Starting Your Best Life Now: A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your Journey by Joel Osteen Page B
Authors: Joel Osteen
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because you’re young doesn’t mean your thinking hasn’t already gotten old and hardened. You may have assumed that you will never be successful or do anything meaningful or enjoy the good things in life that you’ve seen others enjoy. You may think your life stinks and always will stink.
Will you stretch your faith and vision and get rid of those old negative mind-sets that hold you back? Start making room in your thinking for what God has in store for you. You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. The key is to believe, to let the seeds God is placing in your life to take root so they can grow. Expect God’s favor to help you break out of the ruts and rise to new heights. Expect to excel in whatever you do.
Quiet your heart and receive God’s Word: “It shall be done to you according to your faith” (Matthew 9:29 NASB ).
God is saying to you something similar to what the angel Gabriel told a young woman, the Virgin Mary—that she would conceive without knowing a man (Luke 1:26–38). In other words, what God wants to do in your life is not going to be by your might or power. It’s going to be by His Spirit. The supernatural power of the Most High God shall come upon you and cause it to happen.
Will you believe? Remember: With God, all things are possible.
This could be the day you see your miracle.
RISE TO NEW LEVELS
Todd Jacobs dreamed of starting his own computer software business, but when he got married and the first baby came along, he shelved his dreams and took a mundane job just to pay the bills. Ironically, when a terrific opportunity arose for Todd to work with one of his best friends and develop software for a well-known, established company, he turned it down. He doubted his skills and was afraid to take a chance.
Like Todd, many people miss pivotal opportunities in their lives every day because they expect nothing better. God opens new doors for them, yet regrettably they back away. Rather than launch out in faith and believe for the best, they say, “Well, that could never happen to me. That’s just too good to be true.”
DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY WILL SWING OPEN FOR YOU
God has more in store for you! His dream for your life is so much greater than you can imagine. If God showed you everything He has in store for you, it would boggle your mind.
If you have a vision for victory in your life, you can rise to a new level. But as long as your gaze is on your problems instead of on your possibilities, you risk moving in the wrong direction and missing out on the great things God wants to do in and through you.
It’s a spiritual as well as a psychological fact: Your life will follow your expectations. If you dwell on positive thoughts, your life will move that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life, which will affect your relationship with your family and friends. If you expect defeat, failure, or mediocrity, your subconscious mind will make sure that you lose, fail, or sabotage every attempt to push above average.
W HAT YOU WILL RECEIVE IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TOHOW YOU BELIEVE.
It’s time to quit limiting God. God is your source, and His creativity and resources are unlimited! One idea from God can forever change the course of your life. God is not limited by what you have or don’t have. God can do anything, if you will simply stop limiting Him in your thinking.
Quiet your heart and receive God’s Word: “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13 NKJV ).
When God brings opportunities across your path, step out boldly in faith, expect the best, move forward with confidence, knowing that you are well able to do what God wants you to do. Step outside that little box you’ve grown accustomed to. Start thinking big!
If you will change your thinking, God can change your life.
BREAK THROUGH BARRIERS
Up until the early 1950s, track-and-field experts pompously declared that no runner
Will you stretch your faith and vision and get rid of those old negative mind-sets that hold you back? Start making room in your thinking for what God has in store for you. You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. The key is to believe, to let the seeds God is placing in your life to take root so they can grow. Expect God’s favor to help you break out of the ruts and rise to new heights. Expect to excel in whatever you do.
Quiet your heart and receive God’s Word: “It shall be done to you according to your faith” (Matthew 9:29 NASB ).
God is saying to you something similar to what the angel Gabriel told a young woman, the Virgin Mary—that she would conceive without knowing a man (Luke 1:26–38). In other words, what God wants to do in your life is not going to be by your might or power. It’s going to be by His Spirit. The supernatural power of the Most High God shall come upon you and cause it to happen.
Will you believe? Remember: With God, all things are possible.
This could be the day you see your miracle.
RISE TO NEW LEVELS
Todd Jacobs dreamed of starting his own computer software business, but when he got married and the first baby came along, he shelved his dreams and took a mundane job just to pay the bills. Ironically, when a terrific opportunity arose for Todd to work with one of his best friends and develop software for a well-known, established company, he turned it down. He doubted his skills and was afraid to take a chance.
Like Todd, many people miss pivotal opportunities in their lives every day because they expect nothing better. God opens new doors for them, yet regrettably they back away. Rather than launch out in faith and believe for the best, they say, “Well, that could never happen to me. That’s just too good to be true.”
DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY WILL SWING OPEN FOR YOU
God has more in store for you! His dream for your life is so much greater than you can imagine. If God showed you everything He has in store for you, it would boggle your mind.
If you have a vision for victory in your life, you can rise to a new level. But as long as your gaze is on your problems instead of on your possibilities, you risk moving in the wrong direction and missing out on the great things God wants to do in and through you.
It’s a spiritual as well as a psychological fact: Your life will follow your expectations. If you dwell on positive thoughts, your life will move that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life, which will affect your relationship with your family and friends. If you expect defeat, failure, or mediocrity, your subconscious mind will make sure that you lose, fail, or sabotage every attempt to push above average.
W HAT YOU WILL RECEIVE IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TOHOW YOU BELIEVE.
It’s time to quit limiting God. God is your source, and His creativity and resources are unlimited! One idea from God can forever change the course of your life. God is not limited by what you have or don’t have. God can do anything, if you will simply stop limiting Him in your thinking.
Quiet your heart and receive God’s Word: “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13 NKJV ).
When God brings opportunities across your path, step out boldly in faith, expect the best, move forward with confidence, knowing that you are well able to do what God wants you to do. Step outside that little box you’ve grown accustomed to. Start thinking big!
If you will change your thinking, God can change your life.
BREAK THROUGH BARRIERS
Up until the early 1950s, track-and-field experts pompously declared that no runner
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