Challenge Your Limitations: And Rise from Success to Significance

By Peter Mbada

This book will equip you with the necessary wisdom you need in order to succeed beyond your expectations and come to a point where you truly understand your worth. And if you understand your worth and you learn the value of your talents and gifts and the value of your time, you will understand what a disservice you do to yourself by sitting on them or by trading them in for a song. It will stir you to be the master artist of your life and paint a bold, bright, and lasting picture of your life, which you will hang high enough to make an everlasting impression in the lives of many generations to come. You will get to know exactly the special gifts you are endowed with, or else, you wont notice them when they start to go. And you will know and understand the reason why God made you the way he did. Join me in the pages of this book as we go on a discovery voyage to identify and remove the barriers that stand in between who you are and who you are supposed to bebarriers that stop you from rising from success to significance!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Feb 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482805307

Peter Mbada

Peter Mbada is a Christian entrepreneur, leader, author, inspirational speaker, and preacher. He is the author of two other books—Destined to Succeed: Unstoppable and Unlimitable and Tough Times Don’t Last; But Tough People Do. He has also written more than three hundred inspirational articles that you can find on his website, www.pmbada.org. With hands-on leadership skills from large corporate organizations and various institutions, he has a direct, practical message that is simple, authentic, and relevant to the generations. Peter has spoken in the USA, Europe, Australia, and various countries in Africa, including Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, and Malawi. He is married to Jackie, and they have two children, Tehillah and Shabach.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One    Take Control of Your Life

Chapter Two    Confront Your Mental Blocks

Chapter Three    Confront Your Self-Esteem

Chapter Four    Confront Your Fears

Chapter Five    Confront Your Limitations

Chapter Six    Confront Your Past

Chapter Seven    Confront Your Associations

Chapter Eight    Confront Your Priorities

Chapter Nine    Confront Your Indecisiveness

Chapter Ten    Confront Your Inaction

Chapter Eleven    Confront Your Purposelessness

Epilogue    Heaven or Hell? The choice is yours

Acknowledgements

T o Jackie, the love of my life, I appreciate all the support and encouragement you have always provided without which this project would not have seen the light of day. May the Lord bless you and cause your dreams to come true. Tehillah and Shabach may your true excellence and greatness shine through all the days of your lives. Thank you for understanding as I took time away from you to make this project a success. Thanks to the Betach and Marce-Botswana staff, who work with me daily, for your belief in me and for all your support; with special mention of Ineeleng and Onnie who always make my life easy by taking some load off me. I appreciate the Penguin Publishers’ staff for all the input and keeping me on my toes to ensure the project is completed in time. You are most appreciated.

Above all I thank God for the Holy Spirit, my teacher, comforter and counsellor who is always by my side.

If you are blessed or inspired by this book and want to get in touch you can catch up with me on www.pmbada.org or [e-mail]

Introduction

O ne day I heard somebody saying that she was so scared because she was having such a good time in her life. She had just been promoted at work, had moved into a new house, had bought a new car, and had just been engaged to her fiancé. She was living in dreamland and everything good was happening at the same time. She said that every time when she was at the peak of excitement she knew that she must start preparing for the descent. Her life was cyclical! When she experienced great joy and success she knew great pain and frustration were knocking by the door for their turn in her life. Does that sound familiar? Every time something big happens you know you must start preparing for the worst! Does something inside you testify that you were created for something big, but you never seem to have a breakthrough! It’s like there is a ceiling of limitation over you. You look around yourself and you see countless disadvantages that stop you from making it to the top. I want to declare to you that you are destined to make it. You must break those cycles of peaks and troughs in your life. Yes, in life, times of frustration, pain, and tears do come but that does not mean that your life must be defined by a sinusoidal wave, so cyclical and predictable!

You can enjoy success and victory and you can achieve what you are made for! This is what this book is about. It is about breaking your incapacities and limiting barriers, whether they are natural, inherited, inflicted, or otherwise. It is about attaining what God created you for! It is about understanding that you are wired for excellence and you have a choice to break the limitations that stop you from enjoying your beautiful life. I grew up seeing the pain of the toil and hard work of my parents that never seemed to amount to anything. Each time it would appear like a breakthrough was on the way, a wind would arise that would wipe away the money and all the every evidence of their hard work. They just would not have a breakthrough. I knew there had to be a way. It was like playing the board game ‘snakes and ladders’. Each time we enjoyed acceleration and climbing the ladders at the throw of the dice we knew that the long-tailed snake was waiting for us on square number ninety-nine. Invariably it would always strike us and bring us back to square number one – start all over again. We just would not make it to square number 100, the ultimate! But thank God, I understood that we can break the barriers, the limitations, and the incapacities that stop us from getting to our ultimate.

The man by the gate beautiful was crippled from his mother womb (Acts chapter 3). Some kind-hearted men always carried him daily and put him by the gate called Beautiful. He would sit outside the beautiful gate every day and ask for donations from those that were entering through the gate into the temple. Because he was crippled, he was incapacitated; he sat outside the beautiful gate but never experienced the joy of going through the beautiful gate. He always saw the gate from a distance and admired those that went through it. He had given up going through and had resorted to asking for alms from those that had the privilege to go through. But one day his season came. Peter and John passed that way. They were not about to give him some more alms; this time it was the gift of life. They gave him a breakthrough and he rose up. Notice the first thing he did, what he had always wanted to do all his life – to go through the beautiful gate. He skipped and leaped and shouted as he ran through the beautiful gate. You can also experience your beautiful gate!

The Bible is full of men and women who had various kinds of incapacities that were hindering them from making progress in life, but when they threw away their personal pride and broke their limitations and incapacities they got their victories and experienced their zoe life – life in its fullness and abundance.

Zacchaeus was a short man. He was born short and there was nothing he could do about it; at least that what everybody thought! One day he heard that Jesus was coming into town. He knew his season of colliding with his destiny had come. He threw away personal pride and climbed a tree just to catch a glimpse of Jesus. Among the thousands that were pushing and shoving and thronging to see Jesus, Jesus noticed the short man who had gathered enough courage to do something about his limitation and climb up a tree. That changed his destiny forever. Even when you have a natural disadvantage, if you gather enough courage to do something about it, you will not be disappointed!

Bartimeaus was a blind man. He was so despised he didn’t even have a name. He was called Bar-Timeaus which was just a reference name and which means son of Timeaus (he was referred to by the name of his father). He had accepted his condition so much that he even wore a coat of blindness to identify him with his incapacity. But one day he said ‘enough is enough’. He shouted for Jesus. People tried to silence him but he knew his season had come. His shout caught the attention of Jesus and the first thing he did was throw away the coat of blindness. His season of remembrance had come. What people think about you is not what will shape your destiny. You must throw away that which identifies you with being despised or incapacitated. This is the dawn of a new season for you. Break forth and break your incapacity.

The woman with the issue of