Be All You Can Be: A Challenge to Stretch Your God-Given Potential by John Maxwell

Author:John Maxwell [Maxwell, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781434766571
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

SECURE THAT DREAM!

How are we going to secure the dream of a life? I would suggest six things:

State dreams

Examine motives

Consider options

Utilize resources

Remove nonessentials

Embrace your challenges

The first thing you do is state your dreams. Write them out on a piece of paper. Look at them. Then examine all your motives. You have to ask yourself, Why am I doing this? Do I have pure, right motives? If the motive isn’t right, the dream will die. Make sure in the beginning that your motive is right.

Consider all your options. Now that you have stated your dreams and examined your motives, sit down and consider all of your options. How many ways can you reach this goal? There is more than one option. Everybody needs a backup plan; everybody needs a plan B and a plan C and a plan D. Next, utilize your resources. Find people around you who have a similar dream and work with them.

Remove your nonessentials; get the excess baggage off your back, anything that keeps you from achieving your dream. And finally, embrace your challenges. Picture difficulties in front of you and practice reacting positively instead of negatively. Learn to wring out of those challenges the best that God has for you.

In February 1973, when bus ministries were really big, I went to a conference in Lynchburg, Virginia. Jerry Falwell was talking about buses, and he challenged the five thousand of us there to get a dream for a bus ministry. God began to speak to my heart, saying, “John, you could have in one year as many people on buses as what your church was averaging when you came.” Our average attendance had been 418. I didn’t even have a bus. I remember going back to the Holiday Inn and lying on the floor saying, “God, do you really want me to do this?” Falwell had said, “Tomorrow, we’re going to give you a card and you’re going to write down your name and the number you’re going to have on buses within one year. And you’re going to bring them forward and we’re going to read them.” I thought, Oh, no, they’re going to read this in front of five thousand people from all over the world! I wrestled with it all night. The next day I took a card and put 418 on that card—and I didn’t have a bus! With fear and trembling I handed in my card, and it was read in front of five thousand people. I thought, This is the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life. But I became motivated because I had said it. Falwell wrote a letter to my church board telling them my goal, and I had to go out and raise money for buses before we ever brought it to the board. The great thing is that in one year’s time, literally one year from that day, we had 438 people on buses. Why? Because we went out and seized it.

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