You don’t need to fear the future, ever, because you've already been there.
Consider if the opposite may be true:
- What if you were built to excel in Babylon? If as we believe “darkness shall cover the earth” then the second part is true as well – “But the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you.” (Isa 60:2) What if the problems of the last days are actually the platform for your promotion?
- You have a call on your life and a work to do. You glorify God by “finishing the work” He called you to do. (John 17:2) The level of complexity in the problem that you solve shapes the degree of glory you demonstrate.
- Joseph, David and Daniel all entered their circle of greatest influence when they solved the greatest problem in the sphere they were called to occupy. Think about that. It is that way for you as well.
The key to everything is YOUR ASSIGNMENT.
- Your assignment is an invitation to push your capacity to a new peak. Your assignment is a problem waiting for you to show up to solve it.
- Caleb was in his 80’s when he said these memorable words, “Give me my mountain.” How did he see giants? “They shall be bread for us.” The giant problem you solve is how you get your bread. The same spirit of faith that was in Caleb is in you.
- Fear by its very nature will paralyze you and cause you to hesitate and hold out at your present level. However, when you stop going up you stop growing up to full stature, in fact the root meaning of the word “mediocre” is “half way up” the mountain.
You can do better, no matter what level of success you have achieved because there are invisible leverage points that enable you to earn more and accomplish more with less sweat. These are called “spiritual force multipliers.” You don’t build a brilliant future by fixing your faults, but by investing time, money and training in the area of your gifts. That’s where you excel, and as a believer the place of your assignment is where the excellent spirit operates through you.
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These are so full of thought-provoking insight that I have to keep coming back to pick out new pieces.
I would like more informing on how to become a spirit of excellence. I have been called to the mountain of Government but i’m only volunteering on the Conservative Party’s Board for my riding at the moment. I see the call of Joseph on me, on creating systems for nations.
this was amazing! thank you for blessing me with this message!
It’s only in shifting that things change. God gives us the power to shape paradigms – why not one that glorifies Him through his hands on this Earth!! If we believe it we WILL achieve it!!
Hello Lance. I attended your teaching in Surfers Paradise Queensland.Great and thanks. Im 71,retired Pharmacist of 45 years called to use my gifts etc to help people. But there is more.I,ve invested time and learning for 3 years-to build expertise and understanding-despite negatives from some people..Invisible leverage, convergence, I have been looking out for without knowing. I am encouraged and blessed. Despite my age-married-father of 7. I knew within me that God was wanting my wife and I to function as a team along these lines. I see no insurmountable barriers working with the Lord-only success. Rog Drummond
Okay, so I know that I am a problem solver as answers come to me in many different ways. However I spent years trying to solve any and every problem that crossed my path because I rationalized that if I was indeed a problem solver, then I should go about my days solving problems. Where I ran into trouble was attempting to solve numerous problems when in fact those problems had nothing to do at all with my assignment. So when I asked the Lord for guidance and for help, He told me 4 words over and over again, which were “stay on the path.” I still didn’t get it until one day I finally saw the movie, The Book Of Eli. And then everything made perfect sense. I realized that I need to stay on the path. I need to solve the problems that are “on” the path and not try and solve the problems that “cross” the (my) path. Something else the Lord helped me to realize is that the problems that are not on the path are distractions. A distraction can come in many shapes, forms and sizes, nevertheless the Lord told me that a distraction is still a distraction. Thank you for this post Dr. Lance as it has been very helpful.
This explains a lot of things concerning God’s plan for delays of my gifting. Your article gives me valuable fuel to fire at the enemy when temptation confronts progress in front of my future occupation and explains my failure in past attempts to restructure plans to move into God’s best use of my gifting. God bless you and all who read this information.
My question is, are “past attempts” and “past failures” really always failures? I don’t think so. I believe the Lord sometimes sends us crucial messages as well as sets up our futures through some of those events that we may perceive as past failures. It’s happened to me more than once. That’s why it’s important to lean and to wait on the Lord. For example, I had a joint venture with a company than ran into very serious trouble during 2009. We had a burn rate of $250-300K a month. We prayed more in those years than I ever remember praying in the past. Nevertheless, the problems in that company taught us how to turn a company around during it’s more terrible of times first of all. Secondly, although the company started succeeding my ex-business partner sold off all of the assets ($38M) which left many of us without anything but experiences. So I was left with experiences and a company history. To make a long story short, I ended up with intangible assets and no tangible assets. But then I realized that everything that happened was programmed to happen. The true value I received from that whole experience was the owership of a company that had a very strong past history that I could capitalize upon, experience of turning a multimillion dollar company around regardless of the fact that my ex-partner unexpectedly sold off the assets, credibility that I could turn a failing company around and finally that unlikely experience introduced me to a very rich investor who represents numerous billion-dollar funds. Here’s the really neat thing, all of those past employees received very good jobs once they were downsized, as the state government stepped in to help us place those folks into good jobs. So the failure of the old company that everyone abandoned but me, completely set up the future of my new company to include the financiers. Through the Lord’s instruction, I now own the old company’s name and past performance history. The old company was started in 1960, the year in which I was born. The old company and I are both 53 yrs old. So for the past 2 years, I have been rebranding, reorganizing and restructuring that old company and on July 1st, we turn everything over to the investors to raise our capital. Everything that happened went according to the Lord’s plan. Everytime I asked the Lord for help He instructed me to stay on the path…… For the past 2 years surprisingly the investors have taken me under their wing and have been instructing, leading and guiding me as to how to restructure, reorganize and rebrand the company. I specifically ended up with everything for the Glory of God.
Thanks for the encouragement! So grateful for your voice of wisdom. I think you intended John 17:4, not verse 2.