What Happened to the Real You?

1 John 3

We are walking in today:  What Happened to the Real You?

Witness within throughout the Bible:  H1004 bayith--dwelling habitation; inwards; on the inside; within

Ezekiel 3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. H1004

The Torah testifies...............
 Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within H1004 and without with pitch.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Ezekiel 44:17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the
gates of the inner court, and within. H1004

The writings bear witness...........................
 Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house H1004 with a perfect heart.

1 Kings 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house H1004 within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.


When man puts a limit on what he can be, he has put a limit on what he will be.

In the beginning, The Most High created man by speaking to Himself. He took a little bit of Himself and put it into the first man so Adam would be like Him and could share in His life. But the life The Most High intended for His children was destroyed by their disobedience. Hasatan’s deception and the sin of the man and the woman destroyed the relationship between The Most High and the creatures He had taken out of Himself. The fellowship of like thoughts and purposes was broken, and man’s relationship with The Most High became distorted and skewed. Human beings lost their potential to be like the Creator—to know His thoughts and see through His eyes. Through sin, our access to The Most High was cut off and the wealth of The Most High’s secret wisdom was buried. The deep things of The Most High became more than we could know or comprehend. Hasatan came into our lives to minimize, nullify, and destroy our potential. He has killed, stolen, and destroyed what The Most High planted deep within each person. Through the years, the devil has succeeded in convincing men and women, each with a little part of The Most High, that they are worthless, rotten, incapable people. But in the fullness of time Yeshua came into the world to address this very problem. The reason the Son of The Most High appeared was to destroy the devil’s work (1 John 3:8). Yeshua came to wage “the battle of the caps”—the battle of the destroyers. There are two destroyers in the world. One is hasatan; the other is Yeshua. Hasatan comes to destroy, and Yeshua comes to destroy.

DO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE The Most High?
Hasatan is The Most High’s enemy and ours. He is our adversary, out to blind us to the truth of The Most High’s love and the wisdom that offers us hope. Anything that is destructive—anything that steals something from you or destroys something that belongs to you—is from the enemy. He is a destruction mechanism that comes to destroy, kill and steal. But what is he destroying? First hasatan destroyed man’s potential to be like his Creator. Hasatan said to Adam, “Do you want to be like The Most High? Pick that fruit.” The man and woman already were like The Most High; but by following the advice of hasatan they were destroyed. Their potential to be like The Most High was clogged up right then when they failed—it was capped off.

The Most High’S HOLDING BACK ON YOU
Hasatan continued to work his art of deception when he said, “The Most High is hiding something from you.” He destroyed Adam and Eve’s concept of The Most High. To the man and the woman, The Most High became Someone who was holding back on them. Haatan said, “The Most High doesn’t want you to know what He knows.” What do you mean The Most High didn’t want Adam and Eve to know what He knew? Adam and Eve were born related in spirit with The Most High. The Most High created them to know Him. Thus, hasatan stole both man’s potential to be like The Most High and his understanding of The Most High.

AREN’T YOU UGLY!
The deceiver also distorted man’s self-concept. He said to them: “Look at you. You are naked.” So the man and woman felt bad about themselves and they put on clothes. They tried to cover up their bodies. Ever since that day, we have become professional “cover-ups.” We don’t like ourselves. We don’t like our physical bodies. Yuk! I don’t like how skinny I am…how fat I am…how my hair grows…how my eyes are…how my lips are. I don’t like my black, brown, red, yellow, or white skin. So we try to cover up what we don’t like. It is strange how we work on things. If our hair is curly, we straighten it. If our skin is too pale, we get a tan. We don’t like what we are. Nobody is satisfied with themselves. We all walk around saying, “Why do you want to be like me? I want to be like you.” We have become professional “cover-ups.” This attitude is from the devil. We can’t just be ourselves because hasatan has destroyed our appreciation of what The Most High made. Our potential has been distorted so that we don’t want to be black or tall or fat. We don’t want to have curly hair or fat lips or small eyes. We have accepted hasatan’s ploy to destroy our esteem for the beautiful creation The Most High made us to be. Hasatan, who comes to destroy everything The Most High created, has destroyed our concepts of ourselves. Because we do not like ourselves, we do all kinds of dumb things. If you love yourself, you are not going to lower your standards. You will not sell yourself to anybody. You won’t allow anybody to buy you—you are too expensive.

COME ON—GET SMART!
Hasatan also came to destroy our real intelligence. In the garden a strange word is used in the Hebrew to talk about knowing. The Bible says Adam and Eve knew that they were naked (Genesis 3:7). Knew means they “became physically—or sensually—aware.” Their senses suddenly took on leadership. Thus the soul became alive without the spirit directing it. Man began to live from the outside, instead of the inside. Adam and Eve became aware of their nakedness. They became aware of the leaves that could be used to cover themselves. They became conscious of shame and fear—the things that come from the outside, from the intellect. Hasatan destroyed man’s true intelligence, which is a spiritual relationship with The Most High. When we are connected with The Most High, our spirits can know anything. That’s why the knowledge The Most High communicates is not learned. It is discerned. The knowledge of The Most High isn’t found in any book; it’s a deeper knowledge. Your real intelligence is not studied; it is discerned. Wow! Your real intelligence is not studied; it is discerned. When man lost his relationship with The Most High, he became a victim of education. He began to look to books and movies and the words of others—what he can see, hear, taste, feel, and touch—to gain knowledge. Those things became our sources of information. When hasatan destroyed our real intelligence, we looked outside ourselves to find knowledge.

YOU’LL NEVER BE ANYTHING
By destroying our relationship with The Most High, hasatan capped off our life potential. He continually destroys any possibility that we might become more than we already are: He puts teachers in our classrooms to call us stupid. He sends brothers and sisters to call us dumb and “no good.” He gives us parents who tell us, “You’ll never be anything.” Hasatan sets us up. He anoints your mother to call you a bastard. He sets her up to cap off what you are. Hasatan chops up your self-confidence and slams the door on your potential by convincing you that you are nothing: “You’ll never rise above your family’s status. You’ll never go beyond where your neighborhood took you. You’ll never be any more than your mom and your pa. You don’t stand a chance.” The devil has been teaching and preaching that to keep us down. He is very skilled at this deceptive art.

WHAT YOU HAVE ISN’T LIFE
But Yeshua came to destroy hasatan’s lies. He came to free us from those things that retard, distort, and short-circuit everything we are capable of being and doing. He said, I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly (John 10:10 NAS). “Okay. That’s fine. I have life now.” “But no, that’s not enough. I came that you may have an abundance of life.” We think life is what we have now. No! In the Greek, the same word is used for abundance as is used for fountain. Yeshua came to take the cap off your well…to unclog the true you…to open up the capacity of who you are and who you can be. We are going to have an oil spill. This thing is going to explode. Yeshua didn’t come just to take off your well cover. He came to start an explosion of water—a potential welling up and never stopping. He said, Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him (John 7:38). …whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:14). Yeshua came so we can have fountains of life. Man, that’s impressive to me! That means until we get saved, we don’t have any life. If you just became a citizen, you are finally getting back to your real self. All you have done for the last ten years that made you think you were somebody is but a trickle. You haven’t changed the world, man. You haven’t changed a man’s life for eternity yet. You haven’t touched a young boy for eternal life yet. You’ve put clothes on the boy’s back, but you haven’t put anything on his spirit. You haven’t done anything yet! But there is a fountain, an abundance of life, welling up in you so you can do and be something. It begins when you return to your Source through Yeshua HaMashiach.

UNCAPPING THE WELL
Hasatan is the destroyer who comes to kill and steal and destroy. No one in the world stifles and clogs up and caps your potential like the devil does. He comes with a scheme to make you believe you can be nothing more than you have already seen. Yeshua came to destroy this scheme. He came to unclog you and show you your true self. He’s the best destroyer I know. I love this destroyer. First John 3:8 says that Yeshua came into the world to destroy the works of the devil. The work of the devil is to kill and steal and destroy—he delights in capping off our potential. The work of Yeshua is to tear off the cap—opening up what hasatan closed. Yeshua came to do exactly the opposite of what hasatan has done. Yeshua came, not to convince The Most High of anything, but to convince us about who we really are. His job is to put us back in touch with what The Most High put within us at birth. Yeshua came, not to convince The Most High of anything, but to convince us about who we really are. What does it mean to destroy the works of the devil? How does Yeshua do His job? Yeshua reverses what hasatan has done. Whatever Yeshua undoes, hasatan did. Whatever works Yeshua does, hasatan undid it first. For example, when Yeshua took sickness from a person’s body, He undid the works of the devil. Thus the work of the devil was to put the sickness into that body. When Yeshua took away our sins, He destroyed the devil’s work of convincing us to sin. If Yeshua fed hungry people, then it must mean that hasatan brings poverty and hunger. If Yeshua opened the eyes of the blind, then hasatan must close them. Yeshua came to destroy the works of the devil. Whatever He did destroyed haprevious works. Thus when Yeshua says, “Everything is possible if you’ll just believe” (Mark 9:23), He is reversing the lies hasatan has fed us. Yeshua came to destroy hasatan’s destruction.

THE CAP AND THE CROWBAR
Hasatan tells you that you aren’t going to amount to anything: “You aren’t going to be anything…you can’t do anything…you will always be what you now are.” Yeshua comes to undo that. He says, “You can be anything you think.” Yeshua rips the top right off your capped well. He says, “Go ahead, gush forth.” Thus, a tremendous struggle between two destroyers goes on within us—one destroyer uses a cap, the other a crowbar. Every time the one with the crowbar yanks the top off, the other guy runs around with the cap. The minute we give him a chance, he covers us up again. The struggle is continual. Each day we experience the tension. Yeshua says, “You are saved.” Hasatan says, “You aren’t saved.” Yeshua says, “You are healed.” Hasatan says, “But you still feel the pain.” Yeshua says, “You are free from drugs.” Hasatan says, “You are hooked for life.” Yeshua came to reverse what the devil has done. The devil came to destroy our potential. He distorts, retards, short-circuits and caps off that which The Most High has placed within us. He uses sin to clog up our potential capacity.

WHAT’S CLOGGING YOUR WELL?
Are there things in your life that have been holding you back from the things you should be doing? Are you a potential leader in your community but you’re full of alcohol and you’re lying in the gutter? Has cocaine stolen your potential to be the top student in your class? Is your brain all messed up so you can’t even think any more? Are you in danger of being kicked out of school though you were an A student before you took the stuff? Have you run off with a dumb guy and gotten pregnant? Do you have to drop-out of school and give up your visions of becoming a doctor or a lawyer, a scientist or an agricultural expert? Has sin clogged up your potential? Did you have a business that was going well, with limitless potential, until somebody said to you, “I want you to sell some drugs for me. You’ll make a lot more than you do in this business”? So you became greedy. You went ahead and sold the drugs—only you were caught and now you have a record and your business is destroyed. Sin clogs our potential. It messes up the plan The Most High has for each of our lives. It takes away the “And they lived happily ever after” and replaces it with “And they struggled but didn’t make it through the day.” Don’t let that be the last chapter in the book The Most High has written on you. The Most High sent Yeshua to die for you, not for Himself. Yeshua knows His potential. He doesn’t need to find out what it is. The Most High doesn’t have any problem with His potential. He is omnipotent. The problem is that you don’t know your potential. You have been destroyed by the devil, and sin is stunting your growth. Sin clogs up our potential. It messes up the plan The Most High has for each of our lives. Yeshua came, not to die for Himself, but for you, so you could be reconnected with the Source of Life. For this reason Yeshua came into the world—to destroy the works of the devil that are holding you down. Yeshua came to uncap your well. He gave His life to restore your relationship with The Most High—to give you abundant, flowing, gushing life.


PRINCIPLES

1. Hasatan destroyed man’s potential to be like his Creator.
2. Hasatan distorted man’s self-concept—his esteem for the beautiful creation God made him to be.
3. Hasatan destroyed man’s true intelligence, which is a spiritual relationship with God.
4. When satan crippled man’s real intelligence, man looked outside himself to find knowledge.
5. Sin clogs our potential. Jesus came to bring us abundant, refreshing new life.



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We Have His Hope!!

Colossians 1

We are walking in today:  We Have His Hope!!

Witness hope throughout the Bible:  H8615 tiqvah--hope, expectation; things hoped for, outcome

Ruth 1:12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, H8615 if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

The Torah testifies...............

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The prophets proclaim..................

Zechariah 9:12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: H8615 even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

The writings bear witness...........................

Psalm 71:5 For thou art my hope, H8615 O Lord The Most High: thou art my trust from my youth.

Jeremiah 31:17 And there is hope H8615 in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment. Or to put it another way: Some people are thermometers. They conform completely to their environment. Their behavior is definitely determined from without. Other people are thermostats. Instead of allowing their environment to control them, they determine the environment. Everyone must come to the conclusion that success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done. It is simply coming up to the level of our best, making the most of our abilities and possibilities.

MANY LOOK, FEW SEE…

Who you are is related to where you came from.

A Sculptor works in a very interesting way. I’m an artist of sorts, so I have a bit of an understanding how artists work. One thing I have learned is that you never argue with an artist until he finished. Don’t discuss anything with a painter or a sculptor until his work is completed. An artist can be very rude if you disturb him before he has accomplished what he intends to do, because he sees differently than those who are not artist.

An artist can walk by the stone in you front yard and see a figure in it. He may stop by your house and beg you for a stone you have walked past many times without noticing. The dogs may have been doing stuff on it. You may even have been planning to get rid of it because it is a nuisance. But the artist walks into your yard and sees something beautiful in that stone beyond what you can imagine.

Two months later when the artist invites you to his workshop he says, “Do you see that? Do you know where that came from?” “England or France?” you ask. “No,” says the artist. “It came from your yard.” “Do you mean…?” “Yes.” “Five hundred dollars, please.” You were sitting on $500. The dogs were doing stuff on $500. But you couldn’t see the potential in the rock.

YOU ARE NOT JUNK

There are many people who are being passed by because others don’t see what is in them. But The Most High has shown me what’s in me, and I know it is in you too. My job is to stop you and say: “Can you see what’s in you? Do you know your potential? Do you know that you are not just someone born in a ghetto over the hill? There’s a wealth of potential in you.”

A sculptor sees so differently. They say Michelangelo used to walk around a block of marble for days—just walking around it, talking to himself. First he would see things in the rock; then he would go and take them out.

Insight like that of a sculptor is seen in the Bible. When the world dumps and rejects you, and you land on the garbage heap of the world, The Most High walks along and picks you up. He looks deep within you and sees a person of great worth.

Don’t ever let anybody throw you away. You are not junk. When The Most High looks at you, He sees things that everybody else ignores. You are worth so much that Yeshua went to Calvary to salvage and reclaim you. The Spirit of The Most High connected to your spirit is the only true judge of your worth. Don’t accept the opinions of others because they do not see what The Most High sees.

The Most High LOOKED AND SAW

The Most High looked at Adam and saw a world. He looked at Abraham and saw nations. In Jacob, a deceiver, He saw a Messiah. In Moses the murderer, The Most High saw a deliverer. Can you imagine looking at a stammering young man and seeing the greatest leader in history?

The Most High saw a king in a shepherd boy. When the Israelites wanted a king, The Most High sent Samuel to the home of Jesse. When Jesse heard why Samuel was there, he dressed up all his sons—the handsome one, the tall one, the curly-haired one, the strong one, the muscular one. All the sons of Jesse twirled out before Samuel, from the greatest to the least. With his vase of anointing oil, Samuel watched Jesse’s show as he presented his sons: “This is my intelligent son who graduated from the University of I Don’t Know What.” After the guy gave a speech, Samuel said, “No.” The next son came out dressed like Pat Paulson and The Most High said, “No.” A third son gave a nice speech about philosophy and again The Most High said, “No.” Finally, after Jesse had paraded all of his sons before him, Samuel said, “I’m sorry. None of these is The Most High’s choice for king. Do you have any other sons?”

Then Jesse said, “Yes…well no. I just remembered. I do have a little boy, my youngest son. He’s just a little runt who’s out taking care of the sheep. He’s not dressed up like my other sons, nor have his hands been manicured and his body scented with perfumes from the East. This guy’s really smelly because he’s been out with the sheep for quite some time.”

“Bring him,” Samuel replied. “Let me look at him.”

So Jesse sent for his youngest son. When Samuel saw Jesse’s youngest son walk into the house, a little boy, he began to unscrew the lid of his vase. “I think I have found the guy I’m looking for,” Samuel said. (Notice that The Most High chose the son who was out working. He was busy. The Most High chooses busy people.)

Most of us are like Jesse. We look, but we don’t see. Were you the black sheep in your family? (You know The Most High likes sheep.) Has your family told you that you are a nobody? Have you been put off and put out and told so many times that you will amount to nothing that you have begun to believe it? Do you feel like the black sheep?

You are probably the one The Most High is waiting for in the house. The Most High sees things deep within you that others can’t see. They look at you and see a nobody; The Most High looks at you and sees a worthwhile somebody. You may spend your whole life competing with others—trying to prove that you are somebody—and still feel like nobody. Be free from that today! You do not have to live with that any longer. You don’t have to try to be somebody, because you are somebody.

YOU CAME OUT OF THE MOST HIGH

When The Most High created the heavens and the earth, He first decided what He wanted to make something out of and then He spoke to that source. When The Most High wanted plants He spoke to the dirt. When The Most High wanted fish He spoke to the waters. When The Most High wanted animals He spoke to the ground. Whatever The Most High spoke to, became the source from which the created thing came.

Plants thus came from the dirt, fish from the water and animals from the ground. Furthermore, plants return to the dirt, fish return to the sea and animals return to the ground when they die.

All things have the same components and essence as their source. What The Most High created is, in essence, like the substance from which it came. That means plants are 100 percent dirt because they came from dirt. Animals are 100 percent dirt because they came from the ground. If we would take an animal apart, we would come up with genuine dirt. If we would put a plant under a microscope and decipher all the different components, we would find that everything in that plant is in dirt, because the plant is dirt. The Most High called it from the dirt.

Not only are all things composed of that from which they came, they must also remain attached to that source in order to live. All things must be maintained and sustained by where they came from. The minute a plant decides it doesn’t like the earth anymore, it dies. The minute the fish decide they are tired of water, they die. The minute animals decide, “We don’t want to eat any more dirt,” they begin to die.

Thus, whatever The Most High created came from that to which He spoke. All things were created by The Most High’s word to a source. The source of the creation also becomes, then, the essence of that creation. All things are composed of whatever they came from and hence contain the potential of that source. That means plants only have the potential of the soil. Animals only have the potential of dirt.

All things are composed of whatever they came from and hence contain the potential of that source.

When The Most High wanted fish, He spoke to the water. When He wanted animals, He spoke to the dirt. When The Most High created human beings, He spoke to Himself. Then The Most High said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness…” So The Most High created man in His own image, in the image of The Most High He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:26-27). The Most High created you by speaking to Himself. You came out of The Most High and thus bear His image and likeness.

LOOK AT THE INVENTOR, NOT THE INVENTION

Never use the creation to find out who you are, because the purpose of something is only in the mind of the One who made it. That is one of the reasons why The Most High has a tremendous problem with idol worship. How can you identify your ability by worshipping a snake? How can you find out your worth by believing that you will come back as a rat or a roach? How dare you believe that your purpose for existence can be discovered in a relationship with a wooden statue? You will never know yourself by relating to the creation, only to the Creator. The key to understanding life is in the source of life, not in the life itself.

Many of the inventions man has produced would be misunderstood if only the invention were considered and not the intention of the inventor. In other words, the man who created the refrigerator had in his mind what it was supposed to be used for. He did not intend that it should be used for a trap in the backyard for a kid to be locked in and die from suffocation. Even though thousands of children have died in refrigerators, that was not the inventor’s intention.

The automobile is tearing out lampposts all over the world and destroying people’s homes and lives. But Mr. Ford, who first developed the assembly line to mass produce the automobile, never thought about it that way. He was thinking about transporting people and helping the human race to become a mobile community. He started us to thinking about trolleys and trains and buses. The many people who died through accidents and derailments were not part of his intention. They were not in his mind when he designed his famous T. Ford automobile.

YOU HAVE PART OF The Most High

You will never discover who you were meant to be if you use another person to find yourself. You will never know what you can do by using what I’ve done to measure your ability. You will never know why you exist if you use my existence to measure it. All you will see is what I’ve done or who I am. If you want to know who you are, look at The Most High. The key to understanding life is in the source of life, not in the life itself. You are who you are because The Most High took you out of Himself. If you want to know who you are, you must look at the Creator, not the creation.

There are three words we use to describe The Most High. First, The Most High is omniscient—which means He is all knowing. Second, The Most High is omnipresent— which means The Most High is present everywhere. Third, The Most High is omnipotent—which means The Most High is always potent. The Most High is always full of power—He has in Him the potential for everything. From the beginning, The Most High gave that same ability to be potent to all His creation. He planted within each person or thing He created—including you—the ability to be much more than it is at any one moment. Thus The Most High created you to be omnipotent.

That is not to say we are equal to The Most High. No. What I am saying is that the word omnipotent relates not only to The Most High, but to us as well. We are always full of potential. Our potential is the dormant ability, reserved power, untapped strength and unused success The Most High designed into each of us. What I see when I look at you is not all you are. It is only what you have become so far. Your potential is much greater than what you are right now. What you will become is much more than we could ever believe now. You are somebody because you came out of The Most High, and He leaked some of Himself into you.

The Most High PRONOUNCES WHAT HE SEES

How you feel or what others say about you is not important. You are who The Most High says you are; He sees in you more than you can possibly imagine. Your potential is limited only by The Most High, not others.

Coward or Warrior?

The Most High came to a frightened young man named Gideon. Gideon obviously thought The Most High was talking to someone else when the angel of the Lord called him a mighty warrior (Judges 6:12). The angel didn’t say, “Oh, coward. Do you know you have strength?” Nor did the angel say, “Oh black man, do you know that you can be like the white man?” The angel just came in and announced what he saw: “Oh mighty man of war power.” That means “Oh great warrior.” Think about it. Warrior? Gideon was hiding from the enemy trying to separate some wheat from the chaff so he wouldn’t starve. He was doing it underground so no one could see him. When the angel said,“You are a brave man,” Gideon started looking around to see who the angel was talking to. The Most High never tells us what others see. He never calls us what others call us. Gideon thought he was a coward. The Most High knew him to be a great warrior and pronounced what He saw.

Flaky, Flaky

The Most High also saw in Peter what others failed to see. His given name was Simon, which means meek. (Literally it means “unstable, flaky, leaf.”) When Yeshua met Simon, he was the flakiest, leafiest man you ever met. He was always going with the wind—changing his mind. But The Most High saw a stone in the leaf. The first time Yeshua met Peter, He changed Peter’s name from Simon (leaf) to Peter (stone). Although Simon was an unstable guy, Yeshua said, “I’m going to change your name. Your name is Peter.” Peter acted like a leaf throughout Yeshua’ earthly ministry. Still Yeshua called him rock every morning. Yeshua saw in Peter something his mother had not seen. He kept chipping until finally, at Pentecost, Peter’s true nature was revealed.

STOP BELIEVING WHAT OTHERS SAY

Too often we believe the lies we are told. We believe that we are “no good” and worthless. Yeshua says, “Not so. I came to show you that you are more than you think you are.” You are the image of The Most High.

The Most High always sees what men and women only look at. In a manger, The Most High saw a King…in a servant, a Savior…in a sacrifice, salvation…in a crucifixion, a resurrection. In death, The Most High was working at life; in defeat, He was looking at victory. What you or I, or your country or my country, looks like is not what The Most High sees. The Most High looks beyond the surface to the potential deep within. That is The Most High’s way of thinking about everything. Beyond the immediate troubles The Most High sees success, and He continues to call it forth until what He sees becomes reality.

Remember that the seed of every tree is in the fruit of the tree. That means the blessings of the Third World nations are in the Third World nations, and the prosperity of America is in America. When we become concerned about our individual lives or the corporate life of our countries, we come up with all kinds of schemes and plans to solve the problem. But the answer is not in a multitude of systems and programs. The answer is right inside of us. It’s our attitudes that make the difference. No one can make you rowdy or careless or thoughtless. You are rowdy and careless and thoughtless because you choose to be. So stop it! Stop being rowdy…stop being careless…stop being thoughtless. Only you can control how you act. You’ve got the potential to be considerate and sensitive.

The Most High saw in Peter something that Peter had never seen in himself. Peter was so busy agreeing with what others called him that he missed his true potential. When we start believing what others call us, we are in big trouble. Then we throw our hands up in despair and refuse to try. People call us lazy, so we become lazy. People call us careless or stupid or clumsy, so we become careless or stupid or clumsy. Watch it! What others look at is not important. Who we are depends on what we see.

Do you believe you could walk into a prison and meet some of the greatest men and women in the world? Can you think that way? They made a mistake. They made a misjudgment. They made poor decisions. But that doesn’t invalidate their potential. It doesn’t destroy who they can be. In that jail there may be a murderer on death row. But when The Most High looks at that person, He doesn’t see a murderer; He sees an author or a leader or a great world changer.

Many times The Most High is in disagreement with the people closest to you. He may even be in disagreement with you, because the only person The Most High agrees with is Himself—only He knows your true potential. Have you failed? Go to The Most High. He’ll call you “success” and keep calling you “success” until you feel it. That’s what Yeshua did for Peter.

WHAT DOES The Most High SEE IN YOU?

I wonder what The Most High sees as He walks around you. I’m sure He sees beautiful things in you, but you are believing what other people are saying. People say: “You are no good. You’ll never be somebody.” But The Most High is saying: “I see a jewel.” We are diamonds in the rough. Just keep on believing that. Keep on moving forward to your goal. Remember that there is something in you more precious than what others have said about you. The sculptor never gives up until he gets out of the rock what he sees.

There is something in you more precious than what others have said about you.

I have a piece of wooden sculpture in my home that I did about 15 years ago. The sculpture isn’t what I intended it to be because as I was chiseling out the image that I had seen in the tree, part of it was knocked off by too much pressure. Because that part dropped off, I could no longer create the image that I had intended. So I looked at the piece of wood again. I walked around it thinking, “I’ve gotta change my concept a little.” I had to rethink how to retain the beauty of the sculpture though I had lost an important part of the wood.

Eventually, I modified my design. But I am the only person who knows that piece of sculpture was made from a modified design. The modification is not evident in the finished form. If I showed you the piece, you wouldn’t even notice what I’m talking about. People have admired that piece of wood for many years. They look at it and say, “Wow! This is beautiful.” And I never tell them that what they see is not what they were originally supposed to see.

That piece of sculpture sitting in my home reminds me of your life and mine. Parts of our lives have been knocked off by our past. We’ve done some dumb things that have messed up the beauty The Most High intended. But look what The Most High has done. He’s saved us. Instead of discarding us because we have not turned out like He intended us to be, He has taken us—including our marred and chipped and rusted and knocked off past—and formed us into something beautiful. When people see us now, they won’t believe what we used to be. And The Most High will never tell them. Hallelujah! When people look at you and think you are the best thing that ever came down the pike, don’t tell them what you used to be. Just say, “Thank you very much. The Chief Sculptor had His hands on me.” The Most High can bring beauty out of your mistakes. He can take what you have messed up and bless it up. He can take the thing that seemed impossible to you and form it into something beautiful.

In every piece of stone a sculptor sees a figure. But we never see it until he takes it out. Whereas we may see only an old stump of a tree on the side of the road, a wood sculptor sees a beautiful piece that we would pay thousands of dollars to own. What looks like garbage to the non artistic person is a treasure to the artist.

CHRIST IS IN YOU

I wonder what The Most High sees when He looks at you. I believe He sees Christ. When The Most High looks at you, He does not see you. He sees Christ. Paul, when writing to the Colossian church, proclaimed that The Most High had chosen to make known a mystery.

To them The Most High has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27).

The mystery is that Christ is in you. That is your hope of glory. This suggests, then, that our task is not to get Christ into us, but out of us. Please get this into your minds. What The Most High sees when He looks at you is Christ.

Our task is not to get Christ into us, but out of us.

Most of us want to be like Yeshua. That’s not what The Most High wants. The Most High wants us to be like Christ. Yeshua came to show us what Christ looks like when He takes on human form. But it is Christ that The Most High’s looking at.

The Most High sees Christ in you. That’s the hope of glory—Christ in you. Let me explain.

Christ is the image of The Most High. The word image does not mean “a statue of something.” It means “the essence of the being.” Christ is the image of The Most High. That means when The Most High created you, He created you in His image, and His image is Christ. That’s why the Bible never calls us the Body of Yeshua. Yeshua was the human manifestation of the heavenly Christ. We humans on earth, with all our fallibilities and weaknesses—The Most High pronounces on us: “You are the body of Christ.”

In other words, Christ is in us somewhere. Christ is in me. Christ is in you. The Most High knows He is there. His image is there. So The Most High called us Christ.

If we go to The Most High and say, “The Most High, please introduce me to your people,” The Most High will say, “Sure. Here is Christ.” But we’ll say, “No. No. No. I want to meet Christ,” to which The Most High will reply, “Sure. Here’s Christ” as He shows us the Church. When we want to meet Christ, The Most High will show us the Church. But we can’t accept this because we think Christ is in heaven. No, He isn’t. Yeshua is in heaven. Christ is sitting in your clothes, living in the body of the believer. Christ is the essence of The Most High—He’s The Most High Himself.

The Most High intended for you to be created in His image. Although you may say, “I want to be like Yeshua,” The Most High says, “There’s something deeper.” You were lost and Yeshua came to bring you back. The Most High sent Yeshua so you could see yourself.

The Most High already knows who He is—He doesn’t need your praise to make Him feel like The Most High. The Most High doesn’t need you to tell Him how great He is—He knew it before you ever thought of praising Him. The Most High wants you to know who you are—who you were supposed to look like. He’s after the real person buried under the cap of your sin. Your IQ doesn’t measure who you are, The Most High does. Your true IQ is spelled H-O-L-Y S-P-I-R-I-T, because you have what The Most High is. Christ is in you. That’s who you are.

PRINCIPLES

All things have the same components and essence as their source.

When The Most High created human beings, He spoke to Himself.

You will never know yourself by relating to the creation, only to the Creator.

Your potential is much greater than what you are right now.

Your potential is limited only by The Most High, not others.

The Most High sees Christ in you.

Shema Selah, do you know Who you have inside of you?!? His Hope, Yeshua HaMachiach!!!

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The Potential of a Thing Is In It's Source!!

John 1

We are walking today:  The Potential of a Thing Is In It's Source!!

Witness bear throughout the Bible:  H3205 yalad--to bear, bring forth, beget; to be born; to show lineage

Genesis 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born H3205 unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? H3205

The Torah testifies...............
 Genesis 29:35 And she conceived again, and bare H3205 a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing. H3205

The prophets proclaim..................
 Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear H3205 a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Judges 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest H3205 not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear H3205 a son.

Genesis 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear H3205 unto thee at this set time in the next year.

The potential of a Thing is Related to its Source

Everything in life was created with potential and possesses the potential principle. Creation abounds with potential because the Creator Himself is the potential principle. When we describe The Most High, we often say He is omnipotent. Omnipotent means that The Most High is always potent. Made up of two words: omni, meaning “always,” and potent, meaning “full of power,” omnipotent means that The Most High is potentially everything. He has within Him the potential for all that is, was, or ever will be. He is omnipotent or omnipotent.

EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE MOST HIGH
Everything that was, and everything that is, was in The Most High. That’s a very important concept. Everything that was and is, was in The Most High. We have to start with The Most High. Before The Most High made anything, before He created things, there was only The Most High. So before anything was, The Most High is. The Most High is the root, or source, of all life.

Before anything was, The Most High is.

Before there was time, time was—but it was in The Most High. Before The Most High created a galaxy or the Milky Way, they existed. Before there was a universe or a planetary system with the third planet called earth revolving around the sun—before any of that was—they were. I wonder what it must have been like when The Most High was just by Himself. Let’s try to imagine that for a bit. Here’s The Most High. He steps out on nothing to view nothing, for there was nothing except The Most High. And so The Most High is standing on top of nothing, looking at nothing because everything was in Him.

IN GOD WAS THE BEGINNING
The Bible tells us: “In the beginning, The Most High…” That means before there was a beginning, there was The Most High. Therefore, The Most High began the beginning and verse 0 of the first chapter of Genesis might possibly read: In The Most High was the beginning. Everything that is was in The Most High. Everything that has ever been made was made by The Most High. When we connect Genesis 1:0—in The Most High was the beginning—and John 1:1—in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with The Most High…He was with The Most High in the beginning—we see that the Word was with The Most High in the beginning, not at the beginning.

Before there was a beginning, there was The Most High. Everything that is was in The Most High. The Gospel of John also tells us that all things were made by the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with The Most High, and the Word was The Most High. He was with The Most High in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life… (John 1:1-4).

Nothing that was created was made without the Word. In the Word was life. Life came out of The Most High. Therefore, before you knew life, life was. All things were made by The Most High. Everything you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch was in The Most High before they came to be. Even what you discern first existed in The Most High. Now let me be a little ridiculous to prove my point. The Most High had roaches and mosquitoes and rats in Him. He had suns and clouds and planets in Him. The cows to make shoe leather…the oil to run our cars…the ore from the mountains to make steel—all these things were in The Most High. Everything on this earth is The Most High’s property. If The Most High would ever call in His property, we would be in big trouble. All things were in The Most High and thus belong to Him. The Most High, in the beginning when there was nothing, contained everything that man has seen. He also contained everything man will ever see. Thus if you had talked to The Most High on the highway of nothingness, you would have been talking to millions of cows and horses and mountains and trees and limousines and hotels and beaches. They all were in The Most High. They were in Him, but nobody saw them. That’s why we call The Most High omnipotent. He’s always full of the potential to bring forth what you see. The Most High is pregnant with the universe. In essence, if you met The Most High on the highway of nothing, by the corner of nowhere, before there was anything, and you shook His hand, you would be shaking hands with everything, but would not know it. You would be with potential.

THE INVISIBLE BECAME VISIBLE
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at The Most High’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible (Hebrews 11:3). The Most High always had everything in Him, but we couldn’t see it. All we now see was once in an invisible state. Everything that man has ever seen first existed in an invisible state. (Please note that invisible does not mean nonexistent.) All the buildings we see and the businesses we frequent—people making money and investing money—all that stuff began as ideas. We couldn’t see them because they were in somebody’s mind. The stores where we shop, also everything on the shelves and racks in those stores, began as ideas in someone’s mind. They didn’t exist before, yet they did. Although they weren’t present in their current form, they existed as lumber and concrete and nails, cotton and wool and flax, steel and pulleys and motors. Someone had an idea. Through work they put their idea into things that are visible. Today they take your money. Everything starts in the invisible state. Everything we now see used to be unseen. In the beginning there was only The Most High. At creation the entire unseen universe became visible. Everything that has been created was made by the word of The Most High. Although it already existed, The Most High spoke so that what was invisible could become visible. You would never have known it existed, except The Most High spat it out in faith. By faith The Most High spat out what was in Him. Everything in Him started to come forth. What we now see was birthed by The Most High from what was invisibly within Him. Whatever you see came from the unseen—nothing exists that was not at some time in The Most High. Thus, faith is not the evidence of things that do not exist. It is the evidence of things that are not yet seen. Everything we see has always been. It became visible when The Most High spoke it into being. The Most High is the source of life.

SPOKE WAS HARD WORK
What happened when The Most High spoke at creation? How did He get the invisible to become visible? First let me broaden your idea of the word spoke. Spoke was a process. What The Most High spoke into visibility began as an idea in His mind. The Most High first conceived in His mind what He wanted to create. He didn’t just say, “I want this.” The prophet Isaiah tells us that The Most High created the earth by first planning its foundations (Isaiah 48:13). After the plans were in His mind, The Most High spoke them into existence. When The Most High was ready to speak, it was just a matter of taking what was in the plan and putting it on the site.

SPOKE WAS A PROCESS
The Most High laid the groundwork for the earth and spread out the heavens. He created the sun to shine during the day and the moon and stars at night. He gave every star a name. He ordered clouds to fill the sky and breezes to blow. He made the waves to roar in the sea. He sent rain to water the earth and grass to cover the hillside. Thunder and lightning were created by His command; hail and sleet were formed by His word. A wool-like blanket of snow He produced for winter; frost and dew He designed. The Most High was full of imagination. He was pregnant with many thoughts. His thoughts became ideas, and the ideas became images. Everything that is came out of The Most High as He spoke those images. The unseen became seen—the invisible became visible. The Most High’s speaking was much like the contractions of a woman in labor. With effort He pushed out each detailed creation. Then The Most High began organizing the things that appeared. He was busy as He set them up, organizing and organizing and reorganizing. Finally The Most High said, “This is good.” The Most High didn’t create the world by just thinking the whole thing into being. He worked it into being. After creating a plan in His mind, The Most High spoke to make visible the invisible. (Speaking was one of the ways He worked.) All that was made came from The Most High. Through work He created the world. For six days The Most High created the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day He rested. By the seventh day The Most High had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And The Most High blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done (Genesis 2:2-3). Spoke must be a fairly serious thing. If The Most High, who is almighty and all powerful, had to rest after creation, spoke it must have been very hard work. When creation was completed, The Most High rested. The Most High was the first one to sabbat—He intended the Sabbath to be a blessing. He knows that life produces work, and work creates the need to rest.

THE WORK OF CREATION IS NOT YET COMPLETE
The work of The Most High is not complete—He has not delivered all His babies. He will keep on delivering as long as you deliver, because you are the continuation of His deliveries. The Most High can still create. When you ask for something in prayer, The Most High doesn’t have to shift things around because He is going broke. If it doesn’t exist in a visible form, The Most High will speak it. He’ll make whatever is necessary. He continues to be pregnant with many things. Because all things are in The Most High, you can ask The Most High for anything. An idea is around in The Most High a long time before it comes out. Nothing we think or do is new (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Everything that has been done will be done again—what we think is new has already been here for a long time.

NOTHING WE THINK OR DO IS NEW
There’s a guy in China right now who is thinking about the idea you thought was yours. When the idea came out of The Most High, many people got it. Because everything comes out of The Most High, you all received the idea from the same Source. Until that idea is transformed by action, The Most High will continue to leak that idea into men and women. Why? Because The Most High is a The Most High of potential. Although He is the source of all things, He shares His omnipotent powers with His creation. We, like The Most High, are pregnant with many things. We are full of imagination, having the potential power to be more than we visibly are. There are dreams, visions, plans and ideas in us that need to be released. The Most High wants us to tap His power and use it, because The Most High made us with potential.

PRINCIPLES
Everything that was and is, was in The Most High.
The Most High is the Source of all potential.
All things were formed at The Most High’s command so the invisible became visible.
The Most High planned the world in His mind before speaking it into existence.

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It Is Time To Cultivate Your Potential!!!

2 Corinthians chapter 4

We are walking in today:  It Is Time To Cultivate Your Potential!!!

Witness sow throughout the Bible: H2232 zara` --producing, yielding seed; to be sown; to become pregnant, be made pregnant; cultivate

Gen 26:12 Then Isaac sowed H2232 in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

The Torah testifies...............
 Genesis 47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow H2232 the land.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Hosea 10:12 Sow H2232 to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Psalm 97:11 Light is sown H2232 for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Zechariah 10:9 And I will sow H2232 them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.


This morning I would like to ask you the following questions:

Who am I?
Why am I here?
How much potential do I have?
What am I capable of doing?
By what criteria should I measure my ability?
Who sets the standards?
By what process can I maximize my ability?
What are my limitations?


Within the answers to these questions lies the key to a fulfilled, effective life. One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped. Many potentially great men and women never realize their potential because they do not understand the nature and concept of the potential principle. As God has revealed to me the nature of potential, I have received a burden to teach others what I have learned. There’s a wealth of potential in you. I know, because God has shown me the vast store He placed in me. My purpose is to help you understand that potential and get it out. You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. You are more than what you have done.

Introduction
The brilliant summer sun poured its liquid heat on the windswept island of the Caribbean paradise as the old village sculptor made his way to his humble home outside the village center. On his way he passed by the great white mansion of the plantation owner who, with his field workers, was felling one of the age-old trees that for generations had provided protection from the scorching sun. The old sculptor suddenly stopped and, with a twinkle in his eyes, called over the wall with a note of interest, “What will you do with those discarded stumps of wood?” The owner replied, “These are good for nothing but firewood. I have no use for this junk.” The old sculptor begged for a piece of the “junk” wood and with care lifted the knotted tree trunk to his shoulders. With a smile of gratitude, he staggered into the distance carrying his burdensome treasure. After entering his cottage, the old man placed the jagged piece of tree in the center of the floor. Then, in a seemingly mysterious and ceremonious manner, he walked around what the plantation owner had called “useless junk.” As the old man picked up his hammer and chisel, a strange smile pierced his leathered face. Attacking the wood, he worked as though under a mandate to set something free from the gnarled, weathered trunk. The following morning, the sun found the sculptor asleep on the floor of his cottage, clutching a beautifully sculptured bird. He had freed the bird from the bondage of the junk wood. Later he placed the bird on the railing of his front porch and forgot it. Weeks later the plantation owner came by to visit. When he saw the bird, he asked to buy it—offering whatever price the sculptor might name. Satisfied that he had made an excellent bargain, the gentleman walked away, hugging to his breast with great pride the newly acquired treasure. The old sculptor, sitting on the steps of his simple cottage, counted his spoil and thought, “Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.”

Today there are many individuals whose lives are like the old tree. Trapped within them is a beautiful bird of potential that may never fly. Society, like the plantation owner, sees nothing in them but a useless, worthless person on his way to the garbage heap of life. But we must remember that one man’s junk is another man’s jewel. Scientists in the field of human potential have estimated that we use as little as ten percent of our abilities. Ninety percent of our capabilities lie dormant and wasted. It is sad that we use only a small part of our abilities and talents. Most of us have no idea how much talent and potential we possess.

Everything in life was created with potential and possesses the potential principle. In every seed there is a tree…in every bird a flock…in every fish a school…in every sheep a flock… in every cow a herd…in every boy a man…in every girl a woman…in every nation a generation. Tragedy strikes when a tree dies in a seed, a man in a boy, a woman in a girl, an idea in a mind. For untold millions, visions die unseen, songs die unsung, plans die un-executed and futures die buried in the past. The problems of our world go unanswered because potential remains buried.

The Bible tells a story about talents and potential. The talents in the story are symbols of the vast store of abilities our Creator has planted within us. In the story, the master of the estate entrusts some of his wealth to three of his servants. The first man invests his talent and doubles the wealth the master had entrusted to his care. The second servant also doubles what the master had given him. With them the master is very pleased. Finally the master turns to the third servant and asks, “What have you done with your talent?” The servant answered, “I was afraid to misuse the talent, so I carefully hid it. Here it is. I am giving it back to you in the same condition that I received it.” In fury the master rebuked his servant, “You wicked and lazy servant. How dare you not use the gifts I gave to you?” The master then said, “Take my money from him and throw this useless fellow into the street.”

We are responsible for the potential stored within us. We must learn to understand it and effectively use it. Too often our successes prevent us from seeking that which yet lies within us. Success becomes our enemy as we settle for what we have. Refuse to be satisfied with your last accomplishment, because potential never has a retirement plan. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. In essence, what you see is not all there is.


CHAPTER 1
Everything in Life Has Potential All men are sent to the world with limitless credit, but few draw to their full extent. It is a tragedy to know that with over five billion people on this planet today, only a minute percentage will experience a significant fraction of their true potential. Perhaps you are a candidate for contributing to the wealth of the cemetery. Your potential was not given for you to deposit in the grave. You must understand the tremendous potential you possess and commit yourself to maximizing it in your short lifetime. What is potential, anyway?


POTENTIAL DEFINED
Potential is…dormant ability…reserved power…untapped strength… unused success…hidden talents…capped capability. All you can be but have not yet become…all you can do but have not yet done…how far you can reach but have not yet reached…what you can accomplish but have not yet accomplished. Potential is unexposed ability and latent power. Potential is therefore not what you have done, but what you are yet able to do. In other words, what you have done is no longer your potential. What you have successfully accomplished is no longer potential. It is said that unless you do something beyond what you have done, you will never grow or experience your full potential. Potential demands that you never settle for what you have accomplished. One of the great enemies of your potential is success. In order to realize your full potential, you must never be satisfied with your last accomplishment. It is also important that you never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life that never realized its full potential. You must decide today not to rob the world of the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. Potential never has a retirement plan.


THE POTENTIAL PRINCIPLE
To simplify this concept let us look at one of the most powerful elements in nature…the seed. If I held a seed in my hand and asked you, “What do I have in my hand?” what would you say? Perhaps you would answer what seems to be the obvious…a seed. However, if you understand the nature of a seed, your answer would be fact but not truth. The truth is I hold a forest in my hand. Why? Because in every seed there is a tree, and in every tree there is fruit or flowers with seeds in them. And these seeds also have trees that have fruit that have seeds…that have trees that have fruit that have seeds, etc. In essence, what you see is not all there is. That is potential. Not what is, but what could be. The Most High created everything with potential, including you. He placed the seed of each thing within itself (Genesis 1:12), and planted within each person or thing He created the ability to be much more than it is at any one moment. Thus, everything in life has potential.


UNDERSTANDING YOUR POTENTIAL--NOTHING IS INSTANT
Nothing in life is instant. People think miracles are instant, but they really are not. They are just a process that has been sped up. Nothing He created is instant, because The Most High does not operate in the instant. He is a God of the potential principle. Everything begins as potential. He did not create a ready-made human race—the earth was not given an instant population. The Most High made one person—not a million people. He started with one seed. Then from that one He created another. Then He said to those seeds, “Bless you (that means, ‘You have My permission’). Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.” In Adam, The Most High gave the earth a seed with the potential of one…one hundred…one thousand…one million…. The five billion people on the earth today were in that one man’s loins. The Most High knew that in Adam and Eve there were enough people to fill the earth. That’s the way He works. He knows the potential principle because He introduced it. It is Him.


DON’T SETTLE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE
Potential is always present, waiting to be exposed. It demands that you never settle for what you have accomplished. One of the greatest enemies of your potential is success. The Most High wants you to maximize the potential He has given to you. You are not yet what you are supposed to be—though you may be pleased with what you now are. Don’t accept your present state in life as final, because it is just that, a state. Don’t be satisfied with your last accomplishment, because there are many accomplishments yet to be perfected. Since you are full of potential, you should not be the same person next year that you are this year. Never accept success as a lifestyle—it is but a phase. Never accept an accomplishment as the end—it is but a mark in the process. Because you are God’s offspring, there are many selves within you that lie dormant, untapped and unused. Your primary problem is that you do not think like The Most High does.


EVERYTHING IN LIFE HAS POTENTIAL
There are many selves within you that lie dormant, untapped and unused. The Most High is always looking for what is not yet visible. He expects to find inside each person and thing He created more than is evident on the outside. On the other hand, man is often satisfied with what he has— or at least if not satisfied, he thinks there is nothing better. Thus he settles for what he has. Therein lies the tragedy of life. The minute we begin to settle down and be satisfied with what we have, we lose the possibility of revealing what is really inside us. Too often we die without exploring the gifts, abilities, and successes that lay hidden within us. Our thoughts, ideas, and possibilities are not used. We fail to realize the vast potential that is stored within us. We are like batteries in a radio that is never played—our potential is wasted.


SUPPOSE…
Suppose Shakespeare had died before he wrote his poems and plays—the potential of Macbeth would have been buried. Suppose Michelangelo had died before he painted the Sistine Chapel or DaVinci the Mona Lisa—the beauty of their paintings would have been lost. Suppose Mozart had died with all that music in his bosom. Or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, write his I have a dream speech, that we would see the 44th president Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States! Suppose Moses had died before he saw the burning bush. What if Paul did not met Yeshua on the Damascus Road…Abraham before Isaac was born. How different the pages of Scripture and history would be. John Wycliffe without translating the Bible into English? How different the history of the Church might have been. Can you imagine how many great works of art, music, and literature are buried in the graveyard near your house? Can you imagine how many solutions to the problems we face today are buried with someone you knew? People die without getting out their full potential. They fail to use all that was stored in them for the benefit of the world.


DON’T DIE WITH MY THINGS!
I wonder what would have happened if your father had died before you were conceived or your mother before you were born. What would the world have lost if you had not been born? What will the world lack because you fail to live out your potential? Will you carry songs, books, inventions, cures, or discoveries to your grave? What would the world have lost if you had not been born? Our teens are committing suicide. I wonder who they were supposed to be and what they were supposed to do that we will never know. Have we lost some great leaders? Was your grandchild’s professor or another Martin Luther King among them? As the time for His crucifixion drew near, Yeshua spoke of the potential principle in terms of His life. He compared Himself to a kernel of wheat that falls into the ground and dies (John 12:23-24). A kernel of wheat, when planted, yields many more kernels. Within Yeshua was the potential to bring millions of people to God. Thank The Most High Herod didn’t succeed when he tried to wipe out Yeshua. If he had, Yeshua would have died before He could offer Himself as our atonement. His great purpose in life would have been wasted. The seed of His life was much more than His disciples could see. That one seed had the potential to give life to many. There was a time early in his ministry when the apostle Paul said, “I’d like to leave.” Though he preferred to die and be with Christ, he knew his purpose in life had not been completely fulfilled. There was yet much fruitful labor for him to do. It was necessary for the Church that he continue to live. Thank The Most High Paul did not die. The benefit of his wisdom would have been lost to the early Church and to us. His potential to write Colossians and Ephesians may have been forfeited. Later, near his death, Paul wrote: “Timothy, I’ve run the race. I’ve finished the course. I’ve kept the faith. I’ve done the work. My award awaits me. I’m ready to die. Keep working after I’m gone” (see 2 Timothy 4:5-7). Everything in life has the potential to fulfill its purpose. People who die without achieving their full potential rob their generation of their latent ability. Many have robbed me—they’ve also robbed you. To die with ability is irresponsible. Perhaps you are wasting your life doing nothing with all you have. The Most High packaged some things in you for the good of the world—use them. We will never know the wealth He planted in you until you bring it up. There’s always something in you that we haven’t yet seen because that’s the way He thinks. Release your ability before you die. Use the power and strength within you for the good of yourself and others. I believe there are books, songs, art works, businesses, poems, inventions, and investments in you that He intended for my children to enjoy. Don’t give up until you have lived out the full extent of your potential, because you have no right to die with my things. Don’t rob the next generation of the wealth, treasure, and tremendous gifts buried deep within you. If you want to succeed, strike out on new paths. Don’t travel the worn paths of accepted success. No man can climb beyond the limitations of his own belief. Every day sends to the grave obscure men and women whom fear prevented from realizing their true and full potential. Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying. What you see is not all there is. There is something in everything. What you have done is no longer your potential. Potential is what you can do but have not yet done.

PRINCIPLES
The Most High created everything with potential.
Nothing in life is instant.
Everything in life has the potential to fulfill its purpose.
Don’t be satisfied with what you now are.
Don’t die without using your full potential.
The greatest threat to progress is your last successful accomplishment.


Shema Selah what is the potential that the Most High has stored in you??  Time to let it out!!!

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