I read about an eight year old boy who grew up in Kansas in the early 1900s. During the winter, he and his brother would go to school early to light the wood fire in the large potbellied stove in the classroom so that it would be warm when the rest of the students arrived. But on day someone accidentally put gasoline in the kerosene container he used to start the wood on fire. The next morning, when he lit the match, there was a huge explosions. His brother was killed instantly. The teacher cannot running and found this little boy unconscious with the lower half of his body burned beyond recognition. She pulled him out of the fire thinking he was dead but somehow he had survived. He had lost all the flesh on his knees and shine and all the toes on his left foot. His mother was told that if he did make it, he would be crippled never able to walk again and the doctors recommended amputating his legs. But this little body was a fighter. Against all odds, he survived. He made up his mind he was not only going to walk again, but he told everyone that on day he would run again.
Months later he was sent home for the hospital with no movement in his legs. The doctors advised his parents to massage his legs to stretch the muscles and try to restore some suppleness to this lower limbs which was incredible painful because of the scar tissue. Every day this mother would take him outside in the wheelchair so he could get some sunshine. One afternoon when she was not watching, he grabbed on to the picket fence and pulled himself up. Stake by stake, he began to rag himself along. He did this day after day, teaching himself how to walk again. They did not have physical therapy for him to go to, he was his own physical therapist. Two years after the accident, he stood up for the first time. Not long after that, he was not only walking, he began to run and became extremely fast.
Quit thinking about what you did not get, what you cannot do, how the odds are against you. You and God are a majority. You have what you need. You can beat the cancer, you can break the addiction and you can start the new business. You can go further than the experts have told you. Instead of dwelling on all the negative things people have said about you, dwell on what God says about you. I will rung and not be weary. Instead of you cannot break that addiction. This is not for you today, declare that the path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. God’s plans for me are for good and not evil to give me a future and a hope. Nothing will happen until you change y0our mind.
Are there stronghold keeping you back? Have you adapted to an environment and let what people have said abut you set the limits for your life? God is saying, this is a new say. You are barrier breaker. I am going to take you further faster than you have imagined. I am going to help you set a new standard. You are going to defy the odds. Now do your part. Let this seed take root in your spirit. Do not talk yourself out of it. Get in agreement with God.
