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There is nothing more pompous than false humility. Many people who consider themselves truth seekers and spiritual are filled with it. They often use religious terms to express themselves. They will say, “I am nothing, but the spirit of God moves through me, and if I do any good it is because of God’s spirit and not my own,” or, “I have no ability of my own. Only the power of God has any ability.” But all these statements aren’t entirely true and are actually more disempowering than empowering to use them.

You are the power of God manifested. You are not powerless, to the contrary. Through your being the power of God is strengthened, for you are a portion of what He is. You are not simply an insignificant, inactive lump of clay through which He decides to show Himself. You are not the clay but you are the spirit of God. It is a mistake to identify yourself as the mortal aspect of existence which most so called spiritual people have been deceived to do so. You are to identify yourself as the divine aspect of it.
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You are He manifesting as you. You are equally legitimate as God is. God and you are equal. There is no higher and lower in the ultimate sense. All things are essentially divine. Christ did not see it wrong to consider himself to be equal with God, and as he is so are you in this world. Who you are is God in the flesh. The only way which we classify that which is higher and lower is in relationship. You have a higher and lower self. But your higher self is not to be considered more legitimate than your lower self.

Both your higher and lower selves are integral aspects of your total self, and are equal in the ultimate sense. God is both your higher and total self. In relating with God, He is your higher self. He takes position as the leader and the head. But you are not less than He is. God is you, and He cannot be considered lesser in any part of His Total Being. To truly acknowledge God as He is, you must consider Him the head, but you must also consider yourself as having all the qualities and worth that He possesses.

Being impeccable is to never use your word against yourself. You are using your word against yourself when in one moment you say that you are the power and presence of God, and in the next moment say that you are nothing, but God is everything. You are not nothing. God did not create you as nothing. You are created as He is, and therefore you are everything. You are as significant as the entire universe. Do not see yourself small but see yourself big. You can only see God the way you see yourself.

The starting point in this transformation is the self-image in its entirety. There are those who would have you go out and buy a new wardrobe, join a health club and eat bran flakes. None of this is necessary and only wimps eat bran flakes. If you project a warrior image from your mind, how you look will not matter. It is the mind that does the real work. That is why those that see themselves as nothing can never manifest the greatness of God. They’re always contradicting the truth and being double minded.

To be powerful is more than a matter of possessions, position or knowledge. It is a state of mind, and acknowledging to yourself that you have the capacity to act in any situation. So you must work to create that state of mind where you will see yourself as one of the great ones of the earth. You become powerful by thinking of yourself as being powerful. The very first practical thing that you are going to do is to think of yourself as being powerful. You can only be truly powerful by seeing yourself as Godlike.

Do not undermine your will and your abilities. By doing so, you render yourself powerless. You cannot even fully manifest to fullness of God by lowering yourself in that manner. The greatest men of God have never undermined their will or their abilities. You do not have to lower yourself in order to exalt God. You exalt God greater by first establishing your own greatness and then calling Him great in your life. By lowering yourself, you lower the glory that you end up giving to Him. You’re His Glory manifest.

Do not throw your will away in the process of surrendering to His will. In doing so, you make yourself as a drone. God does not want you to be a drone. He wants you to be an intelligent warrior. His will is reflected by the strength of your will. Let every act of obedience be a conscious choice instead of an unthinking and thoughtless one. People have greater respect for conscious spiritual people than mindless spiritual people. You cannot inspire others to consciously choose if you have removed your mind.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Who you really are is not human. You are God. This truth is a great blasphemy to those who are unenlightened and cannot see the truth. An animal cannot grow beyond its basic nature, but yet a man is always evolving far beyond the level that he was born at. Humanity as a whole is progressing. The reason is because we are God having a human experience and we are evolving back to divine state.

If you are a part of God then He is also a part of you, and in denying your own worth you end up denying His as well. It takes the strong to know the strong, and it takes the wise to know the wise. It takes someone who has a God Self Image to truly know God as He is. People who deny their inherent Godlike status and qualities will never really know God as He is. What they have is false humility and a sense of spirituality that is darkness disguised as light. You must see yourself as God to fully know God.[/hidepost]