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How to Take Risks and Abandon Your Fears

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I have a little secret. Hmmm… should I tell you? What will you think of me? You may know me as a recording artist, speaker, world traveler and songwriter. I appear on television. People think that people like me walk on water. Some think that we’re different than other people because we are in”full time ministry.” We walk through airports and some people even know our names. We must have connections and courage that most people just don’t have. Of course, that’s all pretty ridiculous and couldn’t be further from the truth! You see my little secret is that years ago, even while singing around the world, I lived so much of my life in fear. Afraid of what people thought of me. How can they not like my chubby little face? LOL! Afraid of failure? Hey, nobody wants to be a loser. I was even afraid of success. You see I didn’t want anybody to think that I thought I was better than they are. So for many years, I had some success, but never lived up to my God given potential. I used to pray,...

WHAT FIRES YOUR ENTHUSIASM?

Everyone’s life; is driven by something. What drives you is whatever you allow to guide and control your life. There are several things that people allow to drive there life where are: Guilt: They dwell on all the sins they have committed. Both the ones they committed consciously and the ones they were compelled to. In fact, they dwell more on the one they were compelled to and there after finds it very difficult to forgive themselves and others. Anger and Unforgiveness: Many people dwell on anger and unforgiveness, I agree with you, that you have been hurt and in fact people will continue to do so as long as you are still on this planet. But it begins to drive your life when you continually dwell in it, you allow yourself to be distracted and you gradually with your own hands, remove yourself from all that God have prepared for you. Many people use words like I can’t let go of this hurt, I can’t forgive this fellow. The truth is that the more you keep those hurt in your heart the more...