Personal Mastery: The Believer's Road Map to Destiny

By Belinda G. Moss Ph.D.

Unanswered prayers over time, an unprecedented level of anointing, and the greatest wealth transfer known to man are stored up like a cumulus cloud ready to burst over a generation that is aligned with the purpose, will, and plan of God.  For years, God has been preparing this generation to fulfill a God-sized vision, one so huge that initially, they would balk at it.  He is inviting believers to complete “personalized” assignments beyond their highest prayers, desires, hopes, or dreams.  This cannot occur, however, until believers do the personal homework required to ensure they are not assailed by Satan on their way to fulfilling destiny.

Personal Mastery is about making you whole on the inside so you can do great exploits on the outside.  It will transform you into someone bigger than your fears and greater than your past.   Learn how to proof the heart, emotions, and thinking powers, so that you may keep yourself calm during times of adversity.  Learn how to navigate through life victoriously, utilizing the wisdom of God, and learn how to discover the purpose of God for your life—the true art of fulfillment.

Let Pastor & Dr. Moss help you start this amazing journey with these revolutionizing principles:

Invading Culture with the Kingdom of God Giving God what He Wants Why EQ Trumps IQ Self-Mastery Tips Taking Responsibility for Your Emotional State Discovering Your Uniqueness Becoming a Giant Slayer And Much More

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449724931

Belinda G. Moss Ph.D.

Perry and Belinda Moss are pastors of Soteria Christian Center International, a non-denominational church in Smithfield, Virginia.  They are also personal mastery consultants, teaching people how to discover their gifts and calling necessary to fulfill destiny. They have one daughter, Dawn, and the apple of their eye, one granddaughter, Breanna.

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Contents

Preface

The Invitation

No Grasshoppers Here

Not So Fast

Taking Your Personal Mountain

Lights, Camera, Action

The Shaping of a Champion

Enter Heaven’s Zone

Understanding Hell’s Backlash

Take Responsibility

Feet Don’t Fail Me Now

Wired to Excel

Now Take Your Mountain

Testimonials

To Our Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ

We thank God for the privilege to impart His knowledge to the Body of Christ. It is our sincerest desire to minister the blessing of the Lord in a way that will empower God’s people to rise to every occasion and provide evidence that proves that the Kingdom of God rules over all. In a world filled with turmoil, degradation, and demise, this evidence will demonstrate that the Kingdom of God is firm and stable and cannot be shaken. We not only have the solution to the world’s problems, WE ARE THE SOLUTION.

This book is, therefore, dedicated to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for empowering us to empower others. You led by example and we’re following your lead.

We love you!

Preface

This book, Personal Mastery, is written to help believers prepare themselves to confront and defeat the unexpected challenges of life, temptations of success, and the shames of past failures by learning how to navigate through life victoriously utilizing the wisdom of God.

Personal Mastery is about practicing and acquiring skills ahead of time so that when you are confronted with adversity, what you have practiced will aid in your defense—it will fight for you; it is being sufficient for all things. It’s about proofing the heart, emotions and thinking powers, to rule for you during times of conflict.

Personal Mastery is not about becoming an expert; it’s about increasing in wisdom, and maintaining superior emotional stability and sustained motivation to fulfill destiny—the ultimate motivator and goal of every believer.

We have written two books on the same subject. This particular version is written to the Ecclesia—the called out ones—the church—Believers. It provides spiritual insight on the set time for the church to invade culture with the gifts and callings of God, but not until we learn Personal Mastery.

The scripture says Jesus is the desire of nations. The problem is they don’t realize He is their desire. Consequently, we have written a similar book for the secular community, entitled, Self-Mastery: The Art of Fulfillment. It contains the same powerful, transforming information, but without the spiritual connotations. We believe we have the answer to the world’s problems and don’t want it to be rejected because the answer is conveyed with a scripture and verse. The Word of God has self-fulfilling power and that power is not diminished when a scripture is not cited. Trust me, God won’t be offended. Notice that He doesn’t add his signature next to the sun when it rises for fear that someone else would get the credit.

The very nature of a believer is to empower others (we are blessed to be a blessing). We are not to withhold or hide vital revelation because people have not yet received Christ. How will they become believers until they hear and see the truth?

The world sometimes categorizes our books as self help or religious. However, both are wrong. We can do nothing without the Lord—not even help ourselves, and religion destroys; after all, it was religion that killed Jesus. No, our books pierce the heart. We deal with issues that face believers, issues that the religious community would rather ignore or deny that they exist in the church; yet Christians, who are the most powerful entity on the planet, are dying on the vine.

We have discovered that one of the most debilitating hindrances in the church is a lack of personal self-awareness. We have preached and taught many sermons on faith, but have neglected a critical related subject and that is the emotional state of the believer. So, we’re going to take care of that with this book on Personal Mastery.

Many of you have read my book entitled ‘Depression Exposed, A Spiritual Enlightenment on a Dark Subject,’ where I, Dr. Belinda Moss, the co-author of this book, exposed my 20-year struggle with depression that led to a life of suicide ideation and culminated with two suicide attempts. Get this, I was a tongue-talking, Bible preaching, power-packed powerhouse for God in the pulpit and a stellar Air Force Officer on the military platform, but behind closed doors, I was a mess. My bout with depression led to me placing a .357 magnum to my head, only to survive due to a malfunction with the gun.

Now, some 20 years later, we both see clearly why believers don’t have the influence we should as members of the Body of Christ. It is because many believers have not dealt with the issues of their heart. Rather, many are living with past hurts, addictions, identity crises, insecurities, and more emphatically, just plain don’t love themselves.

We have been studying for some time, the end-time role of the church. We have noticed that the church, the most powerful body on the planet, is ignored by the world. Few outside the four walls want to hear what we have to say. Why? Because they don’t see anything on us that commands their attention. We have the same divorce rate, same sexual problems, same identity issues, same fears about giving, or living, etc. My goodness, you can’t distinguish the believers from the non-believers. Why, because we don’t understand our role as members of the Body of Christ. We have no revelatory end-time vision except from an eschatological viewpoint and as the man of wisdom says, Where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs 29:18). The literal translation of this verse is the people are made naked (of no effect).

If we are to be the end-time church to do great exploits in these last days, we can no longer sweep these matters under the rug, or bury our heads in the sand as if they don’t exist. Pressures will inevitably expose what is in the heart and the accuser of the brethren—Satan has surely demonstrated that he is skilled in allowing you to get away with your mess for what seems like eternity just so the harvest can explode in your face when you least expect it.

Christ is defined as the Anointed One and His anointing. That means as members of the Body of Christ, each of us has been graced with gifts and callings to complete assignments that lead to fulfilling destiny. According to the book of Jeremiah, God has placed our face in the future (Jeremiah 1:5, 29:11) and as we align ourselves with God, like a compass, we receive direction to get us to that place of destiny.

By that same grace, this book will pierce the heart of the serious believer to take an in-depth look at their heart and examine whether they are dwelling perpetually in a kingdom state; a state of righteousness, peace and joy; a place that allows you to not only receive "strength that you need, mercy