I will go back again to John 14:12 and look at another
aspect:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works
than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
The key here is BELIEVING in Jesus and not just
acknowledging his existence. Sure even the demon’s believe, but cannot do. The
focus is believing in who Jesus said He was and not just believing that He was
a man. Yet today you look at The Zeitgeist movement and they are trying after
2000 years to erase the name of Jesus from our history, not only to negate His
story but saying it ties into pagan traditions. So this is a key point that you
must believe.
Now compare this to The Secret and you will see something
similar, that you must believe in the Law of Attraction of you cannot get it to
work. The idea is you try it and if it
doesn’t work, what almost happens reverses since you stopped believing. It’s
the wish for something and it will happen, sorta … since you need to feel like
you have it already because wishing you have something will keep you wishing
for that. See how one can travel down a rabbit trail trying to get your
desires.
The same thing can be said about doing “greater works” than
Jesus. It was easy for Paul and the disciples since they saw Jesus do these
miracles. When they were told you can do greater, they knew it could be done.
They could believe since they had experienced the miracles first-hand. Today we
are so many generations removed from these works that often no one has seen a
true healing or a miracle. Answered prayers become a hit or miss experience,
letting people believe more in chance than in a loving God listening to our
desires.
In both The Secret and the prosperity preaching, lack of
belief is why things do not work out as you desire. In reality they are
partially right, but at the same time they are missing the mark. The key is you
have to understand your desires have to start lining up with God’s in order to
get it. Then often your desires are met be them grand or simple.
I can say we landed in our dream home after almost 30 years
of desire and prayers. It’s not perfect, but it’s awesome! And that is a key,
you focus on the flaws in this world and they invade your reality more and
more. You focus on the awesomeness and guess what, the bad still comes around
but it is no big deal when you are in the arms of your Father!
So yes “the secret” to both is believing, but you
believe in God and greater things are in store!