I HAVE TAUGHT IN A PRIMARY SCHOOL
I HAVE TAUGHT IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL
I ONCE TAUGHT FOR 15 HOURS IN BIBLE SCHOOL IN KADUNA
I NEVER KNEW GOD WAS PREPARING ME FOR THINGS TO COME
MOST YOUNG PEOPLE ARE TOO PROUD TO START FROM THE BEGINNING
THEY WANT TO START DRIVING A CAR AT BIRTH
EXCELLENCE DOES NOT APPLY TO INDOLENTS; IT DOES NOT APPLY TO SLUGGARDS NO EXCUSE IS TENABLE FOR DOING NOTHING
-Bishop David Oyedepo on “In Pursuit of Excellence” at International Youth Alive Convention 2021
Day 4
-Excellence must be the outcome of this event in your life.
-You shall not be left out of the prophetic theme of this event.
Take this scripture and connect to this with your Spirit.
Isaiah 60:15
“Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.”
How you look like right now notwithstanding, I will make. When God makes, no devil can un-make. I will make thee an eternal excellency, the joy of many generations. Write down that scripture, “God has vowed to make me an eternal excellency, the joy of many generations” That means my life must impart on my generation and generations after me. There are many who have just entered into that prophetic scripture now.
-The world will celebrate the day you were born.
-Your generation will thank God that you came to the world.
That word shall be confirmed in your life, with all of the teachings and the workshops. This making has its foundation in light. “Arise and shine because your light is come.” So, the making begins with access to light and walking in that light. (Isaiah 60:1-8)
Access to light and walking in that light is what empowers believers to become eternal excellency and the joy of many generations. Church Gist. So, it is not just sitting down somewhere and watching. It is being awake to your responsibilities as pointed to you from scriptures and then you have committed God to confirm His word in your life.
You came back battered and beaten and now you have international business. You travel out of the country at will every three months. How? Who dash monkey banana? Light! Light! Light came, grasped and walked with and then, the heavens open. It is the normal way it happens.
-In the name of the Lord Jesus, no one will miss his place in the rise of these eternal excellencies.
-You will not miss your place. Another man will not take your crown.
Eternal there connotes that it doesn’t stop there; it goes on to eternity. That means I will make you an entity of eternity. That means I will make sure you make heaven. You walk in the light, I will clear the obstacles of your way. That is what God is saying.
Common now, give the Lord a big hand and get seated.
God has vowed to make me an eternal excellency the joy of many generations.
Excellence is the lot of only performing hands. Excellence is not for the indolent and the do-nothing believers. “How is he doing?” Excellently…he is doing something. Excellence is the lot of doers only, not wishers, not waiters. An old English adage says, “It is practice that makes perfect” Excellence is not for wishers, it is not for procrastinators. Excellence is for performing and productive hands.
Folks, listen to me, no excuse is tenable for doing nothing with God. Joseph, hated, pushed into slavery, he remained in service with God. Church Gist. As a sold out and hated brother, he served till he won his master’s favour. He got to the prison, another labour of misfortune and Joseph was a worker in the prison, to the point that he was identified and was put in charge of other prisoners. No excuse is tenable for doing nothing.
Doing nothing does not hold the future for nobody. There is nothing in doing nothing. Most young people are too proud to start from the beginning. They are too proud to begin small. They want to be five feet (5ft) tall the day they were born. They want to start driving a car at birth. Church Gist. Any life without a strong beginning has no future. Those who despise the days of small things never see great days. Zechariah 4:10. Everything big starts small; everything great starts little. Wake up!
You are a student doing nothing, your mother is running round the kitchen, cooking and giving you food to eat and you ate. What an irresponsible life! You will soon be married and get to your own husband’s place if you are a lady. Church Gist. And if you are a man, you don’t know how to do nothing, it will show. It will show. “Mom, let me relieve you the pressure of the kitchen, I am here. You can trust me to make the best of meal for you” You are preparing for a future.
You got a job in the primary school and you gave your heart to it and then suddenly, you begin to own schools in the process. Everything about life demands responsibility. Church Gist. I never had downtimes in my life, including holiday times, either scheduled kingdom engagement or any vacation job opportunity. I was having nice time, building my future that I knew not. There is nothing in doing nothing.
Joseph began performing has a slave, performed as a prisoner, and now his excellency was announced in the palace. It is the way it works. Therefore before you get what you want, whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might. Church Gist. For there is nothing in doing nothing. This must go home with you. Excellence does not apply to indolents. It does not apply to sluggards; it applies only to productively-engaging hands. Excellence is a function of performance.
No one has a future doing nothing. Proverbs 22:29. Proverbs 13:4. You don’t want to end your journey as a slave in regrets, whatever your hands find to do per time, do it. Do it with all your might.Church Gist. For there is nothing in doing nothing. Young people, the most accomplished academic in the world began in primary school. You can’t become a professor as a toddler except by nickname, “proffy” You can’t become a General without starting from Second Lieutenant, if you are a commissioned officer. You might become a Field Marshall tomorrow but that is where you start from.
You better find a starting point. You can’t climb a ladder without a starting point. Find a starting point for your life. This short man has had quite some spells in some places all for hatred for downtimes. I’m not a professional teacher but I have taught in a primary school. I have taught in a secondary school. Church Gist. No downtime! I got married without any leaning on parents or relations. No downtime!
I never knew I will be teaching all my life so God was taking me through a teaching training to prepare me for a future I didn’t know. I had six different meetings within two days and came back last night. I didn’t know he was preparing me for it. Church Gist. In our own time, a primary school teacher teaches all the classes. I don’t know if they have changed it now. That is from A-Z, general duty teacher. You teach what you know and what you don’t know.
One day, I taught 15 hours in the Bible School in Kaduna. I was like a wind at the end of the lectures. I never knew God was preparing me for things to come. There is nothing in doing nothing. Church Gist. Nobody should leave here and go back to the doing-nothing platform. You mustn’t!
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