You Crown The Year (Psalm 65:11) - Hillsong Glorious Ruins

 You crown the year with Your goodness
You answer us with awesome deeds
Your hope resounds God our Saviour
To distant lands and farthest seas

O paint the fields bright and golden
Drench the harvest with Your rain
God's river filled with living water
That flows to all as You ordained

CHORUS
Praise the Name of the Lord
O my soul sing His worth
All of life join the song
Come and lift up our King

Now let the earth join the dancing
Deck her out in showers of spring
The dusk and dawn forever relay
The call to come and worship Him

Holy holy
Worthy are You Lord
All the glory
To Your Name forever

Enemy Within; FAMILIARITY

The biggest threat to Your Potentials is Familiarity. One of the most dangerous statements you can ever hear as an individual is when a close friend or relative boldly and emphatically declares; "I Know You". Because, they don't!
If You allow people to Define You, You have indirectly allowed them to subconsciously Confine you. I dare say that any Classification whatsoever is a Limitation!
Familiarity is when familiar people from the past and even those in the present Think they can somehow determine what you can or cannot do in the future based on the actions and in-actions of the Past. But no one Knows what you could achieve or become in the future. Except God!
It is most dangerous when you tell your future dreams to Familiar People. To be Precise, Familiar people are Peers, Parents, or Partners, who cannot overlook the weakness of your past, and therefore cannot perceive the possibility of a better and different Future. Familiar people are always at familiar places; family house, old neighbourhood, Mother churches, Old School Reunion, Alumni meetings.
The family is however the biggest culprit.
Family; No wonder familiarity is derived from the word family. Family is often good for everything except the achievement of a Vision. The biggest deception of Family members is that they believe they know you more than you know yourself. But since Potential is always hidden, this mindset of the family often becomes a great threat to its manifestation. That is why God had to take Joseph from his family; the family sometimes becomes poisonous to your future because they still interpret your future from your past. 

Harland David Sander, started his famous Kentucky Fried Chicken in his
60's, I guess most familiar friends had written him off. What a person has done in the past should not necessarily correlate to what He can do in the Future. Remember! Every Dream has Only One Believer initially, Yourself.
Disclaimer; Old friends and families are the best, but when they don't appreciate your dreams or potentials you have, forgive them, because they might be too focused on your Past that they cannot see Your Bright Future.

How To Succeed at Being Yourself

by Joyce Meyer
It's tough to enjoy life when you don't like yourself. People who haven't learned to accept and get along with themselves tend to have more difficulty accepting and getting along with others. Yet, the Bible repeatedly tells us to "love your neighbor as yourself." I personally spent years having a hard time getting along with people, until I finally realized through the Word of God how my difficulty with other people was actually "rooted" in my difficulties with myself.
The Bible says a good tree will bear good fruit, and a rotten tree will bear rotten fruit. Likewise, the "fruit" of our lives comes from the "root" within us. If you're rooted in shame, guilt, inferiority, rejection, lack of love and acceptance, etc., the fruit of your relationships will suffer. However, once you have a revelation of God's unconditional love for you and begin to accept yourself and others, eventually these new roots will produce good fruit, and your relationships will thrive.
Here are a few tips I believe will help you succeed at being yourself.
1. Never say or think negative things about yourself, such as, "I never do anything right." "I'll never change." "I'm ugly." "I look terrible." "I'm dumb." "Who could ever love me?" Matthew 12:37 says, ...by your words you will be justified..., and by your words you will be condemned…. Proverbs 23:7 says, …as [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he. In other words, the way we talk and think about ourselves reveals how we feel about ourselves.
2. Speak good things about yourself (as private confessions) in line with what the Word says about you. For example: "I am the righteousness of God in Christ." "I am made acceptable in the Beloved." "God created me and formed me with His own hands, and God doesn't make mistakes." I like starting the day making good confessions. Perhaps you can do this while you're driving to work or cleaning house. I also encourage you to look in the mirror and say out loud, "God loves and accepts you, and so do I." You may even try hugging yourself. This is beneficial to people who have lacked love and acceptance in their lives.
3. Never compare yourself with other people. God must love variety or He wouldn't have created us all differently—even down to our fingerprints. You'll never succeed at being yourself if you're trying to be like someone else. Other people can be a good example to you, but duplicating even their good traits will manifest differently through your individual personality.
4. Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. Actress Helen Hayes was told early in her career that if she were four inches taller she'd be the greatest actress of her time. Her coaches tried various methods of stretching her, but nothing increased her height. She refused to concentrate on the supposed limitation of being five feet tall and decided to concentrate on her potential. As a result, she was eventually cast as Mary, Queen of Scotland—one of the tallest queens who ever lived.
5. Find something you like to do that you do well, and do it over and over. If you spend your time doing things you're not good at, it'll frustrate you and cause you to feel defeated and unsuccessful.
6. Have the courage to be different and deal with criticism. Be a God-pleaser, not a man-pleaser (see Galatians 1:10). If you dare to be different, you'll have to expect some criticism. Going along with the crowd—when you know in your heart God's leading you a different way—is one reason people don't succeed at being themselves. You won't like yourself very much if you go against your own convictions.
7. Don't let the way another person treats you determine your worth.
8. Keep your flaws in perspective. People with a high level of confidence have just as many weaknesses as people without confidence, but they concentrate on their strengths—not their flaws or weaknesses.
In conclusion, let me remind you of my opening statement: It's tough to enjoy life when you don't like yourself. When you learn to succeed at being yourself, you'll be well on your way to enjoying life more fully.

http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=how_to_succeed_at_being_yourself

ALWAYS; CHECK!...

Eavesdrop a conversation between two young ladies, and you might suspect they are talking about GUINNESS; tall, dark, strong, rich in taste.

But you will be Shocked that this is just the description of their IDEAL man.

Ladies please, apart from the special qualities you are looking for, be sure to add these qualities. Before you accept, ALWAYS check! ...the 3L's....

LISTENING EARS; communication is the lifeblood of any human relationship. The ability to listen is a major tool in communication. If he is not ATTENTIVE enough to listen to your needs, he will not be SENSITIVE enough to meet those needs.

LEARNING MIND;
A man who is NOT passionate about LEARNING is hardly fortunate in EARNINGS. Apart from his lack of money, he is likely to lack love. He should be willing to understudy his subject till death do you part. He should learn about your personality, preferences and even perceptions. Because no one can truly Love in ignorance. If he will NOT LEARN, he should NOT EARN your love.

LOVING HEART;
Love is a product of value. If he does not esteem you highly, he doesn't love you highly. When a product of value gets a LITTLE problem, we give it HUGE attention. Out of the abundance of heart the mouth speaks, if what he usually says does not suggest that he VALUES you. Run for your Life!

You don't need a perfect Man, but you need to perfectly CHECK the Man you want to submit to for the rest of your life, ALWAYS CHECK if he is a WORTHY Mister.

ALWAYS....Check Check!

Nana Sapho Asante
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