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The Breakthrough Training How Do We Determine Our Way? We are still left
with the question, "What is His way?" The signposts along the way
are often And while our past by no means determines our future, it is a potent source for discovering it. Our relationships with others form the crucible in which God refines our character. Further, others in our lives are, by God's design, to be the recipient of the fruit of our gifts. Developing a Vision of a Future Worth Having The Breakthrough Training is grounded in the assumptions that our satisfaction and fulfillment, our behavior in the moment, our means to steward who we are and what we do, depends wholly on our vision of a future worth having with others--that our relationships with others are the ultimate end for our vision and the means by which our character is refined and molded. Whenever we live
in the present moment, directed toward a compelling vision of the future, we
experience our past differently. When we consider our past in relation to a
compelling The Biblical principle that our vision of a compelling future redeems our past brings a renewal to participants of faith, hope, and love. Whenever we experience the meaningful connection of our past to our vision of the future, our faith multiplies exponentially because we can see the hand of God at work throughout the story of our lives. We experience the confidence and significance of knowing that we are being cared for by a loving and all-powerful God. Overcoming Victimhood No longer will we relate as victims to the tragedies that scar our lives, but, rather, we will be equipped to stand and order the chaos that threatens the beauty of our relationship with God and our relationships with others. Because we can identify the loving power of our God redeeming our past, the despair of defeat will transform into the grateful anticipation of what we will discover He is doing next in our lives. Our longings for what we have lost or never had will stoke the fires of our future expectations. |
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and open to divergent interpretation. God, however, provides us with
at least three different compasses to assist us in arriving at our calling:
our unique gifting, our unique past, and our unique relationships. He has specially
gifted each of us, and these gifts are an integral part of our calling to love
God and others. 
future,
we realize that God has used every disappointment, challenge, mistake, and injustice
for the development of our character and calling. When we live this way, we
redeem our past and know that we are following His way. We can join the Apostle
Paul in saying, "And we know that God causes all things to work together
for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose"
(Romans 8:28, NAS). Along the path of His way, we will discover daily the abundant
possibilities of the vision He has put in us.