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Don't Limit Your Vision

God can use both your gifts and limitations to fulfill your destiny. This is illustrated through the story of Esther, who had limitations as an orphaned Jew living in Persia, yet God used these to make her queen and save her people. While difficulties may seem like disasters, God often has a bigger plan and can use any situation, as seen in the story of Job, for good if we trust in him rather than living in resentment.

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Don't Limit Your Vision

God can use both your gifts and limitations to fulfill your destiny. This is illustrated through the story of Esther, who had limitations as an orphaned Jew living in Persia, yet God used these to make her queen and save her people. While difficulties may seem like disasters, God often has a bigger plan and can use any situation, as seen in the story of Job, for good if we trust in him rather than living in resentment.

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Don't Let Limitations Limit Your Vision

"[Esther] won the king's favor and approval ... . So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen." Esther 2:17
(NIV)

"Sometimes what looks like a disaster in your life is part of a much bigger plan. But you will never fulfill your destiny if
you are having a pity party. "

God will not only use your gifts to fulfill your destiny, he'll also use your limitations.

Let's look at Esther again. She had several big limitations that made her perfect for the role God wanted her to fulfill. She
was an orphan adopted by Mordecai; she was a minority, a Jew living in a Persian country; and she was a single woman.
A single woman in a male-dominated society had zero rights.

And God used all of these things, along with the gifts of her beauty, brains, and personality, to fulfill her destiny. Think
about it ... if she had been a married man, she wouldn't have become queen. And if she hadn't been a minority, she
wouldn't have cared about the Jews and what was going to happen to them.

So what am I saying? Sometimes what looks like a disaster in your life is part of a much bigger plan. But you will never
fulfill your destiny if you are having a pity party.

Esther could have just said, "If only I hadn't been chosen, if only I wasn't Jewish, if only I was like someone else." A lot of
people do that. They live their lives in resentment, always looking at people and saying, "Well it must be nice to be
them."

If you have that attitude you will never fulfill your destiny. You have to realize that the unpleasant obstacles in your life
are often God-ordained opportunities to make a difference.

It's hard to see that when you're in pain. Look at Job. He was the wealthiest man in the world and then God allowed
everything to be taken from him - his family, his wealth, his health.

Then, when Job starting asking God why, he was silent. Job said, "I do not see him in the north, for he is hidden. I turn to
the south, but I cannot find him. But he knows where I am going ... Hi mind concerning me remains unchanged ...
Whatever he wants to do, he does. So he will do for me all he has planned. He controls my destiny" (Job 23:9-10, 13-14
NLT).

You might be in a situation right now where everything is going wrong and you can't figure it out. But God knows.
Nothing in your life is accidental. The pleasures and pains, the opportunities and obstacles, God can use it all. There is
nothing God cannot use for good in your life if you'll give it to him.

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