"Your system is perfectly designed for the results you’re getting!"

A thought by Mark Batterson from his book, Win the Day (p. 32). The Crown Publishers Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.)

So what does he mean by that?

At the beginning of this section, Mark said, "According to some estimates, as many as 80 percent of our thoughts each day are negative. If the battle is won or lost in the mind, that sounds like a losing battle before it’s even begun! Flipping the script starts with your internal script. You can’t let your inner critic—and we all have one—grab the mic and become the narrator! If you want to bury dead yesterdays, you... have to rehearse a different story!

He goes on, "Gaylord Perry was a future Hall of Fame pitcher but a not-so-great batter. In 1964, his manager made an offhand comment: 'Mark my words, a man will land on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.' In one of the craziest coincidences in sports history, Perry hit the first home run of his twenty-two-year career on July 20, 1969, just minutes after the Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the moon.

"Self-fulfilling prophecies aren’t always that specific or that dramatic, but Henry Ford was right: 'Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.' For better or for worse, the stories we tell ourselves become self-fulfilling prophecies!

"Consciously or subconsciously, we justify pieces of our personality and provide alibis for parts of our history. We excuse our character: It’s just the way I’m wired. We maintain the status quo with these famous last words: I’ve always done it that way."

Now back to the thought, He asks, "Can I ask an honest question? How is that working for you? Your system is perfectly designed for the results you’re getting! If you want God to do something new, you can’t keep doing the same old thing."

He then says, "Everything is created twice. The first creation is always internal. More specifically, internal dialogue! The stories we tell ourselves eventually become the situations we find ourselves in. If you want to change your life, start by stewarding your story!"

So let's do all we can to get the results that we and God really want in out lives, okay?

Yes, yes!

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