BEING INDISPENSABLE

Excerpt from Power, Purpose and Service.

“ I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works; and that my soul knows well” Psalm 139:14. 

For every office God calls a man into He has substitutes to replace him if he fails to perform and remain obedient to the injunctions of the calling. May be this is the reason so many people say that nobody is indispensable that a man and his service can be dispensed with at anytime.  We also always say it's only God who we cannot find a replacement for, but for man there are several, you only need to look deeper and wider.  But I've found out that somehow there’s an exception to the rule; though it may be rare, but there is.

People talk a lot that it is nations and institutions that are indispensable, not so much the individual.  But is it not individuals that build nations and institutions and also build other individuals that continue the work of building and maintenance? These ones build through extraordinary and supernatural display of craftsmanship, skill and dexterity, and through the formation of ideologies that shape the lives of men.

In the kingdom where God reigns and calls people to work for Him, God can replace any man by His sovereign power, but He won't if the man works in His perfect will, remains humble, loves Him with all His heart, soul, and body, and is very effective in his service field. Yes, God can do without you, but if you won't do without Him, He won't do without you.

There are two kinds of indispensability; Absolute indispensability and Relative indispensability. Absolute indispensability belongs only to God, no being or any created thing on earth or in the sea, or wherever can do without God. God needs nobody to survive; He’s ‘Omni’, All. Yet in His plans God finds man useful in bringing into reality His plans on earth; thus man is indispensable to God. That’s why He searches for who to use, because He would seldom do anything on earth without using man; Amos 3:7.

By man, I mean Mankind. Mankind is indispensable to God, but you as an individual may not be indispensable. God is Omni, omnipotent, wholly sovereign; while man is ‘Mini’, mini-potent, partially sovereign; for the scope of man’s operations come from God; Genesis 1:26, 2:15-17. Your indispensability to God and your publics rests entirely on you. Relative indispensability is your being relevant and significant to the people in that particular area of service you have been gifted by the omnipotent God. Your mini-potent power can still be felt throughout the world; you can be classified as second to none.

Your being indispensable does not mean there are no alternatives; it means knowing there are, yet you're still preferred above the rest. People would rather wait for you than call another man to do the job. Responsibility, integrity, quality and value added service makes a man indispensable. If this be so it makes you to be in demand at all times. This is not just talking about service in general, but what you bring to bear on service. Now, this is where foresight and confidence in self worth comes in; quality craftsmanship, constantly adapting to meet the current needs of a changing culture.

There's nobody like you, you are unique, nobody else can do that which you are doing, the same way you are doing it, even if you are involved in the same kind of service. It doesn't matter what you write, and how you write, you can't write like me. Every servant of God must be sure of himself and his calling whereby he can devote his attention and time and be diligent in his field.  “Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men.” Proverbs 22:29.  This kind of man also stands before God, he is irreplaceable and his service indispensable.

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PERFECT SERVICE

In ministry, it’s not about being called as a full time or a part time minister, it’s all about making your calling and election sure; 2Peter 1:10; and then rendering an acceptable service in the perfect will of God; Romans 12:1-2. God does not have a greater reward for the full time minister than that for the part time minister; His just reward is measured out according to the fulfilling of His perfect will. There are different callings, different assignments, different destinies, but one goal; making disciples, making heaven and having just rewards on the last day.

The Holy Spirit is one, and is the same in every man who has received the baptism and the filling of the Holy Spirit; His breath in you is for your own assignment, not for any other assignment. How you were baptized isn’t what matters, but how and to what extent you put the power to use. Your conviction of His power in you, your exercise of that power, your purpose in life and grace differentiates the level of your performance, and your destiny from the other anointed man.

Let him who is like Samuel not despise him who is like Paul and think he deserves something greater from God than that given to the Pauls and then make a force of it: nor should the Pauls gloat over their exploits and think the Samuels deserve what they get for lack of venture. The Samuels should be grateful for the power that kept them whole, and the Pauls should be grateful for the power that redeemed them. Without that power the Samuels can overstep to the other side and get ruined for life and the Pauls may stay whole and not make any meaning out of their lives, which make purpose undiscovered and therefore unachievable. Every man may be born the same way but our different assignments in life determine the course of our lives and the path to achieving our destinies.

Go on, do what you are called to do because the world is earnestly waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God; one of whom you are; Romans 8:19.  

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BEING ALONE GEN 2:18

It has always being said that it is not good for one to be alone.  But it should be pointed out that there are times you may not help being alone.  This may be just for short moments as some time of being alone had been known to last for months, or years depending on the severity of the situation. Being alone has two variables; being alone by choice, and being alone by circumstances. There’s a bit of difference between the two.

Being alone by choice is more of a personal decision, that of a will of the mind to just be at home with yourself without making contact with anybody for a particular length of time. Such may be a time for studying, praying, sleeping, and the like. Being alone by circumstances on the other hand is more of a position you are pushed into which you don’t want, but has to accept because there’s nothing you can do about it. When the society rejects you, which may be due to an ailment, lack of productivity, or even out of envy, no matter how you try to push yourself back into the society, if the class that you are trying to belong to rejects you, you may have no choice than to stay alone. This is loneliness.

But the truth of the matter is almost everybody who matters in the society started from the second variable, being alone by circumstances. Few, very few started from the first variable, being alone by choice. It is those who got a grip on themselves that moved from the second to the first, and then they begin to matter.  The second variable is a trial, while the first is a personal test of endurance and perseverance.

Being alone is not a crime, because circumstances may necessitate it, but it is what you do when you are alone, that determines if you have committed a crime or not.  What do you do when you are alone?  Do you mop around, looking downcast all the time?  This kind of self rejection happens initially to every person; but it is the duration and the attitude of the person during such moments that matters.

Being alone is a blessing. It can also be a plan from God for your own good because it is a time for personal self development. This takes knowledge and understanding to get into, and being alone with your spirit brings productivity. Almost all successful men in the world today have been alone at one time or the other working in the dark, until their time of introduction.  Adam did the most constructive work of his life when he was alone, and the work he did at that time still endures till today; Gen 2:19-20.  Scientists with great inventions credited to them, writers, and other notable people worked alone before they became known.

The soul long so much for association that if you are not careful your progress may be stalled, because it is what the people give to you that you will do just to maintain friendship and relevance. It can be a mediocre kind of life that will bring stress and restlessness just because you want to belong.  But the spirit gives you something tangible to give to the society, which is most needful to them, and they will have no choice than to flock to you.  What you give makes you relevant and the people will want to bask in your relevance.  You dictate the terms you call the shots, your spirit guides the soul, then you maintain relationship.

Being alone is a condition for leadership.  And knowing how to be alone is a qualification for continuous leadership. It leads to being in control of situations and circumstances. But many a leader after having captured the society get lost in the glare and they soon forget what and who gave them power and how they got to where they are. Soon the soul through the society starts calling the shots, then the spirit is downplayed, they begin to crave endlessly for association and recognition, then they forget how to be alone in the spirit; they then fall or they fade out of recognition.  Jesus Christ never forgot how to be alone at times despite the glitterati of His time; Luke 6:12.

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