Who Stole Your Thunder?

Have you ever wondered why you're having a difficult time in life? Pay check to pay check? Relationships? Never Enough to "get ahead"?

Would you like to know how to break free from what is holding you back?

Would you like to have better relationships?

Would you like to enjoy financial freedom?

Is it all right if I share a story about myself first?

Now I know we all have a story of sorts to tell. My story may or may not mean much to you, but I'd like to share it with you to give some perspective if that's ok. I am not going to go into specifics to protect the innocent here.

In my youth, as I was developing my own ideas about making money and growing into a 'self sufficient' and 'responsible' man, I had a couple of experiences with authority figures in my life. Yes, not one, but a couple. I'm sure you've heard things like "you think you're too good" or "you're not good enough" or "stop daydreaming" or "you're full of pie in the sky, come back to earth". Well, I heard things like that quite frequently.

I recall a time as a teen wanting to get a job as a grocery store cashier. Someone whom I trusted told me to go down to McDonald's and get a job. When I told him I didn't want to work at McDonald's he told me I was stuck up and too good for a "real" job. I wanted so badly to earn his respect, but at every turn I was put down.

Here's my point. I've carried those same ideas into my adult life until recently. The sad thing is that I didn't realize I was doing it. I've carried this idea of not being "worthy" to achieve into my working life. At every sign of success and break through, I sabotage myself and shrink back to mediocrity.

Let's look at Eve. Genesis 3 describes a time when Eve was approached by Satan in the Garden. Verse 1 says, "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, "You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" Well, the rest is history. We know that Eve agreed with Satan and started to question God's command.

What agreements are you making with the enemy and don't even realize it? I shared about the agreements I made as a young man not being worthy. It held me back until recently. What about you? What lies have you bought into and made your own reality?

See, you create your own reality. It's your story that you keep playing over and over again in your mind. It isn't real.

Do you want to be free? Change your story. Dig deep. Go back in time (in your mind) and Thank the person for sharing and kindly write a new story that supports your dreams and goals. Your mind only does what you tell it to do. So tell it a new story and start to see the new and exciting ways you can live.

Do you realize, you don't have to live a life a mediocrity? Did you know that you don't have to live pay check to pay check?

Today I even saw a friend write, money comes and money goes. Do you know it doesn't have to? Do you know how to make it and keep it and actually see it grow and increase? If you believe you'll receive it only to see it leave again, it will.

Don't let Satan steal your thunder! In today's Wall post, we saw that God created us to Rule over all things, that they are good, and we are to multiply them. We are by design created for Abundance! Let's start living the God given design and be abundant!

It is ok to strive for more. It is ok to grow and the thrive. I heard it said that if 100 Ft Oak Trees had the attitude of humans they would only grow 10 FT tall!

We have an enemy among us trying to rob us of our God Given joy.

Jn 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

You don't have to listen any more! You are God's created and dearly loved child that he wants to have an abundant life! You have permission to live your life's dreams to the fullest! Go for it!