Day 1: The Wealth Cake

Section 1 of 4: The Stillness Meditation

1. You are baking the wealth cake.
2. The ingredients won't bake the cake.
3. The ingredients are the knowledge.
4. You need the heat to bake the cake.
5. The heat is The Stillness Meditation.
6. The Stillness Meditation allows the knowledge to become living revelation.
7. You need the ingredients and the heat.
8. The ingredients won't bake the cake without the heat.
9. The reason it's the wealth cake is because of the wealth ingredients.
10. The cake and the ingredients are of the same substance.
11. Put the ingredients in the heat.
12. Let the heat work.

 Section 2 of 4: Commentary on Thoughts

1. The meditation begins with the wealth cake.

a. You are baking the wealth cake.

b. The word “the” matters.

c. The meditation doesn't say you are baking a wealth cake.

d. It says you are baking the wealth cake.

e. “A” could imply one possibility among many—searching for a formula or hoping to find what works.

f. “The” identifies something specific and brings certainty into the picture.

g. The reason it's the wealth cake is because of the wealth ingredients.

h. The cake and the ingredients are of the same substance.

i. I am baking the wealth cake.

2. The ingredients won't bake the cake.

a. The ingredients won't bake the cake.

b. Ingredients are necessary, but ingredients alone don't produce a baked cake.

c. The meditation identifies the ingredients as knowledge.

d. Knowledge matters.

e. But knowledge by itself isn't the completed process.

f. The ingredients need the heat.

3. Each component of MINT has a purpose.

a. MIN is putting knowledge in my heart.

b. T is the heat.

c. MIN is the ingredients.

d. T allows general knowledge to become specific knowledge.

e. M — Meditate on Scripture — engagement.

This meditation strengthens your heart with spiritual food, producing internal wealth.

f. I — Increase Hearing Meditation — engagement.

This meditation uses structured hearing [repetition] in a specific area of truth to establish truth deep in your heart.

g. N — Nostril Breathing Meditation — engagement.

This meditation brings the soul part of your heart into awareness of Christ within.

h. T — The Stillness Meditation — disengagement.

This meditation moves you from quietness to stillness to know.

4. The ingredients and the heat have different purposes.

a. MIN puts knowledge in my heart.

b. The Stillness Meditation provides a place where I disengage from putting knowledge in my heart and allow what has already been deposited within me to become living revelation.

c. I need both.

d. The ingredients have a purpose.

e. The heat has a purpose.

5. The heat allows knowledge to become living revelation.

a. The heat is The Stillness Meditation.

b. The Stillness Meditation allows the knowledge to become living revelation.

c. The meditation isn't diminishing knowledge.

d. Knowledge supplies the ingredients.

e. But the ingredients still need the heat.

f. The heat works with what has already been deposited within me.

6. Knowledge alone won't bake the cake.

a. I can continually learn without allowing what I have learned to become alive within me.

b. I can know the words and still need illumination.

c. I can possess knowledge and still need wisdom.

d. That's the difference between having the recipe and tasting the cake.

e. The recipe matters.

f. But I don't eat the recipe.

7. Engagement and disengagement work together.

a. Engagement [MIN/ingredients] and disengagement [T/heat] aren't competitors.

b. They are components of one process.

c. MIN is the ingredients.

d. T is the heat.

e. Together, the ingredients and heat produce the wealth cake.

f. Engagement prepares me.

g. Disengagement allows what has been prepared to be worked upon.

8. The wealth ingredients produce the wealth cake.

a. The reason it's the wealth cake is because of the wealth ingredients.

b. The kind of ingredients matters.

c. Wealth ingredients and the wealth cake aren't disconnected.

d. The cake and the ingredients are of the same substance.

e. If I am baking the wealth cake, I need wealth ingredients.

9. I need both the ingredients and the heat.

a. You need the ingredients and the heat.

b. I don't choose knowledge or stillness.

c. I need knowledge and stillness.

d. I need engagement and disengagement.

e. I need the ingredients and the heat.

10. The ingredients won't bake themselves.

a. The ingredients won't bake the cake without the heat.

b. Having more ingredients doesn't eliminate the need for heat.

c. The ingredients can be present while the cake remains unbaked.

d. The heat is necessary to the process.

11. Put the ingredients in the heat.

a. Put the ingredients in the heat.

b. This brings engagement and disengagement together.

c. I first put knowledge in my heart.

d. Then I allow what has been deposited within me to be worked upon in stillness.

e. I put the ingredients in the heat.

12. Let the heat work.

a. Let the heat work.

b. There is a point at which I stop adding ingredients.

c. I disengage from continually putting knowledge in my heart.

d. I become still.

e. I let the heat work.

13. The statement I would circle is:

a. The ingredients won't bake the cake.

b. That statement doesn't diminish the ingredients.

c. It reveals their limitation.

d. I need the ingredients.

e. But I also need the heat.

f. I don't abandon the ingredients.

g. And I don't stop with the ingredients.

h. I put the ingredients in the heat.

Section 3 of 4: Day 1 Summary

The ingredients won't bake the cake.

MIN provides the ingredients.

The ingredients are the knowledge being put in my heart.

T provides the heat.

The Stillness Meditation allows what has been deposited within me to become living revelation.

The Wealth Cake is produced through the ingredients and the heat working together.

I put the ingredients in the heat and let the heat work.

Section 4 of 4: The Stillness Meditation

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