Maximizing Your Potential

purpose for each room is not established. In a similar manner, you cannot effectively release your potential if you do not discover God’s purpose for giving you life. Your potential and your purpose are perfectly related because God never requires you to do or be something that is not part of His purpose. Likewise, He never requires something of you that He did not provide for when He created you. Your potential enables you to fulfill your purpose, and your purpose reveals the potential hidden within you. Your potential enables you to fulfill your purpose, and your purpose reveals the potential hidden within you. From his encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus to the end of his life, the apostle Paul knew that he had been called and saved by God for a specific purpose: “...God, who set me apart from birth and called me by His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles. ” (Galatians 1:15-16). Similarly, the apostle Peter discovered his purpose when Jesus told him three times, “Take care of My sheep” (John 21:16; see also John 21:15-18). Both remained faithful to God’s purpose, dedicating their lives to its accomplishment and conforming their actions to its fulfillment. You are like these apostles. You too have a purpose set forth by God and the skills, talents, abilities, and characteristics that enable you to fulfill His plan. Your responsibility is to discover what God designed you to do and how He planned that you would accomplish it. Until you discover God’s blueprint, you will not have the motivation to uncover the potential that will empower you to accomplish it, nor will you be happy and fulfilled. Discovery of purpose is discovery of potential. Success without an understanding of purpose is meaningless. Knowing and cooperating with your God-given purpose is the third key to releasing your potential. He alone knows why He created you with the specific combination of personality, abilities, and dreams that make you the unique individual you are. You share the purpose of humanity to glorify God by fulfilling your individual purpose and by releasing the power, beauty, and possibilities hidden within you. Success without an understanding of purpose is meaningless. Know Your Resources Provisions are given for the fulfillment of vision. Every builder, before he starts a project, both estimates what materials he will need to complete the job and determines what resources are available to him. God functions in a similar manner. As He forms and fashions each person for a specific purpose, He also provides the necessary resources to accomplish His plans. The apostle Paul knew that God had given him certain resources to help him