The call on your life is bigger than you, it is bigger than your feelings. God is mindful of His own that He uses us to redeem His people but also that God’s works are made manifest in them.
John 9:1-4
¹And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.²And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind³Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.⁴I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Jesus’ sole purpose on earth was to reconcile men back to God through His death and resurrection and yet from this scripture we see that He also had a mandate to give sight to a man born blind.
What if Jesus decided to focus on His sole purpose (death and resurrection) and ignored this blind man because his was a “small case”. Was the man going to die blind? In that moment that one soul would have perished. In God there are no big or small assignments, every assignment is to the glorification of His name just like there is no big or small problem to Him regarding you. He is mindful of everything that concerns you.
Many Christians fall prey for bigger assignments and ignore the smaller assignments because they mostly want to be “seen” and yet even in these smaller assignments the God’s work is made manifest. Every time you ignore these smaller assignments, you are denying someone’s prayer request from being answered but also frustrating the grace of God on your life. Fulfill God’s mandate to you regardless of how small or big it is.
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
The chosen people (Israelites) after they had settled in the promised land wanted to copy the ways of the heathen. They rejected God from ruling over them and demanded for a king so that they can be like the rest.
Isn’t that what Christians are doing today, wanting to conform to the patterns of this world, the trends, the ways of life even the speech of the world, so that they can be accepted by the world.
But Samuel’s mandate was to pray for them and teach them the good and right way. He did not let his feelings stop him from carrying out his purpose. We too should not allow our feelings to cause us to stop praying for our brethren and teaching them the truth which is the word of God.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
The foundation of the New Testament is laid by a man who physically never walked with Jesus..was in fact first a persecutor of the gospel of Christ.
Knowing his background, and after he had been chosen by God, Paul did not sit back and and pity himself, he in fact says he labored more than all. Proximity doesn’t always guarantee intimacy, I’m not saying the Apostles didn’t have an intimate relationship with Christ, I’m simply saying there is a man that caught onto the revelation and run with it and because of that the church has continued to build on his revelation.
Prophetic Utterance:
I am intentional with my walk with God
I execute my mandate with grace
I am the chosen one of God to manifest His works to the world
I am a wonder unto many
Guiding text:
Galatians 2:20-21
²⁰I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.²¹I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.