Strange statement isn’t it?
But read carefully for it can make a difference of success or failure in your business, career and private life.
Let me explain:
You may know that in India, elephants are used for manual labour. But what do they do with them when they are not working? How do they restrain them?
Their handlers came up with the idea to “program” them while they are still very young by setting self-imposed limits into their thinking.
How does it work? When the elephants are still small, weighing around 150pounds they got tied up with a very heavy rope. All day long, the elephants try to get rid of it whine, tug at it and some of them even try to chew it. But they can’t break free.
Finally the elephant gives up and the fight is over. From this moment on they strongly believe that there is absolutely no chance to get rid of the rope.
They accept the “fact” that the rope limits them. And with this imprinted belief in place, their handlers are able to tie them with extremely small ropes, even as adults weighing 8,000 pounds and more, they never attempt to break free, because they “know” they have no chance at all!
As you can see, the elephant’s limits are not real but exist only in their minds.
So also, we have built-in boundaries; they are also not real but exist only in our minds. This is the program which the devil has written on the “memory card” of most Christians; and this I call it FEAR.
I define FEAR as (False Evidence Appearing Real); its never real but the devil makes it seem so real that you can almost touch it. After trying our hands on something new or a business and we experience a temporary set back, we tend to surrender to fate and believe it’s over. That’s exactly what the Indian elephants do after trying and failing. But it doesn’t have to stay this way. Our negative belief systems don’t have to limit us for good. So, if we truly want to become successful and are not kidding ourselves we can change our inner belief system, our attitude and break our boundaries.
You might feel that there are some certain characteristics of your personality that are part of you and therefore can not change. You might even think that’s how it runs in your genealogy or it’s just the way you are, the way God made you. Although it’s true that you have certain inborn traits, certain strengths and weaknesses, this doesn’t mean that you can never change. Even if this is true, destinies or family genealogy can be changed. You might wonder how this can be, how you can change what you feel it’s a long standing habit, an almost ingrained characteristic and turn it into something different.
All things are possible with God!
Jabesh is an example of a man who didn’t settle for less and changed his destiny. Jacob was another man who fought with the angel just to change his destiny. All these men experienced failures at some points in life but they did not allow the “program” of the devil-FEAR to make them give up.
It just takes a sincere desire to receive this help, and determination to follow through. You always have the inner strength, the personal power to change everything in your life for the better. JUST TRY!
Never give up and never act like an Indian elephant who despite being endowed with strength for achievement is tied down with a little rope.
Like my mother in the Lord will say “If your destiny is worth to die for, its better to die for it” for what’s the essence of existence without the fulfillment of destiny?
