You're Not Stuck in Your Story: Soul Knows a Way Out

What if the deepest part of you already has the solution to whatever's got you twisted up? Not later. Not after you fix yourself. Now.

Most of us live from the neck down. We feel our way through life: anxiety in the chest, hurt in the gut, exhaustion in the bones. The material senses run the show, telling us what's possible and what isn't. They tell us we're limited, aging, breakable. And because we're living in that framework, we believe them.

But there's something the ancient guys got that we've mostly forgotten. Abraham didn't just believe God. He heard God. Spoke with Truth like you'd talk with someone across the table. The Bible says these Soul-inspired patriarchs "heard the voice of Truth, and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man." That's not metaphorical wistfulness. That's direct access.

Jesus kept hammering on this same thing: freedom isn't something you achieve. It's something you wake up to. He told people who thought they were trapped, "The truth will make you free." And they pushed back. They were like, "Free? We're not enslaved." They were living in a material sense of reality so deeply that they couldn't even recognize what captivity looked like.

We assume our material circumstances are telling us the truth about who we are and what's possible. Your body says you're aging. Your bank account says you're limited. Your relationship status says you're stuck. Your diagnosis says you're broken. These messages sound so real, so obvious, so undeniable.

They're not, that’s a trap.

The spiritual sense of being contradicts the material senses. And it's not a comforting middle ground or a nice thought to fall back on when things get tough. It's a completely different operating system.

Think about Jesus healing people. He didn't pray for healing like you'd plead for a favor from someone with authority over you. He didn't say, "Please, God, fix this person's eyes." He looked at blind people and addressed the truth: "According to your faith let it be done to you." He turned a woman's death into rest. He reframed a crowd's emergency into something that revealed spiritual reality. His whole method was shifting people from the material sense (you're dying, you're broken, you're helpless) to the spiritual sense (you're already whole, already free, already held).

And it worked. People were healed. Not because God suddenly decided to help them. But because they stopped accepting the material sense as reality.

Soul is Spirit. Not the psychological concept we've been trained to think about. Not your feelings or your subconscious. Spirit. The creative, governing, infinite Principle that's outside of finite form. Soul creates only what reflects Spirit. It can't reflect anything inferior to Spirit. That means your real self, your spiritual identity, is incapable of being less than whole.

The substance of your life is Spirit, not matter. You are individualized, but never in matter. Your real mind is God's mind. Your real identity is sustained by infinite Life, not by a temporary body with an expiration date.

This isn't denial. This isn't pretending your circumstances don't exist. It's refusing to let material circumstances define your identity or dictate your reality.

Abraham was 99 years old. Ninety-nine. No biological possibility of fatherhood. But he shifted his identity. God said, "Walk before me and be blameless," and Abraham got a new name. Abraham means "father of nations." He claimed a spiritual identity that had nothing to do with his material age or his body's track record. And guess what happened? His belief moved toward his new identity. He became what Spirit knew him to be.

That's what freedom actually looks like.

The hardest part? It means letting go of the material narrative you've been telling yourself about who you are. You're not tired because you're aging. You're not broke because you're incapable. You're not broken because you've been hurt. These are stories the material sense tells. And they're as real as that guy falling asleep and dying in Acts, then waking up alive when someone came with a different perspective.

Prayer becomes something different when you shift to the spiritual sense. It's not pleading with a God who might help you if you're desperate enough. It's understanding. It's lining yourself up with what's already true. It's the unspoken desire that brings you closer to the source of all existence. You don't change God's mind because God's mind already knows you're whole, capable, and endlessly resourced. Prayer aligns your thinking with that reality.

Here's what flips everything: Soul has infinite resources. Not limited resources. Not resources you have to earn or deserve. Infinite. And happiness, freedom, healing, and wholeness are available right now if you're willing to stop looking for them in matter and start looking in Soul.

The material senses are lying to you. Not maliciously. They're just showing you their limited perspective. "Look, I see aging." "Look, I see limitation." "Look, I see separation." Spiritual sense contradicts that. It involves intuition, hope, faith, real understanding. When you attain the real, which Science announces, joy is no longer a trembler. Hope isn't a con. You know you're held.

What would shift if you stopped defining yourself by your material circumstances? If you recognized that the deepest part of you, your Soul, already knows the way out?

It's not luck. It's not denial. It's operating from a completely different source of truth.

Start noticing where you're accepting the material narrative as fact. Where you're letting matter have the final word about who you are and what's possible. Then gently shift. Ask yourself: what does the spiritual sense say about this? What if I was already whole? What if I'm actually free? What if the infinite resources of Spirit are available to me right now?

That's not fantasy. That's coming home to who you already are.