Today's Encouraging Word

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Whether due to poverty, ignorance, oppression, illness, spiritual blindness, procrastination, or just plain disobedience, multitudes of people either fail or never have the opportunity to fully become everything God meant for them to be. They take all their hopes and dreams to the grave and their glory dies with them……..As long as we are alive the possibility exists for us to reach our full potential. God has endowed us with gifts, talents, and abilities and He wants us to use them for His glory and for mankind’s good. We should strive to freely pour out all that is in us in unselfish service to the world. If we fully express ourselves in this life as God desires, we will not take any unfulfilled potential to the grave. Our goal should be to “die empty.”

Dr. Myles Munroe
(from The Glory of Living)

Today's Encouraging Word

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I am confident that God has called you – and has promised to strengthen you – to do his work. So don’t waste any more days. God will do something special with your life if you will exercise faith in living out your purpose. If you discover how he’s gifted you and where he’s calling you, and if you glimpse what he’s up to, your confidence will grow with deep roots, roots that will see you through the droughts of doubt and the winters of wondering why you’re here on this earth. Move out boldly into your future, my friend, infused with the confidence that the Creator of the universe made you unlike anyone else for a special purpose that is yours alone.

Jim Graff