Recognition of your personal limitations

Bienhome Muivah *

You cannot do everything.
You can only do what God designed you to do through your gifts, skills and intelligence.
Trees do not talk.
Turtles cannot fly.

Design determines your capability.
Persistence is the difference only when the goal is one designed by God.
Inexperienced airplane pilots have crashed, because they failed to recognize their personal limitations.
Inexperienced ministers have sometimes given unwise counsel, because they did not recognize their personal limitations.

Inexperienced police officers have sometimes refused to call up for backup. Their deaths become evidence that they refused to recognize their personal limitations. 9 (Nine) Facts about your personal limitations:

Life was created to be a collection of relationships.
Somebody sees what you cannot see. Somebody can do what you are incapable of doing. Arrogance deprives you of the incredible contribution others desire to give.

When you fail to recognize your personal limitations, you become blind to the gifts hidden in those near you.
Recognition of your personal limitations will birth an ability to discern opportunities around you. You will always pursue something you lack.

Recognition of your personal limitations will unlock compassion toward you.
Everyone relates to weakness. Admitting it unleashes favor beyond your imagination. Vulnerability is a magnet for compassion.
Recognition of your personal limitations will exposes unnecessary goals and inappropriate dreams you have collected within you. You must learn to identify the important things from the lesser.

Recognition of your personal limitations corrects your focus on what you are designed to do. Broken focus is the real reason why human fails.
Recognition of your personal limitations removes stress.
Nothing is more difficult than attempting to be something you can never be.
When you fail to recognize your personal limitations, you stop seeking solutions for them. Your weakness will not multiply. You can only correct what you are willing to confront.

Whatever you do not possess has been carefully stored in earthen vessels near you.
Love is the master key to any house of treasure. Recognition of your personal limitations will unlock the unlimited treasure stored in those around you.
Every human contains weaknesses. God has anticipated every weakness. “He remembered that they were flesh, a passing breeze that does not return” (Ps.78:39).

One weakness can destroy you. Your refusal to recognize it, guarantees your destruction. Recognition of your dominant weakness can save you a thousand nights of tears, failure and devastation. Brilliant, articulate and powerful people have permitted a tiny weakness to eat away like a small cancer. Things that begin small can become huge.

Greed, lust, lying, prayerlessness and even gossip can grow until that weakness becomes a raging inferno.

You cannot afford to ignore your weaknesses/limitations. Your weakness is like a living person within, a living organism. It is a force, silent and deadly, that moves your life toward destruction. If ignored, it will wreck every dream, sabotage every worthy relationship and ultimately make you a monument of disgrace on the earth.

What is the most dominant weakness/limitations in your life that Satan has consistently used to dilute your testimony, break your focus and create depression? You may hide it for a season, but time exposes all things.

Address your weakness!
Become an enemy to it. Trust the Holy Spirit to empower you.
Confession is evidence of trust.
Recognition of your dominant weakness will help you avoid disgrace, loss and tragedy.
Splendid Sunday!