Comments on: Seven Elements for Realizing our Dreams

By: mark

mark — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:50:16 +0000

Creflo’s 8 Steps listed in the Destination Overflow chapter are a direct rip-off from Casey Treat’s book “Renewing the Mind: The Foundation of Your Success.” Even in the same exact order (p127 & 128). I appreciate the content but I’m pretty bothered that Creflo didn’t give props to Casey. It is obvious these aren’t just similar ideas- these are in order, nearly word for word from Casey’s book.

By: Bob Blair

Bob Blair — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:25:42 +0000

Thank you for your post, Michael. It brought to mind the following: “Thoughts are the threads that bind us to deeds. Deeds are the ropes that bind us to habits. Habits are the chains that bind us to destiny.”

- inspiration inscribed on the West Wall at the palace in Maygassa

By: Larry Morris

Larry Morris — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m in the mortgage business and am listening to a series from an industry expert named Jim McMann. He made a statement that is interesting and applicable to our discussion on faith.

paraphrasing…”Somewhere are the age of 3 each of us had the revelation that the sky was blue and we never doubted it again, each of our parents believed that we could walk and never put us back in the crib and said it’s useless…”

The point that he was making was that there are certain truths that once grasped should become fact in our lives.

I was recently watching an Anthony Hopkins movie “The Edge” and after being stalked by a man eating grizzly and faced with kill or be killed he made the statement that “what one man can do another can do”. He used this to dispel doubt, disbelief and insecurity.

Scripture has much to say about who we are in Christ, who God is and what His promises are for us and for those who are against us. It also has much to say about those who have submitted themselves, in faith in God not themselves, to God.

But faith does require action. It requires us to believe in our minds and hearts that despite the outward visable “facts” that God is in control, we are more than conquers, no weapon formed against us will prosper and that God is the Alpha and Omega.

Dwell on that. Before time began God knew that you would give your life to Him, that you would contiue to sin and that you would be facing the exact circumstances today that you face. Yet, he still chose to die for you and to invite you into fellowship with him. He even knows the outcome of your deciisions today, both good and bad.

Be blessed and let your faith groe.

By: Raul Montes

Raul Montes — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

…and co-create with Him.

co-create or re-create?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

7 steps, are the same as Creflo 8 steps (he added character between habits and results). Who is the source? You, him or a third party, who?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Creflor A. Dollar, google creflo, overflow, destiny.

By: Bob Blair

Bob Blair — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hahaha It didn’t like the quotation marks!

By: Michael Pink

Michael Pink — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Raul… By co-create I meant that when we create things, we do so with God’s help and in His will.

By: Michael Pink

Michael Pink — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Phil… I have not read Creflo’s 8 steps. I have read about the character thing between habits and results but that was not synchronous to my point. There are lots of things that could be added but what I wrote is simply an understanding of what is easily discernable if you think about it. You could come up with this yourself if you simply thought about where thoughts come from and what happens when they are processed. Blessings my brother.

By: Randall Stover

Randall Stover — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I enjoyed the steps provided; From the blog comments, I derived that revelation of the truth of Truths is evidence of unity, not plagiarism. To quote C.S. Lewis on this issue, as friendship should not be competitive:
For this reason Lewis sees Friendship as the least jealous of all loves. Two friends are more than happy to be joined by a third, if of course the third is %u201Cqualified%u201D (shares the same interest on which the friendship is based) to become a real friend. When an additional friend is added, the love isn%u2019t divided at all; indeed it is multiplied. In this way Lewis sees Friendship as having a strong resemblance to heaven. According to Lewis, in heaven all the blessed look upon God and see Him in their own unique way; they see special facets of Him that no other can see! Certainly then the community of the blessed communicate their own unique vision of God to the others, making the heavenly experience all the more wonderful; we may recall Isaiah%u2019s vision of haven
where all of the blessed cry %u201CHoly, Holy, Holy%u201D to one another. %u201CThe more we share the heavenly bread among us the more we all shall have.%u201D
Blessings my Bro’.