From Jesus in the book channeled through Tina Louise Spalding, Jesus, My Autobiography:
A Quick Lesson: the Gift of Receiving
It is wonderful to do things for people. It is a great joy to give gifts; it is a great joy to offer wisdom to beings, and it is a great joy to share your possessions with them. But it is very important for you to understand that it is just as important to receive. This is something that many of you have difficulty with. You have difficulty being in this receptive place. There is a part of the ego that does not like to receive, that sees it as weak in some way, that sees it as a lessening of the strength of character somehow, but this is not the case. The opposite is the truth.
The universe — this wonderful, benevolent force that is always offering you abundance — is working in many ways, and one of the ways that it works is through the beings in your life. If your culture teaches you to provide for yourself only, to work hard, and to always look after yourself without any reception of gift, you prevent the universe from giving in one way that it is most able to give, and that is through the beings you meet on your path, the beings who are in your life, the beings who you work with, and your friends and family.
So I say to you, allow beings to give you things, and receive them with gratitude and grace, for this is a way to increase your abundance and to increase your connection with the universe. If you refuse her gifts, if you refuse the opportunities and material things that come your way or that appear to come your way through serendipitous means, you are indeed cutting off the flow of abundance from the universe, and this will not serve you. This will not bring you what you wish. The universe is always stepping up. She is always offering you more and more and more, and the more you receive, the more you understand this principle and the more you will be able to take into your heart and into your experience everything that is your due, everything that is your dream, and everything that is your desire.
You might not realize it, but if somebody offers you some small thing, then to refuse that thing cuts the flow of energy to you. You will be offered another small thing, and if you refuse that small thing, the energy is cut down one more time. What you must understand is this: All of your wishes and dreams, all of those things that you think about, and all of those things that you desire in your mind but think of as big things that are beyond your comprehension to manifest and beyond your ability to understand begin to come to you in small increments. If you cannot accept those small increments, the larger things will not come to you. But if you accept the small increments with gratitude and grace, you will indeed begin to receive the larger things, the larger objects, and the larger experiences that your heart’s desire is showing you.
This is a principle that is very important to understand. I knew this at that time, so I received all of the gifts with great gratitude and grace and was very handsomely adorned and outfitted by the time I stepped onto my desert trek, which was a camel train that had ten or fifteen camels in it. I forget the exact number.
Spalding, Tina Louise. Jesus: My Autobiography (pp. 45-47). Light Technology Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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