Habakkuk 2:4 (NCV)
But those who are right with God will live by faith.
After you write your goals down and prepare yourself by taking action, the challenge of living by faith begins. God justified you (made you righteous) and now you are expected to live by faith.
The power you need to accomplish your goals and realize your God-given dream is released through faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Faith gives substance to the goals you want to achieve. Faith is the thought-image of your goals already completed. The only evidence you need is the picture you hold in your mind of you in possession of your goals. The world calls it visualization or positive thinking. However, the techniques of visualization and positive thinking are simply applied faith. Applied faith is the belief that the images you picture in your mind will become real. Imagine your goals as already accomplished.
The amazing story of James Nesmeth illustrates the power of picturing images in your mind:
Major James Nesmeth, an average weekend golfer shooting in the mid-to-low nineties, dreamed of improving his golf game. But, then, for seven years he never touched a club nor set foot on a fairway. During those years, however, he developed an amazingly effective technique for improving his game. The first time he returned to a course, he shot an astonishing 74! He had cut 20 strokes off his average. What was his secret? Visualization. For those seven years, Major Nesmeth was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. He was imprisoned in a cage four-and-a-half feet high and five feet long. Most of those years, he saw no one, talked to no one, and had no physical activity. He knew he had to find some way to occupy his mind or he would lose his sanity, so he began to visualize playing golf. Each day, he played a full 18 holes at the imaginary country club of his dreams. He imagined every detail, every shot. And not once did he miss a shot or putt. Seven days a week, four hours a day, he played eighteen holes in his mind.*
Put your faith into action; visualize your goals and imagine reaching them. See yourself setting and achieving all of your goals. Create in your mind an image of you already living your God-given dream!
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*The story of James Nesmeth was taken from God’s Little Devotional Book on Success, Copyright © 1997 by Honor Books, Inc., page 241