How to Reach Your Full Potential for God: Never Settle for Less Than His Best

by Charles F. Stanley

Book Overview

In How to Reach Your Full Potential for God , acclaimed pastor and speaker?Charles Stanley connects readers with the?plan and purpose God envisioned when He created them. "Things are never going to change" or "This is just the way I am--I'm never going to get better" are just a few of the damaging lies Christians believe about themselves, their situations, and their walk. But?Dr. Stanley?shares the real truth as God sees it. In this powerful and inspiring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140020092X
• ISBN13: 9781400200924
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Helping us be "whole" people!

I really liked this book!! As with other Charles Stanley books, he gets right to the meat of things immediately. There are some personal stories in here, but for the most part he gives us content supported by Scripture. One of my pet peeves with many Christian and other non-fiction (secular too) books, is that they take up pages and pages with stories in order to "prov" a point AND in order to fill a page quota. Not here! As you can see by the main points and their supporting points there is TONS of CONTENT in this book!! Every page has some challenge or some nugget of wisdom that this is a book to not be read lightly. The book covers the following areas in order to "reach your full potential in God". . . #1 A Clean Heart * Our need for confession * The blessings of a clean heart * The convicting power of God's Word * The Cleansing nature of God's Word * A light to your path * The power of the Word applied * Our motivation for purity * An ongoing surrender to God's will #2 A Clear Mind * The spiritual vs the natural mind * Having the mind of Christ * Ideas shape your life * Thoughts are at the core of your character development * Wisdom vs intelligence * The double-minded person * The hallmarks of a clear mind * How to acquire a clear mind * The renewal of your thinking * How you think is a choice you make #3 Using Your Gifts * Your gifts from birth * Even more areas of gifting * Stay in the flow of your gifts * Seek to use your gifts in creative ways * Growing in your gifts * Gifts that motivate you to ministry * Seven specific ministry gifts * Discovering your ministry-related gifts * Know your strengths & weaknesses * Jesus is our role model * The way to express all of our gifts * Joining your natural and ministry gifts #4 A Healthy Body * God's claim to your body * God's ownership rights * To have stewardship responsibility * God values the body * What about people with physical limitations? * No immunity from life's circumstances * Educate yourself about your body * Dominion over a physical world * The enemies of the human body * The enemy of stress * Other sources of stress on the human body * Why don't we take better care of our bodies? * Check your attitude about your health #5 Right Relationships * Biblical examples of positive relationships * Insight into the nature of relationships * Establishing right relationships * Relationships to avoid * Options if you are in a negative relationship * Evaluating a potential relationship * Value the friends God gives you #6 A Balanced Schedule * Time is a gift from God * Seconds and minutes count * The stewardship of your time * The balanced life of Jesus * A schedule adapted for your God-given purpose * Three ques

Living An Extraordinary Life

Have you ever felt like you have settled for an ordinary life? Have you ever thought there's got to be more to this life than what you are experiencing? So often we think we are just one insignificant drop in the ocean of humanity. What difference to I really make in the world? Charles Stanley's newest book, How To Reach Your Full Potential For God, encourages us to not settle for the ordinary life. He teaches that God has designed each of us for an extraordinary purpose that only we can fulfill. We were created with talents, gifts, desires, and dreams that, when yielded to God's plan, enable us to reach our full potential in God. Stanley's lays out seven hurdles to overcome, including fear of failure, self-imposed limitations, fear of disappointment, and laziness. We cannot leap over these kinds of hurdles in our own strength. We must have God's help to do so. We must line up our lives with His will in order to receive all that God has for us. Stanley introduces seven areas to examine and work on in order to reach our fullest potential in God. Those are: A Clean Heart, A Clear Mind, Using Your Gifts, A Healthy Body, Right Relationships, A Balanced Schedule, and Taking God-Approved Risks. When these areas fall in line with God's ideal, then we open ourselves up for the extraordinary life. I don't always enjoy non-fiction books, but the title of Stanley's book drew me in. This book made me think and examine my life more than any book I've read in a long time. I felt my heart stir, heard God whisper His love to me through the pages, and was convicted of how I'd settled for less than what God desired for my life. You won't be disappointed in this book. You'll be inspired.

A must have for serious Christians

This book is absolutely amazing. If you truly want to know what God has planned for your life and what he wants you to do with it, this book will help you to discover what it is. I am learning so much about having a close relationship with God, identifying my talents and potential and using them to fulfill Gods will and purpose for my life. I can't stress enough how much this is a must have for any believers library. You cannot go wrong buying this book. Dr. Stanley has a way of explaining things that is both interesting and easy to understand. I stongly recommend purchasing the "How to Reach Your Full Potential for God" study guide to go with it. Your life and service to God will be richly blessed through this book.

How to Reach Your Full Potential for God

Pleasing God is something all Christians strive for, but it is not always easy. There are always obstacles in the way; many times we create these obstacles ourselves. In Dr. Charles Stanley's new book How to Reach Your Full Potential for God, he teaches us how to be pleasing to God. Dr. Stanley focuses on seven essentials for being our best for God: Essential 1: Having a clean heart Essential 2: Having a clear mind Essential 3: Using your gifts Essential 4: Having a healthy body Essential 5: Having right relationships Essential 6: Having a balanced schedule Essential 7: Taking God-approved risks Charles Stanley is a name that I can trust to turn to for guidance in all aspects of life. I have enjoyed several of his previous books, but I have to say that his new book is by far the best I have read. As I read this book, I could hear Dr. Stanley's compassionate and soothing voice as if I was listening to one of his sermons. He presents the truth in this book and applies it to my life in a practical and useable way. I have tremendous respect for Dr. Stanley and I always look forward to learning from him and seeking his wisdom. How to Reach Your Full Potential for God is a valuable resource for Christians to live better for God.

Reaching for the Full Potentail-Great Read

Reading,"How to Reach Your Full Potential for God",, I was impressed by the scriptural backing of the book. Covering seven principles that often reflect the daily concerns that as Christians, people find themselves struggling or looking how to deal with, Dr. Charles Stanley, provides biblical backed solutions and examples from the Bible of how to seek God's Word, to reach,our individual potential, to serve and worship our Heavenly Father at our best. What ,"How to Reach Your Full Potential for God",, doesn't do, is be an everyday self help book,but instead emphasize how our Heavenly Father can help you. Backing suggestions with scripture, ,"How to Reach Your Full Potential for God",, indeeds reaching it's full potential, and is a wonderful suggestion for those who are seeking to develop a deeper and more active relationship with our Heavenly Father and a book, that could easily be recommend,not as "the source", but as a tool for helping new to "young" Christians seeking to have a more substantial relationship with our Heavenly Father. Dr. Stanley, constantly reemphasizes that,"How to Reach Your Full Potential for God",, does not take the place of the ultimate source of guidance, the Bible, but does help provide useful references that anyone could find value in. On page 16, Dr. Stanley shares, "The Christian life was never intended to be a matter of book learning or hard knowledge. God wants us to live out the life He created and intends for us to live". There are some parts of the book that are encouraging and others that for some, may feel convicting due to its bluntness and telling the reader what they need to hear, not what they want to hear, and it lives up to what Dr. Stanley says that,"Anytime we turn fromthe Fatehr's way to our way, we grieve Him. Anytime we choose what we want over what God wants for us, we stifle the Holy Spirit's ability to help us" (pg.38) However the truth is, reading this book, there was so many quotable quotes, examples and scripture that could be shared that it really helps open doors that God seeks to open. If you are truly inspired to live a more fruitful and deeper relationship with our Heavenly Father, I recommend,"How to Reach Your Full Potential for God",. No one is perfect, but no one is so imperfect that they don't have the potential to be used for and in a way that will glorify our Heavenly Father. "How to Reach Your Full Potential for God",, is a great reminder that it's not about changing or altering who God has made us to be, but about a relationship that aims at maturing and making us better who we are and that is a good thing. "How to Reach Your Full Potential for God",, is just an overall encouraging book for either general reading, or discovering how to take your relationship with our Heavenly Father to another level and a recommend read to all.