Paula White - Youre All That!: Understand Gods Design for Your Life

Copyright 2007 by Paula White Enterprises, Inc.

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Men are all mosaics of other men.

evangelist Henry Drummond

To everyone who has had a deep and profound
impact on my life. It is your influence that has
helped me on the journey to discern, develop,
cultivate, and live out my authentic self.

F irst and foremost: With a heart of deep gratitude and words unable to articulate my love and appreciation, thank You, Lord, for who You are to mefor our covenant.

To my amazing son, Brad, who has been my gift from God: You bring me great joy, strength, and often reason! You make me laugh, and your presence always reminds me of the valuable things in life. I am so proud of you.

To Kristen: I admire and respect the profound beauty and resilient strength you carry. It has touched all of us. Your love and tenderness bring calmness to some tough moments and keep it all in perspective.

To Angie: Your desire and ability to nurture and care have provided an oasis for healing, refreshment, and rejuvenation.

To Brandon: Your humility to serve and courage to soar have paved a path that has shown others a way to walk.

You all have caused dinners to become a treasured place of pleasure with a few unforgettable moments. Feel like a food fight? Or wonder what we are going to talk about?

I love you with all my being!

To Randy: Thank you for the foundation you have built in me. Your deposit brought great value and caused me to believe what I could not always see or discern. I am grateful for who you are and what I have been privileged to share and experience with you.

To my family, whose love and support have been the foundation for the accomplishments I have achieved.

Mom, I have to say thank you for letting me know that I was always loved madly and was your sweetheart! You birthed a core of confidence in me with your love.

To my friends: Thank you for helping me breathe in lifethere are so many Kodak moments that I often travel to! You have created memories that made the journey full of pleasure and answered the profound question deep within my heart.

To those who stand beside me to facilitate the call of God and see lives transformed: Great will be your reward. I believe in you and could never see the vision come to pass without your diligence and dedication. I speak the abundance of Gods blessing and success to overtake you.

To the Hachette Book Group staff and Jan, who have labored alongside me to complete this project: You are wonderful to work with.

To Sheila: You carry my heart into every assignment with excellence. I am always grateful for you!

To my inner-circle: Your loyalty and commitment have fortified the mandate and myself. I love you and always stand with you.

And finally, to all those who stood in opposition and adversitythank you. Perhaps you have been one of the greatest gifts. You caused me to discover how great God is and who I am in Him. You positioned me!

Life is funny You cant make it up.

Momma

M y mothers words to me were a simple explanation for the variables, unpredictable situations, and unforeseen events that would arise in this thing we call life. Would I be prepared for them? How would I respond? What would they do to me? How would the landscape of my life look after an unexpected event? Was I alone to figure it all out?

Every year I encounter masses of people who have lost something extremely valuable to them, and in the process they have lost a part of themselves. The loss may be a relationship, a career, or a home filled with warm memories. Invariably, what is lost on the outside includes a loss of identity on the insidesometimes a loss so great the person is left wondering Who am I? What is my value? Many have never discovered the value of their authentic selves, who they really are, and therefore live life with false identities, with no real fulfillment or sense of purpose.

There are moments in our lives when we experience crises, distractions, violations, labels, victories, successes, and setbacks. You will probably agree that in this gift we call life, most of the decisive battles are fought from within. It is only when you confront yourself, remove the blinders, and deal with the real issues that have produced a counterfeit life that you can live the abundant life designed for you by a loving God.

Most people cheat themselves out of the rich rewards of this abundant, fulfilling, purposeful, and successful life by not asking the tough questions and by avoiding accountability. But sooner or later you must ask yourself, Who am I, really? Am I living a life that is in alignment with my authentic self? Am I going in the right direction, or am I traveling all the time and seemingly getting nowhere? Is this what I really want to do with my life, or am I reacting to whatever comes from day to day? How will my life be lived out, and what will be my legacy? Tough questions, yes, but worth asking in order to discover and receive the rewards of understanding and living Gods design for your life.

I live a transformed and empowered life because I have discovered my original design, fashioned by the Master Architect Himself. I have learned that living through periods of pain and times of triumph is vital to finding out who we really are. It has been stated that I am a wounded healerbold to proclaim to the world that God can and does heal all of our wounds. He causes the dark places of our soul to be healed so that not only can we function but we can soar.

As I began to work on this book, I sat down with my personal journals to review various periods of my life. I learned:

What you are willing to confront, God is willing to heal.

What you are willing to change, God is willing to grow.

What you are willing to leave behind, God is willing to transform.

God gives each of us highs and lows. We learn through them. We grow through them. And as we go through times of adversity and seasons of victory and emerge on the other side, if we trust in Him we discover more about who we are, who God is, and how God works.

My prayer is that this book will help you discover your uniqueness in God and locate the true person God created you to be and intends for you to become. No one can be you but you! I pray you will not only recover the truly valuable things that have been lost, but perhaps will also gain what has never been! I pray that you will discover the rare, original, magnificent, fabulous, beautiful person God designed you to be! You are one of a kind, irreplaceable, and valuable beyond measure. You truly are all that!

I stared at the empty crib in disbelief. Brad, not quite three years old, should have been lying there and wasnt.