“You have Plan A and then you make Plan B to fall back on. Now, you’ve got to get rid of Plan B. ‘But how do I do that? All my life, I’ve tried. All my life, I’ve tried. All my life, I’ve tried.’ …So what is the problem? I shall tell you.
Type A people get an idea and they go with it. They do their homework, they figure out what they have to do – I go from here to here to here to here – and they don’t sweat the details. They don’t bother about the details. Something breaks; fix it. Something isn’t moving; get another one. Somebody says, ‘You can’t do that.’ ‘Watch me.’
Type B people worry about the details. ‘I would like to go from here to there, but you know what? 'There are little lines here, there are squares, hmm. I wonder if I should step on that square or that one. I better not step between them. I better not go from here to there because I’m not sure which square I should step on. Well, it was a good thought.’
Go forward. Don’t bother about little details. Get your idea, take your inspiration, use your enthusiasm, and go from here to there. All of the little things in between will take care of themselves. They always do.
…It’s that kind of thinking that makes a Type B person: fear of the adventure. Supposing everyone was afraid of adventure, would you have ever discovered the world was round? No, indeed. Sailing ships will only go so far for fear of falling off the earth.
…Now we are going to talk about these three things [i.e. Daring, Confidence in God Self and Trust] because in order to transform you from Type B to a Type A, we’ve got to deal with each one of these things. Now, a Type A person has a lot of daring. I’m not talking about foolishness. I’m talking about daring. They dare to be adventurous. They dare to go forth and investigate, to find out, to get to know, to learn.
They also dare to expand their minds past what they already know. Now, we talked a little bit about expanding your minds this morn. You’ve got to learn to think past your limitations, because if you stay within the periphery of your limitations, you do not have daring. And that is one of the first prerequisites of being a Type A person is to be daring.
…Now, this is Type B thinking: come to an obstacle and give up. Come to an obstacle and say, ‘Well, it is the will of God that I do not do this.’ …Now this is how the life vibration works. If you’re willing to stop, it will stop. But if you turn it about and say, ‘No, we’re going to do this,’ then life will take you to where you need to be. But you have to have daring.
Now, daring requires confidence in yourself and in God. And there’s something very strange about confidence: when you make believe you have it, you have it. When you think, ‘I’m not sure I can do this, but here goes,’ and you do it anyway and it works, what happens? You feel very good about yourself. You think, ‘I did that! I really, really did that!’ and you’re confident.
…When you pretend you have confidence, and you go forward, what happens? The real thing comes in and replaces your pretense. Then you really have confidence. Then you really, really can go forward. Now once you get confidence in yourself and in God… and you know something? God has an interesting aspect to it, because God follows this rule: Thy will be done. That’s what God says, ‘Thy will be done.’
You say to God, ‘I want to do something.’ God says, ‘Go for it. I’m with you all the way,’ and God is with you all the way. Once you have that, now you’ve got no reason not to have trust – trust in yourself and trust in God.
Now, that’s a grand truth. Every single person in this room trusts God. You all trust God. If someone said to you, ‘Well, what if God doesn’t…’ ‘Oh, I trust God. God will take care of me. God will look after me.’ You know where the lack of trust is? In yourself! You don’t believe that you’ve got the smarts to do what it needs to have your program, your project, successful. You think, ‘I’d like to do that. Yes, I would, but oh, I wish I was smarter. I wish I stayed in school. I wish I had more money. I wish, I wish, I wish.’ If wishes were horses, beggars would be kings.
So let’s take wishes and turn them around. Let us suppose that instead of saying, ‘I wish,’ you say, ‘I will. I will do this. I will have this. I will know this.’ Now you establish that. That is one of the ways of establishing confidence. Now you take it a step further and you claim your God Self. ‘I AM.’ When God breathed you forth and you became conscious, living beings, you awakened to a great joy. You awakened to an unbelievable love. And the first thing that uttered forth from the human awareness was ‘I AM! I AM! I AM!’ And it was a marvel to you. ‘I AM!’ You felt, you believed in, you knew: ‘I AM.’
…The words ‘I AM’ is a command to life. It is a command of energy. That’s why we [i.e. angels] shudder every time we hear someone say, ‘Oh, I’m tired,’ or ‘I am ill,’ or ‘I am poor,’ or I am disgusted, or ‘I am…’ Anything that’s negative; we cringe because you’re calling it forth with great power. But when you say, ‘I AM,’ so you are bringing in the very life force into whatever you follow up with.”
02/16/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, MANIFESTING, Pgs. 210-214. Copyright 2019 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. Photo: ID 346591077 © Miftah Rasit | Dreamstime.com
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