The Challenge last night is to put together 3 things to do in the next 3 months towards living your dream and changing the world.
What if everything you have fought so hard to acquire was already available and attainable to you?
All of us, in some degree or another, desire to be successful, happy and desirable. We want to be noticed and seen as unique. Our efforts are dispensed over and over again in an attempt to arrive at the point in the future that never seems to come… we exhaust ourselves in the striving to become _________ , fill in the blank.
Ironically, all of these things that we so desperately want to connect to have already been established. In Luke 17:21, the text says that “the Kingdom of God is within.” In other writings, we read about “out of our heart flow the issues of life”, “life, death, the present, the future, they’re all yours”…
Within all of us is the power, authority, dominion, grace, glory, beauty, radiance, wisdom, intelligence, courage, confidence, brilliance, favor, mercy, wealth, peace, compassion, health and foresight found in God. Each of us possesses all that Christ is, all that Christ was and all that He will ever do… In fact, He said that we would do greater things than what He did.
So first and foremost, we need to connect to this reality - IT STARTS IN YOU.
Erwin McManus has something to say about this:
When you live out of who you ALREADY ARE, your very presence influences and permeates everyone around you. Others will be drawn and curious to find out what’s so different about you.
This simply the root of the matter because once this mindset has been established, you can’t help but to become like the One you’re hanging around. His nature being your nature, you start to speak and behave as He does.
That of course opens doors of influence, opportunities for advancement within your company, new business ideas, wisdom you didn’t read or learn, etc, etc… a platform will naturally be created for you to speak into the lives of others.
It is within Seven Spheres of Influence that we change a nation, our nation. If you will grasp this philosophy, and implement it into one of the following areas, you will play a part in the revolution of the ages… the next reformation of God’s heart to his people - “Christ, in you, the hope of glory.”
These seven areas are:
• Politics
• Education
• Media
• Social/Spiritual
• Entertainment/Culture
• Sports
• Finance
Again, the challenge last night is to put together 3 things to do in the next 3 months towards living your dream and changing the world. Date it. Sign it. Live it.
What’s your plan?
