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The world is full of toxins—negative words from others, depressing news reports, misunderstandings, disappointments, and our own internal voices programmed by past failures. This year, we must detox our lives. God’s ultimate victory, not our past mistakes, must permeate and sustain our hearts. As we press into our 2019 goals, we must be aware that what looks beautiful on the surface could be our undoing. It’s like this…. In the early 1940’s, a visionary entrepreneur was forced to abandon a canal he was building near Niagara Falls in upstate New York. Eventually, the government permitted a chemical company to dispose of 21,000 tons...

There is one guarantee in a race: if you don’t start, you can’t win. Seems simple, yet we have a tendency to live that way too often. We have a dream, a promise, a vision but we don’t start. The only way you can succeed is to start. The only sure way not to succeed is not to start. God wants you to start so you can succeed. Everything God has ever done has been successful. In fact, God has never had an unsuccessful thought. Success is what God does. God wants that for your entire year—and for the next decade. What is...

Solomon inherited a kingdom from his father, the great King David, and was immediately surrounded by enemies, palace intrigue, a complex culture, big obstacles, and facing a huge assignment. He asked for wisdom, and God gave him wisdom. But God gave Solomon something more—God gave him largeness of heart. Why? God gives us wisdom, understanding, and largeness of heart, meaning capacity, because we are not large enough today to fight tomorrow’s battles. God essentially told Solomon, “I’ll give you wisdom, but you’re not large enough to contain the wisdom that I know you need. So, I’m going to increase the capacity of your heart and soul.” Our...

Your dreams are important. Your dreams have great value because your destiny is locked up inside your dreams. To unlock a dream and go after your destiny requires courage even in the most determined of men. Going after a dream means risk, work, sweat, tenacity, pain, turmoil, faith, and even failure. But only when you commit fully to your dreams, will you embrace your destiny. You know the joy of achievement only when you’ve been willing to accept the risk of failure. The key to understand is, your dreams are not just for you. They are for everyone around you. The Kingdom...

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...