bang-bang!
When provision stops, God isn’t saying, “I’ve decided not to love you today.” When your provision stops, God is saying, “I’ll provide for you in a greater and more abundant way.”
When your life becomes painful, God isn’t saying, “I don’t care for you.” When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better place for you.”
I have seen this happen with people in toxic relationship. They get very hurt in the relationship and cry buckets of tears. But soon, they just jump back right in—only to get hurt again. They get attached to the toxic relationship.
But pain is life’s messenger. It’s saying, “There’s a better place for you. You weren’t born to live around thorns. You were born to soar above the clouds.”
Failure isn’t God’s rejection.
Failure is God’s redirection.
Proverbs 20:30 says, Sometimes, it takes a painful situation to change your ways.
Failure Isn’t God’s Rejection;
Failure Is God’s Redirection
Like Mommy Eagle, God was teaching me how to fly.
Today, I thank God that my food businesses failed. If they didn’t, I would have been stuck there, doing what I didn’t love.
Friend, is God pushing you out of your nest?
Has your provision stopped?
Perhaps God is saying, “There’s a better life for you than this. There’s a better relationship for you than this. There’s a better job for you than this. There’s a better business for you than this…”
Believe that God wants to teach you to fly!
Is It A Dip Or A Dead End?
Seth Godin is one of my favorite business writers.
He says that when we get into a difficult situation, we need to decide if it’s a dip or a dead end.
A dip means there’s great success if you persevere through that difficult time. Dead End means there’s no great success even if you persevere for a thousand years.
So ask yourself: When you get over this difficulty, will you be number one or number two in that niche? If not, it may be time to bail out. And look for an area where you can be great.
Same Thing In Ministry
When something isn’t working, when something is causing pain, when something is not growing, be quiet. Listen to God’s direction in your heart. He may not be asking you to change location, or change a job, or change a business, or change a relationship.
He may be asking you to change strategy.
Psalms 119:71 says, My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees.
Our suffering made us listen to God.
And He spoke to us. He led us to change strategy. And the results have been mind-boggling.
Basically, God told to us, “Forget yourself. Love your neighbor.” In the old structure, we were serving ourselves. We spoke our own language (Christianese). We designed all our events for us, locals. But God led us to give up our selfishness and love those who didn’t belong to our group.
We began to design the entire event for those who felt out of place in church.
Friend, do you feel that you’re stuck? Do you feel that life is stagnant? That you’re not growing?
Listen to God’s voice. He may be asking you to change your strategy. Don’t be attached to how you did things before.
Because what brought you to where you are now may not bring you to where you want to go.
Success Doesn’t Teach You Much;
Only Failure Teaches You
Your Most Powerful Lessons Of Victory
This is the irony of life.
Success doesn’t teach you much.
It’s only Failure that teaches you your most important Lessons of Victory.
When you’re successful, you don’t know why you’re successful. You just assume that perhaps it’s this or that thing.
When you’re successful, you’re complacent.
When you’re successful, you’re not teachable.
When you’re successful, you’re proud.
When you’re successful, you’re hard-headed.
But when you fail, you fall on your face.
You hit the ground.
Bang!
You’re stunned.
You’ve dazed.
You’ve got blood on your lips.
You’ve got massive pain on your knee.
Suddenly, you’re attentive.
Suddenly, you’re quiet.
Suddenly, you ask hard questions.
“Why did I fail?”
“What can I do so I won’t fail again?”
As you answer these questions, you learn lessons of victory.
And when you apply those lessons of victory, that’s when you succeed.
See Everything As A Blessing
One day, a man who was stranded in an island.
He decided to protect himself from the burning hot sun. For many days, he built a grass hut.
But on the day he was to sleep in it, a lightning hit the roof, starting a fire. He hurried to put it out, but it was no use. Everything burned down.
He was devastated. He clenched his fist towards the heavens and screamed, “God, how could you do this to me?”
When he woke up the next day, a ship was going to the island. He was being rescued! He jumped up for joy.
When the ship landed on the shore, the man asked his rescuers, “How did you know I was here?”
The men said, “We saw your smoke signal last night.”
Friend, what is your grass hut?
What has been taken away from you?
What has been destroyed and lost forever?
Is it a relationship?
Is it a job opportunity?
Is it a dream gone bad?
Don’t fear. Don’t give up.
God is teaching you a lesson of victory.
Through your loss, your failure, your trial, God is rescuing you. God is saving you. God is bringing you to a better place.
Eagles Are Made For Storms
Let me end with one more thing about Eagles.
When a storm comes, other birds hide in trees and caves.
But not the Eagle.
Because Eagles love storms.
Eagles sense in their bodies that a storm is coming. And they get excited.
Because Eagles don’t really fly. Eagles soar. All they do is spread their 7-foot wings and use the wind to carry them. So the stronger the wind, the higher they go.
Some say that Eagles can sleep in the storm.
Friend, your storm will lift you higher.
Rest in God’s love.
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
When your life becomes painful, God isn’t saying, “I don’t care for you.” When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better place for you.”
I have seen this happen with people in toxic relationship. They get very hurt in the relationship and cry buckets of tears. But soon, they just jump back right in—only to get hurt again. They get attached to the toxic relationship.
But pain is life’s messenger. It’s saying, “There’s a better place for you. You weren’t born to live around thorns. You were born to soar above the clouds.”
Failure isn’t God’s rejection.
Failure is God’s redirection.
Proverbs 20:30 says, Sometimes, it takes a painful situation to change your ways.
Failure Isn’t God’s Rejection;
Failure Is God’s Redirection
Like Mommy Eagle, God was teaching me how to fly.
Today, I thank God that my food businesses failed. If they didn’t, I would have been stuck there, doing what I didn’t love.
Friend, is God pushing you out of your nest?
Has your provision stopped?
Perhaps God is saying, “There’s a better life for you than this. There’s a better relationship for you than this. There’s a better job for you than this. There’s a better business for you than this…”
Believe that God wants to teach you to fly!
Is It A Dip Or A Dead End?
Seth Godin is one of my favorite business writers.
He says that when we get into a difficult situation, we need to decide if it’s a dip or a dead end.
A dip means there’s great success if you persevere through that difficult time. Dead End means there’s no great success even if you persevere for a thousand years.
So ask yourself: When you get over this difficulty, will you be number one or number two in that niche? If not, it may be time to bail out. And look for an area where you can be great.
Same Thing In Ministry
When something isn’t working, when something is causing pain, when something is not growing, be quiet. Listen to God’s direction in your heart. He may not be asking you to change location, or change a job, or change a business, or change a relationship.
He may be asking you to change strategy.
Psalms 119:71 says, My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees.
Our suffering made us listen to God.
And He spoke to us. He led us to change strategy. And the results have been mind-boggling.
Basically, God told to us, “Forget yourself. Love your neighbor.” In the old structure, we were serving ourselves. We spoke our own language (Christianese). We designed all our events for us, locals. But God led us to give up our selfishness and love those who didn’t belong to our group.
We began to design the entire event for those who felt out of place in church.
Friend, do you feel that you’re stuck? Do you feel that life is stagnant? That you’re not growing?
Listen to God’s voice. He may be asking you to change your strategy. Don’t be attached to how you did things before.
Because what brought you to where you are now may not bring you to where you want to go.
Success Doesn’t Teach You Much;
Only Failure Teaches You
Your Most Powerful Lessons Of Victory
This is the irony of life.
Success doesn’t teach you much.
It’s only Failure that teaches you your most important Lessons of Victory.
When you’re successful, you don’t know why you’re successful. You just assume that perhaps it’s this or that thing.
When you’re successful, you’re complacent.
When you’re successful, you’re not teachable.
When you’re successful, you’re proud.
When you’re successful, you’re hard-headed.
But when you fail, you fall on your face.
You hit the ground.
Bang!
You’re stunned.
You’ve dazed.
You’ve got blood on your lips.
You’ve got massive pain on your knee.
Suddenly, you’re attentive.
Suddenly, you’re quiet.
Suddenly, you ask hard questions.
“Why did I fail?”
“What can I do so I won’t fail again?”
As you answer these questions, you learn lessons of victory.
And when you apply those lessons of victory, that’s when you succeed.
See Everything As A Blessing
One day, a man who was stranded in an island.
He decided to protect himself from the burning hot sun. For many days, he built a grass hut.
But on the day he was to sleep in it, a lightning hit the roof, starting a fire. He hurried to put it out, but it was no use. Everything burned down.
He was devastated. He clenched his fist towards the heavens and screamed, “God, how could you do this to me?”
When he woke up the next day, a ship was going to the island. He was being rescued! He jumped up for joy.
When the ship landed on the shore, the man asked his rescuers, “How did you know I was here?”
The men said, “We saw your smoke signal last night.”
Friend, what is your grass hut?
What has been taken away from you?
What has been destroyed and lost forever?
Is it a relationship?
Is it a job opportunity?
Is it a dream gone bad?
Don’t fear. Don’t give up.
God is teaching you a lesson of victory.
Through your loss, your failure, your trial, God is rescuing you. God is saving you. God is bringing you to a better place.
Eagles Are Made For Storms
Let me end with one more thing about Eagles.
When a storm comes, other birds hide in trees and caves.
But not the Eagle.
Because Eagles love storms.
Eagles sense in their bodies that a storm is coming. And they get excited.
Because Eagles don’t really fly. Eagles soar. All they do is spread their 7-foot wings and use the wind to carry them. So the stronger the wind, the higher they go.
Some say that Eagles can sleep in the storm.
Friend, your storm will lift you higher.
Rest in God’s love.
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
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