THE ONE WHO GOT HIRED BY THE KING

The KING has a Special Recruitment Program and the KING is God.

God selects people in every GENERATION to be his Special Assistants and Ambassadors on FOREIGN (earth's) affairs.

No, God does not select by colour, age, gender, nationality, luck, profile or popularity - It takes more than brains and a degree from Harvard or Princeton to work for the KING of kings.

THIS IS HOW GOD RECRUITS

Once, God sent Samuel to recruit a Special Assistant for him in the nation of Israel. Samuel put out a job ad and all screened candidates were invited for interview.

"When they arrived, Samuel took one look at Eliab and thought, “Surely this is the Lord’s anointed!” But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:6-7) NLT

The same thing happened for all the seven candidates that were interviewed by Samuel that day. None of them met the KING's qualification.

In one last attempt, Samuel asked if there was anyone else who's not been interviewed. It turned out there was one left out during the screening and selection process. His name was David Jesse

DAVID WAS BROUGHT IN

And the Lord said, “This is the one; anoint him.” 1Samuel 16:12

DAVID did not have a tall resume.

DAVID was a reddish skinned young man- the type you'd ignore in a beauty contest but he had a positive attitude.

DAVID was the errand boy for the Big boys at home

DAVID was not qualified to sit with special guests at the family table.

DAVID was the one left to feed the livestock - or should we say house chores when the rest went to party and movie theatres.

YET DAVID GOT THE JOB

After David was selected, he got his first job in the King's Palace as musician
And that was re beginning of David's ascent to the throne.

Why did David get the job he did not apply for and literally not qualified for?

DAVID had a GREAT HEART for God and people.  His internal affairs was in order.

"I have FOUND David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him" Psalm 89:20-21

The ONE who gets the KING's job could be any one from any nation - white or black, male or female, bond or free, beautiful or ugly, educated or illiterate. But THAT ONE must have a great HEART for GOD and GOD's PURPOSE on earth.

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WHY SOME DON'T GET THE KING'S JOB

I know by experience that interviewing candidates and making hiring decisions can be an intense dilemma not only for the candidate but also for the Recruiter.

I'd been in situations where "I knew" that the perfect-looking-perfect-sounding candidate would not get the job. At first, I could not easily describe the reason for refusal other than "chemistry" or "best fit".

Of course, I know now that there is more to rejection of candidates than "physical chemistry" and "team fit".

No, its not colour, age, gender, nationality, luck or the profile on resume. Only the incompetent and ill-hearted Recruiters would reject the best candidate on such grounds.

Rejection of "perfect candidates" happens and it's really more about the "internal affairs" of the candidate in relation to the job.

By Internal affairs, I mean the things going on in the life and mind of the candidate which she/he is desperately trying to hide from the Recruiter.

For reasons that the seasoned Recruiter can't fully explain, he just knows that the candidate is:

> Lying though she/he appears to be saying the truth.

> anxious and desperate about something she/he is afraid you would find out

> re-emphasizing and exaggerating the obvious while avoiding the question asked - a sign there's something under sleeves

> not interested in the job but in money to pay bills

> plus other possibilities.

Are there things going on in your life that might be standing in your way of living the life of your dream? The first step to taking care of them is taking care of your internal affairs.

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WOULD THE KING HIRE YOU?

WOULD THE KING HIRE YOU?

Every generation has key leaders - outstanding people who command the attention, admiration and emulation of their generation and generations after them by the positive impact they make.

These leaders could be selected to lead in business, politics, religion, education, family, communities, nations and the world.

As Athletes compete for prizes and politicians campaign for positions, so each of us strives to attain these celebrated "leadership positions".

Our striving begins from the day we are born and continues till the day we die.

We want to stand out and be heard in business, politics, religion, family, communities, nations and ultimately rule the world.

We want to stand out and be heard in our respective fields of endeavour and ultimately rule the world.

In our quest to become "the chosen leaders" in our generation, we may employ various strategies and tactics:

> Criticize those in position of leadership and authority or look for ways to support them.
> Compete with those who seem to be rising out of obscurity and emerging into leadership positions in their various fields or compliment them.
> Identify those we consider to be bad examples in our world and beat them or join them.

Yet, there are those who stand out in every generation without a fight.

> They mysteriously rise from obscurity through obstacles and oppositions to emerge trans-generational leaders.

> They emerge as to become our Role Models and Change Agents who creat the social, economical and spiritual atmosphere of our societies.

> They build  old waste places and transform our culture.

> They see opportunities and dangers ahead and mobilizes their people to maximize the opportunities and avoid the dangers.

> They lay foundations for future generations to build upon their successes and achievement.

> They literarily determine how the rest of the world live, work and relate with man and God.

Without these generational change agents, our world will be far less than what it is today.

BUT HOW DO THESE LEADERS EMERGE?

Who is the KING? How does the KING hire generational leaders and change agents?

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GET RIGHT WITH GOD

GET RIGHT WITH GOD

The MOST IMPORTANT THINGS in life are often overlooked and taken for granted:

> the air we breathe, friends and family who love us, the future that is yet to come, our hearts that beats daily, the day we'll die or depart this world, the value we are adding to others and most importantly --- our relationship with GOD

In contrast, the least important things in life are often overvalued and given the most attention ---

> the colour of our skin and how we look, enemies and other people who don't like us, today's seasonal pleasure, the day we were born, the reputation we try to protect with career, clothes, social connection, position, power and unfortunately --- our approval of certain evils just because they are popularly accepted.

In my study of TRULY GREAT MEN, I have discovered that TRUE GREATNESS is impossible without first putting the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS in their proper places.

CHARACTER is more important than charisma.

INTEGRITY is more important than intelligence

DEPENDABILITY is more important than people skills

IMPACT is more important than influence

FORGIVENESS is more important than justice

LOVE is more important than hate

WHO you are is more important than what you have.

VISION is more important than sight

FULFILMENT of purpose is more important than enjoyment of seasonal pleasures

LIFE, ETERNAL LIFE is more important than death- eternal death.

A major step towards a great life is getting our PRIORITIES right.

THE TOPMOST IMPORTANT CHOICE you will ever make in your priority list is to BE RIGHT WITH GOD. You start this process by responding to God's love for you through JESUS CHRIST.

GOD, not man has the FINAL WORD on every matter in life including LIFE itself

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DO GOOD TO PEOPLE ANYWAY

#FootstepsofGREATNESS [5d]

SECOND, DO GOOD ANYWAY & CLING TO GOD

I call this the rule of GODLINESS.

The most important thing to keep in mind when doing good is that your reward will not necessarily come from the people you once helped.

Truth is, some people that you've helped will get up and forget you. But if you are in God's plan for your life and have allowed godliness to direct your actions, you good deeds will produce good harvest. God can raise up total strangers as Angels to reward you.

PERHAPS the hardest group of people to deal with are those who will not only refuse to help you but are determined to hurt you for no reason.

This is what happened in the case of Joseph.

Joseph's envious brothers sold him off to slavery. His only crime was that he had a BIG PLAN. As a result, Joseph faced several mistreatment, humiliation and even unjust jail term.

But Joseph survived.

He did more than survive; he thrived and became a prime minister in the same land he suffered injustice.

In the end, those who sold Joseph into slavery became slaves who relied on Joseph for survival. But as is characteristic of great people, Joseph remained godly. He said to his brothers "you meant it for evil but God turned it around for good"

That's the point:

If you mean to do good for others and they turn around to do you evil, God will always turn it around for your good.

So, don't worry about people users, make big plans and be godly. Never repay evil with evil. Instead conquer evil with godliness.

In conclusion,

ONE KIND WORD for those who may have been hurt by people and have resolved to hurt other people in return.

Did you know that one of the reasons many people remain small is because they have ill intentions towards others no matter how justified they may feel?

Having ill intentions towards people will force you to not only withhold your hand from helping people but to also keep them grounded.

Truth is, the person you are determined to ground may not rise and you wouldn't either. A wise man said "to keep a man on the ground you would have to stay there with him"

LIFE is an association and the goal of every association is to help each other rise to greatness and not to keep each other grounded.

That's why the bible says two are better than one because when one falls the other can help him to rise.

So whatever you would that men do to you do so to them. Your actions are your seeds waiting for a harvest
People will sooner or later reap whatever they sow unless they repent.

The was the path the Great men and women ahead of us walked. If we walk the same path it will lead us to GREATNESS.

The End

Have a blessed weekend

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MAKE BIG PLANS

#FootstepsofGREATNESS [5c]

How about people who return evil for good and innocent people who get hurt for helping other people or people who get up by your help and forget you?

These type of people are around us everywhere - schools, workplaces, churches, markets, neighbourhood, etc. They were there before you and I were born and will be there after us. BUT

There is a way to go  and it has two lanes.

FIRST, MAKE BIG PLANS
I once came across this quote: "make big plans; do not make small plans. Big plans attract big people,  small plans attract small people and small people cause big problems"

Let me say upfront that big people are not always the top executives in board boardrooms of blue chip organizations and small people are not always the inconspicuous nobodies in the corner of low class neighbourhoods.

It is possible to be 'small' and yet be a 'conspicuous' leader of an organization and it is possible to be 'big' and yet look like a no-name guy at the corner of the street.

BIG PEOPLE are big because they solve BIG PROBLEMS and small people are small because they cause big problems.

Beware of small people particularly when you are desperate for a job, spouse, money, friends, class, anything.

Small people use people and leave them hurt no matter how well they pretend to be helpers.

=They use people as human shields for defence against attacks

=They use people as human machines for mass production of goods

=They rely on people as human cows for their milk and meat

They depend on people as human sacrifice for their atonement and enjoyment.

They walk on people and ignore human needs in their search for self satisfaction

People users may appear conspicuous for a period but they eventually fade away. History has seen many of them as dictators, warlords, and task masters. People users never become outstanding or truly Great.

The best way to avoid small people and to manage them if you are currently caught in their web is to make BIG PLANS
Big plans swallow up small people.

The BIGGEST plan you can ever make is the plan to line up with GOD'S PLAN for YOU. Such plan will attract the ALMIGHTY GOD and his HEAVY WEIGHT on your side.

That brings me to the second lane.....

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HELP PEOPLE - GENUINELY

#FootstepsofGREATNESS [5b)

The TRICK about helping people is that the help you need is in the help you give

Some of the people who appear to need our help are those who have the power to help us down the road.

God would bring us problems to solve for others in order to promote us. You know you are truly helping when your focus is on solving the problem rather than on the promotion you'll get.

There is a huge difference between stepping on the shoulders of people to rise and being lifted by the people we once carried on our shoulders. One is using people and the other is helping people and they don't yield the same results.

Are you looking for shoulders to step on so you can rise or are you looking for people to sit on your shoulder so they can see farther?

I challenge you to walk in the footsteps of Abraham:

Look for opportunities to genuinely help people starting with your immediate family, extended relatives and people around you.

IN BUSINESS- look for opportunities to solve problems for people and not opportunities to make money. Money will be a by product.

IN RELATIONSHIPS - Look for opportunities to serve others and not opportunities to be served. Others will serve you.

IN CAREER - look for opportunities to add value to your employer and not opportunities to be promoted. Promotion will follow.

IN LEADERSHIP - look for opportunities to empower people and not opportunities to be empowered by the people. Empowerment will follow.

Remember:

You may rise to a temporary mediocre height by stepping on the shoulders of people (use people) but you can never attain lasting GREATNESS until you are prepared to carry people on your shoulders (help people).

Only people who help people get help from people.

How about people who get up and forget you or people who return evil for good and innocent people who get hurt for helping other people?

I will answer this question in my next post....

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GREAT PEOPLE CARRY PEOPLE ALONG

#FootstepsofGREATNESS [5a]

Abraham took his wife, brother's son and all the people that were with him to Canaan. Genesis 12:5

Great people help people.

Contrary to common belief, great people do not help people because they are great. Great people became great because they helped people.

Ruth -a poor immigrant lady from Moab became a great ancestor in the Messiah's earthly lineage because she helped Naomi succeed

David - a little shepherd boy in the field became one of the greatest kings Israel ever had because he helped Israel defeat Goliath

Rebecca, an originally no-name young woman became the Princess of "Prince Isaac" because she helped Eliezer water his camel

Naaman's Maid - a no-name little girl with aprons as garment became a trans-generational hero of super intervention and rescue because she helped her master get cure for leprosy

A poor widow with her last meal became an oil-merchant because she shared her humble meal with a man of God.

Martin Luther King Jr. became a world hero because he helped black people in America

The list goes on....

But millions of people have missed great opportunities to rise because they are searching for help from "big people" and have ignored small opportunities to help people.

The path to GREATNESS is walked by people carrying people on their shoulders.

Unfortunately many more will continue to miss these opportunities until they learn that LIFE is governed by the law of MUTUAL EXCHANGE or what my bible calls SEED and HARVEST.

The reward we get from our endeavours are often in exchange for the problems we solved for others or the value we add to people.

What we do for others is our seed. What we get in return is our harvest.

Continued...in [5b]

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IF YOU BELIEVE IT YOU WILL BEHAVE IT

#FootstepsofGREATNESS [4]

No amount of seeing and believing will lead to GREATNESS if we just sit still with our dreams and faith.

We must take ACTION.

Lazy pessimists never achieve greatness because they would always find reason WHY IT CANNOT BE DONE.

I once heard a wise man say this: "the world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by the man doing it"

Show me one pessimist who climbed a great height and I will show you a thousand men and women of great faith who launched out in faith, conquered darkness and achieved true greatness.

Don't let anyone fool you to believe that  vain confession without action, self-psyching and empty motivation will make you great. A motivated fool is still a fool and if he does anything great it will be a show of great foolishness.

Great people do not only SEE and BELIEVE that all things are possible with God - to proof that they believe - they STEP OUT in the direction of the GREATNESS they saw and believed.

This was what Father Abraham did.

"So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him.... (Genesis 12:4 NLT)

If Abraham saw and believed but never DEPARTED he would have been grounded in Haran.

Since the days of Abraham many more people have walked in the footsteps of Abraham and achieved greatness.

Martin Luther King Jr. saw and believed in a free and united America. He stepped out and his great dream came true.

Mother Theresa saw and believed in the great future ahead of the poor dying children on the streets of Calcutta. She stepped out and achieved greatness.

Nelson Mandela saw and believed in a free South Africa. He stepped out and achieved that great dream.

David Oyedepo saw and believed in liberated world from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith. He stepped out and hundreds of thousands are being liberated in many nations across the world.

Seeing and believing is only a part of the equation. What we do with what we see and believe is what determines our outcome.

The man who stumbled into greatness will soon be  crumbled into smallness. Believe that. No one drifts into greatness by chance and remain there.
You cannot believe what you cannot see and you cannot become what you believe but failed to act upon.

Has anyone ( Parent, Guardian, Teacher, Friend, Whoever) told you that you cannot do anything meaningful in life? Don't believe them. With men some things may be impossible but not with God. With God all things are possible no matter how unlikely it may seem at first.

Do you see GREATNESS ahead of you? BELIEVE it. If it can happen for one it can happen for anyone. If Father Abraham did it it, you can do it too if you walk in his footsteps.

Do you truly believe that you too can make a difference in the world? Take ACTION. The bridge between a dream and reality is ACTION. You don't have to start big to end big. You can start small and grow big.

Like Martin Luther King Jr.  said: if you cannot fly, then run. If you cannot run, then walk. If you cannot walk, then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

You will get to that great destination, I pray in JESUS name

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SEEING THE FUTURE AND CREATING IT

#FootstepsofGREARNESS [3]

Before the artist painted the  flower he saw the flower and believed in it.

Before the architect drew the house he saw the house and believed in it.

Before the young man married the young woman he saw a wife in her and believed in it.

Before the farmer brought in his harvest he saw the harvest in the seed and believed in it

Before you and I accomplish anything great, we must first see the possibility of that GREATNESS and believe in it.

The future we do not see and believe can never  become a reality.

The question is...

How do we "see" the future?

Through the LENSes of IMAGINATION and the PROCESS PLANT of MEDITATION. (See Gen. 11:6, Josh 1:8)

Through imagination and meditation we can paint pictures of a great future from the scripture by the help of the Holy Spirit.

God has given every believer his Holy Spirit to guard us through life. Those who know how to listen to that inner voice by meditating on the scriptures, start to imagine the realities of what he says and believe in it.

Abraham left us his footprints to follow.

Genesis 15:5-6 Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!” And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.

Abraham became the father of many nations by first seeing nations in the stars and believing in the possibility. Then God made it happen.

Nothing grounds a person in mediocrity more than lack of vision and faith in future possibilities.

Notice also that Abraham did not see the stars until he came outside of his house

Your imagination is as fertile as your EXPOSURE. We are limited by how far we can see, imagine and meditate

Therefore, if we truly desire GREATNESS we need to learn to open the windows of our imagination,  EXPOSE ourselves to the endless sky of POSSIBILITIES and believe in the GREATNESS we can see.

Abraham did it and so can we if we walk in his footsteps.

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WHAT KIND OF FAITH?

Agreed, nothing great happens without FAITH. BUT what kind of faith?

We can climb to some heights by having faith in:

1. OURSELVES.
Motivational speakers have told us that we could become whatever we want if we have enough faith in ourselves. Sure enough, many people have climbed temporary heights with resilience and faith in themselves but no man has ever climbed a GREAT HEIGHT and remained there by having faith in himself.

2. QUALIFICATIONS. Knowledge, skills, abilities, degrees, certifications, experience and skills have taken many people to many positions. But history shows that the farthest heights ever attained by man were not attained by the most qualified people.

3. PEOPLE.
We have seen many rise by powerful people. If you are popular, connected and skillful in politics you can rise by riding on the shoulders of people. But you can also be brought down by the same people. People who rise by the people fall by the people.

The only kind of faith that leads to GREATNESS is FAITH in GOD.

Self confidence, qualification, people, government, money, family, career, beauty and social groups are all good but cannot guarantee greatness.

You can motivate yourself to work harder and more intelligently throughout the day but when you retire at night to sleep, faith in yourself CANNOT wake you up from sleep the next morning. You need faith in a higher power to wake up each morning. That's faith in God who gives you breath.

You may acquire top qualifications and yet be subject to those who have no qualifications at all. God has used many unlikely people without qualification to transform the world. Have faith in God

You can rise if you know people. Truth is, if it took a thousand men to take you up, it will only take one man to bring you down. But if God takes you up, a billion men cannot bring you down.

Do your best to build confidence, acquire qualification and know people but walk in the footsteps of the Great Abraham. Hebrews 11:8-12

HAVE FAITH IN GOD

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FOOTSTEPS OF GREATNESS

One of the most outstanding examples of GREATNESS the world has ever know is The Great ABRAHAM -the Father of all who believe in JESUS Christ. Gal 3:26-29

Walking in the footsteps of Abraham is walking into GREATNESS and that means walking by FAITH.

Nothing great ever happens without Faith. To accomplish anything significant we must FIRST BELIEVE that with God, nothing is impossible. No matter how unlikely it may first appear.

Have a good morning and a great week!

JESUS is lord.