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Celebrate Your Potential
Launch out
into the deep ...
We believe that, with God, all things are possible.
ALL THINGS. All our visions and dreams are possible. All our hopes
for the future can be achieved.
But have you ever noticed that during times when you are beginning
something brave, when you are about to launch out into the deep,
circumstances become difficult? Obstacles appear out of nowhere? Or
someone says something that takes the air right out of your balloon?
These are distractions. And it is important that we recognize these
hindrances for what they are: opportunities to put down our swords of
faith and walk away from the power of Gods promises.
For example,
years ago, the night before we were leaving to take our 3-year old for
open heart surgery, someone close to us called to insist that our optimism
in God was ill-founded. From the other end of the phone these words rang
out: Dont you know that she could DIE? We were not moved. We chose to
maintain our confidence in God's Word. The surgery went well and our
daughter recovered quickly.
I am sure that
you can point to times in your life, too, when you stood on a precipice,
ready to leap, and came face to face with opposition.
Let us remember as we launch out into the deep that distractions will
come. But we will see them for what they are, keep our eyes on God, and
march forth with conviction and purpose. Stalwart. Confident. And
immovable.
For none of these things move me
For with God, all things are possible
For He who has begun a good work in us will continue ...
For we are fully persuaded that what He has promised He is also able to
perform ...
Acts, Chapter 20: Verse 24
Mark, Chapter 9: Verse 23
Philippians, Chapter 1: Verse 6
Romans, Chapter 4: Verse 21
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