Manifesting Removes the Need for Submission to God’s Will

A key problem with manifesting is that it teaches people to focus on getting what they want without considering what God wants. In the Bible the foundation of a relationship with God is surrender and submission. Manifesting removes that foundation and replaces it with self-directed desire. Instead of “Thy will be done” it becomes “My will be done.”

Jesus taught that prayer begins with surrender. In the Lord’s Prayer He said Your kingdom come Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). This shows that the believer’s first priority is not to shape reality according to personal desires but to align with God’s purpose. Manifesting does not require alignment with God’s purpose at all. It only requires that you visualize what you want and believe that you deserve it.

Submission to God is central to biblical faith. James 4:7 tells believers submit yourselves therefore to God. Manifesting does not promote submission but control. It encourages people to mentally or spiritually manipulate outcomes instead of yielding to God’s will. When someone believes they can force outcomes spiritually they no longer see a need to ask God for permission guidance or correction.

Manifesting also eliminates the possibility that God may say no. In Scripture God has the right to deny requests that are not good for us or that conflict with His plan. The apostle Paul prayed three times for a thorn to be removed yet God denied the request and gave him strength instead. Paul wrote but He said to me My grace is sufficient for you (2 Corinthians 12:9). Manifesting cannot account for this reality because it treats desire as supreme rather than God’s wisdom.

The Bible teaches that the heart often desires things that are not good. Jeremiah 17:9 declares the heart is deceitful above all things. Therefore the believer must submit desires to God rather than assume they are automatically right. Manifesting teaches the opposite. It trains people to trust their desires as holy and authoritative without discernment repentance or counsel.

One of the most important lessons Jesus taught was in the garden of Gethsemane. Faced with suffering He prayed nevertheless not My will but Yours be done (Luke 22:42). This prayer reveals that spiritual maturity is not the ability to manifest desires but the ability to surrender desires. Manifesting does not require surrender. It only requires insistence.

Scripture reveals that blessings are tied to obedience and humility not to visualization or positive affirmation. Deuteronomy 28 outlines blessings for obedience and none of them come from manifesting techniques. Isaiah 1:19 says if you are willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land. God blesses through relationship and obedience not through mental attraction.

Manifesting also encourages impatience because it tells people they can align with the universe to get what they want now. But the Bible teaches that God works through timing. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says He has made everything beautiful in its time. Waiting is part of faith but manifesting removes waiting by promising personal control over timing.

When manifesting removes submission to God it replaces dependence with entitlement. It teaches people to command their future rather than surrender their future. Scripture calls believers to lay down their lives. Manifesting calls believers to build the life they desire regardless of God’s instruction or correction.

For this reason manifesting is not merely a harmless trend. It undermines a core foundation of Christianity which is the posture of surrender. Faith is not about getting God to do our will. Faith is about doing His will.