Chase the Lion

As I continue my journey through "In a pit with a lion on a snowy day" there hasn't been one chapter with a quote or thought that hasn't challenged my current way of thinking. This book is amazing and came at a perfect time in my life journey. I was reading Ch 7 last night and it goes right along with the message Mark Beeson shared the week before last. Just some quotes to ponder from this chapter

Opportunity Stewardship
-Isn't it ironic that some people who have so much do so little and others who have so little do so much?
-Lion chasers don't let what they can't do keep them from doing what they can.
-Success is doing the best you can with what you have where you are.*
-Success is as unique as your fingerprint
-Grab life by the mane
-Lion chasers are the kind of people who rise to the occasion. Lion chasers are the kind of people who refuse to be intimidated by Moabites or Philistines. Lion chasers play to win. They fight for what they believe in. They don't live life sitting back on their heels. They life life on the tip of their toes waiting to see what God is going to do next.

The Reticular Activating System
-One of our greatest spiritual shortcomings is low expectations. We don't expect much from God because we aren't asking for much.
-Low expectations are the byproduct of prayerlessness, but prayer has a way of God-sizing our expectations.
-The more you pray the higher your expectations
-Cognitive categories
-We need to create those categories so we will notice anything and everything that helps us achieve those goals or answer those prayer.
-Opportunity costs
-Stay in prayer mode

*A dream becomes reality one opportunity at a time*

Make it a great day!

24

Twenty-Four

Twenty-four oceans, twenty-four skies,
Twenty-four failures in twenty-four tries.
Twenty-four finds me in twenty-fourth place,
With twenty-four dropouts at the end of the day.

Life is not what I thought it was
Twenty-four hours ago.
Still I'm singing Spirit take me up in arms
with You. And I'm not who I thought I was
Twenty-four hours ago
Still I'm singing Spirit take me up in arms with You.

Twenty-four reasons to admit that I'm wrong
With all my excuses still twenty-four strong.

But see I'm not copping out
Not copping out
Not copping out
When You're raising the dead in me

Oh, I am the second man
Oh, I am the second man now
Oh, I am the second man now

And You're raising these twenty-four voices
With twenty-four hearts
With all of my symphonies in twenty-four parts
But I want to be one today
Centered and true

I want to see miracles
To see the world change
I wrestled the angel
For more than a name
For more than a feeling
For more than a cause
Singing Spirit take me up in arms with You
You're raising the dead in me

"God, make me need you more"

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