Summary: <br> Potential. It’s my personal word for 2020. My focus is to live up to my God given potential and guide others to realize their own. All the potential for the life you most desire is right inside of you. It’s there because God put it there. And your desires are there because God put the real ones there too, guiding you to your purpose. You are purpose filled my sister, and where there is purpose, there is all the potential necessary to make it a reality. Purpose and potential are partners in your destiny.<br> So you have all this potential to fulfill your purpose, and then here’s God with all his power. All his power to make things happen. All his power to move mountains and break chains, power to tear down walls and part seas, power to calm storms and power to miraculously provide. But not everyone is experiencing this power in their lives.<br> And here’s why: We will never know the awesome power of God until we go all-in.<br> We don’t get to see the full effect of God’s power when we’re holding back.<br> When we’re playing little in life.<br> When all we seek is safety and security, we don’t get to see God directed success.<br> Where are you holding back? What do you need to surrender?<br> Many years ago I knew God was offering me an opportunity to step up to the next level of living. But here’s the thing about those next levels, they’re freaking scary! The next level is the unknown, and when you step up you’re leaving behind what you had. I wanted what God was offering, but you see it would require me to loosen my grip on all I had worked hard to build. We had built a mortgage business to be proud of. We earned major bucks and those major bucks bought really really pretty things. I liked all my pretty things.<br> And then God called me away from it. He offered me purpose over possessions. He offered me passion over a paycheck. And the scariest thing is he offered me impact over insurance. I could step up to this next level and make a bigger impact on lives, however we would have to forfeit our provided insurance. Ya’ll let me tell you the behind the scenes stuff of going all-in with God … we paid over $1800 per month for our own medical insurance. And while God didn’t miraculously give us that insurance for free or provide overnight success, God provided exactly what was needed to make it work … when we worked.<br> Now it required us to sacrifice, but all the good stuff does. We sold the big beautiful house with the beautiful swimming pool, and we moved into a 1500 square foot cottage with a 500 square foot backyard. We sold the fancy furniture and decided to embrace empty rooms. We didn’t go to the movie theater for nearly a full year because taking a family of 5 to the movies was an entire week’s grocery budget.<br> But let me tell you what diving all-in gave us … it gave us a life beyond our wildest imagination. It gave us struggles that strengthened us. It gave us peace and patience, and a front row seat to the grace and power of God!<br> So let me say it again, We will never know the awesome power of God until we go all-in.<br> We will never know what was truly possible in our lives as long as we’re tip-toeing in the waters.<br> We will never, ever reach our full God-given potential standing on the shore second guessing everything.<br> God is calling YOU, yes you, to an all-in life. He’s calling you to dive. No more splish-splashing around in this life you have been given. It’s time to dive all-in to the life you were created for, BIG TIME!<br> Steven Curtis Chapman has an older song called Dive. It says:<br> I’m diving in, I’m going deep, in over my head I want to be<br> Caught in the rush, tossed in the flow, in over my head I want to go<br> The river’s deep, the river’s wide, the river’s water is alive<br>
