Spiritual Development is the Zenith
of Personal Development

by Dr. Uzo Onukwugha

People vaunt personal development as the greatest thing that happens to humankind after sliced bread. But remember that human development is a product or off-shoot of psychology that gave birth to it. But the problem is that psychology is not far-reaching enough because it lacks the spiritual tie-in.

To go deeper, you must apply divine wisdom (spiritual power) to the psychological make-up of man to get the whole perspective. Why? Because man is a spirit, he has a soul and he lives in a body (the earth suit). In other words, man is a spiritual being trying very hard to have a human experience. Psyche is just the bridge that links the human spirit and the body. Most of us have lived our lives so much as humans that we have forgotten that we are spirits. The spirit created everything that manifests in the natural.

Spirit means source, origin, reality, non-material, invisible essence, permanent, truth, and pure engery. Therefore, the human spirit is made of raw energy with faculties of its own. This means that human spirit is not a mindless force. It is energy with senses. Know that all the faculties we have in our natural body also exist in our spirit-nature. Energy source inturn created everything else we see in the universe. Remember that energy takes many forms: light, sound, heat, and electrons. In fact, emotion means energy-in-motion. And according to quantum mechanics, energy field surround and permeates all matter and source of all creation is the quantum field. Electrons can even jump from one energy state to another called 'quantum leap.'
Success, therefore is the ability of the recreated human spirit to dominate the human body through a renewed mind. When the spirit gains ascendency, success materializes in the natural. You train the spirit by design and failure occurs by default. That's why will-power alone cannot do it without spiritual dominance.

Success from spiritual and quantum mechanical point of view is a product of the law of attraction. Success, therefore, is not what you chase; success is what you attract by becoming an attractive person. "Those who look outward, sleep; but those who look inward, awakens," says Carl Jung.

Success is a living thing; it is the giving birth of what is already growing inside of you.This is because you come to the world pre-programmed like a divine seed and the only way you can fail is to go outside the will of God (who gives sustenance to all human spirit). "For there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty gives it understanding," says the Book of Job.
Most motivational speakers and self-help gurus miss this point completely. They tend to emphasize the laws of success and leave out the Lord of success. It is dangerous to focus on the principles of Jesus and leave out the person of Jesus. Religious folks do the opposite. However, God is a God of balance. And every law and success point back to God as the source, the force and the supply of all abundance.

Abundance is the natural order of God's universe. There is no lack in heaven; it is a complete place: nothing missing, nothing brokena and nothing is out of joint.
This was why God created man and put him in a garden instead of a ghetto. All God's intention is to build heaven on earth just like the garden of Eden. It was the fall of man that created poverty. Since the garden was a physical place, no God has shifted the garden of Eden to our heart.

Poverty therefore is the inability to believe God and trust Him for the abundance of all things. By the way know that any scarcity is man-made. And struggle is a sign that we are thinking contrary to the grains of the abundant universe. Our heart programming is now our treasure or thrash depending on how we renew our minds and update our thoughts with the word of God. Because there is no way we can fail thinking the same creative and productive thought that fashioned the universe.

In a nutshell, failure comes by default while success comes by design. yes, order was the first law in heaven and everything God created is by design. Chaos and randomness is responsible for failure. Failue is the only thing that never requires making an effort. Success is due to obeying laws while failure is due to flaws. Success first happens in your spirit where the energy, the gut and the will to make things happens reside. So, if you want success, train your spirit-nature to dominate your body through your reprogrammed mind.

This is how to become a living, irresistible magnet--or, should I say, money magnet--that attracts everything that belongs to you by divine arrangement. Therefore, success is a manifestation of law of attraction and law of attraction kicks in with understanding spiritual laws of sowing and reaping based on how you condition your heart. Yes, money and every other possession is a product of unseen thoughts.