TD X BJ = R

(Thought + Desire) x (Belief + JustIntent) = Results

"For in him we live, and move, and have our being."  (Acts 17:28)

It's no secret that when it comes to money, we all desire more of it.  And yet many people report that despite their best efforts, wealth remains out of their grasp. This experience begs the following questions:  Is it hard to make money?  Is true wealth only for a few of us?  Is there really enough money to go around for everyone to have exactly what they desire? 

Manifestation is no longer a mystery. The science of quantum physics explains it very well. Manifestation is simply a process. All processes can be broken down, analyzed, and once understood, can be applied intentionally to produce the desired result. There is a technique, a process for manifesting anything....including wealth.

The power to create wealth comes from applying the knowledge of the process of creation.  Many wonderful teachers are sharing this process, which is shown by the following formula:

(Thought + Desire) x (Belief + Just Intent) = Your Results or TD X BJ = R

[With reference to my two sons with my Woman of Worth, Betty, this can also be expressed as: Tristan Duke x Bernard Josef = Riches. Thank you Lord, God, for your blessings!]
 

Perhaps, intellectually, I can agree with and completely understand this equation. However understanding is only the beginning. If I do not take action and apply this process in my daily life, then it is only a nice theory and my circumstances remain unchanged.

The process of manifesting wealth begins in the thought, the ideal.

There are four steps:

   (1) Think The Right Thoughts. In His image, God made me “Very Good” and perfectible; I Am His son in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. I am At-One-Ment (AOM) with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

   (2) Desire The End Result. “De Sire” is “from the Lord”; by Him I am a billionaire, seeking first His kingdom and His righteousness.

   (3) Believe In The Actuality. I believe in my right to be wealthy. I stop believing in scarcity and lack, for there is none. Already, I Am wealthy in the Father. So is every one in my family. I am “Edvinus” or “Rich Friend”. Beatrice means “Bringer of Joy”; Tristan Duke is “Bold Leader”; and Bernard Josef is “Bold As A Bear, God Will Increase”. These meanings are our birthrights; no one can take them away, except ourselves, if we let laziness and distraction dampen or keep down our results-bearing actions.

   (4) Justly Clarify Intentions. I live to love God and neighbor; money is for that end, via assets growth; my huge net worth is aimed at doing God’s work best, which work is for good, a future and a hope for family and neighbors; it shall not be spent to fulfill my sinful and licentious desires, whose satisfactions are no more than the fleeting glory of wild flowers: blooming today, withered tomorrow.

What exactly is my desire? God’s will for human salvation through proper use [God-aligned money-management, investment and circulation] of passive income overflows.

To pursue this desire, I release the need of knowing "how" it will happen; I just focus my energies on my commitment to making it so, despite current appearances and seeming circumstances.

I understand deeply what it will mean to my life:
*** I “de-sire” wealth; I don't just wish for it.   
*** I take actions that will necessarily lead to complete realization of 

      the desires I have chewed on, circulated, embraced, felt, heard, 

      released, seen in detail, slept on, smelled, tasted, touched, used

      and visualized fully.

Now, I begin to virtualize it. I see it as real.

I see what life does look like being "wealthy"!  I affirm it to be.

I am grateful and thankful for its presence in my life. I show my appreciation by taking all required actions to make, keep and increase more and more money (as passive income, preferably).

I attract wealth by unveiling my true nature of being worthy of riches, because I am worthy as God created me (His unlimited son in His own Image). 

IN JESUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, I AM A CHILD OF GOD. I HAVE BEEN CLEANSED AND MADE NEW BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS. I REPENT OF MY SINS AND ACCEPT THE SAVING SACRIFICE OF THE ONE WHO CONQUERED DEATH BY SUFFERING AND DYING ON THE CROSS, GOING DOWN TO HELL, RESURRECTING ON EARTH AND ASCENDING INTO HEAVEN.

BY SUCH ACCEPTANCE WITH REPENTANCE, I AM UNVEILED AND REVEALED IN MY TRUE NATURE: MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD (ABUNDANT, ALL-LOVING, ALL-POWERFUL, CALM, EVER-GROWING, RICH, STRONG, WISE) AND ENABLED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, IN AT-ONE-MENT WITH THE LORD, TO OBEY GOD’S WILL FOR MY LIFE AND FOR THOSE IN MY CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE!

I AM VERY GOOD: UNLIMITED AND DESERVING OF THE FATHER’S CONTINUALLY EXPANDING INFINITIES.

I AM TRULY WORTHY AS AN EXCELLENT STEWARD OF PART OF GOD’S WEALTH: WHICH IS ONLY ALL THAT ARE, WERE AND WILL BE.

AS STEWARD, MY MANDATE IS TO RECEIVE, HOLD, SECURE, GROW AND MULTIPLY THAT WHICH IS ASSIGNED TO ME; THEN CIRCULATE AND SHARE IT...

ON PAIN OF BEING AJUDGED WICKED AND LAZY, I CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT LEAVE IT UNPRODUCTIVE, BY SIMPLY BURYING OR HIDING IT ON ACCOUNT OF MANY FEARS, LIKE THE FEAR OF SUCCESS, AS WELL AS LAZINESS AND PRESUMPTION.

MY LIFE MISSION IS TO STRAIN TOWARD THE GOAL OF HEAVEN BY FOCUSING ON GOD’S KINGDOM AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, TO STAND UP EVERY TIME I SLIP OR FALL, AND NEVER TO STOP WHAT THE LORD EXPECTS ME TO DO, WHICH ARE:

  (1) TO ENLARGE, MAKE MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT, SHARPEN AND STRENGTHEN MY “POWER TO GET WEALTH” WHICH IS HIS GIFT OF ABILITIES, CAPACITIES AND COMPETENCIES FOR THE RECEIVING, GENERATING, GROWING, MULTIPLYING, PROTECTING AND SHARING OF ASSETS, RICHES, MONEY AND ALL FORMS OF WEALTH; THEN

   (2) TO APPLY AND USE THEM COMPLETELY FOR MAKING, KEEPING, INCREASING AND CIRCULATING THE RESOURCES AND TALENTS THAT THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT - THE ONE TRUE GOD - ENTRUSTS TO ME.  

We are each entrusted with some sort of capital and are all expected to ‘engage in trade with it’, to make it grow. “He called ten of his servants and gave them ten gold coins and told them, ‘Engage in trade with these until I return.’” (Luke 19:13)

If we make good and multiply our capital or talent, we are rewarded and given more responsibility. “But when he returned after obtaining the kingship, he had the servants called, to whom he had given the money, to learn what they had gained by trading. The first came forward and said, ‘Sir, your gold coin has earned ten additional ones.’ He replied, ‘Well done, good servant! You have been faithful in this very small matter; take charge of ten cities.’ Then the second came and reported, ‘Your gold coin, sir, has earned five more.’ And to this servant too he said, ‘You, take charge of five cities.’” (Luke 19:15-19, NABRE)

But if, for whatever reason, we bury, do not use, delay action on, or otherwise neglect our assigned capital, resources, and talents, and thus keep it from growing, we get condemned. “Then the other servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your gold coin; I kept it stored away in a handkerchief, for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding person; you take up what you did not lay down and you harvest what you did not plant.’ He said to him, ‘With your own words I shall condemn you, you wicked servant. You knew I was a demanding person, taking up what I did not lay down and harvesting what I did not plant; why did you not put my money in a bank? Then on my return I would have collected it with interest.’” (Luke 19:20-23, NABRE)

And then it will not matter even if the consequences may appear to be inequitable. What matters is the law of cause and effect: if you are profitable and productive, then you are praised and more will be given to you; if you are not profitable and not productive, then you are condemned and what you have will be taken away from you. “And to those standing by he said, ‘Take the gold coin from him and give it to the servant who has ten.’ But they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten gold coins.’ ‘I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” (Luke 19:24-26, NABRE)

Oh, Lord, with the capital and resources You have given me, let me: entertain right thoughts of stewardship, cultivate right desires for multiplying them, boldly believe in my possibilities and your promises, and hold only the intention of obeying your will (on earth as it is in heaven). Amen.

REFERENCE: Text adapted, added to and revised from Bishop E. Bernard Jordan  

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Master Of My Fate; Captain Of My Soul

It is said that your mess is your message. Once upon a time, not too long ago, I had a mess in my life or, you could even say, my life was a mess. I was suffocating in noxious clouds of doubt and despair; I was drowning in heavy waves of worry and anxiety; and wallowing in meaningless and purposeless psycho-emotional mud-holes of fear-anger-blame-resentment. I suspected but refused to admit that clinical depression held me in its clutches, what with many self-obliterating thoughts running rampant in my head. Meditation was near impossible; medication was seen as added complication; reading was out of focus, though Bible texts, Catholic and Protestant versions, were gone through page by page, without really understanding; gardening gave some respite, making friendship with plants somewhat natural.

Groping in that gloomy state of mere existence, although appearing normal, as in ‘average’, ‘ordinary’, ‘nondescript’ and ‘whatever’ as the youngsters would say, and sustained by the unflagging love of my wife Betty, our two sons and few true friends who simply were there, not wanting to pry into one’s inner turmoil, I recalled some lines of a poem learned in high school. I looked it up in the web and recited it to myself over and over again, without letting others know.

With other inspiring and spiritual ideas, the poem helped me to snap out of the self-induced tunnel of hopelessness into the realization that my true SELF prints out in capitals, in the upper case; that after all I am not the small-letter, lower case self, so dominated by the illusion of ego or edging God out, with its constricting compulsions and deleterious delusions of pride, concupiscence and covetousness.

It became clear to me that I AM neither my thoughts nor my emotions nor my body. I AM SPIRIT, a spark divine: the thinker, the feeler. I have the power to choose. I AM FREE.

I also realized my true SELF (like all of ours) is vastly much greater than what I thought it to be: capable of being at-one-ment with the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and being in unity with His Infinity. I am (as each one is) lovingly invited and empowered to live, to move and to walk in the charmed circle of God’s love and light. In that sense, and with God’s grace, I expect (as each one of us here can expect) to be an instrument or be a channel of the Lord’s promise of good, of a future and a hope.

I came to embrace the idea that I am (as all of us are) salt and light: 1/ salt - to mix with and be invisible in the dish to be seasoned yet can be readily savored; and light – to stay in the place to be illumined and burn to the limits of endowed lumen-power. As such salt and light: I hope (and each one can so hope) - as the Lord, in His Grace, may allow - to sanctify self, family, people, country, even all humanity, but again, only in, with and through God’s unmerited favors.

And, humbly abiding in the Holy Spirit, Whose action transforms lives, I hope to be (and all of us, in Him, can also hope to be), in the words of Pope Benedict XVI, counted among “small pieces in the great mosaic of holiness that the Lord continues to create in history”.2/  

Friends: that’s my message. It’s not really new, for in youth as a student of the Catholic St. Vincent’s College in Dipolog City, Philippines, I was introduced to its ever-present substance but perhaps my attention was riveted somewhere else, and did not really understand nor appreciate it at that time.

The poem, in conjunction with and comprehended through Biblical Principles, helped - against the backdrop of depressive doom - to distill and reveal this message to me once more, with clarity, and thus aided and facilitated my resolve to step back into the realm of light, hope, optimism and infinite possibilities.

Made of four stanzas with four lines, and each line consisting of eight syllables, this poem could be viewed on surface as agnostic; but a deeper consideration could bring one’s soul to a crossroad and a threshold of true faith. It depends on your interpretation, particularly, on how you understand “gods” - whether as The Triune Divinity or simply as many and varied; and how you read out “I am” - whether united with The-One-True-Source-of-All or separate and isolated. The poem goes like this:

“Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance,

I have not winched nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance,

My head is bloody but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears,

Looms but the horror of the shade.

And yet the menace of the years,

Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how straight the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate.

I am the captain of my soul.”

Yes, it is the “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley. Mr. Henley, wherever you are - as our respective beliefs in after-life may lead us to perceive or not - thank you for writing this free will-respecting yet choice-compelling and, depending on our view: life-saving, life-unleashing and life-enriching poem.

In line with this life-altering interpretation and insofar as literary integrity would allow, I would render the third line as: “I thank The Lord who made me be”. For, in every case, “nothing has meaning except the meaning we give it”. 3/

This poem, understood through the Word of God (or the Sword of the Spirit), helped me to overcome depression and to say: enough of you, horde of dark impressions! The Lord hearkens to my plea: “My soul is depressed; lift me up acccording to your word. 4/

As Opus Dei Founder, St. Josemaria Escriva, wrote: “Gloominess, depression. I am not surprised: it is the cloud of dust raised by your fall. But... that's enough! Can't you see that the cloud has been borne far away by the breath of grace?” 5/

Yes, by grace or God’s unmerited favor. And when we live worshipping God in Spirit and in truth, 6/ declaring our “I am” in union with the Holy Spirit, Who indwells us 7/, we can say:  

“You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go.” 8/

But we cannot say so, if we insist on: (a) being separate from the Father, (b) forgetting that the Holy Mighty One tabernacles in us, and (c) living out our lives in search of fleeting gratifications from physical pleasures and material possessions. For like the Prodigal Son 9/, we shall, inevitably and inexorably, find ourselves alone, hungry, suffering or without peace of mind.

In the end, awakening, coming to our senses, and finding ourselves in the embrace of “the Divine Absolute Who includes all the Dark and all the Light” 10/, we rejoice over what we perceive as gloomy experiences for being wonderful background materials for the choice of appreciating and staying in the bright and the radiant. After all, in everything, we are told to rejoice and give thanks, with prayer and petitions. 11/

Staying or not staying in that choice is a continuing decision point that determines what being the master of our own destiny means, in the everyday unfolding of every little opportunity to learn to be One with God or, if we so choose, to be separate and apart from Him.

For indeed, the tenet of “freedom of consciences” (plural) does not mean licentious, lawless and irresponsible actuations but rather the respect for every person’s right to freely seek and know God, expressed through the responsibility of not imposing one’s faith on others and the corollary restraint of not harming others of different faiths. Asserting “freedom of conscience” (singular), connotes that it may be morally right for someone to reject God, which indeed is part of the range of our knowledge of good and evil, and what the lord of this realm wants us to think and focus on, as it is – without doubt - in our power to choose to oppose God’s plans for salvation. That it is in our power, however, does not and ought not necessarily mean we should do it. This is just a litmus test of how truly free our will is, in our understanding. Because if someone adopts this attitude deliberately, he or she would break the first and most important command: ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart’ and thus would be sinning. 12/

We need not follow Eve’s heart-mind folly - adopted, confirmed and ratified yet vainly sought to be escaped from by Adam who tried to blame her before God - which conjugal act condemned us all to eat only by the sweat of our brows. 13/ For in the new covenant, by our faith in the Lord’s grace and mercy, in, through and with the redeeming sacrifice of Jesus, we are enabled in the power of the Holy Spirit, to obey the law and do the works of love. 14/

To be “master of my fate and captain of my soul” then, to me, means believing in and acting on the basis of, my At-One-Ment (AOM) with The One True God, The Almighty One, The-All-In-All, The Alpha and The Omega, as a child of the Father and co-heir of the Son of Man by force of The Lord’s boundless love and mercy, conveyed through the enabling sacrifice and grace of Jesus the Christ, Savior of All, and the indwelling everlasting power of the Holy Spirit, Giver of Life. So it is, in the name of Jesus!

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1/   Matthew 5:13-16

2/   General Audience Address of April 12, 2011

3/   T. Harve Eker, The Millionaire Mind

4/   Psalms 119:28

5/   “The Way”, # 260

6/   John 4:24

7/   2 Timothy 1:14

8/   A Course In Miracles, # 41

9/   see Luke 15:11-32

10/ Guy Finley, http://www.guyfinley.org/free-content

11/ cf 1 Thessalonians 5:18; also Philippians 4:4

12/ cf “I Shout About My Love For Personal Freedom”,

      Opus Dei Daily Message, http://www.opusdei.us/sec.php?s=310

13/ cf Genesis Story of Adam and Eve; see Genesis 3:1-13

14/ cf texts of St. Paul and of St. James, on faith and on works;

      See Galatians 2:15-3:14; Romans 3:21-4:25; James 2:14-16

Sometimes, Lord, I tire and want to give up

Many times I find myself complaining: “If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?”  (Erma Bombeck) But You let me understand, Lord, that in the rhythms of life, from time to time, You want us to have some rest. Jesus said, "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28). In addition: “Rest means recuperation: to gain strength, form ideals and make plans. In other words it means a change of occupation, so that you can come back later with a new impetus to your daily job.“ (St. Josemaria  Escriva, Furrow, 514) 

It is not easy, Lord - when the burdens of boredom and the weight of weariness incessantly assail us - to still be joyful. Yet St. Paul reminds: “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)  In the midst of our difficulties, we are asked to recall that we can have the peace of knowing Christ is with us: He gives us strength to overcome the challenges; also His joy and peace in the midst of the storm. (Why is Life so Hard Sometimes? By Missy Butler, www.cbn.com).  Jesus, after all, said: "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33). And The Old Testament encourages: “Cast your care upon the LORD, who will give you support. He will never allow the righteous to stumble.” (Psalms 55:23)

Nonetheless, Lord, "just surviving" is not what You challenge us to do. Having “fearfully and wonderfully made” us (Psalms 134:14), we believe You have destined us to use all our talents for Your purposes, putting all our minds, hearts and energies to the work You set before us. That work might be gleaned from: “…the idea that the Christian vocation consists of making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, xxxxx, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives”. (St. Josemaria Escriva, Conversations, 116)

And when we live, move, walk “to love God and mankind by putting love in the little things of everyday life, and discovering that divine something which is hidden in small details” (Daily Message, http://www.opusdei.us/sec.php?s=310), then we can dare to have the hope of becoming “small pieces in the great mosaic of holiness that the Lord continues to create in history”. (Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience Address of April 12, 2011).