There has always been a bit of civil war in minds over the desires and dreams in our hearts. Are they from God, or is it the wood, hay, and stubble of my own invention that never gets traction.
Sonship is a having access to our Father for conversations. The obvious topic that comes up in a son’s relationship with Father is the desire on Father’s heart and on the son or daughter’s heart. The key that unlocks our own dreams and creativity is the desire in Father’s heart. It’s the awareness that the desires Father wrote in our hearts are there to compliment not compete with a larger strategy. Here’s the progression we go through:
The whole world “runs after” health, wealth, and relationships. Father knows we need those things (Mt 6:32). But the Kingdom path to reach the desires of your heart is putting Father’s Kingdom first, seeing Father’s larger strategy, and getting off the All-About-Me Hamster Wheel. Jesus was straightforward with His disciples. We should be equally transparent!
Mt 16:24 – Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves
and take up their cross and follow me.
25) Â Â Â For whoever wants to save their life will lose it,
but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
New Thought is the philosophy term for the Me-First strategy, the Happy Lie. It’s a quasi-Christian belief system that has evolved over the last 300 years to obtain the desires of your heart and shape your future through:
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- Controlling my Mindset, Confession, and Affirmations, to Manifest my Desires
- Inwardly, I’m diligent, persistence, trusting in Providence to risk trying
- Outwardly, I’m optimistic, always smiling, encouraging, full of faith and enthusiasm
- I expect God to bless the desires of my heart (He works for me, obeys my commands)
- Controlling my Mindset, Confession, and Affirmations, to Manifest my Desires
The problem is that this path eventually wears us out. We’ve all done dead works, seen them fail, and repented before God. But what happens to our level of deception and entrapment when the dead works WORK? (Ps 73) …at least for a while. We become zealous evangelists for the health, wealth and relationships our Happy Lie produces.
Suddenly there’s no filter; we can use hypnosis, yoga, chakras, and spirit guides to speed up our manifestations. Taking time to hear Father goes out the window. We’re too busy chasing our dream for conversations in the Council.
This track is all the rage in self-help literature, motivational speakers, marketers, and business. We over-promise and under-deliver in a package that is mostly temptation and manipulation in the sales speak. Its devotees copy and quote the likes of Napoleon Hill, Oprah Winfrey, John Maxwell, and Russel Brunson. The sales script has become a social media art form.
Failure is not an option – Follow the formula, get the result. Nothing can go wrong if you do it right. The real tragedy is that the drop-out rate for people who try the New Thought recipe is 100%. EVERYONE eventually burns out. Ironically, the need to keep trying and put on a happy face feels just like the religion these people are running from. In fact, it is a religion, a false one, that works long enough to keep us on the hamster wheel of introverted promises we’ve made to our hearts.
Outward Success – isn’t the measure of God’s blessing or personal happiness. Neither is it the product of our competitive self-effort, mindset, desires, or affirmations. Truly successful sons and daughters are willing to go through warfare in its many forms while they follow the lamb to His many victories. Sons are willing to say to Father, Not my will but yours be done.
Rest – Taking a break from the works hamster wheel is often part of the New Thought Recipe. That doesn’t really work either. Real rest and nourishment for our souls come from doing what our Father is doing (Jn 4:34). Our senses are exercised to discern the difference between the milk of personal desire and the solid food of Father’s Living Words and miraculous Works (Heb 5:12-14). We’re setting captives free, when they are ready.
The deepest question is, does our vision originate in our own hearts or in God’s? Sons are learning to be on the same page with Father (it’s the definition of righteousness). Co-laboring with Father’s purpose is fun, refreshing, fruitful, and it stores treasures in Heaven. Personal ambition, vain imaginations, and self-discipline are not even a close second.
Sonship – People under the influence of the New Thought philosophy are largely good people who have given up on religion but stopped short of sonship. The dreams and desires God wrote on our hearts are part of a puzzle that is never complete without knowing the desire in Father’s heart.
In Jesus’ name isn’t an incantation we sprinkle on our wants, it implies that my request is already part of Father’s heart, a higher purpose, because, as a son, I’ve talked to Him, heard from Him.
Jn 15:16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you
                     so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and
                     so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
Father’s Reformation will embrace these prodigal sons and daughters in a movement that really will change the world and exceed all that we can ask or imagine. When they are ready to pick up the pieces and make the transition to sonship, from the breastmilk of the All-About-Me Hamster Wheel to the solid food of co-laboring with Father on a Reformation.
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- Sonship – The experience of being chosen by Father for a unique purpose, coupled with the surrender of everything that competes with it. (Mt 6:32-33, Rom 8:19)
- Ascension – Routinely in the Courts of Heaven to deal with accusations in the Spirit and in the Council having conversations with Father, Jesus, and 7 Spirits (Jn 1:51, 15:16, Rev 4:1). Your business will translate purpose to both Kingdom culture and cash flow.
- Reformation – Based on the progress in Heaven, I’m bringing Living Words, clear purpose, and Father’s power to Earth in a way that redeems People, Businesses, Cities, and Nations.
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This blog was inspired by two Council Sessions you will enjoy reading:
Cutting Room Floor
I’m recommending Happy Lies as a primer on the alternative to sonship… it’s an eye opener!
Just like Heiser in The Unseen Realm gave the theological foundation for the Divine Council… but didn’t go himself.
Happy Lies is an excellent summary of the New Thought Counterfeit, historically and theologically… yet missing sonship as the “real thing.”
- Happy Lies – Book on New Thought by Melissa Dougherty – on Amazon
- Blog by Matt Novak (Napoleon Hill’s history)
- Video by Melissa Dougherty (Napoleon Hill’s history)
Napoleon Hill influenced business motivation like Schofield influenced the false theology of the Rapture and Zionism.
- Both were Plants… thoughtfully intended to mislead, disable believers.
- DOGE is coming to theology as part of this Reformation.
- These links are another primer in Reformation.
