Your true potential is everything you can be with the Holy Spirit reigning inside you. The Holy Spirit can help you to reach your potential just as soon as you let Him. It doesn’t depend on anything you do other than to yield your life over to God.
You’ll never reach your potential on your own power. “Glory belongs to God, whose power is at work in us. By this power he can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20 GW).
Your potential is never too late to go after. Moses was eighty years old when his ministry started. Sarah was ninety years old when God allowed her to have her first child. It doesn’t matter how many days you have left but only what you’ll do with them.
It’s never too late to start over again. “In the Scriptures God says, ‘When the time came, I listened to you, and when you needed help, I came to save you.’ That time has come. This is the day for you to be saved” (2 Corinthians 6:2 CEV).
Your potential is not to promote yourself and all that you can be but to promote the Lord and all that He can be in you. Your potential may not seem very spectacular to people who know you, but when the Lord of all Creation truly reigns in you, even the demons will tremble in your presence.
Jesus intends for us to have a faith that takes hold of His power. “Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases” (Luke 9:1 NKJV).
Your potential is not dependent on your natural abilities but on His supernatural gifts that He might give you from time to time. These gifts are not for you but to be used by you in order to reach the potential of all that God wants to do through you.
Your ministry is to every person who crosses your path. “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.” (1 Peter 4:10-11 NLT).
Your potential is not based on a worldly viewpoint. It is a potential predestined in heaven and filled with spiritual meaning. Your potential is to live your purpose that was determined by your Father in heaven before you ever took a single breath.
Live the life that God has planned for you. The Lord told Jeremiah His plan for him: “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:4-5 NLT).
If you don’t live up to your potential, then you won’t fulfill the purpose that God has for you. There are people in this world who desperately need you to live your purpose so that they can be touched in their lives through you, as God surely wants to do.
Squandered potential is the tragedy of what could have been. It is emptiness unfulfilled with fullness sitting idly by. Your potential is not the limit of you, but the unlimited power of the Holy Spirit that dwells within you. “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might” (Ephesians 6:10 NKJV).
Your potential is not a guarantee but a choice that you must make in whether you will reach for it or not. It doesn’t matter how far you have fallen or how distant you have become from God, but only that you would drop to your knees and ask Him to help you.
Never squander the potential of Christ in you. The problem is never that you are not strong enough but that you are not weak enough. Natural strength is the hindrance to spiritual power. The Lord told Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV).
Your potential is higher than you think and greater than you can imagine. If you dare to give up the right to yourself completely, then the fullness of the Holy Spirit could work in you effectively. There is no reason you cannot walk in the same giftings as other great saints in past times.
Our spiritual potential remains buried beneath any of our natural selves that we refuse to die to. “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit” (Romans 8:5 NKJV).
Your potential is dependent on your willingness to let the Lord have the right of way at every crossing in your life. It is only when you give up your natural life that you truly have the heavenly life living in you. To the degree you surrender, the victory will be made through you.
There is no limit to what God can do in the life of a person who is willing. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13 NKJV).
Your potential is a journey that begins the day you are ready to begin. If you ask the Lord to help you, and you mean that prayer in the depths of your heart, then He most certainly will travel across the heavens and swoop down and begin that work in you on that very day.
You wouldn’t have to try so hard if you’d just pray for God to help you. “There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor” (Deuteronomy 33:26 NLT).
Dare to give up your life, to live the life that you never imagined you could.
When it comes to asking God to change you, be daring in your prayers. “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life” (Psalm 1 39:23-24 NLT).
Blessings to you always,
Paul Balius
Not only to be read and reread, but realized, this post pertaining to our potential in the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of lords, the uncreated consummate Creator, Who reigns in every sphere of creation 1 Tim. 6:15 is enormously encouraging and superbly summarizes any series of Bible-based books.
Thank you, Brother!
Saving this…just what I needed today. I am weak, but He is strong…Yes, Jesus loves me!
I may be OLD, but still have work to do…
It amazes me how much God continues to use us, well past the energy of youth, and right up until our last breath. What a blessing it is for each one of us to simply look to the Lord and ask Him what He would have us do each day.