My takeaways:
‘Doing the new you is always more about God’s grace than your grit.’
‘His calling is your confidence, and his grace is your guarantee.’
‘The new you is aware of problems but committed to progress.’
‘If you give up now, you’ll never know what miracle God has just ahead.’
‘If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them. But if you agree with God about your potential, you get to grow into it.’
‘Your past failures and successes are all part of who you are, but they don’t get to decide who you will become.’
‘Your default is not your destiny.’
‘Do the thing you would if you knew God was making a way forward.’
‘Sometimes you just have to work with what you’ve got. You have to use what God has put in your hand, no matter how unlikely or limited it is.’
‘We don’t all do generosity or patience or love or joy the same way, so focus on figuring out what the real you would do, not what someone else would do.’
‘You have nothing to prove because your sufficiency comes from Christ, and he’s never going to fail.’
‘Enough is not a state you will eventually reach. It is a gift you have already been given.’
‘You are the handiwork of the divine. He made you on purpose. That is the you that you need to accept because it is the one God made.’
‘If we don’t know who we are and value what God has out in us, we’ll get tricked into trading that away for things that don’t matter.’
‘Instead of listening to your lack, agree with God’s abundance.’
‘Accepting yourself is not about never changing, but rather about believing you are perfectly loved and accepting right now, and there is nothing you could do to make God love you more.’
‘You have great needs, but you have a greater God who lives in you and flows through you.’
‘Seeds have their own schedule, and so do God’s promises.’
‘You make plans, God makes paths.’
‘The way forward is not an instant miracle that makes everything perfect and pain-free. Rather, it’s the presence of divine strength that leads you, tearfully and tentatively, through the tragedy and the heartbreak.’
‘Victory in life is realized by embracing your capacity to shift, to reset, to embrace what is next.’
‘Don’t assume your testimony is complete today, because you might leave out the part God is getting to that you don’t know about yet.’
‘You’re just going through a crisis; you’re in a cocoon. You’re changing in there.’
‘When you turn your focus toward God, when you set your mind on the unlimited, unstopppable grace that empowers you to find creative ways forward, the censor loses its leverage.’
‘Remember, with God there is always a way, and by faith you will find it, not by self-doubt or self-ridicule.’
‘Often the seed of tomorrow’s success is hidden within today’s failure.’
‘Seeds that are never sown will never succeed.’
‘God is a safe place for you to try and fail.’
‘Give God the mistakes of today and ask him to make them wisdom for your future.’
‘No one can curse what God has blessed. He’s a defender of the weak, and he’s fighting on my behalf.’
‘God’s calling isn’t based on your resources or resume, but on his knowledge and power.’
‘It may end in failure, but I will not live in fear.’
‘The new you is willing to learn along the way, even if that means being embarrassed or changing your mind about some things as you grow.’
‘We have to choose to walk in confidence knowing that God is in it with us, and he’s up to something we can’t see.’
‘He’s prepared you for the moment and the moment for you.’
Faith is the ability to believe that God is up to something upstream.’
‘Let God deal with the things you can’t deal with as you do the things he has called you to do.’
‘While you walk in your strength, you keep trusting in your God. Those things are not mutually exclusive. They work together.’
‘When you make peace with your strength, you recognize that since the strength comes from God, it depends on God.’
‘Joy, satisfaction, contentment, gratitude, forgiveness, freedom, and confidence are all growing within you because of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.’
‘Learning about ourselves is not contrary to following Christ. It is the consequences of following Christ. God is a God of truth, and truth sets us free.’
‘But feelings aren’t meant to be followed. They’re meant to be conditioned and conformed to be image of Christ.’
‘If you’re going to manage your joy, you have to manage your focus.’
‘If your sense of well-being depends on something external, it’s a setup for instability. There will always be something that comes along and knocks you off-balance because the world itself is not a stable place.’
‘A thankful thought is one of the few things that can match the velocity and force of negative thoughts. It does an end run around the negativity and gets you back to the goodness and grace of God.’
‘You have peace with God right now. You have forgiveness of your sin right now. So you have everything.’
‘Don’t let the devil tell you that your faith is fake just because your feelings are all over the place or you don’t see a way forward.’
‘It’s road-weary, battle-scarred, tearstained, drool-in-your-beard trust, but it’s still trust. It’s still faith. It’s still hope. It’s still praise.’
‘Humility is not demanding to be in control and in the know all the time, but rather taking the next step in obedience to God, trusting him to lift you up at the right time, in ‘due time.”
‘God has given you what you need for this season. It’s in you because he put it there, but you have to see it.’
‘Don’t diminish what makes you different. Destiny is often hidden in your difference.’
‘The things God has put in you and the grace he has placed on you are not random. They are not minor things. They are there for a purpose, and you are here for a purpose.’
‘You have to go through things that break you down in order for God to build you up.’
‘Let God help you fail as you grow, and help you grow as you fail.’
‘Failure done right is not failure at all. It’s just another step forward as you do the new you.’
‘Faith isn’t knowing the whole journey ahead or being certain about what you’re supposed to do next.’
‘Are you spending more time telling God how big your mountain is than telling your mountain how big your God is.’
‘Choosing yourself must start and end with the fact that you are chosen by God in Christ.’
‘You have been selected and accepted by a God whose sovereignty supersedes every situation and every human limitation.’
‘God chose you- but you have to choose yourself. Stop rejecting who you are or who you are not. Stop comparing yourself to people you don’t even know. Believe what God says about you. Decide to act like the person he says you were created to be and step into the calling he created for you.
‘God chose you. Will you choose yourself? God is with you. God is for you. God chose you. Will you?
Source
Steven Furtick (2024). Do the New You: 6 Mindsets to Become Who You Were Created to Be
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