Are you? Don’t you realize who You are and Whose you are? Don’t you realize that if you’ve made Jesus your Lord, that you are a new creation!? Read 2 Corinthians 5: 17-21 and discover YOU!
Do you believe you have potential? You do… even if you’ve been told that (fill in the blank) is the Only thing you can do.! First: if you believe this, why? Is it true? If so… then you can be the absolute BEST you can be! Who sez that you can’t be the best? However ,,, if it isn’t true, If there is a dream that’s in your heart… then I’m fairly confident that the Lord is the one who placed that dream in you. [Have you ever heard of the devil putting anything out there for you to accept that is for your good? Of course not.] If you don’t have a dream… do you know why? Fear? Feelings of inadequacy? Not your choice? Bottom line is that we all have dreams… the difference is whether we follow them or not.
If you wail that you don’t know what your potential is – have you asked the Lord? He tells us in Jeremiah 29:11 that HE has plans for us, good plans, plans for a future and a hope. You can activate and walk in your dream. Yes, it takes courage. Yes, you must grow in understanding and application of what this means. But, should this stop you? Why would you not want to be all that’s been prepared for you to walk in? (Ephesians 2)
Bottom line… you have a calling. NO ONE can do what you’ve been called to do. But yes, we may have the same calling but never in the same way with the same audience at the same time. You are never called to (fill in the blank) without being prepared even if that occurs as you take that first step in faith. However, don’t limit what that calling is. It may be within the framework of the church, but it may be in the world you live in. Remember 1 Corinthians 12 – not everyone is an nose.
So how do we get to a first hand life? How do we enact all that we need to become? Read 2 Peter 1:5-8 – I’m sharing the TPT version:
“Faith’s Ladder of Virtue
So devote yourselves to lavishly supplementing your faith with goodness, and to goodness add understanding, and to understanding add the strength of self-control, and to self-control add patient endurance, and to patient endurance add godliness, and to godliness add mercy toward your brothers and sisters, and to mercy toward others add unending love. Since these virtues are already planted deep within, and you possess them in abundant supply, they will keep you from being inactive or fruitless in your pursuit of knowing Jesus Christ more intimately.”
Did you realize that this is how the Lord sees you? He’s simply reminding you of who you are in Him and that you are not fruitless. You are never a second hand person – and God doesn’t make junk. It’s the dream that the Lord placed in you that differentiates you. You never are in your life by yourself. But you have to be part. You are called, at this time, in this place to be all you can be in your world! And… you CAN do it!
