don't focus on want you do not have...give your attention to what you have already and make it grow. Some guru of positivism will teach you to focus on what you want and advise that you attract those want to you. Positivism in concept are nice sounding but they just doesn't work on the long term. How can you give something you do not have? Or how can you create without the raw material?
LOOK FOR THE SEED
We must create a total atmosphere for prosperity to attract prosperity. We pray to God for the right person to come but of course you must take step to meet someone.
There was a guy who is keep on praying to God for a good job but when someone ask how many company he went to submit application he replied he visited only one establishment. Most believers in God look for miracles in almost every aspect of their lives but what they fail to realized that God often gave important lessons along the way. He can give to you a House and Lot instantly according to His riches and glory, after all He is the owner of the universe, But do you think that is His ultimate plan for us? Why would God promise the Land of Milk and honey to Moses and the rest of the Israelite and yet allowed 40 years to pass before it was realized? In fact most of the elders including Moses who had been given the original promised did not enter the place. Why is that? There are many reasons and one of them because of disobedience. The lesson we can draw from Israelites Exodus are the importance of our "readiness" to received the blessing. God seeks the heart.
Can your emotion really handle the situation we are dreaming? Do you really know how to love or take care of a baby before rally having a baby. Most failure happen because of unpreparedness. Is your psychological wallet ready for the Millions you been targeting?
Now if we want the situations...create the situation...by preparing to received it.
PREPARING FOR THE BLESSINGS
Reading or educating ourselves Make us Prepared.
"Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ." -- Romans 10:17
Hearing the word of God is not a one time event. Attending Bible study should be an activity one must include in ones itinerary as well as having "Quiet Time" as devotion. Quiet time mean a one on one talk with God. Jesus Christ as an example regularly pray and we can read many situations in His ministry that He often prayed long hours, from dusk till dawn. "Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed." (Mark 1:35) When we are awake early in the morning while it is still dark we can follow Jesus' example and pray to God. More so, to us being only human that have the tendencies to be tempted on a regular basis.
How Jesus Christ prepared on the night before he was crucified should be our guiding principle. "who, in the days of His flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered, and having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him." (Heb. 5:7-8).
So when we want some Divine guidance to happen to us to avoid making decission that might imperil our life and our family, we have to be Spiritualy prepared. Realizationism on the other hand gathers experiences that will equipped us with the readiness for future challenges. The importance of focusing to coincidences or rather Divine Inspiration may bring us more clarity to where our direction is heading. Coincidence can deter a wrong action if we are aware of the situation, having prepared (previous knowledge) our mind from past experiences.
(2) Understanding the value of the coincidence, what it was trying to say to us.
Pre-knowledge is central to Bible Prophesy as a warning. I have a blog in Wisdom of a Fool that discusses the value of a prophesy and I suggest you take a thourough reading of it too.
While Prophesy focus on things to come in general theme, most coincidences happen for our personal directives. Both are important to be learn or none of them should have been written or revealed to us. Coincidence gave us a short glimpse of the future as well. Sometimes this are in symbolic form too like a prophesy.
I can not pin-point the purpose of your own coincidences because as I have said, these are for your personal benefit. And often, you alone can determine if the situation is indeed a coincidence or just a daily routine. Seeing someone as a long lost friend may ring a bell to you but to your friend it simply mean a reunion. Seeing the person may remind you of a project you have forgotten to finish or a former advocasy you have set aside.
THE CASE OF URGENCY
Divine guidance although important doesn't RUSH. Inspiration from coincidence are often soft-spoken and not intimidating. It usually happen in series and not a one time blow. That is the difference between an Evil thought which are always intimidating you with the urgency to be accomplish at once. I think Satan want temptation to act fast for fear we might renew our mind and "realized" the truth.
When in doubt DONT.
One of the reason for early pre-knowledge by educating and exercising our mind is to alert us on matters that are guided by God and not that of a devil. When I first had the coincidental moment of seeing my purpose as an artist for God (1985) it have to be impress on me by another 10 years and then another 10 years to put this into writing.
Before Paul was called; he have to be educated first with Jewish laws and religion. He had the faith already in him prior to the Damascus incident. Although he had accused first-Christians of spreading blasphemy against the God of Israel, it is clear that he had strong devotion to obey God. That same knowledge of the scripture he had from past education was utilized by God to spread Christianity. Before David killed Goliath using slingshot, he had vast experience as a sheperd hitting lions as practicum.
Determining a situation whether brought by an angel or a devil requires a discerning heart. This is in parallel to knowing what kind of sufferings you are experiencing. One must know he is in pain because of past sin and or must determine if this is a test from God or suffering for the right advocasy.
The effect of right guidance never change and constant. The rule are always the same and the purpose doesn't alter or contradict itself.
(3) Why coincidence occur on this specific problem and not on other trivial matters.
The answer to this are what we have already discussed above. This simply mean that the trivial matters are not God's intention but are self-inflicted. God want you to focus on the real issue and not on the issue you want to be address. He simply want you to take a pause, look at Him and listen. "Never mind those other daunting images because that is not yours to fix but mine." That is what God is trying to say here.
Divine intervention are there because you needed them. God doesn't want your help on matters He will take care for Himself. He alert you on situations that you have the power to conquer. If you think God is not helping you pay your bills by giving you financial breakthrough or employment, He maybe is fixing something first so you are ready for your request.
God want to give you everything But first He want to see that you are worthy of the gift.
"Let us prepare our hearts and mind for His blessings."
"And when He had sent them away, He departed to the mountain to pray." (Mark 6:46)
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.-- Matthew 6:33
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