The document discusses limitations and how people should view them. It makes three key points: 1. Everyone has limitations such as time, talent, money, etc. and it is better to acknowledge them than ignore them. 2. Limitations can be used for good if one allows God's power to work through them, as Paul discussed feeling strong when weak through God's grace. 3. Limitations can help people grow, increase freedom, and stimulate creativity, as supported by quotes from photographers and artists. The document encourages viewing limitations as gifts from God rather than nuisances.

1. Limitations
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2. What would you do if you knew
there were
no
LIMITS?

6. Problem:
That sounds great - it's just not true

7. Unfortunately
You do have a few limitations

9. You may be limited by
• Time
• Talent
• Money
• Space
• Opportunity
• DNA

10. So...
What should you do?

12. LIMITATIONS
It’s better to know them and be called a wussy than to ignore
them and be called a dumbass

13. LIMITATIONS
Sometimes we find ours the hard way

14. A wise man knows his
limitations.
-Clint Eastwood

15. A more accurate view

17. What should you do about
real limitations?

18. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given
a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times
I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me,
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in
weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for
Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
!
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)

19. What we know about limitations
• Everybody has them - "I was given..."
• They have a purpose - "To keep me from being conceited..."
• It's okay for you to ask for God to take them away - "Three times
I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me"
• You can either whine about them or rejoice in them - "Therefore
I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses"
• God will use them if you allow him to - "My power is made perfect
in weakness"

20. The power of limitations
• Limitations help you grow

23. Limitations help you grow as a photographer. Traveling with the Fuji
x100s for a month, from Iceland to my home country in France, was
very liberating. Not only the comfortable size and weight of the
camera was a great advantage, the fact that the camera became a
simple tool and did not get in the way between me and my vision was
the best part.
!
- Valerie Jardin

24. The power of limitations
• Limitations help you grow
• Limitations increase our freedom

26. “Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of
limitless possibilities. The idea that you can do
anything is absolutely terrifying.”
!
- Austin Kleon

27. The power of limitations
• Limitations help you grow
• Limitations increase our freedom
• Limitations stimulate creativity

30. “Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in
the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want - that just
kills creativity.”
- Jack White

31. Question: How are you viewing
your own limitations?
As a nuisance? (Pray)
As a gift? (Worship)
As a source of power? (Action)

32. As a team - What is a limitation we face between
where we are now and where we want to be?
How can we allow God to turn it into a strength?