Hello, thank you so much for joining me again today for Give Him 15. The title of our post today is

The Motivator. When Steve Cawthon was nine, his job was helping his father on the farm. In between pitching hay, he liked

jumping on the packed bales, pretending he was on a racehorse. Once, when his father said,

stop daydreaming, boy, and put the bail in the truck. Steve answered, I will, as soon as I win the Belmont Stakes.

And sure enough, the young man who was riding a bail of hay

did go on to win not just the Belmont Stakes,

but the Triple Crown at age 18. His dream at the age of nine propelled Steve Cawthon to become one of the most successful jockeys

in the world.

You gotta love it.

Vision is a motivator.

We began discussing Proverbs 2918 yesterday.

The verse tells us that where there is no vision or dream, we will perish. The word from which perish comes,

para is rich with meaning. We saw the following three definitions yesterday, unbridled,

unprotected, and unready for opportunity. Let's look now to a few more results of dreamlessness.

The fourth meaning of para is to withdraw. In Exodus 5, verse 4,

Parah is used in the context of withdrawing from or being unwilling to work.

Dreams motivate us, whereas lacking a dream will cause us to be unmotivated.

It may come as a surprise to you that the greatest motivator in life is not need.

If that were the case, the most motivated people would always be those in poverty.

Sadly, this sometimes isn't the case.

Without a dream to work toward, some individuals living in poverty are

unmotivated and unwilling to work. Typically, the hardest worker in a company, at least

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