The MANDATE: Recent Episodes
Ikenna Anyadike
We talked extensively about how to discover your God-ordained purpose on earth. A major key point that resonated in the conversation was that outside of Christ Jesus, purpose discovery will amount to a misalignment.
The book of 2Samuel23:11-12 tells us of Shammah, one of King David's mighty men who stood when other Israelites fled from the Philistines and defended the land.
The Bible says, "In all your ways, acknowledge God and He will direct your paths" This must be intentional always.
Saul in 1Sam10:14-16 cleverly left out certain portions of Prophet Samuel's word to him when he recounted the encounter to his uncle. I believe he did this because he understood the importance of letting promises take hold in your heart first before exposing them to potentially harsh criticisms.
Be like Saul here, learn to incubate things in your heart before exposing them prematurely to potentially harsh opinions and criticisms.
The Expediency of Now, taken from 2Sam5:22-25 speaks about the importance of heeding God's instructions and promptly executing them.
Believers will realize more victories when they heed God's instructions promptly.
In the book of 2Kings4:1-7, we see the prophet Elisha under the unction of the Holy Spirit minister to the widow whose sons stood the risk of being sold off as slaves to pay a debt their father owed. The key thing in the passage was the fact that God used what she already had in her house to bless her. The same way it was with her is the same way it is with us today.
We must take stock of what we have been given by God as gifts, talents, abilities, and all because those can be used by God to get us from where we are to where we desire to be.
2Tim2:1-4 urges all well meaning believers to cultivate the habit of lifting up all men especially leaders to God in prayer. The importance of doing that is so that the influence of the Spirit of God might come upon them to guide them into doing right, for the citizenry ultimately.
This introductory episode, "Like Joseph", examines the need for solution providers to come with solutions instead of highlighting existing problems over and over like everybody else. This is taken from the Book of Genesis 41:32-37 and downwards. Joseph in the scripture was not made a Prime Minister in Egypt simply because he interpreted the dream of Pharoah. He was elevated because, in addition to interpreting the dream, he profered a solution that Pharoah bought into.