An Awesome Future
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14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
If you are going to mature and grow you must set goals.
As you set goals the first step is to ask God for direction.
5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own.
1. So, when you get ready to set a goal you should always ask yourself if the goal will take me into a deeper and more intimate relationship with God.
2. You ought to ask if this goal will help to make somebody else successful.
3. You ought to ask if you have to violate a spiritual principle in order to get there.
4. You must ask if it will fulfill God’s purpose for your life in 2021.
One of the enemies is ignorance of what believing is.
Another enemy of prayer is wrong confession.
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
It is the goal that sets the plan. It is the plan that promotes the action.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Well, pray for direction. Prepare for action. But, realistically you must plan for opposition.
If you are going to think big and live an awesome future, you will encounter opposition.
23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
The word faith is a noun. Believing is acting on the word. Faith is a result of this action.
Doubt your fears and believe your faith.