-Dr (Mrs) Becky Enenche
THE LIFTING POWER OF DEDICATION
One of the factors to move from where you are to where you are meant to be; moving from where you used to be, to who you are meant to be
WHAT IS DEDICATION TO GOD?
1. Commitment
2. Wholeheartedness
3. Single mindedness
4. Tenacity
5. Doggedness
6. Drive
7. Zeal
Scriptural Examples of dedicated people
1. Abraham. Genesis 12:1-2
The end destination was not announced. He didn’t know where he was to go. The end destination was not announced. He didn’t know where he was to go. He was just to in dedication and obedience to God stand up and go to the land that God said.
Beloved brothers and sisters, it takes dedication to hear God in that manner and to go for it. That is a bit something like the experience that the senior pastor and I had.
Pursing our medical career, doing what we needed to do. All the while, we generally felt that we were going to be practicing doctors, be good Christians, serve God, win souls, after all we were involved in evangelism and we were prepared to be doing that.
And then suddenly, God says ‘stand up and go to a place that I am showing you.’ As at that time, Abuja was an empty void land. You could drive across town as fast as your car could take you. The land wasn’t majorly occupied. But we stood up by faith, and we went by virtue of dedication. Why? Because we loved God enough to know that if he said go, and because of our dedication, we were ready to go as he instructed.
And so God said to Abraham ‘stand up and go to a land that I will show you.’ He might have asked, ‘Lord what is the name of the place?’ God must have said ‘just be going, when you reach there you will know.
One time we missed our way, coming in from Lagos area at about Akure we took the other turn instead of the right turn to come to Abuja and then we saw Benin, it was senior pastor who lifted up his eyes from what he was reading and saw Benin and so we asked for the way to Abuja, the person asking said ‘na where you dey go? ‘ We said ‘we are going to Abuja.’ The man said ‘make una turn, dey go, just dey go.’ That sounded a little bit like what God and Abraham discussion was like. Just be going. When I tell you to stop, you stop.
Dedication means I am ready to go all the way with God, I am ready to obey, I am ready to do as he wills for me to do. Genesis 12:4.
