Making Your

Dream Come

True

BY LES D. CRAUSE

Making Your Dream Come True

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Original teaching by Les D. Crause

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Dedication

To those who have lost hope of fulfilling their dreams and need a lifeline from the sinking experiences of life.

May you learn to dream again, and see your dreams become a reality.

Foreword

I was always a dreamer from an early age. So much so, that my father would often tell me to come out of my dream world and live in the real world.

I suppose a lot of this was part of my original preparation for the Prophetic Ministry, but it was far more than that. Because life did not hand me everything on a platter, I lived for many years in a dream world in an attempt to escape the harsh realities of life.

Like most people however, my dreams remained nothing more than unfulfilled aspirations and desires. But then God called me to move to a higher plane, and He began to teach me by His Spirit.

Using the principles that I learned from Him alone, I rose up to fulfill most of the major dreams in my life. Causing me to rise up out of obscurity, He brought me to a place where I could stand as a Spiritual Father and leader of an international ministry, which would change the Body of Christ.

I would like to share with you the main principles that the Lord taught me, so that you too can see your dreams become a reality.

Les D. Crause / Bill Yinaire

Apostolic Father and Business Entrepreneur

Global Business Ministries International

August 2012

Contents

Dedication              4

Foreword              5

Contents              6

Section 01 – Dreams, Goals, Plans, Actions              10

Chapter 01 - You Need to Daydream              10

Chapter 02 - Move On To Your Goals              18

Chapter 03 – Creating a Clear Plan              24

Chapter 04 – Action, the Final Stage              30

Chapter 05 - Putting Everything Together              38

Section 02 – Finding Your Promised Land              45

Chapter 06 – God Has a Promised Land For You              45

Chapter 07 - Learning Some Warfare              53

Chapter 08 - Transmuting Your Promised Land              61

Section 03 - God’s 12-Step Program              70

Chapter 09 - Step No. 1              72

Make a Decision of What You Want from God              72

Chapter 10 - Step No. 2              75

Get Into the Word              75

Chapter 11 - Step No. 3              79

Wait On God For The Answer              79

Chapter 12 - Step No 4              83

See Him Giving You the Answer              83

Chapter 13 - Step No 5              86

You Must Know That it is Yours              86

Chapter 14 - Step No 6              89

Transmute It Down              89

Chapter 15 - Step No. 7              93

Build a Spiritual Template              93

Chapter 16 - Step No 8              97

Bind the Forces of Darkness              97

Chapter 17 - Step No. 9              102

Start by Birthing Smaller Things              102

Chapter 18 - Step No. 10              107

Follow It Through To Conclusion              107

Chapter 19 - Step 11              109

Do Not Be Swayed by the Time of Travail              109

Chapter 20 - Step No. 12              111

You Must Loose It Once It Manifests              111

The Principles in Summary              114

Follow GBM International:              116

SECTION 01 – DREAMS, GOALS, PLANS, ACTION

CHAPTER 01

You Need To Daydream

Section 01 – Dreams, Goals, Plans, Actions

Chapter 01 - You Need to Daydream

Dreams, Goals, Plans, Action. Those are four very important words, which you need to remember and understand if you want to succeed in this life and in this world.

Every one of us needs to think big. We all need to have a realm of fantasy. This happens all the time. It happens sometimes if you are watching a movie or reading a book.

You are looking at life and you are not speaking to anybody. You are drawing into yourself. You think and go over things in your mind. And especially as you think about the future, you begin to dream.

Of course I am talking about day-dreaming, visualizing, looking to the future and imagining things; trying to paint a picture and seeing yourself in that picture.

Every one of us has times of daydreaming and thinking about of the future. We think to ourselves,

“How wonderful it would be if…”

It can happen while you’re watching a movie, and you wish you could put yourself right in there and be a part of it. You think,

“Oh I wish I could be like that hero of the movie. I wish I could have the kind of life he has and live that way. I wish I could have that amount of money and could travel all over.”

We all at some stage have a kind of dream or fantasy about the future. We have a hope of what could happen in our lives.

Now let me ask a simple question. How many of your dreams have you fulfilled; those wonderful fantasies that you think about while you lie awake at night?

Have you ever gotten there yet? When do you expect to get there? Do you ever expect to get there?

Introduction to Goal Setting

Some years ago I got hold of some tapes from a self-help teacher called Jim Rohn. He had a little work booklet dealing with goal setting. He made you look at your goals, and say how you see yourself 5, 10 or 20 years from now.

You had to think about your own personal character and capabilities and your finances. It was very comprehensive and a tremendous little workbook. I sat down and faithfully completed each question - what I could see myself being and doing in the future.

Time went on, and many years later we discovered the workbook lying amongst all the junk when we moved house. It was fun to look and see what I had written.

But I was shocked at what I read. It sounded as though I had only written them recently, because I was still in about the same place I had been when I first wrote those goals.

My life really had not changed. My financial situation was just about the same as what it always had been. My capabilities and weaknesses were about what they always had been. I just had not made any progress at all.

According to the principles taught, if you could set goals you would succeed. You would get out there and accomplish. Well I set the goals. But many years later those goals just hadn’t changed, and neither had my life. Something was wrong. I was confused.

Start With Small Things

In some of my recent teachings, I have taught that in order to birth the things we desire, it is necessary to start small.

In the past however, I had always believed that the bigger your vision the better. I thought that if you aimed for the moon and only hit the ceiling, at least it was a start. So you should rather aim further and at least get somewhere. That was always my logic.

Don’t Confuse Dreams and Goals

Many people still seem to think that way. They teach,

“Don’t say, ‘I would like $1 000.’ Say, ‘I’d like $10 000.’ Then if you only make $1 000, at least you made something, even if you were aiming further.”

Now if I aimed for $1,000, I might only have made $200, because I did not set my sights high enough. That was my logic. But the problem is I was confusing dreams and goals. Everybody tends to do this.

So I want to show you firstly, the difference between a dream or vision and the setting of goals. They are not the same thing. They are in fact very different. And unless you can grasp this, you may spend the rest of your life waiting for your dream to come true.

Later in life you realize that your time is nearly over. You are not so young anymore, but are heading for retirement now.

You Need to Dream

Only a few years remain in your life and you have still not accomplished your goals. So you say,

“Well, I might as well give up that dream. It’s never going to happen.”

But we all need to keep dreaming. There was a famous speech made by Martin Luther King where he said, “I have a dream”. Unfortunately, he did not live to see his dream fulfilled.

You need more than a dream. A dream is not enough. Everyone has dreams, and dreams are essential. Without them, you will never accomplish anything in this life. Only dreams have the power to inspire you and motivate you.

Dreams must be as big as possible. They must huge and magnificent. And they must go into and remain in the realm of fantasy, otherwise they are not dreams.

Go Into a Fantasy World

Reality doesn’t inspire, because you look at yourself and you see that your life is not exciting. So you have to get excited about what is not there. You have to get excited about what lies in the realm of fantasy.

That is why even as children we loved the fairy stories, even though they were often demonic. Everybody enjoys the realm of fantasy because it helps us realize our dreams. I love to watch movies like Superman and the superheroes - things that are beyond the realm our normal lives.

One of the best dreams I ever had was one of flying like Superman over the earth. I was able to dive and go wherever I wanted. It was a wonderful feeling.

Of course that could never become a reality, but what an exciting thought. Imagine being free as a bird, to be able to fly and to have magnificent powers like some of the great super heroes in those comic books?

We all want a life that is free of stress, free of problems and free of difficulties. You dream of a day when life will be easy and there will be no pressure.

Of course that will no longer be a fantasy when we get to Heaven one day. But on this earth, there is a limit to what you can achieve.

You have to move out of the fantasy and into the real world. Many of the things you dream about are possible in this world. Others are living the kind of life that you’d like to live. If it is possible for them, then it can surely also be possible for you.

Desires Build Your Dreams

So you build your dreams around your desires. But all of us have different desires. Having great wealth isn’t necessarily everybody’s dream. In fact, having wealth is seldom the main goal for anybody.

It is the things that the wealth can bring that you aim for. What you really desire is the kind of life that is possible with wealth. You desire a place of freedom.

Some perhaps have a desire to be in control. They would like to hold a high position and be in charge of other people. That’s a foolish desire really. Taking care of a whole lot of other people just brings more stress.

Many have the fantasy that to be at the top and be the boss makes things easier. You don’t realize the responsibility that goes with it. But that is beside the point. If that is your desire, then you will dream about it.

Dreams are Always Future

The operative word in dreams is ‘want’. A dream is always future, and a dream has no time frame to it. A typical statement you might make based on your dreams is something like this:

“One day” I would like to (whatever your dream is).”

Isn’t that what dreams are like? You say,

“One day my ship will come in. One day I will rise up and be like a queen (or a king).”

“One day I will drive in limousines, and I will fly in my own private jet.”

“One day I will… do this.”

It is always a future orientation and it has no time frame. In the end it is really just a fantasy and a hope.  But in your mind you are thinking,

“It is way beyond my reach. I don’t know if I will ever have it. I’d love to have it perhaps one day.”

Dreams Motivate You

If you start out with those kinds of dreams and you are still very young, you perhaps have many years in your life for good fortune to shine on you. Maybe as the world puts it, ‘good luck will come your way’.

And maybe, by some pure accident, if it’s your lot in life, you might just make it and fulfill that dream. But it is somewhere out there in your vague future emotional fantasies.

You say, “Perhaps one day I’ll be a millionaire or a billionaire. Perhaps one day I’ll just cruise around the world in my own ship.”

Everyone has fantasies and dreams, and sometimes you have more than one. But dreams do not have the power to change your life. Dreams only keep you motivated and going on in life. They keep you headed towards the future. You live in the hope that one day you might fulfill your dream.

That is why your dream must be big and filled with emotion. It must be exciting. It must be something that thrills you and drives you to keep going. It says,

“Wow I would really love to do that with my life.”

Your Dreams Through the Years

Consider your life until now. Think back on what you dreamed of when you were a young child, if you can still remember that far back. What kind of dreams did you have as a young child? What kind of dreams and visions did you have for the future?

Then as you grew up and you reached the adolescent age, what dreams did you have for the future? And if you are a bit older like me, as you came through to that middle year stage, you married and settled down and had a family, what were your dreams for the future?

Then think about where you are right now. Can you honestly say,

“I am living the life I dreamed of?”

Or are you standing at the end now, knowing that you only have a few years left. You are already on the downhill run. But you have still not come close to attaining the things that you dreamed of.

Many people did achieve those things. Do you know someone that was at the same place you were when you started? Now they are fulfilling their dreams. Today they are living the kind of life that you dreamed of. They made it.

Are there people you knew from school that rose up and became successful? They became leaders of big companies and were wealthy and influential. How many people that you knew back then have risen up and you didn’t?

What made the difference? You say,

“Well they were just lucky I guess.”

No they weren’t lucky. They went beyond their dreams. And if you don’t go beyond your dreams, you will sit there for the rest of your life and you will die still dreaming.

That is all it will ever be - a dream. It will never become a reality in your life, because you have to go beyond dreams. You have to come out of the realm of fantasy and into reality before you can fulfill your dreams.

CHAPTER 02

Move on to Your Goals

Chapter 02 - Move On To Your Goals

We come now to the second stage which is the setting of goals. Goals bring your dreams into reality, because a goal is built on action and planning. You build your goals on reality. A goal doesn’t say,

“Well it would be lovely to have this.”

A goal says,

“I’m going to have this. I plan to have this. I plan to become this and to attain this.”

Imagine you are running around the track in a race with a whole lot of other people. You are just jogging along saying,

“Well I hope I come first. I hope I make it to the end.”

You will never accomplish anything.

Aim Your Sights at the Goal

You have to set your goal. You have to say,

“That is my goal and I am aiming for that mark. I am pushing with all that I can, and I’m going to attain that goal. I’m going to attain it in such and such a time, and I’m going to break the record.”

People do not break records in sports by accident. They seldom do it by saying,

“Well I was just running along doing my best. And what do you know? I beat the record.”

The person who made the record before didn’t get there that way either. He made up his mind and said,

“That’s it, the record is so many minutes. I’m going to do it in less. I’m going to push myself, I’m going to go for the mark and do it in less time.”

He set a goal. He aimed for that goal and he fulfilled it. He made it happen.

You Will Do It

Do you want your dreams to become reality? Then they must now become very clear goals. The operative word in dreams was ‘want’. The operative word in goals is ‘will’.

In your dream you said,

“One day I would like to do this.”

But when it comes to goals you say,

“By such and such a time period I will do this.”

Can you see the difference? I thought I was setting goals in the past, but all I was doing was writing down my dreams. I found it difficult to answer the question,

“Where will you be five years from now?”

I thought, “Well I hope that within five years I will have reached a better stage than what I am now.”

All I did was to pick a little goal that was a possibility.

Unrealistic Goals

Then you have those who try to shoot for the stars. They say,

“Well everything has gone wrong in my life, so therefore I am bound to be a success. I am going to get out there and become a millionaire overnight.”

That is a good dream, but it’s a fantasy. You ask them,

“So how much money have you been earning up until now?”

“Well I was just fired from my job.”

How can that possibly qualify a person to become a millionaire?

You ask, “How are you going to reach this millionaire status if you couldn’t even reach the status of getting your salary at the end of the month? What goal do you have and what plan do you have to reach it?

“Well, it’s going to happen now. I’m just going to visualize it until it takes place.”

Many people seem to think that’s all it is. You just visualize it until it takes place. And some people think they can just pray until it takes place. They say,

“God will just do it all for me. If I pray hard enough it will happen. He will answer my prayers, and He will give me my dreams.”

Somebody will come knocking on the door one day and say,

“Oh by the way, we just had instruction to bring this to you. It is one million dollars. Here it is, in a case.”

You say, “Well I’ve been praying hard that this would happen, and that’s what happened.”

“And so after you prayed what did you do?”

“Well you know the Bible says that we should get down and say, ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’ ”

“So then you went and stood outside, looked up into the sky and waited for your daily bread to come flying out of the sky?”

You Can’t Just Wait

That’s what many people seem to think. If you dream big enough and you pray hard enough, it will just come to you.

Have you heard the story about the man who was in a flood? He was praying that the Lord would save him from drowning. A boat came by and offered to pick him up and he said,

“No it’s alright. God is going to save me.”

Three more people came and offered to save him, but he gave the same answer each time. In the end he drowned, and when he got to heaven He complained to God and said,

“Why did you let me drown?”

God said, “I sent four boats and you never took them.”

People have their dreams, their faith and their prayer, and they are just waiting for it to happen. They say,

“We’ll just wait until it happens. Good luck and good fortune will shine upon me.”

No, you have to DO something too. You have to open your eyes and see the opportunities that are around you. You have to take the resources that are available to you and aim for the goal.

Set a Time Period

Goals always have a specific time orientation. If you don’t set a time you will not make the effort.

When you had a simple goal like graduating from High School, you had a certain time in which to do it. When you went to College and wanted to get a degree, you had a certain time in which to reach your goal. You didn’t think,

“Well I’ll just sit here at College for a couple of years until one day they just give me a degree.”

No, you knew very clearly how many years you were going to study, what it was going to require, and by what year you were going to finish. Then you were going to write the exam, you were going to qualify, and then get your degree.

You Need to Do Something

It has to have a deadline, and you have to know what is involved. You have to say,

“I’m going to have to attend lectures every day. I will have to buy some books and read. Then I’m going to have to do a lot of writing, and I will have to write examinations.”

There are things that you will have to do along the way to attain those goals. You had better know what they are, and you had better be prepared to do them, otherwise don’t aim for the goal.

If you plan to aim for the goal, you need to know how long it will take. You need to know what it is going to cost you in time and effort. You need to make a commitment that says,

“That’s it. I am aiming for the goal and I will pay the price.”

Release Forces to Make it Happen

Now what happens when you set that thing in motion; when you set the goals and you commit yourself to them? You begin to release the forces that will bring your dreams to manifestation.

Goals release the forces that will create and bring into manifestation the things that you dreamed of. Goals have that power, and without goals they are just dead dreams and visions.

Once you have a goal, you make a commitment to that goal. You set a deadline, and prepare to do whatever you have to in order to reach that goal.

You’ve taken your dream out of the realm of fantasy and brought it into the realm of reality. You have said something like,

“By the age of 35 I will be a millionaire.”

“Before I turn 40 I will have traveled to many nations in the world.”

You must put this substance into your goals.

CHAPTER 03

Creating a Clear Plan

Chapter 03 – Creating a Clear Plan

Goals keep us going all the time because they are always pointing to the future. But it takes more than the goal to make it happen. It requires some plan of action to reach that goal.

You have to carry out some kind of action, and that action must never be haphazard or vague in any way. You could say,

“Well I’ll just read a few books, try a few things; mess around a bit, surf the net...”

Do you think you will reach your goal this way? How would you go about it if your goal was to be married?

“Well I’ll just walk down the street, hang around, and wait for something to happen.”

Get ready for a single life.

You may have clear goals. But how clear are your plans to reach those goals? If you do not know how you plan to reach the goal, you will be like another Columbus. Someone said of Columbus,

“He didn’t know where he was going. When he arrived, he didn’t know where he was. And when he returned he didn’t know where he had been.”

Make Your Own Plans

Well sometimes accidents happen. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of my life being an accident.

You must lay your plans out very clearly. If they are not clear, or you don’t even have a plan, then I can tell you what will happen. You will become a part of somebody else’s plan. People around you will force you to fit into their plans.

You say, “It’s not fair. I always end up doing what they want to do.”

“What were you planning to do?”

“I don’t know. I just wanted to see what was going to happen.”

Well at least they planned what to do. You ended up in their plan because you didn’t have one. How can you expect anything to happen if you have no plan?

Without a plan things will not happen the way you want. And even if something does happen, how will you know that this is what you wanted?

Circumstances in Line With Plans

You should be able to check things off as they happen. Each stage of your plan will fall into place, and you will know when you have reached your goal. An event takes place in your life and you say,

“Yes, this has happened to get me closer to my goal.”

How do you know that? Well you might say,

“God is in control and therefore He brought it to pass. So everything that happened in my life was according to plan. It is fate.”

Many religions of the world have this idea that fate is just something you have to accept as the hand of God. But God never forces His plan on us. He works with us to help us get the things we desire.

When something happens, you should be able to say,

“Oh yes, that’s exactly what I was hoping would happen. That helps me in my plan. Let’s take it and use it to go forward.”

Yes, miraculous things will happen in your life. As you begin to release those forces to work on your behalf, they will create circumstances for you.

But when they happen, study them carefully. Are they according to your plan or against your plan? Not every good thing that happens in your life is best for you. But not every bad thing is wrong either.

Something bad could happen that fits in exactly with the plan. And when you look at it afterwards you realize that if things had not gone that way your plan might have failed. But you would never know this if you didn’t have a plan.

You say, “I’m planning to be wealthy one day.”

“Good. How do you plan to do this?”

“I am going to travel around the world and just visit all of the nations.”

“How do you plan to do that?”

“I’m going to be a world famous speaker. They will know my name everywhere. My books will be in every bookshop in every nation.”

“How do you plan to accomplish this?”

“Well I hadn’t thought about that, but I sure wish it does. And I’m really praying hard that it will happen.”

It’s not going to happen. Your plans must be clear. They must involve specific actions and they must have deadlines. Without a deadline, your plan will just go off at a tangent into the air somewhere.

Don’t Get Diverted

You might say,

“Well I really planned to work hard today, but I ended up on the Internet and I started surfing. I saw a few things that interested me. And I saw this one page, and that led me to that page.

“I clicked on a link that took me there, and I listened to some stuff and read some stuff. And before I knew it, it was lunch time already.”

“So what were you planning to do today?”

“Well I was planning to reach my goal by sitting down and beginning to write a new book.”

And how did this diversion fit into your plan? It didn’t, so get back on plan. If you didn’t know what your plan was, you might have thought,

“Maybe there was a reason that I found that web page. Maybe it will help me reach my goal one day.”

Maybe it will - if it fits into your plan. And if it didn’t fit into your plan then something is wrong. Either that, or your plan is wrong and you had better change it. Maybe you planned wrong.

Deadlines Bring Your Goals Closer

Your plan has to be very specific and very clear. It has to go stage by stage with deadlines in it. Otherwise your goal will just get further and further away, like the horizon.

Imagine a thirsty man in the desert. He is crying out for water, and he thinks he sees water flowing over the sands. He thinks he can see an oasis in the distance, but the closer he gets to it, the further away it gets.

Your dreams are like that, but not your goals. Your goals are not just mirages. They are specific, and the plans that you make to get there must be very specific.

If you plan to travel to a specific place, you should know how far it is. You should know what speed you will be traveling at. Only then will you have an idea of how many hours it will take.

Yes you could have interruptions. You could go through a speed trap along the way. You could have a flat wheel. Something could go wrong.

Your plans should be flexible. You have to allow for eventualities. When something goes wrong, you don’t say,

“Well that must have been a bad plan that I made. It just didn’t work.”

No, there is nothing wrong with your plan. It is just that life threw things at you that came against your plan and interfered with it.

So make your plans. Then get ready for the final stage that will make your dreams into reality.

CHAPTER 04

Action, the Final Stage

Chapter 04 – Action, the Final Stage

The final stage is action. You have dreamed your dream. You have set a goal that you want to reach. You made a plan to head towards that. Now you must put the plan itself into action.

You started with a dream. That dream releases within you a power to create the things that you dreamed.

Man Can Create

When God made man, He made him in His image. He gave man the ability to create. It is not quite in the same way as the Creator, but in this world alone, man has a limited power to create.

Just look at the great artists, sculptors and musicians. Walk down a street and look at the buildings. Who made those? God created all the materials, but who constructed that building? Man did. Who designed that architecture? Man did.

A motor car rides past, and you ask,

“Who made that?”

Did it just appear? No, somebody made it. Man took what was available to him in this world and he made a creation. How did somebody go about creating that motor car? Somebody dreamed a dream and said,

“One day I won’t have to walk anymore. One day I won’t have to ride in a horse and buggy anymore.”

Somebody dreamed a dream. Somebody set a goal, put a plan in motion and brought it to pass. But where did it start? It started with a dream.

You see it starts much deeper. It starts in those dreams and visions that come up from deep inside of us; from within the spirit of man. That is where your creative ability begins.

Speak it and Act it

As it comes up from your inward man, that creative ability begins to show itself in your mind and in your emotions, in your desires and in your feelings. And then, by an act of your will, you choose to release that dream into the world.

How do you do it? There are only two ways to do it.

If someone stands doing nothing, you cannot see his or her dreams. You cannot read his or her mind. You cannot tell until the person opens his or her mouth to speak.

Now if I start scratching myself, you know what I am thinking. I’m thinking, “I’m itchy.” My action shows you what was going on in my mind.

Words and actions are the only ways we have of bringing out what is in our minds. They bring into reality what has just been a fantasy; a thought, a dream or a vision.

You have had your dream and you’ve set the goals. Can you see the actions already beginning to take place?

You have laid out a plan. Now you must put some kind of action into that plan, in order to reach the goal and to fulfill your dream.

Start Speaking Those Goals

So the two actions you need to carry out are words, and some kind of physical activity. Words are the most important to start with.

Words always come first. You must verbalize your plans before action can take place. You may wonder why. It is because words commit you to your goals. They are where you sign on the dotted line.

Up until now, your goals may have sat in your mind. But then you open your mouth and say,

“I will be wealthy by the age of 30.”

The moment you do that people will say,

“Okay big deal, let’s see you do it.”

Some folks believe you should not tell others what your goals are, so that if they fail, nobody can condemn you.

That is an escape. The sooner you open your mouth and say what you plan to do, the sooner you commit yourself to follow it through.

Until you are prepared to say it, you will never do it. It is one of the keys to success.

Confession Keeps You Dreaming

Unfortunately many people have taken this confession idea to be a kind of magic wand that says,

“I will be wealthy one day”.

“I am going to be a millionaire.”

“I am intelligent.”

“I am beautiful.”

“I have a new car.”

“I am… I have...”

You can confess these over repeatedly. But what exactly are you doing? You are just confessing your dreams. You are still staying in the realm of fantasy.

To move out of that realm you need to say something like,

“I will raise a million dollars within the next 10 years.”

Now that’s a commitment. Say it where people can hear you. But actually it doesn’t start there. It starts by you talking to yourself. There is a term that athletes use. It goes like this:

Psyche Yourself Up

I remember in my early days in South Africa, they had an annual race called The Comrades’ Marathon. This was an amazing race and many different people entered. The idea was to make it through by helping one another along the way. That’s why they called it ‘The Comrades’.

There was one person who won the race many years in a row. He was a man by the name of Bruce Fordyce. We used to sit and watch it on TV every year, just to see Bruce Fordyce win it again.

He was an amazing person who looked small and frail. He was nothing like you would have expected from a successful runner. He was just an ordinary ‘nice guy’.

We would watch him gather with thousands of runners. The gun would fire, and off they’d go. You would see them all running - the ones at the front wanting to be on the television screen as the front-runners.

You would look for Bruce Fordyce and you couldn’t see him. He was with the group near the back. In fact it took a long while before the crowd began to thin out and people started to fall out.

People started to fall back, and eventually you would see the steady front-runners beginning to come forward. You would look for Bruce Fordyce, and he was sitting at the back there somewhere.

Then it narrowed down even more, until you had three or four people at the front. And if you looked for Bruce, he was the fourth. You thought,

“Is this guy ever planning to win the race today, because he looks like he’s dragging behind all the way?”

But you see he was doing something that we call ‘psyching yourself up’. Have you ever heard that term? It is an English expression.

It means using the power of the soul; the psyche. He was getting himself geared for that final stint when he would win. And those runners who knew how to do that were the ones who always came out near the front.

When they started out, most of them perhaps had been doing the same amount of running. Probably all of them had about the same amount of physical fitness.

What is it that makes one person win? They have shown that sometimes a person can win by a microsecond.  What is it that makes one person win over another? It depends on how well he psyches himself up.

Bruce knew how to do this, and he won the race for many years before someone finally took the record from him.

See it and Speak it

How do you psyche yourself up? You firstly see yourself carrying out the plan. You see it very clearly in your mind.

What is your dream and vision? See it in your mind. What is your goal? Can you see yourself reaching it? What is your plan? Can you see yourself following it? Can you see this clearly in your mind?

And then you begin to talk to yourself. No it is not the first sign of madness. You begin to mutter to yourself.

One of the terms used for this is meditation. I am not talking about TM (Transcendental Meditation) or getting into a spooky kind of state of mind. That is dangerous because you open your mind to influences that you shouldn’t.

True meditation is largely actually muttering to yourself. God told Joshua to take the Scriptures that he had, and to speak them with his mouth and to meditate on them.

He said, “Keep these words in your mouth, and meditate on them day and night.”

Joshua was a young man, who before was just his mentor’s servant. Moses his mentor had died, and here he was, a little weakling taking over from his mentor. He was having a problem with all the people who were now saying,

“Well we know Moses was a good leader and we could follow him, but we don’t know if we can trust you.”

But Joshua took everything that Moses had written down. This made up, what to him at that time was the Scriptures. He began to speak it and mutter it, and see himself acting just like Moses.

And what happened? He became an even greater leader than Moses was. The people followed so strongly behind him, that when somebody tried to oppose Joshua they said,

“Let’s put him to death. How dare he disobey Joshua. He’s the man.”

Mutter to Yourself

It starts with words, visualization and muttering to yourself. Do you know what the most important reason for muttering to yourself is?

Every one of us needs someone to tell us what to do. You go to work and your boss says,

“I expect you to do this job by lunch time. Can I have the file on my desk by 1 pm please?”

Well that is clear. You don’t get onto the Internet and surf or play games on the computer. You do not go chatting to people on the phone. You get down, do the job and finish it.

Who is in charge of telling you what to do with your life? Only one person is. You will find him in the mirror. It’s you.

You are the only person in this world that can tell you what to do. So if you need to exercise and lose weight, you could mutter to yourself saying,

“Okay you are going to do this now. You are going to push hard. You are going to cut down on all the calories and the food, and you are going to lose weight.

“You are going to run for a mile every day and go for long walks. You are going to do push-ups and push weights.”

CHAPTER 05

Putting Everything Together

Chapter 05 - Putting Everything Together

You do whatever it takes, and you see yourself as a good-looking, slim person. That is your dream; it is your goal.

You say, “I’m going to lose 30 kilograms by Christmas.”

That’s your goal. You have given it a time. What is your plan? Your plan is to eat less and exercise more. That’s a simple plan without complicated diets.

So now you have to implement that. You have to put that plan in motion. Well how much less are you going to eat? Perhaps you could start by say cutting your plate size in half. You are making a plan.

How much more exercise are you going to do? Well if you haven’t been doing any up until now, any amount of exercise is an improvement.

But that’s not good enough. You might have to get on that exercise bicycle, elliptical or whatever it is, and get going. You could do 30 minutes a day.

Now that’s a specific plan. You get up in the morning and you are feeling starved. You think,

“Ooh breakfast. I think I will have bacon and eggs, hash browns, toast, coffee, pancakes, maple syrup. Yummy it sounds so good. Let’s get in there and eat.”

That is probably what you feel like doing right now. But your plan says you are cutting down on what you eat. Let me tell you this is when you will really begin to mutter, but not the way you should though.

You should have been muttering to yourself all the time saying,

“I’m going to lose weight. I’m going to eat half of what I normally do. I’m going to lose weight. I’m going to cut down.

“Where I normally have two pieces of bacon, I’m only having one. Where I normally have two eggs, I’m only having one. Where I normally have toast, I’ll just cut that out altogether.

“I’ll just scrap the muffins and the pancakes. I won’t have any more sugar. I’m cutting it down. I’m going to do this.”

It’s your plan. You have to psyche yourself up and say,

“Okay, now you’re not really hungry. That food is really bad for you.”

You have to do some muttering. But in the end, you will find yourself saying,

“Now listen to me, boy. You are NOT going to eat it.”

You have to start with words, because if you don’t speak your plan out you will forget it. You have to mutter to yourself and see yourself doing the correct thing in your mind. If you don’t, you will not come to a place where you are able to follow through.

You might think it is easy to say,

“Well I will just decide that this is what I am going to do, and this is what I am not going to do.”

But it is not as easy as it looks.

Your Will is Weak

You see actions are often the servant rather than the master. You may think that you have the willpower to decide what to do or not do.

But you will find out soon enough that your will is weak. You will find that the things you want to do are the things you cannot do. Something inside of you seems to fight back.

How many times have you sat down to do what you know you need to do today, but you just don’t feel like doing it? While you are struggling with this, the phone rings and you end up talking for a half hour. Then you make excuses and say,

“You know I was planning to do that, but this phone call was more important. Somebody needed me and we chatted for hours. “

Before you know it the morning is gone and you say,

“You know I really did plan to do that. Honestly I did. But well… time ran away.”

That’s what will happen if all you plan to do is choose by the power of your will. It is going to take more than that. You will have to open your big mouth a little. You will have to begin talking to yourself and saying,

“This is what you are going to do. This is what you are not going to do. And you are going to finish it by this morning.”

Pressure from Other People

Then just to make it a little bit clearer, you need to tell someone else what you are going to do. That makes it even more difficult because by the end of the day somebody is going to say to you,

“So did you get to finish that project this morning then?”

What are you going to say?

“Well I really was planning to, but I got chatting. Then there was an emergency at home so I couldn’t do it.”

People will look at you in disbelief and say,

“We knew you wouldn’t do it.”

It can be one of the strongest motivators, if everybody is saying,

“Yeah, we knew you couldn’t do it.”

You might get angry and say,

“I’ll show you I can do it!”

That’s good. Get some emotions into action. Get some motivation, even if it is out of anger. Get it going, but carry out the action.

Break Your Actions Down

Your plan has a time span that reaches to your goal. Your plan also has many actions to carry out before it’s complete. The sooner you carry out each one of them, the sooner you will reach the goal. It is that simple.

See if you can break your plan down into actions. Break them down into smaller pieces that are reachable.

Then begin to put action to your plans. Your action is always based on your plans. And because it is based on your plans, your action will always head towards your goals. And your goals of course will always be affected by your dreams.

As you put them all together, you bring your fantasy into reality, and you cause your dreams and visions to come into manifestation in your life.

These four stages are essential to accomplish anything in this world. I have given you a broad overview of all of them here.

Know God’s Plans First

You might ask,

“But is that what I really should be doing? What if God has another plan for me?”

Then, you had better find out His plan before you start this. Don’t try to think about it halfway through. If He has a plan for you then He will not change his mind halfway.

Find out your goal in life. Find out what you should be aiming for and why you are here. Find out what you are living for and make up your mind.

Decide what you want to accomplish in the future. Once you have set that it shouldn’t change. If it does, then you did not make up your mind yet.

As you put these four things together - your dreams, your goals, your plans, words and actions - you can accomplish anything that you choose in this world, and you will.

In the next section, I am going to show you how to find out what God’s plans are for you. This is very important for a believer, because we should always work together with the Lord.

The Lord knows what you need and desire, and He has a very special plan just for you. It will line up with all your dreams and visions, and it will be tailor-made to match all your abilities.

So before you start putting those dreams, goals and plans into action, let’s find out what God has planned for you.

SECTION 02 – FINDING YOUR PROMISED LAND

CHAPTER 06

God Has a Promised

Land for You

Section 02 – Finding Your Promised Land

Chapter 06 – God Has a Promised Land For You

Genesis 13: 17 says this:

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you.

Deuteronomy 34:4 says:

And the LORD [Yahweh] said to him, This [is] the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see [it] with your eyes, but you will not go over there.

Joshua 1:3 and 4 says:

Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, that I have given to you, as I said to Moses.

From the wilderness and this Lebanon right up to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and up to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, will be your coast.

God has always had a Promised Land for His people. In the Old Testament it was a literal, physical land. This was God’s promise of blessing. Right from the beginning when it started with Abraham, God promised a land. That was the sum total; the ultimate blessing that God could offer to His people; their very own land.

Land is very important even in the world today. Most of the wars that are fought are over land. So for Israel it was a literal, physical land.

In the New Testament God still has a Promised Land for His people. In the New Testament it is spiritual in its essence, but the results are still the same – prosperity and wealth.

Prosperity and wealth have always been an integral part of God’s Promised Land for His people. Right back from the Old Covenant and into the New, God today still has a Promised Land for each one of us as His people.

Identify Your Land

Now before you can enter into your Promised Land, the first thing that you need to do is to identify the land. God called Abraham from the Ur of the Chaldees way back in the Old Testament and He promised him a country; a land. But it wasn’t his homeland. It was a foreign land.

It wasn’t the land of his people or his fathers. It was a different land. You may ask,

“Well what is my promised land?”

Let me give you a hint. It is not going to be your homeland. And I am not speaking about the country you were born in, or natural land. I am speaking spiritually now.

God has a Promised Land for you. And the first and biggest mistake that most of God’s people make is to think,

“My land is the place I am familiar with and what I am comfortable with.”

If you are expecting God to prosper you and make you wealthy, realize that He is not likely to make you wealthy where you have been most of your life. He is going to take you away to something new.

The first thing that you will have to identify, is where and what is your Promised Land. This is because the chances are that it is something you have never thought of before.

It is a place you have never been before; something brand new that you have never done before. You are not comfortable with it and it is out of your comfort zone. It is out of your abilities and your natural strengths, and it is probably the furthest thing from your mind.

You may say,

“Well God where are we going?”

“Trust me; just go because I have a Promised Land for you.”

There is the first step in identifying your land. Are you prepared to give up the things with which you are comfortable? Are you prepared to give up your natural strengths and abilities?

You say, “God has given me real business ability.”

Give it up.

“God has given me a real artistic ability.”

Give it up.

Something Brand New

God will not take what is your natural strength. He will give you something brand new, that you were not capable of doing before. It is your own unique, special Promised Land, which He has for you and for you alone.

Abraham traveled off to this land, ready to go and do what God told him to do - or at least half-ready anyway. The Lord told him to leave his father behind, but he took dad with. He told him to leave his family behind, but he took his nephew with. And what happened? It caused problems.

The old man was easy to get rid of. He was ready to die anyway, so he died and was gone. So that was not a problem. But Lot was even younger than Abraham was and he was trouble. Abraham probably said,

“But you know he’s my right hand man. We grew up together and we do things together. If I start a business I think he should be a partner in the business. We’ve always done things together.”

Forget it. God said,

“You do this alone.”

This is your mandate. It is your Promised Land and it is yours alone.  Don’t look at what everybody else is doing. God has a calling that is unique to you. He has a land that He has chosen and promised especially for you.

What happened? Abraham came to this wonderful land, and there were the cities of the Plain; all the wealth and the growth and wonderful things. And in his mind he must have thought,

“Here we go; this is the place.”

But that is not the land he ended up with was it? With all the strife that he had with Lot, in the end to get rid of him he had to let him make the first choice.

Lot chose the best, and he left Abraham with the farmland which was not much use to anybody. There was miles and miles of just land. Nobody was even living there. It was not habitable land.

But God had chosen that land. And after he separated from Lot, God said to Abraham,

“Go and look now - North, South, East and West - for everywhere that you can see is the land that I will give you. This is your Promised Land.”

So the first thing He told Abraham to do was to go and walk through the land. He had to go and see what it was that God was going to give him.

Become Familiar With Your Land

Before you can take your Promised Land, you had better see what it looks like. You should make sure that you are familiar with it.

Make sure you know what you are aiming for. How else will you know when you get there? How will you know when you arrive that you did not take a wrong turn and end up in the wrong place?

In the previous section, I spoke about ‘Dreams, Goals, Plans and Actions.’ You will see a similar structure in this section.  You must have a dream, a goal and a very clear plan. You must have a clear picture in your mind of exactly what you are aiming for.

So the question you need to answer now is,

“Where is your Promised Land?”

If you don’t know where it is then you had better go find out. And you do know what it is; do you know exactly what it looks like?

Do you clearly know every part of that land? Have you walked up and down that land and taken a good look; taken some photographs and video footage and gone back and studied it in detail.

Do you know the land that you are aiming for? If not then you are still right near the beginning stage. You have not even begun to enter into what the Lord has for you.

Notice that God promised to give the land to Abraham. It wasn’t Abraham’s yet. It was a future promise. It was a dream and a goal even though it wasn’t there yet. But it wasn’t something he had to work for.

God said, “I am going to give you this land.”

It wasn’t a payment in reward for labor, but it was a gift from God. Abraham had to simply walk up and down and familiarize himself with it.

He had to know and believe that God was going to give him this land. All he had to do was to set the future goal in his mind. He had to move from dreams, to goals, to having a very clear goal. He had to say,

“This is my Promised Land. This is what I am aiming for and what I believe God is going to give to me.”

The Next Stage

That was Abraham’s only function at first. But a long time later, someone came along who would move it to the later stages and start to put it into a plan.

The goal was made much clearer and more focused with some specific plans to make it come together. The Promised Land could actually now become a reality.

That person was Moses. Moses saw the land from a distance. He mapped out the whole land, even though there were no maps at that time. I don’t know how he did it. Perhaps he was already skilled in Egyptian knowledge of geography and already had a map of the land.

It seems peculiar, but Moses already had a complete map of the land. He had decided exactly what was going to be where and who would take over each part of the land.

Abraham looked ahead to what God was going to do, but Moses looked at what God was about to do. He moved from the future tense, backward into the present tense. He saw the land as a present reality, ready to be taken.

With Abraham, it wasn’t ready yet; it was a future promise. It was a goal and a dream. For Moses now this goal needed to be put into action.  But before it can be put into action, we have dreams, goals and plans. God gave Moses the planning part.

Getting the Blueprint

God gave a blueprint to Moses for the Promised Land. It took him at least 40 days and nights up in the mountain with God, and then he went up a few more times to add corrections to the plan. After some time in the presence of God alone, Moses developed a very clear blueprint of what would be involved in taking this Promised Land and making it a reality.

He laid out plans to divide the land amongst the 12 tribes of Israel. He put together a full game plan of how they were going to do it; where they would start and where they would go next. He decided exactly how they were going to take the land and how they would split it after they had taken it.

Long before they even placed a foot on that soil, Moses had laid out the whole plan, step by step, stage by stage. Everything was an exact blueprint.

You say, “God has given me the land, so let’s go and take it. By faith I step into my land and I have it. I will be a millionaire tomorrow.”

Well if that is what the Lord has called you to be, then perhaps it is your land. But it will not happen tomorrow. A few things have to be in place before that land will become a reality.

Moses mobilized all the resources needed to take the land. And the first thing he needed to do was to train up an army. They were going to go into a foreign land that already had occupants. They had to drive off the inhabitants of the land before it could become theirs.

You do not just walk into a land and say,

“This land is ours. God has given it to us, so get out!”

Can you imagine the response you would have received? They would have said,

“Who do you think you are and who is your God anyway? Are you trying to be funny?”

CHAPTER NO 07

Learning Some

Warfare

Chapter 07 - Learning Some Warfare

The first thing you had better do before you try to take this land is learn a bit of warfare. You need to know what warfare is and get into some practice. Do some spiritual exercise and develop your spiritual weapons. You are going to war.

Do you think that Satan will freely give you all the prosperity and blessing; so that you can take all that money and use it for the Kingdom of God, get souls saved and turn this world upside down for the Lord?

He is no more ready to do this than the Canaanites were ready to hand over the land to Israel. You will have a fight on your hands.

So Moses had to train up an army, and no army can ever survive without leaders. Moses had to set in place a structure of leadership amongst these million or so people that he was leading.

He set up leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. He had it all structured like a perfect army, and they were not even an army yet.

Then as they trained to become soldiers, each one fitted into their ranks. Each one knew exactly who they were responsible to, to whom they had to obey and who would make each level of decision.

Moses of course was right at the top. But every army also needs a general in charge. So Moses chose his right hand man, young Joshua, who was a man that he could trust. Joshua was in charge of the military and was the general over the army.

When they entered battle in the very first skirmishes on the way to the Promised Land, Joshua led the people out to battle to defeat the enemy. And Moses stood and did what he could do well. He held up his rod and released the power and anointing of God upon them.

Implementing the Plan

Do you plan to become wealthy? Do you plan to set up a business structure or some way of accumulating wealth?

It will take some planning and setting things in place. It will take using those whom God gives to you, putting them into place and giving them functions.

You must put them into a structure and put your plan together before you take the first step towards making this happen. Planning is an essential part of walking in the prosperity and wealth of taking the land that God has promised you alone.

So Moses took this whole plan, put it together and explained it to the people in detail. He was about to die and leave them, because God would not let him in.

His time was over. So he called all the people together and he rehearsed every stage of the plan God had given. He included all the fine details of what they needed to do.

What were they to do? They were to obtain what God had promised. But if God promised it, then why did He not just do it? Why could God not just send down lightning, hailstones, and thunderbolts from Heaven? He could kill all the enemy and they could just walk in and take over the land.

You wish. We are in this world that is controlled by the Princes of Darkness. So do not expect things to be any different in the spirit to what they are in the natural. There is an enemy to overcome and drive out.

People forget things very quickly. Moses probably spent weeks teaching them all the principles, and he knew they would not remember them. So God told him to use an extra technique. He wrote a song for them to learn. Then when they sang the song again they would remember some of the important principles.

So Moses gave them his final parting song, to help jog their memories so they would not forget the principles. And finally he had to appoint someone to take over. Of course that man was Joshua, his right hand man and the General of the army.

Time for Action

We have moved now from dreams and goals to plans. Now there is a plan to put into motion and we can look at taking the Promised Land.

The third stage is the actual taking of the land, and the person involved in that of course was Joshua. He took over from Moses, and his job was to do the final stage – the action part. God gave Joshua very clear instructions.

Firstly He told Joshua to memorize everything that Moses had written. Knowing some was not good enough for him. He had to memorize it.

The Lord told him to make sure that the word did not depart from his mouth. He was to meditate on it day and night and then he would succeed in everything that he did. That is because he had to memorize it.

Have you ever tried Scripture memorization? You cannot read something once or twice and remember it. I remember once trying to memorize Scripture. I had a pack of Scripture cards, with the verses on one side and the references on the other.

I would take each verse one at a time, walk up and down and repeat it.

“If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. John 15:7.”

I would speak it over again until I could hear myself speaking it in my sleep. Then it became mine, but it did not happen in one or two days. But after all these years I can still quote it because I have it in my spirit.

We want to just do it ’by faith’ because we are lazy. We want to step in there and God will make it all happen. We will fast and pray for a bit, confess the Word and off we go. Then our Promised Land arrives and the millions start coming from all sides.

That would be nice, but you will need a very clear plan, and you should have memorized that plan. You should have it very clear in your mind, and know where you are going to go first and where you are going after that. You will need to know what to do if certain things do or don’t take place.

Getting the Plan from God

Where do we get all these plans from? We get them from the same place that Moses did - from the presence of God.

This is no natural ability. You will not get these plans by working them out in your mind, using your wonderful business skill or reading all the books you can find on business.

It is not enough. Moses had to get it from the presence of God Himself. And if you want a plan for your Promised Land, there are no books written yet for that. Nobody else has gone yet into your Promised Land, because your Promised Land is not the same as everyone else’s.

Your Promised Land is not the same place to which everyone else is traveling. Your Promised Land is unique to you alone, and there is only one place that you can find the blueprint; in His Presence. So you had better get on your knees and spend time in His presence.

Before you even think of stepping out, opening your big mouth and telling the world that you are going to be so wealthy, go and get the blueprint from Him. You should have it in your mind and in your heart. You should eat, sleep, think and dream it all the time.

It should have saturated you and become part of you. Joshua had to saturate himself with what God had said to Moses, because Joshua did not have the chance to be up there with God.

He also spent a lot of time up in the mountain in the presence of God, but he did not get the plan as Moses did. So he had to saturate himself with that plan.

Dealing With the Negatives

Joshua also had to learn to develop courage. The moment you start your plan and tell everyone what you are planning to do, several dozen will think they are called to tell you that you are deceived. They will try to tell you where you are going wrong and offer advice on the best way to do it.

It is amazing how people who never succeeded financially in life, will have ’10 ways to get rich’ to teach you. It is amazing how many books on how to grow wealthy are by poor people. They read everybody else’s books and then regurgitate them for you.

All the wealth and prosperity books are the same. They all repeat what everyone else has taught. And even some of those original teachers failed.

Yes there are some good principles and people have learned many things. You could study how others took their land.

You might think that there are some good principles there that you could use. But you had better first find out what your land looks like, because what worked for their land will not necessarily work for yours.

God told Joshua,

“Be a strong leader; be bold and courageous. Do not listen to what people say, but step out in faith and boldness and don’t apologize for your presence. This is my word that I have given, so be bold, strong and courageous, and keep the people in subjection. Go and take the land.”

You cannot allow any wishy-washiness. You cannot say,

“Well I am just trusting God to make me wealthy.”

No, you had better know how you will become wealthy, because God told you. It is not because you made it up or decided to ‘name it and claim it’, but because God told you exactly how to go about it.

Here now is the wonderful thing; Abraham looked forward to the future, Moses looked at the present reality, but for Joshua it was the past tense. God said to Joshua,

“I have already given you the land. “

The Key Principle

Here is a principle that you must allow to burn down into your spirit. The Lord gave me a simple little principle by the Spirit that set a fire in me. He said,

“Becoming wealthy is not something you DO. Becoming wealthy is something you ARE.”

You don’t become a millionaire by accumulating a million dollars in your bank account. You start out by becoming a millionaire, and because you ARE a millionaire, you accumulate the millions.

They don’t teach you that in the world. Millionaires are a dime a dozen. That is because there are many people who have a million in the bank.

But how many of those were millionaires in themselves before they accumulated this money? Some folks saved up money all their lives. They invested their money and earned interest, saving and living a miserable life until they had a million in the bank. Now they boast that they are millionaires.

You could have a million in the bank and still have a poverty mentality. You still think like a poor man. You are not a millionaire after all. You are just a poor person who happens to have a million in the bank.

I can have 10 dollars in the bank and be a millionaire, because God made me a millionaire. As Joshua stood at the side of the Jordan, God said,

“All that land over there I have given to you. You are the owner of that land, Joshua. I want you to see that it is already yours.”

You are already the possessor of the Promised Land. Once you have found out what your Promised Land is, set in motion all the plans to make it a reality. You start by making it a reality in the Spirit. If first becomes a reality in your heart.

CHAPTER 08

Transmuting Your

Promised Land

Chapter 08 - Transmuting Your Promised Land

I have taught the principle of transmutation in the Way of Blessing and other places. When God gives us something, He gives it to us in the heavenly realm. Then all we need to do is to transmute it down.

It is the same principle: Before you can become wealthy you must see yourself as wealthy. You must know that you know. You must have heard the Lord’s voice giving you that Rhema word and saying,

“I have given you the promise.”

Up until then you are like Abraham, taking a good look, walking through the land and seeing what this promise will look like. You are like Moses, having a look and drawing up plans to make it yours. But when you reach the Joshua stage there is no more planning needed. The land is yours.

There is only one thing that remains – the action that brings into reality what you potentially already have, in the Lord and in the spiritual realm. It is up to you now to convert that spiritual essence into its physical reality. Joshua had to see the job as completed in his mind. He had to see the job as finished.

Then he made the Promised Land a reality. How did he do this?

The first step was putting his foot on the land. After all this time you finally take the first step.

What has God promised you? If He promised to make you wealthy in business, then perhaps a good beginning would be to start a business.

If He promised to make you famous as a singer, what is your first step? I would think that singing is going to be your first action. Make a recording or do something in line with your Promised Land.

Are you ready yet, and have you come to the stage where God says,

“It is yours; I have given you the plans and directions. Everything is set in place. Now it is time for you to cross that Jordan and put your foot on the land. Now is the time for you to begin to put into motion all that I prepared you for over time.”

The Manna Must Stop

Here is the first thing that Joshua did when he stepped into the land. He stopped the manna. Oh dear. I’m sure they would have like to have prayed,

“Lord can’t we collect some provisions for the next year before we stop the manna?”

That is what we would prefer to do isn’t it? We don’t want to give up what we have relied on. We say,

“Once the new business is going, then I will give up my job.”

Maybe you should just give up your job and start the new business. You had better have heard from God. You should have heard Him tell you that He has given it to you, and now is the time to take such a step. Do not presume and be arrogant, thinking that if you step out God will do what you want.

When the time is there, and your faith has reached that level and you know that ‘this is it’, it is time to step out boldly and put the past behind you. The manna can stop now.

You say, “But what if we don’t get any food tomorrow?”

You will stay poor that way. You will stay without your Promised Land. There will be a step of faith, where you have to step into the land, put the past behind you once for all and say,

“All the things I have been good at; all the things I have relied on; all the things I am comfortable with, I will let go. I cannot rely on them. The income that has been guaranteed to me until now is going to stop.”

You will have to take that step before you can take the land.

Living Off the New Land

Joshua got the people living off the new land. It was great to eat decent food, instead of that miserable manna that they had been eating for so long. I can just imagine what it must have been like when Mom shouted,

“It’s dinner time kids.”

“What’s for dinner Mom?”

“Manna.”

“What again?”

Were you ever in a home where they forced you to eat oats every morning for breakfast? You grew up hating oats and swore that you would never touch it again. When you finally left home and set up your own, the only thing you did not have in your pantry was oats.

I think the kids were very happy that the manna had stopped. They probably said,

“I don’t care if we even just go and eat the grass. I am so sick of manna.”

Perhaps you need to get sick of the things you have relied on for so long. Get sick of the kind of life you have been living; sick of the humdrum existence that you had for so long; sick of poverty and just having enough.

Give it up. Go and live on the new land – the Promised Land that God has given you.

Well it was not that simple. There were enemies that had to be driven out. There was a fight; a time of warfare. But that is the main thing you will do. If you are to take your Promised Land, you should have had some practice in spiritual warfare.

You Will Come Under Attack

You had better know how to handle demon forces and combat Satan. The moment you step into that land the armies will be coming at you. The hordes will come at you to stop you.

Satan resists most things that we do for the Lord. But if there is one thing that he seems to fight more than anything else in the Body of Christ, it is when someone decides to rise up and prosper financially.

Money is the main weapon and means of control that the enemy has over peoples’ lives. With money he can destroy marriages. He can destroy lives and make people commit suicide.

You can buy people with money. You can persuade them to let go of all their principles and give up a life of righteousness for money.

When you come to a place where money is no longer a problem; when there is more than enough, then Satan has no control over your life any more. So do not expect things to go well the moment you step into this new land and say,

“I have all the plans, and God said He has given it to me. I’ve had a vision, my faith is riding high and I’m stepping into the land. Just look at that wonderful fruit. Let’s go and get it guys.”

You will likely hear a loud noise and think,

“What was that? Something just smacked me in the back of the head.”

Consider yourself blessed if that is all you got. You will more likely have something hitting you in the middle of your chest and knocking you to the ground. You will face spiritual warfare like you have never known in your life when you decide to step into and walk in prosperity.

You will have more opposition to this than the day you decided to stop sinning. That is why so many people turn back, as the Israelites first did after they sent in the spies under Moses. They said,

“The land looks great. We would love to take it, but have you seen the enemy? We don’t stand a chance.”

That is why you don’t just walk over the border into the land saying,

“Okay here I am. God has given it to me. Everyone get off my land.”

You had better be prepared. You had better spend time in His presence and have your plan of action; because when the enemy attacks you should have already made a plan of what you will do to counteract that attack.

You should already have been trained in warfare and know how you will handle that onslaught. Otherwise your Promised Land will be gone and you will never enter it.

Plans Already Laid Out

So Joshua drove the enemies off the land. Did he use his brilliant skills? No, he used the plans that Moses had laid out; systematic, stage by stage and all in detail, laid out for him.

He already had a full battle plan. All he needed to do was follow it a step at a time. And every now and then he missed it.

He messed up badly and everything went wrong. You will do that too; don’t fool yourself.

Have you ever watched a movie or read a story where everything goes well and everyone gets what he or she wants? No good movies follow that pattern. Usually there is a stage where all is lost, everything has gone wrong and the hero has given up hope.

Well the stories are based on real life. There is an enemy out there, and you are deluded if you think you can just step into this Promised Land and everything will go great. You may think,

“After all these years of having nothing, I’m finally going to be wealthy. I can retire and live like a king for the rest of my life, without having to work again,”

Even after Joshua had taken the land, there were still some enemies left. There will always be enemies there that you have to deal with. You have to keep on top of it.

Once Joshua had taken the land and driven all the enemies off, he divided the land up. He put it all into place with structure.

God works through structure. You don’t just coast along until the money comes in and then you spend it. More comes in tomorrow and you spend it again. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live like that?

Actually it would be boring. There would be no goals or challenges in life. We need these challenges. Joshua set it all in order and each tribe was given a portion as it had all been laid out.

God has a Promised Land for you. Have a good look at it and see exactly what it looks like, so you know what to aim for. Get into the presence of the Lord and obtain a blueprint from Him. Find out exactly how you should go about taking that land and making it yours. Identify it and see it clearly. Plan exactly how you will take it.

Then when the time is right, and you know that you know the Lord has given you this promise, it is time to put your foot on the land. Then once you take that step to put your foot on the land, don’t stop no matter what the cost or the pressures that come against you.

Once you have stepped over the Jordan into that land, it is time to go forward and take all the land. Drive the enemy off the land, until you reach the place where the land can be divided.

Once it is fully yours and set in place, then only can you finally sit back and say,

“Okay Lord, where do we go from here?”

Dare To Step Out Boldly

It could take you most of your life to get there. Perhaps you have faith, or you are still young and full of zeal and fire.

I believe that in these End Times, God wants to lift up those of His children who dare to find out what their Promised Land is. There will be those who dare to find out from the Lord, the right plan of action.

There will be those who dare to step out boldly in faith, to go put their foot on the land and make it theirs. Once you have done that you can teach others and show them how you did it.

In this way they can learn how to do it also. It will be wonderful, because in the end every one of God’s people will have a piece of land.

Perhaps God has called you to be an Abraham; to build the dream into people and show them the land that is theirs. Maybe God has called you to be a Moses, to help plan it out. Maybe God has called you to be a Joshua, to go forward, to help take the land, and to divide it amongst others.

Not everyone can be a leader in this. Not everyone is called to such a big vision. You might be a part of someone else’s vision. It could be that you will be part of the dividing of the land, where you will get your portion. But don’t think that it will just fall on you.

Everyone who went in had to take part in the fight. There were those tribes who took the land on the other side of the Jordan.

What did Joshua tell them? He said they could have it, but they had to go in and fight. Once they had done their part they could return and take their land.

We do this together and we all have a part to play. So even if you are fitting into someone else’s mandate, and you benefit from someone else’s Promised Land, you will still have a part to play. You have a responsibility to carry out.

Take Your Promised Land

I believe that if you follow through this order, you will find your Promised Land. Reach out and take it. God wants all of us to walk in the same kind of blessing that He has always had for His people.

Your Promised Land can include things like healing and health, fame and fortune, and all of these together. It does not only have to be wealth. They all go together.

The Israelites became famous and all the nations were in awe of them. They were wealthy. The Lord told them they would not need to borrow, but would lend to many nations.

God’s plan for His people in the New Testament is not a lesser land, but a greater one. Now He offers a spiritual dimension that the Israelites did not have.

We have what they had, plus a whole lot more. Don’t limit or restrict yourself. Don’t see yourself as too small to step into your Promised Land.

Find your Promised Land, then go and take it.  I will show you in the next section how to go about it.

SECTION 03 – GOD’S 12 STEP PROGRAM

Section 03 - God’s 12-Step Program

I would like to tell you now about God’s 12 Step Program.

There are many 12 steps programs in the world. Most of them come from unbelievers, who try to use psychology to help you overcome your problems.

If your problem is divorce, alcoholism or drugs, there is usually some 12-step program to help you deal with it.

Well I am going to give you the best 12-step program that you have ever heard. This one really works because it is God’s 12-step program.

God wants to bless you. He wants to bless you even more than you want the blessing. But here is an important thing you need to bear in mind. God will NOT impose Himself on you.

The Lord will never force His blessing on you. God will always bless you according to what you desire. If you are expecting the blessing to fall on you without doing anything, you have not even taken the first step in this program yet.

YOU must take 12 steps to enter into the blessing of the Lord. And in case you are worried about it, one of them is NOT tithing. These 12 steps will cause you to walk in blessing. So here they are.

CHAPTER 09 - STEP NO. 1

Make a Decision of What You Want From God

Chapter 09 - Step No. 1

Make a Decision of What You Want from God

Decide what you want. This must not be just a passing thought like,

“I suppose it would be nice to have one of those.”

That is not a want. I am talking about a consuming core desire. It must stir up your passions. It must consume you. It should keep you awake at night.

The Bible gives us an example of that in the Old Testament. Rachel so desired children that she said to her husband,

“Give me a child or I will die.”

He felt a little put out because he was not God, but she had a consuming passion. She wanted a child.

You must start with this kind of desire. It is step number one, and an essential part of this program. Without it you cannot receive anything from the Lord. When you have that kind of desire, you must see the thing you want very clearly in your mind.

You have to be very specific. If you want a car from the Lord, you cannot say,

“I want a car.”

You could end up with a Volkswagen when you wanted a Cadillac. You must say exactly what you want from the Lord.

Now you are probably shaking your head and thinking,

“Here it comes - the ‘Name It and Claim It’ teaching. You just name what you want and claim it from God and you will get anything you want.”

No, we do not believe in Name it and Claim it as I have taught in The Way of Blessing. This program comes entirely from the principles of the Way of Blessing. So if you want these 12 steps in far more detail, you need to read The Way of Blessing.

We have recently upgraded the Way of Blessing and split it into two books called the New Way of Blessing. The two books are:

1. The New Way of Blessing: Discovering Your Blessing

2. The New Way of Blessing: Using Your Blessing.

If you prefer audio or video, you can get the DVD’s or Audio CD’s which are all available at http://www.gbri-bookshop.com.

They will transform your life, but it will take you longer to go through everything. This is the shortened version.

We believe in ‘See It and Snatch It’. This is not just a play on words either. This is very different to ‘Name It and Claim It’, because until you see it you cannot snatch it. I will show you shortly how to come to that place.

CHAPTER 10 - STEP NO. 2

Get Into the Word

Chapter 10 - Step No. 2

Get Into the Word

Perhaps you thought you needed to fast and pray for 40 days and nights. No, the starting point is getting into the Word. If you know what you want, earnestly desire it and you can see it in your mind, then the next thing to do is to get into the Word.

Of course the Word is long, going from Genesis to Revelation. Which part do you start with? Well you have to start somewhere.

We have provided an online Bible program called the GBM Online Bible which is freely available. Simply go to:

http://www.gbm-academy.com/show.php?t=The%20GBM%20Online%20Bible&ref=9

There you will find a daily Bible reading schedule. It lets you read seven different chapters each day. Each day if you return, you will find it has advanced to the next chapter in the list.

We divided the Bible up into sections, and you read a chapter from each section every day. When you reach the end of a section you start again at the beginning.

You will end up reading the whole Bible that way. But you will not read it in order. You will read from different places, which gives you an overall picture of the Word.

You need to get into the Word and find some promises from God. Find a passage where God promises you what you want. You might have a problem with this and ask,

“Where does God promise me a Lincoln Continental?”

Well you won’t find a promise quite that specific. You might get a prophetic revelation and we will talk more about that later. What you need to do is get in line with the Word so that you know how God works.

For example, suppose you need a husband or wife and want to ask the Lord for that. You must be very specific like this:

1.       She must be three inches shorter than me

2.       She must be blonde

3.       She must be nice and slim

4.       She must have the right curvature

Is there anything wrong with that? No there is nothing wrong with that at all. You are at liberty to ask the Lord for any kind of partner you want, except in this case: you are already married.

The Lord will not give you a new partner if you are already married. That is sin, and you need to know what the Scriptures teach about that.

So you need to get into the Word and know what it teaches. Then when you come to ask the Lord for anything, you ask in line with what the Word clearly teaches.

Some folks like to get a ‘fortune-telling word’ from the Lord. They take the Bible and open it at random, and they see the words, ‘…and Abram married Sarah.’

Sometimes the Lord does that. He has pity on us and does us like He did Gideon. He was such a man of doubt that he wanted many confirmations. And even when God gave them, he still had doubt. It is not exactly an act of faith.

But sometimes the Lord will allow this. In fact, we even allowed for it in the GBM Online Bible, and we gave a link where you can click to get a random Bible Verse. You can find it at the top right of the screen.

You could keep clicking that until you get a Scripture that says something you want to hear. Then you will have your ‘word from the Lord’ if that is what you really want.

But I suggest you rather get into the Word and pull out every promise that God gives you. Every time you see a promise in the Word, make a note of it. Make yourself a document with all the promises in it.

The time could come in the future when you need something from God. Then one of those promises will give you the assurance that you can ask according to God’s will.

CHAPTER 11 - STEP NO. 3

Wait On God for the Answer

Chapter 11 - Step No. 3

Wait On God For The Answer

Should you fast, pray, and nag the Lord? Should you bug Him until He says?

“Ok you can have it.”

If you do that, then how will you know when He says?

“Ok, you can have it.”

Will you know because it has arrived? After nagging the Lord on and on, eventually it is there. There is a knock at the door and there she is - a lovely blonde-haired woman who says,

“The Lord told me you were looking for a wife.”

Well I don’t know how good your faith is, but mine was never that good. I thought God would do it in a slightly less miraculous way for me.

Since I was in ministry, I thought I would be standing behind the pulpit ministering. I expected her to walk in the door while I was ministering away. She would be the exact woman I had asked for. Our eyes would meet, sparks would fly and I would know that this was it.

But it did not happen. That is a different story of course. The Lord did answer my faith and gave me the woman of my dreams. He gave me exactly what I asked for, because I used these principles.

They really work and I live by them and guide my life and ministry by them. These are not just fancy ideas or psychology from some ungodly person. They come from the Scriptures and are God’s 12 steps to blessing.

You must ask the Lord for the things you desire, but the key lies in the word ‘wait.’ What must you wait for?

You do not wait for the provision itself to appear. What you need to wait for comes long before you see the manifestation. You must wait for an answer from the Lord. A good starting point will be if God says yes. But if God says no, then He has a reason.

The problem actually does not lie in which answer God gives. It lies in your ability to hear His answer. You have probably tried storming the gates of Heaven. But you did not hear that little voice inside that says,

“You don’t have to storm the gates my child. They are open. Come on in.”

The trouble is we are so busy storming the gates, bombarding, claiming and confessing repeatedly, that we miss that sweet little voice that says,

“Okay you can have it; it’s yours.”

You must wait on God for the answer. You said your part, now give Him a chance to reply. If you ask amiss He will talk back and say,

“No, you are asking contrary to my Word and going in the wrong direction.”

“No I am not going to give you somebody from China.”

The Lord will usually give you what you want, but sometimes there are factors you did not allow for. Perhaps you told the Lord how to provide.

God does not like us to tell Him how to provide. He knows a better way of providing than you ever thought of. Imagine if you asked the Lord to provide for your healing by praying,

“Lord let them discover the most powerful medicine for this sickness.”

That would be silly wouldn’t it? God can do that, and sometimes He does. He has provided many things in this world in answer to our needs. But do not tell the Lord how to provide. Rather wait on Him for the answer. This will lead you to Step No. 4.

CHAPTER 12 - STEP NO. 4

See Him Giving You

The Answer

Chapter 12 - Step No 4

See Him Giving You the Answer

This is the first part of the ‘See It and Snatch It’ stage. You cannot snatch it until you see it. You need to see the Lord actually giving you what you asked for.

How will you see it; when it actually manifests? No, we have not even come close to the manifestation yet. You have to see it with your spiritual eyes. You must ‘see’ it in your spirit.

What does that mean? Do I close my eyes and visualize it? Do I try to see the Lord holding in His hand what I asked for and giving it to me? That sounds right doesn’t it? But it is not what I mean.

Yes you should see it, and get some kind of vision or assurance. But it will usually come in a way that you do not expect. It will come out of your spirit. And when it comes, it will not even be what you were expecting.

It will pop out and you will know it is the voice of God saying to you,

“I give it to you.”

You might see Him holding it and giving it to you, but you might not. It is up to Him how He gives it to you. But you must get a revelation where you know that you know that the Lord has heard your prayer and said yes.

Until you have that assurance, you have not even begun to move in faith yet. And without faith it is impossible to please Him.

You may have very strong hope. You may be able to close your eyes and see it, as they teach you in many of these worldly programs such as The Secret. You can close your eyes and see yourself driving that car. You can feel the soft seats. Yes, you can do that later, but not yet because that is one of the later steps.

Until you know that you know that the Lord has said yes and given it to you, you can go no further.

Everybody misses this step. Folks pray, believe and confess. They put their faith out, expecting any day to see the manifestation. But it is just all hope because you have not yet seen the Lord giving it to you.

When you see Him giving it to you, then it leads to Step No. 5.

CHAPTER 13 - STEP NO. 5

You Must Know That

It is Yours

Chapter 13 - Step No 5

You Must Know That it is Yours

The Scripture tells us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the ‘rhema’ word of God. What I referred to as ‘seeing’ is actually the rhema Word of God.

It is not enough to just open up to a Scripture where the Lord says He has given it to you, although the Lord can do that. But when the true revelation comes, it brings with it an assurance so strong that you actually stop praying.

You stop asking, because you know now that God has answered. You know that this thing is yours. This is a very important step.

Faith is always, ‘knowing that you know’. And faith always has a past tense.

I have a very simple way of testing people’s faith. I hear someone say something like this:

“I have trusted the Lord and I believe that my husband will be here any day now. Any day now God is going to give me my husband.”

When I hear that, I know they have not yet moved into faith. They are still walking in hope.

You see faith says,

“God gave me my husband; God gave me my car; God gave me my new house; God gave me a new job.”

But when did He give it? You should be able to put down a date and time when it took place. That was the moment you received the rhema from the Lord. That was when you knew that He had answered.

Now you know, although you do not know how it will come or when it will come. You do not know how God will work, or whom He will use. All you need to know is that you have received from the Lord what you asked for.

That is faith and it is your starting point.

Now that you know He has given it to you, you might wonder where it is. Where is it right now?

The Scripture says God provides our needs according His riches in glory, which is the Heavenly realm. So I ask the Lord for a new Lincoln Continental and he says,

“Yes, here are the keys.”

But where is my car right now? Technically speaking it likely already exists. But if God gives it to me right now I can tell you where it is. It is parked outside His front door in the Heavenly realm. I can close my eyes and see it, but it is up there. He has given it to me and it is mine.

But now how do I get it from there down to here? This is where you have to do something. You might be waiting for the Lord to ship it (via DHL maybe). Can the carriers of this world make that kind of delivery? I doubt it.

It will take a lot more to get it down to here from the heavenly realm. You will have to follow through with Step No. 6.

CHAPTER 14 - STEP NO 6

Transmute it Down

Chapter 14 - Step No 6

Transmute It Down

The best picture I have ever had for this comes from the original old Star Trek TV Series, where they would beam down to a planet. They would call and say,

“Beam me up, Scottie.”

They would dematerialize into a form of energy. They would then transmit this up into the spaceship. There in a special chamber, the energy would rematerialize to form the transmuted person.

This is how it works. God gave you what you asked for, but He gave it in ‘spiritual essence’. You have to transmit that spiritual essence down to this earth, and convert it into something physical and tangible.

I have taught this in a lot of detail in the Way of Blessing, so I will not explain it here. But you can transmute using something that exists in both the heavenly and earthly realms. That thing is ‘words’.

You see words are a manifestation of spirit power. The heavenly realm is a spiritual realm. But on this earth the only spiritual realm is your human spirit. Your spirit is the only part of you that can make contact with the spiritual realm, in which God lives.

Your spirit expresses itself through words. Words are the containers in which you release spiritual power. So the way to transmute down from the heavenly realm is to speak words.

What words should you speak? You should speak and confess the past tense. You must say,

“God has given me the thing I desired. In the name of Jesus it is mine.”

You must be like Joshua. God said to him,

“I have given you the whole land. Every place where you put your foot, I have given to you.”

It would have been great if Joshua could have just stood there and said,

“Okay Lord, bring it on. Bring me the land. Isn’t that wonderful, God says we have the land.”

But it is not yours until you put your foot on it. And I found that the best way to transmute is to be a Joshua. I say to myself,

“I have received my new car. I put my foot on it now. It is mine. Satan, take your hands off my car. Get off my land.”

Why do I say that? Because my car is already down here on this earth and Satan is blocking it from coming to me. As I transmute that car down from the heavenly realm, the enemy will try to block it. So I need to stand against him. I will get to that part in more detail shortly.

As you speak and confess, you say,

“I thank you Lord that you have given me that car. It is mine, hallelujah.”

You tell people what kind of car God has given you. You thank the Lord for granting your desire.

When I asked the Lord for a wife, I told everyone about it. I asked Him for money to pay off my debts, and told someone at work about it.

People might think that you are strange. But it should become so real to you that cannot help it.

Where was this money going to come from? My bills were sky high and I was getting deeper into debt. I did not know, but God had told me He had given it to me.

The manifestation did come one day unexpectedly, when someone came to my door and said,

“God has told me to give you some money.”

It might not always happen that way, but in this case, it did.

I kept speaking it and told everybody about it. It was not a big show, but I simply spoke about what I really believed in my heart. I knew that I knew that God had given me what I desired.

CHAPTER 15 – STEP NO. 7

Build a Spiritual

Template

Chapter 15 - Step No. 7

Build a Spiritual Template

How do you move from the spiritual realm to the physical realm? There has to be a bridge between the part of you that is spiritual and the part of you that is physical.

If you consider the nature of man, you see that God made us to be spirit, soul and body. The spirit is the deeper inner part that is the real you. It is where the Holy Spirit dwells if you are a born-again believer.

Your body is the ugly part that you wish you could change sometimes. You try to change it as much as you can. This is that part of you that is visible to everyone.

Between the two is the seat of your personality. It is the real you; the place where your thoughts and desires lie. It is where you find the ability to choose and act on your own will.

You want what God put in your spirit to flow out into the physical. For this to happen there must be a channel in your soul for it to flow through. I have called that channel a ‘template’.

Why do you need this template? God gave you a revelation in your spirit, so you know that He has provided what you desired. But your mind keeps fighting it. Your mind is attacked with doubts, fears, and cares.

Today you might be on top of the world and happy that God has provided. But tomorrow you might be down and full of despair. We have all been there.

You need a template to keep your soul going; a spiritual template to keep your soul healthy. Then as you speak words, you release power from your spirit, through the soul and through your body into the earth.

If you don’t do this, they are just empty words without anointing. They must be words filled with power.

Templates are things based on our experiences in life. When you have had a lot of ‘bad luck’ in life with things going wrong, you find it very difficult to believe. You do not expect things to go right.

But some things did go right in your life. You may only be able to count them on one hand. But there should be something at least. There should have been something that worked; something that you got right.

Let’s start with those, because they are your good templates. Start using those as good channels.

Supposing you face a fearful situation and you wonder how you will get out of it. When this happens, ask yourself this question,

“Have I been here before?”

Perhaps you had this 10 years ago and you remember. Things were impossible; creditors were knocking at the door trying to take away everything. And even if they took away everything in the end, you made it through.

You broke free and things changed. You did not stay there, but worked your way through. This is actually a good template. Forget about the bad things that happened. You survived and made it through. And you are doing a whole lot better now than you were doing back there.

Start with the good memories you have. Don’t major on all the things that went wrong in your life. Those things will poison your soul. Start with the good things and build on those. Fill your mind with good thoughts.

Here is where you come to the part where you see yourself driving the car. You have to build this into your soul to keep it healthy. The word of faith that God gave you must flow out freely as you continue to confess.

One of the easiest ways to build the pictures into your mind is to speak the words aloud. You could close your eyes and try to imagine it. You could try to visualize the thing you desire.

There is the man of your dreams. He is so wonderful and never says nasty things. Well that might be just a daydream, but still. It is not that easy to build pictures into your mind by just thinking about it.

It is much easier to do this when you say it. Take a walk along the beach and speak it out. Say,

“Lord I thank you that she is here now. Oh Lord she’s beautiful; she’s even more than what I asked for. Lord, you did such a wonderful job. “

I went even further than that. I began to write poetry for her, because she was so real to me. The only thing that was missing was her physical presence. But in my heart and in my spirit I knew that God had given exactly what I had asked for.

Actually He gave even more than what I asked for. That is just how wonderful He is. He gives us the things we secretly desire and do not think we should dare to ask for.

Keep the positive pictures in your heart as you speak those words out and build some good templates. They keep your soul going and hanging on, as you continue to transmute and confess these things.

As you do this, some obstacles will come up. You will come under attack in your mind.

The moment you begin to believe God for finances, something will break or go wrong. Some new debt will come up. You might have to spend the money you saved on fixing the car or something.

Satan comes in, steals everything and then tells you that you were deceived. He will tell you that you only imagined that you heard God. He will tell you that you are a miserable sinner and do not deserve special blessing from the Lord.  He will begin to attack and bombard your mind.

CHAPTER 16 - STEP NO. 8

Bind the Forces of Darkness

Chapter 16 - Step No 8

Bind the Forces of Darkness

You must bind the forces of darkness, because God has given YOU the authority in the earth. He said that whatever YOU bind on earth would have been bound in heaven. Whatever YOU loose on earth would have been loosed in heaven. You might say,

“I have just been praying and trusting God to bind the devil.”

Well Satan has a lot more people giving him license in the earth right now. You have to stand up in the authority that God has given you and say,

“I will not allow that Satan. Don’t you dare.”

You have authority, and the power of the authority of the name of Jesus. You can speak against the forces of darkness and say,

“No you don’t. Take your lies and get out of here!”

You have to use that authority. You have to bind the forces of darkness, and you have authority to do it.  And sometimes the Lord stands there waiting for you to do it.

I did not understand this principle for many years. I remember once reading a book by the late Kenneth E. Hagin, entitled “I Believe In Visions.” He shared something in there that I thought was total heresy at the time.

He said that he had a vision where the Lord was speaking to him. And as the Lord was speaking, suddenly this little demon appeared like a monkey between him and the Lord.

He said it started making a noise, but the Lord just carried on talking. After a while he became irritated. He wondered why the Lord was not doing something about the demon. But the Lord just carried on speaking.

Eventually the demon began to kick up dust and make smoke. A cloud began to appear and the Lord started to disappear, but He just continued to speak. Hagin said he got irritated and spoke to the demon saying,

“I bind you in the name of Jesus and command you to leave.”

The demon fell whimpering to the ground and went off, and the Lord carried on speaking. The Lord told him,

“If you had not done that, I could have done nothing about it.”

He said, “Lord, you mean you did not want to do anything about it?”

But the Lord said,

“No, I put the authority in YOUR hands in the earth. It’s up to YOU to bind.”

It is puzzling to the mind, but true. You must bind the forces of darkness in this earth, because God has given you the authority.

When Jesus was on the earth, He had this authority because He was walking as man. But Jesus is no longer resident in the earth in physical form. He is in the heavenly realm.

Now He comes and lives and walks in us by His Spirit. Jesus walks this earthly realm now in us. If Jesus is going to bind demons on this earth now, He will do it through YOUR mouth.

What function do the angels carry out?

Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatever you permit or release on earth will be released in heaven.

God has His angels, and whatever He does in this physical realm to cause things to happen for us, He does through angelic agency.

So I thank the Lord that we have the angels. They are there to protect me. So does this mean that I can just do whatever I like; live a reckless life, drive too fast, do stupid things, and expect the angels to look after me?

No, the angels need your license in the earth. In the Psalms, it says that they pay attention to the word of the Lord in the earth. But how does the word of the Lord come forth? It can only come forth now through human lips.

As you speak God’s Word into the earth; as you confess His Word and use the authority that He has given you, you give the angels license to work. Until you give them that license, they cannot impose on you in any way, and give you what you didn’t ask for.

So don’t think it will just fall on you. You must bind the forces of darkness and you must release the angels. Don’t think you can escape by saying,

“There is my guardian angel. ‘Hey go and get me my new car now.’ ”

It does not work quite that way. No, you bind the forces of darkness, speak forth, transmute, and confess into the earth. When you do that, you commission the angels automatically by your words going forth into the earth.

This is because the words that you are speaking are the very rhema words that God put into you. As you confess the Scriptures and the rhema word of revelation that God gave you, you release His Word into the earth, and you release the angels to arrange and bring it to pass.

Before I met my wife, Daphne, the Lord showed me a vision one night. I saw a ring of angels around me and another ring of angels around her. They were all working to bring the two of us together.

It was such a beautiful picture. And they did do it, in a most amazing way that I would never have expected. And no she did not walk into church one day while I was preaching. It just didn’t happen.

I found her in the most unexpected place, and the Lord told me where to look. But that’s another story and we have shared it in on Daphne’s website called Godly Wife. You can find it by going to www.godly-wife.com.

CHAPTER 17 - STEP NO. 9

Start by Birthing Smaller Things

Chapter 17 - Step No. 9

Start by Birthing Smaller Things

You need to birth the thing that you have desired. I have done a big teaching using the allegory of birth in the Way of Blessing.

You conceive in your spirit when you receive that rhema word. And you begin to prepare now for the manifestation of the thing that God has already given you.

From the moment that she conceives, a woman is pregnant. There is a baby in there, but it is not ready to come out yet. Many things will happen from the point of conception to the point of birth.

We don’t really want this tough part. I tried planting some herb seeds the one day and I thought,

“Wonderful, we will soon have our own herb garden.”

But I checked and they said it would take 60 to 90 days. I thought we could water it for a while and then start using the herbs in our cooking.

It does not work that way in planting, and for the women it does not work that way in childbearing either. There are a few steps that take place between the fun part of making the baby and that horrible part called childbirth.

Many horrible things happen between, like ‘morning sickness’. There are some nice parts and some bad parts, but many things have to take place. If you are human it takes nine months.

If the baby comes before that time, it may not survive because it is premature. There is an exact time period that it takes to birth.

Dogs and cats don’t need nine months. They take more like nine weeks. The time varies from animal to animal. For an elephant, it is even longer than for a human and takes years.

It always takes a while, even though you know that you have a child within you. You can even name the child and call it by name, and talk to it in your tummy. It is not here yet, but you know that it is there. It is not yet ready for full manifestation.

There is always a waiting period between the point of conception and the point of birth. And it happens exactly the same way in the realm of the spirit.

Perhaps you are believing God for something big; maybe you are trusting Him to make you a millionaire. Then you are trying to birth an elephant. You cannot understand why you have confessed and exercised your faith for six weeks, but you are not a millionaire yet.

Six weeks might feel like an age, with no sign of the millions. But I suggest you do not start by trying to birth an elephant.

I wrote a song about it in a series called the Blessing Songs. It is called, “You Can Birth an Elephant if You Want.” It always takes a while.

When I first tried gardening, I found some plants that mature quickly. The best was the good old radish. Who eats those red radishes? I didn’t eat them myself, but I planted them just because they grew so fast.

It gave me encouragement. I could plant them, and within days the green leaves were coming out. Before I knew it I could pick the radishes and have my own homegrown vegetables.

Months later the onions were still only half-grown. So I planted many radishes to keep me going, while I waited for the onions to mature. The potatoes and all the other things I had planted followed afterwards.

If you plant a peach tree, you could wait years before it is big enough to give you peaches. I grew up with an avocado tree that my parents planted from a pip. I played in it, climbed its branches and knocked nails into it. But I was already nearly in my teens when it finally started to bear avocados.

It took many years before it was ready. Don’t plant avos to start with. Rather start with radishes. Don’t try to birth an elephant. Start with something smaller like a rat, or something even smaller.

Birth something small. You could believe God for a new pen. You might have enough money for a pen, but rather believe God for enough money to go and buy a new pen. Start with something small. When it comes, you will see that your faith actually worked and it worked quickly.

Perhaps now that you have a pen, you could get a more expensive one. Now you can believe for something fancier. I believed God for a watch. It was a cheap one from Costco. Now I can believe God for something a bit fancier.

You might not be quite ready for a Rolex yet, but you could try for something in between. Start with something that is small enough to encourage you that your faith does work. You can believe God for this, and you can see the results.

Then as you start small, build up to bigger things. You could have many of these going at the same time. You could plant many different plants and have many different things that you are birthing at the same time.

During that time, a growth and maturity will take place. But don’t forget that just before the manifestation there will be labor pains. Most women would love to skip the labor and just have the baby.

I am afraid it does not work that way in the natural, and it doesn’t work that way in the spiritual. Don’t expect that now that you have trusted God to provide, everything will just fall into place.

It is like watching a movie. The best movie is one where everything starts out great, the hero gets what he or she wants, and then everything goes wrong.

You reach the point where ‘all is lost’. There is no way out, and every hope and dream is dashed. Perhaps the woman he wanted ran off and married someone else. You have seen these movies.

If you stopped the movie at that point you might never want to watch another movie again. But something in you says,

“It is going to come right. We will stick it through and keep trying.”

Your hero keeps trying, and in the end he or she comes out victorious.

Life is like that, which is why movies follow that pattern. Birth is also like that. You reach a point of death or giving up, where you say,

“I don’t want this baby anymore.”

It might be a bit late, but you can abort it. If you do not follow through this is exactly what will happen.

You may have believed the Lord for a long time, but then you let go and stop. Once it is gone you will never see the manifestation. So you need to apply Step No. 10.

CHAPTER 18 - STEP NO. 10

Follow it Through

to Conclusion

Chapter 18 - Step No. 10

Follow It Through To Conclusion

Do not give up halfway, but follow it through to its conclusion. Before you even start this birth, make sure that you are prepared to pay the price. Because you see there will be a price to pay to follow it all the way through.

It may take longer and you may have to exercise a lot more faith. You may have to go through a time of preparation and growth. But if you hang in there and follow all the way through, you will see the manifestation of what you are believing for.

CHAPTER 19 - STEP NO. 11

Do Not Be Swayed by the Time of Travail

Chapter 19 - Step 11

Do Not Be Swayed by the Time of Travail

Do not be put off when everything goes wrong. When you reach the ‘all is lost’ stage of the movie, don’t switch it off. Don’t give up. Don’t be swayed, because Satan will throw at you everything that he has, to make you think that God has forsaken you.

He wants you to think that it was all a big mistake and you were deceived; that it is not going to happen. If this stage is not reached, I would question whether you are doing a real birth or not. So expect it because it will come.

Expect the ‘Dark Night of the Soul’. But you know that after the night comes the dawn. There is an old saying that it is always darkest before the dawn.

So hang in there and push on through. Eventually the labor pains will be over, and you will hear the baby crying. Then you will have birthed the thing that you wanted.

Isn’t it wonderful - these 11 steps to God’s provision? But I said there were 12. Yes there are, and the twelfth one is very important.

Baby is born and it is wonderful. Do you just put him down and go off? Your child could die right at that point and you could lose him or her completely.

CHAPTER 20 - STEP NO. 12

You Must Loose it Once

it Manifests

Chapter 20 - Step No. 12

You Must Loose It Once It Manifests

The first thing you have to do is loose it and cut it off from you. You must cut off the umbilical cord and remove every obstacle standing in the way. You must remove anything that stops the baby from rising up into this new life.

I always use the story of Lazarus to illustrate this principle. Jesus stood at the graveside of Lazarus, and shouted out in a loud voice saying,

“Lazarus come out.”

The Scripture says that Lazarus came out and stood at the mouth of the cave, all tied up in his grave clothes.

If he continued standing there in his grave clothes, he could have died again from suffocation and starvation. They could have celebrated that Lazarus was back, left him there and gone home.

But the first thing that Jesus said to them was,

“Loose him.”

So many people have made this mistake. They have believed and trusted God and gone through the whole period of labor. And now the manifestation is right there, so they think that they can sit back and rest.

You could lose it all right there. I remember when I put out my faith for God to pay all my debts. Someone came and told me they were going to give me a specific amount of money. I rejoiced that my provision had come, but two weeks later there was still no sign of it.

I wondered whether he had changed his mind. Perhaps he no longer had the money. Maybe he got into debt or thought he was in deception and changed his mind. That was when the Lord taught me this principle. He said,

“Don’t you stop, but loose it now. Speak it forth and say that it is yours in the name of Jesus, and loose it in Jesus’ name.”

The 12th step is a very important step. If you do not release it once it manifests, you could lose it.

The Principles in Summary

The Principles in Summary

You can receive anything at all that you desire from the Lord. If you follow these 12 steps, they will work every time.

1.       Make a decision of what you want from God.

2.       Get into the Word and find promises for what you want

3.       Wait on God for the answer

4.       See Him giving it to you

5.       Know that it is yours

6.       Transmute it from the Heavenly Realm

7.       Build a spiritual template to keep your soul healthy

8.       Bind the forces of darkness and release the forces of Heaven

9.       Start small and learn to birth small things as you move up to tackle bigger problems

10.   Follow each one through to its conclusion

11.   Don’t be swayed by the time of travail

12.   Once it manifests, remember to release it into the earth

That is the Way of Blessing in a nutshell. There’s a lot more to it, and if you haven’t done so yet, I suggest you go and read both books in the Way of Blessing series.

I have given summaries of all the main principles on our website at http://www.way-of-blessing.com. Go and look at the summaries, but if you really want to get the principles, get hold of the Way of Blessing.

There are the Way of Blessing books and a workbook that goes with it. We have the Way of Blessing songs also, which contain the actual principles. If you find it difficult to remember all of the principles, just learn the songs and you can sing them. As you sing them the principles will come back to you over again.

I built my life on these principles. For those who are part of this ministry, this is the flagship of Global Business Ministries International. This is the Way to Blessing; God’s 12 Step Program.

I believe that as you walk these steps you will experience the same thing.

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