There is a promise that says: “Love the Lord with tenderness, and He will fulfill your deepest desires.” This means that an intimate relationship with God is key for His favor to manifest in our lives. This relationship is achieved first through reconciliation, as He said in Isaiah: “Come now, let us reason together—let us come to an agreement. If you obey Me, I will forgive you […] Then you will eat the best of the land.”
When we are reconciled with God, our desires tend to align with His will, and that is where manifestation occurs, because His will is to do us good and to give us in abundance. The natural mind does not know or understand how the Spirit works, because it is accustomed to operating within the physical or material environment. For help or favor to manifest, it must first be created in the Spirit. It does not happen if we do not ask God for it.
Therefore, the tangibility of a desire or need has its origin in the spiritual sphere. The Creator hears our requests. Nevertheless, nothing we ask for in an energy that goes against the virtues of His Spirit and His Law will be granted to us by the Source. When we reconcile with the Source, His Spirit within us makes it easier for us to realize and to live in harmony with His virtues. Then, confident that we meet this essential condition, we will receive what we have asked for.
Between spiritual creation and material creation there is a span of time for the visibility of the request to occur. That span of time is determined by our faith. Stable faith—that is, the confident assurance that what we asked for has been granted or done—can manifest instantly. The Psalms say: “Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which never moves, which remains in its place forever.” Unstable faith is a sure blockage that forms to prevent us from receiving what we requested. This does not mean we were not given what we asked for, but that we ourselves—or external negative energies—help create an energetic environment that favors the blockage of the blessing. That interruption is produced by our own spiritual wavering.
In the military world, a blockade is a strategy used to prevent an opposing force from receiving supplies, troops, information, or aid. In the same way, that is what we—and external forces—do when we fluctuate in believing that God has granted what we asked for. This span of time before the materialization of the dream we asked God for—created by our lack of steady confidence in His Word—becomes a great period of spiritual growth, reflected in the strength of our faith or trust in God. When our faith is stable, we materialize what God has already granted us.
All good things come from God, even if we do not always recognize them. He is the Source of everything positive, but because we are free beings, we must invite Him to participate in our lives with His help and care, because He cannot force us to receive Him. In the same way we extend that invitation, He calls us into a loving and abundant relationship with Him.
God is in the business of saving souls, but He also recognizes our weaknesses, needs, and desires. These weaknesses reflect the loss of spiritual capacities we suffered since the first transgression, when the spiritual body was transformed into a physical one. In His love, God provided us with tools to overcome the fallen spiritual powers that exist on the earth and seek to destroy Adam’s descendants.
Among the greatest tools God has given us are:
• Union with His Spirit through reconciliation, which restores our direct connection with Him and enables us to manifest or create with Him.
• Conversations with the Source, which are the main vehicles of creative manifestation. Before manifestation comes prayer. In prayer we share our sorrows, joys, gratitude, and requests. Our heart becomes vulnerable before God because we know we can trust His love and care. The prayers of an upright person are always heard by God and answered at the right time, in one way or another.
• The power of praise—of singing—which lifts our spirits, strengthens our faith, and drives away dark energies that may be trying to disturb us. Darkness cannot remain where there is praise. If you sing in praise to God, it will withdraw—and with it, the emotional heaviness or negative sensations that may be afflicting you externally. You must find the best way to lift that atmosphere that sometimes forms over us, expressed as discouragement or other negative sensations. Sometimes I listen to native flute music and the energy that tries to oppress me disappears. My spirit rises and I feel strength within me.
• The protection of angels, sent by God to keep us from stumbling and falling.
• The guidance of a spiritual council, made up of angels, archangels, and ascended ancestors. We must ask them for help, because they cannot intervene in our lives if we do not.
• The discernment of spirits, which allows us to identify what is from God and what is not, both in spoken and written form.
• The power of prayer as a constant, direct channel of communication with the Creator, and the confession of God’s promises, such as this powerful declaration:
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication comes from Me—declares the Lord.”
Personally, I declare it in the first person, adapting it to my relationship with God as a daughter, not a servant. Understanding that “weapons formed” are means designed to destroy us helps us recognize that this promise is our defense. Likewise, the phrase “and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment” is especially powerful in cases of slander, lies, gossip, or any form of unjust judgment caused by the lack of integrity in others.
These tools are a reminder of God’s constant care and that, by living in reconciliation with Him, we are protected and equipped to face any adversity.
Another promise I very much like to confess for manifestation in my life is Psalm 1, which says:
Blessed are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
nor stand with sinners,
nor sit with scoffers,
but who delight in the law of the Lord,
meditating on it day and night.
They are like trees planted by a river,
that bear fruit in their season.
Their leaves never wither,
and they prosper in everything they do.
This Psalm not only inspires us; it also promises physical strength and vitality. Aging is a physical process, but our relationship with the Source—which is spiritual and internal—renews us from within. Just as a tree’s roots connected to water nourish and strengthen the whole tree, our union with God strengthens both our inner being and our physical body.
The phrase “ever-green leaves” is a powerful symbol of physical strength and renewed youth. Leaves reflect the tree’s vitality—its healthy appearance and beauty—but that appearance depends on what cannot be seen: roots deeply connected to water. In the same way, our outward appearance can reflect the inner vitality that flows from our spiritual connection with God.
In addition, the Psalm guarantees prosperity in everything we undertake. Just as a tree bears fruit in its season, our connection with God ensures that what we do and live in this dimension will manifest in its proper time, like mature fruit. It is a promise of fullness, beauty, and purpose flowing in harmony with our lives. By being spiritually rooted in the Source of life, we experience not only inner renewal, but also outward prosperity that reflects God’s work in us.
When we do not enter into covenant with God through reconciliation, there can be manifestations, but they do not come from the Spirit of God. A clear example of this is the temptation of Jesus, when the Adversary offered Him all the nations of the world if He would worship him. This being has power to give many things if people obey him or follow his counsel, but his purpose is to divert us and destroy us.
Another example is found in the confrontation between Moses, Aaron, and Pharaoh’s magicians:
“Then Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts: each one threw down his staff and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.”
The most important lesson here is that there are other spiritual forces that do not come from God and are capable of performing wonders or manifestations so powerful as to try to place the world at your feet—but at a very high price, paid after we leave this body, and sometimes even in this dimension.
The victory of Aaron’s serpent over Pharaoh’s magicians demonstrates that God’s power is incomparably greater than any other. This underscores the unique advantage of manifesting through His power: by entering into His covenant, we not only receive spiritual and physical protection, but also the certainty that our manifestations are aligned with His good purpose for our lives.
The breaking of the covenant between the first created pair and God brought aging, death, pain, and misery. The Book of the Life of Adam and Eve calls these consequences “plagues,” referring to sickness and every kind of physical and spiritual affliction. By violating the covenant, humanity placed itself under a curse and became bound to the dominion of evil, distancing itself from the alliance with God that was based on obedience.
By listening to the Adversary’s voice, the first pair submitted to him in his fallen mold. This submission generated a kind of “spiritual alloy” that has been transmitted to us like a form of spiritual DNA, affecting our inner nature. This transmission produces a spiritual reaction that also involves the body. Nevertheless, the body is not evil in itself.
Some people, by misreading certain parts of the New Testament—either because the texts were not written with enough clarity or because they were adapted to a specific cultural understanding—have come to believe that the body is intrinsically evil. It is not. The body cannot, by itself, carry out actions such as betrayal or theft if our inner being does not allow it through free will. It is our inner being, not the body, that drives evil actions. If your spirit is good, your body is as well.
The body is, in fact, a vehicle God has given us so that we can return to the light. If He had not done so, we would have perished in eternal darkness, as happened to the transgressing angels. When I speak of darkness, I do not mean it metaphorically; the eternal death of the spirit is the absolute absence of the Light of God—separation, as well. To illustrate this, we can use an analogy: the body is like the cocoon that holds the butterfly. It is temporary and necessary so that the spirit, like the butterfly, can mature and fly toward its final purpose. Thus, although our body is transitory, its role in spiritual evolution is essential, because it allows us to move toward reconciliation with God and the fullness of Light.
The reference in the New Testament to the failed way of life inherited from the fathers—while it can be understood literally among the children of Israel in relation to paganism or idolatry inherited from their ancestors—also speaks of the fallen and failed spiritual mold we inherited from our first parents. Eve, manipulated by the thought the Transgressor injected into her mind, carried out the action that broke the perfect relationship with God, dragging all humanity with her and losing her spiritual state.
When I speak of spiritual affliction, I mean the reaction in our spirit that feels the loss of our relationship with the creative Spirit—something we carry in our spiritual DNA without realizing it.
Adam and Eve’s affliction was so great when they lost that relationship that they tried to kill themselves several times. When that spiritual relationship is broken, people forget God to the point of believing He does not exist. We were created with the intention of having a united and flowing relationship with God. The fragmentation of that relationship causes affliction to the spirit because its nature is to be fused with the Spirit of God. Something similar happens when we find what we commonly call the love of our life: the breaking of that relationship, so united in the soul, causes distress and sorrow. We need the illumination of the Spirit to understand the reason for that heartbreak, emptiness, or inner dissatisfaction.
Then there is mental affliction, in which many human beings are trapped. It is in the mind that negative thoughts sometimes collide in agitation, with the intention of diverting us from the path that truly benefits us and toward failure. The mind is the battlefield in spiritual war, and although we can overcome it by reconciling with the Creator, that does not mean the attacks cease. The direct reason is that evil still roams the planet.
These struggles help us grow in faith, and with faith, our spiritual power increases. It is like working metal: tempering hardens it, and annealing balances that hardness with flexibility. In the same way, bitter moments shape essential virtues such as resilience, patience, empathy, humility, forgiveness, and gratitude. These virtues are our strength for facing a world where evil is still active and moving among us.
These afflictions would not exist if our ancestors had not broken the Alliance. As we grow and transform spiritually, mental struggles diminish because we have learned to overcome them. When we reach the mastery of distinguishing and controlling the thoughts in our mind, we have overcome. That means that if they appear, we do not pay attention to them. We ignore them. That is the attitude Eve should have had.
The seeds in our mind are intrusive thoughts whose only purpose is to destroy us and separate us from the love of God. When those negative thoughts manifest or materialize, they cause deep wounds and pain that can lead to bitterness. Bitterness blames God for our misfortunes, because its intention is to separate us from the love of God. That is why we forgive: so that pain does not grow within us or cloud our understanding, which is precisely what evil seeks in order to pull us away from the Source of life.
God speaks to us inwardly because a portion of His Spirit is fused within us. This spiritual union allows us to receive messages that arise from the Spirit and become understandable thoughts. However, all negative thoughts are intruders; they do not come from God. If you do not have the Spirit of God, those thoughts can easily dominate you.
Eve is an example of how intrusive thoughts can divert us. Instead of rejecting the foreign thoughts the Adversary planted in her mind, she played with them, accepted them, and believed them. That faith in what was negative materialized them—though not in the way she expected. Her behavior contrasts with Jesus, who, when facing the Adversary in the wilderness, rejected him immediately, saying: “Go away, Satan!” Jesus gave no room to those thoughts and overcame them.
The mind is the battlefield where all kinds of thoughts can take root, with the potential to manifest or create in our lives in positive or negative ways. It is also the most active part of our being, because it generates the thoughts that shape our reality.
The entire drama of separation from God began with the thoughts the Antagonist placed in Eve’s mind. If we reject those negative thoughts, they have no power over us, because we give them no place and no time to grow. But if we believe them, we place faith in them. That faith—negative or positive—determines what we manifest.
When God creates something, He thinks it, imagines it, conceives it in His heart, and finally speaks it into existence through His words. This is the model of creative power that comes from the Spirit of light, and it can also manifest in us when we live in His Spirit.
Eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism also recognize the importance of controlling thoughts. They teach that by mastering the mind one can reach peace and control over life. Although I do not share their belief in liberation through meditation, it is clear that they understand the influence of thoughts on human life. In my view, techniques such as breathing are useful for calming anxiety and nervousness, but the earthly mind by itself cannot reach the root of the thoughts that produce suffering and imbalance. The unredeemed ego has a function: to block transcendence and spiritual transformation, preventing it from happening.
The power of manifestation, when it comes from the Spirit of light, is a blessing for our lives. But for it to occur, it requires an upright character. Only a spirit aligned with the divine character can be a vessel for God’s creative power.