I see 2011 as a year in which God will present many opportunities, but only those who are willing to take a risk will be able to walk in them. John Wimber used to say "Faith is spelled r - i - s - k". We seem prone to want a sure thing before we will take a chance, before we will step out. We would rather play it safe like the person with one talent who buried it, rather than use it.
This year let's be willing to look foolish in the eyes of man.
This year let's be willing to take a chance of failing.
This year let's be willing to step out and use our gifts for the Kingdom of God.
This year let's be willing to believe that God is speaking to us about Kingdom possibilities.
This year let's be willing to use our talents, gifts, finances, and time in His Kingdom purposes.
This year let's be willing to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
This year let's be willing to believe that the Bible is true.
This year let's be willing to believe God's promises.
This year let's be willing to be dependent upon God.
As long as we react to opportunities and circumstances based upon our own abilities, talents, and finances, we will play it safe and miss out on the greater than we can hope, think, ask, or imagine of Ephesians 3.
As long as we play it safe we will never fully enter into our destiny, our calling, the God way of living and being and doing and relating, for we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life. (Ep 2:10)
As long as we are not willing to take a risk, we will not venture into the God adventure we are destined for.
This year let's be willing to take a risk ... to take a chance ... to step out ... to speak up ... to stand, ... to do ... to live.
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