What Are You Preparing For?

 Happy Friday, Friends!

I hope and trust this post finds you all having a great day as a glorious new day begins to dawn in my Sweet Home Alabama! 😊

Earlier this week I was reading my Bible Study, A Faith That Works When Life Doesn’t, Part 3 by Rick Warren on the YouVersion bible app. I can’t offer a higher recommendation for the app or this Bible Study! Please remember, what is in the well always comes up in the bucket. Please make time to take care of yourself first! I digress…I read the following:

“Like farmers, we need to wait expectantly. While a farmer waits, he prepares for the harvest. He gets ready. He doesn’t sit around thinking, “I wonder if this is going to grow or not.” He expects it to grow. He prepares for the harvest so that when it comes, he can reap the benefits.”

And then this…

“What have you been waiting for God to do? Maybe you’ve been waiting for him to transform your marriage, solve a financial problem, heal a hurt, or reach someone in your family who isn’t a believer. Whatever you’ve been waiting on God to do, are you really expecting him to do it? If you’re not preparing yourself while you’re waiting, you’re not really expecting anything to happen.

A lot of times we think we’re waiting on God, but God is just waiting on us. He’s saying, “You’re not ready to handle the blessing I want to give you. I want you to grow up first. You’re not waiting on me. I’m waiting on you.”

I have thought about preparation so many times since reading this study. Am I really preparing myself every day for the things I say I want? Am I doing the things that will put me in a position to seize the opportunity when it comes?

What are you preparing for, Friend? What are your hopes, goals, and dreams? Do the things you do every day line up with where you say you are going, with where you want to be?

And how many of you right now are thinking about some vocational endeavor? How about we get real; what kind of marriage do you want to have? Are you preparing to have it? How about your relationship with your kids? Are the thoughts you think, words you speak, and actions you take on a consistent basis putting you in a position to have the relationship with them that you envision? Changes things when you look at it that way, doesn’t it?

Let’s not just sit around with hopes, goals, and dreams, Friends! Let’s do the things on a consistent basis that will put us in the best possible position to accomplish our goals. I realize you and I don’t control everything and thus, we don’t control the outcome. So, if we don’t control something, please explain to me why we would waste our time worrying about things we can’t control and neglect doing the things we can do?! Go ahead, please reread that last sentence. It still sounds ridiculous however many of us live our lives that way…worrying about things we can’t control while forfeiting our true power by not doing what we could freely do but choose not to do.

Let’s take inventory of the lives we are living…all of it! What do you hope and dream for in all aspects of your life? Once we know where we want to be, let’s prepare ourselves every day to be in the best possible position to seize the opportunity when it comes. We will not regret believing in and preparing for what we hope and dream!

I will close this Happy Friday with a few quotes for you to consider…

“What we prepare for is what we shall get.” – William Graham Sumner 

“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius 

“Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.” – Idowu Koyenikan

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.” – Alan Armstrong

Let’s all become the champions of our own story!!!

Please don’t hesitate to contact me at any time if there is ever anything I can do for you or your family. I will always help you any way I can. You can reach me at kevin@whatwillyourinfluencebe.com.

Have a great day, a wonderful weekend, please cherish your precious families, and please stay well! 😊

 

Kev