Maximizing Your Potential

didn’t give it to you. He will affirm your decisions and strengthen your efforts when you start taking positive steps to rid yourself of the negative influences, the wrong attitudes, or the poor choices that are threatening your potential. Destroy the cigarettes or drugs. Move out from living with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Stay home instead of spending every night at the local bar. Leave the room when you are about to hit your child in anger. Take responsibility for your own actions when your boss asks you why a project isn’t completed or your spouse is disappointed that you forgot her birthday or your wedding anniversary. A boat that is still cannot be turned no matter how long or how far you turn the wheel. Move a small distance and the boat will respond to a gentle touch on the wheel. The guarding and protecting of your potential is the same. If you stay stuck in your present rut with no attempts to get out of it, your dreams will wither and die. Start moving and the gentle touch of God will begin changing you and helping you to achieve seemingly impossible dreams. God is your partner . You must work together to protect your potential. When you start contributing to your own protection, the Holy Spirit starts to protect you as well. He empowers what you begin and redirects your efforts when they don’t match His expectations. Then you can begin to discover your potential and to protect what you see. Guarding potential is a daily task that requires more wisdom and power than we possess. God is in the business of maximizing potential. He’ll empower our efforts if we cooperate with Him, but He will not do the work for us. Begin today to follow the guidelines for guarding and protecting your potential. The future of your dreams and visions is at stake. > Principles 1. You are responsible to guard and protect your potential. 2. The treasure you must defend is God’s wisdom, God’s power, and the presence of God’s Spirit in your life. This potency of God within you is your potential. • Prepare to overcome his attack. • Stand firm in the midst of attack. 4. Guidelines for protecting yourself from attack: • Don’t answer your critics. • Post a guard to deter attack and to warn of impending danger. • Allow God to fight for you. • Don’t allow a lull in the battle to convince you that the war is over. 3. Guidelines for safeguarding your potential: • Recognize your enemies as the forces of evil. • Expect satan’s attack.