A few years ago I had a troubling experience with one of my readers. Through this experience, I learned a powerful lesson about “how to receive”.
Let’s talk about a piece that sometimes gets overlooked: our ability to receive what we’re asking for.
It takes a certain amount of faith to ‘receive’, and I’ll show you why. And, as a thanks for all of the tremendous love and support I’ve felt from my readers since 2002, I have an additional GIFT below, a downloadable guide on this topic – but if you want to “receive” this gift, there is an “obstacle” that must first be “overcome”.
You will be taken to a Shopping Cart page where the file will be listed as FREE. No need for credit card info, just tell me who you are and you’ll be sent the download. There is a reason I am delivering it this way… see how you do!
Listen to the podcast, and then click here to request your FREE GIFT
Enjoy!
195 Responses
Great message, Leslie. I’m pretty sure I’ve played the role of Penny over and over again as I’ve plead for help and deliverance. If I may wax philosophical, sometimes it seems that the Spirit quietly whispers the possibilities of the future to our hearts, and so we pray for them. But then we look at what we just prayed for and think, “There’s NO WAY I’m good enough for that, or that something so wonderful could come to me. I just don’t deserve it yet.” In essence, we believe in what is possible, but not that it truly is possible for us…at least not right now. My failure to resolve this tension by my own actions has led to a month of homelessness for my family, where we have gotten through only on the mercy and charity of family and friends. Thankfully, that month ends next week, and I have a new feeling of gratitude about things I once took for granted.
As I have thought about my experiences these past few months – having extremely high hopes and then watching as nary a single one came to pass – I have come to at least one important conclusion. Sometimes, just maybe, God shows us what is possible before we are ready for it to become reality, and lets us go for it. So we try to put into practice all the principles that lead to success. But when it doesn’t happen – and when everything seems to go totally wrong – we have a choice as to how we see it. It’s tempting to decide that God isn’t real or that He doesn’t actually love us, and sulk in the corner (or rage in the streets) filled with bitterness. But I think that these “failures” may be nothing more than trial runs, opportunities to learn, grow and be more prepared for what He has in store. At least, I’d like to think that’s true as I sit here at my friend’s dinner table, homeless.
Thank you again for your message, your books, and all you have shared with us. I hope I am humble enough to truly live what you teach – and to fully accept those whisperings the next time I pray.
Thank you Leslie, I just finished listening to Chap 10 of the FTMF program. Wow! What an eye opener for me. I learned a lesson today, I must open myself up to receive. I will now use the lessons learned to better myself for my family, and to help others along my journey. Thank you very much.
“You have more rewards waiting for you than you have the capacity to accept,” Rewards or blessings, this is so true. I am single, on a long-term spiritual path, and immensely appreciate the higher values and thinking you sustain in whatever I have heard from you so far. I am employing an alcoholic and find myself often having an inner argument between directly addressing the topic and just having good wishes and faith for her acceptance to change. It is so good to have the latter approach so clearly confirmed.
Thank you for your gracious gift. I realized while reading that I was previously unaware of two things that happened today that were a significant mind shift in my husband and I am grateful that your gift enabled me to see that, and appreciate it. I did not realize previously that I had not been allowing myself to receive. How much bigger my world has suddenly become! Many, many thanks for your thoughtful presentation. Looking forward to participating in FTMF program.
Sincerely,
Leah
Hi Leslie. Thanks for the free gift. The story was fabulous, and I learned lots from it. Learning how to receive is crucial to also learning how to ask. Thanks for all the wonderful material, especially The Jack Rabbit Factor book…..I LOVED IT !
Leslie,
Saying this audio was eye-opening doesn’t do it justice. I found myself getting a bit irritated listening to the emails from your reader. I couldn’t figure out what in the world was her problem. Now I see that I too have the same issue. Thank you for showing me that I too have an issue of receiving. GOD’s grace is all-sufficient, but I can’t receive it if I can’t receive it! God bless you.
P.S. Thank you for this gift. May you be blessed abundantly for it.
And just as I posted my comment, I looked across the top of the blog and saw that ‘Jackrabbit’ can be downloaded from there!
Thanks again.
Hi there.
I just wanted to say thank you for your gift and that I had no trouble at all receiving it – just followed the instructions! Yes, I got the irony of the first couple of replies you received!
I downloaded and read Jackrabbit Factor (tell me, is that what we in Britain call a hare?) and may or may not have been able to save it on my laptop – will have to look through my saved downloads to see. However, for me, just the excerpt is reminder enough for me even if I don’t find the complete book!
Like Richard in the story, I am in a place where I know what I want (to make a comfortable living, to be able to help family/friends, to meet my soul mate, etc.) but I don’t quite know what it is work- or career-wise that I want to do to achieve that part. The soul mate part, well, I’m trusting that he is there waiting! Therefore, I am going to use the same principle for the work part – trust that the right career path is there for me and all I have to do is be open to any opportunities that crop up along the way. Meantime, I’ll carry on with what I’m doing now, which is managing to pay my mortgage and meet other bills that may crop up – and, for the most part, enjoying the journey, even though I haven’t got a clue where it’s taking me!
Some time ago, I copied, pasted and printed out the below and hope it’s all right (as in, not illegal) for me to represent it here. It is hung on my wardrobe so that I can read it every morning/night/whenever I am in my bedroom:
“Trust that everything is unfolding the way it is supposed to.
Don’t resist. Surrender to what is, let go of what was and have faith in what will be.
BE PATIENT. Great things are waiting around the corner.”
This is what I try to do whenever I start to feel a smidgeon of doubt or frustration. No, I don’t know what career path will lead me to my ultimate goal of making a comfortable living, etc., but it’s out there and I will come across it, either by accident or design! I have to trust that it will be a career that I will enjoy, too!
Thanks again, Leslie.
LOL! That one really resonated … I seem to be having the same issue with someone about a course I’d like to attend. And I’m wondering if it’s me that’s not receiving, as I don’t seem to be getting any reply from her. Hmm, I wonder what the lesson is?
Thank you for your gift. Ironically this was available to me just when I really needed to hear it. I am working hard to change my thought patterns when an event came before me to block my progress and I am understanding that I am not letting myself believe that God wants me to be happy. I keep asking for the same things over and over and I am not doing my part or believing and digging deep in myself to find other solutions to the problem. Thank you again for your words sent from God to help me continue to move forward.
Les, Indeed what a powerful lesson. I cant imagine whether I myself would have been patient like that.
Otherwise this lesson powerfully showed me how to seek for the good/learning experience in each situation we face.
Thanks a lot
Best Regards
Martin
Kampala, Uganda
This story really got me thinking about how many times I have recieved an answer from God and wasn’t aware. I have been personally working on receiving better. Just yesterday someone offered to give me a small fancy table easle for a picture I wanted to display. I declined her offer saying I will just go buy one for myself. Then I felt a nudge of awareness that this is a perfect opportunity to practice the law of receiving. I then accepted her gift graciously. I am grateful for this opportunity I was given to practice receiving.
Thanks, Leslie for your strong voice of truth in the world today!
Thank you for your generous gift. You were really very very patient with Penny. What opened my eyes was the idea that the experience had something to teach you as well. The idea that we need to learn to receive is a new idea to me. Your audio lesson was very clear and easy to understand. I have read the Jackrabbit Factor and I love it.
Hey Leslie, the being ready to recieve audio, was really excellent. Thank you so much for sending. The 1st time i heard about you was a couple of weeks ago, when you offered a free video,which too was awaesome…Well most of it was..buttowards end i thought it got a bit “salesey” jargony:-).But overall, i am really impressed and will soon read more of your stuff,get the jack rabbit book etc. You are an awesome communicator by the way. Really good. Oliver
It is so true, we so want someone to just tell us what to do to make our lives wonderful (like they have the magic secret!) instead of looking inside for our own truth that is there just for us and our own unique circumstances. We must learn how to fish so we can manage and change as needed throughout our life.
I was suggested this blog by my cousin. I’m not sure whether this post is written by him as no one else knows such details about my trouble. You are wonderful! Thanks!
Hello Leslie,
Such ist life and it all boils down to one thing: “You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped”. Sometimes people are so conceeded that they think and act as though everybody else is supid, what they think and how they do it is the only right way in the Universe. In their seldom moments of a clear mind they call upon others to solve their problems, but moments later their accustomed behaviour prevails and no effort can help them. If there were only updates available for those people, much suffering and pain on side those who, in spite of everything, care for those people could be saved. Sometimes people just don’t see and don’t want to see what they are doing wrong, working for the benefit of their own damage.
For all the others, please continue the wonderful work you are doing!
Sincerely,
Peter
Thank you for the audio gift. I especially appreciate you ability in looking inward to see what it taught you. I have a goal I have been praying for for 3 years now, and it really made me stop to think that maybe I need to look more closely at how I am asking, what is blocking me from receiving it and if there is something more I need to do in order to receive it.
Leslie thank you for this gift. I really and truely appreciate it. I did want to share something with you that I got from reading another book and that you have touched on here, “Now I realize, there is a shallow lesson to be learned, that is this, I can’t spend my time trying to save everyone from his or her problems.”
I was reading a book where they were talking about the story of the good samaritan. The discussion was if we are to be as the good samaritan, who do we help? After talking about different kinds of people one person says “we are to help everyone”. Now I do not beleive it is for us as individuals to help everyone in this world. But the idea touched on in the book, is that our hearts need to be “willing” to help everyone so that when we are the ones God calls on we will heed the call and respond.
Now I beleive that this goes further than just this story and in this context. I beleive this applies to everything you are teaching and everything I am currently learning. That our hearts need to be “willing” to receive, to trust, to beleive, to forgive, to heal, to change, to learn, to grow, to serve, to work, to be patient, to be diligent, to take action, etc. so that God can work through us to bring about whatever is needed.
Another thing the book discussed is that in all that the good samaritan does, he does not stay. He provides the means for the man to receive help and then goes on his way. He does not try to do that which he is not able to do. He only does what he is asked, what is within his abilities at that time and leaves the rest to God.
Besides, saving everyone is Gods job anyway. We just get to be the witness to His great works or be the hands working.
God bless you on your journey.
Thank you so much for the free gift!!! It was an amazing story. I am amazed at how Father spoke to me throughout the reading of the story reminding me of these things which He had already tried to teach me many times. I now see these principles with greater clarity and am excited to begin to put them into practice.