Insight for Today Part II

“For I will give you and mouth and wisdom, which all of your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.” Luke 21:15

You and I are stronger than we realize. We are wiser, and have more capacity than anyone has ever told us. Some of us will continue to deny this, without even verifying this claim. Why? If you are stronger and wiser than you realize, then your ego may become damaged from the “what if” syndrome; you know what that is: “What if I would have found out about my greater capacity sooner?” Then after you realize this to be true, then you will be faced with an even greater task of stepping out of your status quo comfort zone, and you will have to start destroying some of the Goliaths that have kept you enslaved. Some people prefer slavery because everything is taken care of by the master. Everything is provided for you, or you may live in lack when you operate in mediocrity; even though God has given each one of us the innate ability to grow, to develop and to succeed.

I will use the theoretical example of a football game to further illustrate my point. A football game consists of 11 players from each team (22 players on the field simultaneously). The quarterback always gets the ball to initiate a play. Since the game is always evenly matched (11 players on each team), then in theory, the quarterback or whomever has the ball only has to avoid one person if everyone else is taking care of their assignment. So if the player that has the ball avoids his one opponent, yet doesn’t score a touchdown, then some other player didn’t fulfill his obligation to block his man. Did you catch the analogy? If we miss our assignment from God, then something in the game of life is going to go lacking and/or incomplete. We are God’s mouth, hands and feet in the earth. If we don’t do God’s Will, then who will? You and I must succeed, because God isn’t going to run for the mayoral seat in your city; God isn’t going to drop money out of the sky on people; God isn’t going to start a business in your community; God isn’t going to feed the poor. But He has commissioned us to do these things.

This article is going to be the encouragement that you need to keep going, or to go to the next level in your walk in this earth. The Bible says that David encouraged himself in the Lord (1 Samuel 30:6), but you can use this encouragement as a “pick-me-up” whenever you need it. Below is a compilation of some fabulous insights from a lot of famous people that want you to know how important you are. Actually, you’re unstoppable!!!! But you have to believe that.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most...We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson, American author and lecturer

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.- Robert F . Kennedy

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.- Dr. Helen Caldicott

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. - Henry George

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.-Ferdinand Foch

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.- Goethe

If you don't like the news, go out and make some news of your own. - Scoop Nisker, radio personality

But the [people], if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire . . . They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies . . .- George Orwell, 1984

You let one ant stand up to us - then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a 100 to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life. - Hopper (a grasshopper speaking to fellow grasshoppers in the Disney/Pixar movie A Bug's Life)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.- Margaret Mead

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
-Sonia Johnson

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.- Alexander Graham Bell

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
- Williams James

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows -- and has always known -- that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival. - Anthony Robbins

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits. - William James

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.- George Bernard Shaw

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.- Paulo Coelho

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 (New Living Translation)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius

For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,
but the wicked are brought down by calamity. Proverbs 24:16 (New International Version)

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher

No weapon formed against you shall prosper. Isaiah 54:17

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.-Albert Einstein

Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].- Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified Bible)

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana

"With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."-- Matthew 19:26

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine

And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 (New International Version)

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. – Seneca

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.- Proverbs 27:17

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller

Ability is sexless. - Christabel Pankhurst

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
- Mark 11:22-24

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. - Stephen Covey

You haven't failed until you quit trying. – Anonymous

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. - Anonymous

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. - Isaiah 40:29-31

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. - Anonymous

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw