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I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:12)
Jesus isn’t calling us to be greater than He is. He’s calling us to be greater with Him through His Spirit within us.
The thing is, most believers aren’t in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They’re facing a danger that’s far greater: wasting them.
The fact is, we are so much better than we’ve become, because God is so much greater than we’re allowing Him to be through us.
Greater = the life-altering understanding that God is ready to accomplish a kind of greatness in your life that is entirely out of human reach.
Now I want to show you what it looks like to live an audacious life. And when you live this way—the greater way—God will empower you with: • the confidence to know that nothing is impossible with Him • the clarity to see the next step He’s calling you to take • the courage to do anything He tells you to do
God’s greater vision for your life isn’t based on a formula. It’s built on a promise: God created you for more.
the Bible describes a system of evil made up of three entities: the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Surprisingly, I find over and over again that my greatest enemy of the greater life God has for me is … me.
God doesn’t do greater things exclusively through great people. He does them through anyone who is willing to trust Him in greater ways.
Igniting God’s vision starts with becoming more acutely aware of God’s presence in your life.
In a way that’s even more real, yet often less obvious, than Elijah’s presence in the field with Elisha, God is present with you, watching over you, planning greater things for you.
God is often working behind the scenes of your life, orchestrating His destiny for you. Even though you don’t have a clue what He’s up to.
God has something else for you. He wants to break you out of the tyranny of the familiar and take you into a life full of unpredictability and wonder. Your life can be greater.”
Your greater life doesn’t begin with building your dream house. It begins with burning down your old house.
But if you want to have the kind of greater life Elisha had, you have to do what Elisha did. You have to burn your plow. Your plow is what chains you to the ordinary.
If He told you the whole thing at once, it would probably freak you out. Besides, He’s trying to teach you how to walk by faith. And most of all, His greatest ambition in leading you into greater things isn’t that you would know what to do. It’s that you would know who He is.
Do you have enough faith in your Father to act on a word? If you do, it means that even if you don’t know how it’s going to work out or how it’s going to end, you’re willing to burn whatever plow He asks you to burn and then step into the life He’s designed for you.
He’s more interested in your full obedience than your full understanding.
The way I see it, there are two major reasons why well-intentioned people like us get stuck after we burn our plows. One, we don’t think big enough. Two, we don’t start small enough.
Show Me your faith, and then I’ll show you My faithfulness.
Only God can send the rain. But He expects you to dig the ditches.
All God needs to take your life to a higher level is all you have.
