Phillipians 4:13
"I can do everything through him who gives me strength."
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What keeps most people from achieving their greatest dreams?
FEAR is what keeps most people paralyzed and ineffective. Fear of the unknown; Fear of moving outside their comfort zone; Fear of failure; and yes even Fear of Success.
But when you understand what fear is, you can break its power.
FEAR: False Expectations Appearing Real
"For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship." - Romans 8:15
and "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." - 1 John 4:18
God wants YOU to have more!
As Christians, we are told in John 10:10, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." That's right! God does want you to have more. He wants you to have more abundance in your life. And he wants you to NOT limit Him in what He can do for YOU. "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us..."
- Ephesians 3:20
Will God provide?
In 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 we read about Jabez who cried out to God and asked, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.
My prayer for you today is that you will begin to understand the love God has for you and the plans He has ordained for your life. I live in full expectation that God will not fail us and that He will begin to provide more than we can ask for or imagine. Indeed, He has already begun!
You can experience more abundance in your life and can be successful in all that you do! And, like Paul in the Ephesians passage, you can believe as I do that "I can do everything through him who gives me strength."
