By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills
Have you ever said, “That will never happen?” Perhaps it’s something you’ve dreamed of doing or not doing. The situation could be about another person or happening.
Before you fall prey to the Never Syndrome, remember the lightbulb, automobile, and television were once laughable concepts.
Take a look at the following list of 7 items that came from Popular Science. These were once referred to as science fiction (first date) and later became a reality (second date).
- Defibrillators (1820 – 1947)
- Space Stations (1869 – 1971)
- Computers (1872 – 1940’s)
- Lab Grown Meat (1880 – 2013)
- Long-term Heat Storage (1905 – 2007)
- Tasers (1911 – 1974)
- Portable Audio (1953 – 1954)
What do the above scientific discoveries and inventions have to do with you? Many people are wasting their gifts and talents because someone told them their dreams would never happen.
- Impossible.
- You don’t have what it takes.
- Give it up.
Just about anything can fall into those categories.
Nothing is impossible.
Consider medical advances, technology, archaeology findings, people who rose from humble means to worldwide recognition, and a host of too many achievements to list.
Take a moment and list the one thing you desperately want to accomplish.
- Why is it important to you?
- How would it give you satisfaction?
- Would it benefit the world?
- List the knowledge needed to grasp your dream or goal?
- What else is needed?
“Impossible is God’s starting point.” ― Unstoppable: Running the Race You Were Born To Win
If nothing is impossible, and never say never is a falsehood, what is holding you back?
Thank you for a timely message/reminder. I answered all the questions with a determination to follow through. What a great way to start my day!
Oh, thank you! Glad I could help!
Wow, I so needed this DiAnn!! This so takes me back when I was studying vocal performance with Ollie Watts Davis one semester at the University of Illinois as my vocal coach; while attending Parkland in 1989. She was teaching me Italian opera ,and having me go up and down the piano 🎹 …and I said I can’t. She said, I never want to hear I CANT! I said ok!!! I was very young and always loved music. I can say that I graduated top ten in my graduation class a half a point from Summa in 2014 from Eastern Illinois University. Inducted into Alpha Sigma and many honor societies.
I called those things that were not as though they are. One of my favorite verses in the Bible. I saw my goal achieved into the now. I am a 4.0 woman. One with the Father and He with me. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is living in me. I often wonder why we don’t live fully alive in Christ knowing we are no longer in Adam. We are flawless and seen as Jesus because we are in Him. If all things are possible with God why did we let the enemy get into our heads. Well I’ve told him where to go and been a praying warrior and asking the Holy Spirit as I begin to write my first book to flow through the words with life as I write with heart and intellect and soul!!!
I love you DiAnn! You are one of my heroes in the faith!
Thank you! God bless you richly, Shari England Upton
Shari, you made my day. Such a sweet testimony to how God works through us! March on!