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00:00Oh yeah
00:30peace and richest blessings to you i am michael bernard beckwith the founder and spiritual
00:39director of the agape international spiritual center and i welcome you to the essence wellness
00:44house virtual summit in which today we'll be talking to a degree about faith and hope we
00:51always want to begin with the awareness of who we are we are spiritual beings having a human
00:55incarnation which means that you have a body and that you have a mind but you're not necessarily
01:02your body or your mind in order to embrace a faith we have to understand that we're not our mind
01:11that our mind is oftentimes looked upon as a set of programs that we've either inherited
01:16or have been hijacked by certain circumstances or situations that have gone in our life
01:24presently we're under siege of a of a pandemic and the mind many people's minds have been hijacked
01:31by worry and doubt and fear and they have lost their faith faith emerges when we're pulled by a higher
01:41vision of our life faith emerges when we're pulled by a higher vision of possibility things that can
01:48emerge wonderfully in our life so to have faith means that we have to learn how to practice perfection
01:58you've heard the statement practice makes perfect but it's really the practice of perfection that makes
02:04perfect in other words many people have perfected worry and doubt and fear rather than perfecting the art
02:13of faith and hope and so what we want to do is to is to listen to ourselves we want to be still and listen
02:20to ourselves and perhaps we will hear something like when you when you believe more in what you don't
02:27see than in what you do see then what you do see you won't see that when you begin to believe more in what
02:34cannot be seen by the physical eye now then what you do see in your physical surroundings you won't
02:41see and what you don't see what you have to have a awareness of faith about you will begin to see
02:49and so the idea here is to take back your mind and begin to place it on something that is uplifting
02:58something that's inspiring something that is healing something that brings forth a level of joy in your
03:04life and and and you can do this and so in this moment we're all being faced with the constant barrage
03:16of worst case scenarios in our life we're being uh and of course we have to maintain a level of safety
03:22of the body temple a degree of um prudency so to speak so that we don't do the wrong thing
03:30but somewhere along the line you have to begin to exercise faith you have to begin to exercise a
03:36higher possibility of your life which will allow you to be open and receptive to wisdom guidance and
03:42direction in a language and in a way that you can understand that will then flow into your existence
03:50and so how do we do this when we're under siege by worst case scenarios we have the tendency to ask
03:57questions that are debilitating we ask questions like why me we ask questions like what's wrong we ask
04:06questions like who's to blame whose fault is this now those questions in times like this don't assist us
04:16they pull us down the rabbit hole of negativity fear doubt and worry of which as i indicated earlier
04:24many people have perfected their worry they've perfected their doubt they've perfected the fear
04:32which is a bigger virus than the virus itself and so we want to do is begin to ask a different kind of
04:40question we want to begin to ask what is it within me that is seen to emerge at this time in my own
04:49history what am i to give birth to what kind of person is trying to emerge right now in my life
04:57now if we ask that kind of question we become open to hearing what is called the still small voice
05:05leading guiding and directing us into what is called right action leading guiding and directing
05:13us into a path of safety security a path of health and abundance a path of well-being because we are
05:24asking empowering questions now check yourself out over the last few days and notice where you have been
05:32living have you been living in the disempowering questions what's wrong who's to blame or are you opening
05:41yourself up to an empowering question what am i to give birth to
05:48what is within me that's trying to come forward at this time
05:51what kind of person do i want to be now this allows you to have a higher vision and with higher vision
06:03you're starting to activate your faith muscles because you're starting to believe more in what
06:09you can't see right now than in what you do see and remember and then what you do see you won't see
06:17and what you can't see right now you will see this is how faith is developed you study the individuals
06:26who have been in in dire circumstances throughout history and when you read the autobiographies you
06:34begin to understand that somewhere along the line they began to cultivate within themselves the possibility
06:41of something great emerging even though they were in debilitating circumstances right now culturally
06:48nationally internationally we're in circumstances that seem foreboding the statistics of of demise and
06:58death constantly ringing upon us on the news media and people are contracting their awareness
07:06not you not here not now you are taking back your mind asking a question that will elevate your awareness
07:19so that you begin to be reminded that you are a spiritual being you have a human incarnation
07:28you have a mind with a mind you have the creative use of your imagination with your mind you have
07:38the use of a higher way of thinking so don't contract you expand now here's the beautiful thing about it
07:47when this particular dilemma is over what you where you have stretched yourself by asking the empowering question
07:58you will retain that so that as we move past this particular experience that humanity is walking
08:04through you'll be a different person so what does that mean this can be a very powerful transformational
08:12moment in your life not a moment where you just contract in fear and doubt and worry but a moment in which
08:18you will be able to leapfrog into a greater expression of your life based upon the circumstance that we're all
08:25moving through you can do this don't let anyone fool you don't let anyone pull you into fear and worry
08:36please understand as i've been teaching over the years
08:39that there's a virus of the mind the virus of the mind is you being separate from your own light that is
08:48within you whether you call that light the presence of god the presence of life beauty love and
08:54intelligence you are not separate from your own inner light it's closer to you than you are to yourself
09:03and when you came to exercise a level of of awareness by asking empowering questions and taking the time
09:11to extract your attention from the world on a regular basis and get a real sense of your connection with
09:20this presence this light that is within you a real sense of your oneness with this light that is within
09:25you a peace will dawn upon your awareness some call it the peace that passes human understanding
09:31a peace will dawn upon your awareness and then your decisions and your choices will be made from a sense
09:41of connectivity of this inner light rather than from the sense of worry and fear and doubt let me ask you
09:50this question do you think worrying another way of saying that is do you think rehearsing the negative outcomes
10:01are going to help you do you think having an emotional rehearsal of things that could go wrong in
10:08your life are going to assist you well that's what worry is worry is the mental and emotional rehearsing
10:16of things you do not want to experience and so when you're being under siege by worst case scenarios
10:24you're being invited to turn your mind over to be hijacked by worry the virus of the mind
10:31fear separation don't give into it that does not mean that you're not to inform yourself about what's
10:39going on and how to take the best practices to secure your safety the washing of your hands
10:47but i'll add this to you if you want to increase faith and then have hope hope is holding a space
10:53that something better is trying to emerge and then hope is replaced by faith and then faith
10:59is replaced by conviction now if you really want to move into that you're being asked to wash your
11:04head regular basis why not take the opportunity as you are washing your hands as you take an opportunity
11:12to say to yourself i know that i am safe and protection protected and everything is unfolding in my life
11:19perfectly i know that i am safe and that i am protected and everything is unfolding perfectly
11:24perfectly the next great version of myself is about to emerge now if you say something like that to
11:32yourself every time you wash your hands which you are asked to do then just think about it when this
11:41particular emergency is over you have you would have added to your subjective mind that which is
11:51underneath your conscious mind your subconscious mind a habit that will prepare that will prepare you
11:59for more good than you could possibly imagine and then you will look back at this time and you'll say
12:05because of that moment in history when we were asked to contract i expanded i grew in faith
12:14i embraced hope of a greater possibility in my life i captured a vision of more good coming into my life
12:23and i became a better version of myself so let's let's let's be reminded of what i just said to you
12:33first of all you're not just your body you're not just your mind you are spirit capital s spirit
12:42the image and likeness of ultimate reality that never had a birth and will never die and is always
12:48unfolding forever and ever and ever you have a stewardship over a body that you take care of
12:56that you feed that you nurture that you rest that you exercise that you put in wonderful nutrients and
13:02things of that particular nature you have a mind and your mind is now being by you being programmed into
13:12a vitalizing faith a fiery faith based on a hope of a greater future where's that greater future coming
13:22from your own mind it's invisible now you're articulating it you're saying to yourself what what good
13:32is here that i cannot see you're saying to yourself what is trying to be birthed in me right now
13:37what gifts talents and capacities within me are trying to emerge in this time in human history
13:43you're beginning to articulate to that that is becoming a part of your vision that's pulling you
13:48out of fear and into faith so what is that called that's called the practicing of perfection
13:57remember what i said at the top of this moment practice does not make perfect it is the practice of
14:05perfection that makes perfect so you are practicing faith and vision you are practicing deep-seated hope
14:15that leads to unfolding possibility you are practicing emerge you are practicing something within you
14:23that's greater than anything going on in the world you're practicing allowing that to be set free
14:29in other words you are giving up your victim card victim to circumstances and situations people places
14:40and things you are not a victim you are a sovereign being that has dominion over your mind over your
14:52attention and with that faith fiery faith conviction is emerging so now you'll walk on the planet
15:05with confidence you walk on the planet with power and you know what you'll be prone to hearing guidance
15:14in a language in a way that you can understand that will lead you to right action for your safety
15:20your well-being your wellness and the gifts that you have to give at this time in human history and
15:30believe you me everyone has arrived on the planet with gifts it's not a throwback in the bunch everyone
15:35has something to share everyone has something to give everyone has a light to shine what about you
15:42this is where you are to live and if you live with that kind of dynamic
15:46you'll walk in this world impervious to find out and worry
15:52you'll have a buoyancy of hope that will turn to a great and mighty conviction of more good than you
16:00could possibly imagine this is what i want you to know this is what i want you to feel this is what i want
16:06you to accept faith hope possibility emergence power these are key words we're washing our hands
16:21of fear we're changing our subconscious mind to embrace that i am safe and protected something wonderful
16:30is emerging in my life i maintain that even after this crisis is over i want you to walk in that
16:38dynamic faith feel it i am michael bernard beckwith i'm the founder of the agape international spiritual
16:45center and i want you uh to understand that we have some very wonderful resources right below you can
16:52access my free book prosperity plenitude and infinite possibilities that's a part of the free gifting that
16:59is happening today you can go to agape live.com agape live.com and live stream the services every sunday
17:12soon to be wednesdays as well and our our community is offering noonday meditations daily prayers
17:22counseling so much is going on agape live.com as i just indicated you can get my free book right now
17:29prosperity plenitude and infinite possibilities it has been my joy to be with you bless you
17:59it has been my joy to be with you
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