Run Your Own Race: The Greatest Race

Article Title: Run Your Own Race: The Greatest Race
Shared by: Craig Lock
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RUN YOUR OWN RACE: THE GREATEST RACE (OF LIFE)

Submitter's Note:

These are some brief notes that I took from an address by American televangelist, Joel Osteen some years back. I hope you find them as uplifting and inspirational as I do... and that is my reason for sharing.

Plant seeds of hope in others. David (say = I) fulfilled his purpose for his generation.
God has equipped each one of us exactly what we need to achieve our destinies.
When God made you, He (?? or choose whatever means to you, male, female or "gender neutral - It") threw away the mould. Be comfortable with who God made you to be. Then make the most of what God has made.

Don't compare yourself with others; otherwise you'll lose focus.

God has not equipped you to do something outside your vision.
God, the Ultimate Source has equipped you to fulfil your unique destiny.

Follow your own inner vision for your life - be comfortable in yourself. ("I can't run your race, run with your vision"). Only YOU can do that.
Stay focussed. Say :Even in the valleys, this situation will work out for my ultimate good.

EXPECT a favourable outcome to your endeavours, ie EXPECT SUCCESS
"Greatness is forged in the valley of adversity.”
Just be the very best you can be.
St Paul: "I have kept the faith. I have followed the course."

Celebrate yourself: who God made you to be.
God has already equipped you with all you need to achieve your dreams. You DO have the tools for your calling, to be victorious.

You will soar high and be all the person God intended you to be.

Shared by craig (“information and inspiration distributer, incorrigible encourager and people-builder”)

"God has already equipped you with all you need to achieve your wildest dreams."

"Make your dreams BIG enough for God to fit in"rn_rn"Lord, make me a channel for Your peace to flow through to everyone I meet"
"The task ahead of you can always be overcome by the power within you...and the often seemingly difficult or even "impassable") path ahead of you is never as steep with the great spirit that lies within you."

"Success to others may be apparent in what you DO; but
significance, meaning and purpose lies, then reveals itself
in what you ARE and BECOME down the 'river of life' - how and the spirit with which you face, then overcome the daily obstacles, the frequent trials and tribulations along the often rocky path-way of life's magical and mysterious
journey. Light your path brightly." - craig

"Let the light of your BEING shine brightly;
so revealing Who You Really Are.
Be a Bringer of the Light, which emanates from our soul, God, our Creator, the Source, the Essence of Life (and Ground of our very Being).
Therefore, it can do more than illuminate your own path.
YOUR spirit will help makes the lives of others easier by illuminating others paths.
For this light is our humanity, the spirit of God, truth, wisdom, beauty and especially love...
and it lies within each ONE of us.
Through your actions and your being,
let your light, YOUR spirit truly shine brightly on the world,
like the radiance emitted by a candle at midnight." - craig (as adapted from Neale Donald Walsh in Conversations with God Book 3').

"Together, one mind, one life at a time, let's see how many people we can impact, encourage, empower, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials."

"What we are is God's gift to us.
What we become is our gift to God."

“When (or is it perhaps if??) you arrive in a place (or rather state ) known as heaven, let faith and love be the wings of the chariot that carried you there.”

• Craig (as adapted from the words of Jonathan Edwards, a former minister in Massachusetts (New England)

THESE THOUGHTS MAY BE FREELY PUBLISHED
May the light of God shine brightly on your path up ahead