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Joy, Rest, and the Energy of God
The flow of life is coming from and through me through those energy gates. My physical body is energised. My mind is connected to the eternal realm, connected to the ability to see, perceive, have insight and understanding. My ability to communicate, my heart, my connection and emotions that are connected to creation, my grounding gate connecting me to creation, the creative gate, and the different capacities for joy within me: all of those produce a state in which I choose that I always have enough of everything. That is the state of being I live in.
Now, in the past, when I’ve thought about my day, I’ve considered what it’s going to require. When I dug the last big hole I dug, which was for a pond, I got down about 18 inches and hit clay, big solid red clay. It was horrible, really thick and claggy. Trying to dig it out with a pick was really hard work. And I thought, this is going to require some physical strength and perseverance and attitude, which is the key. I could have got down 18 inches into clay and decided this was going to take me days. And my attitude would have lost its joy. But I didn’t lose my joy. I set my joy on what was before me. It says Jesus was joyful for the joy that was set before him. So when I was digging the pond, I began to imagine and see it in completion. I started to think about the animals, the wildlife that was going to be in the pond, the plants. I started to think about that while I was digging. So I was joyful during the process because my attitude was focused on the result of what I was digging, not just on the hard labour itself. And it was hard labour. I can’t say it was easy.
But there was also potential danger in swinging a pick in a pit. So I set my mind on protection while I was doing it, and I began to see in advance some things that could happen. There were rocks hidden in the clay, and if I hit one of them, the pick could have come back and hit me or slipped and hit my leg, digging in close quarters. I managed the danger by choosing to see the possibilities and avoiding the negative ones. On a few occasions I saw a stone and instead of swinging at it, I went to the side and dug it out rather than hitting it hard. I saw it in an instant.
I also had a choice of how much work I wanted to do. I had three or four days to dig the pond, because I was digging it while Debbie was away. I wanted to surprise her when she got back, because we had talked about it, and she had said it would be quite nice, but I hadn’t said I was going to do it. I thought, I’m going to bless her with a pond, so when she comes back there’s going to be a big hole we can fill together. So I had a few days, and there were other things I also wanted to do. I didn’t just dig a hole for ten hours a day. I dug for five hours a day and then did something else for the next three or four. I managed the time sensibly.
And I didn’t run out of energy, and I didn’t get muscularly tired. I’m not a muscular person. I’ve never been a bodybuilder or particularly strong physically; I’m quite wiry. But I know what happens when you swing a pick for five or six hours. The muscle fibres break and then repair and build up and get stronger. I didn’t want stronger arms particularly, so I managed that. I engaged with the muscles of my arms to be able to work without breaking and being damaged, and therefore without feeling the pain of the activity. I never felt any pain or muscle soreness, and I never do, regardless of what I’m doing, because I manage that in my own choice and consciousness.
It’s the same with walking. When I was in Rome for five days, we walked thirty-odd thousand steps every day. I never got tired, because I managed it. I’m working with my body, in cooperation with it, for what I want to do, and I have to think about that consciously and choose to engage in the physical with the spiritual energy I have. I’ve learned to do this; it didn’t happen overnight. It is my expectation and my choice to consciously be aware that I always have enough physical, emotional, and mental energy to do whatever I’m doing, and to do it joyfully, because that’s where the energy comes from. Being joyful strengthens you. Jesus said, my joy is in you, so your joy can be full. He is the source of my joy. When I’m drinking of that river, it’s a river of joy and delight.
Living from a State of Well-Being
So I am joyfully receiving joy, and it’s like I live in rest. I’m at rest even when I’m digging a hole, because my spirit, soul, and body are in a place of rest. I’m not striving, not anxious, not worried, not concerned. I’m living in a state of rest, and that state of rest is a state of well-being. God spoke to me: live loving, love living. That is how I live. I am energised by the love of God for me. Life is joyfully lived, and I live in a way that I love other people in the same way. I don’t hold things against people. I ensure that I’m emotionally balanced and healthy, not angry, bitter, or resentful, because if you live in negative energy emotionally and mentally, you will lower your frequency and make yourself susceptible to disease. Dis-ease: you’re not at ease, not at rest. Your spirit, soul, and body are in conflict and not in union, and that’s not a good thing. The higher frequencies of love and joy are positive, healthy, energising frequencies. Misery, anger, fear, resentment, bitterness: these are all low frequencies which will affect the physical body, lower its energy, and make it susceptible to harm.
So make sure we live in joy. Now, joy is not the absence of difficult circumstances that you have to manage. It doesn’t mean things won’t go wrong. Although you can choose realities for blessing, and I live in the blessing of God, sometimes things happen around me that I need to manage. I remain in joy even within sorrow. Someone could die, and I’m not going to be happy about that. I would be genuinely sorry and sorrowful, but I can still be joyful within the sorrow, because joy is the energy I’m blessed with. Life is worthy to be lived, and even in the sadness of losing someone, God can bring good out of it. I look to engage the good that he brings and come back to a state of rest, not anxious, not worried, not frantic, but living within that framework. Joy is the economy of life. It’s what we live from. It’s a well-being economy. I live in an attitude of mental awareness, well-being, mindfulness, living in the present moment, not in the past or the future, but in the present moment, which contains all the grace, mercy, and love I need to be fully whole and healthy and living from that state of immortality.
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