adminDunamis with Bishop B Manjoro
Today, I want to talk to you about the man who refused to be number two. He was a fighter and never gave up in life. He fought even before he was born and his name is called Jacob. In life you need not be average or settle for mediocrity in whatever you do. Refuse to run an average business, to have average grades, average health or even an average marriage and finances, no. You were not born to be such in life.
You are a creature of dominion.
Discover today, how you can fight and break free from the hold of mediocrity in life and how you can release the untapped supernatural power and potential to succeed in life. You were born to be number one.
Rebekah, Isaac’s wife was expecting, ‘. . . and the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so why am I thus?
And she went to enquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.’ Genesis 25:22-23. Right from the onset, there was war in the tummy, which became a battleground. The babies, though yet unborn, knew that destiny awaited them outside, hence struggled and contended to be number one in life.
Naturally there is a predisposition in human beings to want to be number one in life. Not that one will be envious or against others, No. But just to be above and to be the head. It’s fundamental if you are to be the best in life for you to be wanting and enthusiastic from inside you. Don’t die before you die or quickly surrender. You may have come out bad in your O level exams yet that’s not the end of the road. There is light at the end of the tunnel. All successful people; are people who told themselves, I will never give up. Winners never quit and quitters never win, in life. God desires and want you to be number one. Believe it and accept it.
However, even if God desires us all to be number one in all we do; not all of us are number one. Like to Jacob, he lost it, in the first round of life in the womb since his brother Esau came out first. Ever believed and hoped you would win or make it in something and it somehow seems like it has flopped? The heavy feeling! Aimed for A’s and you came out with U’s? Aimed for a happy marriage yet there are brawls and quarrels every night?
Aimed for a particular job or position and it never came? Played a game anticipating winning but got white-washed? Whatever situation it is you found yourself in, God gave me this word for you; Don’t Give Up.
Refuse to be average. Refuse to be number two. Jacob refused and though outdone, by Esau he came out with a reminder; ‘his hand took hold on Esau’s heel’ Genesis 25:26. He told himself I may have lost it here but I will be number one somewhere in life. I also think the delivery delayed a bit because Jacob was holding Esau back!
Even if you are a company or an individual, refuse to be number two. Or in church strive to be number one in your serving and commitment to God. Jabez was more honourable than his brothers and Joseph stood out from the rest of the 11 brothers, 1 Chronicles 4:9 & Genesis 39:3! Daniel and his friends also refused to be limited and were found to be ten times better than others, Daniel 1:20
The key to being number one is not to give up. Jacob did not give up yet Esau likely forgot. I have a warning for somebody, if you won or made it last year, in anything; don’t relax or think it’s over No. it’s not over until it’s over. Someone is not sleeping but working and coming from behind. Stay number one. That’s your place and position in life.
You know, God never wanted his people Israel to be the tail but the head. And even not to be below but above always.
You could be wondering right now, ‘Eh but pastor if we all be number one what about others? What others? You run and fulfil your course in life.
Don’t compare, run your race the best that you can.
Ever noticed a tail in life, especially on a cow? You will never want to be the tail, ever again.
From day one until it is slaughtered, the tail of a cow will be doing one job — wiping off flies! As though that’s not enough when the cow is slaughtered the very tail is taken and sold to sangoma’s or people who do rituals, spreading waters or concoctions with it. Aaa, no I refuse such a job, as the tail has, all its lifetime! Declare right away, ‘I refuse to be the tail!’ Whatever you do in life, fight to be number one!
Years later Jacob took oil and made an appetising meal. Esau coming from hunting was touched and said to the young brother; O my mother’s child, ‘feed me, I pray thee with that same pottage; for I am faint . . . at the point to die’, Genesis 25:30, 32. Jacob then said to him sell me your birthright and he did. Just like that, Esau lost his birthright over a meal.
Don’t lose destiny because of temporary pleasure and satisfaction, No. Be a fighter in life.
We later see Jacob getting blessed by his father Isaac after a tip off and help from Rebekah his mother, who had heard God say to her, the elder shall serve the younger. So was Jacob blessed and became number one in life. He did not give up.
Interestingly, Esau also after realizing his mistake and how he had missed the blessing, cried to his father for an extra blessing.
After much crying the father then said, it shall come to pass after you get emotional that thou shall break his (Jacob) yoke from thy neck! O hallelujah! I like it, I like it.
He had lost it yes, but his father told him, if he grew restless, he would break free and be a success in life.
I challenge you today; grow restless from your dire situation. Grow restless about the tumour in your body, the ever-piling debt, the destructive habit tearing you apart and all that you are going through. Grow emotional and restless and let the yoke of average and limitation be broken from off your life, in Jesus name, Amen!
For with God all things are possible, Mark 10:27.
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