We began yesterday by looking at this line of exhortation titled:
DEDICATION A COVENANT PLATFORM FOR THE RISE OF GIANTS
It is important that we are reminded in God’s word that the intention of God is to raise giants of everyone of His children and it has been said over again in Winners’ Chapel that giants are going to be rising from our midst and we know in scriptures that the rising of these giants is not their skill or capacity but simply their dedication.
The Bible makes us to understand that every giant we found in scripture was a product of dedication.
Hebrews 6:12
In other words the examples of men in scripture is a pattern for us us to experience the same. Romans 15:4
The assurance of the future is tied to God’s performance in the past and when we look at the performances in the past in the rising of men we find a pattern for our rising in the future.
From scripture it is clear that there can be no rising until there is planting. From scripture it is clear that until a seed is planted the greatness cannot be seen and the life of every child of God is likened to a seed that is why the Bible tells us that we are the plantings of the Lord that He might be glorified. So every child of God is likened to a seed and the size of the seed does not determine the size of a tree.
Mark 4:30-32
The difference is in the planting. You are not designed by God as a herb but as a tree, but the tree in you cannot begin to show forth until we are planted. The planting is what we call dedication and that is why until there is planting you can’t see rising.
Until there is commitment there can’t be no upliftment. Our change of story is tied to our dedication. Until a man or woman is dedicated to this Kingdom they cannot be distinguished. That is why dedication becomes a non negotiable factor for the giant in any redeemed child of God to come forth.
My prayer for each one of us today is that upon this Mountain the grace for dedication will come upon you.
Let us look at an example of a man in scripture who committed himself in dedication unto God and let us see what occurred in his life. We look at the example of Moses. Moses’ passion for God’s people to see their liberation was unparallel. The Bible tells us in Exodus 2:11-12 that his passion was unparallel. The Bible tells us concerning this episode that he said, he thought that they should have known that God sent him to ensure that they were set free. As far as Moses was concerned the liberty of the children of Israel was his passion.
I would like us to understand that when you see a man that rises by the hand of God you have seen a man who has planted himself in the heart of God and he does that on the platform of dedication. When God appeared to Moses in Exodus 3:7-10, at this point Moses was a fugitive. The order in Egypt was if you see him kill him. As far as Moses was concerned there was a death sentence hanging on his head.
The Bible tells us here in Exodus 7:8-9 that Moses was also in a state of penury and we see how God was talking to him. The people of Israel was oppressed but it looked as if his case was worse than theirs.
The Bible tells us that Moses went forth in that commandment of God into the land of Egypt with a terrible instruction of what he must tell Pharaoh. What did God say he should tell Pharaoh? He said, ‘Tell him that Israel is my first born’. He said ‘Let my son go that he may serve me and if you don’t let him go I will kill your first born’.
A terrible instruction but he took his life in his hand in dedication and followed after God and what was the effect of it? The giant in Moses rose up. He was 80 years old without an identity but he planted his life in God and the giant in him came up. You can’t have commitment and lack upliftment. You can’t have planting and lack rising. Anytime you find a man or woman that will commit themselves to God you have found a man or woman that would be uplifted by the hand of God.
What does the Bible say concerning Moses?
Exodus 11:3
He became a god.
How great was Moses?
Deuteronomy 34:10-12
What are the distinctions of his life? You cannot be dedicated and not be distinguished. Moses was separated in the platform if his commitment.
What God is saying to you and to me is this, how high we rise is determined by how deep we are dedicated. The depth of our dedication determines the depth of our rise.
My prayer for each one of us this morning is that God will grant each one of us the grace to maintain deep dedication unto God in order to scale great heights in life.
May that grace answer for each one of us in the name of Jesus Christ.
You will take note that when you see a tree that will grow high it’s roots must go deep. How far you grow in the ground determines how high you scale above the ground. You don’t find trees that grows high without deep roots. That is why you see that any tree that is very mighty in size and in height, it takes difficulty to pull it out of the ground because the roots are so tied to it. What it means is that the tree has said I won’t let the ground go.
When a man’s life is tied to God like that, when he will not let God go, there is nothing that can stop him from growing. He will keep going high and growing high because he has held unto God.
My prayer for each one of us is that the grace to hold tight to God in commitment in order to scale heights in life, may that grace come upon each one of us in the name of Jesus.
You know I discovered in gardening that when you pull out a little shrub and it is small the amount of sand it holds is not that much. You can pick it up and shake it and everything that was holding it will fall but a tree that has spread it’s roots to the ground you will discover that to pull it out is a task because it has held on inseparably to that ground. That is what happens to a man who holds on inseparably to God. He becomes unmovable. He keeps shooting heights until he becomes the envy if the World.
That will be somebody’s experience here. People may look at you and mock you but watch it God is about to make you.
The glory of God shall be revealed upon you.
Your story shall be eternally unique.
As the testimonies of others are being envied today your own testimony will be envied next.
Receive grace from God for dedication to His Kingdom .
Receive grace not to take anything for granted, not to take anything lightly but to be committed to Gods Kingdom, to be planted inseparably.
There is a giant in you but you must be planted for the giant to rise.
The giant in you must arise.
Receive grace for dedication to the affairs of God’s Kingdom.
May that grace begin to answer for you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank God for the release of grace.
Take note until people say it is too much it is not enough. So just keep pressing, keep pushing and God will keep lifting.
Your story is changing forever.
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