Christians, Manifest This: I Am a Creator
I feel like I’ve discovered this great, big secret about The Universe. And every time I tell someone about it, their eyes light up and their breath catches. And my soul is all aflutter. During quarantine, I’ve gone down several rabbit holes of spirituality. Energy. God. Universe. Vibrations. Frequencies. And I’ve seen SO many people, mostly Christians, commenting on posts and videos pertaining to “Manifesting” with anger and disgust.
“Close. We all need Jesus.”
“Lean on God.”
“This is a cute idea, but you are wrong. Trust in God.”
As a girl brought up in a traditional, Christian household and a woman who has a personal relationship with God, I decided to go back to the basics. Back to the beginning.
Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Wait a minute. God created us in His image right? So is He male? Or is He female? Is He neither? Is He both? If God is a man, then women couldn’t have been created in His image. If God is a woman, as Arianna Grande claims, then men couldn’t have been created in His image. But it says right there in Genesis that both were. The answer to “Who is God?” cannot possibly be reduced to some earthly or even societal form of gender identification. I think He’d be rather insulted to be confined to such a small box. The answer, I believe, is in the sentence itself: “…God created…” So what does it mean to be created in God’s image, then? What is God’s image? Well…who is God but the ultimate Creator? And if I’m made in His image, then I, too, must be a creator.
So then these two ideas, manifestation and belief in God, don’t have to be in opposition. In fact, it makes a great deal of sense that they go hand-in-hand. God made us enough like Him in His image to be the creators of our own lives. Maybe that’s Free Will - we create the lives we live through the choices we make. Of course we all need God - the gaps in which we feel out-of-control, where we cannot “create,” that’s where God thrives. Maybe, that’s where we get a little help from The Universe.
Mark 11:24: “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
Manifestation calls for declaring, believing, and acting as if what you desire has already happened. According to OprahMag.com, “Essentially, manifestation is bringing something tangible into your life through attraction and belief, i.e. if you think it, and it will come. However, there is more to manifestation than willpower and positive thinking. As Angelina Lombardo, the author of A Spiritual Entrepreneur, tells OprahMag.com, ‘manifesting is making everything you want to feel and experience a reality... via your thoughts, actions, beliefs, and emotions.’” Well, that sounds a lot like faith.
Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
Romans 8:28: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
I, myself, have known when I am one with the Universe. Aligned with God. That feeling is everything. The whole world is at my feet. And so much of my life and spiritual journey has been in pursuit of capturing this fleeting feeling so that it lasts more than an event or an evening. Wanting to learn how to tune into that frequency without interruption to obtain that indescribable peace, and even moreso, dare I say, joy. Being a vibrational match for all good things. This feeling, if you’ve ever felt it, surely, you can agree, this feeling is not of this world.
Exodus 3:14: “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
In the Bible, God refers to Himself as “I Am.” Most affirmations I’ve heard used to generate manifestation success begin with “I am.” Why? Because YOU have to be a vibrational match for that which you desire in order to successfully manifest (as noted above through “your thoughts, actions, beliefs, and emotions”). And I guess this shouldn’t be a surprise. While I am not God, I am made in God’s image. Therefore, I am like God. And after all, Christians are expected to strive to be like Christ.
I don’t know what all these things mean just yet, but I am grateful. I always love a good mystery, and these soul whispers, I feel, are my first big lead in greatest mystery of all: The Universe.