If the plans you are making don’t scare you, they probably aren’t big enough.
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We must constantly war against the unfortunate tendency that some many people have of deciding what is possible for us based on their limited purview.
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Sometimes we are so busy thanking God for our blessings that we forget to thank the people that God uses to blesses us.
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To maximize our God-given abilities and to make the most of every opportunity, we must learn to devise workarounds.
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During our lowest points., God has some angels on the ground.
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As long as we keep moving forward, obstacles will fall, doors will open, checks will arrive in the mail, friends will emerge, enemies will disappear, and barriers will be removed.
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Life is too short, and the miracle waiting for you is too great to allow fear and foolish carriers to contaminate your atmosphere, and poison your environment.
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Some of us don’t know how to celebrate when we win. But some of us like celebrating before we’ve won. I’m not sure which is worse. But neither are desirable. The danger with premature celebration is that it is wasted energy, energy that we could have been invested in preparing for a better outcome. We set up monuments to ourselves, when we haven’t even completed the mission!
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We all have a tendency to forget how powerful God is, and of his interest, capacity, and determination to bless us.
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We all have to learn how to strategically pursue our objectives, and understand that some decisions, announcements, and actions are better made after certain objectives have already been met.
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Has anyone ever thrown you away? When we are rejected, betrayed, or abandoned, we can feel worthless. When we make mistakes, or experience repeated failures, we can assume that we don’t have much to offer or that our best is never good enough. But we must always remember that we have value. Our value is not based on what other people think of us, or even what we think about ourselves.
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When you don’t expect doors to open, you spend a lot of time figuring out how to work around barriers that may not exist, deal with enemies, that never materialize, and fight through opposition that never appears.
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Far too many of us are anxious, nervous and afraid. We rush through life concerned that we have to make something happen. However, we must begin operating from the assumption that doors are going to be opened for us.
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My comments today are motivated by the second of these truths, and directed to anyone who is thinking about leaving “their Afghanistan.” Beware! It is going to be much harder than you think.
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Whose advice are you taking?
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What happens when traffic lights give mixed signals? I don’t ever remember reading about that situation in any driving manual. I am hopeful that the faulty traffic light is corrected soon. If it isn’t, a disaster is waiting to happen.
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Haran wasn’t where he wanted to go. Haran is where Terah settled. And I think that every person meets their Haran: the place where you are tempted to settle for a different destination than the one you originally desired.
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Asking the “by when” question forces you to calculate the emotional, physical, and financial investment necessary to pursue an objective. It will immediately expose whether you are serious or not. But not only does setting a deadline force you to calculate, it also qualifies you for supernatural assistance.
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I think we tend to overemphasize the benefits of choice, especially when the chooser is ignorant or immature. I know this may sound like heresy to many of you, because as Americans we value choice and have exalted rugged individualism as an ideal. But the more I think about it, the more, I am beginning to think that all of us can benefit every now and then from a push or a pull from a loving hand. Sometimes, we all need someone to make us do what we find unpleasant.
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But I am referring to a different kind of surveillance. A wise preacher once said that “someone who is greatly capable of blessing you is always observing you.” I can think of nothing more encouraging than the confidence of knowing that our efforts to improve our lives, to help people, and to advance the cause of goodness and righteousness will not go unnoticed , unaided, or unrewarded. We are under divine surveillance.
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