Building According To Pattern Podcast Series

That handful of corn sitting on a shelf in the corner will continue remaining as is year after year after year if not placed in the right environment. It will demand a decision, time, energy, effort, sweat, hard work, sacrifice, and commitment if a sower wants the harvest he is envisioning in his mind. 

What are you going after in 2014? What are you willing to sow, labor over, and sacrifice to get there, to achieve it? Where are you projecting your life to be in 365 days from day one in January 2014? Get equipped, get charged, get ready, get moving!!

Our gifts really aren't ours to curtail, minimize, suppress, or short circuit. Instead they have been implanted deep inside our spirits by our Master Designer and are meant to serve the needs of those around us. The measure of how successful we are at what we do must only be judged by the value it brings to just one person.

In those moments of despair and discouragement, our Heavenly Father knows just what we need to boost our confidence and to pick us up. As you begin pursuing purpose, things will begin surfacing to give you enough reasons to call it quits, to shrink back or even to walk away. Your challenge is to stay the course no matter what. The Master Manufacturer, God, ALWAYS comes through!!

Your New Years resolutions must be anchored to something bigger and greater. Something that has the capacity to withstand the storms that are gonna come. Something that has the ability to resist opposition. Something that will keep you trudging uphill, pushing against the current and going it alone when it's easier following the path of least resistance. 

Something that will stare disappointment in the face and boldly declare, "Nope, I'm never gonna give up." That thing that can take a licking but keep on ticking. That thing that doesn't mind being buried for a season because inbuilt in it is the capacity to rise again. Vision!!, what you can see with the mind's eye when everything else around you is screaming gloom, doom and failure

You are where you are right now because of what you have been training your eyes (both externally and internally) to focus on. If you are at  a temporary stop, keep it that way!! Do not get comfortable, do not settle for mediocrity, do not give up or throw in the towel. Get the vision for your life in order and put it before your face everyday. 

Always remember this one truth, "You will always (only) move in the direction of your most dominant thought". 

Loss, failure and disappointments are very much apart of the journey of our lives. Our response in these particular moments is very critical and will activate the doors that are designed to open on queue by the appropriate response. 

"Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint in the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how close you are, it might be near when it seems afar. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit. It's when things seem worst that you must not quit." 

It ain't over until...

When therapy has run its course, when even the strongest of medicine has failed, our Heavenly Father is able to restore our souls. Only our Heavenly Father has the ability to heal the mind and emotions, and free the will from the captivity or the control of sin, pain and suffering. He is the One with whom we can share our deepest, darkest secrets.

He gives peace, rest, joy, hope, and contentment; intangible elements that no other human being is capable of manufacturing, producing, or giving. Only Abba!!  

You are more than what you see staring back at you in the mirror. You are more than an egg and a sperm cell combined. You are or have the potential to become a son of God and that truth in itself destroys all the limits you or others have imposed on your life. God has given us earthly fathers; we could not get here without them. But He wants us to acknowledge Him as our Heavenly Father. The One who sent us on a mission to earth, fully packaged to fulfill a special purpose. The One who has given us the ability to be just like Him, despite our backgrounds or upbringing, and despite our own personal failures.

When life gives you lemons, you have one of two choices. You can either expend your energy crying or fussing over it, or you can choose to become innovative and creative and make the best lemonade there is. Everything in life comes down to perspective. If you are ever going to accomplish anything significant or meaningful, if you are ever going to make it through life with your head intact, you are going to have to work hard at maintaining the right perspective. Join special guest, Corhinn Brunot, of the CCWC Network and Woman's Club as she shares her experience in learning to leverage her frustration into propelling her into birthing the vision for her life. Connect with Corhinn at ccwcwomensclub.com.

A gold fish, if kept in a small tank, will grow to a certain extent but will die very quickly from the stress of not having enough space. If placed in a pond, that same goldfish has the potential to grow as long as one foot, or even longer. What if the frustration you might now be experiencing be the tool that your Master Manufacturer is using to literally drive you into discovering your purpose, your destiny, and who you were truly meant to be? What if frustration is really a signal that God is trying to tell you something?

English physicist Stephen Hawkins once said, "Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead." Interesting statement, and yet, it is the philosophies of dead men and ancient dynasties that still continue to drive our cultures, ideals, ideas, and even societal values.The most important questions concerning your life can never be answered by anyone, not even you. They can only be answered by the Source of life; The Master Designer and Manufacturer Himself.