TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE???

The thoughts run in your head over and over; you desperately wish for a change. You wish for better and closer family relationships, nicer cooperative team mates at work, calmer work environment, more friendly neighbors, better community, less critical church members, and a more profitable business. Yet you silence the thoughts that challenges you to make the difference, I’m too small to make a difference, just an individual. Sounds familiar???

Our desperation often helps to stretch us beyond our limits. Once upon a time, I was tired of looking forward to a chaotic day at work, fearful of making errors, astounded by the way team members are so critical and judgmental of each other, at loss for words at lingering bitterness, really longed for peace in that environment although I loved the job. But just like you, I felt too small to make a difference. I was blinded by what was going on around me that I forgot my identity. God has placed me there to make a difference especially through my prayers. I began to declare peace into the atmosphere, sometimes I go to work early to declare God’s peace over every team member, every client, phone call, email and so on. Alas, I began to see changes, calm work environment, peaceful days, even changes in the attitude of team members towards each other.

Friends, wherever you are, God has placed you there for a purpose; the purpose to reign as kings and queens on this earth. Remember Elijah was as human as we are and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops. James 5:17-18 NLT(New Living Translation version).

It is time to stop being invisible in the spirit. Be the light over your family, congregation, organization, school, church, community or wherever you are right now. Begin to speak the changes into reality. Now tell them this: “As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say” Numbers 14:28.NLT.

I dare you to begin to declare the changes you want to see around you. Is your organization running at loss and the joy of being gainfully employed seems to fade away, begin to declare that God will cause the business to prosper for your sake (I’m a living testimony of this), and if you are a diligent worker, God will open doors for you to be an employer also. Learn from the story of Jacob. Begin to declare safety over your children’s school(s) for their sake, wisdom for directors in your organizations, love between family members, unity and love between church members, and God’s intervention over that situation at work, home or church that no one knows how to approach. Remember to ask in faith because “anyone who wants to come to Him must believe that God exists and that He rewards those who sincerely seek him. Hebrews 11:6b NLT.  Also your prayers can make all the difference: the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16B NLT. Declare, be expectant, and watch God move.

God has placed us in strategic places to be the DIFFERENCE because HIS PRESENCE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE and YOU ARE A CARRIER OF GOD’S PRESENCE.

Beloved, be the difference that God has created you for.

Shalom.

            The Joy Of His Presence

            Ps.16:11(NLT)