It wasn't by chance that you are where you are today. It was up to you. It's not up to chance whether you are going to make things happen. You are in control.
Just like swimming against a current, you are either swimming and moving forward or you are resting and drifting in the current. This world doesn't allow stop. It allows success or failure.
Success means urgency. Jesus had it. He had a definite time for when things were going to happen. Urgency has been definted as time defined accomplishment.
Do you find yourself wondering what you are missing and why it isn't happening for you? Put urgency back into your life.
Here's a story to put it into perspective. Say you are a sales person dependant on making sales to make a living. You can market, advertise, or stretch your wings and reach those within 3 steps of you. Actually, it is not either or. You should do both. But, your 3 step away warm market are where you are in control. If you decide that you want to make $21,000 in 10 days, it is up to you. You can be clear that you are making the sale in 10 days and that product will go in that time and you are looking for the right person to make that sale to. That adds urgency. That urgency will make the difference between drifting with the current downstream or stroking against the current upstream toward your goal.
A leader makes things happen. A leader collects decisions and works with urgency. A good friend often says "Are you willing to do today what other's won't, to have (and give) tomorrow what
other's don't?"
God said it this way to Adam. "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." God, didn't say rest and I will lay it all in your lap. Those are action words. Subdue the earth. Dominate the fish, birds and animals. Control your world.
You are in control. If you aren't then you have lost control. There's no in between.
This is a hard lesson for me. It is rough for me whenever God uses a mentor or friend to teach me this. God has blessed you for a reason. You have to take responsibility for what He has blessed you with and multiply it.
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Eric Standlee
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