It is written God helps them who help themselves. For those of you who do not understand what that means this may help: Well, God appreciates hard work and discourages laziness. Therefore, God would be more helpful towards you if you first did your best to do the thing you need help with. Ex: It's not enough to just pray to pass the exam. Not studying and expecting god to take care of things for you is disrespectful and lazy. Instead, if you were to do your best to ace the exam and study as hard as you can, you can leave the rest to god.
I am reminded of the story of the devoutly religious man that when he died went to heaven. He was told he could ask God one question. He looked at God and said, “I prayed everyday that I would win the lottery and never be poor again, why was my prayer never granted.” God looked at him and said softly, “You never bought a lottery ticket.” The moral of this story is you cannot just set around and expect your hopes and dreams will all be handed to you. You must do yours share to help them come true.
On a side story have you all ever heard of THE SECRET it is a book and a movie. A person who was only in my life for a short time sent me a link to that movie, and it changed my life. It deals with the law of positive attraction. It tells how if you want something you can get it by focusing the right thoughts on it. The key is not to think about what you do not want, but to think about what you DO want. Example: If you do not want to get fired from a job, you do not think I do not want to get fired. You think I want to keep my job. The law of positive attraction does not see negatives so if you think I do not want to get fired all it picks up on is I DO WANT TO GET FIRED, and it will happen because you are attracting getting fired to you. This link will take you to THE SECRET www.hulu.com/watch/235701 . You will need to enable adds to see it and I need to warn you the first part is a little confusing and strange. But do not concentrate on the video part of that listen to the words, and about a half an hour into it everything will become very clear. If you are like me your outlook on life will change about half way through this movie. I have applied what it says and it really does work. Not everything will happen fast, BUT it does happen.
I have a friend that understood how this worked better than anyone else I know. I have seen her make things happen in her life that even I did not think would be possible. Every time she has ever made up her mind she wanted something in the end she got it. She was no smarter nor did she have any more money than anyone else in our neighborhood, but she always got what she wanted.
I recommend everyone check out THE SECRET.
