Bite Off More Than You Can Chew.

    Don't do anything that doesn't require faith. The key to momentum is always having something in faith to look forward to. We live by faith, or we don't really live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. What’s needed is more people who specialize in the impossible. This year's success was last year's impossibility. "Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequence" (Sherwood Eddy).

    Phillip Brooks, suggested we pray this way, "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your power. Pray for power equal to your tasks.” Jesus said to you and me, "I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). Never be afraid to do what God tells you to do. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars" (Les Brown). You’re like a rubber band. You must be stretched in order to be effective.

    You can only accomplish in proportion to what you attempt. The reason why so little is accomplished is because so little is attempted. Never say never. You must think big to be big. "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult" (Seneca). The impossible: what nobody can do until somebody does. The fact is it's fun to do the impossible. It’s when we play it safe, we create a world of utmost insecurity. So, look at things...as they can be.

    You don’t tap the resources of God until you attempt the impossible. Risk is part of God's plan for you. "I can do everything God asks me to do with the help of Christ who gives me the strength and the power" (Phil. 4:13, LB). "Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding" (Rochefoucauld). Even a coward can praise Christ, but it takes a man of courage to follow him.

    Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. "We do not need more intellectual power; we need more spiritual power. We do not need more things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen" (Calvin Coolidge). He who does not dare will not get his share. Unless you enter the beehive, you can’t take the honey.

    Look for ways to flex your risk muscle. Everyone has a risk muscle; and you keep it in the proper shape by experimenting and trying new things. "People who take risks are the people you'll lose against" (John Scully). "The people who are really failures are the people who set their standards so low, keep the bar at such a safe level, that they never run the risk of failure" (Robert Schuller).

    A great ship always asks for deep water. When you dare for nothing, you should hope for nothing. God wants us to bite off more than we can chew, to live by faith and not by sight.