You have to give yourself permission to rest. This takes all the pressure off. Keep honoring Him, being your best, and God will take care of the rest. He’ll open the right doors.
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Sometimes the right place is a difficult place, an unfair place, a place where you’re doing the right thing but the wrong thing is happening. But if you’re not in the right place, you can miss what God has in store.
Whenever you’re on the verge of a new level, negative seeds will come trying to talk you out of it. You can let those words take root or you can guard your mind and not let the doubt, the inferiority, talk you out of your destiny.
You need to take back control of your happiness. Quit putting it in someone else’s hands. Make up your mind that no matter what people do, no matter what they say, how they treat you, they’re not going to steal your joy.
The Scripture says, “Come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy.” When you need mercy, don’t go to God weakly, intimidated, telling Him how you don’t measure up. Go boldly. Go with confidence, knowing that you’re forgiven, knowing that He’s for you.
If you’re going to reach your potential, you’re going to have to fight through some things. You can’t have a weak, give up, or this is too hard spirit. You have to be more determined than what’s trying to stop you.
When we’re trying to make up for our sins, what we’re really saying is, “Jesus didn’t finish everything on the cross. I’ve got to pay for this one.” The truth is your blood wouldn’t do any good. It was the spotless sinless blood of the lamb that paid the price in full.
Before your dreams come to pass, God will test your character. He’ll put you in situations that are uncomfortable, that you don’t understand. It’s not always about right now. God is looking down the road at what you’re going to need to handle the weight of blessing.
What you thought was going to limit the rest of your life—the bad break, the disappointment, the mistake you made—that is not how your story ends. Beauty is coming, restoration is coming, healing is coming, favor is coming.
Don’t be discouraged by how permanent that obstacle looks and how much more powerful it seems than you. You have an advantage. The Most High God is on your side. He knows how to cause your enemies to hurry out of your way.
When people try to push you down, the blessing causes you to rise up. When people ignore you, try to discount you, the blessing causes you to be noticed. That’s the power of God's blessing.