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April 1 - May 1, 2015
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.
God turned what could have been considered a bad break into a big break?
God is in the résumé-building business.
He is
always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. But those God-given opportunities often come disguised as man-eating lions. And how we react when we encounter those lions will determine our destiny. We can cower in fear and run away from our greatest challenges. Or w...
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two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.
A regret of action is “wishing you hadn’t done something.” In theological terms, it’s called a sin of commission. A regret of inaction is “wishing you had done something.” In theological terms, it’s a sin of omission.
the church has fixated on sins of commission for far too long. We have a long list of don’ts. Think of it as holiness by subtraction. We think holiness is the byproduct of subtracting...
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Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what’s wrong. We’re called to chase lions.
We’ve become far too defensive. We’ve become far too passive. Lion chasers are proactive.
What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams. Lion chasers don’t let their fears or doubts keep them from doing what God has called them to do.
Spiritual maturity is seeing and seizing God-ordained opportunities.
our greatest regrets in life will be missed opportunities.
success equals stewardship
The more risks you take, the easier it becomes.
He defied the odds. He didn’t focus on his disadvantages. He didn’t make excuses. He didn’t try to avoid situations where the odds were against him. Lion chasers know God is bigger and more powerful than any problem they face in this world. They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles. That is how God reveals his glory—and how He blesses you in ways you never could have imagined.
Sometimes God won’t intervene until something is humanly impossible.
God loves impossible odds.
Maybe it is one way He can show us His omnipotence. Maybe God allows the odds to be stacked against us so He can reveal more of His glory.
God wants and deserves full credit.
Too often our prayers revolve around asking God to reduce the odds in our lives. We want everything in our favor. But maybe God
wants to stack the odds against us so we can experience a miracle of divine proportions. Maybe faith is trusting God no matter how impossible the odds are. Maybe our impossible situations are opportunities to experience a new dimension of God’s glory.
How you think about God will determine who you become.
Most of our problems are not circumstantial. Most of our problems are perceptual.
Our biggest problems can be traced back to an inadequate understanding of who God is. Our problems seem really big because our God seems really small. In fact, we reduce God to the size of our biggest problem.
The more we grow, the bigger God should get. And the bigger God gets, the smaller our lions will become.
God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.
God is ordering your footsteps. You can have a sense of destiny because you know that God has considered every contingency in your life, and He always has your best interest at heart.
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.
To the infinite all finites are equal. There is no big or small, easy or difficult, possible or impossible. When it comes to God, there are no degrees of difficulty. There are no odds when it comes to God.
In God’s economy, 5+2 = 5,000 with a remainder of 12.
The issue is this: How big is your God?
lion chasers aren’t afraid of doing something that seems ridiculous to others—because they know anything is possible with God.
“Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!”
Don’t let mental lions keep you from experiencing everything God has to offer.
Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. Unfortunately, unlearning is twice as hard as learning.
His primary goal was unlearning. He was reverse engineering religious minds. And those can be the toughest minds to change. That is why two phrases are repeated over and over again in the Sermon on the Mount.
Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith involves synaptogenesis. Faith is rewiring the human brain.
psychiatrists posit that we’re born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. That means that every other fear is learned. And more importantly, that means that every other fear can be unlearned.
most of us are shaped, for better or for worse, by a handful of experiences. Those defining experiences can plant a seed of confidence or a seed of doubt, a seed of hope or a seed of helplessness, a seed of faith or a seed of fear.
When everything is going great, it’s easy to keep our distance. But when we’re in fearful situations, we hang on to God for dear life.
Faith is the process of unlearning your irrational fears.
The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God. And if we fear God, then we don’t have to fear anyone or anything else. Unlearning our fears is really a process of learning to trust God more and more.
Lion chasers don’t hide from the things they fear.
Lion chasers have a high threshold for fear because they have built up fear immunity.
The cure for the fear of failure is not success. It’s failure. The cure for the fear of rejection is not acceptance. It’s rejection. You’ve got to be exposed to small quantities of whatever you’re afraid of. That’s how you build up immunity.
Your fear is worse than the actual thing you’re afraid of. And if you learn from every mistake, then there is no such thing as failure anyway.
Satan has two primary tactics when it comes to neutralizing you spiritually: discouragement and fear.
He wants you to focus on past mistakes you’ve made.
He wants to put you on your heels so you become reactive and defensive.
