Intention and Faith

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.  Hebrews 11:1

  You will only be, do, and have what you intend to be, do, and have. So, your intention is the only vehicle that will take you to your highest and best self—the self that is always expanding, growing, moving higher and higher internally, so that your internal expansion manifests itself externally. What you achieve externally can never be more than what you have achieved internally.

   If you are shallow, mean, unloving and unforgiving on the inside, everything you achieve outside will eventually crumble and come to ruin. Your measure as a person is who you are inside of yourself, not whom you appear to be to other people.

   This means that you must first think yourself to become your highest and best self. That is, you must mentally and spiritually intend to be your highest and best self and persist in your intention. This is the essence of the Law of Cause and Effect. There is a cause—a moving invisible force—that creates every visible effect. And one of the most powerful invisible forces is your persistent intention.

   If you talk to anyone who has grown internally and achieved much externally, they will tell you that it was their intention that drove them forward. Now, intention is not the only invisible power that you need in life, but it is the foundation upon which your personal expansion must be built.

   Intention is your unwavering determination to be, do, have, achieve, or create something. But intention, by itself, is not nearly enough. Persistence must be joined to your intention to make it work. Persistence is overcoming the voices in your own head—and the external voices of your friends and family—that  tell you that you are crazy to believe that you can be, do, and have everything you were created to be, do, and have.

   Faith is the spiritual embodiment of the dream you have for yourself. It is the dream in your mind that exists in spiritual formation that you intend to make real in the material world. If you have no dream, you have no faith. And if you have no faith, you are doomed to be at the mercy of others until you do the work of creating a dream for yourself that will guide you to control your own destiny.

   That is why it is vitally important to discover what you actually want in life and then make the decision to take action to get it. Your decision to go after what you want is evidence that you have faith. The long and short of it is that without faith—without a dream or desire to be, do, or create something that is good—you will achieve nothing and create nothing.

   The power of faith is so great that without it nothing is possible for you. Without a dream that is yours, you will live an unfulfilled, boring, and meaningless life of servitude to others in order to get food to eat and a place to live.

   But if you spend the time necessary to discover what you most desire in life—your dream of the ideal life that would make you happy—then you will be full of faith, you will be filled with intention, and you will be on the path to personal transformation, expansion, and evolution.