Regrouping and Relying: the 4th and 5th of 7 Spiritual Pillars

The secret to changing your mindset from accepting the way things are on other people’s terms, to taking full responsibility for your own life on your own terms, requires that you build 7 Spiritual Pillars, the fourth and fifth being the Regrouping Pillar and the Relying Pillar.

You build your Regrouping Pillar by being willing to change direction when circumstances demand it, even if you are close to the destination you started toward. Your Regrouping Pillar can only be built by your paying attention to your gut instincts—your intuition—that alerts you to your need to make a particular change in plans immediately.

Your ability to shift gears, regroup and move in a new direction is a gift from God that not only allows you to be flexible enough to change your plans when needed,  but also allows you to get up and keep going when life knocks you down. The Regrouping Pillar that you build is especially necessary when you suffer from accidents, illnesses, financial losses or the death of a loved one.

But, here’s the caveat: you cannot build your Regrouping Pillar if you have not already built your Renewing Pillar. When you build your Regrouping Pillar, you are acting in faith and demonstrating in practical and observable ways that you constantly renew your mind and daily trust God no matter what you face in life.

The fifth of the 7 Spiritual Pillars is the Relying Pillar. You build your Relying Pillar by persevering under trials and hardships, knowing that you can rely on God to empower you to get through anything.

This does not mean that whenever you are opposed, you will come out on top, but rather, that whatever happens to you, you will have the power to come through it. It is through your worst experiences that you learn to stop depending solely on your own strength, your own abilities, and your own instincts, but to fully rely on God.

So, you must build your Relying Pillar so that when times get tough and you can see no way out of the predicaments that comes to you, you will rely on the grace and mercy of God to empower you to stick it out until God discloses to your mind the path that is the way out for you.