923 Know Your Potential

Within you is power you have never tapped into. Within you is potential you do not know of. Within you is a destiny you cannot imagine. Your entire life’s journey is discovering this power, living up to this potential, and moving towards this destiny. But it’s not easy. It’s never a continual and steady pace in the right direction. It’s filled with detours, distractions and delays. It’s a continual barrage of self-doubt and a battle with your self-discipline. But why? Why is it so darn hard? If it’s your destiny, your God breathed, God imagined, God designed, God purposed position in life, then why are you being held back from it? Why do you continue to struggle? Why do you doubt? Why do you fail? Why do you get stuck? How is it possible that a girl like you, with the power of a God like ours living within you, struggles to wake up on time? How is it possible that a girl like you with all that potential, questions her value and worth? How can this possibly be? Oh honey, you’re under attack. There’s a battle for your life, and when your life can’t be snatched from the saving grace of Jesus, then your confidence is targeted. You see, your confidence is up for grabs. Your courage is vulnerable. Your dreams are endangered. Your truth can get twisted. While you may question your potential, there are two who know your potential every day of your life … your Creator, and your enemy. This is why there’s a continual battle sister. God says ‘I’m not giving up on my girl. I know what I created her for.” And the devil says “I know what she’s capable of. I can’t let up on her.” How sad it is that the devil knows our potential better than we do. He fears our power. He sees our value. He knows our worth. And somehow we don’t. He has tricked us into believing we are incapable of change, unworthy of more, and destined for failure. Because of this trickery, we’re saved but we’re not satisfied. We’re forgiven but we’re not fulfilled. We’re free but we don’t live in freedom. We’re set apart but we’re not stepping up. A friend shared these words with me “what a shame it would be for the enemy to believe more about our potential than we do. Even on our worst days, he know we are daughters of God.” It’s not that the devil thinks you’re a worthless nobody … it’s quite the opposite. It’s that he KNOWS you are a valuable and powerful daughter of God. He was there in the beginning when God designed your life, remember he was the highest ranking angel before his fall. Satan had a front row seat to the formation of you. He saw your gifting. Your equipping. Your blessing. Your power and your strength. So now, he attacks you personally and directly. There’s a story in Matthew 4 of Jesus going into the wilderness to pray and the devil met him there to tempt him. Satan quotes scripture to Jesus and tries to get him to react. After 40 days of fasting, he offer Jesus food. He offers him angels to rescue him. He offers him unlimited power. And here’s the thing, the devil really thought Jesus would cave to his offers. He really thought he could somehow trick the son of God to bow to him. He knew the power Jesus held and he attacked that power in an attempt to defeat him. But he would not win. So now, he does the same thing to you. He lures you into temptation. He attacks you when you are weak. He twists the truth and makes it sound so convincing. He offers you the easy way out in exchange for your settled surrender. Listen to me my sister … WE CANNOT SETTLE HERE. WE CANNOT SURRENDER. We cannot believe the nasty crap he whispers about us. Jesus defeated the devil by knowing what God really said and using the true scripture against him.