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Life was never meant to be dull, mediocre, drab, or plain.\u00a0 Life is meant to be full of meaning.\u00a0 It\u2019s meant to excite and challenge you.\u00a0 Life is your chance to make a mark and to make a difference.<\/p>\nLife was never meant to be dull, mediocre, drab, or plain.\u00a0 Life is meant to be full of meaning.\u00a0 It\u2019s meant to excite and challenge you.\u00a0 Life is your chance to make a mark and to make a difference.<\/p>\n
Most people are born, die, and a few days after the funeral, hardly anyone even remembers they existed.\u00a0 Sure, they had family, friends, and colleagues, but that\u2019s common; everyone has that.\u00a0 They left nothing behind, but memories.\u00a0 However, we were born for something more.<\/p>\n
One day I woke up.\u00a0 After living a \u201cnormal\u201d life, one that was plain and caused me to blend into the to the crowd, I was fed up.\u00a0 I was living paycheck to paycheck and barely getting by.\u00a0 My life was so contrary to what I read in the Bible I got mad!\u00a0 I wanted more.\u00a0 I wanted what the Bible says I could have.\u00a0 That desire caused me to seek the truth.\u00a0 I had to stop listening to all the people around me who were content with status-quo.\u00a0 I had to launch out on my own to discover why I was here.<\/p>\n
I wanted to see miracles.\u00a0 I wanted to see people healed.\u00a0 I wanted to experience prosperity.\u00a0 I wanted what I saw others have, who seemed to have it all figured out, and who learned how to tap into the realities of the Bible.\u00a0 I turned to Christian TV and listed for anything that could help me. \u00a0A few ministries really sparked my interest such as:\u00a0 Kenneth Copeland<\/a>, Sid Roth<\/a>, Mike Murdock<\/a>, Bill Winton<\/a>, Andrew Wommack<\/a>, Steve Gray<\/a>, and Gary Keesee<\/a>.\u00a0 These men all played a part in my deliverance from the mundane.<\/p>\n One common thread that all these men had was that they prayed in tongues.\u00a0 Tongues was something shunned within the group I was running with for the past 35 years.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, all the miraculous was avoided.\u00a0 This is true of most religious groups.\u00a0 If they can\u2019t control or naturally understand it, they mock or avoid it all together.\u00a0 Part of my deliverance was when I let the Holy Spirit pray for and through me in Heaven’s language.<\/p>\n Through my seeking and hunger the Bible became a new Book.\u00a0 It was alive and it was making me alive.\u00a0 I began to develop my faith and made it my mission to discover what faith really was.\u00a0 I opened my mouth and begin to pray in the spirit, the gift locked up within me and never utilized because of false teaching.\u00a0 I\u2019ll say more about this gift in future post.\u00a0 Praying in the spirit is vital to operating with power in the miraculous.\u00a0 I prayed for healing and it actually happened!\u00a0 I learned about the Law of Sowing and Reaping and my finances began to change.\u00a0 Most importantly I learned that God\u2019s Kingdom operates by laws.\u00a0 When I applied these laws, \u00a0I experienced countless blessings.<\/p>\n [I am going to get very personal.\u00a0 This is not to offend, but to cause the seeking reader to consider where they really are in their Christian life and serve as a challenge to do something that will take them to a whole new level.\u00a0 I am writing this to invoke change, not to offend.] <\/em><\/p>\n Here is my question.\u00a0 What about you?\u00a0 What are you settling for?\u00a0 Is your Christian life powerless?\u00a0 Are you sick and have a disease that you are tolerating?\u00a0 Are you struggling financially?\u00a0 Are you depressed?\u00a0 Do you hate going to work every day and can\u2019t wait for Friday?\u00a0 If you died, ultimately, would it even matter?\u00a0 Was this world a better place because you were here?\u00a0 These are hard questions, but honest ones that need to be answered.<\/p>\n You were born and put here for a purpose.\u00a0 God had something in mind for you.\u00a0 Your job is to discover that purpose and get into the flow of God\u2019s design for you.\u00a0 Here is what I know:\u00a0 Your purpose will be regarding something you know little about.\u00a0 It will be big and the thoughts of doing it will scare you spitless.\u00a0 It will be foreign to you.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because God wants you to depend on Him to fulfill it.\u00a0 God is not going to give you an assignment that you can do on your own.\u00a0 He will lead you into a \u201cland\u201d that is foreign and intimidating to your carnal mind.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that exciting!<\/p>\n If you look at the picture of Israel you will see that God lead them into a foreign land full of giants and fortified cities. \u00a0Yes, God led them into a \u201cscary\u201d situation.\u00a0 However, that land was loaded with riches.\u00a0 God promised them that land and all they had to do is trust Him and go and take it!\u00a0 However, because it was so scary to the natural senses their entry was delayed until all the fear died off and faith arose; faith strong enough to do what God said.\u00a0 When they went ahead and took the risk, they were GREATLY rewarded!<\/p>\n It\u2019s no different for us.\u00a0 We are comfortable living in \u201cthe house of bondage.\u201d\u00a0 We are comfortable living mediocre lives.\u00a0 It\u2019s safe.\u00a0 It may not be pleasant, but it is safe.\u00a0 It\u2019s predictable and quite frankly miserable!\u00a0 So how long are you going to tolerate mediocrity?\u00a0 How long are you going to let all the promises of God pass you by and not have tasted the fullness of what God promised you HERE and NOW?<\/p>\n Do you know that God promised health to His people?\u00a0 Do you know He promised a prosperous life?\u00a0 Lack is not of God!\u00a0 Sickness is not of God!\u00a0 Yet we tolerate it as though it\u2019s normal.\u00a0 It\u2019s normal for the world, but not God\u2019s people.\u00a0 We do what the world does and that is why the world pays zero attention to us.\u00a0 What is the difference between you and your unsaved friends.\u00a0 They don\u2019t read the Bible, do you?\u00a0 They don\u2019t depend on the Word of God to heal them, do you?\u00a0 They depend on credit to survive, do you?\u00a0 I know this is hard and this may not be you in every case, but let\u2019s be honest.\u00a0 If any of this describes you, just repent and seek to know the truth and be set free by it.<\/p>\n There are some tough things to swallow written here. \u00a0I wish someone confronted me with questions like this long ago.\u00a0 I might have been delivered much sooner!\u00a0 The only way to higher ground is to get to the place that common is no longer acceptable.\u00a0 You can no longer tolerate being a powerless Christian.\u00a0 Many Christian\u2019s have the form of godliness, but lack of power!\u00a0 They go to church, occasionally read their Bible, attend prayer meetings and even serve in the church, but the facts are the facts; they are void of power and they know it.<\/p>\n I encourage you to stop with the forms.\u00a0 Stop settling for less than what God has ordained your life to be.\u00a0 I challenge you to go to Him and seek Him with all your heart.\u00a0 Hebrews 11 says that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.\u00a0 I like the added word \u201cdiligent.\u201d\u00a0 Casual doesn\u2019t appeal to God.\u00a0 He likes red-hot pursuit.\u00a0 When He shows up in your life, I guarantee you that things will get stirred up.\u00a0 Your life will change.\u00a0 Your associations will change.\u00a0 Your finances will change.\u00a0 Your way of dealing with sickness will change.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because you will begin to base everything you say and do on the Word of God!\u00a0 If it\u2019s in Heaven, you can have it on Earth.\u00a0 If it isn\u2019t in Heaven you don\u2019t have to put up with it here on Earth. \u00a0God wants you to taste and see that the He is good and to be a beacon of hope for others.<\/p>\n Finally, do not be condemned.\u00a0 I was there.\u00a0 I was common and mediocre accepting what life dished out.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t plan or desire to be that way.\u00a0 I just didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 But when I learned the truth I did something about it.\u00a0 That is all God expects.\u00a0 When truth is presented, choose to make the necessary changes to become extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You were born and put here for a purpose. 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