| Does the law of attraction fit in with the Christian faith? | | | | matter is created. Hebrews 11:1 says "Faith is the |
| Is the law of attraction Biblical? Many Christians feel | | | | substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things |
| uncomfortable with the LOA and believe they shouldn't | | | | not seen." What you are asking for already exists, but |
| "go there", that it's New Age stuff. The purpose of this | | | | it is faith that manifests it. Romans 4:17 tells us to |
| article is to examine the possibility that the LOA is the | | | | "speak those things that are not as though they were." |
| type of "faith" Jesus taught - the kind of faith that | | | | "For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs |
| modern Christianity seems to have lost touch with. | | | | 23:7) Whatever you focus on, with emotional energy, |
| A Brief Look at the Law of Attraction: | | | | you must manifest. This is a law of nature as true as |
| This "universal law" states that like attracts like. When | | | | that of gravity. The Law of Attraction is always in |
| broken down to its most basic level, everything in the | | | | effect, whether you believe it or not. Even if you did |
| universe is energy, including thought. Like thoughts | | | | not believe in gravity, if you fall off a building, you are |
| attract like results in the physical world. What we think | | | | going to hit the ground. Just as gravity can help or |
| about, we bring about. | | | | harm us, so it is with the Law of Attraction. Make sure |
| LOA and the Bible: | | | | your thoughts and words are positive and are about |
| Let's just go ahead and start with the "clincher" | | | | what you want to happen. Don't think and talk about |
| passage: Mark 11:22-24 "Have faith in God," Jesus | | | | what you don't want to happen. This will only bring |
| answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this | | | | more of what you don't want. Phil. 4:8 exhorts us to |
| mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does | | | | keep our thoughts positive. |
| not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says | | | | Real, true faith is so potent you only need an amount |
| will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, | | | | the size of a mustard seed to move a mountain. That |
| whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have | | | | should just blow your mind. Call it the Law of Attraction |
| received it, and it will be yours." I don't know if that can | | | | or call it faith. Either way, it is the means by which God |
| be plainer. Ask, believe, receive. This is the Law of | | | | gives us "the desires of our heart. |
| Attraction. Faith is an energy force out of which | | | | |