Written by Uyoyou
Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Break the ceiling
over your head, your life no matter what it is. Ceilings should be broken when
they become a stumbling block to progress. A ceiling over a person’s life may
not necessarily be the physical ceiling placed in houses to shield the direct
heat of the sun on the roof from the house.
A ceiling may be a
person’s attitude, character or behavior. Issachar was initially content to serve
as a slave because he saw a pleasant land. The pleasantness of the land made
him lose interest in moving to his own land, his own place of divine purpose
where he was divinely ordained to serve as a leader in Israel; providing divine
direction to the people to carry out divine purpose following divine timing.
But Issachar preferred the pleasant land. Unfortunately, Issachar’s preference
put a ceiling on him and his descendants and they became a band of slaves in
the pleasant land.
However, slavery
must have opened his eyes to the huge divine potential and responsibility of
leadership placed on him from the foundation of the world. Fortunately, he woke
up to from the slumber of death to divine purpose, broke the ceiling of slavery
and moved on the leadership position destined for him from the foundation of
the world. He became a leader, had an in depth understanding of the times and
urged Israel to do what the nation ought to do at a specific time. Please read
Genesis Chapter 49 verses 14 to 15 and 1st Chronicles Chapter 12
verse 32.
Unfortunately,
Esau did not understand his inability to deal with unbridled emotions. His
absolute lack of self-control was the self-imposed ceiling he put on himself
that made him lose the leadership role he should have played. He sold his
birthright because he was hungry. In essence, he sold his birthright for a non-asset,
a bowl of porridge that would digest in a few hours and be excreted out of the
body as waste and a fresh wave of hunger would start.
Beloved, Esau
lacked personal discipline, lacked an understanding of divine roles and
responsibilities and therefore could not function as a leader. That explains
why the Bible refers to him as a profane person in Hebrews Chapter 12 verses 15
to 17. Please read also Genesis Chapter 25 verses 29 to 34 for an account of
how he sold his birthright. He was a
bread person – stomach infrastructure, physical pleasures were more important
to him than divine purpose and spiritual responsibilities. His lack of
discipline put ceilings on him. He lost the birthright as well as the attendant
blessings. Also, despite the fact that he was the one who lived in Canaan while
Jacob sojourned in Padan Aram for over twenty years; and also that he had
become rich, it is very significant and instructive that he was the one who moved
out of Canaan when Jacob returned and the land could no longer take the two of
them because they had both become very wealthy and had large possessions.
Beloved,you can break
whatever ceiling is limiting you with the blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ
paid the full price for whatever character defects the enemy is using to ensure
that you do not enter into divine purpose or the fullness of divine purpose.
Beloved, God has given to you all that pertains to godliness so that you can
manifest fully and be who God wants you to be. Therefore, arise and walk in
divine purpose.
Joseph was not
only disciplined. He feared God, hated evil and ran away from evil. Though he
suffered unjustly for doing so, he fulfilled divine purpose; was highly
successful and wealthy; even in a strange land where he supposedly had no
leverages. And because he feared and honored God in all his dealings, God gave
him limitless leverages which placed him above everyone in Egypt except
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. From prison, Joseph rose to become number two
person in the land of Egypt. That can also be your story. Shalom.
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