Greater Things: Living the Life of Miracles Just Like Christ Said We Would

By Tom Steward

Tom Steward has spent many years observing the modern day status of Christianity, while on the inside and now from the outside. It is his contention that there is something missing, certain powerful actions generated by the Spirit. It is his passion to bring these acts to the forefront so that the Christian church can be a more viable force in the world today. This book addresses this need and offers strategies through exercises, meditations, and revolutionary teaching that enable the reader to be powerful healer and miracle worker.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664195226

Tom Steward

Tom Steward is a Licensed Psychotherapist in Northern New Mexico who seeks to facilitate the healing of himself and others by using tools and practices from ages past and also the latest developments in energy healing. This book is his latest effort to provide practical tools so the reader is set on a course of discovery, recovery, and transformation.

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CONTENTS

Whitsunday, 1961

Introduction

Chapter 1The Unknown Christ

Chapter 2Love, Light, and Life: Powerful Eternal Principles to Live By

Chapter 3Oneness: The Unity of All Things Everywhere

Chapter 4The Spirit of the Divine: The Inestimable Power of the Everywhere Spirit

Chapter 5The River Within: The Flowing Inner Life Within All

Chapter 6Believing the Impossible: Living as if There Are No Limitations and Anything Is Possible

Chapter 7Heaven-Earth: The Assimilation and Coordination of Heaven and Earth as On

Chapter 8The Divine Council: The Council of Higher Beings Who Are God’s Assistants

Chapter 9The Spirit World: The Immense Spiritual World That Parallels the Physical World

Chapter 10Mind Renewal: Being Transformed in the Spirit of the Mind

Chapter 11Spiritual Powers: The Endowment of Powers to Achieve the Spectacular

Chapter 12Transferring Energy: Directing Healing Energy from One Person to Another through the Laying On of Hands

Postlude: An Alignment Prayer

APPENDICES

Meditations and Handouts

Appendix A: The Four Questions and the Turnaround

Appendix B: Realignment to Higher Self

Appendix C: Revisiting a Memory

Appendix D: Forgiveness

Appendix E: Body Healing

Appendix F: Breathing through Resistance

Appendix G: Transmuting the Idea of an Issue

Appendix H: In the Chamber

Appendix I: Spirit Return

Appendix J: Go with the Pain

CAVEAT

Caution No. 1

The contents of this book are not consistent

with modern-day Christianity.

Caution No. 2

Modern-day Christianity is not consistent with the early church

of the first two centuries and the original interpretations

of the scripture and early Christian writings.

WHITSUNDAY, 1961

I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

From that moment I have known what it means not to look back, and to take no thought for the morrow.

Led by the Ariadne’s thread of my answer through the labyrinth of Life, I came to a time and place where I realized that the Way leads to a triumph which is a catastrophe, and to a catastrophe which is a triumph, that the price for committing one’s life would be reproach, and that the only elevation possible to man lies in the depths of humiliation. After that, the word courage lost its meaning, since nothing could be taken from me.

As I continued along the Way, I learned, step by step, word by word, that behind every saying in the Gospels stands one man and one man’s experience. Also behind the prayer that the cup might pass from him and his promise to drink it. Also behind each of the words from the Cross.¹

INTRODUCTION

Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life

full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

—Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

You have everything you need in all the

endless dimensions because of your association

with the Divine and the divine realm.²

In the spring of 2006, my family and I entered into a crisis that lasted many years. A seven-year odyssey was initiated that took a lot from us, yet much of this formerly meaningful fluff was meant to go. We traversed through, often dazed and confused, yet we emerged with an undeniable clarity.

A year or two after this crisis commenced, I visited art galleries on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico, near my home. I walked into what is now my favorite gallery, and as I entered through the doorway, I looked up at the far wall. Before me was a huge painting covering most of the wall. This painting seemed to leap in my direction, luring me to rest my eyes on its offering. The painting is by David Linn and is entitled The Archer. You can see this rendering on the cover of this book.

The reason why it struck me so was because it is a picture of a man shooting arrows up into the sky, hoping beyond hope to secure a response. This is what my life felt like at the time. It felt as if something was carelessly launched in my direction, and I simply wanted to send it back.

I even found a verse in the Hebrew Bible’s Kethuvim that captured my sentiment at the time. It reads as follows:

For the arrows of the Almighty are in

me; my spirit absorbs their poison. God’s

terrors are arrayed against me.³

So is that what’s going on here? There are arrows coming in my direction from some above place? If that’s the case, I’m sending those arrows right back up to whomever because I need an answer. Now!

It came. A lot of answers came to me, and many helped. I was certainly hell-bent on finding some solution, and I wasn’t going to stop until I did.

What I would like to impress upon you is that there is a need for some intense passion to find that which you need the most. Do not give up. Continue, please. Your answer is dependent upon the fervor that you extend in your search.

Admittedly, there are times when there is no fervor, and something still rushes in. Other times, there is no stamina to offer anything at all, and you languish, yet the need for an answer remains.

Our family has had additional crises. Losing a child to an early passing is so hard to take. I have known grief and loss and heartache and disappointment and trauma in ways that have sent me reeling.

What do you need more than anything else in your life? What are your illnesses, ailments, and diseases? What is it that you need healing from? What troubles you from day to day? What is the answer you are seeking? In what way do you need a miracle?

Another painting by David Linn will help us here. You will find it below. It is untitled, yet I would like to call it Holding Space. To receive your miraculous healing, you do not act alone. You are with others. They help you as you help them. Community and collaboration are so important. Reach out and reach up, to receive that which will help you the most.

This book is about healing, miraculous healing. Gather your intense passion, stretch your arms up with your offering, while being held by those nearby. And then come along with me on this journey of the miraculous.

I welcome you.

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CHAPTER ONE

The Unknown Christ

When peaceful silence lay over all, and night had

run the half of her swift course, down from the

heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-

powerful Word; into the heart of a doomed land

the stern warrior leapt. Carrying your unambiguous

command like a sharp sword, he stood, and filled the

universe… he touched the sky, yet trod the earth.⁴

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Surrender unto Me, for indeed, I am the Way, the

Truth, and the Life, and such as this, you are. Let

the dream end, that the Kingdom may be known.⁵

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Meditate on the Guide, the Giver of all,

the Primordial Poet, smaller than an atom,

unthinkable, brilliant as the sun.⁶

Christ was a great teacher, healer, and leader, yet he did not use conventional methods, from his era or any time in human history.