Isaiah 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
PART TWO: REACHING THE POTENTIAL GOD INTENDS FOR YOU:
(RECAP from last Sunday)
A formula for life:
Faith + Trust = Courage
PRAYER is a KEY to unlocking our potential.
The connection of the daily prayer with this formula:
Faith in God’s Word + Trusting God’s Way = Courage to fulfill His will.
REACHING THE POTENTIAL GOD INTENDS FOR YOU:
1. Reaching your potential is really about the
2. Reaching your potential boils down to the fact that God
PART TWO:
REACHING THE POTENTIAL GOD INTENDS FOR YOU:
3. Reaching your potential happens when you feed your
Numbers 13:1-2 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”
Numbers 13:27-30 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Everyone’s experience was the same, but some of them looked away from the
John 10:10 (Jesus said) The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. [it is as if they can’t move past this part of what Jesus is saying]
[Jesus’ promise to us] I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Numbers 13:31-33 (Emphasis added) But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours (swallows) its inhabitants (exaggeration), and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight (looking at themselves rather than God), and so we were in their sight (assuming the worse).”
Psalm 78:42 “They did not remember His power.”
Don’t try to build your
Numbers 14:1-3 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
Don’t
Acts 4:29-30 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
It takes faith to
Romans 1:17 (In talking about the Gospel) For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith.
People that
Conclusion:
Look at this truth in 1 Corinthians 2:9 CEV “What God has planned for people who love Him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds!”
You were made for much more than you ever imagined.
Faith in God’s Word + Trusting God’s Way = Courage to fulfill His will.
Isaiah 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.