MINISTERING: - APOSTLE DR. CHUKWUEMEKA GEORGE
TOPIC: - 7EVEN STEPS OF A HIGHER FLYER
TEXT GUID: - Neh.5:9, LK.14:30-32, LK.14:7-14, Phil.2:23, Neh.7:2, Prov.14:23,.51:23, Acts 9:1-12, Gen.40:13-14, Eccl.7:7-8, Phil.1:14.
Let us pray, heavenly father we thank you for letting us into your presence once again. We know that the entrance of your word brings about the needed change in t our lives; we therefore ask that you released into this arena your host of angels to guide us all through. This and more we ask for through Jesus Christ our lord- Amen. 9 And I said, what you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us? Neh 5:9 (BBE). The word success is subjective but in relative term it is fixed, many people pursue success but that success which they pursue is it in line with the mind of God? that armed robber who returned safely after the days outing claims success as well as that hard working fellow who got promoted on account of efforts put at work. Success therefore can also be accepted to mean” The end satisfaction of an accomplished desire or purpose”, accepting these postulations can also means that success may be seen in a progressive progression format, that is to say that: - 1] IT REQUIRES PLANNING, 2] IT REQUIRES DEVELOPING, 3]IT REQUIRES FINISHING. 30 saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand 2 meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and asketh conditions of peace. Luke 14:30-32 (ASV) Every structure that will stand the test of the time must require planning; here the vision [STRUCTURAL PLAN] of the structure is made available to the builder who takes an empirical look at the size, texture and the cost implication, thereafter proceeds to site inspection and finally assembling of material and Men, followed by the actual building and then finishing. These steps without preference for or against any of the steps afore mentioned earlier are very important, whereas it is the desire of everybody to succeed yet success unfortunately remains the pleasure ride of the few who are able to decode it’s secret . Success does not necessarily depend on individual sentiments aforetime e.g. ones back ground, color or race rather it is a desire that is backed up with commitment, humility, diligent and hard work with team spirit. These virtues must be seen working before success is said to have been achieved. Therefore a not just flyer must seek and possess the following under listed virtues.
HUMILITY: - A prospective higher flayer must endeavor to be humble; this is because humility is the censor of success. No one will ever or has ever made it to the top without humility, pride is emptiness, and it is arrogance, unreachability, and it is indiscipline of the wildest order. 7 He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:
8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host. 9 The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place. 10 “But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” 12 He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid. 13 On the contrary, when you host a banquet, invite those who are poor, maimed, lame, or blind. 14 And you will be blessed, of strength
Luke 14:7-14 (HCSB) The book of Philippians chapter 2:23 further had this to say about humility 23 Him then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how things will go for me: Phil 2:23 (BBE) a humble people is the delight of all, both in the office place, home front and elsewhere. He not only attracts favor, he attracts the interest of all and because he attracts the interest of all makes him become the most likely to be sent because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Humility is by real standard a placement of others above self, one who humbles self before others is not a sign of weakness. It is not also a sign of foolishness rather it is a sign of Strength/maturity.
GOD FEARING: - GOD FEARING is simply doing or refusing to do those things you cannot do unto yourself to another either in the secret or in the open, the demand of time may sound convincing but the question remains on what the outcome will become if I do or refuses to do what the demand of the time asked me to bring to the table. I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most. Neh 7:2 (BBE). Men will always identify with a GOD fearing nation, individual or group. This is so because human being generally lays trust on that individual who looks up to others in humility and with respect.
People with such disposition of character are most likely to be trusted and relied upon. Take for instance a spinster who is eagerly waiting for a hand in Marriage should not even contemplate living alone; it is even more preferable that she lived with her parents. The opinion of over 85% of Men on spinsters who reside alone suggests that such ladies wayward, loose and unmarriageable whereas this view may not be so true but it has become a belief that has come to stay. Humility is submission personified; in it you find obedience, trust and commitment.
3. HARD WORK: - 23 In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. Prov 14:23 (ASV). Most people share in this thought that hard work[ing] means getting busy all through the day and retiring into the night, but working hard entails much more than that, for a genuine success to be recorded through hard work, purpose, and time must be focused at. One wise brother in our church sometime who was not even a higher collage graduate designed a working format which others in the business fellowship replicated. A fellow brother in church give him a three wheeler motor [keke] to ride on a one year and three months higher purchase arrangement, realizing the fact that this KEKE will become his property after he must have completed the letters of the agreement necessitated him to come up with the best arrangement that will guarantee the life of the keke and at the same time service his agreed loan.1. First thing he did was to go for the most lucrative root in the area 2.He studied the traffic in the area and his findings indicated that traffic picks up as early as 4am up to 9:30 am, probably about the time workers\food vendors, students, business men, and women leave home to their various pleases of work only to pick again between 2:30pm up 9:30 to 10pm.
So he followed the tide and the end result became that he completed his deed of agreement within time and yet preserved the life of his keke and he never faulted not even for one day. Hard work without purpose is like a pilot flying an airplane without a compass, when hard work is channeled towards accomplishing a purpose then it can be said to be meaningful.
4. TEAM SPIRIT: - 23 With you I will smash the shepherd and his flock; with you I will smash the farmer his ox–team. With you I will smash governors and officials.
Jer 51:23 (HCSB) One outstanding quality of a higher flyer is team spirit, he believes in responsibility sharing. Team spirit means to be endowed with the single grace of possessing the ability to do different things with different people at the same time in one or several places for the purpose of achieving or accomplishing one set objective. No one is an island; you cannot record success if you do not belong to a team. Team does not just come to stay; they are created by men for a reason and to a season. The day a vision is handed over, that’s the day vision supporters are appointed e.g. Paul encountered Jesus Christ on his way to Damascus wherein he was struck with blindness
2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
3 And as he journeyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto Damascus: and suddenly there soon round about him a light out of heaven: 4 and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutes: 6 but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 7 And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but beholding no man. 8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. 9 And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink. 10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said unto him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus: for behold, he prayeth; 12 and he hath seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying Acts 9:1-12 (ASV). You cannot develop or acquire the grace of team spirit if you were not divinely connected from the above. This is because a term spirited person is patient, kind, loving, tolerating and accommodating. Wherever and whenever, a team spirited person is always in higher demand.
5. KINDNESS: - 14 But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house .Gen 40:13-14 (ASV) The opposite of kindness is wickedness and that includes being mischievous, bad, full of iniquity, evil and chickening. This is how unacceptable it could be to associate or causes to accept an unkind person to function amongst a selected team that is aspiring to succeed; earlier on we agreed that success will become unachievable if it is centered upon an individual. A higher flyer knows to this extent, the daughter of Evangelist booth was passing by when she sighted a dirty haggard wounded young woman sitting in the midst of garbage with flies allover her body. She alerted from her car and began the business of cleaning up the woman; one passerby saw her and remarked that what she was doing was disgusting and that she cannot do same thing for a thousand dollars and evangelist booth’s daughter shouted back at her with a reply “ME TOO”. Being kind is good for the advancement of one’s success. We don’t see it as an option; it is the only way because it is the oil that lubricates success lines. Kindness begets kindness; when joseph had the privilege of interpreting a fellow inmates dream he did not hesitate to answer the call because he understands the value chain. So he arose to the butler’s challenge and made him proud, keeping him in remind to remember him when he gets back into his former position in the palace was a mere reassurance to the butler that the interpretation he gave about the dream was not to be doubted.
Joseph was not seeking any immediate material reward unlike some of us today in cassock who would have seen this offer as the needed opportunity to make heavy demand in cash and materials and the end result was that his name naturally surfaced as at the time it pleased GOD.
6. PATIENT:- Is enduring, being persistent, persevering, easy going, long-suffering, uncomplaining, good natured, tolerant and etc. 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Eccl 7:7-8 (ASV) In the good thought-out words of the iconic father of Electric bulb ‘‘Thomas Alva Edison’’ Many life failures are people who did not realize how close to success they were when they gave up. According to experts it takes an Airplane not less than three hours before tasking in for a takeoff. It takes patient to sow; it also takes patient to harvest. That explains the importance of waiting, while waiting some has missed that plane that may‘ve sent them to their untimely death as it went crashing. A would be mother who shall not be willing to endure for Nine months or even some times with a plus and including labor should not bother at all, a higher flyer aspirant must submit to leadership and management over and above them. They must be innovative and teachable, not giving to warmongering, murmuring and disobedience, that’s the way to becoming a higher flyer. If you cannot follow then you cannot be followed, if you face the band for so long then nothing will stop you from becoming a band leader, even as it is truly added to say that it is only those who listen that will be listened to at the end of the day. Have you bothered to wonder why a more than one crab will forever not be able escape from a not too deep uncovered hole; it is simply lack of patient and team spirit. Every one of them wants to get out before others, no one is patient and that is why it is widely said that Impatient is not being sure of purpose, it is panicking and it is insecurity and it is the leading course of nose-diving in altitude flying.
7. CONFIDENT: - Is cool, is being sure of one’s self, is also being buoyant and positive. A people of confident fears nothing but only shows Maximum respect and regard to everything and everyone that comes their way. The secret of confident is truth, when your ways are true with GOD confident is assured. 14 and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear Phil 1:14 (ASV). Flying at all or flying higher is the direct consequences of the choices we make; there is no condemnation in Christ. One’s limitation is also dependent upon the faith we profess. If we live rightly, work rightly, and submit our all to HIM, HE will be there to direct our steps to a higher flying altitude than we ever envisaged. Those who get to the knowledge of this are indeed flying higher, you cannot gain confidence through envying others, and you cannot also gain confidence through comparing your spouses/associates with others. You must discover and become your true self by working/developing your passion, and I mean that which you love doing even not for a prize. Being your self is everything that you needed to be in Oder to excel, it is confident, it is commitment, and it is dependability.
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