The-Power-of-Potential-Sermon-Highlights

I want to speak to you today about the power

of potential. I want to go right back to my

epic scripture passage in Second King's thirteens, and this little

scripture has been our window to see some precepts and

principles that are changing our lives.

I've decided that the pain.

Of falling short is nothing compared to the shame of

stopping short.

So I'd rather go all.

In, give it all I've got, and find out that

wasn't enough.

Then wonder what if.

It is frustrating because when people say you have potential,

it doesn't.

Feel like a compliment. After a while, it starts to

feel like a judgment, like an indictment, because.

You already know that you're not doing all that you

can do, and at the same time you feel like

you couldn't do anymore. God wants you to know and

be set free by the fact that your potential.

Is relative to your purpose.

Maybe you've been tormenting yourself over potential that you haven't

reached because you are judging yourself against a purpose that

isn't yours. You can't put in what God left out.

But it is also true that most of us have

far more to work with than we are currently using.

Potential has potential, if not correctly appropriated for a purpose,

to become poisonous. I'm afraid to fail, so I won't try.

And now my potential has become poisonous. And I'm miserable

because I'm not living my potential.

And you will never know your potential if you keep

resisting the process by which God is strict or revealing.

Your past is not.

Your potential, nor is it the best predictor of it.

The limit to.

Your potential is your purpose and your perseverance. If your

potential does not find its purpose, I'm telling you the

pain of stopping short, the shame of stopping short, is

worse than the pain of falling short. Why don't you press?

Why don't you run? Why don't you go? Why don't

you strike