According to the online website Dictionary.com ambition means “to seek after earnestly; aspire to.” We are usually driven by ambition, even though all of our ambitions are unique and vary. Some of us may be ambitious towards winning the lottery while others just want to be able to pay the bills without going in the hole. Ambitions are sometimes considered different from goals, but all in all they are pretty much the same. You are “ambitious” to reach your goal is a way to look at it.

What is your ambition? Does God have anything to do with them? We forget that God is responsible for any blessings we receive. Reaching ambition is a definite blessing! But do we remember that? Sometimes we do, but it is hard to remember every day is a gift and we should be thankful for. I often times run into that in my personal life. I will set a goal and try to reach it. Sometimes people would call me “ambitious” because they did not think I would be able to reach my goals. Now while I did not reach all of them, I did get a few.

My ninth and tenth grades years in high school were spent being lazy. I did nothing but watch television and text people from my cell phone. My grades dropped extremely low and my family and I all thought I was not going to be able to attend college. In two years I had to get my F’s and D’s up to A’s and B’s. Now to some this may seem silly or even fairly easy, but it was not. I went to a Christian high school. Half my credits were not transferable to universities because secular schools do not acknowledge Bible courses. Yet to attend my high school it was required to take a Bible class every year.

It took a lot of prayer, studying, and doing every piece of extra credit I could get my fingers on. With God on my side, I was able to reach my goal. I kept Him on my mind before every test and prayed that I would pass. The times when I did fall back I hoped I would pass but I would not pray because I did not want to be rewarded for not doing my part. That does not happen all the time though. There have been times where my ambitions led me to stray away from God.

One of things a lot of people, no matter the age or situation, get ambitious about is love. It is truly a powerful emotion to carry. It is God’s greatest gift and most horrible curse if mistreated. We get caught up in it and lose the righteous path we had been on. It honestly is not hard to do; but that is the problem with all ambitions. They can turn from something to strive for to something that you fake yourself into believing you need more than anything.

Physically we need a lot of things, like water, food, clothes, and medicine if we are sick. We can LIVE with those things yet we convince ourselves that we need so much more. It is not a matter of need, but want. With ambition, however, our goals become a sort of spiritual need. We feel incomplete until we reach our goals. That is where we can get spiritually hurt. Those who do not reach every goal get discouraged and often times give up. Not giving up on their goal, but everything. That is when it becomes totally unhealthy. God does not want us to give up, but to go forward. Maybe our ambitions did not really meet with His plans for our lives. That does not mean that there is no purpose or meaning for your life.

There is nothing on this earth that we can take with us into the afterlife. Materials do not live nor die, even if broken. We go alone, yet we do not always live like we know that. There is nothing wrong with ambition, and not all ambitions have to be “about God.” They just need to be healthy for you both physically and spiritually. God does not like seeing us struggle, so He will help. If you need a hand or do not see how to get your desire just call on Him. But you have to keep in mind that He may not agree that what we want is good for us. Some of us will still get our wishes just so we know that we were wrong to get lost in something against our path, but other times we will not get an answer.

Either way, we are allowed ambition, and even encouraged. Just make sure that it is still in line with your walk in Christ. If you are having any doubts pray, and even look it up in the Bible. Usually the quickest way to answering your questions is looking up a “concordance” where you can look up a key term. But the best thing that usually works for me is sitting down and just opening up my Bible, then reading the first thing that my eyes lay upon. Stop reading when you feel you have your answer. This does not always work, but keep in mind that sometimes it takes a few tries to get a real answer!

Jesus can make miracles out of nothing. Jesus did every miracle for those who have faith in him so that people could believe in the true savior of this world.

Power to create new substance without nothing

Jesus made a miracle with 5 loaves and with 2 fishes to feed more than five thousand people who came to hear his messages and also left over with 12 baskets full of loaves and fishes (Luke 9:11-17). Also Jesus did another miracle by giving a new vision to a man who was born blind by birth. Jesus touched him and gave a new eye balls by making through clay and anointed him. This miracle indicates how Jesus could have made Adam.

Power to raise the dead from graveyard.

The Jesus made the miracle of raising Lazarus who was buried before 4 days when Jesus came to see him. The crowd had the faith that Jesus can raise him out of the graveyard. Jesus order Lazarus to come out and he walked out from him bandages. Only Jesus could raise a man from dead. No person or prophet did any miracles as Jesus did.

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We can find many prerogatives in bible where the Christ claims about his deity.

The first thing when we read through Mark (2:5) we can find, his claims regarding forgiving sins. The paralytic was lowered into the roof by their friends regardless of so many crowds who gathered there and their total faith was Jesus can make miracle and could heal him. Jesus did not react to that person physical condition or his need to heal him. He said “My son, your sins are forgiven” and he was healed.

The second thing, Jesus speaks about judging this entire world in versus of (Mathew 25:31). Jesus sits on his mighty throne and will separate the sheep from the goat. The people will be judged according to their sins and how well they have been serving and carrying the word of God. This is a power in which Jesus can alone exercise.

The third thing which reveals the clear sign of Jesus self understanding during the charge of condemnation filed over him. When reading through bible of (John 19:7) chapter “he has made himself the son of God”. Matthew tells to the high priest to have said at the trial, “I adjure you by the living God; tell us, if you are the Christ, the Son of God” (Matthew 26:63). Jesus commented to this by, “You have said so. But I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” (Matthew 26:64).