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“You don’t need a bigger paycheck. You need a bigger why.”

From a thought in Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small by Mark Batterson. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

That is so true.  It is all in your focus and your priorities.

Mark says, “If your goal is fame, good luck. Even if you achieve it, you’ll realize that it’s as unfulfilling as fortune. You don’t need a bigger paycheck. You need a bigger why. Our chief end is to glorify God, and if your goal is to make famous the name of Jesus, good fortune will follow you all the days of your life and right into eternity!”
Now that is good news isn’t it?

He then says, “In her spirit Julie Neal felt as if she was on the verge of something big. In fact, God told her to get ready! She just wasn’t sure how or for what. That’s when she visited her brother and sister-in-law, who had adopted a baby from Africa. On the way home Julie’s eight-year-old daughter said, ‘We need to adopt a baby.’ Julie quickly came up with all kinds of excuses, but she had run out of excuses by the time she pulled into her driveway. She knew in her spirit this was exactly what God had been getting her ready for. A year later the Neal family adopted Caden from Ethiopia. Two years later they adopted Cruz. Then in 2010 Julie visited the village in Ethiopia where Cruz had been born. It’s the place where her son took his first breath and his biological mother took her last breath. When Julie asked Cruz’s grandparents how his mother died, they said she died because they didn’t have anywhere to take her to get medical treatment. That’s the day a dream was conceived in Julie’s spirit. Her first step was raising $200,000 to build a well in memory of Cruz’s mom. Cruz actually dedicated that well, a posthumous gift in memory of his mother. They built a school a year later. And Julie won’t stop dreaming until a medical center is built. 
If God had laid the entire dream out in front of me at the beginning of this journey, I would have run away from it,’ said Julie.”

He goes on, “In His grace God doesn’t always download the entire dream at one time. It would overwhelm us. But make no mistake: His plans and purposes are beyond what you can ask. And He wants to use you in ways you cannot imagine. Your job isn’t to accomplish the dream. Your job is to stop making excuses and start obeying. ‘God gives us a little piece of the plan at a time,’ Julie said. ‘And if we keep focusing on Him, it all falls into place—sometimes slowly and painfully. But it all falls into place.’”

So how is your why going?

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