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Purpose and destiny workshopThis purpose and destiny workshop will blow your self-centered, destiny limiting behaviors away. Developing a spiritual discernment through a lifelong purpose and destiny workshop will enable you to distinguish between what is your true spiritual purpose, and what are mealy temporary ideas tossed up by your materialistic self. It begins by recognizing that your true destiny already exists in Spirit, and all you need to do is step into it.The realisation that all things are Spirit is quite hurdle, but a manageable hurdle. When taken in steps this realization becomes entirely manageable. The journey is the journey away from the Ego. Starting from when we are babies we start this journey of recognition of the Spiritual reality of existence. If there are not any major intellectual disabilities we first learn to distinguish ourselves from the outside world, then continue trough abstract thought to the ultimate realisation. We realise God, and the purpose and our destiny for good that had always been planed for us. The levels of Spiritual Self plot this journey. To begin with, here is a spirit provoking introduction to the tenets of purpose and destiny workshop by Joel Osteen the view the presentation of Joseph Campbell below that and you will have an idea of how we can balance the urge to strive towards the kingdom and run the race towards him, while at the same time basking in his goodness and eternal grace and forgiveness. Learning to live with an eternal perspective while respecting and valuing our neighbour and treating them with the love and respect that we would desire for ourselves. Joel Osteen on
Purpose
You will discover there
is not any escaping this correlation
between
what we believe our purpose is and our ultimate destiny. What we can do
though, is
to transcend the restraints of our current life conditions, lunge
wholeheartedly into our true spiritual nature, and emerge as a victor
in union with creation. "How do you do
that"? I hear you ask. Well, if what we see as our true purpose will
ultimately affect our reality. As we go about bringing those beliefs
that are true and right and beautiful for our lives
into
existence we begin to create a new reality for ourselves and our
potential is further realised. We are in effect acting out creation
purposes. All we need do is understand, in our heart of hearts
our true purpose, then live that out. We need to understand "I am"
spirit, I am part of that Oneness of creation. In all my brokenness I
have been redeemed as a unique manifestation of that Oneness because of
the mercy and grace and compassion of the creator.Purpose and Destiny Workshop by Joel Osteen Purpose and Destiny Workshop by Joel Osteen. Purpose This purpose and destiny workshop will then assist you to solve a problem the material world creates around ourselves that limits our true potential. Once we escape the thoughts and ideas, material items, stories and narratives we have created around our lives, we can then appreciate our true self in spirit. By far the most important of these is the creation ideals we allow ourselves. These creation ideals are an inescapable force in the creation and the boundaries of our realities. The bigger, and the more amount of love it can hold, the more truthful, the more spiritual potential you have. The good news is that God is infinite and is inviting you to join him in a heavenly, spiritual life today. The other part that helps us keep our balance while seeking our destiny in the arms of God in heaven is realising that we don't have to do anything. This is the represented in this website with the Heroes Journey part of the quest. The hero doesn't have to do anything to become a hero. he is a hero by default. In this a lifelong purpose and destiny workshop you will learn adapting and adhering in obedience to the spiritual self will only require you give up everything that anchors you to the materialistic world and it's ideas'. As your materialistic tendency is to hold ourselves as the center of the universe, you will learn to invert this tendency and grow an ever increasing circles of love for others. As we let go of our ego's we will begin to see God appearing in the cracks in between our thoughts. We will hear that still small voice whispering the purposes planned out for us before time. And in that voice we will hear compassion and understanding for everything we have previously done in our lives. We will understand how and why this was also part of that creation plan. In this purpose and destiny workshop you will learn by submitting to the spiritual nature God intended for you, you are acting in accordance with the creation plan. This process of finding this creation plan is however a little more than a three step process. It is something that is a heart decision and not something you can rationally aspire to. It requires that you continue on the spiritual path, not looking to tern back to your material berth but going ever on to your destiny with the pure Spirit of Gods Purposes for you. The lifelong purpose and destiny workshop is more than a quick attitude adjustment in three steps. The journey of transformation begins with the realisation we are spirit but there is much more to it. One website I read tried to offer the following three step process a s a complete guide to purpose and destiny. 1. Take out some paper and write "my life meaning 2. write down as many things as you can think of 3. keep going until you find one that makes you cry. This purpose and destiny workshop shows you thats your purpose in life. While I liked this because it involved an element of interpretation of the self in making a heart decision, it didn't provide enough tools for you to really understand the process. The truth is finding your purpose is a matter for the heart is only part of the story. In one sense finding your purpose and destiny means a finding a willingness to give up everything you thought you were, and relax into the unchanging God. Finding your purpose and destiny may require that you write down what you know about yourself but at some stage you will need a willingness, preparedness and a courage to throw that paper out. You will need to recognise that all your thoughts and actions and words belong to you. They are like the spiritual milk that got you this far but your going to need real food. That means you need to break away from the cultural and self restraints. Most of your ideas were created in your self and your culture and you will need to break through all those conventions that confine you and find, a language where you can speak directly to creation. That language is the language of the true Self the Spiritual-Self and can be heard in the still small voice of God. The voice that can stand apart from all the clanging of Egos and the busy streets of culture. The lifelong purpose and destiny workshop equips you to relax into your creation purpose. This requires you let go of all the narratives that don't serve you and embrace that one foundational narrative for your life that never changes. The lifelong purpose and destiny workshop shows you many people today are becoming content to live with a broken heart in fear of what committing to this ideal meaning in life may bring. It's about giving you the courage to live out your Journey and to share it with others. This purpose and destiny workshop shows you in contrast it was always your creator Gods intention for you to live this life of purpose. In contrast to todays relativistic world where many have come to believe life hasn't any purpose, you can start each day with a childlike freshness to all you encounter. While the lack of belief in a purpose has been expedited by popular culture today you can become a catalyst for change. This despair and pain is only the birth pangs, or growing pains as Society, Culture and the Self move into a more evolved world view. Not only the self need move from spiritual milk to spiritual food but culture and society also need to make the transitions. Many have interpreted the tragic events of the 20th century as pretense for a new world order where meaning and purpose don't any longer play a part. The generally accepted mode of opinion is if rationality and many of the things we do in a spirit of idealism only lead to great destruction and harm. This era of enlightenment or trying to prove everything under God was necessary step. In your journey you will discover how this rational age was an important step in our move away from a magical and mythical world view. A baby like world view that expects god to spoon feed us. We don't need to go back to seeing God as the big angry God out there in heaven that we are totally dependent on, spoon feeding us. But as we began to find our way in the world proving god through science we discovered we didn't need God any longer. With empirical science we had a map of the world and we didn't need any God telling us what to do and where to go. Like the prodigal Son we got further down into the pigs squalor with every new thought, because instead of trying to prove God we are now merely acting to prove the ego correct. We are acting out of pride. In a fit of postmodern madness we killed God in our lives holding him responsible for every bad thing. When we do this we cut of our supply from the life source. We can actually embrace God in all his manifestations here on Earth and take care of some things for ourselves. It is possible that God did put that dream in your heart to look after his Creation of Earth. But to know our purpose, this will require that we grow a little more spiritually than the rational perspective can hold. You will all need to hold a little more love in our hearts than that perspective can hold. You will need to go beyond the existential perspectives and reach for God in the emptiness beyond the cultural contexts of our lives. You will need to reach beyond the map, dive right through it into the clear blue waters of you purpose and destiny. Rational thinking gave us independence from God to the point of almost separating us from the life source. The rational voice, the clanging and the noise of trying to reduce everything to a theory that we can plot on our empirical understanding of the universe forgot one important aspect. It forgot to include us, we, the heart, our dreams and the cracks in our thoughts, where the still small voice of God can appear. The rational, modern, scientific, perspective forgot that God and creation had in addition to the finite manifestation of Gods creation in the existence of all things on Earth, another unknowable aspect. But those aspects of God we claim as unknowable are knowable of we evolve, or transcend, or disciple our selves a little more. Instead of getting caught up in the business of mapping everything we know about Gods creation lets get to the source of it all. Lets recognise at last that science can prove truth, it can put things on a map, but it's tenets remain only isolated castaways devoid of the full reality of the spiritual existence. The truths we hold as empirical evidence get their form from God the creator. This is, as it happens also where your purpose and destiny get their form. The truth is the more science investigates the more it finds emptiness as the foundations of all things in both the smaller and the bigger end of the scale. But instead of simply saying lets get to know that unknowable aspect of God and begin to create the world and our destinys in that image; To get familiar with the creator and go to town with him in a big celebration of purpose and destiny, what we do is we get stuck in this map of the world we have made that tries to plot everything in an order and we call that God. It's the world God made and the world we made In fact you will discover we are much better of now than at any time in our past as a whole. But after hundreds of years of trying to reduce everything to a scientific or natural perspective. Hundreds of years of celebrating God in all his manifestations we have almost forgotten who that God is. Thank God the consensus is once again embracing the pathway to knowing him intimately again intimately. While god knows our thoughts and actions When we identify with the empirical world or even in the reflection of the scientific atomizing world view we act out of pride. We need to identify God as residing in all, we need to see that God has compassion on us when we act out of our own Ego. But we need to see that that ego has been redeemed, that it also is an aspect of the spirit. When we accept this compassion the diversity of Gods creation is celebrated and once again can have communion with God. We can get back onto the Spiritual Growth journey we were always meant to have and let go of our purely material bound ideals. The Nazi ideas of the second world war are a classic example that is often sighted of how destructive mankind can become whilst acting on superposed 'ideals'. While it is true that when well intentioned ideas and ideals are distorted there is often tragic consequences, their is a better, spiritual track to follow. Striving for destiny as an act of will and conquer is what time and again brings our downfall. This purpose and destiny workshop warns in the Nazi example they were simply acting on a supremacy notion of life purpose. Their was a kind of belief in a kind of self superiority mindset, where the Nazi's and many of the Germain people saw themselves as better than others. This is not surprising given the climate of the times, when many countries were playing with the notion of nationhood and what that meant. Also at this time when nationhood was becoming a key feature of our mindsets. The strong pushes to prove the superiority through nationhood was reinforced by the ideas of human evolution that were becoming important in everyday street conversations. Its important to remember that is easy to point the finger at NAZI Germany in retrospect. But in reality we are all guilty of holding onto “idealistic” notions that squeeze and distort reality and the true nature of things out of their intended shape. You will explore these ideas further in this purpose and destiny workshop. We see in the opening scenes of the first Shrek movie that he flushes this great fairytale down the gurgler. There are some good reasons for Shrek's actions in rejecting mans attempts at the enlightenment fairytale. When the YMCA published founded a study into Eugenics they believed they were doing a good thing. Through the study of genetics the YMCA believed it was possible to breed ourselves into a better world. The problem for this was it made an awfully big mess when a copy of this got into the wrong hands. Mr Hitler sure did do a lot to mush some not very well thought out ideas into something much worse after he encountered the study and founded his empire on these ideals. This small piece of background information on Nazi Germany's motivation for assuming superiority and killing millions in the name of creating a master 'race' is only a single drop in the ocean in the rising tide of rejection of all things with even a scent of idealism attached. We have all heard the terms, relativism, post modernism, glottalization and existentialism with a vague understanding of what these ideas mean. This purpose and destiny workshop will explain the reason many of these ideas remain a mystery is because the world has indeed moved to a position where we are less likely to trust and embrace ideas, and structures that give power to a few to control many. This purpose and destiny workshop explains many of these ideas are founded in the idea that there is not any purpose to life. Thats why we term them postmodern. If the modern was the idea to find enlightenment through the idealism and science, than many believe this idea died with the millions of bloodied bodies that were scattered across WWII battlefields. The world now says if this what science and technology and mans efforts to “enlighten” bring than whats the point of having ideals anyway. If the end result of all our efforts into technology is weapons of mas destruction and a bombs than whats the purpose, and whats real anyway. And guess what, it's not surprising many see the church as one of these dangerous idealistic structures that don't really function in reality. This can become confusing grounds for Christians because as we all know “ The church is Gods bride on Earth”. We believe that having a vision and holding onto spiritual ideals is what really counts in todays world. More than ever today we need to acknowledge that indeed we are here to fulfill a spiritual purpose. Together with you we want you to help you to pursue this spiritual purpose that is a very personal thing between you and God. Other pages of this purpose and destiny workshop help you to access your spiritual self. This is the non material self that distort things out of balance. Your spiritual self puts things into a Godly perspective that respects your true purpose- the ideal purpose your creator made you for before you were even in your mothers womb. The bible says God “knitted you in your mothers womb” . I imagine when he did this he also embedded all the purposes desires that would carry you into the river of life. Full of all the joys is living a life of infinite purpose in line with Gods great creation. In this purpose and destiny workshop you will learn that finding this purpose ins not a three step process. Far from being an exercise in mind power of finding the ultimate ideology to link to the bible. You will learn that God has already put everything you need inside you. With deep love relationship with your creator you can begin. This relationship is typically not derived through a tree step process but is derived in the loving relationship with your creator. When we begin to recognize this we also begin to come closer to knowing our purpose as part of a spiritual community. This purpose and destiny workshop will help you to move away from communities where we build towers of knowledge and “idealogical” attempts to reach God we ultimately fail and oppress. To begin to know Christ is a decision that you make with your spiritual self to relationship. A relationship that you enter in together and follow through to it's ultimate conclusion. In the end this spiritual journey ends with you sitting next to your creator surrounded by all the harmony and blessings that accompany this. This purpose and destiny workshop will encourage you, if you've attempted to read the bible before as a set of rules and ideals to live up to then pick it up again with a view that you are traveling down the spiritual river of life. Start to see the poetry and blessing that comes with new love. By moving away from a materialistic perspective you will move away from seeing God as an angry old man hell bent on straightening you out and see your creator a fresh as loving patient, kind........ You will begin to see your creator as a loving father filled with limitless love for you. Not a love or ideal that leads to bad things but a love to his plan “to give you a hope and a purpose”. When you have an “in love relationship with your creator “you will float down this river of life” find the true creators purpose in you, recognize the spiritual nature of your journey on this temporal Earth and live each day as a”new creation” exploring a future of eternal blessings. Stands to reason the last thing you would want to do is keep this newfound joy to yourself. You will want to share this Joy with others. Thats what other pages of this site will help you to do. Chose from the topics below for the next step on your journey. Recognizing the eternal truths about your creator then is integral. While institutions like the church play an important part in articulating a vision of a spiritual nature of life Ultimately you will have to jump right into that river of life. That spiritual inner self that is in you. Know that it is there, that God put it there in all of us. Churches and the bible can tell us this, but your the one that has to dive into it. Experience it afresh everyday in relationship. In a relevant relationship that can deliver you from the binds of a materialistic mindset you will find the true freedom to discover your spiritual self. back to top of purpose and destiny workshop
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