We\u2019ve all been given individual gifts and goals in life, and God is the giver of both. Jesus said, \u2018That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.\u2019<\/i> (John 3:6 NKJV) When you have a desire that\u2019s \u2018born of the flesh\u2019<\/i>, don\u2019t expect God to fulfil it. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s ok to admire and learn from gifted, successful people, as long as you don\u2019t try to duplicate them. It\u2019s okay to emulate their good character qualities and seek their input as long as you go to God, the architect of each of our lives, and ask Him to show you His blueprint for your<\/i> life. Even though David\u2019s desire was to build the temple, God told him his son, Solomon, would ultimately build it. David\u2019s job was to raise the money and materials for the project. If you\u2019re a \u2018make-it-happen\u2019 sort of person, that kind of thinking will go against your grain. <\/p>\n
So read this and think about it: \u2018They were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, \u201cCome over to Macedonia and help us.\u201d Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.\u2019<\/i> (Acts 16:6\u201310 NKJV) <\/p>\n
So let God set your goals and you\u2019ll be heading in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We\u2019ve all been given individual gifts and goals in life, and God is the giver of both. Jesus said, \u2018That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.\u2019 (John 3:6 NKJV) When you have a desire that\u2019s \u2018born of the flesh\u2019, don\u2019t expect God to […]<\/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\/428"}],"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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}