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The Power to turn water into wine

I have been asking the Lord to explain the first miracle to me, about the water turning into wine. Not long after, I came across a book written by Dr. Joseph Murphy. The Power of the Subconscious Mind.

Years ago, I read Napoleon Hill and Norman Vincent Peel who took the knowledge of Joseph Murphy and taught many people to think constructively. President Trump said in a documentary of his life that he attended the church of Norman Vincent Peel. He said that he could not wait to go to church because of the teachings. If you listen to Trump, he is always calling things of the future into being. He talks like a prophet. Aligning his words with Mark 11:23 You shall have whatever you say. He speaks with authority. Sometimes the things he says sound ridiculous, but this is how he became president.

You have to marry a thought. Jesus and his disciples were invited to a wedding where he turned water into wine. The water of the Bible is the word, and the following scripture fits here perfectly.

2 Pet 1:4: “God has given us exceedingly great and precious promises that by these we may be partakers of his divine nature.”

We hold scripture (water) in our thoughts. Meditate on it like pouring water into vessels and filling them to the brim. We make our minds full of the water of the Word of God, until it turns into wine. Wine means the realisation of desires; you are always turning water into wine when you are a constructive thinker.

Josh 1:8: “Keep this book of the law in your mouth night and day and you will have good success.”

Psalm 1 says He who meditates on the word of God day and night will be like a tree planted by streams of water. Whatever he does will prosper.

I have used this kind of meditation many times in my life. At first, we do it in a parrot fashion, and that’s alright. But if you keep speaking the Word constantly, one of those scriptures is going to fall into your spirit, and you will know that you have it. The moment that scripture falls into your spirit, you have a certainty inside, you will have what you say! Yongi Chow calls it ‘belly faith’.

You can’t just sit down somewhere and think that you will receive belly faith overnight. Only meditating on the word constantly will cause a knowing that you know, you know, that you will have what you say. In some cases, it has taken me months to generate faith in this way. Once the word has produced the God-kind of faith, nothing will or can stop you from having what you believe. Once the thing you hoped for is formed in your mind as a reality, it will most surely come because you do not doubt. The marriage has come to pass. You are now pleasing God! We were created to live by faith and bring glory to God in this way.

When it happened, you turned water into wine.

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For those of you who would like to listen to the audiobook of Joseph Murphy, you can watch this video.

We talk to atoms

Amp Col 3:23: “Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men.”

I have been reading Wallace Wattle, who has this wonderful way of making biblical statements by saying them differently. He words the above scripture in this way- “Treat every task as sacred service.” The reason is that if you do every task as if for God, you would do it as if God were doing it with love, joy, kindness, and all the other fruits of the Spirit; that particular physical item would restructure itself to be blessed.

The reason why I am making this statement is that we all know that everything that is visible is made up of atoms. I asked the internet what the human body would look like to an atom. It answered that a human would look like a starry sky to an atom. A hundred thousand atoms could be aligned on a single line of a fingerprint. Everything is made of atoms of different atomic values. Every mineral has different amounts of protons.

A gentleman who makes a living from transporting things with his bakkie said that the bakkie has one and a half million kilometres on it, never been rebuilt. But he looks after his bakkie, is careful with it, thanks his bakkie, and explains that he needs it to keep going because he is providing for his family. Charles Capps has the story of a scientist who could prove that atoms are volatile. They react to the words spoken as commands. We know that plants could die if they are always rejected or treated unkindly, and there are beautiful photos of how the atomic structure of water could change if treated badly. By this, I mean if that person were to talk to such a plant or water it with authority, it would grow wonderfully, and the structure of water would change depending on how it was being spoken to on a frequent basis. We can bless or curse.

When God spoke everything into existence in John 1:1, it was not a problem to create all things with a word because He made all the atoms, and they formed into whatever He commanded them to do. He created man out of those same atoms and gave man dominion over everything he created out of atoms. Adam lost his ability to speak with Godlike authority to atoms. The result was the curse. In Christ, we have been given this authority to speak to atoms, as we can see from Mark 11:23.

Mar 11:23-24: “Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the sea, and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].”

Mark 9:23: “Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

We have Christ’s authority because Christ is in us.

Abundant thinking

We wish our readers a prosperous and productive new year. May a greater understanding come to us all of the abundance of good things God has already given us. We have written many letters on the subject of guarding the heart. All of these letters may be found on our website. For the year ahead of us, I am asking God to renew my mind as to what can be achieved with a clean conscience.

The imaginations and thoughts of the heart are the factory of the creative power that is within us. Because we are created in the image of God, it stands to reason that we who belong to Christ should be completely provided for holistically. However, so many people who are believers are not taking part in the abundant life that is Christ in us. And even we who are in Christ find ourselves struggling financially, physically, and spiritually from time to time. It has happened to me many times that my finances come to a standstill, and even my health and all the other spheres of my life have been tested. It has always been my own fault that I have to learn all over to be Christ-centred and not self-centred. To be Christ-centred is to trust in the Lord with all my heart and not lean on my own understanding. Do not look at the problem; look at Jesus. The imaginations and thoughts of the heart must be filled with Jesus and the abundant life He represents in us.

In John 10:10, Jesus is life and life abundantly. I have been taking the time to listen to podcasts of people teaching wealth daily, and it has changed my understanding of the character of God when I compare what they say to what the Bible says. The fact is that a lack-thinking is the reason for poverty. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs 3)

The only way to fix poverty on Earth is for all of us to become rich.

But then we must activate the abundant life by keeping our minds on the things we hope for and not the things we fear. So, once again, look at Jesus and the way he did things. Let’s remind ourselves of how he met the disciples on the beach of the Sea of Galilee after He rose from the grave.

They had been fishing all night and caught nothing, they admitted when Jesus asked them if they had food. This is a picture of us struggling and perspiring for money, working hard, the sweat of our brow. When we open ourselves to take part in the abundance that God has prepared for us, we receive through gratitude, visions, and instructions on what to do so that God can provide. Jesus said, throw the net out on the right side of the boat. They received Godly instruction and obeyed, and the result was that the fish jumped into their net and the net did not tear. This is a demonstration of how to take part of the abundant lifestyle that is in Christ. As you can see the one lifestyle is a curse while the other is a blessing. The one is lack-thinking, the other is the abundance-thinker.

Let us ask the Lord to increase our thinking and expand our minds so that we can become abundance-thinkers. We can receive our instruction on our financial decisions in heavenly places and bring the abundance of heaven to earth.

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