Obstacles Serve To Make Us Stronger

Barbells and dumbbells serve a purpose. Barbells and dumbbells when used intelligently and regularly serve to make us stronger. When we understand and accept the purpose of progressive weight resistance in the form of exercise, we then begin to voluntarily add heavier and heavier plates, and we become joyful every time more weight is added and used. Our problems are our spiritual barbells and dumbbells.

Problems are gifts from God. They are opportunities to become stronger.Problems, obstacles, disappointments and setbacks when we understand them and accept them as opportunities for growth, allow us to handle bigger and even better problems. Getting stronger in a personal and spiritual sense means having more faith in God. With enough faith developed over time by accepting and solving bigger and bigger problems, we develop, in spirit, an unshakable peace and power to accept and solve any challenge with the faith in and the grace of God.

A Burning Desire for Your Goal

Now I understand why intense desire for your goal is so important. Intense desire is your guarantee against discouragement which comes in the form of unexpected obstacles. By some universal law it appears that problems and obstacles must appear in your path to test your resolve in achieving that which you say you want. If you give up easily, then you didn't really want it enough, or rather your desire was weak. The stronger your desire means the stronger your resistance is to discouragement. If the cause if great enough, fear of nothing, not even of death will stop you.

To take yourself out of poverty in order to leave a legacy of prosperity for yourself and your children should be enough fuel to fire desire to make you unstoppable! Life opens its doors not to the coward but to the tough-minded spiritual warrior. Is that person you?

Faith and Good Fortune Through Staying in the Present Moment

If you can stay in the present moment, the now, you eliminate worry for you are, what mystics call, in a state of pure being. The absence of worry (through detachment) is also called faith. Faith is belief or trust in God. With faith (belief in God) all things are possible. "Take no worry for the 'morrow'"- Matthew 6:34. "Live in day tight compartments"- Dale Carnegie.

All (good) things are possible to those who believe (trust in God, detach, stay in the now). Faith, belief-in-God, detachment, staying in the peaceful now, living in day tight compartments and taking no thought for the 'morrow is to be centered in pure being; this creates within yourself a tour de force of all manner of good luck, coincidences, and the calvary coming over the hill in just the nick of time sounding its relieving bugle call to save you from your danger and desperation when only just a moment before, you thought all was lost.