Thinking Excessively

We all want to experience increase in our lives.  We want to step into the high calling on our lives, yet in order to do so, we have to identify the things that are holding us back.

There are a whole lot of people with big dreams and little thinking and they’re trying to fit their big dreams into their little thinking.  Proverbs 23:7 says ,”As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.”  So if we want to change people’s minds and thinking, we have to change their hearts first.  Because scarcity, poverty and lack are so ingrained into people’s minds, they are constantly going to a place where they do not want to go.

If you change the way you think, you will change the way you live.  Your performance is tied to your level of thinking.  Here is a great example.

Of all the 1,000’s of years man has lived, no one had ever been recorded to have run the four minute mile.  However, in 1956, in Great Britain, a man named Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile barrier.  In 1957, 37 people broke it and in 1958, over 300 people, broke it.  When someone breaks the lid off and breaks through perceived barriers, it opens the door for others to perform at a higher level.

When their expectations changed….their performance changed.  I heard an interesting quote from a friend named Jimmy Bratcher.  He said 96% of the world would go to church if they were invited by someone.  Only 4% of the people going to church are going to ask someone.  Let’s expect for bigger things, an expansion of dreams in 2010.  Do you need to rethink those dreams and desires and stretch them a bit?  God promises to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we can ask or think.  If you can think it, that’s not it, it’s bigger than that. Exceedingly, abundantly bigger than that!