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What is the motivator?\u00a0 Fear.\u00a0 Always fear.\u00a0 Some might call it reality, or level-headedness, or good management.\u00a0 I call it fear.\u00a0 It is that thing that paralyzes us, keeping us from doing what can be done…what ought to be done.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem to matter that fear is not of God and “if God be for us, who can be against us.”\u00a0 The reality is that we still become neutralized into mediocrity.\u00a0 We still get relegated to the sidelines of complacency because we would rather play it safe and deal with the minimal results than risk losing it all…or achieving it all.<\/p>\n
I’m working through Mark Batterson’s book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day<\/em><\/a>, with our men’s group on Tuesday mornings, and am challenged yet again to stop settling for all that the enemy wants for me.\u00a0 Did you hear that?\u00a0 Usually, Christians talk about all that God wants for us, but the reality, we usually settle for all the enemy wants for us.\u00a0 See, if he can keep me so afraid that I never attempt God-sized goals, I’ll always fall short of what I was created for.\u00a0 So, exactly what is a God-sized goal?\u00a0 I guess it depends on how big God is to you.\u00a0 To quote Batterson, God is the size of your biggest problem.<\/p>\n We’re about to celebrate Easter.\u00a0 Actually, a more accurate statement would be to say that we’re about to observe<\/em> Easter (after all, as the President told the Turkish people, “we don’t refer to ourselves as a ‘Christian nation,’ but a nation of citizens…”).\u00a0 Well, true or not, many of us will be celebrating Easter, the resurrection of Jesus.\u00a0 The question we must ask ourselves is whether we believe the same power that could give life back to Jesus can breathe life into the impossible in my life.\u00a0 In your life.\u00a0 Can God do the impossible?\u00a0 If we believe that He can, can He do it in you?\u00a0 How, then, do we get from the point of believing it in our head to acting on it<\/em> everyday?\u00a0 If we only believe it in our heads but it is not a reality in our lives, can we really say<\/em> we believe it?\u00a0 I mean, really, big deal!<\/p>\n If I believe that, I’m going to prayerfully be expecting the supernatural.\u00a0 I’m going to begin attempting things that should not be able to happen.\u00a0 It’s long past time to stop expecting less than what we say we believe.\u00a0 It’s unbecoming for one who says he’s put faith in an omnipotent God.\u00a0 Maybe that’s the reason Newsweek has declared “The End of Christian America”<\/a>.\u00a0 Maybe it’s because we’ve gotten too caught up in an institutional religion and forsaken the real God who changes lives and makes an impact in not only us, but the world around us.\u00a0 If that’s the case, then I hope that Christian America does die and can be replaced with people who want and expect an America where those who claim to know Jesus will look for Him to move within and through us; that we become the organism, rather than the organization (which is a terrible representation of who He is and what He does in a life anyway).\u00a0 Now that’s the kind of America I want to live in.<\/p>\n May it start in me!<\/p>\n![\"hope\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davidcprice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hope.jpg?resize=218%2C300\" "\\"hope\\"")
I’m going to begin to expect things that are not according to my limitations, but are based upon His limitless power and provision.\u00a0 I’m going to begin asking Him to do things that I know are otherwise impossible.\u00a0 It’s time to get past the platitudes!\u00a0 I’m sick of hearing…of saying…how much God can do, but “I’m just not there yet.”\u00a0 That’s a cop-out.\u00a0 If God can, then God will do much more than I have seen Him do in me for His glory.<\/p>\n