From Insanity, Insults and Intruders
Look at those around you. These are the washed-out faces of “Yes-People”. Howsoever God orders their steps they agree to their own demise by tolerating intrusion interrupting their plans. Having been taken away from the divine design they fall out of grace--the path of true success--and fail. But “NO” is like supplying electricity to a radio—a whole new world opens up as God fills your cup.
It’s your life--adapt to none. Say “NO”, turn from and repent. You must say no and then turn from distractions blocking success: people or habits. Everyone has a divine gift expressing God but few realize it--why? Because they are taken off their course by people and habits. The result: most never realize their goals as they tolerate tangents breaking their path. In this chapter you’ll see what to eliminate to bring out your genius and the reward for what you love to do. Join the good life: with focused one-pointedness of mind your work gains glory in a life of abundance.
You’ve got gifts and talents from God and should only be pursuing those. Total commitment is needed to fulfill this call of God on your life. As you focus on this one thing it will be more anointed with God’s power. But the world doesn’t want that--it wants you to do its thing. The only way to fight the resistance is to stay centered until success. Never let them steal your day so all your ways can be ordered rightly. You stay centered by learning to say “no”, thus narrowing your focus and ordering your life instead of letting circumstances order you. The champions are single-minded and in control.
MESSERS
To
mess means to make dirty and untidy, disarrange, bungle, interfere with,
rough-up, meddle, manhandle, trifle. This is what happens with the interference
of other people which can destroy your life and destiny, rob you of energy and
take you out of grace. I’m talking to the would-be champions--your success is
a delicate matter which must be handled like a crate of eggs--you must learn to
say NO to hit the bull’s eye. Stamp out distractions, for with all the
competition out there, a near-hit is a huge miss. Find out what you do best and
then just do that.
A good messenger is one who reliably bears a message or runs an errand. He brings good information upon which you may depend. A bad messenger is a bearer of evil tidings--he brings gossip against you, interferes with and tells you how to run your life. He encourages your confidences then leaks them out on the street. As you happily play a game alone, he arrives and changes it to suit him. He’s a “messer” in confusion: you achieve structure and he takes you out of it. At this point you have a choice: stand up and be strong (say NO and do your work) or lay down and be weak (say YES and forget your goals).
Millions
suffer because they can’t say NO. Just the word “NO” makes you King and
Queen of your own domain. NO is the greatest power in the universe because it
keeps you on course with God’s power backing you up. NO keeps you on track,
on top. Just think how many times your weak “Yes” lured you into trouble but
NO--the sign of mature genius--always kept you safe. Image yourself saying NO
to various requests--do it now: say “NO” twenty times. When “NO-ing” real
situations the initial guilt will ease and as practice makes perfect it’ll
become fun as the release is felt each time. Simultaneously history will be
seen with new eyes and you’ll be aghast at your milquetoast personality of the
past. The world is filled with crafty opposition to anything good like your
Godly talents. The world wants your YES for their own gain, resulting in your
loss. They want what is yours to be theirs. The weak end up giving it to them
while the strong ignore them without a thought. The power of NO frees you from
bother and intimidation wherever you go.
People use tricks to get your YES and prevent your NO. They make you feel guilty, disloyal, in danger. They promise, pretend, plead, persist, they shout and shock, they threaten, demand, rage, accuse, whine or weep. “NO” stops the tricks. NO is the highest form of intelligence backed up by God and the divine flow trying to come into your life. Users/ demanders want you to be theirs while God wants you to be free--to have all that is planned for you. Achieving this blueprint far exceeds anything you could ever plan for yourself.
NO leads you to an exciting new journey, to a happy land backed by the power to charge you up every single day. Think of why you say YES when you should be saying NO: fearing domination, relieving indecision, appearing friendly, because its easier than explaining, you’ve always said YES or they’ve promised rewards; because you want acceptance (more than your own life), everyone says yes or you fear angry reactions. Realize that it was just these timid tendencies that brought failure in your life.
Looking back, YES created problems a NO could have avoided. Well now just say NO to the painful memories and learn your lesson. Like the world, painful memories try to drag you back into them--saying NO allows you to live in the total freedom of the present moment. The benefits are so great as NO becomes easier, that the guilt rising up soon disappears as you get your life back. Guilt from the world and the past is a trick of the lower self to keep you down. But you must never feel guilty about leaving a sleazy shack for a protected castle. Achieving your own fortified center in your home domain is like going from rags to riches.
Learn to
escape from your own self-defeat. Think of all the present situations where YES
has to stop: Have you agreed to a monthly commitment that is really a burden?
First realize the obstruction then just say NO--make the pertinent contact and
resign, just like that. Forget all about your nervous timidity--do what is
right to get your life back. Yes--your very life is the high calling of God,
so the gold ring is at stake. Now that you have the information you must get
the spiritual strength to apply it--yielding to God means NO, not YES! YES
makes a mess and it always make you less. You are yielding to something higher
than your own intellect through NO--permitting God and the spirit of truth to
guide your life. This holy spirit gives total power to your NO just as
electricity gives life to a radio. Its really the higher force that wants NO
to reign, for it sees what is right in every circumstance then insulates—shuts
things out--for your protection.
Everyone
sends signals telling everything about them. Declaring strength through “no”
keeps users away, for weakness (despondency, desperation) attracts them like
flies. Only your signal of strength and command keeps plunderers at bay. These
deceivers study you very carefully: While appearing casual they eye your every
move, picking up cues from your dress, gestures, expressions. These are
signals gauging their chances to score at your expense. Hoping for YES they
poke and pry to test response, going as far as your weakness permits. Since
every time the weak submits to the strong the formers “symptoms” come back, it
is crucial to ask: is his business more important than mine, as his errands
fall on me? From now on I will do what I want and feel peace!
