Writers 
What are your Potentials?
The abortion of potential is the death of the future.
Potential is: unexposed
ability, reserved power, untapped strength, capped capabilities, unused success,dormant gifts, hidden talents, latent power, what you can do that you haven’t yet done, where you can go that you haven’t yet gone, who you can be that you haven’t yet been, what you can imagine that you haven’t yet imagined, how far you can reach that you haven’t yet reached, what you can see that you haven’t yet seen, what you can accomplish that you haven’t yet accomplished.
Thus, potential is the sum of who you are that you have yet to reveal. It’s a deposit that waits to be released and maximized. You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing, or being. That is your potential. Unless you continually try to reach higher, go farther, see over, and grasp something greater than you now know, you will never discover your full potential.
You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing, or being.
THE POTENTIAL PRINCIPLE
Suppose we stood in a vast forest and I asked you to describe what you saw. You might say that you saw trees and plants and flowers and insects and birds and animals. But in truth that is not all you would be seeing. For within each of those things are the seeds for more trees, plants, flowers, insects, birds, and animals. That’s the potential principle. Your observation would be fact but not true. If, for example, I hold an apple seed in my hand, I hold much more than one seed. In every seed there is a tree, and in every tree there are apples with seeds in them. And the seeds contain more apple trees that contain fruit, that contain seeds and so on. In fact I hold one apple seed. In truth I hold an entire orchard. That is potential; what yet can be.
UNDERSTANDING POTENTIAL
God created everything with potential. Genesis 1:12 describes how God created the plants and the trees, each bearing seed according to their kinds.
The first chapter of Genesis also gives an account of the creation of the birds, the creatures of the sea, the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals. They too were given the ability to reproduce according to their kinds. Thus, every living thing that God created was blessed with potential. Each possessed the capability to be much more than they appeared to be at any one time. Each contained the seed from which future generations of plants, birds, fish and animals would come.
Every living thing that God created was blessed with potential.
God also planted within you the ability to be much more than you are at any one moment. Like the apple seed, you possess hidden resources and capabilities.
Most of the potential God gave you at birth still remains within you, unseen and unused. What I see when I meet you on any given day is not all you are.
THE SOURCE OF ALL POTENTIAL
Everything that was and is was in God. Before God created anything, there was only God. Thus, God had within Him the potential for everything He made.
Nothing exists that was not first in God. God is the source of all life, because before anything was, God is.
Everything that was and is was in God.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). He pulled everything that He made out of Himself. Indeed, the beginning was in God before it began. God started. If the Book of Genesis had started with Genesis 1:0, it might have read, “Before there was a beginning, there was God.
Before there was a creation, there was a Creator. Before anything was, there was God.”
God did not begin when the beginning began. He was in the beginning before the beginning had a beginning. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Everything in the world we know was in God before it came to be seen. “Through God all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made (John 1:3). Thus,
God is the source of all potential. He is everything we haven’t seen yet.
When we describe this characteristic of God, we say that He is omnipotent.
Omni means “always” and potent means “full of power.”
God is always full of power. He can always do more than He has already done
