BREAKING THROUGH YOUR GLASS CEILING

BREAKING THROUGH YOUR GLASS CEILING

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“The glass ceiling”: an invisible barrier that prevents them from attaining the success they see others around them achieving.

DIRECTION, NOT INTENTION DETERMINES DESTINATION

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (NIV)

TO BREAK THROUGH MY GLASS CEILING,

I. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT A GLASS CEILING EXIST

II. IDENTIFY OUR GLASS CEILINGS!

III. SHATTER GLASS CEILINGS

TO SHATTER OUR GLASS CEILING

1. OPERATE BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT

All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands." (NIV)

For in the gospel righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." (NIV)

2. REALIZE THAT GOD DID NOT DESTINE YOU FOR A BAD REPORT

5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (NIV)

3. GLASS CEILINGS CAN BE SHATTERED ONLY BY THE POWER OF GOD

· Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. (NIV)

· 3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (NIV)

Our advantages.

I. The Word

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, (NIV)

II. The Holy Spirit

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. (NIV)

III. His promises

21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. (NIV)

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (NIV)

2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (NIV)