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If you've been around motivational speakers,
well wishers and even some well meaning preachers, you must have heard the
saying “The Sky is the Limit!” Many employ this saying implying that whatever
you want or wish to do and or become (I know the “or’s” and “and’s” can be a
mouthful ...) is achievable and that is true within reason, of course. For
example, I can wish and want all day long to become the King of England but that’s
not going to happen, I know it’s an extreme example but you get the idea!
The same can be said of all of God’s
children, we were all created for His pleasure and not a single one of us is
useless to Him. We may want to become like others for whatever reason, but in
doing so we are giving up what we were truly created to be. Someone once said –
I forget who – “God doesn't create photocopies, He creates originals”, and I agree with that.
Now, for a child of God, with God’s very
own nature within you, you have everything you will ever need to achieve all
that you were created to achieve. If you have God’s Spirit in you, you lack
nothing! Stop hopping from conference to conference, church to church, ministry
to ministry chasing after what you already have. You are complete in Christ
Jesus! What we all need is to find out what we have and that comes from
spending time with the Holy Spirit who is in us and as we obey Him we will be
well on our way to accomplishing all the good works that God had already
prepared for us to walk in.
You may be wondering “but how come I’m not exactly
living the abundant life Jesus came to offer”? First of all, if you are in
Christ, that very thought is deceptive. It is from the enemy of our souls, the
father of lies trying to get us to doubt God and His word. Know this, once you
entertain and accept the enemy’s doubts you are effectively limiting what God
wants to do for, in and through you. Nothing can stop God’s favour from flowing
in your life, not even Satan. You alone can stop His favour and resist His
grace by embracing doubts and unbelief.
The Children of Israel by their unbelief
limited God and it didn't go over well for them. Their enemies couldn't stop
God’s favour on them, remember the Balak and Baalam saga? Try as they did, they couldn't put a curse on the children of Israel. The children of Israel were the only
ones who could stop God’s favour over them by their unbelief and acts of
disobedience. Actually unbelief itself is disobedience…. So yeah…
The Good Book documents their bouts of unbelief
this way…
41
Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the
Holy One of Israel. – Psalm 78:41 NKJV
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Other
versions render the word “limited” as “vexing”, “testing” etc.
So beloved let us not be found doing the
same. Let us believe God’s word regardless of our circumstances and allow Him
to walk with us through our circumstances and we will go from faith to faith,
from victory to victory, from glory to glory as we journey through this life.
Take the limits off of your Father who
loves you eternally and unreservedly. Remember He can do far above all that you
can ask or imagine and He does it according to His power that is at work in
you. And the more we align our thinking with His Word, the more His power works in us, resulting in His desires being imparted and fulfilled in, for and through us. Why would we want to limit the Limitless One who desires only the very best for us, why?
You are blessed and Highly favoured!
