Passion

I will never forget these words of wisdom quoted by Whoopi Goldberg in the Hit Movie Sister Act 2. "If you wake up every morning and all you want to do is sing', Girl then you are supposed to be a singer." This is a classic turning point in the movie when Lauryn Hill’s character "Rita" is trying to make up her mind of whether or not she wants to return to her music class which she dropped out of because the teacher was starting to make the class hard. Rita is only 18 when all of this occurred but I find that more and more those of us who are getting older in life are trying to find out purpose amidst life’s changes, challenges, and charges. Changes can be anything from getting married, to starting a new career or graduating from college and not being able to find a job. Challenges can be the same thing but even having to deal with the madness we often times are dealt in our personal lives. For example I lost both my mother and father between the ages of 25 and 26, the time frame that most people would say a young woman in the new millennium would be going through a "quarter-life crisis" I was dealing with things people twice my age are somewhat prepared to handle. When working through challenges we have to sometimes put ourselves and our desires aside to get through the process before we can move forward. And of course the charges of life are such as; get a degree, support yourself, support a child, support a parent, buy a car, buy a house, get out of debt. So what do most of us do? We get a respectable job or at least a semi-decent paying one, we put our dreams and hopes to the side and move into a life of complacency, mediocrity, and just plain being average.

Well, I say NO MORE. No More of being average and being mediocre. Pick up your dreams where you left off in your sleep and make them a reality when you awake.
As yourself, what am I passion about? Get up in the morning and even when you are stuck in the middle of the challenges, charges, and changes in life, always make a move toward those dreams. It's a matter of simply choosing to keep those items on the back burner but never taking them off the stove. Keep the heat on yourself and your dreams.

We often forget the unlimited power that is already working in us (Ephesians 3:20), because our measure of faith in God does not match our measure of faith in ourselves. But as Mary Mary would say; “it’s God in me”. The song says Great is Thy Faithfulness, not your faith but God’s faithfulness. If you keep your confidence in Him you can have an exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think measure of Faith. If you haven't realized it God is in us but we must first recognize that he is there, second receive the instruction he has for us in obedience, and then walk out what he has for us in obedience.

Remember God is unlimited. I repeat God is unlimited. Where man is limited God is unlimited. Where man can only see gold in a few mountains, God can create gold in places where there was never gold before. Where man sees billions of dollars in bailouts going to corporations God has an infinite bailout for you. So don’t lose faith. Anything is possible to those that believe.

So I ask you; what are you passionate about? What excites you? What is the thing you’re good at and enjoy? Now to those of you who will receive; I say to you that as you begin to develop the skills attached to your passions your opportunities will increase. Now that isn’t prophecy it is a fact, but you must already have the obedience factor in check. So Now I ask you; what is God asking of you? If you don't think you can hear the voice ask God to show you. He will send people in your path consistently and in frequently. You might for example keep running into someone on a annual or bi-annual basis and every time you connect you feel the leap in your spirit like Elizabeth and Mary in the Bible. Mary the earthly vessel that gave birth to Jesus went to visit her cousin Elizabeth and when Elizabeth saw her, the baby that she was pregnant with leaped in her womb. Who have you missed a connection with that you know you should be connected? And remember; keep that obedience factor in check.

Now we all can move ahead and move forward to getting those things we have been praying for, dreaming about, and known all of our lives we should have. The year is 2010 and it is a year of the divine favor of God. And when you have favor with God, man has no choice but to extend his favor toward you. Keep your heads up friends. Let’s move forward in faith. Amen and Amen.