Good morning my friends are you ready to be an instrument that God can use today.

Whether it's in your family, in your workplace, in your community, God wants to use you as the means of his power

and blessing and truth.

In the lives of other people, he wants to use you in that way and you can be used.

We've been talking the last few days about limiting beliefs.

In one of the ways we sometimes have a limiting belief is this sense of I guess you would call it

self-esteem that says to us God can't use me. God couldn't ever use a person like me. I'm too weak, I'm too sinful, I'm a failure in this or that, and we have a laundry list of reasons why we believe God can help us, God cannot use us. But one of the things I want you to

recognize is that that is a limiting belief. It's limiting yourself in the sense that it's limiting your capacity to receive

from God what he wants to give you and what he wants to do through your life.

You in essence are saying, no God, I know you're the all-powerful, I know you're the all-knowing, I know you can do anything

but fail, but you can't use me. You see, we're dictating to God through a limiting belief and we're actually trying to limit God in that sense now God will use us regardless of whether we're willing. I mean he uses the good and the evil, he uses all kinds of things to bring about his will.

But as we are able to jettison limiting beliefs and begin accepting the truth, the fact, the reality, that

God by His Holy Spirit has redeemed us and that our failures and sins and limitations no longer define us,

then we are able to start living, acting, moving in a direction of faith,

believing that God actually can do more

than we've thought him to be able to do with our life previously.

Now where do these limiting beliefs come from?

Well, typically, they come from a number of places, but some of the most common,

are from experiences we've had growing up

we've seen the world only through the lens of our experience that's very

natural and so the conclusions we make about the things we experience

become our beliefs. They become our belief system. We receive our beliefs, limiting beliefs, also sometimes from parents, not intentionally,

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