Victor Hugo once said that the invasion of an army can be stopped, but not an idea whose time has come.  An idea?  Can you imagine an idea being more powerful than an army?  Difficult to believe, but very true.  An army is a physical force which can be fought against, but an idea takes root in the mind and can propel people to do things which are ordinarily unimaginable.

When the children of Israel wanted to leave Egypt, it was not an army that was sent to liberate them.  The idea of freedom was sown in their minds and took root there.  Their faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob joined with the power of belief in their minds.  They began to believe against all odds that they could be liberated and to act in accordance with the dictates of their minds.  That was mind power at work.  They had to believe that they could be free before it could happen.

The mind is so powerful that it can create and even change events.  It can alter circumstances and manipulate conditions, whether physical or otherwise.  No matter what is in store for you, without your mindset being in alignment, it cannot manifest.  This accounts for why the issue of faith is always reduced to the person affected.  If you want a phenomenal change, you must first believe that it can happen, otherwise you will defeat the entire purpose.  This also accounts for why some people effect such changes, but end up losing it.  They did not allow the idea take root in their minds and mere visual circumstances deterred them.  The result is that they weakened the power of their minds and lost the attendant ability to alter circumstances.

It all boils down to this; if you want to change your circumstances, you have to change your mind set.  You have to fill your mind with the idea which you want to bring to fruition.  Once this idea takes root and grows, what you need for it to manifest will come to you.  Recall how Moses got help from his cousin even when he feared for his stuttering?  Time and again, in the history of the world, circumstances have been repeated proving the primacy of mind power and the ability of people to do the extra ordinary by exercising the power of their mind.  That has not changed today; the mind is as powerful today as it has always been.  The ball lies in the court of those who desire to bring about change in the world to start by developing their most potent power; that of the mind.

In the Second World War, one tactic which was employed by the axis powers controlling the Pacific, targeted the morale of the American soldiers who were fighting in the region as well as those in the Prisoner of War camps.  A radio station would broadcast a program regularly, featuring a lady who played songs and interspersed it with questions directed at the soldiers asking them what they imagined their wives or girlfriends were doing at that moment.  These questions sought to demoralize the soldiers by raising issues which weakened their morale.  They knew that the soldiers looked forward to going home to their families, their girlfriends, and fiancées.  Their aim was to reduce or destroy the troop’s mind power, knowing the link between mind-body communication.  The human mind in dire circumstances seeks an anchor to prevent it from drifting.  It looks forward to a target; something to live for, and it is your duty to strengthen your mind by giving it something to fixate on and work towards.

When Jacob sought Rachel’s hand in marriage, her father Laban put some terms before him to which he agreed.  He spent seven years in servitude to Laban for the purpose of the end he was pursuing.  He had obviously empowered his mind to look forward to marrying Rachel and so any duty which was set before him became a challenge he could take on.  With his mind focused, it made it difficult for his body to accept tiredness or any excuse which would impede his mission.  Jacob’s mind power was tuned up to a level that pushed his body to accept nothing less than the result he had inputted into it.  That is the kind of force which the power of the mind has on the human body and is another example of mind-body communication.  The body becomes a servant of the mind and ultimately acts so as to achieve the end which the mind has pre-determined.

You may have neither fought in the Second World War nor had terms imposed on you by a prospective father-in-law, but you have to understand that every day you face many of the same challenges which the soldiers and Jacob faced.  You hear messages from those close to you and even those you do not know which undermine your purpose in life, and if those messages are allowed to sink in and take root, your mind power is weakened, and knowingly or otherwise, you could be faced with subtle, yet powerful mental obstacles. This is why it is so important to gain control over the thought processes of your mind and thereby overcome any negative roadblocks that are thrown at you.  There is no strength like that of the mind and no physical exercise which can equal it.

What is it that makes it possible for one man to be great and another mediocre? Could it be destiny or just chance? The fact is that most people are just casual passersby in this exciting journey which we call life. Let us take the prophet Elisha for example; he wanted to be as great as his master Elijah and so when he was asked what he wanted from his master, he unhesitatingly made a request for a double portion of his master’s anointing. Simple story maybe but therein lies a gem of a lesson; the younger prophet already had a vision in his mind. The picture of what he wanted was lucid in his mind such that even if he was asked in his sleep, he could state it and not just that but also the necessary requirements for achieving that end. He had not only discovered but nurtured and made use of the power of his mind.

The fulfillment of destiny starts from the mind of each individual. Everyone in the history of mankind who has attained a lofty position never got there by error. The story is often told of how Abraham Lincoln strove in vain for one elective office after another until he finally got into the White House. There can be no doubt whatsoever that his mind had continuously held that picture unwaveringly all those years. The tribulations he suffered would have deterred most men but he kept exercising his mind power until the picture he held materialized.  He was not the first to occupy the White House but generations after and those yet unborn speak of him reverently.

What most men call destiny is nothing but the fulfillment of the picture in one man’s mind held long, faithfully and unwaveringly.  In other words, the culmination of the exercise of their mind power. Where most men are satisfied to accept any position in life, a few accept nothing less than that which they know suits their abilities. Elisha was not satisfied with being just another prophet, he wanted to be extraordinary and to be that, he had to first believe it and then create it. The manifestation of his desires began when his master asked what he wanted of him. How many would have dared to ask that of Elijah except one who had control over the power of his mind? Did he get his reward? Of course he did as will everyone who learns to master the power of his mind and control over his/her destiny.