Your Potential Is a Picture of What You Can Become

According to the dictionary, the meaning to the word, "believe" is; to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something; although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.
When you were a kid, did you believe in Santa Claus? I remember those days of wonder and excitement, writing your letters to Santa and waiting to see if you were good enough to get what was on your list, but as I got older and I listened to what my friends were saying, and some little things that I noticed on my own, It started to make my belief in Santa a little bit shaky. I wanted to believe, but the truth in the evidence of the existence of Santa just wasn't there anymore. So I have come to the terrible conclusion, at the age of fifty seven, that there really is no Santa Claus. I hate to be the one to tell you that.
On a more serious note, do you believe in yourself? Remember that believe means to have confidence in the truth, the existence or reliability of who you really are. Do you know who you really are? I think that sometimes we hide who we really are because of the people, or the things that those people around us, have told us about ourselves. You will become a product of your environment, even if your environment is lying.
I grew up in a very unloving home. It was a home where we were never encouraged or given pats on the back for our successes. We never really had to many, and when we did they were either not acknowledged or we were ridiculed for even trying to do them. I was always told that I would never be able to achieve anything worthwhile.
But there was always an uncontrollable drive to compete, be competitive, and win. This stir was noticed by a coach and teacher in one of my schools that took me under his arm. He worked with me, encouraged me, and told me that I was good at sports and I should go out and tryout for some of the teams. This man gave me the hope and stirred the belief in myself, that I am good at things and if I work hard I can achieve success.
Well it took a long time but that seed of belief he planted in me started to sprout. I started to play sports and I realized that I could run fast, and I could hit the ball pretty good too. My confidence in the truth of which I really was, and not the lies that everybody else told me about myself, started to make me stronger, more confident, and more persistent in my drive to succeed.
Where are you? Your potential is a picture of what you can become. You believing in that potential helps you see it more clearly, and give you the strength to reach out, grab it, and make that truth a reality.
97% of the world's population lives in a box that was molded by what everyone else said about them, and only 3% ever get out of that box, and reach for that truth that they know and have living in themselves. If you're reading this article, you are a part of that three percent.
Don't believe or listen to what someone else said or is saying about you and your dreams. Take a long look in your own heart. What do you see? What do you want to achieve? What is there? Take that inventory of yourself, and then take the necessary steps to training and moves you need to do to get on that road to the success you deserve.
Do you believe? I believe. I believe in you and I know that you can do it.
Please leave your comments and let me know what you are doing and the road that you're on.
I want to leave you with a short video from the movie, "Miracle on Ice". It's about the men's hockey team who won the gold medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics. This was a team made up of young college players and they were going up against one of the best hockey teams in the world, from the Soviet Union. This Red Army team was made up of men who did nothing else but play hockey. It was one of the greatest moments in sports history, and the video clip is from the speech, coach Herb Brooks, gives to his team before they go out to face, what everybody else told them would be an easy Red Army win. Listen to what he tells these boys and take it as if he is talking to you.

How To Develop Faith In Your Purpose

True believing is not a mental state. Granted that it may cause a mental state, it is spiritual in nature. Faith is of the heart. It goes beyond the reasoning faculties of the mind. A person who truly believes, knows in their "gut" that regardless of how things appear or what it seems like, all things really are possible to him or her who believes. Faith is a must for the accomplishing of the purpose and dreams we carry. We must believe in that purpose.We must believe that it is something we are born to do, something God wants us to attain. And we must believe that with His grace and help, we can and will do it, period. The risks do not matter to the person who believes. Challenges are a part of the package. If we truly have faith in our goals and what the fulfillment of those plans can do for us, our families and the good of man-kind, then we should have a "no quitting" attitude about us. Winners do not quit, because they believe that they can have what they want.
What does it mean to believe? It describes the dreamer who has an inward knowing that what they desire is possible, available to them and attainable. When we discover our purpose in life, it literally causes faith to commence within, a sense of understanding that we are not on earth to merely exist, but to do something great, be something great, effect the lives of others for good and make a difference before we leave here.
The person who has perceived their purpose and sets his or her sight to the accomplishing of that purpose must ensure that faith is developed in the heart concerning that dream consistently. Faith is a belief so strong within, that it out-weighs, out-shines, out-lasts and out-runs all of the distractions, obstacles and hurdles which will be encountered.
How can faith be developed? Here are five tips for growing in faith to fulfill your God-ordained purpose:
1. Faith is built by words. If you constantly feed your dreams and purpose by hearing positive words, words which impress more and more upon your heart that your dream is possible, faith will continue to rise within you, flushing out doubts and fears. Be careful of who you stay around. You need people around you who are constantly speaking positively to you. People who understand that, with God, all things are possible.
2. Speak words of faith to yourself continually. Faith comes by hearing. You can hear others speak words of faith, or you can speak them yourself.
3. God's Word, the Bible, is the Word of Faith. So feed upon it daily and speak it. It will change your life.
4. Take bold and aggressive steps toward the fulfillment of your goals. Do it daily. Do it persistently. Remember that faith is much more than mentally believing that something is possible. Faith is acting on what you believe. If there is no action, you really do not believe.
5. Always ask God to strengthen you in faith. He is always a very present help to those who seek Him.

How Deep Are Your Prayers?

When you pray for thanksgiving you are praying the prayer of much love. When God hears your prayers He knows your heart-- as Jesus has told us in Mathew 6:7-8 when He said -do not keep babbling on like the pagans do. The deepness of your prayers lie in your heart, where God sees it all. But if you think you can pray for something that is not in your best interest or if it's not for the good of the Kingdom, it is not going anywhere.When we pray, let us remember who we are praying to- not Saints, Mary, Moses or Elijah but to Jesus, directly to Jesus. There are prayers that are ritualistic that babble on, but Jesus clearly says in Mathew 6:9-14 how to pray. (The Lord's Prayer)
All prayers are heard, but are you praying for the right thing? Are you praying peace in the world, for your family? The moment you release your prayers God will be releasing to you the best known love that can go with it, the prayers of your heart. We don't know what happens to our prayers when God hears them but we know that He is able to guide us to the answers that enable us to commit our day to Him in the best way possible. For all we know is what God himself bestows on us for the time. We don't know how things will develop but we know that He will take care of it and He knows best-- for ritualistic prayer is just a babbling not an asking. Be known to God that the deepness of our prayers are as deep as we want to go in trusting and abiding in Him. We don't know what will happen but we know that our trust, faith, joy today is in His hands- not ours.
Breath in and out everyday and ask your loving God for guidance and for hope for a day anew! SHALOM!

Disciple for Yesuha and Blessed Mother Mary reaching to people that are in need of spiritual truth from the Bible and Holy Spirit.