Sunday, 17th November, 2024
Bible Reading: Luke 1:37
Memory Verse: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)
Dr Myles Munroe (20 April 1954 – 9 November 2014) was a Bahamian evangelist and ordained minister, professor, author, speaker and leadership consultant. He shared an encounter he had with his son: My little boy has been coming to me when he’s trying to do something and saying, “I can’t do this.” I always respond to him by saying, “There is nothing named ‘can’t.’” When he comes back to me and says, “I don’t know how to do it,” I always reply, “There’s always a way to do everything.”
Several days ago my son and I were out in the yard playing bat and ball. I was throwing the ball to him and he kept on missing with the bat. Finally he became really upset and said, “I can’t do that,” to which I replied, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’” Slowly he repeated after me, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’” Then I said, “Hold the bat,” and I threw the ball. He hit the ball and then said, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’
Several days later when I stopped by home to drop off my daughter, my son came running and wanted to play basketball. When I said that I had to go back to the office to do some work, he insisted that he wanted to play ball with me then. When I again replied that I had to go to the office, he said, “There’s nothing named ‘can’t.’ ”
Do you see the point? If he begins to think that way at four years of age, this world is in for a winner.
Lessons
1. Too often we fail in our efforts because we have been brought up believing that we cannot do some things. The people who change the world are people who have taken the word ‘impossible’ out of their dictionaries. The men and women who make changes in history are those who come against the odds and tell the odds that it’s impossible for the odds to stop them. A man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
2. The word, “I Can’t” is a slogan for brewing mediocre and members from the family of “Fixed Mindset”. Choose to have a Growth Mindset. You CAN pass a science course even though you are a art student should you prepare, and vice versa. You CAN win that election. You CAN walk in the prophetic. You CAN do all things through Christ who strengthen you (Phil. 4:13).
3. Friends, if you will continue to reinforce a belief system, you will soon master your craft. Confess what the scriptures says you are even when all the odds are against you. Keep confessing healing even when the doctor says you are dying soon, and watch your health suddenly improve. Keep speaking peace to your home and prosperity into your hands and see it manifest.
Quote: The people who change the world are people who have taken the word “I Can’t” out of their dictionaries.
Prophetic Decree: By the power of God, I break every limiting mindset, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. I break the inertia in my quest towards mastery, in Jesus name.
2. I receive grace to take the first step in my journey towards positive change, in Jesus name.
3. I receive grace to change the course of my life, and change the course of my destiny, in Jesus name.
4. I cast down every imagination and bring down every limiting mindset, in Jesus name.
5. Holy Spirit, overhaul my negative default mindset, and reconfigure them to become divinely compliant, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Acts 4-6