You know there is more in you. You dream about it. You see it and feel it in every fiber of your being. .You even daydream about the untapped potential that is burning in your heart. You can try to ignore that burning desire. Your thoughts will tell you, I am too old. I am too young. I am not disciplined enough. I have missed too many opportunities. I have suffered too many setbacks. I am too much of this or not enough of that. It is not meant for me. Your mind will tell you many things, but your heart tells you that there is more in store for you. Do not brush that off. That is your destiny calling you. Those feelings and desires are signs that there is more in you. If you trust them and stay in faith, being your best, you will climb to new heights and go on to make history.
Sometimes,
when we have tasted a little success, our complacency can keep us from God’s
best. You may be satisfied with your current position in your job, but could it
be that you have the potential in you to manage your department? You may be
working for a company and there is a growing sense of dissatisfaction brewing
in you. Could it be that God is prompting you to start your own company? Or how
about feeling you have reached the pinnacle of your success and now it is time
for you to give back. Could it be that God is leading you to start a ministry
and get involved in missions, helping the poor and widows in foreign lands?
When Sir Edmund Hillary failed in one
of his attempts to scale Mt. Everest, he was called to give a speech on his
experience. He paused at one of the slides of Mt. Everest, shook his fist and
announced, “Mt. Everest, you’ve
grown all you can but I will grow bigger from my experience and conquer you!” Soon
after, Edmund Hillary became the first person to climb Mt. Everest.
What about you? Are you growing? Are
you stretching? Are you looking for new ways to advance your career, influence
more people? You have seeds of greatness in you. You were not created to just
live and die and nobody knew you were here. You were destined to leave your
mark. Since God put the dream in you, He will equip you to fulfill it.
Sometimes
when we have suffered a setback or things are not happening on our timetable,
we tend to give up on our dreams. We did not get the promotion, the doctor’s
prognosis was not good, or a relationship did not work out. Life has a way of
pushing our dreams down. Now
it has been years and we are convinced that the good life has passed us by. We
bury the relationship, we bury the promises to get healed, and we stop trying
to get free from addictions. But there are seeds of greatness still in you.
Just because you gave up does not mean God gave up on the promises He made to
you. What He started, He will fulfill. Do not bury your dreams under low
self-esteem, disappointments, and mediocrity. The dream is still alive. There
is more in you. If you dare to believe, God will bring it to pass.
This
is what happened to Moses in the Bible. As a young man, God gave Moses a dream
that he would lead the Israelites out of slavery. Moses was excited about his
future but he made a mistake. He saw an Egyptian mistreating a Hebrew slave, so
he killed the Egyptian. Moses had to flee the country and spend 40 years in the
backside of the desert hiding. I can imagine how he felt—condemned,
disappointed, and finally he buried his dream. He thought he had blown it and
now he did not deserve what God had put in his heart. But God is so merciful.
He does not give us what we deserve. Even
when we give up, He does not abort a dream. At the age of 80 God visited
Moses in a burning bush and revived his dream. God told him what He had told
him 40 years earlier: go back to Egypt and deliver my people. Moses went and
did just as God had promised. He delivered the people of God out of Egypt.
Have
you buried a dream because life happened? Did you give up on a promise that God
gave to you? I encourage you to stir up the dreams God has put in your heart.
If God did not have another victory ahead of you, you would not be here. You
have more in you. Your destiny is calling you. Your best days are still out in
front of you. If you dare to believe and act on it, you will climb to the
pinnacle of your success. God is with you and, more importantly, He is for you. Do
not let limited thinking or a failure in the past hold you back. Today is a new day. You have what it
takes. You can be who you want to be. You can do what you want to do. You can
have what you want to have. Release what is in you. You cannot awaken someone
who is pretending to be asleep. Awaken your dreams. Take the limits off. There
is no limit to what you and God can do. There is more in you.
“And
I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his
work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns” (Philippians 1:6 NLT).
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