God told His people: \u2018Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a043:18\u201319\u00a0NIV) So, if you\u2019re asking God for a vision, or to enlarge the one He\u2019s already given you, you need to make room mentally. \u2018Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a054:2\u20133\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
Somebody said dreams always come a size too big so you can grow to fit them. Don\u2019t settle for mediocrity in your work, your relationships, or your walk with God. Mark Twain said: \u2018Twenty years from now you\u2019ll be more disappointed by the things you didn\u2019t do, than by the ones you did. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the wind. Explore. Dream. Discover.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Even if you come from a background of addiction, poverty, depression, abuse, and low self-esteem, God can enable you to rise up and put an end to that old mind-set of defeat. In Biblical times, animal skins were made into wine containers. At first they were flexible and easy to work with, but over time they grew rigid and lost their ability to expand. That\u2019s why Jesus said, \u2018No one pours new wine into old wineskins. [It] would\u2026 burst the old skins\u2026 New wine must be put into new wineskins.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a09:17\u00a0CEV)<\/p>\n
Throw out your old wineskins! God won\u2019t infuse a fossilised mind with fresh ideas, but He will change your life when you line up your thinking with His.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
God told His people: \u2018Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!\u2019 (Isaiah\u00a043:18\u201319\u00a0NIV) So, if you\u2019re asking God for a vision, or to enlarge the one He\u2019s already given you, you need to make room mentally. \u2018Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}