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The Big Question is: Should I Be Taking Responsibility?
The first step always looks the hardest
Are my problems either caused or allowed by God, or am I just having problems – or am I, somehow, responsible for the problems and pain in my life?
The foregoing question is funneled into four apparent possible answers …we’ll look at a fifth possibility in a moment, but let’s look more closely at the four we’ve enumerated so far and ask, why it might be important to know which one is correct?
One reason it could be important to know is that if you are beginning to have a desire to overcome whatever challenges you are having in your life, knowing the cause may open the door to the cure.
Just looking at our problems from the vantage point of possible causes can often provide cures. If you believe that God either caused or allowed your specific problem you will tend to believe that it’s up to God to fix it. Well, if God caused or allowed it for some undetermined (to you) purpose, then how on earth can you fix it? You’re either a victim of God’s deliberate action against you or the fact that He didn’t protect you from it …in other words, God allowed it (and which I refer to as a religious doctrine that comes too close to saying that God caused it!)
If you are willing to just consider the possibility that you somehow brought about the difficulty – you may begin to see the way out or around it.
Taking the responsibility for all of what goes on in our lives brings about a new-found freedom to fix things …including poor health and financial lack.
Healing power and spiritual healing are available to us, but not if we refuse to take personal responsibility for accessing both.
Let’s stop for a moment and begin to look carefully at some limiting beliefs and then consider if we are willing to replace them with beliefs that take away all limits.
How can that be accomplished? …Easily if we are willing to take the responsibility for getting rid of the former and acquiring the latter.
What do you take responsibility for?
Let’s cut to the chase: Taking the responsibility for our present state in life will begin the moment we ask one very simple question, did I somehow cause this? If, just for example, you have a health condition such as arthritis or asthma and your doctor has told you that the particular form of the disease attacking you is incurable …your challenge is that it is quite difficult to believe that it is possible for you to take the personal responsibility for affecting a cure.
If you can take the first step, which is merely to ask the above referenced question, phrased a bit differently: Is it possible that I somehow brought on this condition? …that’s all, just consider the possibility by asking the question and you will be on the way to getting over it, if you really want to!
In a recent podcast, I told the true story which illustrates exactly what I am talking about. A woman in her mid seventies was in a hospital dying of cancer, her doctors had declared her to have only days, at best, left to live. She had a high fever, was in great pain, a tumor in her abdomen was so large that she appeared to be in the latter stages of pregnancy.
Her sister and brother-in-law had invited me to visit her with them …and were excitedly telling her that they had witnessed several healings …she stated that she didn’t want to live because she was in too much pain. Her sister, Lois, said, “Well if you weren’t in pain would you want to live?”
The woman’s expression indicated that she was considering the possibility. I saw the glimmer of hope in her eyes and joined in, “Yes, if you didn’t have any pain, would you want to live?”
She struggled to rise up a bit and glared at me, “Of course I’d want to live, you fool.” I laughed so hard that I nearly lost my balance and was in danger of collapsing. Within a half hour the fever and tumor were both gone and the gray pallor of death caused by the cancer was replaced by a healthy pink glow.
She left the hospital the next day and the last report I had she is now in her eighties and is still tending her own garden, doing her own housework, driving her own car and doing all her own shopping as well as walking for about an hour every day.
Let’s look at the dynamics… and they are, oh so, simple. Once she admitted she wanted to live and wanted to get rid of the pain she was willing to look at ways she could have brought it on …her causes may be totally different than yours, so I’m being led NOT to enumerate them. The point is she was willing to take responsibility for changing her mind and no longer being a victim.
Oh yes, I promised to bring up the fifth possibility – “a spiritual entity” wreaking havoc – which was the case with above referenced woman who (don’t forget) the doctors had given up for dead, but lived. Part of her “cure” was getting rid of the “entity.”
I “lifted” the following excerpt from another true story I tell on the website (you can read the entire story by going to the menu bar at the top and click on the tab “About Us” and scroll down to Brad Cullen) …for now, here’s the excerpt:
[Quote] With this backdrop we go back to her fifteen year old female patient. The doctor had told both mother and daughter that she suspected involvement of “spiritual entities” … and wanted to know if they would mind her involving a man who deals in such things.
Enter the anonymous one, which would be me. After the doctor made the introductions, the girl, a very bright, sophisticated young lady, told me in no uncertain terms that she was not religious, her mother seated at her side, nodding in obvious agreement while the doctor looked on impassively. They both indicated their trust in the doctor however, but neither had any faith in God they insisted almost eagerly. I responded to this by basically saying that it wasn’t important.
It took about ten minutes of history-taking for me to realize what was at the root of the girl’s problem. I shocked all three women by bluntly saying and getting the girl to agree that her physical problems were being caused by her desire to go back to England. I asked the girl and her mother what kind of credence they placed on the doctor’s “diagnosis” of spiritual entities attacking the girl. They both admitted that it was a “bit scary,” but if it was possible they were certainly willing for me to deal with the issue.
I told the girl she had all the “authority” to deal with the problem herself …and I told her how. I said, “I realize that you are not religious, in fact, both you and your mother are somewhat anti-religious as is the doctor, here. In my mind that isn’t a bad thing …in fact, for you, it is actually a good thing because you don’t have any preconceived ideas. If you are comfortable with it, I want you to say something, if not just tell me that you’d prefer not to …okay?”
She was very attentive and not at all reluctant in her agreement. “This is not in any way religious, but it is spiritual,” I continued, “what I want you to say, if you’re comfortable with it, is simply – ‘I want God’s will, whatever that is and whatever it means’ – can you say that?”
“Sure,” she said, without hesitating, and surprisingly repeated the words almost verbatim and emphatically, “…I want God’s will whatever that means!”
“Stand up,” I told her. “Now say: ‘I take full authority over this body and all feeling of lethargy and nausea get out of me, NOW!’ ”
She followed the instructions… I saw the immediate transformation in her and laughed at the startled look on her face …and asked her how she felt. “I feel great,” she stammered… “Say it,” I urged.
“I do, I really feel wonderful” she said, looking amazed and happy.
“Just remember to deal honestly with what is going on. You do not need to stay in Africa, your mom and dad will arrange for you to go back home if that is what you really want – am I right, mum?”
“Yes, of course,” her mother said. I gave the girl some additional instructions about how to deal with spiritual entities in the event she was ever bothered again. [End quote]
Is this story for you? The point (as always) is to go direct and ask. Take the responsibility for your life …ask – The Big Question.
In Freedom,
Brad
Ar you taking responsibility? Not sure listen here: Podcast 30 Sept 30 2010 Taking Responsibility
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