By faith these people over-threw Kingdoms, ruled with justice, and received what God had promised them. They shut the mouths of lions, quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by the edge of the sword. Their weakness was turned to strength, they became strong in battle and put whole armies to flight. All these people earned a good reputation because of their faith. -Hebrews 11:33-34, 39

This is it. Your only life. You get one shot to do something with it. One shot to make a difference. One shot to share the stage with the faith giants in Hebrews 11. One shot to do something great for God. We’re on the battlefield. We don’t get to do this again.

I want to live everyday by this mantra:

“I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.”

This video fires me up every time I watch it. Watch it. Be inspired. Dream Big. Ask Big. Go for it. “If you have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to respond.” -Steven Furtick

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What will people say about what we did with our lives? Will people be able to look at our lives and say that God did the impossible?

The World is Waiting for Change. God’s people are the change the world is waiting for. Seize your vision. Activate your faith. Make Your Move.

“You only get to live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” -Fred Allen

What are you waiting for?

Every month I listen to John Maxwell’s, Maximum Impact Lessons. A few years ago, he did a lesson called. “The Laws of Lifetime Growth”. Out of all of his lessons, I listen to that one the most. One of the laws is: Always Make Your Purpose Greater than Your Money. In it he says:

“Always make your purpose greater than your money! Greater purpose is essential for lifetime growth. Many people start of their careers thinking money is the goal. Money can be a useful measure of success, or progress in certain circumstances, and it’s a resource to realize greater possibilities, but at some point, money without purpose, loses it’s meaning.Money as an end, becomes a growth stopper.

Having a purpose that is greater than yourself will give you a constant impedes to strive! Purpose gives life meaning and helps us to direct and focus our talents and efforts. It attracts the talents and energy of others.Think of money only as a means of achieving a greater purpose, and you’ll attract all the resources and rewards that make up a rich life, not just money”

He then says, Success in Life is Three Things:

1.) Knowing my Purpose in Life

2.) Growing to my Maximum Potential

3.) Sowing Seeds to Benefit Others

John finishes the law by saying this:

“Stay with where your purpose is, stay with what you’re supposed to be doing. All this other stuff, it comes to you. Your job isn’t to worry about what you’re going to reap, your job is to worry about what you’re going to sow.”

I’ve heard it said that there are 3 stages in life: “Learn, Earn, and Return”. I like that. In my twenty’s, I’m learning. In time, I know I’ll be earning, and in the end, my goal is to return everything I earned and give it all away.

I’ve made this decision in my heart, that I’ll always make pursue my purpose over my paycheck. How about you?

Thoughts?

This book came at the recommendation of a friend over coffee. This was an incredible book. Viktor Frankl is a Jewish psychiatrist that lived in concentration camps for three years. The first half of the book is a detailed account of his experiences in the concentration camps. The second half of the book is all about the psychology of man’s search for meaning.

Frankl’s conclusion is that once a man finds meaning for his life, he is able to find hope in any situation, and able to get through anything. He talks a lot about the people who survived in concentration camps in comparison with those who didn’t make it. Often, the people who didn’t make it, could not find meaning in the midst of their suffering, while the people who survived, could and did.

I’d recommend this book to everyone. It will give you hope, and allow you to recognize that regardless of what you’re going through, you can find meaning in your life and find the strength to go on!

Buy it here!

Highlights:

• “man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life.”

• At any moment,  man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

• Man does  not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be,  what he will become in the next moment.

• freedom is in danger of degenerating   into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

• There is nothing conceivable which would so condition a  man as to leave him without the slightest freedom.

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so
  effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as  the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.

• “He who has a why  to live for can bear almost any how.”

• man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure  or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

• The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man,  is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is  nothing he need fear any more-except his God.

• They died less from  lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something   to live for.

• The truth-that love  is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

• No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty   whether in a similar situation he might not have done  the same.