Mark 9:23 ‘Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.’

DAILY READING –• Philippians 4; Ezekiel 24; Isaiah 52

Over a hundred years ago, light bulbs were made of clear glass and produced a glaring light, which was harsh to the eyes. To solve this problem, scientists tried numerous techniques to produce frosted light bulbs that would diffuse the light, but all to no avail. Eventually they gave up trying and declared the problem impossible to solve.

At the General Electric company this seemingly impossible task was then turned into a big joke for new employees. Whenever a new scientist started work at the company, he would be given this problem to solve, while the others would have a good laugh watching him struggle and fail at what they already knew was impossible to accomplish.

When a young scientist named Marvin Pipkin came to work at General Electric, again this joke which had now become a ritual for new employees was played on him. His manager named W.I. Enfield told Marvin Pipkin that there was an urgent contract to supply 50,000 frosted light bulbs and he needed to solve this problem and get those light bulbs produced. Unaware his assignment was a joke, Marvin immediately went to work. As he fussed around with frosting experiments, everybody laughed at him behind his back. However they didn’t have to laugh for long, because Marvin soon shocked everyone by succeeding to create durable frosted light bulbs. Though it was a task which the experts had said was impossible, because Marvin didn’t know it could not be done he went ahead and did it. His patents were developed into General Electric’s popular Soft-White bulb series and today his name remains etched in history for achieving this amazing feat.

Mark 9:23 says ‘Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.’

Indeed what you believe is what you can achieve. Our mind is like a computer and how we program it will determine how it’s going to function. When Romans 12:2 tells us to renew our minds with God’s Word it simply means to reprogram our software with what God says about us. Often the barriers that stop people from achieving great things are the invisible walls built in the mind through thinking limiting thoughts. If Marvin Pipkin had been told the task could not be accomplished , chances are that he would never have been able to produce the frosted light bulbs. The words we hear shape our thoughts and our thoughts invariably shape our actions and accomplishments.

You must realize that God will not give you a vision if He had not already placed in you the ability to fulfill it. But you cannot go higher than your thoughts and you cannot do greater than what you believe you can. The truth is that God does not give you a vision according to your ability, He gives you according to His own capability. Any assignment God gives you will be bigger than what you can handle on your own. Your resources, experience, education and abilities will never be enough to bring that vision to pass. It will take God’s insight, interaction and instruction to accomplish it. This is why we need to daily come to God through His Word. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways higher than our ways. But through meditating on God’s Word, we receive a mind upgrade that enables us to achieve the great vision He has for us. Indeed as we enlarge our capacity to receive by daily feeding on God’s Word, we will begin to operate with the mind of Christ, and the manifold wisdom of God will be made manifest to the world through us.

PRAYER: Father please help me to drop every limiting thought and belief. Please enable me to daily renew my mind through feeding on Your Words so that I can accomplish the great vision and plan You have in store for me in Jesus’ Name.

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Illuminate your world for you are a star destined to shine. WORDBITE 222.
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