Latest / Walking Manifestator Podcast- Aligning Mindset with Spirituality / 115: God Can Only Bless What You Can Sustain
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- Alexa Pena: What if the reason you don't feel abundant has actually nothing to do with what you have in your bank account? Because abundance is actually not just about money. Abundance is more than that. And today we're gonna get into that, but I want to just pose a question. If abundance was simply about money, then tell me, why is it that there's so many millionaires that are depressed, they're taking antidepressants, they feel lonely, they're addicted to drugs. And they're constantly chasing more. Now, there's nothing wrong with growing, but there is something wrong with never feeling fulfilled because success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. Now, if we think about it from the flip side, why is it that there are some people that are in very hard financial situations, but they still wake up every day feeling grateful, they feel at peace, they feel fulfilled. The truth is that abundance. Is an internal state before it becomes an external reality. And until we learn how to cultivate an abundance internally, no amount of money is ever going to make us feel satisfied. Today I want to talk to you guys about why abundance actually starts before money arrives, how gratitude rewires our brain, and why God will not give you what you're not prepared to sustain. And this is the difference between temporary wealth and lasting abundance. And when we actually identify the gift that God has placed in us, this is actually where we get to create more abundance. And when we understand what our purpose in life is, this is actually the missing ingredient to manifesting the life of our dreams. So the first thing I want to get into is abundance is an internal state. Before it becomes an external reality. So I want you to just ask yourself: when people actually talk about abundance, like typically people think it's just about money, right? But in reality, it's the opposite. Because abundance can be an abundance of air, an abundance of health, an abundance of opportunities, an abundance of serpendipities. There can be so many ways to see abundance. So I want you to ask yourself, can you still find blessings even when your bank account is low? Even when the opportunity you've been praying for hasn't arrived, even when you feel like life is uncertain and you don't know where your next step is going to be. I want you to understand something that has really been a pillar for my growth. And that's that it doesn't have to be perfect. Life isn't going to be perfect. But it's about understanding the blessing that we already have and everything that we've gone through so that we can appreciate the life that God has already blessed us with. And in The Logans 1, 5 through 18, it says, give thanks in all circumstances. And this is something that I'm gonna tell you has really changed my mindset because when I'm thankful for everything that I have, the good and the bad. I'm not just talking about the good. I'm not just talking about when I get a new client that signs up. I'm not just talking about when, you know, I get a new commission check. No, I'm talking about just thankful for everything, the good and the bad. This is where I see the most blessings in my life because I'm not just focusing on the negative. I'm seeing the negative or in this qu in this example, my perspective of what I believe to be negative. And I'm changing it as actually saying, you know what, God, I don't know how. But I know that you're going to use this as an opportunity to teach me something, which is only going to bless me. Now, I want you to also see that your brain is trained to find more evidence of whatever you're thinking about. Neuroscience actually talks about the RAS. The RAS stands for reticular activating system. So if I tell you focus on everything that's going wrong in your life, like focus on the lack. Focus on the scarcity, focus on the struggle, focus on comparing yourself to all the other people that are doing better. When you are telling your brain to focus on that, trust me, you're going to spiral and you're just going to continue to find more evidence of those things. But if we change our mindset to say, you know what, how can I focus on more opportunities? How can I focus on the growth? Like, where was I five years ago and where am I now? How Can I focus on actually focusing on the gratitude that I'm alive a new day? How can I focus on more possibilities? When you change your mindset, your RAS from all the negative into all the positive, it changes something chemically in your body. And this is where I know, especially when you're listening to this the first time, you're going to think, Alexa, how does that even make sense? Like, how are you going to tell me? That me focusing on more positive things, that's going to bring more abundance into my life. Well, because we're energy, my friend. So when you can understand that we're energy, that means that the energy you're constantly focusing on, the energy that you're constantly throwing out, is the energy that you constantly get back. This is why in Proverbs 23 7, it says, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. The goal isn't to deny reality. The goal is to stop becoming a prisoner to the reality that you're experiencing. This is why I love reading stories of people that have been in like hard situations in their life. And even in those situations, they kept focusing on what they can control, which was their reaction to life. We cannot control the situation on how they're going to unfold. We cannot control whether, you know. We're gonna get laid off from our job or not. I mean, obviously you wanna be working as hard as you can and you know give value, but you can't control that your boss lets you go. You can't control that your client fires you. You can't control that there's like spirals in the economy happening because other people are playing, you know, God in the economics. What you can control is the value that you're giving to the market. What you can control is how you're responding to those events that are happening in the world. And I want you to think of something. God is not going to give you what you can't sustain. This is where a lot of the times we get stuck because one of the most important lessons for me is that the identity that I have right now is not the identity that is going to get me to the next blessing that I'm praying for. I'll give you an example. If God would have blessed me with the level of abundance that I have right now, back when I was 16 years old, I would have blown it all. Up. I would have spent it on things that were not good. I would have bought things that were not helpful for me and healthy for me. I would have blown it by trying to please people that didn't actually want my best interest. I would not, I would have actually been able to sustain that blessing because I would have sabotaged it. How can you expect God to bless you with more blessings when you're not ready to hold that? You see, I wouldn't give my 10-year-old a car right now. Even though in his mind it sounds like a really cool idea, and he's like, Mom, like I promise I would drive safe. No, he wouldn't. He would not know how to drive a car. He would end up hurting himself and possibly worse. So when you understand that perspective, your mindset shifts because now you understand, hmm, God is actually not trying to go against what I'm praying for. He's actually helping me not. Commit a destruction against my life. So many people pray for more money, more clients, more influence, more opportunities, but they aren't prepared to hold them. So if someone is currently, you know, mismanaging a thousand dollars, more money amplifies who you are. So If you already don't know how to actually manage $1,000, do you really think you're going to know how to manage a million dollars? And some of you are like, yes, yes, yes, I will. No, you won't. Because you're not prepared for that level of success because you don't even know how to manage the money that you have right now, whether it's $10,000, whether it's $50,000 or $100 plus thousand dollars. Now I've often used the gym analogy because I really love how the visual makes sense for me. If I go and I take you to the gym with me right now and I'm used to pushing, let's say a hundred pounds on the hip thrust, and you've never worked out in your life, and I tell you do a hundred, chances are you're going to hate me by the end of it. Maybe you're able to push yourself, but for a fraction of the time. And by the end of it, your back is going to hurt so much that you're going to say, I never want to do this again. When you understand this, this is why we need to create strength in our life. Before we can go to the next level. Luke 12, 48, it says, to whom much is given, much will be required. What does that even mean? Well, that means that with more blessings comes more responsibility. This is why they say that money is a magnifying glass. It's going to amplify more of who you are. If you are already a person that naturally gives. To your community, to you know, your friends and family, whoever it is, and you're already a naturally giving person, then God can see, you know what? Yes, this person can be trusted with more. Now I'm not saying to just give all your money to the community and to everybody else and don't take care of your household and don't take care of yourself, because that is not a healthy relationship with money. But when you are willing to pay it forward and help other people, this is where you become a mirror. And this is where you're not in lack, you're not in scarcity. You understand that there's more than enough, and that you're simply going to make more abundance because you already know that it is a tool. Now, the next thing here is that the blessing isn't actually a goal. Becoming capable of sustaining is actually where we get to embrace the journey. Purpose creates abundance that lasts. There's many people. That are making money. Don't get me wrong. But a lot less people that are actually fulfilled. And Tony Robbins talks a lot about this. He's like, I've met billionaires that are unfulfilled. Like they have everything that most people would be head over heels for. But they're so unhappy with their life. Nobody wants to really hang out with them. And the people that want to hang out with them only want them for money. They are an antidepressants. They're not taking care of themselves. They are so miserable. Now, why is that? Well, because money and purpose are not the same thing. This is where a lot of us have gotten stuck. We're following trends, algorithms, social media, and somebody else's dream. Instead of asking, what gift did God place inside of me? Because we all have one, like genuinely, we all have a gift. I remember. When I first got started in Walking Manifestator, it was something that just kind of hit me. Like when I started the podcast, it excited me so much. And when I go back and look at some of my videos, I'm like, ⁓ my God, I was a tinny, I was an itty bitty baby. And as I've been growing in this material, I see my evolution. And it doesn't matter if I never made a single dime out of this. I love that I'm paying it forward. But here's the crazy part. Because I'm doing something that I love that's getting value, I am making money from it. So I want you to ask these questions to yourself. What problem are you naturally drawn to solve? Like what is a thing that you just feel so lightened up by? Like maybe for you it's like cooking. And if I came and I told you, girl, like I burn water, you'd be like, okay, girl, look, this is what you're gonna do. I want you to do this setting and put this water and you're gonna do, you know, I don't know, whatever it is. This is how you know I don't even know like much about cooking. I just watch YouTube videos and I try my very best to remake them. But maybe for you, that's a passion. I want you to ask yourself the next question. What do people constantly ask you for help with? You see, a lot of people that I talk to, they're always asking me for life advice. Like I always meet somebody that asks me, like, what would you do? Like, ⁓ like, how would you react to this? Or how would you, you know, ⁓ launch this product. I've seen it time and time again, which is why I decided, you know what? I'm gonna start the ⁓ which is the new project that I've been working on, ⁓ her God-given gift. It's gonna be ⁓ you know, a branch from Walking Manifestator, and I'm gonna teach girls how to create a digital product because I just love the fact that I was able to help people that I've never met in my life in person, but they found my product, they loved my product, they purchased it, and they've given me good testimonials over it. And now because of that, I actually can see that I'm giving service to somebody. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna teach other women how to do this because I believe that this is something that more women should know how to do and make money on their sleep. Now the last thing is what burden do you carry that you have actually either been able to overcome in the past or that you are overcoming right now that you can actually help others overcome. Maybe for you it's like losing weight. That's like a big thing between us women because we are very prone to gain weight very quickly, especially if you tend to get stressed easily. That's something for me that I've worked through. I would stress eat a lot. And sometimes I didn't even notice that I was doing it. But what I was actually doing, it was sabotaging my growth. And it's kind of like a rubber band. When you pull that rubber band too far and you're not ready. To continue to stretch the rubber band, it's gonna actually pop. But if you have a larger rubber band, right? Maybe you tie that rubber band with another rubber band, now you have more capacity to stretch that rubber band. It's the exact same thing when it comes to whatever you're manifesting in your life. What you have right now is actually a reflection of the vessel, the container that you have. So if you have a small container to receive. That is what you're going to manifest. That's what you're going to be able to hold in that vessel before it starts overflowing. Now, there's a scripture, Ephesians 2 10, that says, For we are God's handiwork created in Jesus Christ to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. That means for me, okay. That when it comes to the work that we have to do, there's already a gift that God has placed in us. And I do believe that Jesus Christ was like the all-time manifester. Like he came to literally teach us how to manifest. Because before then, if you don't know the story, I encourage you to look at it. But he came to actually stop with this perspective of only the Pharisees, like only the people in power, only the religious leaders at that time were seen as the only way to get access to God. And he actually came to say, that's not true. Like you have access to my father. Like my father is here for you too. And you do not need to go to this specific congregation or church or religious leader to get connected to him. Meaning that we have access to divinity at all times. But sometimes we're so consumed by what we don't have that we sever that connection between the divinity that is already there. Now I want to leave you with the last thing, which is there's a difference between temporary wealth and lasting abundance. Temporary wealth is actually driven from like ego, validation, status, comparison, external approval. And lasting abundance is driven through purpose, service, stewardship, contribution, and alignment. Now, this doesn't mean that wealthy people are are bad, okay? Because this is a ⁓ a misbelief that a lot of people, especially when you grew up in like a, you know, a family that didn't have a lot of money, sometimes you think that the people with money are evil. And that's not true. It's simply a magnifying glass. Remember, money is simply a tool. So when you're just focusing on Getting more of the thing you want because of what others are going to think of you, you're missing the goal. You're not understanding that reality is that you need to realize who you are in order for you to be able to service more people. And by servicing more people, you are able to actually bless your family even more. You see, all the clients that I have, I've been blessed because I have taken care of them. And by taking care of them, they continue to refer me. I continue to grow. And this is where I see the biggest difference in my life. The more that I take care of people, the more that God continues to bless me. Now, there's some practical exercises that I'm going to leave you with. I want you to ask yourself every day what is one thing that you could be grateful for today? Okay. Number two, what gifts have you already received from God? It could be your skills. Your experience that you've been through, wisdom that you've embodied, relationships that you've encountered, that you've gone through, that you've learned something from. And number three, how can I use those gifts to create value for someone else? Matthew 6:33 says, Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all of these things will be added onto you. This is where. When we actually seek alignment first, abundance is going to continue to flow. The goal isn't just to become more rich. It's actually to feel abundant. The goal is to become abundant internally so that wealth is actually something that just aligns with who we are. Maybe the abundance that you're praying for isn't being withheld. Maybe God is teaching you how to recognize. The abundance that you already are. Because when you learn to be a steward of what you have been given, you become ready for what comes next. Abundance isn't measured by what you possess, it's measured by what you appreciate, what you steward, and what you're willing to become. And when purpose, gratitude, and faith align, the manifestation becomes inevitable. A dream. is simply a thought. Energy brings it to life. If nobody has told you this, remember that you are worthy. You can absolutely manifest anything you desire. You just have to continue to align. I love you and I will talk to you on the next