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Design Your Destination With Your Expectation!

“Expectation is giving the future something to prepare for.” I didn’t say, “Prepare for the future”—I said, “The future is going to prepare for you!” That is, if you give it a powerful enough expectation. Have you placed a demand on the future? Have you given the future something to prepare for? Your expectation gives your day an assignment that it must go and fulfill.

You must give the day something to be challenged by. You have to give the day something to be inspired by. You must give the day a target to hit. It is imperative that you give the day a great expectation—“a God expectation.”

Normalcy

See, right now you are probably expecting your days to be filled with normalcy. A normal mundane day is one where you get up, get dressed, go to work, experience a stress-filled day, come home, try to find something to eat, sit down and watch TV, fall asleep, go to bed, and get up the next morning to repeat the same pattern over-and-over again. “The level of your expectation is determining the level of your experience.”

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“Raise the level of your expectation and see an elevation of your experience.”

Start expecting better. Start expecting more. Take it further than that and start expecting amazing things to happen. Expect the ridiculous, the supernatural, the “way-out,” and the fantastic. Start expecting accelerated results. Expect acceleration, multiplication, debt-elimination, promotion, increase, favor, momentum, and advancement. Take your expectation up to a place that will make the day say, “I’ve never done this before in this guy’s life.” “She’s never inspired me like this before.” “This is expectation like God’s.” “I’m being backed into a corner and being forced to support results that match this person’s expectation.” Perhaps an amazing future has been waiting to reveal itself when it sees an amazing expectation.

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The Power To Discern Your Season!!

A season is a special period, accompanied by purpose, power, and provision…or a lack of purpose, power, and provision. You have experienced seasons where you felt like you were living in your purpose, you were empowered to succeed, and the provision was flowing. It seemed like everything was going right. You have also experienced seasons where there didn’t seem to be a lot of purpose, there was very little power flowing in your life, money was “tight,” and everything seemed to be going wrong.

Do you know what season you’re in right now? You must discern what season you’re in right now so you know how to flow with what’s happening in your life. Are you in a season where everything seems to be going crazy? You must discern if this season of chaos is a season of developing the warrior within. If that’s the case, you have to pull together your weapons, get in your war posture, and fight your way out of that season.

Are you in a season where an unusual amount of money is flowing? If so, that’s great! Let me advise you to use this season to prepare for a future season of scarcity.

Your seasons change. They are not permanent. Some seasons even reoccur.

  • The season for prosperity is to prepare you for the season of scarcity.
  • The season of peace is to prepare for the season of war.
  • The season for pain is to give you an appreciation for the season of pleasure.

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Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To everything there is a season…” Here’s the revelation:

  1.  Seasons Are Not Permanent—They’re Going To Change.

The current season you are in is going to change. You should be constantly asking yourself the question, “What is ABOUT to change?” You must live in today, but think into tomorrow. Anticipate what is going to be changing a year from now and start preparing for it.

2.   To Every Season There is a Reason.

There is a reason why a season has come. It could be a season of warfare because your breakthrough is on the horizon. You could be in a season of reaping tremendous levels of success resulting from long seasons of preparation and education. You could be in a season of testing to determine if you qualify for promotion. There is a reason why this season has come. Pray for the ability to discern the times and seasons, and the wisdom to know what to do in every season.

  1. There’s a Right Time for Everything.
  • The season for research is not the season for launching.
  • The season for meditation is not the season for explanation.
  • The season of hiding is not the season of revealing.

There is something powerful about a purpose whose time has come. Nothing can stop it. But also keep in mind that every purpose has a timeframe attached to it. The second part of Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “…And a time to every purpose under the heaven.” So you must be time conscious and purpose conscious. Some windows only open for a short period of time. If you are not ready when the opening occurs, you may never have that opportunity again.

Your Turn: What season are you currently in? What do you need to do as a result of being in this season?

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When Your Destiny Starts Pursuing You

Have you experienced the moment when your pursuit of walking in your destiny shifts to your destiny walking in you? There is a point when your destiny starts courting you; calling you; coming after you. There is a juncture where your destiny tells you to rest because it’s doing all the work. What you were once pursuing starts pursuing you.

I bet if you would relax a bit, you would find that your destiny wants to live in you just as much as you want to live in it. Maybe your destiny has already been sending you signals that it’s doing the heavy lifting for you behind the scenes.

Let’s “thicken the plot.” Is your destiny a place that you arrive at, or is it the journey that you experience while you’re pursuing the arrival? Don’t miss the journey while trying to get to a certain place.  The present moment is so often missed by our focus on the moment that has yet to arrive.

Your destiny is determined. Relax a bit. I believe if you are tuned in to the fact that you didn’t just show up here, but the originator and sustainer of all life reached inside Himself, pulled you out, and sent you here, that belief alone sets you on course with your destiny.

Now of course you can have a destiny and ignore it. You can have a destiny and refuse to cooperate with it. You can have a good course—a God course, and choose an alternative course. Having a destiny and choosing to walk in it are two different things. But you have chosen to walk in your destiny. So be who God made you to be. You’re the most powerful person in the world at being you. Stay in your lane. Travel on your side of the road. Your destiny will love you for it…and start pursuing you.  You must be exactly what God made you. It’s when you get out of alignment with who He made you that your life gets out of alignment.

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Here’s 4 Other Things:

  1. Every moment in your past has brought you to your present.

Your destiny has brought you to this place. God never wastes any experiences. Every experience you’ve had up to this point has contributed to who you are. Don’t discount today in favor of tomorrow. Live in today while thinking into tomorrow.

  1. Stop striving to BE what you already are.

It should not require any effort for you to be who you are. Just be you. Striving is when you’re trying to make something happen that God is not supporting. Embrace who you are, while you’re endeavoring to improve the current version of “you.”

  1. Take a break and celebrate the path you’re on.

Don’t be so caught up in trying to pursue something that you fail to recognize how much you’ve already been successful at attaining.

  1. Begin to believe that every resource and person necessary for the fulfillment of your destiny will find its way to you.

The more faith you have in the fact that God has pre-chartered an amazing course for your life, the easier it is for that course to chart its way to you.  Let’s believe that we are now walking in a place where our destiny is scheduling the events of our life, determining who calls our cell phone, and what shows up in your mailbox.

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“Divine Decision Making”–The Ability To No Longer Make Any Wrong Decisions!

Yesterday’s decisions have produced today’s experience. Your decisions are determining your life.  You are required to make so many decisions (conscious and unconscious) in a given day that you are likely to make some detrimental ones from-time-to-time.

Everything from your experiences, education, understanding, opinion, brain development, and mood, affect your decision making. What if you had a built-in system that sat at the door of your decision making and positively affected and influenced every decision you made? There is such a thing! I call it “Divine Decision Making.” Divine means of, from, or like God. So, divine decision making is for your decision making to be of, from, and like God’s decision making. Let’s ask God for it:

Father I pray that you would grant me divine decision making—that I would not make one wrong decision in this season. I pray that the decisions that I make will not be based on my limited knowledge and information, but would be divinely influenced by your unlimited knowledge and understanding. I can catch part of the picture; however, you can see the entire picture.  You have “super vision,” that’s why you’re my “Supervisor.” I pray that (in real time) you would be the number one influencer of my decisions.  If I ever decide to do what (on the surface) appears to be to my advantage, but in fact is to my demise, I pray that you would intervene and change the course of my decision. I believe that I now have divine decision making—that I will not make one wrong decision in this season of my life!!!

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LET’S MAKE THIS A LIFESTYLE BY DOING THE FOLLOWING:

  1. Keep praying for divine decision making.

Did God hear your prayer the first time? Yes! However, when you pray the same prayer multiple times YOU get to hear it again. Every time you hear it you are reminded of this new and powerful inclusion that has been added to your strategic mix.

  1. Be more sensitive to God’s influence in your decision making.

Every time you have a conscious decision before you, open your spirit to receive God’s influence. He’s now the number one influence in your decision making. He has already made every decision. You are deciding to choose what He is deciding. So, you have to turn up the volume of your spiritual ears. You have to dial up the sensitivity monitor in your spirit. Be more alert of God’s nudges, promptings, signs, symbols, and urgings. You are going to have a new sense of “knowing what to do.”

  1. Expect to make the right decision every time.

Raise your expectations. The level of your expectation is determining the level of your experience. Your life has just been greatly enhanced because God is now affecting and influencing every decision that you will make. .

You can make the right decision EVERY SINGLE TIME when you have divine decision making.

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Your “Future” Is Hidden In Your “Present”

Everything you do in the present moment will have some type of effect on a future moment. The effect always comes after the cause. You have what you have be“cause.” “Understanding” is the ability to relate events and information to the big picture. It is the ability to know what type of effect your current thought, word, and action will have on the broader scheme of things. That’s why the apostle Paul prayed, “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened…” (Ephesians 1:18).

That is what “living on purpose” is really all about. It’s about being deliberate. It relates to knowing exactly why you are saying what you are saying, and doing what you are doing. Living on purpose means you understand that what you do “right here” is going to affect something else “over there.”

Here are 4 laws of “Your Future Being Hidden in Your Present:”

  1. You can’t go somewhere you’ve never been.

You have to go there on the inside before you will ever experience it on the outside. In order to leave the current level you have to first have a vision of a higher level. That is why “vision” is so vital. Vision is the ability to see with the eyes inside your “heart” not the eyes in your “head.” You must practice using the eyes in your heart to see who you’re supposed to be, what you’re supposed to do, and where’re you’re supposed to go. God will show you pictures of yourself being something great and doing something great. You have to practice capturing those pictures and live there in your imagination and in your spirit. Then, you will eventually arrive there physically.

  1. What you entertain today believes it has a chance to enter your life.

Every thought that enters your mind is actually a word and action this is looking for expression. If you entertain a thought (a good or bad thought), it believes it has a chance to enter your life. The goal of that thought is to get you to convert it from a thought to a word—and then from a word to an action. If that happens, that thought will have transformed itself into verbal and visible expression in the earth.

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  1. What you do today determines what you receive tomorrow.

You are familiar with the law of sowing and reaping. It simply states that your future is hidden in your present. Everything you do today is sowing. Your thoughts, your words, your smile, your laughter, your kindness…are all seeds released in the present that will have some sort of effect on your future. Sow wisely; sow strategically; sow purposefully.

  1. Your future is watching your present to see what instructions were sent to it.

The future doesn’t just happen—it gets its assignment from the present. That’s why today is one of most powerful days of your life. It’s setting you up for tomorrow.

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The “You” Who Asks for Something Great and the “You” Who Receives It Are 2 Different People

When something is missing in your life it is very likely because you have not qualified for it yet. God often puts desires inside you for great things that are beyond your current level. You think that the great thing you’re pursuing is the reward, when the real reward is the new “you” that the pursuit is going to produce.

Several years ago I was frustrated by the fact that I wasn’t producing 60 per month in a certain area. I prayed and asked God why I was not able to hit “60 per month.”  For 2 years God did not say one thing in response to my prayer. After 2 years I started averaging over 60 per month. Then, for the first time in over 2 years, God begin to talk to me about it. He said, “Two (2) years ago you weren’t in position to produce 60 per month.”  “You didn’t have the structure for it; you didn’t have the staff for it; you didn’t have the marketing in place for it.”  In other words, you can pray for something that you have not even prepared for.  You can be praying for something that you are not going to receive because you do NOT qualify for it yet.

Many times we’re a roast beef sandwich level individual asking for a filet mignon level blessing. The “you” who asks for something great and the “you” who receives it will be two (2) different people. The “you” who receives the great thing you’re asking for today is usually a much more structured, disciplined, organized, and wiser individual. Focus on becoming the individual who already has the great thing you’re seeking. When you become that person, the thing you’re seeking will start seeking you…until it finds its way to your door.

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Here’s how to accelerate the process:  Just start acting like the person you were going to give yourself 5 years to become. 

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You Need a New “Mind” in Order to Have a New “Life”

Yesterday’s mind qualified you for the past; today’s mind qualifies you for the present; but you’re going to need a new mind to qualify you for your future. Your future always requires something of you that your present doesn’t. In other words, you’ll stay at today if you continue to think the way you think today. In order to navigate a successful future you need to cultivate a successful mind (if you will).

The thinking on this level does not qualify you to go to the next level. You must step into the thinking realm of the next level in order to enter it. You need a new “mind” in order to have a new “life.”

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If you want to improve your “actions” you must improve your “thoughts.”  You have to think better; think higher, and with more quality. Your thoughts are your actions’ parent.  Your actions are not automatic. Your actions are under the influence of your mind. Instead of trying to change your actions, focus on changing how you think and your mind will change your life.  Your lifestyle looks like your mind style.

2 Practical Things:

  1.  In order to get a new mind you have to put new thoughts in it.
  • In order to get a new mind you have to allow it to hear things from a world beyond the current world in which you operate.
  1. You must constantly hear things that are beyond you.
  • Find a source of revelation, inspiration, and impartation that are beyond your world of thinking.
  • Who is the greatest thinker that you know? Get in their presence and hear some of their thoughts.
  • Then put the message on repeat.

If you want a new world you have to get a new mind. Your life transformation takes place in your mind before it ever appears in your world.

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You Can’t Have a “New” Year Without Becoming a New “You”

I noticed a phenomenon. When people don’t like the results of this year they bad mouth the year and start anxiously awaiting the arrival of the New Year. The common belief is that the new “year” will automatically bring new “results.” That is a myth! If you bring the same “you” into the new year the new year will act just like the “old” year.

The calendar is consistent at changing, but if you don’t change the new calendar will still feel like the old one. If you expect new “results” without becoming a new “you,” you will be disappointed by the new “year.” By March you will find yourself losing faith in the new year. By October you will be asking the year to hurry and be over, thinking that another “new year” is going to produce the “new beginning” that you so desperately need. The truth is, if you don’t improve, neither will your results. Your results will change when you do.

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How to Bring a New “You” to the New “Year.”

  1. Don’t make promises to the New Year.
  • If you have to wait for a new year to make a promise to improve, your chances of improvement are not very likely.
  • Start making small but powerful adjustments in your thinking. It’s your thinking that determines your capacity to succeed.
  • Decide to change your focus.
  1. Start acting like the great person you were going to give yourself 5 years to become.
  • How would the “you” you envision yourself being in 5 years think, respond, organize, create, and structure?
  • Start doing (today) what you know the transformed you would do.
  • If you have a vision of a better you, then you already have a model to copy.
  1. Aggressively focus on your “incomes”–great incomes result in great “outcomes.”
  • You can only give what you have.
  • The reason you can’t keep the promises you make to the New Year is because it is not in you in the first place.
  • Focus on what it is you want to be and become full of that. Internal process is what produces external progress.
  • When you become full of a certain thing, it will spill out of you automatically.
  • Focus on what you’re pouring in. Your incomes produce your outcomes.

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Living Outside of the Calendar

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Never wait for permission from the calendar before you be who you desire to be and do what you desire to do. Many people are waiting on the” new year” in order to experience a “new life.” Don’t allow time to hold you hostage until a future date on the calendar before you can experience the kind of results that you dream about.

What ever happened to “this is the day that the Lord has made?” Today is the day to be great. Today God introduced a day that no one in the world had ever seen before. This day has never been lived, or experienced by anyone in the history of the world. Why not introduce a “new you” to this “new day?” Do like God. Live TODAY like you have never lived before. Don’t wait for some future date to be amazing.

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Start living on purpose even while you’re sleep. Stop talking great and living common. When you do, every thought that comes through your brain will start being divinely influenced.

The Apostle Paul wrote, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? (I Cor 3:16 NKJV). You are the place where God lives. The spirit you carry determines the fragrance that your life gives off. You are carrying The Spirit of God. His Spirit (in you) will naturally influence the “control center” of your life—your spirit, and send out supernatural signals to the entire universe to align everything for the fulfillment of your divine assignment. That is, if you are conscious of His internal influence and flow with His promptings.

Power Points on Living Outside of the Calendar

  • The day is watching you to see if you’re its parent or its child.
  • The realm in which God lives (the spirit realm) is a realm where there’s no time, no boundaries, no walls, and no bureaucracy. The more time you spend there the more limits you will exceed.
  • When you tap into the spirit realm you tap into a dimension that can give you the ability to supersede time’s laws, and break times speed limits.
  • The only period you really live in is NOW.  NOW is a permanent eternity.  It’s there all the time.  It’s always now. Start being “now” what you hope to be in the “future.”
  • Don’t wait on some future date, live great enough for the future date to start waiting on you.

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“Today” Is Just Another Person!

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