ASK FOR THE MOUNTAINS and not the mounds

Continuing our reflections on 'Think big' :

I have spoken of the transformation that takes place within us, whereby what once seemed great becomes normal. I found myself one day (and have continued ever since) asking God to increase my awareness of Him and His greatness to the point where:

1. I welcome every divine task without fear, whatever its dimension;
2. I can no longer be impressed or intimidated by the opposition
3. and therefore considers as normal and self-evident what years before would have seemed impossible, even unthinkable, to me.

The same is true when it comes to making the big dreams you have come true. According to J. Oswald Chambers in his book Spiritual Leadership, “To survive, leaders must see the difficult as perfectly ordinary and the complex as normal.” Spiritual Leadership is a rich book, full of pearls of wisdom, and in my opinion, one of the best books ever written on leadership. In other words, leaders, and for me, every Christian, should be people who:

1. are not at all impressed by challenges and
2. are confident in God for the success of what they undertake.

Bill Johnson, for his part, shares some fascinating thoughts on the Christian mind. In a television interview, he says this:

 “You know your intelligence is renewed when the impossible becomes logical to you.” In his book ''The supernatural power of a transformed mind' he writes:

“Written into the spiritual DNA of every believer is an appetite for the impossible that cannot be ignored or hoped away, …all things considered, nothing satisfies the Christian heart except to see what has been deemed impossible bow the knee to the name of Jesus. Anything less than this is abnormal and cannot satisfy.

How can we not say a resounding yes!

So be a Caleb, ask for the mountains and not the mounds.

May God give us big dreams and bathe our thoughts in faith.