THE ROLES OF CHRISTIANS IN GOVERNANCE – Part 4
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This will be the last lap (for now)… We will keep talking about governance and how we affect it.
Why I’m hammering on this topic is due to our passive roles as individuals.
We play the victim role and we expect to have the best of life’s experiences.
When you beg for space you have subjected yourself to the lesser life of ignominy.
Take your space.
*Jesus said: Occupy till I come*
In other word: Take charge, expand and possess.
It also means hold forth… Impact!
Luke 19:12-13 KJV
He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
[13] And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
Whatever God has given or bequeathed to you is your own ten pounds to be expended to take space of impact.
Note: I am not saying that everyone should go and become a politician.
Impact in government is more than being a politician.
Remember that we are all like the drops of water that makes the ocean, part of the whole that makes a government.
How you do things in your little corner affects the government one way or the other.
The sin of the servant with one talent is the same sin of many of us.
The man with one talent felt his one talent was insignificant compared with the person with 10.
He buried his talent.
Isn’t it the same way many of us buried our talents?
We felt our constructive offer is too small or insignificant.
May the Lord not cast us away from him for failure to use that little gift.
The victim mentality and the inferiority complexity is the reason many will go to hell fire.
*Every great fire starts with a spark*
Every great movement starts with a man in the center.
Do you know:
Everyone who shows weakness is trailed downward.
Every wounded animal is trailed until it’s devoured.
This is how our world is fashioned…
In certain animal documentary. An animal was wounded in a fight and it was weak…
Suddenly, the hyena and the vulture began to follow it.
They began to devour it before it finally died.
If there’s anything to take home today, here it is: Show forth strength, mount up wings as the eagle.
Market your strength, stop advertising your weakness.
If you market your strength well enough, it will pay off well for your weaknesses.
*Biblical Characters & How They Ascend To Impact Their Generation*
Joseph was a regular person with no special gift that could land him at the palace.
He was a mere dream interpreter.
It was his faithful use of this gift that took him to the palace.
What if he refused to interprete the dreams of fellow prisoners?
Many of us are waiting for the big occasion.
Many of us aren’t ready to serve in the little corner and we want to shine at the corridor of power.
Your impacting role in government could to meticulously raise your children.
That child could be the future president. Pour yourself into him and make him the best.
Don’t raise your children like every other child.
Future kings are not raised like the rest citizens.
Jesse, the father of David wasn’t the king. But he is a superstar when it comes to raising prince-like children.
At least four of his children were in the army. One finally emerged as king – King David.
*Our most important role in impacting on governance is through proper parenting*
Joseph and David are good examples here.
If we can raise great children, then hope isn’t lose in reinventing great government.
Great nations invest more into the life of the children.
Third world nations invest in the now through greed.
Most important way to influence or impact the path of governance and leadership are:
Doing our best where we are… This will then take us to the next phase.
a. Joseph serving fellow prisoners took him to the palace.
b. David killing Goliath brought him to the limelight.
The second is: Raising great generation of children to go ahead of us…
Psalm 127:3-5 KJV
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
[4] As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
[5] Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Raising great children is a constructive way of pulling down the kingdom of Satan and by extension the evil kingdom of men
Recently, I read a book by Ibn Makhtoum, the ruler of Dubai.
In his book he said: They were consciously raised at home to become great rulers that look after their subjects…
This mentoring he said was apart from the learning in 4-walls of education in conventional schools.
Impacting government arena can be achieved by anybody.
If you cannot get there, raise children, wards, students or people in your reach.
Those you raise will become your mouth and hands in government.
I’ll talk about Daniel. Daniel was a prince who was a slave.
Even in captivity, he remembered the principle of God handed down to him by his father and his ancestors.
Daniel in an unlikely environment rose to become president in Babylon and Medo-Persian empire.
This story of Daniel was similar to that of Mordecai.
If you would build yourself and the people in your circle after the word of God and you’ll act with the truth in you light will shine upon you.
For the whole earth wait for the manifestation of the sons of God
Romans 8:19 KJV
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
You are the change the world is waiting for.
My prayer:
1. May the Lord make us his arrowhead of intervention in Jesus name.
2. May our children rule in the midst of their enemies in Jesus name.
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WALE ADEWUMI
