Your history doesn't need to dictate your destiny

The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.

If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!

Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.

Often the very things that you think have disqualified you are the ones that qualify you to do what God has called you to do.

I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.