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“Until we hit our limit, we often assume we can provide, we can deliver, and we can produce.”

A thought by Christine Caine from her book, Unstoppable: Running the Race You Were Born To Win (p. 42).Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

We can be very confident until we hit out limit, can’t we?  Maybe that is where you are today.

Christine says, “Often it is when we come face-to-face with our limitations that we give up, thinking all is lost. But when we recognize our limitations, then we also recognize when God demonstrates his limitless power. Until we hit our limit, we often assume we can provide, we can deliver, and we can produce.”

She goes on, “What are you facing today that brings you face-to-face with your limitations, leaving you questioning how qualified you are to make a difference in this broken world? Is it a broken past? A dream that has died? A lack of time, money, education, leadership skills, influence, or confidence? We must never assess a difficulty in light of our own resources but in light of God’s resources. You can step boldly into the exchange zone not because you have no limits (we all have plenty!) but because God’s resources are limitless. Jesus accepted the five loaves and two fishes, small though they were. One packed lunch. A meager amount of food. It was all the boy had, but he offered it all. If the boy had kept his little lunch, it would have remained little. If you keep your little, it will remain little as well. But if you step into the exchange zone ready to offer what little you have to be used by God in moving the baton forward, your little will be multiplied as you run.

“When the boy gave his little to Jesus, Jesus blessed it, and it became much in his hands. It is never about how little we have. It is about what our little has the potential to become in the hands of a miracle-working God. Don’t focus on what you don’t have, what you can’t do, what isn’t enough. Just offer your ‘not enough’ to God, and he will multiply it into more than enough. That’s what happens when you are living in the exchange zone, offering yourself to be used by God.”

By the way, Jesus used that small lunch to feed 5,000 men plus their families.  And He wants to take our limitations to make a difference.  Will you let Him?  Will you?

Yes, yes!
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