“For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,'” (Isa 46:10NKJV).
All that were created was present within before the beginning, but only in the unseen realm. It is also good to know that you are known to God far before you are born. God’s plan is to package His purpose and power in His product; such which will be unveiled in a process of time. He puts in man what he wanted him to be and the ability to bring it forth far before he is made manifest.
God told Jeremiah:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you…”
God knew him far before he was formed in his mother’s womb and has placed something inside of him to produce with time. Likewise you are not a product of happenstance. God has a unique intention for every of His products to fulfil even before they physically exist. It is God’s character in declaring the end from the beginning. In the mind of God, you are a complete project even before you appear on the surface of the earth.
God doesn’t just create; He creates with intention to make His product produce His purpose. People failed destiny not because God has no good intention for them, but because they are unable to birth these treasures meant for fulfilment which is already in them. This may be due to personal ignorance or external forces. Nevertheless, you are left with the responsibility knowing what you have and calling it forth. Today, I pray an awakening for those indwelling abilities divinely placed inside of you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Responsible for Control
Essentially, we must realise that creation comes from the realm of the invisible and man has been given the responsibility to process it to manifestation. Those things that were seen were not made out of what was visible. In the unseen lies the foundation of all that is presently visible.
Often times we focus on external forces as the reason for non delivery of our divinely endowed blessings. But no matter what the case may be, nothing is strong enough to stop man from giving birth to destiny as him. If no darkness could stop the light from shinning, then know that your own case is never impossible. The purpose of God is for man to have dominion and rule over everything He created. God intentionally placed inside of man what it takes to be in control, hence it is now left for man to discover and assume this responsibility.
The understanding of your true status begins with knowing how God designed his creations. As God creates, He hides many treasures inside the unseen. He called forth light out of darkness. He separated the waters and made the firmament to appear. Then He made the ground came out of the waters and made the water bring forth the sea creatures. From the ground also came the trees and other animals. Though all these creation cannot be seen before, they were yet present within. Until they were called out, they all remain untapped.
Moreover, God gave man the responsibility of cultivating the Garden of Eden. Another word for “cultivate” is to “produce”. Man was given the responsibility to produce from the earth.
Here, God wanted man to understand that physical things don’t always reveal all that lie within it at once. Whatever we can see physically contains much more than what we are seeing presently. This makes things in the present highly subjected to change because of the significance of the intangible world.
To cultivate means to produce results from the invisible. The earth is full of hidden treasures, but its discovery is only left for those who can cultivate. This discovery begins from you because you are the principal creation of God on earth. The scripture records that:
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” (Matt 13:44 NIV).
Every man’s destiny is maximized as he locates the treasures that lie within and giving it all it takes in order to secure it possession. When we understand God’s principle of creation, we will not only know why we are here on earth, but also know what ability we have in us and how to put them to use.
Empowered with Resources
When God commanded His blessings upon man, it was in a bid to empower him with the ability to do the same work like Him. As God is the Source of all creation, He likewise wanted man to become a source to great ventures according to the power at work in him.
This is why Jesus made such statement like;
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John 14:12KJV)
God’s plan in the beginning was “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over…” (Gen 1:26NIV). For this reason He put “resource” in man. The prefix re- connotes “repeat”; the ability to do it again. Just like such words as recall, revive, rename, reproduce, rebuild and others, so also is the word “resource”. In other words, God is asking man to go and do again the same He the “Source” has done according to the ability on his inside.
Resources are the endowed hidden abilities from the “Source” to repeat His work and continue creation. They are meant for be discovered and utilized in making you and life around a better place to dwell. Discovery comes as we uncover God hidden resources for man’s profiting. The scripture says:
“It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter (Prov 25:2 KJV).
It is high time you made a personal discovery of yourself and begin to make profit with it. These discoveries are what give you your personal identity. There is something in you that when you search it out can make you rule your world. Every great change desired by man is birth from within.
God has distributed in every man His abilities in form of resources in order to cultivate and produce something that will give him life, survival and uniqueness. Every time a man taps into the best of God inside of him, he makes manifest the unique ability of God on the outside.
When resources in the inside are tapped into, man creates different kinds of wonders out of the earthly resources. Such discoveries as machineries, automobiles, skyscrapers, and so on are some of the wonders that emerge as man uses what he has on his inside on what he found on the outside. This sum up the fact that what gives value to man’s life is the discovery of the resource placed inside of him and bringing them forth into manifestations.
Supremacy of Internal Resource
Come to think of this; just as the earth – outside of man is blessed with different kinds of natural resources, so also are resources in abundance inside of man. But the resources on the outside cannot be tapped without the resource in the inside. This is why people have to go to school and learn certain courses in order to know what resources are available around and how to make the best use of them. It takes the inner capability to develop the outer capacity. Their minds of such individuals were made developed toward taking control of those external resources.
Man will never be able to control things around him until his inside is developed to the level of knowing himself. The more his inside can take determines the more outside will yield. To maximally tap into blessings outside him, he must maximize his internal potentials. No wonder when some have more than enough resources around them; it’s still difficult to make the best use of them because of the dormant internal resources.
Success is who you are!
Let me add here that the present economic problem of third world countries is not because of lack of resources on the outside, but due to the untapped resources on their inside. African continent for instance contributes the largest percentage of most mineral resources used in the world presently, but this in no way reflects on it. Even though God gave it to them freely, but the price to process and manage it remains their personal responsibility if it benefits and blessings must be made manifest. Gifts without capacity will still result in decadence and penury – the most reason why Africans live in poverty in the midst of plenty. Success is more of who we are than what we have.
When you lack the understanding of your person, to manage a possession will always be difficult. To know the value of what you have begins with knowing who you are. Check this out; the wealth and success of most developed countries never come because of the resources they have on their outside. It takes a being, to manage a thing. Even as expatriates, their citizens carry it inside of them everywhere they go making more money than the owners of the land. An African proverb says “when a man builds houses without training his child, then be sure that such child will soon sell out the entire houses built.” It is time the so called third world countries recover their destinies as individuals, nations and continents.
Let’s note that development will always be lacking a long as we value possessions more than the person. This is against God’s standard; hence it will never bring true dominion. God never instruct man to dominate man, but man to dominate things. Furthermore, God’s plan is for man to possess things and not things possessing him. Both private organizations and government establishment needs to realize that people comes first or else the destinies of generation to come remains bleak. Churches and other religious bodies should try and focus more on people than their offerings.
Jesus declared the purpose of the gospel when He said
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor” (Luke 4:18-19NIV).
We ca see that His mission statement is full of people oriented goals; hence the success of His
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