Take the Limits Off Your Life
Are you one of those people who has a barely-get-by mentality? Are you always waiting for the other shoe to drop? I know many people who just can't seem to get a break. For them the mindset is that of "This is as good as it gets!"
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.Proverbs 23:7
We can set major limits in our own lives and the lives of our children simply by displaying a perpetual "that's my lot in life attitude!" Seeing your future's carved out from generations past can take a permanent root in your soul and become your way of life.
We are creatures of habit; good ones and bad, and we learn what we live. We become products of our surroundings. If you have grown up a certain way, perhaps doing without or in a very negative household, chances are, you have learned those exact ways of limited and negative thinking and have carried them straight in to your adult life.
I once heard a story about a lady who always made a beautiful ham for holiday dinners. Before she placed the ham in the oven to cook, she always cut off a piece at each end. One day her young daughter asked her why she always cuts off the ends of the ham? The mother responded saying this is how her own mother had always done it; so she cooks her ham as her mother had taught her. After the girl's mom thought about it for a while, she decided to call her own mother to ask why the ends of the ham needed to be cut off? The response on the other end of the phone was that of a chuckle followed by, "I always cut the ham ends off because my pan was too small to fit the large ham!"
Metaphorically speaking, how many of us simply cut the ends off the ham rather than just get a larger pan? A larger vision for our lives? Sometimes we don't even question our realities. We act like we have no power to make changes, to venture out off the beaten path and tread upon unchartered territory. We become complacent and comfortable with the status quo and never wander out past the walls of our own set limitations. We would rather succeed at nothing than fail at something. We give up before we even think to buy a bigger pan!
Jeremiah 1:5 says, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
God chose you, He formed you, He set you apart! That means He designed you and made you to His exact specifications. He made you in His image with a great purpose and plan for your life. So no matter how you were raised or what has caused you to have negative or limited thinking, God has set you apart for greatness even before you were born!
The Bible says God made us to reign as kings in our lives! We have Royal blood flowing through our veins. We are made in God's own image, we are His descendants, His children! God has made us all for a divine purpose in which to glorify Him. He wants to bless us and prosper us. He wants us to live in amazing victory.
Romans 5:17 says, " For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ."
Our period to reign is our whole life! For our lifetime we should live as kings with widespread influence. We have authority over any negativity in our lives. God's Word is truth for our lives. See yourself as God sees you! Take off the chains that bind you, that hold you back, and whisper defeat. The same old thinking will always reap the same old results. Start seeing a new vision for your lives and those that you will influence in the future. You can change the paths of generations that follow just by declaring God's promises
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38-39)
Nina Keegan
