Marriage and PregnancyHow I Stopped God and Prosperity
For years, I dreamed of becoming a certified life coach and partnering with others who really wanted to make a difference. I would get excited about the idea for awhile, then drop it. After all, I reasoned, “Who am I to start my own business, My reasons for not going forward with my dream were genuine and logical: I didn’t know how to market, I didn’t know how to tell people about my service, I didn’t know how to build a webpage and I didn’t know how to get people to my webpage if I did build one, I’m getting older, I have too much to do—the list went on and on.
Every time the dream would reemerge, my mental list was on standby, eager to remind me of how ridiculous these thoughts were. ‘My dream was impossible,” I’d rationalize.
Then it hit me! How often have I talked myself out of doing something because I decided it was impossible?
How often have I stopped myself from doing something because I made the decision as to what God would or would not do in my life?
I believe that God gives us our dreams and that God created us for a purpose. I also believe that with God, all things are possible.
By not following my dreams, I had denied everything I believed.
We have His promise that He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us. When we don’t go for our dreams, we never give God the chance to show us the depth of his exceedingly, abundant power.
By not following our dreams, we are telling God that our fears and doubts are stronger than His power.
God’s intentions toward us are clear, “I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope (Jeremiah 29:11)”. He can and wants to do more than we can ever imagine: we just have to give him the chance.
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