#1 Before you give up, think about this...

Some Time ago, I was opportune to speak with one of the most profound coaches that has ever lived. It was a moment of reflecting on past events, the victories today and future uncertainties. I was excited at the honour to share my challenges with him and listen to his thoughts about them.

When he began to respond, he spoke with wisdom and depth of simplicity which amazed me. I was determined to study and understand everything he said, knowing that this remains the best practice for engaging knowledge and attaining wisdom.

One of the profound truths he shared with me was about giving up.

Every journey and venture begins or should always start with a desire. It is that desire that culminates into a vision. The vision consequentially drives your actions and determines your direction.

When God puts a vision in your heart, it is a seal of commitment from Him to supply the supernatural requirements of that vision. Beyond that, it is a delegation of responsibility. It is Him giving you charge over every human activity required for the fulfilment and manifestation of that vision.

On His part, God has given every spiritual supply required to carry out your assignment and fulfil your vision. They are at strategic points of engagement and advancement. You gain access to them the moment you reach those levels of engagement. Let us look at an illustration together.

Imagine you are the co-founder and logistic operations manager in a kitchen on the top floor of a company. The vision of the kitchen is to ensure the staff eat well at work with food made from fresh ingredients based on individual preferences. Your company has already paid suppliers for everything required for the daily meal. You only have to pick them up fresh from the store and deliver them to the chefs.

You can go to the kitchen for the first few days and cook with existing supplies until you run out of supplies. You may be ignorant of them, but they are where they are, right there in the store. Until you realize that they are all paid for, know where they are, and locate the stores using your mapping device, you will not be able to pick them up. Yet, you must always pick them up fresh from the store every day to achieve your organizational vision.

Similarly, you must be willing to do everything you need to do in order to attain fulfilment.

Usually, the limitations we have with knowledge — the possession, understanding and application of it — pose a threat to our journey. We face challenges and difficulties to which we do not readily have answers. Other times, it all seems like the vision is taking too long to achieve.

Imagine stopping at ten stores in different streets within a city to get groceries for your kitchen. Now that you are in the kitchen cooking about four separate meals. Each one seems to be taking its time. The beans seemed unyielding and only a little softer from 10 minutes ago. The Spaghetti and noodles are ready, and the rice pudding is nearly ready too, but the beans are not.

At what point then should you give up on pursuing fresh and preference-based meals and serve anybody anything available? When should you give up the hectic process of visiting stores daily and start using existing supplies?

Do you know what my coach said?

You are allowed to give up after you discover you merely have misbelieved.

It is okay to give up when you find out that the vision you have pursued holds no element of truth. It could be that you held on to assumptions with no assurance of being fulfilled. The moment you discover that the one who spoke to you and showed you the vision has no power to keep His part of the deal, you can give up on it.

Check His track records in your life and the accounts of others, particularly in the scriptures. See if he has said or revealed anything in the past and failed woefully at it. Even when it seemed like a failure, He was glorified by and in it.

I have learned that God is a master at creating lasting solutions. Lasting solutions are not clothes sown with fig leaves that dry up in a short while. These kinds of solutions always leave a need for another solution.

Lasting solutions are ones that evolve with time and remain viable across many generations.

If you have received a vision for your life from God, you would not be more sure of what you saw and heard. Your vision is prophetic. God confirms it to you each step along the way if you open your heart to see it and become aware of it.

You will do well to keep focusing on it. It is the one light you have in a dark time as you wait for daybreak and the rising of the Morning Star in your hearts.

Finally, God’s vision lives best in the hearts and hands of those who have committed their lives to Him and have become part of His family. Today, many great men, both dead and alive, have lived their best and set new records in pursuing God’s vision for their life.

Join the thousands of people who are deciding to be a member of the family of God today! Kindly reach out to me here, and we will get into the process together.

Shalom Shalom

Have a great week.