‘Possessing Your Possession; Accessing Supernatural Success And Distinction’ at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre
Text: Matthew 5:14-16, 1st Peter 2:9, Isaiah 60:1-2, 2:1-2.
(Conference Day 4, Evening Session)
– The top most top is the place of Covenant people; the place of our inheritance is in the top of the hill.
God has no place of mediocrity for his people, he has no average level or middle Realm for his people. God has not called us to manage mediocrity.
In many ways, God has a desire of showing the world how to do the things they do from the church. Is it not of interest to you that 8 out of 10 of top universities in the world were Christian founded, some founded originally as Bible schools, some founded to train clergy men. I am talking about Oxford, about the oldest, Cambridge, I am talking about Harvard, Yale. Is it not of interest to you that if the church should withdraw health care today, the system will collapse, that over 30% of health care provision around the world is traceable to catholic church alone, what if you add Anglican hospitals, Methodist Hospitals, Presbyterian Hospitals.
If you remove the church from the world, civilisation disappears.
Is it not of interest to you to know that 99% of inventions in the world came out of the Church, including the mic I am holding came out of the church, out of those who have interest in the church. Is it not of interest to know that the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is the demarcation of history, He is the centre of calendar. Everything that happened before Him is dated BC- before Christ and everything that happened after Him is dated AD- ano domini, in the year of our Lord. So remove Him from the centre, everything scatters.
Please I want us to understand because, like I have been saying in this conference, I believe that the calendar of the world is rounding off and the heavens must hold him until the time of the restoration of all things. Let’s take it from Abraham, everyone that God called in their day were at the peak in their field.
Joseph was the star boy in the realm of strategic management, he was the star in the realm of food management.
Job 1:1-2.
If you go through history you will see others like John D Rockeller who conquered the world of business. Do you know that Rockefeller’s business was multiplied when they say that he was monopolizing everything. They divided his company I to plenty; Chevron, Mobil, he has gone since but they still exist and his people still ha e the stakes in those companies, top of the field. Then you talk of William Wilberforce in politics, at the age of 27, he was a disciple of John Wesley and he stood in the British parliament to move for the abolition of slave trade. Born again Christian, firebrand. Anybody under the John Wesley was a firebrand.
Then you talk about Isaac Newton, Newton’s laws of motion, laws of universal gravitation. He was a physicist and theologian, one of the most influential scientist of all times, he wrote equally about the Bible and about physics.
Anything that moves today, he wrote founded them, he is the father of mechanics, motion, calculus, differential calculus, that was Newton. Quality solid Christian who discovered gravity and gravitation. He is noted as the father of science. Top of the field. General Douglas MacArthur who compelled Japan to bow in the second world war and administered the occupation of Japan for about ten years.
I am talking about people in various realms, they took their place in the realms for God. James Young Simpson the founder of modern day chloroform. In those days when they want to perform surgery, there was o Anastasia so someone has to old their hands and they person is screaming, imagine the mortality rate. Some will die of surgery pain, until that man came and said that people can be put to sleep without feeling the pain of surgery. You see people have passed through this world. Let us not just sleep and wake up eating eba and amala only.
We can go on and on. And I am mentioning deliberate people in various realms.
I announce to you tonight, in your realm, you shall stand out for God.
Five Reasons Why It Is Important to stand out and be distinguished
1.God made man in His image and likeness and God dwells in the realm of excellence and distinction. Genesis 1:27, Isaiah 28:29. If you look at creation, you will see the excellence of Jehovah. Your thumb print, no other person in the world has it. Twins, no matter how identical they are, the thump print is different.
No two zebra has the same pattern. No two leopard have the same spots. That is the creator who created you in such excellence.
The heart is wired to beat without support. Wether you are asleep or not, it doesn’t stop. That is the God who created you to excel, so when you excel, don’t let anybody tell you that you are over doing. Tell them you are just starting.
2. It is part of the Christian’s duty to be excellent and distinguished for our maker. It is a command ‘let your light shine’, It is not an advice. In the same manner you are not supposed to tell lies, you are supposed to excel.
Failing exams over and over is a reproach to your creator.
I will like you to understand that you are duty bound to stand out for God and to be above your contemporaries.
3. Excellence and distinction brings honour to the creator in the eyes of the world. Matthew 5:16.
When we say praise God, there are various types of praise. When you stand to tell others what God did for you, that is not just an activity, that is praise. There is a praise that is singing. There is a praise that is dancing, sacrifice giving, there is a worship that is your lifestyle. That is you are living such a life that makes people praise God and there is another praise that is excellence.
Let people not insult God because of your mediocrity.
4. Excellence and distinction makes it justifiable for God to facilitate the elevation of His people. You just make it easy for God to place you where you are supposed to be. You make it easy for your maker to show case you to your world.
5. Excellence and distinction are evangelistic in impact. There is a messga you preach that you did not preach with your mouth, you preached it with your result. Isaiah 60:1-3.
God is saying, I don’t want you to struggle to beg people to come to me, let what I will do in your life and through your life advertise me to them
Your life is a preaching, your testimony is a preaching, your result is a preaching. The house you are living inside is a preaching, the promotion and elevation in your place of work is a preaching.
The Way of Distinction
Of course being born again is a capital requirement.
1. Brutal decision. It is a decision that says, whether the devil likes it or not, I won’t die obscure. Philippians 3:12-13.
2. Aggressive Pursuit. Philippians 3:14.
3. Diligent Labour. Proverbs 22:29. Romans 12:11. In anyway you see result, someone is working.
4. Excellence drive. When you make up your mind to do nothing substandard, to do nothing below your potential. What so ever your hands find to do, do it with all your might. You are not the type of person who says this is good enough. Your good enough becomes best.
5. Continous learning. Proverbs 4:18.
6. Quality Association 1st Corinthians 15:33. The quality of your company reflects the quality of your results dwarf steps.
7. Mentoral Influence. Acts 4:13. Michael Jackson in his days as the king of pop had coach that coached him musically, vocally permanently. Michael Jordan continued to have a coach. Many of us arrived too soon so we have ended too soon. Any body who is too big to learn has become to small to lead. Mentoral influence helps you to reach where you are going very very fast.
8. Spiritual fervency. The fervency of your spirit determines your spiritual buoyancy. 2nd Chronicles 27:6.
Don’t reach any realm where your fasting and prayer reduces, where your upright living reduces. If you want God to take you far, go far with Him.
