| Start with your miracle seed
Bible Reading: John 2:1-11
Why do we plant seeds instead of fully grown trees? Why do we erect houses block upon block rather than just depositing a magnificent building into the ground? Why did Jesus start with twelve disciples even though he desired to impact the whole world?
Great endings are usually products of small beginnings. The bible says “And though your start was small, your end will be very great” Job 8:7 (BBE). My Christian brothers and sisters love to quote this verse, but most of them don’t start realizing their dreams because they have fallen into the trick of the devil that says … “if only you can have more, then it will be appropriate for you to start”. More money, more connections, more people, more anointing, more love, more more …
So they keep saying “if only I have more, I will start now”. But kingdom principle says … “if only you start now, you will have more”. I remember when we started our internet outreach, we had just ten subscribers. Today, the number of subscribers we have in a day is more than our total subscribers at inception.
It is grave diggers that start from the top and keep digging downwards. Great things usually start small and keep growing. Jesus’ lifestyle showed us that you are permitted to start small as long as you do not remain small.
Some people think you do not have faith if you start small. I wonder what they will say about God who brought forth the 6 billion people on earth through two people – Adam and Eve. What a beginning! Compare two to six billion and you can imagine the abundance that is waiting for you when you start.
To start small means to start with what you have and from where you are. Have you been offered a small job? Start with it. You live in a jungle? Start from there. You have just 3 followers? Start with them. You’ve got only 10 million bucks? Start with it. God always gives a miracle seed to everyone and it is not beyond what you have and where you are.
Don’t join the company of men who keep wishing they started climbing the success ladder from the top. Start with what you have and from where you are, and you are already on your way to the top.
– tope aladenusi |
Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 2
It is commonly said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step, but many never take this first step. If our actions could match up with our intentions, then the world will be a better place. I hear of great ideas, lovely plans, fabulous dreams, superb intentions … but it’s a pity we cannot be blessed by your intentions until they are translated into actions.
Some people say “at 20, a man thinks he can save the world. But at 30, he begins to think of how to save part of his salary”. I totally agree with this statement if and only if it was referring to unbelievers. Every Christian has been configured by God to impact the world in a unique way. You should not zero yourself down only trying to make ends meet all the days of your life.
Those dreams that begins to crescendo when you are/were approaching 20 years can witness a ‘Rest in Peace’ if you do not make a move. Even Jesus Christ got to a point in life when he had to step out to actualize his vision. John 2:11 (GW) says “Cana inGalilee was the place where Jesus began to perform miracles…”
God told Moses in Deut. 2:31 (NIV), ““See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.””. Wow! I love this verse. God began a work in the realm of the spirit and later instructed Moses to begin its realization in the realm of the physical. Oh! I wonder how many good things we have missed just because we did not fulfill our own part of the deal by …Starting.
Your dream home, dream company, dream ministry … dream life may become a nightmare if you do not start doing something about it now. Many of us have studied; we have prayed; we have been led … but it is high time we began to act.
Starting Power is a series of message that will be coming your way in the next few weeks. It will propel you into success and assist you in realizing your God-given desires.
– tope aladenusi