The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 22:26-27 (HCSB)
26 Don't be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans.
27 If you have no money to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 52:9 (HCSB)
9 I will praise You forever for what You have done. In the presence of Your faithful people, I will put my hope in Your name, for it is good.
The Word of God for encouragement:
2 Corinthians 10:12-16 (ESV)
12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
13 But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.
14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
15 We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,
16 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence.
My observation:
Every child of God has a purpose for which God made you. Imbedded within each of us is the potential for goodness. You have the potential in you to be a potent force in this world. God has done his part.
Psalm 139:14 (ESV)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
What God has made is your happy responsibility to activate and use for God's glory. Your life is not your own, you belong to God.
1 Corinthians 6:20 (ESV)
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Now, look up to the one who made you. Have faith in God, and go about daily activating the potential that is within you for God's glory, and the benefit of others. Become the potent person God made you to be.
My prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I am so grateful that you made us for a purpose, and that you have placed within us the potential to be potent. Father, help me to remember that the power comes from you; from the indwelling presence of the triune God, who lives in his people. In Jesus name, Amen.
John 14:16-17 (ESV)
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:20 (ESV)
20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
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