Start Out

 

I am sure that you are familiar with the thoughts of doing great things if only you had the means or you had more resources. This certainly is a noble thought, however, the challenge with such thought is that it has the power to keep you in that loop for as long as you allow. I have emphasized in some of my previous writings that God usually increases His people steadily and consistently, such that if you are not very conscious of it, you will still be waiting for a big bang increase when the increase is taking place already. The question is what will you do if you had more? You may not have much now, but what you are doing with the little you have is laying precedence for what you will do when the big break comes, and may even determine if the big break will ever come. Don’t just be fixated about getting more money, more power, and more resources, rather, ask yourself if you are already maximizing what you currently have. Even when we live for a hundred years and more, life is still too short to keep waiting for a break that is not all within your power to make happen.

When the prophet Elisha met the widow who had inherited her late husband’s debt (II Kings 4), his only question to her was what do you have? When God called Moses in the wilderness to deliver an entire nation (Exodus 4), God asked him the same question – what do you have in your hands? God doesn’t jump over what you have to get you started with what you don’t have, He will always let you start with what you have.

If you have a dream to touch the world in a way that no one else has, then you have got to start from where you are now, and with the resources you have now. I remember as a teenager, I did go for very powerful meetings, and if an offering or pledge was raised, I’d tell God that I could pledge a big amount of money if only He would give it to me. Well, I never did give the money eventually and I could easily justify my inability to give since I never got the supply. It was a simple tactics of not giving anything at all. But how was a school boy supposed to get such a big sum of money anyway? Eventually, I learnt my lessons very fast, and I started giving sacrificially within my means, and God kept lifting me to the point of conveniently giving such amounts, but I had to start from learning to give the little I had.

God is not so overly impressed, neither is He intimidated by the size of your dreams, rather, He is impressed with what you are doing now with what you have today. So whatever is in your heart to do to bless your community or nation, whether it is ministry, business, politics, philanthropy or any other thing, start out from where you are and with what is in your hands today. As you pour out your oil from the small jar, it will amaze you how many large jars will be filled because God’s power has come upon the small you have to magnify it.