Spiritual Actualization

The basic needs of the human species have always been Physiological (food, water, warmth, security, safety) to Psychological (relationship and feelings of accomplishments), eventually culminating in Self-Actualization (achieving full potential).  Maslow’s model did not include any spiritual realizations.  The fundamental flaw in his work was that he never accounted for what makes one truly fulfilled eternally. This elimination of the eternal and essential appreciation of the everlasting spirit of a man. The spirit of a man is the essential worker in the realm of the spiritual.  The way in which the spirit communicates and interacts with God is the highest form of communication and the ultimate achievement of mankind. This is the sole basis for which our species breathes and has its being.  Communication with others is essential to the existence of humankind but it is in the quality of that communication that brings one cognizant that we are representing God in all our actions and words. Those that followed Jesus said when did we feed you, and he said whatsoever you do to these, the least of my brethren, that you do unto me. From the womb we are born to have God given connections. These God given relationships are more like prescriptions because of a human condition that of loneliness. It ultimately teaches us to have the depth of our soul filled with, conversations with God. . The Family in which we are in is the beginning place for our cultivation of conveyance experience. Family we are chosen for, but friends are whom we chose. The dynamics of each relation contains an assessment of our heart’s aptness in transmission. This process institutes a proficiency that becomes a beneficial character in connection to people and to God. The divine gifts of correspondence with people authorize the way we grown and interact in society. The vehicle of communication will collide us with communion or corruption. We all begin in life learning by listening to Parents. Language including all non-verbal skills evolve from the culture and personalities you were raised in as well as the DNA that is in you.. The norms of these communications are engrained as a part of our vocabulary.  We grow and become skillful enough to ask for things we want.  Parents will do their best to guide us to want what is best for us but also seek to discover what it is that will make us feel fulfilled and happy.  The primary needs and the baser wants are provided by our Parents.  The acts that make us want things that we believe make us happy are a system of beliefs and instinctual behaviors that lie in every man.  The environment in which they foster healthy and productive wants are usually based on these beliefs about who we are and the why we want.  They assist our ability to question others and ourselves.  The primary and good relation between  Parent and child is the ground where our capability to see a loving God begins. We are  stregthened to communicate freely in our own way is encouraged and develop the communication of these emotions.  We need not to discuss the detrimental behaviors that occur in a child when a Parent dismantles that freedom and trust by baneful communication.  There is statistically a high perscentage of aethiests that are a direct result of a poor relationship with a parent. . After studying the lives of more than a dozen of the world’s most influential atheists, Dr. Vitz discovered that they all had one thing in common: defective relationships with their fathers. The relationship was defective because the father was either dead, abusive, weak, or had abandoned the children .  Sigmund Fred as well as Neitze also were atheists and had trouble with recognizing God as their parents had given a malficient representation. In the families where the malignant communication exists there is a  propensity for destructive behaviors and addictions.  A right relation with your earthly parent has been studied and the benefiit extends to all areas of a human’s performance, from sports to school to business.  Derek Jeter explained why he was a successful baseball player and he said it was due to the relationship he has with his parents and how he always wanted to have them feel blessed by their son. The evidence of Gods love for man was exhibited by His desire to be called Father. The child wants to be relational with their Father as much as the Father promotes and facilitates this this.  Provoke not thy children to wrath the Word says. Our purpose in life is strengthened by the works that our Father has invested in us. The natural Father is impaired in ability to remove emotion and passion for the dreams that he has for his child.  The Spiritual Father can permit the growth of the child through a pilgrimage of self and divine discovery of the wants and dreams that will bring satisfaction to the child’s course of life.  It is not our Heavenly Fathers dreams that He has for us, but it is the dream he wants us to have for ourselves.  In the multitude of business, the dream cometh. He does not want us to be who He wants us to be as much as He wants us to want to be what He wants us to be. These wants to become unveiled through a series of communications. The speaking and hearing of each other uncovers that our Father cares for us. The free will is not negated but enhanced by the fruit of our own decisions. Babies need to be fed and forced to eat at times to be alive.  Your Father in Heaven does not want us to be forced to want His desires just because we are alive.  He wants us to have abundant life, a life that is increasing in quality and quantity of goodness fostered by our good communications. DAth and life are in the power of the tongue.  He wants to assist us in locating what we want to have that brings us joy. Delight thyself in the Lord and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  This takes inquisition and enjoyment specific to the relation you have with Him. Delighting each other.  Prayer will empower this experience. Gods’ collaboration on your success starts when we begin wanting to enjoy the conversation, learning and experience of His presence more than the answer to our prayers.   He will give you not only the desires of your heart but will give you what He knows you want that makes you happy. These desires are fed by Him but led by our petitions.  The distinct idea that He is some person that is force feeding us something we do not want to be is just not true and antithetical to or designed feature of free will.  The communication we learn is how He is directing us to do what we really want to do.  The person you will become is largely dependent on the inquisitiveness you have in your conversations with men and God. Asking seems to be the common denominator in the pursuit of your own realizations. Effective communicators are first and foremost, questioners.  The reasons you communicate is determined by what and whys of your necessities in life. .  Asking, for more answers, for more attention as well as for more acceptance and love are connected to the Maslow hierarchy of needs. The Beyond self – actualization is where you dwell in a realm of spiritual communion with God.  It is where God knows you because that is what you actively want in the relationship from Him.  The open transparent exchange is not that He cannot know what we hide from Him, but it is for us to permit God to love all of ourselves.  This intimacy is about God and a closeness and togetherness.  Prayer mobilizes God to be involved, it is an invitation for Him to act in our affairs.  God at certain times hears and answers prayers from all men, everywhere and at His own Will in whatever way He chooses.  The above dissertation is one from private understandings of realizations of my relationship with Him.  This deep level of affinity is an association that is birthed through unity and affinity by the work of The Lord Jesus.  Access to this level of spiritual actualization is originated by God. God created us so He will respond to our questions and acts in response. God always has an answer.  Conversations with God is the beginning of Prayer. The more we speak the better we will learn how to inquiry God.  Keeping these conversations frequent is the key to cooperating with the Creator. The fulfillment and enjoyment of living out your divine design is the epitome of a life worth living. You and your God engaging and allowing His Gifts to flow through you is what brings everlasting meaning.  The end game is connecting to God and then connecting others to Him. The conversations become a series of God expressing a love for man, and then man becoming the conduit of that expression of personal revelation through His Gifts. This love in action is made clear from Jesus saying love your neighbor as yourself,  This powerful living is best summed up  by Andrew Murray stating, “ Power With God is the Highest Attainment of the Life of Full Abiding”.Picture 

This journey is about how to communicate with God.  It is a declaration that is my personal and public expressions and techniques developed in the 30 years of learning of prayer.  In the pages, I hope you find inspiration, education, and dedication in your purpose to be so acquainted with Him, that when you are speaking, it feels like a  friend to friend conversation, as Moses and Abraham had.  Becoming intimately related to God’s likes and dislikes and He with yours translates into a beautiful relationship. This effectiveness in mutual examination compiled with self-realization will result in divine collaboration.  This pinnacle of human existence is the foundation of this journey we call Prayer.  

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