When life deals you difficult blows it can be hard to find the strength to trust again. Failure and rejection can blindside you, making it almost impossible to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But if you don't shake yourself you'll slip into a perpetual state of faithlessness, too afraid to believe for better days.
I know how difficult it can be to hold on when you're enduring a prolonged period of famine in your life. It seems like you'll never get a breakthrough. No one else quite knows the intensity of your storm. They don't see your struggle. They don't feel your pain.
Rather than sulking and sinking into depression I want you to do something different. Challenge yourself. Make a decision to believe that God has a brighter future for you-- much greater than what you now see. No matter how difficult it may be to conjure up the strength to believe again, you have to do it!
You see, your faith activates your potential. Never forget that. If you don't genuinely believe that something is possible, you'll cease to try. As a result, your pervasive beliefs will rule your life, thus determining your outcome.
It doesn't matter what you've endured, how many obstacles you've been faced with, or how many times you've failed. I'm challenging you right now to grab hold of faith and believe again. Trust, not only in God, but in yourself.
Although He has given you the power to be victorious, only you can put it into action. It's like the scientific difference between "Potential Energy" and "Kinetic Energy". As the name implies, potential energy is energy
that has not yet been used, thus the term potential. Kinetic energy
is energy in use, or in motion.
Which best describes you? Are you full of potential, but afraid to put it into practice? Are you wasting away, allowing your mind to atrophy? Or are you harnessing and maximizing the potential God has given you, for the fulfillment of your purpose?
Wherever you may be while reading this, I want you to take what I'm about to say very personally--here goes.
You are not merely the sum total of your experiences. No! You are better than where you've been, and you're greater than where you are. There's a wealth of wisdom and power that lies within in you.
If you'll release your inhibitions long enough to unleash the resources, gifts, and talents God has placed in you; you will absolutely amaze yourself! I want you to begin to weed out negative thoughts, stop expecting mediocrity. Demand excellence from yourself. Not only that, believe that you are capable of going far above and beyond your wildest dreams and expectations.
Until next time... may you be empowered to prosper!
Dianna Hobbs
