Taking Your Next Step In Following Jesus Christ

What about all those gifted and talented people you see in life? Did you know that you are just as gifted? You are gifted by your maker and if anyone knows what gifts you will excel in it is Him.

In order for you and I to experience fulfillment and be successful, we must focus our time and energy on what we are gifted at. Too many times we feel frustration and a lack of fulfillment because we are either required to or attempt to do things we are not gifted for.

God does not expect you to have the same gifts, talents, and opportunities as others. Comparing ourselves with the gifts and talents of others produces a feeling of inadequacy and hinders our true potential. God desires for you to discover your purpose in life and to flourish in just that.

A natural tendency we have is to compare ourselves with other people. When we do this we are using the wrong measuring stick and this can be detrimental in many areas of our lives. What then is the correct way to measure ourselves?

What does it mean to us in 2021 that God is our rock? How can this help us take our next step in our faith? 

Where we are going daily will determine our direction in life. To ensure we are headed in the right direction, we must watch where we are going.

Our eyes are our camera and our mind is our hard drive where we permanently store all that we see. In order to protect our heart, we must constantly keep our eyes focused in the right direction and on the right things. 

We are discussing guarding what is most important to us...our heart. Solomon gives three practical ways to guard our heart and the first is by monitoring and measuring what comes out of our mouths.

What matters most in your life? God tells us that protecting our heart is what should matter most because no one is invincible from Satan drawing their heart away.   

There is much to learn from the small very unnoticed ant. On this episode, we discover three powerful life lessons from the ant that we can apply to our daily lives.  

Our past can either haunt us or teach us. It can either hinder us or help us launch forward in life. How we handle our past mistakes is vitally important to us experiencing growth in our life.

We all make not-so-smart decisions in our lives. These decisions can cause us to get stuck in life hindering us from moving forward. It does not have to be this way!

Detours can be the most frustrating and time wasting hinderances in life. Contrary to our thinking, many times detours are the very thing that God uses to move us forward to our true destiny in life.

There are times in our lives when we just cannot see God at work. We cannot see how anything good could come out of our circumstances. We just keep asking, "Where is God at in all of this?" In this episode, we examine just where God is and what He is doing in circumstances like this. 

Another way to get out of our comfort zone and experience growth is to go somewhere you have never been before. This can somewhere geographically on a map or it can be somewhere locally. It could be somewhere different in the same building.