INTRODUCTION
Nobody can single handedly change the world. Everyone will have to do his or her bit.
Many of us knew we are more than what we are displaying. We know more is expected of us and we can do more. Here we will be visiting the missing links one after the other of what you need to influence your world. Until you get the piece of puzzle together you might run your full blown destiny on a spot… So take time to unravel the content.
- THE STRATEGY OF INFLUENCE FOR GROWTH… PART 1
The first mistake we often make is that we look for power, relevance and influence from the wrong corner of the world. And this error is what feed fat the leaders who are at the top.
Until you have the courage to ditch this mindset, you’re going to be down for a looooong time.
Seriously.
The most suicidal path to leadership or influence is looking up to someone to beckon you upward. A sort of proxy luck akin to gambling in the dark. Jesus advises against the penchant human nature that’s always too quick to seek for a place at the top.
He said: When you get invitation to a feast avoid rushing to the uppermost seat… Start down. If you don’t know how to enjoy the bottom and create useful influence there you can not live a stable life of preeminence at the top.
Why do you think somebody gets to the top and not too long get back to the bottom as soon as he gets up there? You should be able to remember one or two politicians in your world who got to the top, enjoyed the spotlight for a while, then come down again.
You must pay your quota down before you can have a stable life at the top. But we are often in a hurry. This is the one reason many of us never fly.
It kept me down for decades, my desire to start from the top. Until you pay your due below, you cannot have a place at the top… Not for long. This is your introduction to a super life of influence. They are things I also carefully learn from my mentor. Start from beneath.
The second is like unto this:
Until you can solve the problems of the common man, you may never be influential. I’m not saying you will never be famous but you will not sustain relevance without affecting the lives of many. Here we are not talking about a few lucky ones.
Biblical Reference
JOSEPH
In Genesis 37, we have a young man who appeared as the royalty of his father’s house. He had the gift of dreams and the interpretation. He thought of execution and fulfilments of the dream right in his father’s house.
He fell flat, hated and sold into slavery. He went down, as a slave and prisoner he has to use his gifts for common people. In the prison he met the Butler and the cup bearer.
He served them well
Until you serve the common people around you well, forget true greatness. It was his quality service to lowly servants of Pharaoh that brought him before Pharaoh.
Note:
Great men have no luxury of time to entertain the untested. Many of your service may be free down there, unsolicited, etc. Anyhow find good use of your service.
In the parable of the talent, one hide his talent… That’s the reason for his banishment. Find use of your talents
How I wish I can emphasis this enough. Stop waiting for that special day to use that gift for humanity. Without diligence at the lowly place you cannot find a place at the top. Just keep working day in day out. Please. Don’t even wait for a human or government reward. Don’t wait for your employer. When you gain mastery and become excellently exceptional, doors will open to you.
Proverbs 22:29 KJV
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Before you get to the kings of the earth, your diligence and hard work must have been announced at the lowly place of the earth. Joseph was an interpreter at the corners before he got a referral
You need a referral to get to the mighty. And you need deeds to attest to this. I know if all of you are keen, this is where we all missed it. We want to serve the mighty and the top class without testimonials.
God will help us to study hard to see: All the blueprints of success are lucidly etched in the Bible if only we will be careful to study them.
Who are the common people around you? They are the key to your greater tomorrow.
Joseph got to the top through the unfamiliar terrain, prisoners like him.
Many times your family and friend will look at you and say: what’s he up to. Before they crash your confidence move on. Man often thrive on unfamiliar terrain. Leave your comfort zone, your regular association and friends. Greatness is out there.
Joseph found greatness in a strange land. Those who you’re sent to are often out there, the stranger, the common folks and the everyday run-of-the-mill. Stop fighting your friends and neighbours who aren’t supporting you. Their assignment may be aligned also out there and not to you.
Find out where your gifts are celebrated. It’s your new day when you see. Joseph started from the bottom… Slavery and the prison revealed him to the world.
Prophetic to someone: You have gone so downward not because God wants you to be destroyed. He knew your relevance and preeminence can only have meaning if you start there.
He knew you’ve the strength to come up. Don’t be afraid of the bottom. Great things starts from the bottom. Things that destroys like pride, like the grave starts from the top.
Finally, Joseph got to the top through referral.
Build bunch of referral as if your life depends on it. The Bible says: sow in seven, nay eight for you do not know which one will bring forth. A single referral is enough to change your life. Don’t give up
Don’t give up.
With the above we can see that success and becoming prominent in life has formula. Everything God made is sustained by principles. The wise is keen to study and see.
Finally, stop running around the rich and powerful. They don’t have your time. They will only beckon you up when they see that you have been tested. Go and build your own success program and soon you’ll be beckoned and together decide things. Because by reference you’re coming to add to them.
We will continue on this topic by God’s grace. Then we will look at the last two personalities: David and Jesus… How they built trans generation legacy
See you at the top
