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UNDERSTANDING YOUR POTENTIAL

Discovering the Hidden You …………….Dr. Myles Munroe Just because He told you to assume that responsibility means He knows you can do it. The problem isn’t that you can’t, it’s just that you won’t. Whenever God gives you a responsibility, He also gives you the ability to meet that responsibility. Whether you use the ability God has deposited within you is totally up to you. How well you assume the responsibilities God gives you is not so much a question of how much you do, but rather how much of the available power you use. What you are doing is not near what your ability is. What you have accomplished is a joke when compared with what you could accomplish—you are not working enough with the power of God (emphasis on work)..

IF YOU THINK IT, YOU CAN DO IT

You have a deposit of God’s ability! Any person who sets a limit on what he can do, also sets a limit on what he will do. No one can determine how much you can produce except you and God. So there is nothing in this world that should stop you from accomplishing and realizing and fulfilling and maximizing your full potential. Proverbs 23:7 tells us: If you can conceive it, you can do it. Obviously God is trying to communicate that you can do anything you can think. If you can conceive it, the fact that you can conceive it means you can do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s never been done—if you think it, you can do it. Likewise, if you never think it, you can’t do it. God allows you to think only what you can do. If He doesn’t allow you to think it, He knows youcan’t do it.

Think about the things you’ve been thinking recently. The fact that you thought them means you can do them. Now don’t get me wrong. Thinking doesn’t get it done. Thinking implies you can do it. See yourself doing the thing in your thoughts. Make your thought into an idea, and your idea into an imagination. Take that imagination and document it into a plan. Then go to it (of course with the proper rest periods). Put your plan into action. If you thought it, you can do it.

IF GOD HAS IT, YOU HAVE IT

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). Each of these fruits of the Spirit is an attribute of God. God unconditionally says, “They are you.” God knows you have love. He knows you have joy—it doesn’t matter what you are going through. God knows you have joy down there inside you, because Christ is joy. . To Be Continued