Robert Tilton once said, You don’t have to take what life dishes out to you. Right now, all around you is all that you could ever need or desire, but you can’t see it with your eyes closed. You have to open your spiritual eyes and take the limits off God.
Too many people, Christians included, limit God; and they live with limitations, lack, sickness, and misery instead of with blessings and abundance. They follow the crowd. They are sick because other people are sick; they are poor because other people are poor. You don’t have to live that way.
Jesus said you cannot avoid problems in life. However, if you acknowledge Him, you will always have solutions; for in Jesus there is no darkness, no lack, no sickness, no fear, no guilt, no condemnation, no failure. “In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
He also promised that if you would put Him absolutely first in your life, He would add unto you all the things you need for life and happiness (Matthew 6:33). All you have to do is put Him first and take the limits off Him (Psalm 78:41). When you have the revelation that Jesus is your righteousness and that He has lifted the curses off you and redeemed you so that you can have the blessings of Abraham, you will have faith to receive anything from God. The more you use your faith, the fewer limits you will place on God.
All limitation begins with our analytical mind. The more we scrutinize and try to figure God out, the more we establish the limitation in our minds. That is where faith and trust come in. The natural reasoning mind was not created to understand spiritual things. Spiritual understanding comes by revelation of the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:16-17). The Spirit revealed to Peter who Jesus was.
Our problem is that we thwart God’s plans by our unbelief. All unbelief comes from analyzing which leads to paralysis. The more we analyze, the smaller God becomes in our mind. It is like standing at the airport refusing to get on a plane until you understand how one-hundred ton jet is going to get off the ground. The longer you think, the more impossible it seems to be.
