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Rediscovering the Kingdom
Releasing Your Potential
Single, Married, Separated and Life After Divorce
Understanding Your Potential
Waiting and Dating
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Copyright 2009 Myles Munroe
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DEDICATION
To my beloved wife of over 30 years, Ruth, and my precious children, Charisa and Chairo Myles Jr. Your faith in my leadership of our family taught me the greatest lesson of faith in my heavenly Father.
To my beloved father and dad, Matthias Munroe, whose steadfast faith in God through the many trials and challenges of raising eleven respectable and successful children inspired me to believe that nothing is impossible.
To my sister Suzan Hall and her late husband Steve: Your commitment to God and the display of an exceptional quality of faith in the face of sickness and even death gives me the impetus to face my future with stainless confidence.
To the millions of people of the Third World nations who struggle daily with the twists and turns of an unpredictable life: May this book become a source of encouragement and fuel your faith to believe in a better tomorrow.
To the author and finisher of my faith, Jesus Christ: Thank You for having faith in me enough to die to restore my faith in You.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
No form of accomplishment in life is ever the result of individual isolated effort, but the product of the contribution and corporate support of many people in our lives. This work is no different. I want to thank my close friend and editor over the years, Don Milam, who continues to encourage me to put my thoughts in print believing that they can help others on this earthly journey. Don, your contribution and follow-up on this project made it possible for me to deliver this manuscript to the world.
Thanks also to my wife, Ruth, and children, Charisa and Chairo, who continue to allow me to spend nights and days buried in the pages of research and staring at the screen of my laptop in order to produce this work. Thank you, and I love you all.
To Sandra Kemp, a woman with so much faith that she refuses to lie down and die, but continues the good fight of faith never doubting the faithfulness of her God to deliver her from the pain of physical discomfort. Thanks for the inspiration.
The members of Bahamas Faith Ministries Fellowship on Nassau, Bahamas, whose faith in me as your leader forced me to seek answers to questions and issues that needed addressing. This book is the result of one of those searches. Thank you.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
No man can live beyond his belief! The greatest loss in life is the loss of belief! The greatest challenge in life is to believe in the midst of life itself. The greatest challenge of daily life is that life is too daily. Life never stops!
Have you ever wished that the earth would stop spinning and let you off for a while to take a break from its nonstop mire of demands, decisions, attentions, questions, challenges, responsibilities, expectations, promises, and obligations? Do you feel the pressure of the expected demands of daily life? Bills to pay, job to keep, children to raise, spouse to support, house to secure and protect, food to eat, water to drink, clothes to wear, friends to manage, taxes to pay, and a reputation to maintain?
Then there is the unexpected! The loss of a job, the death of a parent or spouse or child, the discovery of a terminal sickness in your family or your own body, the termination of a friendship or a marital divorce, the oppression of a personal habit or the abuse of substances by a family member, or the failure of your business venture. This is life on planet Earth. All earth dwellers must face the same challenges, and whether you succeed or fail will be determined by how you manage the predictable and the unpredictable.
Most of our fellow planet dwellers are experiencing hardship, frustration, depression, and ultimate failure in their bid to face these challenges. Many prefer to pretend the challenges dont exist while others drown their inability to cope in a sea of alcohol, drugs, and other self-destructive, antisocial behaviors. Many have lost confidence in the political, social, economic, and religious systems of their nations and have opted out of mainstream life. Many no longer think there can be peace on earth or accept that the united Nations can prevent wars. Others have given up on politicians to solve our national problems or scientists to meet our medical and environmental challenges. Still others live in daily fear of terrorism or helplessly stand by and watch the devaluation of human life through ethnic cleansing, abortions, or war campaigns. Humanity has been led to a critical crossroad! Humanity is now wondering if there is an alternative to our world as we have made it. In essence, most of humanity has simply stopped believing. They have lost faith in faith.