This was the ritual I was taught to get whatever I desired. As long as I did not allow negativity, doubt or unbelief to creep into my thinking or be expressed with my words I was assured the coveted prize was on its way.
I did this for years with incredible results. Positive confession, positive speech, and daily affirmation that ‘what I speak, will be’.
And I did this years before meeting Jesus Christ, before meeting a Christian, or Kenneth Hagin, or attending a church.
It was in my search of cosmic consciousness that I came upon this approach, wrapped in new age jargon, to changing the world around me, simply by having faith - in my faith. My instructor was a witch ('a good one' she said) who introduced me to gurus and spiritual advisors. And along with a small group of disciples I began to learn 'mind over matter' methods of moving the universe by conjuring up realities that I desired to see materialize.
We would discipline the mind to focus on an object or desired result then see that object coming to us – coming to fulfillment. We would center on our core being, progress through a color spectrum, remove all doubt, and deny any reality that was contrary to our purpose. We would breathe in the energy that would cause these things to come to pass, then proclaim, “In the name of Jesus.”
It worked!
I landed jobs, frustrated enemies, saw visions, garnered favor and possessions. Once in the black of night I ran out of gas on a long empty road. Headlights came my way and I began the ‘technique’. The pick-up truck passed me by and I ‘arrested’ it through a complete emptying of mind of any thought that did not agree with the new reality I was creating. “This guy will stop and help me.” The truck sped by. I kept ‘hold of it’ confessing aloud, “You will stop. You will help me. You are mine.” The vehicle kept rolling down the road. I stayed fixed on it with no thought of releasing him.
Nearly a half mile away from me, the taillights barely visible, I saw the brake lights brighten. The truck made a slow turn, headed back toward me and stopped at my car. “Need help? Hop in.” The two mid-aged men hardly spoke, drove me about 5 miles, paid for my gas and the gas can, and drove me back to my car.
“Thanks.” And they drove off. It was as though they were in a trance. I was smug, confident, in control. It worked.
It was demonic.Countless times I used this ‘conjuring by confession’ to alter my reality. Focus, colors, christ. But the person of Jesus, the value of His name, the foundation of faith, even the existence of God did not weigh in on the process. I was in control. My thoughts determined the outcome. My words created my world.
Imagine my confusion after meeting the living Lord and being set free from this ‘faith without God’ to find the very same mantra like mechanics being practiced and promoted in Christ's church.
The technique does work. It did for Mary Baker Eddy, Norman Vincent Peale, Robert Schuller, E. W. Kenyon. Each developed doctrines and disciples to follow their Christ-denying, positive insistence that ‘what they say, will be’.
This is not an enlightened teaching of ‘faith in the word’. It is piecemeal plundering of the precious Words of God, a distortion that leads to perversion - robbing God of glory, exalting self and imagining that greed is a virtue and gain a godliness.
" But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things." (2 Cor. 11:3-6)
There is a real faith that speaks with authority into the world around us. A faith that is God-honoring, Christ-exalting and self-denying. A faith that does not need to deny truth to operate. A faith that believes there is no reality into which you have to speak falsely in order to bring God's grace, glory and power to bear upon the circumstances.
Don’t allow false prophets and the warlocks of Whatever World to pull the old switcharoo on you.
