START FROM WHERE YOU ARE

IF YOU MUST GO UP, START FROM WHERE YOU ARE

Acts 1:8, Joshua 1:1-8, Gen 13:14-17

It is so natural for most people that immediately they receive the vision of where God has in mind for them, they began to savor the beauty and the reality of the place. As much as this is not bad, it is a tricky and slippery for those who cannot manage same. Most times, many lose the joy and peace of the present in search of the future. This is why some Christians while still alive become of no earthly relevance because they are too heaven conscious. God’s plan is for us to bring heaven to earth and hereafter enjoy the full realities of heaven. The plan of God is that our journey to the top must start from appreciating where we and moving from there to where we ought to be.

Every journey has a beginning and that is why God is both the beginning and the end and not just the end. If you miss the place of your beginning, you may lose your glorious ending. There is no short cut with God in the race of life, ministry and destiny. Even though God’s plan is for man to have dominion over the earth, He did not create million of men at several places but just one man in one location from where he will rule and reign over the rest of the earth. Even though Adam had the mandate for the whole earth, his assignment was to begin at Eden. It is as you manage Eden aright that the capacity to expand and advance will be released unto you.

God looks at what is in your heart to release gifts into your hands. Starting from where you are is a kingdom principle that must be imbibed by all who wants to be used greatly of God in this dispensation. You must be able to run the affairs of the sphere where God has placed you effectively so that you can be placed in greater spheres of influences. Despite the fact that God is desperately hungry that the gospel of salvation should spread quickly all over the world, He also did not scatter the disciples immediately after their empowerment into all the nooks and crannies of the earth, He instructed them to start from where they were.

Listen friends, no matter what God has instructed you to do, never be in a hurry. Starting from where you are means start at your level and more often than not your location. Always learn to move at God’s timing. However, God may exclusively instruct to move away from your location. However, even in that location you have got to learn to start at your present level then God will move you to the next.

Prayer: God help me to enjoy and maximize the present so as to create a better future for myself and my generation in You. Amen!!!