Unlocking Your Potential - Chapter 20 Key 19

To unlock your potential for supernatural enlargement, you must ask yourself ‘what is my pursuit?’ Pursuit means what you are after. What do you want to do? What do you want to become? You cannot define where you are going until you know where you are. God asked Adam, “where are you?” He was saying, where are you in my plan? What are you pursuing?

What is the goal that you set ahead that you want to reach? Goal setting is not bad.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:13-14

Life is about running a race and winning. Don’t say I just want to participate to be part of the number. No, participate to be a winner.

A young man went to his pastor and told him that he got a lottery to go to Brazil to watch the world cup for one month, all-expense paid. So the pastor asked him if he thought he had got a miracle. He will go to Brazil, and sit down for a month. What will he do when he comes back home. You can go to work here in Nigeria and watch matches in the evening rather than sitting idle in Brazil and come back in penury.

What poor people call success are distractions to people who have rich minds. The poor of yesterday can be the rich of today. Pursue something of value to your dream, something bigger than you.

Ghanaians flooded Nigeria many years ago. Today things have changed in Ghana, Nigerians are now flooding Ghana. When we were leaving university, residential halls were built for foreign students including South Africans. We were like deliverers for other nations. Today, Nigerians go and beg for South African visa, some even offer bribes to get the visa, a country that was coming to us many years ago. Angola helped Portugal too many years ago; today the reverse is the case. You can change your position!

Your level today is the worst level you can ever be because the path of the just is like a shining light. Your path will shine brighter in the name of Jesus. Life requires pursuit. Don’t stay in old glory, thank God and move forward.

In 1904, the first car was invented. It is now 110 years ago that that car was invented. When I went to Jos, Nigeria, some years back on a fieldwork with some students, we got to a place where they packed the car that Lord Luggard rode along with Queen Elizabeth in the early 1960s. If they give you the car today, you will reject it because it looks so ugly. Life has changed.

Announce your arrival. Remove your personal prejudice and get out of bed and do something with your life. Enough of depending on the government for work and salary. Create something to do. Get an idea and execute it. What you see today came from ideas. Things are changing, change your world.

Many years ago a man met me on the road and wanted to sell me soap. I told him that even if he wanted to give it to me free of charge I can’t take it. So he asked me why and I said it was because the package is bad. He told me the composition and how good it was but I told him nobody will cherish the composition if the package is bad. If you give me good food in a bad plate, I will doubt you. He heard me and went to get new wrappers for the product. He met me later and told me that what I said to him touched him and he was challenged; he now sells more than before.

The same people who are so devil conscious don’t cry devil when they are abroad. When they leave the country, their thinking changes because they have come to a different culture. There is no over-glorifying the devil. Here we blame the devil for our failures, how can darkness overcome light. Let’s walk in the light of God. Set achievable goals for your life.
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For some people who come across my path, I tell them to pick a biro and write what they want to become if God prolongs their lives for another ten years. Some say it is in the hand of God. It is foolishness because as His Child, He has given you an open cheque, it is now in your hand. You are a king. How can a king have no idea? What are you pursuing? Set short and long term goals. And if you don’t achieve everything it doesn’t mean you are a failure. Don’t fold your arms and think that things will come by and by. Christians should do something with their lives.

Enough of storytelling, you can be great. Jephtah was a bastard. He was given birth to out of wedlock and he was thrown out but he became a leader because he proved them wrong. Remove your personal prejudice. Little in the hand of God can be much. God will give you ideas bigger than you but you have to explore it. Don’t plan to die; plan your life as if you are going to live forever.

To plan as if you’ll live forever makes you achieve and aim at possibilities. There are possibilities ahead of you, think outside of the box. Jesus had a goal.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:1-2

When you have a goal ahead of you, care, worry or suicide is not attractive. When you know where you are going, you don’t get discouraged; you don’t allow distractions around you. If you have a plane to catch in tonight and your commercial driver is chatting on the road, you can threaten to alight from the vehicle because you have a different agenda. You can only be friends with someone who is going the way you are going. Acquaintances can be many, but not friends. Friends are very few. You can’t waste your time having lots of friends.

REFLECTION

Acquaintances can be many, but not friends. You can’t waste your time having lots of friends.