What is potential? This is an unexposed ability,reserved power,untapped strength, capped capabilities,unused success, dormant gifts,hidden talents and latent power.
Potential is what you can do but haven't done,what you can achieve but haven't achieved,where you can go to but you haven't gone to,what you can imagine but haven't imagined. This potential is the sum total of who you are that you have yet to reveal. Unless you continually try to reach higher,go farther,see over,,you will never discover your full potential.
It is so unfortunate that when you go to the burial ground,many lives both young and old are yet to release their potential. Probably some die at the verge of fulfilling theirs while others could not even reach their goals.
"The abortion of potential is the death of the future " When you do not act on your potential now or you destroy it,your future can never yield good things.
What do you understand by the word " Potential "?
When God created all things,He created them with potentials both plants and animals including we human beings. God has deposited into us potentials that are unseen or unrevealed. I may see the outer part of you but can never see the inward part. You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.
Gen 1:12 explains and describes how God created plants and seeds each bearing different seeds. So also human beings are created but have different potentials inside of us. What is in you is far different from what is in me. God planted within you the ability to be much more than you are at any moment.
God is the source of all potentials. Everything that was and is was in God and He has all potentials with Him which He distributed to every creature He created.
I want you to know that " the greatest tragedy in life is not death but life,life that fails to fulfill its purpose and potential". When you die,people will only lament and forget while you won't even know anything but it will be disgraceful for a person not to fulfil his purpose while still living on earth.
It is so important for you to go to your source who is God to help you discover your potential and make use of it. When you discover your potential and work it out,even if you die,you will be at peace with yourself that eventually you fulfill your purpose on earth. Many lives have gone without fulfilling their potentials all because they could not go to meet their source for help,some don't even have a close relationship with their source who is God.
You as an individual possess a great treasure which is your potential. It is even better for you not to be born than for you to be born without fulfilling your purposes. Ecclesiastes 6:3-6 even made mention of it....
"3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years,so that the days of his years be many,and his soul be not filled with good,and also that he have no burial;I say,that an untimely birth is better than he.
4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness,and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun,nor known anything: this hath more rest than the other.
6 Yea,though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good:do not all go to one place?"
Even if a man has hundred children and they were not able to take care of him or give him a proper burial when he dies,it is better not to born because all is life was a waste.
"What lies behind you is history, and what lies before you is future,but those are both tiny matters compared to what lies within you." (Myles Munroe)
I want you to know that every great tree was once a seed,every woman was once a girl,every man was once a boy.
The potential God gave you is not for decoration but must be used to show God'a glory in the world. If you do not use it before you die,it is tagged as "useless" a "waste". God took time to create us and made us in His own image, likeness. He was full of wisdom to have created us and as His own image,be like Him.
Here are some keys to releasing your potential.
You must know your source which is God. Have a cordial relationship with Him,be very close at all time to Him.
You must understand how you are made to function.
Know your purpose. Go to God to reveal your purpose for you, if not,you will only live on earth without fulfilling the plans of God for your life.
You must understand the type of potential God has deposited in you.
You must know and have the right environment that fits you. They say,"evil communication corrupts good manners." If you stay in an environment where people don't even add value to you,it will be difficult for you to fulfill God's plan for your life.
Lastly, work on your potential after God have reveal what type of potential you possess. Go out and exhibit your God given talent.
Remember,"potential is given for the benefits of many not for the benefits of one." Use your potential to change people's life's,draw them to God,not actualizing it indoor where people would think no one exist.
Thanks for reading..
