- The most
critical point in one's life is the time of his or her youth.
- The seed of our
destiny is sown the time of our youth. Nations are built in the time where the
general population is youthful, the church depends on the youth, because they
determine the future of the Church and a representation of the later rain.
- The
most needed stage to remember our maker is the time of our youth. But the devil
plans evil attacks over our destiny at this time that many realize, but only to
cry, had I known. Instead of us being useful to the church, society and the
nation, we become oppositions and fighters against the church and society.
Consider
the following:
a. The
Young Talented DAVID
- He
was useful to his parents in helping to tend the sheep.
- Through his useful nature, He
acquired the strength and boldness to save the whole nation from shame;
- Bro, David took
off Goliath’s head and the glory and victory was given to the God of Israel (1
Samuel 17:3-55).
- The skills he acquired as a teenage shepherd boy guided him to
being a great king.
b. The
Good looking JOSEPH
- He
utilized his special gift of the interpretations of dreams to preserve the
nation where he sojourned.
- He gave ideas that brought about economic
empowerment for the nation of Egypt (Genesis 41).
- That gift in you, that
special skill may be what society will need for a time like this.
c. The Saviour JESUS CHRIST
- Even
our Lord Jesus Christ was a useful youth.
- He was busy about his father’s
business (Luke 2:49).
- He fulfilled his purpose here on earth at the youthful
age of 33years.
d. Persistent, Good Looking and Obedient ESTHER
- She
was a fearless lady who saved her people from destruction. (Esther 4)
e. The Principled and Focused NEHEMIAH
- He
was a nation builder (Nehemiah 2:5).
- He took the courage to raise and rebuild
the ruined city wall of Jerusalem.
All
these people among several others were useful youth that imparted or added
value to their society.
If
you want to be like one of the youths mentioned above whom God used mightily in
their own time, your first step is to be born again and enter in God’s family.
Here
are five keys that will help you:
1. Ask God to increase your capacity:
1
Chronicles 4:10 in the Amplified Bible says:
“Jabez cried [prayed] to the God of Israel, saying,
Oh, that You would bless me and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be
with me, and You would keep me from evil so it might not hurt me! And God
granted his request.”
- Have
you ever asked God to increase your borders. . .you capacity for a greater
blessing flow?
- Your capacity defines you!
- Your capacity determines how much God can trust you!
- Your capacity determines how far you can Go with God...
2. Charge out of your comfort zone by
challenging the way things are:
- Stretch your
thinking, increase your understanding...
- Do something
you have never done...
- Enlarge your
capacity for increase by believing something you previously thought impossible.
- Believe God....
This seems quite funny, but like Abraham who left what was familiar and held
onto the promises of God.
- Believe God. . .like Noah who had never
seen rain but built the ark.
- Believe God. . .like the Centurion who
knew one word from Jesus would bring life to a dead situation.
- Believe God. . .like David who took a
rock and rolled the giant.
Genesis
12:1-2 in the Amplified Bible says:
“Now [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, Go for
yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your relatives
and your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.
“2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I
will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and
distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others].”
3. Put On Your Spiritual Glasses:
- We
must stop looking at life through our rear-view mirror, at what has happened or
didn’t happen in the past..
- Your future is in front of you and you need to allow
the word
of God to be the glasses through which you view your capacity for
success.
2
Chronicles 20:20 says:
“. . . Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O
Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall
ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.”
To believe the Lord our God, is to see things as He
sees them.
Take a moment to allow that statement to sink in…He is the God of limitless possibilities.
4. Change your Circle of Friends:
- We can never be
motivated by those who are not motivated.
- We can never
share dreams with those who are not dreamers.
- We cannot talk
about achieving our goals with those who don’t have any.
- If you desire to make impact, you need to make sure you hang around the people who
can help fill that capacity with the pure, the powerful and the positive from
God. People who will cause us to stretch our thinking while expanding our borders.
1
Corinthians 15:33 in the Amplified Bible says:
“Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil
companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and
morals and character.”
5. Positive associations will dramatically
increase our capacity for success.
- Make
it your business to learn from people who have been or are at where you..... Any advice that
has not been tested, proven and successful is just opinion, an experiment not
experience.
- Someone,
regardless of how good they sound, cannot take you where they haven’t been. When
it comes to your capacity for success and change, you need to realize that
every new generation can go beyond the previous generation.
Proverbs
15:22 in the New Living Translation says:
“Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many
advisers bring success.”
Title : UNLOCKING THE POSSIBILITIES WITHIN YOU
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