“The Secret” Can it really be truth?

Several have asked me what I think about the “Secret” It is a movie and book that has gained an enormous amount of fame.

The secret is all about changing our mind from the religious training we have had.

I have been in many gatherings and have heard a lot of negative talk about The Secret. Many think it is another New Age deception or another doctrine of demons or an Angel of light.

I am so thankful that I know the Word. I know the Word when I hear it no matter where it comes from. I’m also thankful that since I’ve been 11 years old, I’ve studied scripture. The Lord taught me many years ago. He said, “Listen for my voice, and listen for my voice in everyone you meet; listen for my voice in the circumstances that are raised up in your life. Most of all, when you read or listen to something, always look for truth. If you do that, you’ll find truth everywhere.” So I have not been fearful since I was a young man about reading anything, hearing anything, reading anything that might come from Buddhism or Hinduism or – you name it. I have found truth everywhere! One of the biggest problems as you are raised with the Christian mind-set, is the belief that only Christians have the truth. That is a big problem! Most Christians think that only they have the truth. They don’t think they all have the truth; Most just think their particular denomination has the truth. So, they are taught fear.

Most Christians don’t dare read anything from Buddhism or Hinduism or any other religion. But not only that, they for the most part don’t even go to different denominations. You don’t fellowship with other Christians because they don’t believe like you do.

When I first sat down and watched this movie, “The Secret”, I was overwhelmed because what I realized as I watched it, and I listened to what they were saying, I realized that I had been living this way for years. I realized that all they were saying is that how you think and what you speak creates for you the life that you are living today. They don’t say it in religious terms. In fact, they talk about the universe and they talk about the source. But you know, when I hear people talk that way, I just change the terminology. When they say, “Source has everything you need”, I change that terminology and say, “Spirit has everything I need.”

So, I began to really look into the scriptures because I knew what I was hearing was spiritual. However I was in a meeting last year, and there were 4 preachers there. They began to talk about The Secret, how it was deceiving people; it was teaching people how to live from their soul-life. Then I went into a Christian bookstore later on, and I found a book there that was written about how The Secret is a deception. Now this is why Christians never advance because they oppose everything that is not wrapped in the correct terminology. We sang a song last night, “I’m raising up in my house again. I’m bringing salvation without sin. I’m tearing down that carnal man, in every temple where he stands; I’m rising up in a brand new word in a voice you’ve never heard.”

You cannot really experience Kingdom living when you are fearful. You just can’t do it! If you are fearful you won’t read something that you think might be deception. I am not saying there is no deception in some writings, however I learned years ago before I read something I would always ask the spirit to reveal the truth in what I read. Jesus said that you could not ask God for a fish and get a stone. You will ALWAYS get what you ask for.

Romans 12:2
Be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

One of the first things we need to renew our minds in is to believe what God says regardless of what religious teachers or anyone else says. I was in a meeting recently where one of the brothers said “Everyone believes in Jesus, they just don’t believe what he says.”

The only problem that we have – and I’m including myself, is that we are unbelievers. We believe a lot of things, but most of the things, that even Jesus taught, we don’t really believe. And when we hear somebody else teaching the things that He taught, without the terminology, we say it is deception because they are not saying it in our language. They are not speaking about God or Jesus, and they are speaking about the source. Well I would ask you, what is the source? The Source, God, has everything that we could ever need, the most glorious, wonderful, magnificent essence of all that He is, is available to us.

One of the criticisms of religious people is, they say the Secret is teaching prosperity. I would have to ask, what is wrong with prosperity? The reason most of us are not prosperous is we still have that poverty mentality. We still think that there is something godly about being in poverty.

Jesus never taught poverty. In fact He said “Ask and it is given.” Do we really believe that? He also said “Seek first the Kingdom of God and all things shall be added to you.” He said if we ask anything and do not doubt we can have anything we ask for.

Mark 11:22-24 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Christians all over the world today teach that God will put cancer on you to teach you something. Yet Jesus said it is the thief who comes to kill and destroy.

Who is this thief that kills, steals and destroys? Well, at Pentecost, I learned it was the devil. You know, I didn’t know very much about the devil until I was in Pentecostal circles. They taught me the power of the devil. In fact, I learned at Pentecost that the devil was much more powerful than God, because he will steal your children. He will harass you every day of your life, and if you don’t walk a straight and narrow way, if you don’t bring your body into subjection, and if you just miss God a little bit, that devil is going to get you.

One day, I discovered who the enemy really was. It wasn’t anybody outside of me. It was my carnal mind that would not allow me to believe in the simplicity of the gospel message It was my religious mind that convinced me that to be sick was either God teaching me something or I had sinned some way that caused the sickness to come.

That whole teaching about the devil and the power and the ability that he has is all fables. If it was ever true, the New Testament nullifies his power anyway. The Apostle Paul said that we have been delivered from the power of darkness and we have been translated into the Kingdom. How could the devil have any power over you if you believe that? That is why I say we are believing unbelievers. It is the thief that comes to kill, to steal, and to destroy.

When you hear some teaching like The Secret, and right away that religious mind, more than anything, comes in and tries to steal that which you are hearing and rob you from that truth, because it is not wrapped in Christian terminology.

The Secret is one of the most powerful things that I’ve ever read or seen in my life, because it helps me understand more clearly what Jesus taught. This is kingdom living, an abundant life full of joy and peace. It teaches that because we all come from one source we all have the same life.

Recently I’ve been seeking God, about “How do I deal with the doubt, because as a human, although I know all things are possible with You, when I ask You for something, there is just something in me that starts thinking about all the ways it is impossible for it to come?” This is what came to me. “The way you deal with doubt is, don’t think about it. When you ask me for something, you believe that it is on the way. Every time a thought comes to you, that is not doubt. Your thoughts are not doubt. The doubt is when you receive the thought; you begin to think about it and contemplate it. That is doubt.” All of us have a heart that can believe God. When you believe for something do not let the negative thoughts get a hold on you. Our carnal mind is the enemy that is the thief that will come to you and rob and steal and kill and destroy. Jesus said, “I am come that you might have life, and have it more abundantly.”

You see, the doubt comes to the mind. It never gets to the heart until you dwell on it, and when you begin to dwell on it, then it gets into your heart. So He said, “Whoever says to this mountain, be removed, cast into the sea, do not doubt in his heart, but believe those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” See, this was just after He cursed the fig tree, and they questioned, “How can that be?” This is what He answered them. “If you believe it; you can have it. Wherefore I say unto you, what things so ever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them.” You can have whatever you want. It is a matter of intent, a matter of your heart. If you desire something, that is equivalent to asking. You do not even have to verbalize it.

I wrote a series of booklets in about 1998, titled “COMING OUT OF DARKNESS,” based on Ephesians 4:18 where Paul told them, “Don’t be like the Gentiles having your minds darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them.” That has been the Christian church for 2,000 years. Being alienated from the life of God which is in them, not in reality, but only in their minds.

God has never been upset with you. God has never been angry with you, because He does not judge according to the flesh. Since He teaches you to not look at men after the flesh, do you think He does? God sees one thing, He sees who you were when you were created, when you were brought forth. That is what He sees. Knowing this truth is the only thing that brought me out of a life of sin and bondage.

Luke 11:9-13, “Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock and it shall be opened. For everyone that asks receives; and he that seeks, finds; unto him that knocks, it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?”

All the years that I was searching for truth, that verse came to me many times, “You are asking for God, so don’t think I will give you anything else.” So when I began to be accused of being a New Age teacher, a few years ago I decided to find out what ‘New Age’ is.” I began to listen to people like Wayne Dyer & Deepak Chopra. I was absolutely amazed at what I was hearing. They did not use Christian terminology much, Wayne Dyer does somewhat, but mainly it is not religious terminology, but I heard the most practical issues of how to deal with your life, and the most practical issues on how to be a person who walks in love and forgiveness. I never heard it in the church! I heard it from the New Age people. So when I began to hear it, then I understood why the Christians were calling me New Age because I was teaching this before I ever knew it was New Age. Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. So I really believe the secret to abundant living is to ask. There is no godliness in poverty and sickness and disease. Like I said last night, we try to tell the world about God, and look at us. We are all dying, and we are all sick, and we are all messed up.

The Secret teaches you that you are a magnet. It is so true, because whatever you think about, you draw to you. Jesus said it this way: “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” Whatever you believe in your heart, if you speak with your mouth, it’s a magnet that draws to you what you think and what you speak. That is why the scriptures say, “Guard your heart with all diligence”, because your heart is a gateway into the spiritual world. If you allow all these doubts and fears and you let people scare you and make you feel fearful that is what you will attract to you.

The first thing I teach people, or try to help people understand when they are searching for more of God, is get out of the fear of being deceived. You don’t have to receive or believe everything you read. I could take some of teachings of Buddhism, and never tell folks where I got them, just quote what he said and you’d think it was the most spiritual thing you’ve heard. But as soon as I say, “That came from Buddhism”, everybody is afraid of it, because you see, the Christian tactic is to teach you to fear, so they can keep you under bondage.

Most people don’t know this, even today, but the Catholic Church ruled the known world for 1,000 years. They killed, they butchered, they drowned in water everything, and everyone they caught coming against the Catholic doctrine. Some of that thinking got into our scriptures, and the fear of going against the leaders came out of that era.

I will say one thing; love is the key. Love is the key to prosperity; it is the key to health; it is the key to the abundant life. For years I would cry and I’d say, “God, I want your love. I want more than anything in this world to be as Jesus was.” All the time the scriptures tell us “As He is so are we in this present world.” We just have not believed it because of our negative experiences. I used to read the red, and I’d think, Why did we only have one man ever display this kind of life?” Well there have been many, but the church will only accept the teachings of Jesus.

The veils are coming off. The moment that you begin to deal with the carnal mind you will be so encouraged by your progress. The most subtle creature is the mind.

P.S This can also be applied with EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique. We are OVERCOMERS! We can overcome any circumstance in our lives! If only we would BELIEVE!

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