KNOWLEDGE
What do I know?
Knowledge provides material for thought. The journey begins by examining what we have learned, observed, inherited, experienced and accepted as true.
THE FEMININE RENAISSANCE · DEVOTIONAL
From Prayerto Manifestation
A 21-Day Devotional-Workbook for Turning the Invisible into Visible Fruit
KNOWLEDGEUNDERSTANDINGWISDOM
UCHE ONUBIYI · OLIVE TREE FOUNDATION
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ABOUT THE DEVOTIONAL
What happens after we pray?
Prayer can become a place of surrender, discernment, courage and alignment. But there is another question that must eventually be asked: what happens after we pray?
What if an answer requires knowledge we have not acquired? What if an opportunity requires capacity we have not developed? What if change requires a responsibility that has already been placed in our hands?
From Prayer to Manifestation is not an argument against prayer. It is an invitation to recover what should happen around prayer: learning, understanding, discernment, preparation, participation and action.
THE CENTRAL QUESTION
“What is mine to do within the reality I have been given?”
THE THREE-PATH PROCESS
Knowledge → Understanding → Wisdom
The twenty-one-day journey follows three fundamental paths, gradually moving the reader from what is known toward what must be understood and finally toward what wisdom requires in practice.
UNDERSTANDING
What does it mean?
Understanding moves beneath information into meaning. It examines interpretation, experience, emotion and the patterns through which we make sense of life.
WISDOM
What should I do?
Wisdom gives understanding hands. It asks what our knowledge and understanding now require of our decisions, actions and participation.
FROM INNER FORMATION TO VISIBLE FRUIT
KNOWLEDGE→
THOUGHT→
UNDERSTANDING→
MEANING→
EMOTION→
WISDOM→
DECISION→
ACTION→
PRACTICE→
FRUIT
Fruit makes formation visible. Manifestation is not ultimately proved by what we intended, announced, prayed about or imagined, but by what our way of thinking, understanding, choosing and living eventually produces.
WHAT IS MANIFESTATION?
Potential is not fruit.
In this devotional, manifestation is not presented as a technique for controlling reality through thought, visualization or repeated words.
It is the process through which what exists invisibly as potential, understanding, intention, capacity or possibility enters visible expression through formation and participation.
Like a seed, potential must encounter conditions, undergo development and pass through process before it can become fruit.
THE FEMININE ARCHITECTURE
Formation is also gestation.
RECEIVE→
HOLD→
NURTURE→
FORM→
BRING FORTH
Conception is not birth. Something can be real and still require nourishment, protection, time and formation before it is ready for visible expression.
DAYS 1–7
Knowledge
Renewing what I know: examining prayer, inherited beliefs, thought, learning and the movement from knowledge toward understanding.
DAYS 8–14
Understanding
Examining what it means: interpretation, emotion, fear, inherited meaning, seasons, process and the lessons hidden within experience.
DAYS 15–21
Wisdom
Giving understanding hands: action, participation, practice, responsibility, fruit and the movement from prayer toward manifestation.
EACH DAY CONTAINS NINE MOVEMENTS
01
Scripture
02
Teaching
03
Examine Your Life
04
Knowledge
05
Understanding
06
Wisdom
07
Today's Action
08
Prayer for Alignment
09
Workbook Practice
A DEVOTIONAL FOR PARTICIPATION
This is not primarily a book to finish.It is a process to enter.
The reader is invited to write truthfully, examine what is actually operating within her life, identify what still needs to be learned and translate insight into responsible participation.
AUTHOR
Uche Onubiyi
Olive Tree Foundation