Written
by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
A man’s gift makes room for him and
brings him before great men. Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 16
Every
human being created by God has divine or what you may call natural leverages
divinely given by God to elevate the person in his or her life. The challenge
usually is knowing and understanding that you have leverages. So the start
point is getting to know and understanding what leverages are; identifying your
own leverages and deploying them to advantage. What then is leverage? Leverage
according to the Longman Contemporary Dictionary of English is the influence
that you can use to make people do what you want.
Talents,
skills and expertise, what I like to refer to as divine intellectual property
most often serve as launch pads into divine greatness if properly deployed into
divine purposes and activities. This is to say that talents, skills, and expertise
are divinely designed to move a person to greatness, affluence, fame and honor
progressively, from point A to point B if they are intelligently used as
leverages. Ideally, they are meant to be used as launch pads to leapfrog
present positions to higher positions. To some extent, they are leverages.
Joseph could interpret dreams. He used the ability to interpret dreams which
launched him into Pharaoh’s presence as leverage to become Prime Minister in
the land of Egypt.
