Written
by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
An
eagle which fraternizes with chickens all the time loses its ability to soar
and will at best fly, an extremely difficult task for the eagle whose wings are
designed to soar and not fly. Beloved, you have been standing very tall but
unfortunately you did not know it and made the mistake of attempting to stoop.
Quickly undo the mistake and keep standing very tall as you are not holding
your ground, defending your territory but you are also actually sending out
word that there is no room for competition because you have actually grown beyond
competition.
You
are already an institution, an intimidating force to be reckoned with,
respected, valued, significant and relevant to humanity. It is therefore time to
move on in life so that you can be more beneficial to humanity and be truly celebrated.
You
have had the luxury of interacting with quality people and institutions and when
you have the luxury of interacting with quality players in any endeavor of
life, you develop as a player in that area of life. Not only do you work from
an intelligence perspective, you also develop an uncanny instinct, the ability
to smell opportunities and utilize the opportunities to great advantage. Doing
this as often as possible can make you an expression of family, institutional,
community, national and global pride. Significantly, this can be achieved
through deliberate and measured diligent growth in about every area of life
which is why you must make the effort to interact with quality players.
Therefore, hone your gifts so that you can excel and stand before kings. While
it is true that low gifts and great anointing produce results, the truth is
that the results are not permanent. This is because there is usually no
organization, no systems, and no institutionalization that will give permanent
results. This is also true of great gifts and low anointing as they also
produce results that are not permanent. But great gifts and great anointing
equals great results and permanence. Significantly, both have to be developed.
Mental
elasticity births financial, material and other elasticity and mental
elasticity is often preceded by spiritual elasticity. Spiritual elasticity on
the other hand is a not a one off activity; it is not a mystical activity. It
is a process of progressive spiritual development through a series of diligent
daily Bible study, praise worship and adoration, meditation on the word of God
to internalize the word of God, understand the truth of the word of God and
understand the word of God to apply the word of God in daily interactions and
processes. It is doing kingdom work and spending quality personal time with
God. The more you study the word of God and meditate on the word of God, the
more enhanced and enlarged will your capacity to receive and understand the
word of God. As your capacity to receive and understand the word of God
increases; so also does your capacity to live your life in line with the word
of God expands and as that happens, your progressive spiritual elasticity also
translates to mental, financial, material and other forms of elasticity. The
word of God internalized in your spirit and mental processes will always
illuminate your mind to access riches untold effortlessly. Therefore speed up so that your diligent
spiritual activities will birth diligent mental and physical activities.
You may
experience storms as you stretch out. Do not give up or give in. the Bible
records that there was a storm when Jesus and his disciples were crossing over
to the other side in Matthew Chapter 5.
But it is also significant to note that three outstanding miracles
followed the storm. Beloved,
there is another side of your life that God wants to introduce and showcase and
the good news is that there is no storm strong enough to stop you. Storms or no
storms; it is time to go to the other side. Sometimes, you need to chew more
than you can handle because God does not disappoint anyone whose trust is in
Him. Trust God to make you the five talent person He designed you to be from
the foundation of the world and you will get there to be celebrated.
Therefore,
consciously and deliberately develop and hone the ability to always move
forward and express yourself more intelligently. You do not necessarily have to
be spectacular. Just do the things you have to do to win by creatively
navigating challenges in such a way that will make your opponents do all the
work. That was exactly what the tortoise did to the hare who boasted of winning
slow paced tortoise at a race. Rather than over extend himself in an area he
could not win in, Mr. Tortoise simply duplicated himself at strategic points
where the hare thought he had advantages. To the surprise of Mr. fast paced
Hare, Mr. Tortoise was already at the finishing line. What happened? Mr.
Tortoise chose to work smart knowing he did not have the capacity to work hard.
He sat back and simply defended the finish line by placing his entire family
members at strategic points in the race line because he knew he could never
outrun Mr. Hare. Mr. Hare on the other hand chose to do the entire work of
running the race line to finish on his own. Ironically, Mr. Tortoise who did
not even run any distance in the entire race reaped the benefits by supposedly
arriving first at the finish line.
Beloved,
stretching out will entail more of working smart than working hard. Working smart
in this sense will mean learning to partner and collaborate, investing in
relationships that will give you greater leverage and mileage. No more I can do
it alone. Perhaps you should learn from great football teams who succeed more
because the overall team spirit is great. It is not a one man show but deep
collaborative efforts to achieve a common goal. Stretch out by reaching out to
partners who will boost what you do while you also boost what they do. Happy
partnerships and collaborations as you leverage on the strengths of other
people and institutions and they also leverage on your own strengths.
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