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As I was writing this teaching. . .I had just prayed for nearly a thousand prayer requests. People facing unknown transitions and often difficult choices.
Are you going through a transition yourself?
Perhaps you're going from one job to another … or from having a job to being unemployed?
Does it seem that you're facing difficult problems without any answer seemingly in sight?
If so, this teaching is for you.
Please don’t miss My Valentine Day of Prayer – this Sunday, February 14th
I sent the following letter by mail but I can’t take a chance that you might have missed it. I need your response before Sunday …Valentine’s Day.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING carefully
and … respond immediately!
Do you need God’s IMMEDIATE attention?
As I was praying recently, I felt stirred in my spirit that you and several others need miracle-working power IMMEDIATELY.
The Lord directed me to get this letter to you as quickly as possible. It will only take you two or three minutes to read and respond.
I believe you’ll find this is just the answer you’ve been praying for. So find a quiet spot and let the truth of the Word ignite your spirit like it did mine.
I keep hearing people say. . .I’m just looking for the right opportunity.
More often than not. . .most people aren’t looking for an opportunity. . .they’re waiting for it to knock on the door and say “here I am.”
It doesn’t work that way.
Thomas Edison, the inventor, once said:
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Sometimes an opportunity is right before us but we’ve been so blinded by our circumstances that we can’t see the obvious.
God promised Abraham and Sarah a son. After a number of years, Sarah decided she was going to help God. So Sarah gave Hagar, her hand maiden, to Abraham and she bore Ishmael, a son.
After that, there was trouble in the tents. In fact, Sarah asked Abraham to kick Hagar and Ishmael out of the camp.
10. If you want your dreams to come true. . .ask God to use you to help others make their dreams come true.
9. Don’t wait. . .don’t procrastinate. . .activate your dreams.
8. What you look at the longest will become the strongest in your life.
7. It’s time to stop talking and start doing. James 1:22
6. From the moment your eyes open in the morning. . .until they close at night. . .serve the Lord your God with enthusiasm.
Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.
5. Starting tomorrow. . .seize previously unknown opportunities and tap into previously unused potential. It's your season.
4. Write this down and confess it. God has given me the ability to perform at a level I never previously thought possible.
3. If our future is in front of us. . .why are we standing still?
2. If one part of the Body is lifted up…the whole Body is lifted up. When we encourage others…we are also lifting ourselves up.
# 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:
1. Praying this morning for you to believe, embrace, confess and possess the unlimited possibilities found in the Word of God.
Congratulations, you’re average. But you don’t have to stay that way. Those who rise above the crowd are the ones who go the extra mile while others are relaxing in front of the TV.
The strength of a person’s character and drive to success is determined by whether or not they can finish what they started.
Employees who complete the task are more highly valued than those who, though they make a valiant effort, nevertheless, fail to complete the project.
The One by whom our every effort, thought and action should be measured. . . was a finisher. Should we be any less?
John 4:34 in the New Living Translation says:
“Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.”
Not only was Jesus a finisher but he made us that way as well.
10. Never ever get discouraged when you don’t see the immediate manifestation of God’s promises to you.
9. Don’t go inviting trouble into your life by the words you speak. Job 3:25
8. Any problem God allows you to see…He will enlighten and empower you to solve.
7. If you’re a high value target of the enemy…it means he knows you’re valuable to and for the Kingdom of God.
6. The joy of the Lord gives us the ability to look beyond today’s circumstances to a better tomorrow…based on His promises.
Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.
5. Looking in the rear view mirror at opportunities you have missed...may cause you to overlook possibilities in your future.
4. Praying for you to think like you've never thought. Do what you've never done...be what you've never been all for His glory.
3. If you don’t give up. . .failure is nothing more than the opportunity to learn a new way to do something.
2. Don't talk about it...do it! “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.” Bruce Lee
# 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:
1. There are times to speak up and times to shut up…discerning the difference will increase the length of our lives. Prov 13:3
Anne Frank once said:
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
When God looks inside of us. . .He doesn’t see the failures of the past. . .but rather the potential for our future.
He sees potential in us. . .we’ve never seen or didn’t even know we have.
Let me ask each of us two questions.
Do we think God can create amazing opportunities where they didn’t previously exist?
Do we think. . .God has unlimited potential?
Do you feel like shouting? You will after reading Deuteronomy 28:12-13 in the Amplified Bible which says:
“The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them.”
These two verses contain seven priceless benefits. . .giving you unlimited access to the greatest treasure ever.
This unlimited treasury is available to every believer who follows two simple instructions. Here are the seven priceless benefits.
1. You have unlimited access to the treasures of heaven.
Let me put it another way. . .your heavenly treasure has more wealth than King Solomon, King Midas and the world’s 1,645 billionaires combined and tripled. In fact, all that accumulated wealth would just be chump change when compared to the treasury in heaven to which you have unlimited access.
As I started writing this teaching. . .I was led to Genesis 28:12 which says:
About 4:30 this morning God stirred a question in me. . .for you. I’ll get to it in just a few minutes. . .but first.
When God wants to get something done. . .He gives the assignment to one person.
One person committed to a goal. . .His goal. . .their goals is all God needs to change the world.
You may be thinking right now that you do not have what it takes to change the world.
If you entertain those kind of thoughts. . .I want you to know that I think you’re wrong. The word of God says you’re wrong. But, most importantly, God thinks you’re wrong.
Every person on planet earth has an assignment unique to them. Yes, that means YOU.
10. Success comes from doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
9. Failure is a state of mind. It's a choice a person makes. Failure is never final.
8. One of four things holds us back…old habits…wrong attitudes…lack of passion or stagnant ideas. We can change all four.
7. You are not destined to be a prisoner of your past. Hebrews 8:12
6. Stop speaking self-defeating words like: "I can't; I don't know how; I've never done that before” or anything contrary to the Word of God.
Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.
5. Discipline determines your direction.
4. The revelation of God’s Word. . .will take us through whatever hard times we may be facing.
3. The problem with thinking negative thoughts . . . is that we will ultimately express them verbally.
2. If you speak a thing often enough it becomes part of who you are and how you think. Think before you speak.
# 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is.
1. Our lives would be so much richer if we listened more to what God has to say and less about what others have to say.
General Douglas MacArthur once said:
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
Quitting and, for that matter, persistence is clearly visible to our Lord.
Revelation 2:19 in the Message Bible says:
“I see everything you’re doing for me. Impressive! The love and the faith, the service and persistence. Yes, very impressive! You get better at it every day.”
Would you believe there are seven keys in this short verse? I thought about teaching the scripture but I was clearly directed to go in a different direction.
Persistence is always. . .the decision of winners.
Persistence, patience, perspiration and especially, prayer. . .make an unbeatable combination for success.
Harold Herring