Dare to Believe in Your Potential

Hebrews 11

We are walking in today:  Dare to Believe in Your Potential 

Witness believe throughout the Bible:  H539 'aman-- to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm; to support, confirm, be faithful

Genesis 15:6 And he believed H539 in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

The Torah testifies...............
 Exodus 4:5 That they may believe H539 that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe H539 me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Psalm 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed H539 thy commandments.

Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed H539 our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Dare to Believe in Your Potential

Human potential without The Most Highly purpose produces self-destruction. The Bible tells us a story about people who decided to build a city with a tower that reached to the heavens. They wanted to “make a name” for themselves. When The Most High saw how committed the builders were to their task He said, “…nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” So He came down and confused their languages so they couldn’t work together. That stopped their building (Genesis 11:8). Do you think The Most High was against the tower? No. The Most High was against the goal of the tower. They did not have a relationship with The Most High. They were ungodly men and women who intended to build a tower to heaven so their name could be great. They weren’t interested in making The Most High’s name great; they wanted to make a name for themselves. When The Most High saw how committed they were to their task, He knew He had to stop them. Otherwise, they would be able to do anything they wanted to. The Most High made this declaration to men who had no relationship with Him. Yet He saw in them the potential to do much. He knew the potential, ability and untapped power He had placed within all men. Think then what you can do if you are hooked up with your Source. Yeshua came into the world to reestablish your connection with The Most High. He came to show you who you really are underneath the cap of sin and disobedience. He came to teach you how to look beyond the realm of the visible into the unseen sphere of obedience.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR POTENTIAL?

Man has accomplished many things without The Most High. Many inventors in the world are ungodly people. Most of the people who do great feats and accomplish great exploits are ungodly people. Imagine what would happen if they were hooked up with The Most High. Yeshua came to provide that hookup. When The Most High saw what we could and should do, it disappointed Him that we were not aware of it. So He paid the greatest price necessary—the cost of His own life—to release our full potential. Then He said, “Now go on, son. Do all you can dream. If you can think it, daughter, you can do it.” The Most High paid the greatest price necessary— the cost of His own life—to release our full potential. Yet many of us still live below the level of our true ability. We have settled for the standards established by the opinions of others regarding our potential. We are afraid to move beyond our dreams to action. It is more comfortable to think about all we might do instead of working to achieve what we can do. People who change the world are people who stop dreaming and wake up. They don’t just wish, they act. If you have accepted Yeshua as your Lord and Savior, I’m here to encourage you to move on with the real things of The Most High. What have you done since you were saved? What have you accomplished?

LIFE IS MORE THAN SHELTER, FOOD, OR SECURITY

Maslow, one of the greatest influences on the thought patterns of psychology in our world, theorized that man is driven by his base needs. He believed that your most immediate need becomes your controlling factor. Therefore, your first instinct is to find shelter, secondly food, and thirdly security or protection. Then you begin to move up the ladder of becoming self-realized and self-actualized, of getting self-esteem and all the rest of that stuff. According to this theory, human beings are driven by their base needs. In the sixth chapter of Matthew, Yeshua challenges that thought pattern. He instructs us to live from the perspective of what exists that we cannot see, instead of being totally caught up in the details and needs of our daily lives. The Most High lives and thinks in the potential. He always sees things that have not yet been manifested. Faith too lives in the potential not in the present. Yeshua simply asks us to have faith—to believe in The Most High’s goodness and care. In the Matthew setting, Yeshua was talking to His disciples, not to the multitudes. His words were for people who had already left home and car and family and everything to follow Him. But He says, “Here you are. You’ve left children. You’ve given up your job. You say you love Me, but yet you worry. Don’t you know that The Most High is aware of all your needs? Don’t you see how He takes care of the birds of the air and the grass of the field? How much more precious you are to your heavenly Father than these. Stop worrying. Stop babbling on like the pagans. You are supposed to be living in The Most High’s Kingdom. I have come into the world to reestablish and build back The Most High’s Kingdom.” Stop worrying. In teaching His followers that food, drink, clothes, and shelter are not the most important things in life, Yeshua directly contradicts the psychological theories of our world. He dares you to follow The Most High and think in the opposite. The Most High doesn’t start with your wants, but with who you are. The Most High wants you to first know who you are. Then you will realize you deserve the things. In The Most High’s design, you deserve the things because you are somebody. According to The Most High, Maslow was wrong—and I go with The Most High. There are people who have everything, but they still don’t know who they are. People accumulate things with the hope that the things will make them somebody. But you don’t become somebody by accumulating things. Ask the guy at the top who can’t sleep. Ask the guy who has everything except peace and love and joy in his heart. Maslow was wrong. The Most High desires to give you self-worth and self-esteem first. He wants you to know who you are first.

YOU DON’T NEED THINGS TO ENJOY LIFE— YOU NEED LIFE TO ENJOY THINGS

I have met so many people who have everything except the knowledge of who they are. Yeshua said, “Why worry about these things? Life is so much more than these things about which you worry. Life is peace and love and joy and patience and gentleness…” Seek first the things of The Most High and everything else you need will just fall into place. The mind controlled by the Spirit of The Most High is full of life and peace. Peace is so important to a fulfilled life. It goes hand in hand with the life Yeshua came to bring. You don’t have to worry when you know what is coming. When you live by the Spirit in the realm of the unseen and the invisible, there is no reason to worry. The Most High is holding what is in store for you, because all things that are, were and are in The Most High. Seek first the things of The Most High and everything else you need will just fall into place. If you’ll let Him, The Most High will work it all out for you. Through your spirit talking with His Spirit, He’ll assure you everything is going to be okay. You don’t have to worry if The Most High’s already told you how a particular situation is going to turn out. Relax and commit yourself to maximize your potential. Preoccupy yourself with this assignment and purpose for your life, knowing that whatever The Most High asks for He provides for.

WHAT’S REALLY IMPORTANT?

When we are distracted by our drive for personal security and our search for identity, we rarely achieve our true potential. Our search for things, what we can relate to through our senses and our minds, harasses us and keeps us so busy trying to make a living that we don’t have time to live. We are so caught up trying to make it through life that we don’t have time to be in life. Have you ever seen people who work all day, every day, and then suddenly they realize they’ve grown old and can no longer enjoy life? They have missed living because they were so busy trying to make one. Yeshua tells you to seek first a relationship with the Spirit of The Most High; these things that are distracting you will then become a normal part of His provisions for your life. The Kingdom of The Most High comes when you are hooked up again to The Most High. Then The Most High can flow through you all He has desired for you since before you were born. The Kingdom of The Most High is coming back under The Most High’s leadership—His government—so your true potential is unbound and released. The Most High wants all He stored in you to blossom and flourish. He longs for the relationship between your spirit and His Holy Spirit to prosper so you can reveal the limitless depths of the wealth of your hidden potential. The Most High never put anything into you that was not supposed to come out of you. His joy is fulfilled when you show off His glory— the real nature of who The Most High is. You came out of The Most High. He created you to look and think and act like Him so you would display His greatness, majesty and sovereignty. The summit of The Most High’s desires for your life is that you will show through your being who He is. Your potential is not determined by what you look like or how far you went in school. Nor is it determined by what others think and expect from you. The Most High, your Creator, determines the extent of your ability. Through the Holy Spirit, He enables you to develop and experience your entire potential. The Most High makes it possible for you to do and be much more than anyone (including you) expects. You may not look smart, but if the One who made you demands smartness from you, it’s in there somewhere.

POTENTIAL PRODUCES FAITH— FAITH IS KNOWING POTENTIAL IS THERE

In the beginning, everything that is, was in The Most High. Before anything was, it already existed in The Most High. Everything we see existed in the invisible state before The Most High made it visible. So faith is not geared to what does not exist—it relates to everything that is not seen. Faith is “being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). It deals with potential—what you yet can see, do, be and experience. Faith says, “I can’t see it, but I believe it is there.” Faith never deals with what you have done, but with what you yet could do. The Most High is stuffed with many things and He’s waiting for you to ask Him for everything you need. But you have to ask with faith, because faith is the stuff that deals with unseen things. Faith is not some spooky experience. It’s simply knowing that what you can’t see is there. Can you imagine waking up every day, with all your problems, knowing that whatever you see is not the real story? Can you even imagine living that way—looking not at things that can be seen, but at the things that are not seen? What we see is temporary. It’s those things we can’t see that are eternal. Living by faith requires looking at the unseen, because everything that is, was in The Most High; and everything you could be is in you now, waiting for you to make demands on it by faith in The Most High.

WISHING IS NOT ENOUGH—DARE TO DESIRE

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:24 KJV). Very often the Church has misread this word desire. We have expected, perhaps, that the word desire means “what we are dreaming about.” No. Desire is “craving enough to sacrifice for.” Only if we are willing to die for what we desire will we receive it. Desire is “craving enough to sacrifice for.” How often have you had a good idea and done nothing about it because you didn’t desire it bad enough? When we want something so bad we can taste it, an urgency energizes our efforts. This is extremely important for your faith, because faith is what you are asking for but can’t yet see. A strong desire enables you to stand your ground until you see what you have believed. There are only a few who are gutsy enough to live in this manner. How much do you really desire the goals you have set for your life? The Most High is pregnant with everything that isn’t yet visible—including what you ask for in prayer. When you ask for something in faith, it is already on the way. You can’t see it, but if you believe, it is already in process. The Most High wants you to ask many things of Him, because He is stuffed with many blessings and abilities that He wants to come out. Thus, whatever you desire when you pray, you shall have—but only what you desire. Not what you pray for—only what you desire when you pray. There are many things we ask The Most High for in prayer that we don’t really desire. We don’t crave them at the expense of life. We don’t want them bad enough to sacrifice for them. We just hope The Most High does it. If it happens, praise the Lord—if it doesn’t happen, praise the Lord. When you pray with this attitude, you don’t really want what you prayed for. If you truly want something when you pray, Yeshua says you’ll get up and knock and seek and run out until you get it (Matthew 7:7-8). If you are serious about desiring what you pray for, you will get up off your knees and go do it.

YOUR DESIRE CONTROLS YOUR DIRECTION IN LIFE

Many people get distracted in life because they do not desire anything enough to keep on course. If you do not set a goal for your potential and say, “Look, I don’t care what anybody says. That’s what I want to become,” you might as well forget it. You must have a goal that you desire so strongly you will go after it no matter what the expense. If you are not willing to do that, you have lost already, because it is your desire for the thing that will keep you on the road of consistency. Potential needs desire to place demands upon it. You must have a goal you desire so strongly you will go after it no matter what the expense. This life is full of advertisements for your attention. Life is crowded and jammed with distractions. They come from all sides, trying to shake you from your goal. If you don’t have a goal, they will provide one for you. You must know where you want to go and what you want to become. Potential needs purpose to give it direction. When you pray, desire what you ask for. Refuse to be distracted or interrupted. The power of your potential will be revealed as you sacrifice everything to attain what you desired in prayer.

POTENTIAL ONLY FOR THE FEW

Unfortunately, most of us will never fulfill the deepest desires of The Most High’s heart. Though He has done His best to free us from the false attitudes and perceptions that keep us from achieving our real potential, The Most High is often disappointed by the lives of His creatures. Perhaps you are a parent who has tried and tried and tried and still your kids haven’t worked out. You’ve tried your best and given your best, but they still have disappointed you. Sometimes pastors also feel that way. They give and give and give, and the people still disappoint them. And often some of the ones who are messing up the most are the ones to whom they have given the most. Each of us feels the hurt when the people we love and have tried to help, struggle in the gutter, their lives in ruins. In the seventh chapter of Matthew, Yeshua predicts that many will hear His message, but few will follow Him and obey. Many will reject—or simply fail to accept—the abundant life He came to offer. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it (Matthew 7:13-14). Those words have saved my sanity. I want all who read this book to fulfill their potential; but I know only a few will. Only a minute percentage of those who hear the message about who they are will ever become all they could be. Many people will never fulfill their purpose in life. They will not be who they were supposed to be or achieve what they were designed to do. It’s terrible to say, but that’s why I’m sharing this with you. If only I could take my desire and put it into you, I’d do it. But I can’t. Some of you will end up in the gutter because you won’t receive and practice what The Most High is telling you. I’m sorry, but it will happen. Whether you fail or succeed, win or lose, does not depend on The Most High, but on you. He is ready to do His part if you are willing to cooperate with His purpose for your life.

BE ONE OF THE FEW

Your Creator and Manufacturer built a store of miracles in you. He said you have treasures in your earthen vessel. He came to bring you abundant life. He knows there is explosive power in you waiting to be released. Through the strength of Yeshua HaMaschiach you can do anything you think or imagine—and even more. But not everyone will hook up with The Most High. Not everyone will look for the things The Most High planted within them to be used for His glory. Not everyone will choose to fulfill their potential. Indeed, the number will be few. I wonder which category you are in. I wonder where you are. Are you in the broad gate where everybody is going nowhere? Are you one of the many who aren’t going to be anything? Come, join the narrow gate. Be one of the few. Decide you’re not going with the crowd. Separate yourself, square your shoulders and do something. Choose to be somebody, instead of nobody. Leave your footprints in the sands of history and carry none of your potential to the cemetery. Yeshua passed judgment when He said, “The message my Father gave Me is for the world, but only a few will dare to take the challenge to handle abundant life.” That’s terrible. I wish that none should perish, but it is only a wish. Are you just going to join the other guys? Are you going to be any different from the other young girls? Are you going to give into your base nature and mess up your life getting lost so no one can ever find you? Are we going to be compelled to remember you because you made your mark on history? Can you decide that you are going to build so many monuments in people’s lives that they won’t have to put a stone on your grave to remind us you lived? Or are you going to be one of those people whose grave has to be marked to make sure everyone knows you used to live on this planet? Don’t join the crowd—you’ll get lost. Be different. Stick out like a sore thumb. Join the few. The United States Marines established a recruiting standard that may express this attitude of the few. They say, “We just want a few good men. We don’t want everybody or anybody. We want the few, the proud, the Marines.” Crowds don’t excite me. It’s those few who I still see working on it twenty years later that excite me. They are still there plugging away. It’s the few who don’t allow disappointment to disarm them. They are motivated by their failure and refuse to quit until they’re finished. Are you a can-do person? Are you brave enough to face the challenge and take the risk to be effective? Will you dare to believe the impossible no matter what others say? I hope so. The world desperately needs some people who will go for the miracles no matter what it takes. The world needs some people who will believe The Most High for the potential buried within them—desiring their dreams enough to move out and act. Only a few will find the kind of potential that allows them to live from the depths of their hidden ability. But for those who do, deep wells of possibilities will come to light as The Most High reveals to them more and more of what He planned before the foundations of the world. Join the few. Release the miracles hidden in your thoughts. Dare to try even after you’ve failed. Become reconnected to The Most High and find out who you are and what you can do. Give your potential a chance, because The Most High is waiting to do much more than you can think or imagine. He loves you. He wants you to be the beautiful person He created you to be.

Shema Selah where will your potential take you today?? 
 

Keys to Fulfilling Your True Potential

Ephesians 3

We are walking in today:   Keys to Fulfilling Your True Potential 

Witness fulfill  throughout the Bible: H4390 male'--to be full; fullness, abundance (participle); to be full, be accomplished

The Torah testifies...............
 Exodus 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. H4390

The prophets proclaim..................
 2 Samuel 7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, H4390 and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

The writings bear witness...........................
 1 Kings 8:15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled H4390 it, saying,

Psalm 20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil H4390 all thy counsel.

  

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us… Apostle Paul (Ephesians 3:20)

Do you read manuals? Any manufacturer of a piece of equipment —a refrigerator, a microwave, a television, a toaster, a sewing machine, a washing machine—gives you a manual when you buy their product. When you open the manual, the first thing you read is: Before plugging in this product, read this manual carefully. But most of us don’t, right? I know I don’t. Then if you turn to the first page of the manual you find a description of the product, and often a picture as well, describing the various parts and what they can do. The next page usually tells you what you can expect from the product. Finally they tell you: If something goes wrong with this product, do not fix it yourself. Take it to a qualified technician who has the certification from this manufacturer to fix it. If you don’t, the warranty on this product is null and void. If you want a piece of equipment to operate at its maximum potential, you have to follow the manufacturer’s instructions. If you don’t follow the instructions, you may damage the product—or at least you won’t know what you can expect from it. Only if you follow the instructions can you expect the product to meet the demands specified by the manufacturer—demands that equal what the manufacturer designed and built into the product.

The Most High’S INSTRUCTION MANUAL
We are excellent, complexly designed, tremendously built, intricately put together pieces of equipment. But we don’t know what we can do. We can’t even imagine the full extent of our potential. Knowing this, The Most High sent us a manual that contains a description of our parts. He said, “Now this first part is your spirit and the second part is your soul and the third part is your body. Now here is what the body is supposed to do…here is what the soul can do…here is what the spirit can do.” The Most High also tells us the potential of this equipment called human beings. In His manual, He lists all the things we are capable of doing. When The Most High first presented this piece of equipment called man, something went wrong. Instead of taking it back to the manufacturer to be fixed, we took it to a second-rate, second-class, unskilled technician. And look what he did. He muddled the job. We submitted The Most High’s equipment and product to hasatan, who is an unauthorized dealer with no genuine parts. But The Most High loved us so much that, even though the warranty had run out, He decided to take back the product. Though someone else has tried to fix us and has messed us up, The Most High is starting all over again— and He’s putting in His own parts. The Most High is rebuilding and remaking us. He knows us better than anybody else, because He is our Creator. His Word, the Bible, reveals much about His attitude toward our potential.

The Most High’S WORD ON YOUR POTENTIAL
You have the potential to be in The Most High’s class. 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 1:27). The Most High sees you as being in His class. Because He made you in His image, you have the potential to be in the The Most High class—which is spirit. You have the potential to operate like The Most High. Then The Most High said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26) When The Most High made you in His likeness, He did not make you to look like Him. He made you to function like Him. That’s what likeness literally means. When The Most High created you, He made you to operate like Him. If you are not functioning like The Most High, you are “malfunctioning,” because The Most High wired and designed you to function like Him. How does The Most High function? His Word says, “Without faith it is impossible to please The Most High” (Hebrews 11:6). The Most High functions by faith which is obedience to His instructions found in the Torah the owner’s manual for your life! You and I were designed to operate by following the proper procedures for living according to the kingdom of the Most High! Our potential therefore needs obedience to His instructions in order to be maximized. The Most High sees in you the potential to dominate, rule and subdue the whole earth. [The Most High said] “…let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” … The Most High blessed them and said to them “…Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground” (Genesis 1:26,28). The Most High created you to rule over all the earth and everything that creeps in it. He will never demand anything of you He didn’t already build into you. Thus, if the earth in any way is dominating you, you are malfunctioning. You were not created to give into cigarettes or submit to alcohol. The Most High did not intend for you to be controlled by drugs, sex, money, power, or greed. If any of these are governing you, you are living below your privilege. Because The Most High has already declared it to be so, you have the ability to dominate the earth. Everything in the earth must be under your subjection, not mastering you. You have the ability to be fruitful and reproduce after your kind. The Most High blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). Again The Most High is calling forth something that’s already in you. He didn’t tell the man and the woman to try to be fruitful, He simply told them to do it. He knew they already had the ability to multiply and reproduce and fill the earth. You too can reproduce yourself. He always places the potential inside before He calls it forth. Whatever The Most High calls you to do, He has already built in. You have the ability to imagine and plan to do anything. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them” (Genesis 11:6). The Most High gave you the ability to imagine and plan and bring into being anything you desire. Now if you read this passage in its entirety, the people to whom The Most High was talking had planned to build a tower. The Most High didn’t stop them from building a tower by cutting off their potential. He stopped them by confusing their language, because He couldn’t stop their potential. You have the same potential The Most High saw in those people. If you decide to do something, and you believe in it hard enough and commit yourself to work for it long enough, nothing in the universe can stop you. That’s what The Most High is saying. If you want to do anything, The Most High already said, “You can do it.” Only if you lack the commitment to follow after your dream will your dream remain unfinished. The potential to do and plan anything is in you if you will believe and persevere. You have the potential to believe impossibilities into possibilities. Everything is possible for him who believes (Mark 9:23). Not only are you able to plan, but you also have the ability to believe something that seems impossible and actually make it possible. If you can abandon yourself to an idea and sacrifice all you have for that idea, The Most High says, “It’s possible for that idea to come to pass.” You have the potential to influence physical and spiritual matter. I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Matthew 16:19). Yeshua is talking here about your power to influence what’s on earth as well as what’s in heaven. If you bind something on earth, it will be bound in heaven. You have influence in heaven. Likewise, if you loose something on earth, heaven has to do the same thing—loose it. You have the power to influence things in both realms of earth and heaven. You may never have imagined that you possess that kind of power. But Yeshua says you do. You have the potential to receive whatever you ask. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you (John 15:7). The Most High says you have the potential to receive whatever you ask. That’s frightening. You have a blank check—but there is one condition on the cashing of that check: You must abide in HaMashiach, and His words must abide in you. If that condition is met, you can ask anything in Yeshua’ name and it will be done for you. Yeshua wants to knock the limits off your mind. But first He requires that you stay hooked up with The Most High. Then He says, “Go ahead and ask me for anything. I’ll do whatever you ask.” What potential! That’s The Most High’s word on you. You have the potential to do greater works than Yeshua did. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father (John 14:12). Yeshua sees in you the potential to do greater things than He did. And He means what He says. For many years I didn’t want to read that scripture because I knew that what Yeshua said and what was really happening were two different things. But if Yeshua says you have that potential, it’s in there somewhere. Remember, whatever The Most High says, you can do. He won’t ask you to do anything He hasn’t already wired you to do. The Most High believes in you. He knows the vastness of your potential. If He gives you an assignment, He’s already given you the ability to fulfill what He asks. Along with His demand always comes the capability to meet that demand. But remember: To release your potential, you must be related to your Source. Only as you are connected to The Most High, can you fulfill and maximize your true potential.

SAY “YES” TO Yeshua
Sin, or rebellion against The Most High, clogs up our potential. Disobedience to The Most High may have stunted your capacity for growth. But The Most High sees and cares about that problem. He sent Yeshua into the world to die for you. Yeshua doesn’t have a problem knowing who He is and what He can do. You have that problem. Yeshua came to die so you can know who you are and what is the fullness of your potential. He came to open up the capacity of who you are—to unclog your true self. Calvary is The Most High’s way of providing the means to unplug your true potential. Because disobedience has capped off your potential, The Most High offers you forgiveness and hope through Yeshua HaMashiach. In your plugged up state, you can’t begin to touch your true ability. Only after you say “yes” to Yeshua (and your spirit begins to communicate and fellowship again with the Holy Spirit) can you start the journey of fulfilling all the potential The Most High planted within you before you were born. It is my earnest desire that you will realize the awesome wealth of potential residing in you. But more important than this potential is the necessity that you understand your need for a personal relationship with Your Creator through the agency He has provided, Yeshua HaMashiach.

TEN KEYS TO RELEASING YOUR POTENTIAL
At this point, you must be aware of the tremendous wealth of potential locked away inside of you crying out for exposure and fulfillment. I believe you have heard the voices of your childhood dreams and the many visions, goals, and plans you once had screaming out for resurrection. Now the big question remains: How do I release this potential? Every manufacturer establishes the specifications, environment, conditions, and operational standards for attaining the maximum performance level of his product. The Most High our Creator and Manufacturer has also established a plan—environment, conditions, standards, and specifications—for the maximum performance and release of your potential. After many years of careful study and practice, I have identified ten major keys to releasing your full potential. Violation of any one of these requirements will result in the malfunction, distortion, misuse, and abuse of your precious potential. The keys to releasing your potential follow:

Key #1—You must know (be related to) your Source. It is essential that you understand the nature, composition, and consistency of your Source, because this is the key to understanding the potency of your potential. If you, for example, had a wooden table in your house, you would be aware that the table is made of wood from a tree. The strength, durability, and nature of the table can only be as strong and durable as the tree. If the tree is weak, the table will be the same. Therefore, the potential of the table is determined by the potential of the source from which it came. The same is true for you. To understand how much potential you possess, you must understand the Source from which you came. You and I possess all the qualities and nature of our Source and are capable of manifesting these qualities. We also possess an eternal spirit just like our Source. We will live forever—not because He allows us to, but because it’s our nature. But where you spend your forever is determined by you. A manufacturer’s product must remain related to its source in order to be maintained and supplied with genuine parts and authorized service. It is this relationship that manufacturing companies call the warranty/guarantee agreement, in which the product has to be subjected to the conditions, specifications and operational standards set by the manufacturer if he is to take responsibility for the maximum performance, maintenance, and servicing of the product. Violation of the manufacturer’s conditions and standards cancels the warranty/guarantee relationship and places the product at the mercy of unauthorized dealers. The same relationship exists between The Most High and man. The Most High guarantees the maximum performance of our potential if we remain related to Him and submit to the conditions, specifications, and standards set by Him. A personal relationship with our Creator is a necessary key to the releasing of our full potential.

Key #2—You must understand how the product was designed to function. Every manufacturer designs, develops, and produces his product to function in a specific manner. Automobile manufacturers design their products to function with gasoline, sparkplugs, batteries, pistons, oil, water, etc. No matter what you do, if you do not supply the elements required for the operational function of the product, it will not perform and maximize its potential. The Most High created man and designed him to function like He does. You and I were created to function by faith and love. Without faith or in Hebrew, obedience, it is impossible to please The Most High. These are the fuels on which we run. That which is not of faith/obedience is sin for us. The just live (operate) by faith/obedience. Our potential cannot be released without faith/obedience and love. Fear and hatred cause the short-circuit of our potential.

Key #3—You must know your purpose. Every product exists for a specific purpose. That reason is the original intent of its existence—the purpose for which the manufacturer made it. This is an essential key because the purpose for which something was made determines its design, nature and potential. The Most High created you and gave you birth for a purpose. Whatever that purpose is, you possess the potential to fulfill it. No matter how big the dream The Most High gave you, your potential is equal to the assignment. Purpose gives birth to responsibility, and responsibility makes demands on potential.

Key #4—You must understand your resources. All manufacturers provide access to the necessary resources for the proper maintenance, sustenance, and operation of their products. Resources and provisions are to help sustain the product while its potential is being maximized. The Most High, in His great wisdom, provided for human beings tremendous material and physical resources to sustain and maintain us as we proceed in realizing, developing, and maximizing our potential. Resources were created to live on and with, but never for. We are never to worship the resources, nor are we to become controlled by them. Idolatry and substance and drug abuse are violations of the Manufacturer’s specifications, and will lead to the destruction of potential.

Key #5—You must have the right environment. Environment consists of the conditions that have a direct or indirect effect on the performance, function, and development of a thing. These conditions can be internal and external. Every manufacturer specifies the proper conditions under which he guarantees the maximum performance of the potential of the product. In the manual, the manufacturer will caution against violation of that specified environment for maximum performance. The right environment is the ideal conditions needed for the maximization of the true potential. The Most High created everything to flourish within a specific environment. Plants, animals and fish all need a specific environment in order to live. Potential is nullified, aborted, and destroyed when the environment is violated or disrupted. This is also true of man. The Most High designed man to function in the garden (His presence), in relationship with Him, free from sin and in daily communion with His Spirit. Man’s potential needs this positive environment of fellowship, relationship, love, and challenge in order to be maximized. You can never be all you could be in any other environment. The fall of man contaminated his environment and poisoned the atmosphere of our potential. It produced abnormal behavior and the malfunction of the human factor. The key to releasing your true potential is the restoration of The Most High’s original environment. Yeshua came to restore us to the Father. He sent the Holy Spirit to restore our internal environment.

Key #6—You must work out your potential. Potential is dormant ability. But ability is useless until it is given responsibility. When The Most High created man, He planted in him the potential to multiply and fill the earth and subdue, dominate and rule the earth and everything in it. Man’s potential was predetermined by this purpose. He had inside him all the potential necessary to fulfill the assignment. But he was not aware of his potential, even as you may not be aware of what you can do. Therefore, the first thing The Most High gave the man was not a wife, but work (Genesis 2:15). He made demands on the potential of man’s mind by commanding him to name the animals, and stimulated the potential of his body by commanding him to cultivate the garden. The Most High gave man insight into the potential of his spirit by commanding him to dominate the whole earth for The Most High. Work is a major key to releasing your potential. Potential must be exercised and demands made on it, otherwise it will remain potential. Claiming a promise does not make it happen. You must apply the principle of work. The land was promised to Abraham, but he had to walk it out to possess it. Good ideas do not bring success. Good hard work does. To release your true potential, you must be willing to work.

Key #7—You must cultivate your potential. Potential is like a seed. It is buried ability and hidden power that need to be cultivated. You must feed your potential the fertilizer of good positive company, give it the environment of encouragement, pour out the water of the Word of The Most High, and bathe it in the sunshine of personal prayer. Read materials that stimulate your faith/obedience and nourish your dream.

Key #8—You must guard your potential. It is tragic when a tree dies in a seed or a man dies in a boy. It is sad when what could have been becomes what should have been. With all the wealth of your potential, you must be careful to guard and protect it. The command to protect was among the first commands The Most High gave to Adam. The Bible calls your potential a treasure in earthen vessels. You must guard your visions and dreams from sin, discouragement, procrastination, failures, opinions, distractions, traditions, and compromise. Hasatan is after your potential. Be on guard.

Key #9—You must share your potential. The Most High created the entire heavens and earth with the potential principle, which can only be fulfilled when it is shared. Nature abounds with this truth. The sun does not exist for itself. Plants release oxygen for us and we give carbon dioxide to the plants. The bee receives nectar as it pollinates the flowers. No potential exists for itself. This is also true of man. True potential and fulfillment in life is not what is accomplished, but who benefits from them. Your deposit was given to enrich and inspire the lives of others. Remember, the great law is love.

Key #10—You must know and understand the laws of limitation. Freedom and power are two of the most important elements in our lives. Potential is the essence of both. Potential is power. But freedom needs law to be enjoyed, and power needs responsibility to be effective. One without the other produces self-destruction. Every manufacturer establishes laws of limitations for his products. These laws are not given to restrict but to protect—not to hinder but to assist and guarantee the full and maximum performance of potential. The Most High has set laws and standards to protect our potential and to secure our success. These are the 613 principles that He gave us in the first 5 books of the Bible!! Obedience is protection for potential. All of these keys and principles are proven throughout human history to be true. Any violation of these laws limits the release and maximization of your potential. Commit yourself to obeying the Manufacturer. Then watch your life unfold as you discover the hidden ability that was always within you.

Shema Selah it is time for the potential in you to be realized!!  https://www.facebook.com/fiveam.prayer/videos/2046714795406626/?l=9209554561330095190

Weekend Meditation--Limiting Your Unlimited Potential

John 1

We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--Limiting Your Unlimited Potential


Witness shut up throughout the Bible:  H6113 `atsar-- to restrain, retain, close up, shut, withhold, refrain, stay, detain; shut up

2 Chronicles 6:26 When the heaven is shut up, H6113 and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

The Torah testifies...............
 Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, H6113 or left.

The prophets proclaim..................
 Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up H6113 in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

The writings bear witness...........................
 2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up H6113 heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

Jeremiah 33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up H6113 in the court of the prison, saying,


Limiting Your Unlimited Potential

The potency of your potential requires eternal life to be realized. As we discuss the awesome task of tapping our true and full potential, it is essential that we come to appreciate how important each one of us is and how special we are to The Most High. If you were aware of how much power and worth you have, the first thing that would be affected would be your attitude toward yourself. Many of us have a difficult time projecting a good attitude toward others because we feel bad about ourselves. Great positive thinkers and personal motivators, along with psychologists, all agree that if you feel good about yourself, then your attitude toward others will be influenced by that attitude. However, for many positive thinking programs, this is simply an attempt to convince oneself by mental assent that you are of value and worth. It’s an attempt to convince you of something you don’t believe. On the contrary, what we are discussing here is something different. We are talking here about a fact grounded in truth and reality, and established by the One who created you. Your worth, value, and potential have all been given by The Most High, and there is no formula, test, or scheme to measure the full extent of these qualities and abilities. Therefore I would like to reiterate some principles and concepts that were discussed in earlier chapters. It is essential that you understand these if you are going to tap into your true and full potential.

POTENTIAL UNLIMITED

A principle discussed in chapter 2 states: Everything that is was in The Most High. In essence, everything that exists came out of The Most High or proceeded out of His creative Spirit. He is the Source of everything. The first verse of the book of Genesis introduces The Most High as the Creator of all things… In the beginning The Most High created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). But I would again like to take you back before time began, before there was a creation. Let’s consider what I call the verse before Genesis 1:1. We’ll call it Genesis 1:0. Where was everything before creation came to be? I suggested that the first verse of the Bible could be written as follows: Before there was a beginning, there was The Most High. Before there was a creation, there was a Creator. Before anything was, there was The Most High (Genesis 1:0). The above verse means The Most High did not begin when the beginning began—He began the beginning. He did not start when start got started—He started start! There was no beginning without The Most High. He is the Source, Creator and Sustainer of everything. Nothing exists that He did not create. If it does not exist, it is because He has not yet created it. He is the ultimate Source of everything. Anything and everything that comes after the beginning has to come out of The Most High. 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 (John 1:1-2). Before anything existed, The Most High had it in Him. That is the reason we ascribe to The Most High only, the term omnipotent. Potent is the word from which we derive the word potential. Omni is defined as meaning all or everything. Therefore the ascription omnipotent means one who is all potential or all power—all ability, seen or unseen, used or unused, manifested or yet unmanifested. The Most High does not only have potential; He is potential—and the Source of all potential. The source of all potential is in the Omnipotent One.

PRINCIPLE: The potential of a thing is related to its source.

The source of all potential is in the Omnipotent One.

This means wherever something comes from determines the potential it has. The degree or potency of that potential can be measured by the demands made on it by the one who made it. Therefore, the potential or ability of a thing is determined by the purpose for which the creator, manufacturer or maker made it. Every product is designed and engineered by the manufacturer to fulfill its purpose. Therefore its potential is built in. The purpose establishes the demands to be placed on the product, and the demands determine its potential. This principle is evidenced by all manufacturers who enclose a manual with their product detailing the expected performance and potential of their product. The manufacturer wants you to read the manual before using the product so it can tell you what demands to make on the product. They are confident you can make those demands because they have already built into the product the necessary components to fulfill the demands. The potential of a thing is therefore not determined by opinions, assumptions or prejudices, but only by the demands placed on it by the one who made it. Your true ability and potential should not be measured by the limitations of an academic test or an Intelligence Quotient score. Nor should it be determined by the social, cultural, economic and educational “norms” of your society. Society did not create you. You are not a product of your culture. You are not the offspring of your economy. You were not created by the Department of Education. Therefore, none of these has the right to determine how much potential you really possess. If you want to know how much potential you have, first discover who created or manufactured you. Then check the demands He is making upon your life. Whatever He is demanding of you, you can do.

PRINCIPLE: The potential of a thing is determined by the demands made on it by the one who made it.

WHAT ARE THE LIMITS OF YOUR POTENTIAL?

It seems to me that the people who change the world and significantly impact humanity are those who have discovered the limitless nature of their potential. They are people who decided to take the word impossible out of their dictionaries. If you are going to realize and maximize your full potential, you will have to understand the true nature of your potential. But to do this, you must first understand the process of your creation and the Source from which you came. At this point, I wish to review a principle we shared earlier that is essential to understanding this process. When The Most High created the earth and made the fullness of its beauty, He used the following principles:

1. He purposed and decided what He wanted;

2. He then decided what kind of material substance He wanted it made from;

3. He then spoke to the substance or material from which He wanted it made;

4. And whatever He said to what He was speaking to came out of what He spoke to—exactly what He said.

5. Whatever came out of what The Most High spoke to was made of the same material substance from which it came.

In essence, whatever The Most High spoke to became the same material for the thing that came out of what He spoke it from. This process-principle is evidenced in the first chapter of Genesis. For example, when The Most High wanted to create plant life and vegetation, He said: “Let the land [dirt, soil] produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees…” And it was so. The land produced vegetation… (Genesis 1:11-12) When The Most High wanted to make stars, He said: “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky [the firmament of the heavens—the gases in space] to separate the day from the night…” And it was so (Genesis 1:14-15). When The Most High wanted fish or marine life, He said: “Let the waters [or the soil under the water] teem with living creatures…” So The Most High created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems… (Genesis 1:20-21) When The Most High wanted animals, He said: “Let the land [soil, dirt] produce living creatures…” And it was so. So The Most High made…all the creatures that move along the ground… (Genesis 1:24-25) If you examine these scriptures from Genesis, you will discover: Whatever The Most High wanted He spoke to the material substance from which He wanted it made. He wanted plants to be made out of soil or dirt, so He spoke them out of the earth. That is why, when a plant dies, it decomposes back to the soil. He spoke the stars from the gases in space; therefore stars are 100 percent high density nuclear gas explosions. When a star “dies,” it dissipates into gases and returns to its original state. (Scientists have discovered this to be true.) Because The Most High wanted animals made from the soil (dirt), The Most High spoke to the earth when He created them. Animals are therefore 100 percent soil (dirt). When animals die, they too decompose and return to the soil. The same process and principle is also true of marine life. Therefore, when The Most High wanted plants and vegetation, He spoke to the soil. When He wanted stars, He spoke to the gases. When He wanted fish, He spoke to the water. And when He wanted animals, He spoke to the earth. But when The Most High wanted you (man), He spoke to Himself. It is important to understand here that whatever The Most High speaks to produces what The Most High says and is therefore composed of the same material substance. So as plants are soil, stars are gases and animals are soil (dirt), even so man is spirit, because he came out of The Most High. Man does not have a spirit, he is spirit—because of the Source from which he came. I am gonna say that again, man does not have a spirit, he is spirit— because of the Source from which he came. This process-principle of creation also introduces us to additional principles that we must understand if we are to fully appreciate the nature of our potential. These principles are evidenced in nature and are scientifically sound. They are as follows:

1. Whatever The Most High wants He speaks to what He wants it made out of.

2. Wherever something came from, it is composed of the same material substance as where it came from. It is a composite of its source.

3. Wherever something came from, it has to be sustained and maintained by where it came from.

4. The potential of a thing cannot be fulfilled without being related to its source.

These principles are clearly demonstrated by The Most High’s system of creation in nature. The plants came from the earth and they must remain related (attached) to the earth in order to live and be fruitful. The stars came from the gases in space and must therefore remain in space in order to remain effective. The fish came from the water and must remain related (submerged) in water in order to live. The animals are products of the soil from which The Most High spoke them and must remain related (feed on) soil (dirt) products in order to live. This holds true for man also: Man (spirit) came out of The Most High (source) and must remain related (attached) to The Most High (his source) in order to live. Man came out of The Most High and must remain related to The Most High in order to live. As the plants need dirt and the fish need water, so man needs The Most High. If man is to realize and maximize his true potential, a relationship with The Most High is not an option--it is a necessity!!! If man is to become all he was purposed to be, The Most High is not an alternative for man, but a requirement. This point is crucial because it helps us understand the ultimatums of Yeshua and the emphatic demands of The Most High our Abba. The call of the Kingdom is not that we should be born of the spirit, but that we must be born of the spirit. Yeshua didn’t say, “I am a way,” but “I am the way” (John 14:6). It was also He who said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. …apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:2-8). This principle is also communicated in The Most High’s command to Adam in Genesis 2:17 when He stated: “You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” The Most High really meant: “The day you rebel or detach yourself from His 613 principles, your instructions from your Source, you will cancel your full potential. You will never fulfill the purpose for which I created you.” Sin, therefore, can be understood as man’s declaration of independence from his Source. Please note that even as trees gradually die after having their roots separated from the soil, so Adam, after disobeying his Source, died spiritually. Though Adam’s spiritual death was instant, the physical effects of that death were not manifested until 930 years later. This is evidence that no matter how far man progresses or how much he accomplishes, he can never experience his full potential without a personal relationship with The Most High, his Source. The Most High’s concept of death is also defined in His words to Adam: “…the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:16 NAS). Yet when Adam did eat from the tree, he lived physically over 900 years. Every man is born detached from The Most High—he is spiritually dead. So every man born of woman (male/female) has no awareness of his true potential, because the only sure way to know your potential is to know your Source. The key to knowing your true potential is to know your Source. You will never understand, realize or maximize your true and full potential without a relationship with your Source. A man without a relationship with The Most High (his Source) has limited his potential. He can never attain what he is capable of.

EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF MAN’S TRIUNE SELF—BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT

Man is a triune being created after the image and likeness of his Creator-Source. He consists of three distinct yet intricately related dimensions. Each dimension is designed to fulfill a specific purpose in The Most High’s plan for His creation. Each realm of man is designed with the potential to maximize its function and fulfill its intended purpose. But the potential of each dimension cannot be understood apart from its Source. Let us now take a closer look at each part of man and explore the untapped potential that lies buried there.

THE POTENTIAL OF THE BODY

As man, in his pursuit of knowledge about his world and environment (through the disciplines of science), explores the various aspects of creation, he reaches the general conclusion that the magnificent mystery of the human body still stands at the apex of all natural forms of creation. For decades, specialists have dedicated their lives to the study of the physiological potential of the human body—its ability to handle pressure; to adjust itself to varying environmental changes; to defend itself against disease, danger or threat; to maintain its stamina under physical exertion. Yet, despite man’s technological advancements and his scientific explorations of this masterpiece of creation, scientists continue to admit that they have limited knowledge concerning the potential of this mechanism of precision we call the human body. The human body has been described as 80 percent water (fluid), with a degree of calcium, fiber and tissue. But to fully appreciate the true potential of the human body, we must understand the purpose for its creation.

THE PURPOSE OF THE BODY

To understand the purpose of the body, we must understand the purpose for man. When The Most High created man, He created him a spirit being with a physical house (body). Then The Most High placed him on the physical earth. The Most High purposed and intended to rule and dominate the physical realm from the invisible realm through the agency of mankind. In essence, The Most High desired to control the seen from the unseen through the unseen living in the seen on the seen. The Most High desired to have His Kingdom extended from heaven to earth by allowing His Spirit to reign through man’s spirit as man dominated the earth through his soul and manifested His nature through the body. Therefore, the triune nature of man is designed for the following purposes:

1. Man’s spirit: To relate to The Most High (pick up the spirit world)

2. Man’s soul: To relate to the mental realm (intelligence) 3. Man’s body: To relate to the physical environment (pick up earth)

The human body was thus specifically designed to relate to and pick up the earth or physical realm. The Most High did not intend the body to relate to the spiritual or supernatural world. It is essential, then, that we do not judge our true potential by the abilities or limitations of our physical bodies. For this reason, our five senses are specifically designed to “pick up” our natural environment. Our powers of sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste are all related to the natural, physical world. The potential of our bodies is therefore governed by its physical capabilities. The Most High never intended man to be controlled or limited by his physical body. You were not created to be intimidated by your environment.

FROM REVELATION TO INFORMATION— FROM DISCERNMENT TO SENSE

Man’s original state in the garden of Eden, before the fall, was one of perfect union and fellowship with The Most High. He was designed to live from the inside to the outside, from his spirit to his body. The Most High designed man to be led by his spirit, not driven by his environment. Man was intended to live through spiritual discernment, not physical senses. But when Adam (the first man) disobeyed The Most High, he destroyed his fellowship and communion with the Spirit of The Most High (Genesis 3). The consequence was death. Death is isolation from the spirit world of The Most High. Through disobedience, man’s spirit lost contact with the source of heaven. As a result, man became a victim of his soul (mind, will, emotions) and his body (five senses). His life became governed by his external environment as his five senses controlled his existence. Immediately after Adam and Eve disobeyed The Most High’s command, “the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked” (Genesis 3:7 NAS). The word knew comes from the concept to know, from which we get our word knowledge. In essence, Adam and Eve suddenly became aware of their external environment. They began to live life from the knowledge they gained from their senses. That was the birth of education. From that day on, man measured his life, worth and value by his environment. And the relationship between man and his environment gave birth to humanistic philosophy. In reality, the body and its sensual capacity became man’s measure of reality. Man started living and interpreting his existence according to the information he gained through the senses of his body, instead of the revelation received through his spirit from the Spirit of The Most High. Man’s fall placed his body in a position it had not been designed to occupy. This change has caused man to limit his potential ability to the capabilities of his senses and his physical body.

DIGNIFIED DIRT

No matter how majestic and wonderful the human body is, we must be careful to remember the reality of its composition. According to Genesis 2:7, the Manufacturer of this magnificent masterpiece made and formed it from the “dust of the ground.” The body is 100 percent dirt. The apostle Paul called the body a “[heavenly] treasure in earthen vessels” (2 Corinthians 4:7). The principle we discussed earlier— the potential of a thing is related to its source—must be considered. If the physical body is related to the earth, it must be sustained and maintained by the earth. The body must feed on soil (dirt) in order to live (plants, animals, fish, etc.). We must, therefore, understand that our bodies—though they have tremendous potentials, powers, capabilities and values—must never become the full measure of our potential.

PHYSICAL HANDICAP—MYTH OR MASTER

There are millions of physically handicapped individuals who, because of their society’s concept of potential, have resigned themselves to a life of self-pity, depression and isolation. There are many who have confused their bodies with their true selves. They have mistaken the “house” for the “resident.” But history gives ample evidence of thousands who have freed themselves of the myth that their bodies should dictate their true potential. They have defied the limitations of their “dirt houses” and soared to the unlimited heights of their soul’s and spirit’s potential. Many have turned their wheelchairs into the cockpits of jetliners as they explored the heights of their capabilities. Others have used their walking canes to pole-vault them into positions that changed the world. Some transformed their world of silence to produce sounds that many are enjoying today. Still others have used their blindness to see beyond the physical. They have captured sights others long to see. Helen Keller refused to be blinded by others’ opinions of her ability—she changed the attitude of the world. Sir Winston Churchill refused to be muted by his speech impediment and physical handicap—while a member of the British Parliament and later the Prime Minister of Britain, he delivered some of history’s most life-changing orations. What is your handicap? Is it a wheelchair, a bed, a walker, the socioeconomic status of your family, or the color of your skin? Is it the ghetto, your parents’ lifestyle, the level of your education, or a terminal illness? Are you disabled by divorce, the absence of your parents, incest, or child abuse? Are you blind or deaf? Do you have a speech impediment or a poor self-esteem? Whatever your perceived handicap may be, you must never allow your true potential to become a victim of the limitations of your physical body or your environment. Reach beyond your grasp. Your body is not your full potential. I am gonna say that again--reach beyond your grasp!! Your body is not your full potential. I encourage you to develop and maintain a correct attitude toward your body. Learn to see it from the perspective of The Most High, its Creator, who (through the apostle Paul) calls it “the temple of the living The Most High” (2 Corinthians 6:16). The Most High admonishes you to keep your temple holy, clean and healthy. You are the steward of this precious earthly vessel. Its maintenance and effective operation are your responsibility. Like any essential equipment, your body needs regular checkups, proper amounts of fuel (food), periods of recuperation and recreation (rest, sleep, and fasting), and invigorating exercise. But do not allow your body to become the dictator of your potential. You are not your body. The biblical perspective on the body is revealed in a number of clear declarations: Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you…? …Therefore honor The Most High with your body (1 Corinthians 6:19). Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day (2 Corinthians 4:16). Please note that the previous reference describes the physical body as being in a state of daily disintegration. If we determine our potential by the condition of our bodies—whether we are handicapped or relatively healthy and fit—we are still relying on a premise that is constantly dissolving. You and I must not allow any physical impediment or the natural aging process to immobilize the potential that lies within us. One of the greatest figures in history is described in the Bible as “the father of the faithful.” Abraham demonstrated the tremendous potential of the soul and the spirit, in contrast to the limited potential of the body. The apostle Paul writes, As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of The Most High, in whom he believed… Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations…. Without wavering in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead…being fully persuaded that The Most High had the power to do what He had promised (Romans 4:17-21). The key to Abraham’s success is related to his attitude toward his body. The demands made upon him by The Most High were beyond the natural capacity of his physical body. He was handicapped by age and his wife was handicapped by a barren womb. But they considered not their bodies and believed that The Most High had provided the potential to fulfill the demand being placed upon them. You must refuse to limit your true potential by the limitations of your physical body.

THE POTENTIAL OF THE SOUL

Some years ago a famous pop singer sang a song entitled “I’m a Soul Man.” That title became a common phrase throughout the Western world. I suspect he was referring to the cultural-ethnic orientation of the Afro-American artistic expression. But the statement communicates both a statement of truth and a myth. As we discussed earlier in this chapter, the soul is the triunity of the mind, the will and the emotions. The soul was created for the purpose of receiving revelation from the spirit-man to communicate it to the body and information from the physical senses to transmit it to the spirit-man. In essence, the soul was designed to be the “servant” of the spirit-man, and the body was designed to be the “servant” of the soul. Man is a spirit, lives in a body, and possesses a soul. But the fall of man changed that. Man is a spirit, lives in a body, and possesses a soul. When Adam disobeyed The Most High’s words, his spirit lost fellowship with The Most High’s Spirit and was paralyzed. The soul became a victim of his body and the physical senses. When revelation from the spirit-man was replaced by information from the physical senses, man became a victim of his environment with education as his primary goal. In fact, man was reduced to a “soul man.” Never allow a teacher’s opinion or the score on an academic test or the fact that you didn’t complete your formal education to dictate the magnitude of your potential. You are as potent as your Creator says you are!! The exercise of the soul can make you smart, but not wise. Paul states in 1 Corinthians 1:25: “The foolishness of The Most High is wiser than man’s wisdom and the weakness of The Most High is stronger than man’s strength.”

THE POTENTIAL OF YOUR SPIRIT

The measure of your true potential is your spirit. The Most High has always intended that you and I would live from the inside—from the spirit-man in communion with the eternal Spirit of The Most High. Without that relationship, you are limited to the potential of your soul and your body. The apostle Paul in his letter to the church at Rome wrote: The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace (Romans 8:6). Please note that the Bible says that the mind controlled by the Spirit is like a fountain of life gushing forth with the potential of The Most High through the Spirit of The Most High. Paul also writes: Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires (Romans 8:5). The Spirit of The Most High has some desires. I believe these desires are The Most High’s original predestined will for your life as written in the book described in Psalm 139:16. If you allow the Holy Spirit to fellowship with and minister to your spirit, and you remain hooked up to the Source of your potential, then you will live according to the knowledge of The Most High’s revelation of your true potential--found when we follow His teachings and instructions, the Torah!! There are things in The Most High’s mind concerning you that your soul can never receive, because it cannot discern them. The Most High has information on your ability and potential that will astonish you and your family!! Paul mentions this in 1 Corinthians 2:9-11: However it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what The Most High has prepared for those who love him”—but The Most High has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of The Most High. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of The Most High except the Spirit of The Most High. Whether you are young or old, rich or poor, black or white, a college graduate or a high-school dropout, you are still a treasure of potential. The measure of your true potential is hidden in the Spirit of The Most High. It can only be tapped by a relationship between your spirit and His. Go after the deep things in The Most High that are related to you as the deep of your potential calls to the deep of the Omnipotent One. Decide to discover The Most High’s concept of your potential, He gave it to us in His Torah!!!

PRINCIPLES

1. The key to knowing your true potential is to know your Source—The Most High.

2.  Man is a triune being: body, soul and spirit.

3. The spirit is intended to relate to The Most High, the soul to the mental realm and the body to the physical environment.

4. Death is isolation from the spirit world.

5. Your body is not the measure of your true potential.

6. Your soul (mind, will, and emotions) is not the measure of your true potential.

7. The measure of your true potential is your spirit.

8. The Most High’s desires for your life are discerned by your spirit through fellowship and communication with the Holy Spirit.

SHEMA Selah, we have to hear to listen and then with understanding--obey what the Most High has given us to do!! 

The Key to Your Potential

John 15

We are walking in today: The Key to Your Potential 

Witness vine throughout the Bible:  H1612 gephen--vine, vine tree; of Israel; of prosperity

Genesis 40:10 And in the vine H1612 were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

The Torah testifies...............
 Deuteronomy 32:32 For their vine H1612 is of the vine H1612 of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

The prophets proclaim..................
 Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine H1612 unto me?

The writings bear witness...........................
 Psalms 80:8 Thou hast brought a vine H1612 out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Ezekiel 17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. H1612

The Key to Your Potential

The secret to a happy and productive life is remaining attached to your Source. A grape vine is an interesting plant. The vine, which is the thick wooden part running from the ground up the pole, is the only part of the plant that contains life ability. None of the life is in the branches; all of it is in the vine. There is no life in the little green things you see on the side with the grapes hanging on them. They are getting their life from the vine. They have no root in themselves. If you were to break one of those green branches off and plant it in the ground, it would never grow because it has no life ability in it. Each small branch has to depend on the life flowing up and down the great branch, the vine, to give it life. Thus the branches cannot live without the vine. The relationship of the vine and its branches is reflected throughout The Most High’s creation. Life is not possible when a thing is separated from its source.

ALL THINGS HAVE A SOURCE

When The Most High created the world, He first decided what He wanted His creation to be made out of. Then He spoke to that source, and whatever The Most High said came out of what He spoke to. Whenever The Most High wants to create something, He first decides what He wants the thing to be made out of. Then He speaks to whatever He wants it made out of, and whatever The Most High speaks comes out of what He spoke to. When The Most High wanted plants He spoke to the soil, and out of the soil came what The Most High spoke. Since The Most High wanted plants to be made out of soil, every plant is dirt. When The Most High wanted animals He spoke to the ground. Because animals came out of the ground, they are 100 percent dirt. The principle is simple. Whatever The Most High wants He speaks to what He wants it made out of. Whatever The Most High speaks comes out of what He spoke to. Whatever The Most High speaks comes out of what He spoke to. When The Most High wanted animals He spoke to the ground. When The Most High wanted plants He spoke to dirt. Because The Most High wanted man to come out of Himself, He spoke to Himself when He created man. Then The Most High said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness, and let them rule over…all the creatures that move along the ground.” 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). When The Most High wanted man, He spoke to Himself. Therefore man is what The Most High spoke to. Man is spirit because man came out of the spirit realm.

SOURCE DETERMINES POTENTIAL

Everything The Most High creates has the same components as its source. Wherever something comes from determines it components. Or to say it another way: Everything is made up of the same stuff as what it came out of. Therefore plants are made up of 100 percent dirt. They consist of the same things as the dirt. Animals also are one hundred percent dirt, or whatever is in the soil. Everything is made up of the same stuff as what it came out of. So when a plant dies, it goes back to where it came from—you can’t find it. When an animal dies, it goes back to where it came from—you can’t find it. When man dies, he goes back to the spirit realm. So whatever something comes from determines the components of which it is made. And whatever something comes from determines its potential. Potential is related to source. A plant can be no more than the dirt can be. Likewise, animals can be no more than the dirt can be. Since you came out of The Most High, you have the same components as The Most High and your potential is determined by The Most High.

LIFE IS MAINTAINED BY ITS SOURCE

Wherever something comes from, it has to remain attached to where it came from in order to fulfill itself. All created things must be maintained by their source. Thus plants need soil to live. They can’t live without the dirt. If a plant decides, “I’m tired of the soil,” it also decides “I’m ready to die.” Animals also need the dirt. Because they must live on what they came from, they have to eat plants and one another (dirt) to stay alive. If an animal decides, “I’m not going to eat any more dirt or anything that is made from the dirt,” he has decided to die. Therefore, if you decide you don’t need The Most High, you have also decided never to become all you are capable of being. The potential of everything is related to source; everything must be attached to its source if it is going to fulfill its potential. If you decide you don’t need The Most High, you also have decided never to become all you are capable of being. Like the branches of the grape vine, our life depends upon our Source. When The Most High wanted human beings, He spoke to Himself—The Most High is our Source. We came out of The Most High and contain a measure of His ability. But our only hope of fulfilling that ability lies in The Most High. We must be hooked up with The Most High if we are going to tap any of our true potential. Yeshua came to bring us back to The Most High so The Most High’s original intention when He took man out of Himself could be fulfilled. Thus the key to your full potential is staying related to The Most High.

I AM THE TRUE VINE

As a plant cannot fulfill its potential without being in relationship with the soil, so you cannot fulfill your true potential without being related to The Most High. Thus Yeshua says in the fifteenth chapter of John: “I am the true vine” (John 15:1). Yeshua calls Himself the true vine because there are a lot of other vines around to get hooked into: education, philosophy, science, even religion. The word vine here literally means “source of life.” Like the grape vine for its branches, Yeshua is our Source of life. If you depend on education, all you are going to have is what education can offer—an intellectual stimulation. No matter how many degrees you get, you are living below your potential because you are feeding on a false vine. You will never know your true information capacity if you are stuck on education. There are people who have been out of school for 50 years who don’t know any more now than they knew when they were in school. Yeshua says, “I am the True Vine.” By this statement He implies that there are vines or sources that are not genuine.

PRUNING FOR POTENTIAL

The potential of the branches and the vine needs the attention of the gardener. The gardener works in the vineyard trying to bring as much life as possible out of the vines. Often he prunes the vines because he knows there is more life down in the roots. Since he is aware that he isn’t getting the full capacity of the vine, he begins to clip some of the branches. Cutting off the old leaves that stop the vine from producing its full potential, the gardener starts to clean up the vine. In Scripture, The Most High is described as our gardener. Like the gardener in the vineyard, the Father comes into your life and starts clipping at the habits that are hanging on and the attitudes that are killing you. He trims a little bit here and a little bit there from the bad relationships that are stunting your potential and restricting your growth. The Gardener says, “You can do better than you are doing.” Clip. “Stop lying.” Clip. “Stop disobeying me.” Clip. Carefully and steadily, The Most High cuts off those things that are holding you back, because He knows you are not living up to your possibilities. He knows you’re not measuring up to the Source from which you came. The ability of the One to whom you are hooked up is much greater than you are displaying. There is more in your roots. You’re not measuring up to the Source from which you came. Are there some old leaves in your life that have been hanging around for five, ten or fifteen years? Do you need to quit a habit or two so your life more truly reflects the potential of the One who made you? Are you wasting time planning, setting up, committing and feeling guilty about sin? How many hours in a day are you losing to disobedience and rebellion? Prune your life through discipline and obedience to The Most High, who desires your potential to be maximized. Remember, all The Most High’s commands and laws are given to maximize your performance and free your potential.

FREED TO OBEY

When The Most High placed Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, He said, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:16). The Most High gives you freedom, but He also puts some limitations on you. Whenever you violate your limitations, you are in rebellion against The Most High. The only limitations of your potential are violations of The Most High’s Word. If you do anything that doesn’t violate the Word of The Most High, you are within your freedom. The Most High gives you freedom to do anything except disobey Him. That’s a tremendous freedom. You are free to do anything within the context of The Most High’s Word. If The Most High says it’s cool, go for it, because the possibilities of your life are all connected with The Most High. The Most High gives you freedom to do anything except disobey Him. The Most High comes into your life with pruning shearers to free you from your disobedience and rebellion. He comes to take out those things that are stopping you from developing and growing and obeying. Imagine how different your life might have been if you had not wasted months or years on a particular habit. Imagine how different your life could be if you would let go of a grudge or clean up your language. Anything that is contrary to the Word of The Most High is subject to The Most High’s pruning. He comes into your life to help you clean up your act. He wants you to enjoy the freedom of obedience and life within His limitations. Bearing a pruning shear, The Most High trims the useless and dead wood from your life so you can draw from Him the fresh fullness of your potential. Then Yeshua says, “Okay, you’re clean. I’ve saved you. You’re hooked up, straightened out and fixed. You know who your Source is and your pipe’s been unclogged. Your holes have been mended and you’re ready to flow. Now stay that way by remaining hooked up to Me.” You are cleansed through the word Yeshua speaks to you when you ask Him to forgive you. The lid on your well, put there through your disobedience and satan’s deception, has been pried off. You are clean and free to do anything that doesn’t violate The Most High’s Word—free to be all you were created to be and do (whatever He says you can do). What freedom!— freedom that can last, so long as you remain hooked up to The Most High. The Son is Life and the Father is the Maximizer.

PREREQUISITE FOR POTENTIAL

Living a victorious life does not depend on us. It depends on who we are hooked up to. Yeshua said, Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me (John 15:4). There are many individuals who I expected to be successful in life—their lives showed tremendous potential—but they lost their relationship with their Source. Yeshua says, “If you abide in Me, you will be fruitful. But you cannot do it on your own.” No branch can live by itself; it must remain attached to the vine. Neither can it bear fruit apart from the vine. Yeshua is the true vine. You are a branch. If you remain in HaMashiach and HaMashiach in you, you will bear abundant fruit. If you do not remain in HaMashiach, you are like a branch that withers and is thrown away. No branch can bear fruit if it is not attached. It starts going in the opposite direction. No matter how talented or gifted you are, you will never be truly fulfilled and successful apart from a personal relationship with your Creator-Source. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you (John 15:7). Yeshua’ words are almost frightening—whatever you wish. The Most High will give you whatever you ask for so long as you remain in Him. What a promise! When you open your life completely to The Most High, the Holy Spirit’s crowbar firmly resists satan’s attempt to recap your well. The wealth of your potential becomes limitless and free. Whatever you imagine will be done, because The Most High won’t allow you to think it unless you can do it. Thus the secret to a happy, productive life is remaining attached to your Divine Source. If you abide in HaMashiach, His word will abide in you. You can ask whatever you wish and it will be given to you. The Most High will provide from the depths of His grace…freely, abundantly, victoriously. You don’t have to hustle. You don’t have to plead. The Most High is always waiting to help you live a full, fruitful, complete life. From His storehouse of riches, The Most High will supply all you can imagine, and more because He wants you to fulfill your potential. So long as you remain attached to the Vine and submitted to the discipline of the Gardener, you will know The Most High’s blessings. Your potential requires a relationship with its Source. The Most High created you to exalt and bring glory to His name. When you bear fruit, The Most High is glorified. His name is exalted whenever you use the abilities He stored in you. The whole purpose for your being—to reflect and increase the glory of The Most High—is fulfilled whenever you maximize your potential. The Most High works hard to keep us hooked up with Him. He wants His glory to fill the earth through us.

FOR DISCIPLES ONLY

What kind of life are you living? Are you in tune with HaMashiach or are you off doing your own thing? Is there sin clogging up your pipes, preventing you from accomplishing and achieving your maximum ability? Are you constantly hustling, struggling to make your way in the world? If you are, you probably have not become a disciple of the Risen HaMashiach. You see, you were meant to be a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. is not enough to fulfill your potential. The word “Christian” was given to us by pagans. Yeshua never called us “Christians.” This term was given to the disciples in the early Church by the pagans in Antioch. The Bible calls us “children of The Most High” and “citizens of the Kingdom.” We are The Most High’s offspring, a people who have been reconnected to their Source. Only disciples, those who are committed to abiding in HaMashiach, will maximize their potential. A disciple is a learner who follows a teacher everywhere he goes. His goal is to learn and keep on learning until he resembles the teacher. Only a disciple experiences full potential. Because his greatest desire is to know and resemble the Master, he spends hours listening to His words. He seeks new visions, revelations and understandings concerning the Master’s life and who He calls His disciples to be. Only a disciple experiences full potential. I do not consider myself to be great or superior to anyone else, but I decided at the age of 14 that I wanted to understand everything that The Most High has prepared for me. I invested hours in the Word of The Most High—large chunks…sometimes half a day. After 15 years, The Most High said to me, “That’s still not enough. Follow me.” Over the years He has blessed me with a greater degree of understanding and wisdom from His Word. He’s given me revelations of His life, and visions of who He is and who I am and should be. I don’t want to stop. I’m not great, but I want to be one of the few. I want you to be one of the few. I’ll lay down my life to have you be one of the few. Don’t fall for the limitations of the world—the lies and deceptions of the lower nature. Find your Source and get connected. Then stay connected. The Most High has chosen you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Abide in HaMashiach, and the Father will give you whatever you wish. Refuse to live below your privileged potential. Reach for the fruit that is still within the branches of your life. Drink deep from the vine and let your life feed others.

PRINCIPLES

1. What The Most High speaks to is the source for what He creates.
2. Everything has the same components as its source.
3. Nothing can live without being attached to its source.
4. Yeshua is your Source of life.
5. The Most High prunes your life to bring you into the freedom of obedience.
6. The key to fulfilling your potential is staying hooked up to The Most High.
7. Only disciples—those who are committed to abiding in HaMashiach—will maximize their potential.
8. The Most High is glorified when you use your abilities.

Shema selah we are never to be disconnect from our Source by disobedience!!  Return to the Most High and His loving instructions for your life!  https://www.facebook.com/fiveam.prayer/videos/2037882969623142/?l=2572564003526038748

How High Can You Jump?

Matthew 14

We are walking in today:  ​How High Can You Jump?

Witness might throughout the Bible:  H3581 koach-- strength, power, might

Genesis 49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, H3581 and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

The Torah testifies...............
 Numbers 14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might H3581 from among them;)

The prophets proclaim..................
 Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; H3581 not one faileth.

The writings bear witness...........................
 Judges 6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, H3581 and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, H3581 but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

HOW HIGH CAN YOU JUMP?

I want to take you from the realm of waiting for people to challenge you and encourage you to challenge yourself. Don’t wait for a dog to teach you how to jump. Jump by your own challenge. Don’t just look at life and say, “Well, I’m going to wait until a demand is made on me and then I will produce.” Make a demand on yourself. Say to yourself, “Look, I am going to become the best in this area no matter what people have done before me.” Then go after that. You will accomplish it if you set out to do it.

TELL ME TO COME

That reminds me of a young fisherman who decided, “I’m going to take a chance and try to walk on water.” One night as the disciples were crossing Lake Galilee it was hard rowing. They were being tossed about by the waves because the wind was against them. As they struggled, a man came toward them, walking on the water. In fear they cried out, “It’s a ghost.” Only when He spoke to them did the disciples recognize that it was Yeshua. Peter then said, “Lord, if it’s you…tell me to come to you on the water” (Matthew 14:28). And when Yeshua said “Come!”, Peter had the guts to respond to Yeshua’ order. I believe every one of those disciples could have walked on water. The potential was in them even as it was in Peter. But only Peter succeeded, because only Peter had the guts to say, “If you challenge me, I’ll take your challenge.” Although we may laugh or criticize Peter for sinking, none of us has ever walked on water. He’s the only guy who can say, “I walked on water. What did you do?”

Everybody sees Yeshua, but very few of us ask Yeshua, “Tell me something to do. Give me something to challenge my potential.” Men and women who are assets to the world and bring change for the better are those who give their potential something to maximize. Give your ability a responsibility; that would change the world. There is a wealth of ability in you, but you haven’t given it any responsibility. Don’t die without maximizing your ability—that’s irresponsible. You have no right to die with what The Most High put in you to live out.

DON’T WAIT TO BE CHALLENGED

The Most High has promised that He can do far more than you can think or imagine. His power is available to you. Is that power working in you? Are you saying to The Most High: “I’ve got some power, now work it for me. Give me something to do”?

The Most High has given you a skill or ability the world needs. Miracles happen when we give our potential responsibility. The Most High designed it that way. Don’t allow the things within you to die with you because you did not challenge them. The Most High planted the seed of potential within you. He made you according to the potential principle—like the rest of His creation. Don’t waste that gift. Give your potential some responsibility.

BEAT THE ODDS

Men and women who make changes in history are those who have come against the odds and told the odds it is impossible for the odds to stop them. Don’t throw yourself away—don’t let anyone else throw you away because you are up against some odds.

Don’t give up because you are physically handicapped. Don’t give up if you are facing great odds. Your potential is not determined by whether you can see the fine print of a book, walk across the street or lift heavy objects with both hands. Your potential is not destroyed because your mother is an alcoholic, your father’s a junkie or you have no parents at all. There are many people in wheelchairs who have given up. There are many people who come from the wrong side of town or a bad family situation who have given up. Don’t be one of them. Beat the odds.

SHORTCUTS DON’T WORK

There are no shortcuts to developing your potential. You will never know what you might have achieved if you use a crutch to get there. You’ll never know what you may have learned if you get a degree without fulfilling the requirements. You will never know what you can do if you attempt to obtain it by a shortcut. Shortcuts negate potential. They destroy the possibilities The Most High planted within you.

DEMAND SOMETHING OF YOUR POTENTIAL

Potential must be exercised to be fulfilled. The greatest works in the world will be done by people who don’t care who gets the credit. I don’t want to be famous, I just want to be faithful. I don’t want to be well-known, I want to be well-used. I don’t want to be powerful, I want to be potent. Success requires striking out on new paths instead of traveling those that are well-worn. Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. There are many people with great ideas, but they have no desire to try. There are four steps to the accomplishment of your dream:


1. Prepare prayerfully.

2. Plan purposefully.

3. Proceed positively.

4. Pursue persistently. 

Failure is the path of least persistence.

DON’T BE AFRAID TO TRY

No one can climb beyond the limitations he has placed on himself. Success is never final—failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts—courage and the willingness to move on. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to the grave, obscure men, whom fear and timidity have prevented from making their first attempt to do something. Never tell a person that something can’t be done, because The Most High may have been waiting for centuries for someone ignorant enough to believe that the impossible could be possible.

Success is never final—failure is never fatal.

CHAPTER PRINCIPLES


1. Believe there is potential in you to accomplish something worthwhile.

2. Unless you use your potential, you will never realize how much ability is inside you.

3. Jump by your own challenge. Don’t wait for someone to challenge you.

4. Don’t let the odds that are against you stop you from fulfilling your potential.

5. Shortcuts negate your ability.

6. Don’t be so afraid of failure that you refuse to try.

Shema selah will you walk out on the water as commanded by Yeshua??