Written
by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Influence flows from
impact while impact flows from adding value to the lives of people. Adding
value to the lives of people flows from serving the purpose of God for your
life because it is in serving the purpose of God for your life that you enrich
the lives of the people you are called to serve. Actually, your life is also
enriched as you enrich the lives of other people which explain why to a very
large extent, the quality of your life is the positive impact you make on
humanity.
The Biblical Joseph for instance could dream, great big
dreams. But until he started interpreting dreams, he was a dreamer who was sold
into slavery, a servant of Potiphar and much later a prisoner. But it was the
ability to interpret dreams that took him out of prison to the palace. If
Joseph had refused to speak up, to care about his fellow prisoners and refused
to interpret the dreams of the baker and the butler, he would have probably
died in prison, unknown and unsung. But because he deployed his gift to enhance
the quality of lives of his fellow prisoners, the value of the gift was
enhanced and qualified him to stand before Pharaoh so the gift could be
deployed for the service of the global community of his day. Joseph ensured
food security for more than seven years and became a global brand and household
name.
Beloved, it is instructive that continuous deployment of
your gift to serve humanity actually enhances the value of your gift.
Therefore, take a quality decision today to deploy your gift for the
improvement of the quality of lives of other people and be a blessing with high
value gifts which qualify you to stand before kings and not mere people.
Also, it will be worth your while to consistently enhance
the value of what God blessed you with. It is the value additions you bring in
to what God blessed you with that enhances and ups your net worth as a person,
a family, a community, a Church, institution, etc. If you leave your gifts in
the raw state in which God blessed you with them, they may not command much
value. But if you enhance the value by polishing and deploying them to benefit
humanity, to give people the best option they could get from using your brand, then
you have placed premium value on your brand. A classic example is the biblical Daniel
who was the best of the brightest minds in Babylon and Persia. His
administrative prowess and excellence made him get to the top. He was a global
brand and you can also be same if you consistently enhance the value of your
brand.
As
you desire and seek global influence and impact, the questions you should
urgently find answers to are:
What
is the driving force behind whatever you do – is it in line with the will of
God or to please yourself, monetary consideration, display of power, quest for
power? What informs your decision on any issue; is it the plans and purposes of
God for your life which will take and put you on the pathways to global impact
and influence or your quest for personal acclaim? Is God leading you or you are
leading yourself? For instance, what informs your choice of relationships, job,
income generating activities, utterances, etc? Is it the will of God for your
life and the desire to accomplish the will of God for your life and therefore
fulfill purpose; or is it to pander to pecuniary rewards in which case monetary
consideration is the reason for doing what you do? Could it also be because you
want to impress people, you do not want to hurt some people; or you want to
prove your spiritual, mental and physical prowess? Some of these desires can
actually lead a person to self imposed slavery rather than creating a valuable
brand. While the choice and decision is actually yours, I plead with you by the
mercies of God to consider some examples.
I
suggest you pray this prayer, Father, please show me mercy and help me, Lord so
that at all times, I am fulfilling divine purpose by Your Spirit, Lord in the
mighty name of Jesus Christ. No more
slavery on account of taking on jobs, activities, partnerships because of
monetary considerations because from now on, the will of God will always be the
primary consideration for what I have to do. No more jumping into anything no
matter who is involved.
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