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One of the greatest challenges is to dare to become who you really are!

Many simply conform to be who others want them to be rather than to become who they are. One of the most tiring and frustrating things in this life is living your life trying to be someone else. When you live like this you are still a stranger to yourself and you put the greatest limitation on your advancement in life. Trying to imitate someone else is a great self-imposed limitation.

Do not conform to the mold others and the world want to put you in, it will make you a copy and that will simply adapt you to the world. Instead, be an original, do you, this makes the world adapt to you. All Progress, advancement, and great achievement depend on originals. John Mason said “One of the hardest things about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd of copies at the bottom.” God wants you to be on top not at the bottom.

Romans 12:2 says Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold, but let God re-mold your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity. ¹

The Challenge

Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. ²

Do not try to live up to the expectation of anyone else but God’s.  Resolve to be yourself, the person God has made you to be. You are not a biological accident or a science project gone wild, rather you are fearfully and wonderfully made; you are God’s masterpiece. Don’t be an imitation, but standout by becoming who you are! Make your own impression. If you walk in the tracks of others forever, you will never leave your own footprints in the sands of time. To make a mark that can never be erased and to enjoy the best rewards, be who you are made to be! Be an original and not a copy!

The journey of becoming who you are begins by asking Him who made you! (Jeremiah 33:3).

Simple as A-B-C!

Learn more in the Master Key to Greatness and Significance.

Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich.¹

Lazy people always become poor. The reward of a lazy approach to life is poverty. When you deal with a slack hand you become poor. Therefore it is very important to deal with every form of laziness in your life. It means that the outcome of a lazy man’s life is highly predictable. He may desire wealth and riches, peace and prosperity, fame and fortune, but as long as he continues to have a lazy disposition toward life, he will forever have nothing. No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it.² He will always have nothing because he is lazy. Who you are highly determines what you do and what the outcome of your life becomes. The Lazy man wants things but will never get them because of who he is but a hard worker will get everything he wants.

Laziness is an enemy to a life of progress. It is a hindrance to any one that wants to make a difference in life and enjoy success. If laziness is not dealt with, success is not in view. Proverbs 12:27 says the lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting. The result of that is hunger, lack and death. He is too lazy to cook what he caught when he went to hunt so the game became rotten and had to be thrown away. If you are too lazy to cook what you caught in hunting, you will simply starve to death. A lazy life is an empty life that never gets what it wants or deserves because Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.³ In order words, lazy people are those that sleep too much and in the process, they sleep their time away and go hungry in life, for success that they can never have.

Shake off every form of laziness today and embrace the call of the great future designed for you by GOD. Do not be your own worst enemy, your future depends mostly on you!

Here are 10 Scriptures to help you fight Laziness. GO HERE!

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Jesus Christ, the greatest armorbearer that ever walked the earth, said anyone willing to walk in His footsteps must bear the cost of self-sacrifice.  He said this is the prescribed way to live, His way, the only way to finding one’s true self.

Self-sacrifice is the denial of personal interests and needs in order to serve others or advance a cause.    “I do not seek My own will,” Jesus said, “but the will of the Father who sent Me.” It is not about getting your own way, it is about carrying out orders.  You must have the willingness to give up your rights and privileges in order to satisfy the legitimate needs of people. This is how you find your true self.

A self-sacrificing mentality indicates that you are “other people” minded in your disposition toward life, thereby making a desirable difference in the lives of many.  You are indifferent about your position or status but more concerned about how you can make significant contributions to the advancement and progress of others.

Self-sacrifice also means you willingly come under authority in order to exercise authority.  It means that your personal self-will has no bearing whatsoever. Rather, God’s will takes precedence in your life.  You will have to lay down your will under the command of God for you to be able to command authority in service.

A life of absolute surrender is required for self-sacrifice.

Once making this case about Jesus, one of the great apostles of the Bible said to “Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of Himself.  He had equal status with God but did not think so much of Himself that He had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what.  Not at all.  When the time came, He set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!  Having become human, He stayed human.  It was an incredibly humbling process.  He did not claim special privileges.  Instead, He lived a selfless (self-sacrificing), obedient life.”

Jesus said of Himself, “I am the Good Shepherd.  I know My own sheep and My own sheep know Me.  In the same way, the Father knows Me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before Myself, sacrificing Myself.”  So you must pay the price just like Jesus did and lay down your rights and privileges, your status and dignity, then put on the garment of service. This is the way to become truly great!

Jesus said it best, “Anyone wanting to be the greatest must be the least—the servant of all!”

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