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What you allow to define you will determine your destiny. All decisions flow from your identity. Satan’s temptations of Jesus Christ began with an attack on his identity: “IF you are the Christ…” (Matt. 4). Every move forward in your dreams and visions for 2019 will start from the foundation of your identity AND every obstacle and attack of the enemy starts in the same place. Who you are always becomes what you do. We become the size of the dreams we are courageous enough to pursue. Or we shrink to the size fear allows us to become…which is always smaller than...

My friend Gene was in prison for 37 years for a murder that someone else committed. The day he was released, he immediately took a plane to Texas. He didn’t check the weather or wonder if his baggage would make it or hang around for just one more cup of penitentiary coffee—he was free! When you’re free, you get out of there! Freedom is exhilarating…an atmosphere and attitude of joy…an unrestrained life. Freedom is the amazing gift Jesus Christ has given to every believer—so why would we keep hanging around the prison? Paul wrote: “It is for freedom that Christ has set...

This could be the most challenging key, but it is foundational to all our goals and dreams for 2019. Paul wrote, “Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:32). Forgiveness carries the most explosive power to launch us into a new season. Forgiveness allows us to leave the old and enter the new. Forgiveness releases the past. Unforgiveness holds onto the past. Regardless if 2018 was a good year or bad, the only way to face a new year is to let go of the past year. When Christ forgave you...

Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the world’s most famous actors recently said, “You learn after you've been in this business for a while that fame is empty and pointless." We live in a world that is attracted to fame and position and praise. If we’re not careful and disciplined in our approach to life, we’ll also be attracted by them, wanting prestige, wanting people to give us respect, credit, compliments, or at least acknowledgement. But we are working before an “audience of One.” As followers of Jesus Christ, He is the center of our lives. Paul said about you and me: “I want...

What you and I do in 2019, how we end our year, what we achieve externally, will first be achieved internally. We will not achieve greater things if we do not grow larger in our spirits. And this must be done day by day, week by week. Champions are not made in the middle of the game, but in the middle of practice for the game. What we see in the visible is first apprehended in the invisible. In a football game, what we see visible on the field is the result of hundreds of practice hours that are invisible to us…but were achieved by...