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    Jesus Demonstrates the Law of Attraction: Is Your Church Missing These Biblical Points?
    Jesus Demonstrates the Law of Attraction: Is Your Church Missing These Biblical Points?
    Jesus Demonstrates the Law of Attraction: Is Your Church Missing These Biblical Points?
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    Jesus Demonstrates the Law of Attraction: Is Your Church Missing These Biblical Points?

    By Joshua Ray

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    The law of attraction is nothing new. It’s been around longer than you think. There is a biblical and practical reason why non-Christians are getting “real” results and christians are not. Christians are missing out on the benefits of the law of attraction and you’ll be surprised to find out why.

    Find out why credit is given to new age thinking for law of attraction and why the law of attraction didn’t begin with them. After reading this book you’ll begin to give credit where credit is due. Where does the concept of law of attraction come from? Is it a Biblical concept?

    Christians will be empowered once they find out how Jesus Himself utilized the law of attraction. If Jesus is going to use it, why can't Christians? This is a thought provoking book with solid Biblical references about law of attraction. Prepare yourself to be equipped, empowered, and inspired by a fresh perspective on God's Word. Discover why financial prosperity, physical wholeness, or success has eluded you this whole time. You might be shocked to find out what has been holding you back all along. Once you discover how Jesus utilized law of attraction, you will begin getting the same results He did.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPerley Publishing House
    Release dateApr 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370755356
    Jesus Demonstrates the Law of Attraction: Is Your Church Missing These Biblical Points?
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    Joshua Ray

    Joshua Ray was born and raised in Massachusetts. He graduated from University of New Brunswick with a BA in media communications. He graduated from Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, Canada with a Master's degree in Theological Studies. He completed 1 unit of chaplaincy and plans to compete the remaining 3 units for his certification. His aim is to teach religion/theology at the University level and to be a counselling chaplain for university students.Joshua has been married for 22 Years and has 5 children. Several years ago his wife was diagnosed with oral cancer. It was after this life altering event, Joshua began writing as way to encourage and teach others on a variety of subjects - from faith to finances.Joshua has several books published and is currently working on a three-part novel - the first to be released in the fall of 2019.

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      Jesus Demonstrates the Law of Attraction - Joshua Ray

      Jesus Demonstrates the Law of Attraction:

      Is Your Church Missing These Biblical Points?

      Copyright 2012 Joshua Ray

      Published by Joshua Ray at Smashwords

      ISBN: 9781370755356

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      How Come the Church Doesn’t Teach This?

      Law of Attraction is Nothing New

      Renew Your Mind

      The Church is Supposed to be Blessed

      Speaking it Out Has Power

      Jesus Shows Us How to Apply LOA

      Do Something When You are Inspired

      Conclusion

      About the Author

      Other Books by this Author

      Recommended Reading

      Introduction

      Is it wrong to want nice things in life? Is it so wrong that I want to prosper financially so that I can take care of my family and get them nice things? Is it wrong to want to give out of abundance, rather than give because that is what I’ve been taught to do?

      I started a new journey over a year ago. This is my story. Previously, I had occupied my time with helping out in the church, running a business, and looking for part time work. Things were not as I wanted them to be. I wasn’t any closer to living the life I had dreamed for myself, and I was trying to achieve them at the expense of losing time with family. I got to a point in my life where I decided that it was time to devote more time to myself and to my family. During that time, I would investigate more deeply how to change my life for the better, to be able to live the life I had dreamed of for years.

      I noticed that people outside of the context of the church seem to do fairly well for themselves - financially. In general, as an observation, people who didn’t go to church seemed happier and more fulfilled. At the time, I was helping a friend pastor a start-up church. Initially I thought I had found my calling in life. I was teaching bible studies, getting the Sunday service ready, and on occasion preaching on a Sunday. I was involved in the multimedia department and was responsible for taking care of all their media needs. These were all areas of my life that I excelled at. I was happy to do all of this for free, and the pastor was happy to accept my free service.

      I had always believed that serving God in this capacity was the right thing to do, and that God would bless me for it. Where did that thinking come from? Did I read that in the bible or did I hear that from someone else? Jesus did say, all those who left mother, father, brother or sister, or land for my name sake, will receive a hundred-fold. Matthew 19:28-30.

      So, who am I to argue that God wouldn’t bless me for serving Christ in whatever capacity that I could. Today, as I sit here years later reflecting on those early days in the church, my wife and I served a lot, we gave of our life so much that we felt burnt out and we brought our kids with us to participate. We gave a lot of our life to serve God the best we knew how and the church was more than happy that we gave our time to help them out.

      At the time, three years into serving the church, we were not any closer to being completely fulfilled and we started to wrestle with thoughts of feeling like we weren’t really fulfilled. I would think to myself, I believe this is the life I want. I’m certain this is what my life was meant to be like. After all, I was in an environment that I felt safe in. The people loved my family. I was contributing to the advancement of the kingdom. There seemed to be purpose in my life. Everything seemed to be perfect except for one thing; there was a serious – a very serious lack of finances in my life. I had basic needs that were very hard to meet. I had a family to take care of. I was concerned, because with all the giving we did in our life, we often needed handouts, or used the food bank as a source of help.

      I had read and had been taught that if I would, seek first the kingdom, all these things will be added to you. I believed it. Why wouldn’t I? It was in God’s word after all. In the most subtle of ways, I was taught that I was to put the needs of the church before my own. I had done that for years, and for years I was always in a position to have to ask, beg, or borrow to help me get by, to take care of my needs. I hated being a regular user of the food bank.

      At the time, I seriously misunderstood what it meant to, Seek first the kingdom. I had been taught that it was to seek Christ in the context of service to the church. Boy, was I ever misled, and figured out that what was taught to us was wrong. How could I have ever allowed myself to believe that seeking the kingdom meant serving the church until I had nothing left of myself?

      Don’t get me wrong. Serving in the church in and of itself isn’t wrong. Giving is a good thing, but we did it because we were told that we should do it above and beyond our own needs. It was that scripture that was used to convince us that we should sacrifice our entire life for the church’s needs, and we would be blessed for it.

      Here is the sad thing about misunderstanding this verse, I didn’t read the entire verse and I failed to understand it. The verse is actually, seek first the kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. The part I missed, was, His righteousness. Missing this part of the scripture has had consequences in my life, mostly negative ones. I’ll elaborate as we dig deeper into the subject.

      Still reflecting on my past, as I served the church, I remember how much we missed out on life. After my minivan broke down we had no vehicle. We heavily relied on that minivan to get to work and back, it became our means of income for my family. Have you ever had something happen to you that felt like the last straw, your breaking point? Well, this was my breaking point.

      I had finally reached a point in my life where I was fed up with living near the poverty level. I had asked myself, If I were really so happy with my life and the way it was unfolding, then why was I so upset with living from a position of lack? Fortunately, the pastor I was helping was a mechanic and he got

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