500 Got What It Takes

When God formed you, he had an imagine in mind. A picture of who you could be and the life you could live. He envisioned it, then created you. He formed you with the greatest of intentions. I’ve always wanted to form a piece of clay at the potter’s wheel. It’s probably since watching that old Patrick Swayze movie Ghost that we all want our own personal potters wheel, right? Imagine you’re forming a lump of clay into a vase. As you form it, you know how you’re going to use the vase to hold fresh flowers. Now, knowing what you imagined this vase to become, would you just straight up fail to put a bottom in the vase? Would you leave a gaping hole in the side, letting out water? No, of course not. You know what you’re making and you know what is required to form this clay into a functional vase. If we in our totally amateur artist state would know these basics, how much more would the almighty creator of Heaven and Earth know what is needed in us to function? He would have never had a vision for who you could be and the life you could live, then fail to create you with exactly what is needed to fulfill your purpose. My sister you are fully equipped to step into your destiny. YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES! Yet somehow, we feel incredibly inadequate don’t we? We feel broken. We feel incapable. We feel uncertain. And oh how our feelings get us in trouble! What if in this new year we made a shift? A shift away from these feelings that can lead us astray, and an intentional leaning towards our truth. Scripture is full of your truth. Truths that God has a good plan for your life. Truths that God is using all things for good in your life. Truths that God is for you and therefore no one can be against you. Truths that nothing is impossible for you with God. What if we learned to first choose our thoughts instead of being driven by fickle feelings? Remember scripture tells us in Romans 12:2 we can be “transformed by the renewing of our minds.” Is there an area of your life you want to be transformed in 2020? Not only want, but girl you desperately NEED transformation (there’s a word for someone!). You need change and it needs to happen now. Here’s where it starts … in your thoughts. What if you started repeating to yourself daily “I’ve got what it takes! I’ve got what it takes! I’ve got what it takes!” How do I know without hesitation this is your personal truth? Because I know your creator! And I know your creator doesn’t make something lacking what is needed to fulfill it’s purpose. Just as you would never form a lump of clay on a potter’s wheel into a vase without a bottom, God would never form you with an inability to become who he created you to be to live the life he created you for. My guess is you are considering a few goals for the New Year, especially after our Goal Setting Broadcast last night. And I would also guess at least one of your goals centers around being healthier in some form or fashion. Right now you think possibly eating cleaner and exercising more is a good idea. You’re thinking the new year is a good time to quit smoking or start drinking more water, or give up sugar, or join the gym. But tomorrow we wake up to that fresh start, the clean slate of a new year and new decade, and my guess is you won’t really feel like it. Yip, what you think is a good idea today will feel like dread and regret tomorrow. This is where many visions of the new year will die. Those dang “feelings” that tell us we don’t want to. The feeling of not being ready, the feeling of not being sure, the feeling of just waiting another day, the feeling of dread. Then you know what feeling quickly follows … REGRET. I’m assuming there isn’t a single person who chose regret as their word for 2020.