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.
Excellent!
LOVE this posting by Lance Wallnau!
I love your insights and teachings. I am definitely a Caleb and want my mountain. I will soon be starting up a business for His glory but will have to be Spirit lead ’cause I don’t have a clue on how to do it.
Your short teaching really resonated with me. Thank you
Wow. Great word!! What an encouragement to walk in excellence. Looking forward to hearing more this weekend in Dallas.
Love this teaching!!!
Add Luke 10 here and pray, send, find people of peace, make disciples, etc. in every “oikos”, communhity, which is no longer purely geographic, but where you spend time, school, work, have a heart, etc…
Excellent, we can invade at all levels of vocation without being a “flamer”. The question that came to me several years ago after certain mid-term/national elections was this: “Will we prove to be as faithful to the purposes of God while serving in a house ruled by those that believe otherwise as Joseph was serving the house of Pharaoh or will we fold and retreat into obscurity because we don’t have an overt Christian at the helm?”
What a TIMELY WORD! I am considering a MAJOR opportunity, and part of me wants to turn and run (fear). BUT MAYBE IT’S MY ASSIGNMENT!? Maybe it’s the exact thing I was designed for to bring glory to GOD?! Give me my mountain!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS EXCELLENT TEACHING.
You’re not even scratching the surface of Isaiah 60! What a powerful message the Lord is proclaiming to those who will hear today! Truly global events are setting the chess board for the Father to pour out His Spirit like never before – for His glory.
Micro-church…. That’s it, I love it, been doing that for 3 years now, however, need help defining the problem we are to solve.