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It's easy to fall short in life because we believe what the world would tell us about our dreams, our passions, our life. Satan would love nothing more than for us to believe there is no chance for us to fulfill the dreams in our hearts. He'd rather see us settle for being too weak, too poor, not ambitious enough, not a leader...etc etc etc. However, God sees us through the eyes of Love. He is Love and we posses the strength to face whatever in life we come against. We posses that strength because Jesus lives inside of us...we don't have to wait for the strength to be over comers, we've been given everything we will ever need.
Joyce Meyer states in a devotional I am reading of hers: "Seeing yourself the way God sees you leads to a life of overwhelming victory" (You can check our the reading plan from J.Meyer here).
As believers of the Word, we know in our minds God loves us. Do you believe it? Do you trust that He loves you?
I heard a story recently with a Biblical analogy that really sparked something inside of me. The story is about a tight rope walker who stretched a tight rope across Niagara Falls. Many times he tight roped back and forth across Niagara Falls, never falling. Each time he crossed he added a more daring obstacle, first a tricycle, then he pushed a wheelbarrow across. Then he placed a flour sack the weight of a human in the wheelbarrow and pushed that across successfully. The multitudes of people cheered him on, each time saying "he can do it, we believe he can do it!" Then the tight rope walker announced he'd do one more act of strength, he'd place a man in the wheelbarrow and push it across the tight rope stretched across Niagara Falls. The entire crowd cheered and said he could do it...but not a one volunteered to get in the wheelbarrow. You see, there is a difference between believing God loves you and trusting God loves you. The ones who trust get in the wheelbarrow.
1 John 4:4 says "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the wold" He has given you all you will ever need to succeed. Jesus is all the courage, strength, ambition, and love we need. We don't have to wait on Him to give any of it to us, He loved us enough to have gifted it all to us many years ago on the cross. It's up to us to stand on our Faith and Trust that he Loves us that much.
He loves you. He loves you. He loves you.
As believers of the Word, we know in our minds God loves us. Do you believe it? Do you trust that He loves you?
I heard a story recently with a Biblical analogy that really sparked something inside of me. The story is about a tight rope walker who stretched a tight rope across Niagara Falls. Many times he tight roped back and forth across Niagara Falls, never falling. Each time he crossed he added a more daring obstacle, first a tricycle, then he pushed a wheelbarrow across. Then he placed a flour sack the weight of a human in the wheelbarrow and pushed that across successfully. The multitudes of people cheered him on, each time saying "he can do it, we believe he can do it!" Then the tight rope walker announced he'd do one more act of strength, he'd place a man in the wheelbarrow and push it across the tight rope stretched across Niagara Falls. The entire crowd cheered and said he could do it...but not a one volunteered to get in the wheelbarrow. You see, there is a difference between believing God loves you and trusting God loves you. The ones who trust get in the wheelbarrow.
1 John 4:4 says "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the wold" He has given you all you will ever need to succeed. Jesus is all the courage, strength, ambition, and love we need. We don't have to wait on Him to give any of it to us, He loved us enough to have gifted it all to us many years ago on the cross. It's up to us to stand on our Faith and Trust that he Loves us that much.
He loves you. He loves you. He loves you.
