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UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING YOUR RESOURCES

God’s pattern for your life includes specifications for the spiritual, physical and material resources that are necessary for you to live a fulfilling and productive life. Until you learn what resources God has arranged for you to enjoy and what benefits He planned for you to receive from each resource, your potential will be stunted and your performance will be less than it could be.

Types of resources: There are basically two types of resources you must understand and control if you must succeed and they are the TANGIBLE AND THE INTANGIBLE resources. The intangible resources are those resources we cannot see physically but we are very conscious of their existence. The tangible resources are those we can see like plants, animal, water, sunlight, etc. in our environment. Some examples of intangible resources are time, the resources of the soul, spiritual resources etc. Time is what you need to convert the tangible resources around you to wealth. You can also use time to convert intangible resources into beneficial relationships and add value to your life and that of others. For instance, you have to give time to cultivate a friendship; to build love with another to create the wealth of joy and support that being in love brings about. You need time to build anything you want to build; a business, a mega fortune, a house, a home, anything at all. This explains why the more time you give to doing a particular thing, the more you excel at it. Kenneth Hagan told the story of two brothers who were Pastors and how one of them had a potential for being more successful than the other because of his more outgoing disposition. But he spent his time going around and cracking jokes while his less outgoing brother was always studying and praying. Of course the one who spent more time in the word and prayer was more successful even though by his quiet disposition, he did not seem to stand a chance at success like his brother.

Time is either spent or invested. The time you put in getting to know God and serve His cause on earth for instance, is the best time of your life because that is time invested that would bring you huge dividends on this and the other side of eternity. In Mat.19:28-29, in answer to Peter’s question to the Lord on what they stood to gain for leaving everything to follow Him. The Lord said:

“Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.”  

In Mark’s account of this same incidence, Jesus also said, we shall be persecuted on this side. So persecution for the cause of Christ is an indication that someone is envious of your success in releasing your God given ability where they have failed. So don’t let them stop you. Keep at it. It is part of your heritage for investing the time of your life. If you are not persecuted, it could just be an indication that you are running on the same course as the devil who is the abysmal failure causing as many as he could to fail like him.

When Daniel wanted to solve the problem of Nebuchadnezzar who needed to be reminded of his dream and have it interpreted, he requested for time. In Daniel 2:16-19, we read:

“Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.

Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.”

When time was given to Daniel, what did he do with it? He did not try to escape from Babylon so that he would not be killed with the rest of the magicians and wise men, he called his friends of like minds and they had a prayer meeting with God and the bible says that the matter was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So the next day, he walked up to Nebuchadnezzar armed with his dream and interpretation and solved the puzzle of the king bringing glory to God and honor to himself and salvation to all the wise men and magicians in Babylon who would have been killed had Daniel not provided this solution.

This kind of thinking as you can see, knocks off every lie that money is the first thing you need to be great or to be wealthy. Note here that Daniel came into Babylon bound in chains as a slave, but by investing his time with God, he emerged a leader and none of us can ever describe Daniel as a poor man.

Another good example is Joseph. He entered Egypt in chains as a slave, prospered as a slave and thirteen years later, became the number two man in Egypt because he invested his time with God.

Two Pastors can live in the same house; one would invest his time praying and studying the word and applying himself to what he is learning and the other can spend his time entertaining himself with television, radio, worldly magazines and living carnally. The result is that in time, their difference will be made clear, because when it comes time for both of them to deliver on their assignment as pastors; they would not command equal attention. The one who invested his time will deliver on his assignment and the other who wasted his time on entertainment will resort to gimmicks and lose value and relevance. In fact, the one who invested his time will emerge a servant of God and Isa.65:13-14 best describes their destiny thus:

“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.”

Dear reader, I dont know how you came about reading this post; one thing I do know however is that God orchestrated the events that brought this about because He loves you deeply and does not want you to live a wasted life. You may even has been a Christian for many years without fruit to show. I believe you were enriched by this message and that from this moment you will make the changes neccessary to bring about the fruitfulness you have always desired in your Christian life.

On the other hand, you may not even be born again yet. Then it is quite understandable why even if you have seen some measure of success, all of them are not weighty enough to withstand the test of time not to talk of Eternity. This is the reason why you always feel unfulfilled in spite of your success. I have good news for you, that can change now.

Another person reading this may have been managing failure since forever, I also have good news for you. You can become a resounding success begining today.

It all starts with a commitment that will result in the activation of your God given abilities resulting in the fulfilment of your divine purpose which will in turn make you a joy and an eternal excellency. That commitment is simple, say they following prayer out loud to God and mean it with all your heart. The Holy Spirit will take it up from there and you will be born again.

THE SINNER’S PRAYER

Father in Heaven,

I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your word says in John 6:37 that you will not cast me out when I come to you. So I thank you that you will take me in.

You also said in Romans 10:9-10 that if I shall confess with my mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in my heart that you raised him from the dead, I shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I believe that you raised him from the dead for my justification and I confess him now as my saviour and Lord.

I believe that I have now become your righteousness in Christ whom you made to be sin for me on Calvary’s Cross.

Thank you father that I am saved from this day in Jesus’s name!

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