Hidden Power Series, Episode 11 (Phase 6): Completeness

Hey, let me ask you something before we even get started today. What if I told you you're not broken? You're not half finished? You're not a project God is still working on, waiting for some future date when you finally can be enough. What if the truth is you are already complete? Right now.

Today. sitting right where you're sitting. I know that might sound like a stretch, because most of us were raised on the opposite message. We heard it in church, we we hear it in songs, we hear it from people who love us and mean well, that we're sinful, we're lacking, we're just not there yet. And listen I'm not here to argue with theology with you. I'm here to show you what a man named Thomas Troward figured over a hundred years ago.

⁓ it is going to rearrange ⁓ you see yourself, ⁓ business, ⁓ your walk with God. ⁓ is 11 ⁓ of Hidden Power Series. ⁓ This Phase six. ⁓ Completeness. Let's get into it. Now.

Troward opens this teaching with a warning. He says most students of mental science mess this up out of the gate. ⁓ think completeness is something you're working toward. ⁓ ⁓ line down the road. ⁓ Troward says, ⁓ ⁓ is a ⁓ thing, ⁓ a someday ⁓ And here's why that matters so much for you as a builder, as an affiliate marketer, as an entrepreneur. Troward says you cannot do any work successfully until you believe you are whole in respect to that work.

Now listen to that again. The finished product on the outside is just a mirror of the finished belief on the inside. If you don't believe you're capable of building the business, You won't build it. Not because you lack the skill, because you lack the belief that nothing is missing in you. That's exactly what he's saying, Sophia. He's saying our recognition of our completeness is the measure of what we're able to do.

Not our resume, not our bank account, our recognition. Paul said it differently in Colossians 2 ten. And in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head of every power and authority. Not you'll be complete once you fix the twelve things about yourself. You're complete.

Now So then begs the question then why do we see so much brokenness? Now I know some of you guys are thinking, okay Jay, that sounds nice, I see sickness, I see sorrow, I see trouble everywhere I look, ⁓ in my own life. ⁓ doesn't dodge that. He says yes, that's real. ⁓ he says it in degree. ⁓ to the exact degree that we fail to realize our own completeness.

And here's the hope in that. As you grow in realizing it, the brokenness diminishes. It doesn't stay fixed. It moves. Exactly. Spirit is life, pure and simple.

And everything you see on the outside, outside your business, outside your body, outside your banking account. That's the result of what's happening on the inside. Interior first, exterior second. Always in that order. Now God doesn't fail and God doesn't hold back, right? And kinda here's where Troward gets pretty bold.

He says, if you claim a man is incomplete, you're left with only two options. Either the creative power of the universe was unable to make a complete creation, which would disqualify it from ⁓ being called the creative principle in the first place. ⁓ Or it was able, but chose to hold back on purpose, ⁓ is ⁓ straight up contradiction because ⁓ your own intention isn't creation, ⁓ sabotage. ⁓ ⁓ options fall apart. ⁓ there's only one conclusion left standing. ⁓ creative principle ⁓ a complete work.

⁓ You, me, everybody. Well that's the truth, Sophia. And here's the practical piece for you as a builder. This means your growth has never been about adding something for you that you didn't have. It's about activating what was already installed in you and never switched on. You're not assembling a machine from spare parts.

You're waking up a machine that's already fully built. So this is where we have to stop looking outside ourselves power. ⁓ this one's gonna punch you in the gut. ⁓ says ⁓ we want real power, ⁓ don't go looking for it outside of ourselves. We inward. ⁓ Because second you go searching outside yourself for strength, ⁓ say guru, ⁓ a ⁓ somebody else's formula, somebody else's approval.

You don't find power, you find weakness. Because the very act of searching outside yourself is you making an affirmation that you don't have it in you. Now here's where some people get confused. They hear that and think, wait, you're teaching me a system You're pointing me toward ⁓ that the same thing you just told me not to do? ⁓ ⁓ the truth is that difference is ⁓ formula doesn't make powerful. ⁓ Never has.

You've seen in yourself. ⁓ And ⁓ talked this in our previous episode. ⁓ Hand that system to ten people. ⁓ And one of them builds an empire. And nine of them quit by week three. Same formula, same steps, same tools.

What was different? Not the formula, the power behind it. The one that succeeded wasn't leaning on the system to be their strength. They were using the system as a place to put the strength that was already theirs. That's the whole difference between dependency and application. Dependency says, I can't move until somebody tells me I'm allowed to.

Application says, I already have what it takes. Now show me where to aim it. One is weakness dressed up as effort, the other's power finally getting expressed. So when we hand you a reference, when we hand you a system, when we show you a way to build income, and we will have many more resources for you guys, we're not handing you power. We can't do that. Nobody can help you with that.

Nobody can hand you that. We're not handing you. a place for the power because what we're handing you is a place for the power that's already in you to go to work. Well that's the question right there. Ask yourself this. Are you looking for permission or are you looking for a path?

If you need somebody to tell you it's okay to start, that's the search wards warning you about. ⁓ if you already know you're to move ⁓ and just want the fastest way to move, well ⁓ that's weakness, ⁓ that's picking up a tool. ⁓ So scripture backs this up too. In Luke seventeen twenty-one, the kingdom of God is within you, not out there, not in the system, in you. But James reminds us faith without works is dead. Knowledge you never apply is just noise.

The formula works. The power was already the faith. You need both. But only one of them was ever missing, and it was never the tool. Now, Troward talks about something about crawling pygmies archangels. ⁓ quite unique.

⁓ asks, ⁓ does the self actually end? ⁓ of us stop way too early. ⁓ think of ourselves as this individual container. ⁓ he says every person is a concentration of the universal spirit ⁓ the individual form. ⁓ Which means the real whole of you includes that infinite part. And most of us leave it completely out of the equation.

Here is his exact picture. And it's one of the most vivid lines in all of Troward's writings. I kid you not. We we look at ourselves like crawling pygmies. When we could be thinking of ourselves as archangels. We go around trying to run our lives and our businesses off the shadow of who we are instead of the substance, and then we wonder why we keep coming up short.

And the truth is most of us have been building our whole life off of that shadow. Trying to run a company, raise a family, chase a calling off ten percent of ourselves. No wonder it feels so heavily and so overwhelming. Now There really is no barrier except the one built. ⁓ Troward gets into something a lot of us feel ⁓ really name. ⁓ And just gonna kinda na I'm gonna name it ⁓ tension, That pressure.

That sense ⁓ strain in what we want. ⁓ He says the individual part of us and the infinite part of us are not in competition. They're not two teams pulling up against each other. They're one whole. And if there's tension, it's not because the infinite is resisting you. It's because you have put up a wall somewhere without realizing it.

He compares it to your heartbeat. It's pretty cool. Blood flowing out from the heart. to the furthest parts of your body and flowing right back again. Constant. Natural.

There's no strain. There's no forcing. You don't have to think about it. That's supposed to be the relationship between you and the infinite. A pulse. Not a wrestling match.

That's a signal every time. If it feels like strain, stop and ask where did I build a wall? Because the tension will keep showing up until you find that wall and tear it down. Now this is where we get into This can't be taught and only really lived. Because Troward gets pretty humble here. And I really respect it.

He says this: the actual livingness of completeness can't be fully captured in words. Every religion, every philosophy has tried to point out at its own symbols, but the thing itself is light. It has to be experienced, you guys, not just explained. That's exactly right, Sophia. I can hand you the argument. I can hand you the scripture, but nobody can do your living for you.

And where I've gotta be really blunt with you, entrepreneur to entrepreneur, this is where a lot of us get stuck. We collect the knowledge, we nod along with the podcast and We never let it become an experience inside our own actual daily work. Vision without execution is just a nicer form of standing still. You gotta let the truth touch your calendar and your decisions and your next move, not just your notes app. Now All of these resources of heaven are at your disposal. And there is actual thing called the law of kindness.

And here's where it gets exciting. Troward says once you realize yourself includes the infinite, all the resources of the infinite are available to you. Hear that again. Once you realize yourself includes the infinite, all the resources of the infinite are available to you. There's no limit. There's no limit.

Sophia, I love that you asked that because Troward actually already answered it. says ⁓ ⁓ a limit, ⁓ law of kindness. ⁓ listen close, because is key. ⁓ It's self imposed limit. ⁓ And it's self imposed, ⁓ it's a cage. ⁓ It's just another expression ⁓ of freedom.

⁓ And ⁓ what means. ⁓ in plain language here. When you're operating from real completeness, not from lack, not from scarcity, not from that crawling pygmy mindset we talked about ⁓ back in concept five, you don't ⁓ any interior need to take from somebody else or step on somebody to get ahead. ⁓ That whole impulse only shows up in people who are still operating out of lack. A person who knows they're whole doesn't need to steal somebody else's slice because they were never hungry for it in the first place. Kindness isn't a rule bolted onto power from the outside.

It's what power looks like once it's flowing through someone who is actually whole. Paul says something identical in Galatians 5 13. I like this in the amplified version. It says, For you, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom. Only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature, but through love, serve and seek the best for one another. Same law, same shape, right?

So I want to get into the law of our being and the law of perfect liberty. And I kinda wanna slow this down a little bit because these two ideas get blended together and they're really not the same thing. The law of our being is simply the fact of what you are. You're whole, connected to the infinite, nothing's missing. That's just the truth. That's just the reality.

you feel it or not, ⁓ same way gravity is true whether you believe in it or not. ⁓ law of perfect liberty is what happens once you actually know the truth ⁓ live from it. ⁓ the fruit, not the root. ⁓ ⁓ says once you know the law of your being, fear has no place to stand anymore, because there's nothing outside of you that can threaten you, since the infinite and the individual were never separate to begin with. Exactly, Sophia. And Troward ⁓ ⁓ that looks like when it lands.

⁓ walk ⁓ you walk ⁓ ⁓ men and women ⁓ light life ⁓ wherever you ⁓ Just by presence. ⁓ Not you in because you finally know ⁓ affirmative ⁓ whole that's you, not some negative pile of disconnected, broken parts. Now in Romans 821, delivered into the glorious liberty of the children of God, same liberty, same walk. Now in closing, the here's what I want you to walk away with today. You're not a work in progress waiting to become enough. The truth is you're already complete.

Every resource, every idea, every ounce of power you've been chasing outside of yourself, it's already installed. Your only job now is to stop looking for the wall. You need to tear that down. you find it and let that infinite part of you flow into the work so you can get it in front of you today. Now this has been episode 11 phase six completeness I'm gonna see you in episode 12.