Divine Authority
This spiritual topic is about our potential, our
spiritual gifts, and how to obtain what we want by simply focusing on our
Spiritual Authority. We,
all of us, have several innate gifts one of which is Divine Authority. This
Divine Authority is a spiritual innate, infinite, Force that no bodily muscle
can reckon with.
I will make an attempt to break down the term Divine Authority. Divine, examples may
be Wonderful, Great, Blissful, and Lovely. Thus far no religion is inferred
right? Synonyms for Authority may include Power, Conviction, Confidence, and
Authorization. Therefore I am a Wonderful and Powerful expression of… of what?
There lay a great void or abyss to be filled with
respective beliefs. One such belief I grew up with was… “Someone died for my
sins and I am a sinner headed for hell.”
The Principle of Divine Authority is the
spiritual practice of communing with our innate, infinite, Force that no bodily
muscle can reckon with.
Therefore the question I propose is “What would
be your spiritual vibratory outcome if you practiced the principle of Divine
Authority?
When I was a child I
attended Sunday school. I was taught that although I had yet to commit a “sin”
someone gave their life for me and just in case I, in the future, commit a “sin” someone already “paid a price.” Being a child I had no concept of what “sin” was. I had no idea that it was to include – something I might do that may be so horrendous that someone had to die for me. I remember asking the Sunday school teachers questions pertaining to the lessons counting on answers and yet I found that I was usually belittled by the Sunday school teachers, and more often than not cited as “being fresh at the mouth,” (a cultural colloquialism which translated to“stay in your place Barbara Jene you are a child”). Simply put, my unanswered inquiries often resulted in feelings of hollowness. Therefore, the opportunity for spiritual self-esteem building was lost, and the void was filled with fear and guilt because someone died for something I, as a child, knew nothing about.
Every Sunday there were three teachers and
approximately thirty or more of the same students in our class ages 6-10 years
old. My friend Beverly, at 8 years old would say to me “stop asking so many questions it only makes them (the teachers) mad.” “Do you see anyone else asking questions?” At that point
embarrassment became entrenched in my being as I found I was unable to reduce
my prying. To my recollection, there was never a mention of harnessing our
Greatness with the use of our spiritual gifts. There was neither an overture
towards nor a broaching of the concept of us students possessing any Divine Authority. There was never as
much as an inference or a mention that we even had spiritual gifts.
For years the weekly ritual facilitated by the instructors
with students as a captive audience left every one of us learning the “truth” that we were “shaped in iniquity.” I researched the word “iniquity,” which means
evil, wickedness and nastiness to name a few. The bottom line so it seems is
that we were told by reliable sources (our teachers) that we children were
resolutely molded as evil and unworthy and that some one important to humanity
was executed for us and our sins.
Given that I had neither a concept of spiritual
affluence nor was I offered a rational understanding of a ‘how to’ map or
coloring book for the purpose of learning prosperity principles or better yet
what is a Principle? My continually experienced barrenness was filled with a
fear-based, egotistical, self-centered pride. This attitude by no means captured the authenticity of
Blissful Confidence.
It was not until many years later into my
adulthood that exposure to spiritual concepts, self-help books, listening to
self-help audio, reading inspirational empowerment workbooks, and taking
classes that these tools placed me firmly on my path to enlightenment.
I became open to respecting offered suggestions
that were in my best interest, understanding how to establish together with
maintaining a sense of empowerment, which offers a realization of Divine
Authority.
It is part of the human growth and developmental
schematic process that the imprint of their role, can and will influence the
quality of their participation in the grander design of life.
When we are, at best, introduced to the paradigm
or concept of our vastness at a younger age this may establish the groundwork
of knowing that within us all lays the nucleuses of Divine Authority.
Rev. Barbara Williams, M.Msc.
