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SECRET TWO
You, yes YOU can acquire and use the same faith Jesus had – “God-faith”
Jesus said that anyone, that is you and that is me, who believes enough (enough being the operative word) will perform even more of the very same and even greater miracles than he performed.
Does your religion miss this?
A reasonable question: Why have the religious missed this?
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So that we don’t miss something vital here, it is important to understand something, are you ready? Jesus did NOT perform any miracles. What he said about this is, “The works you have seen me do, ‘I’ did not do, but my Dad in me, he did the works.”
Therefore, we needn’t get hung up on being miracle workers …if we become able to do the very same things that Jesus did (and, don’t forget, even more and greater than what he did, Daddy/Mommy, the SOURCE, will be doing them and not us.
The two biggest obstacles to being who Jesus was as a man, and doing what Jesus did as a man are, one, thinking that “we” have to do them and two, trying to take any credit for doing them …both are ego traps that stop the flow of healing power and spiritual healing.
This is the perfect time to introduce the “Brad Cullen approach” (promised earlier) to get to immediate excitement… after waking up to the doldrums… you know, confusion, depression, fear, guilt …that kind of stuff, just in case you face the same kind of morning challenges that I do, here are the two steps to the “Brad Cullen Approach:”
The first step is the formula, the only formula Jesus provided to attain instant and genuine righteousness. It changed my life …because inherent in step one is a very simple action I can take.
Remember the story Jesus told about the two men who went up to the temple for prayer? Something missed, again, by the religious – something we never have to miss again:
These two guys were standing in the Temple praying. The first one was praying like this: “Oh God, I thank you that you have made me better than other men, for I don’t lie, I don’t steal and I don’t cheat. I am honest in all my business affairs and, twice each week I don’t even eat! I don’t commit adultery and I give ten percent of everything I have to the church. I especially thank you that I am better than that guy over there.”
The guy “over there,” to whom he was making reference, was so down on himself that he could barely lift his head …he was beating on his chest and crying out, “God be merciful unto such a sinner as I.”
Some say the place for sinners is Hell.
Here’s the amazing thing about this first step …it is so simple. Jesus said it was this latter fellow who went home justified (the word in the original is the same word that is often translated as “righteous”) in God’s sight – get this, instead of the other man who looked so good in the eyes of his fellow church goers and the rest of the world…
The thing that is hidden in this story is that the guy beating on his chest was a Roman tax collector – Roman tax collectors were notorious for being cheats, skimming tax receipts for their own personal use and “taking it out in trade” from poor widows. These guys were “BAD” by every human standard …by the very same standard the other guy, the religious one, was “GOOD.” That standard is upside down according to Jesus in this story.
Just for a moment, see something, really see it: “We are all in a state of corruption and fall short of the glory of God.” Feeling righteous about ourselves by human standards just gets us farther away from true righteousness. I saw in a flash what Jesus said… if we look at another person with lust, heterosexual, bi-sexual or homosexual, it’s all the same, and who is not guilty? By that standard we are all adulterers. If we have ever been angry with anyone we have already murdered them. Who, then, is not a murderer?
Once I saw this, that is, that we are all murderers and adulterers, I began to realize that I had something to share with those who have the ears to hear… There is only one prayer to gain the righteousness of God …“be merciful unto such an abject sinner as I.” Admittedly, it is easy for me because I have screwed up in so many ways, but the truth is in this simple prayer – and I have found it extremely beneficial to beat on my chest while doing so; silly? Perhaps, but amazingly I have had people tell me that when they did it that something almost magical happened – their praying was transformed into communication that had seemed stifled.
Now onto step two of the “Brad Cullen Approach.” I was in Maui for several months on a consulting assignment. I was jogging about five miles on one of my favorite beaches anywhere I have experienced, Sugar Beach, just a few miles out of Kihei. I was asking how to ratchet up my faith …and what really was this “God-faith” Jesus said he had and for us to get? The following words came to me …and just about everyone I have shared them with has felt a powerful impact when they dared put them into practice. I offer them to you:
“I am in and of the will of God. Your presence and power are upon me and I have and want nothing else; and no other thought or feeling will have a permanent place in me. I AM.”
Are these your God?
That’s it, that’s God-faith; these words are the embodiment of what Jesus said to a group of religious cats who were hung up on some history …”we have Moses and Abraham,” they were saying. …Jesus’ response, “Before there was an Abraham, I AM!”
The connection is there for anyone …it need only be declared. Here is the secret, when you finally say it, the consciousness will break over you that it isn’t “YOU” saying it, YOU are allowing your one and only perfect PARENT, SPIRIT, SOURCE to speak through you …I AM.
In Freedom,
Brad Cullen
Don’t miss the podcast that goes with this article, click here! and scroll down to podcast # 5. You don’t want to miss it! Podcast 5 June 23 2010 Seven Secrets Pt 2