“Arise, shine, for your
light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers
the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you
and His glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light and Kings to
the brightness of your dawn” Isaiah 60:1-3
Over years, men have
impacted this world of ours in various ways. History will be slow to forget the
lights of Martin Luther, Martin Luther King Jr, Micheal Jackson, Micheal
Johnson, Pele, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Edison, Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte,
Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkurumah, Iddi Amin, Bill Gates,
Aristotle, Karthryn Khulman, Myles Muroe, Ben Carson, Osama Bin Laden, etc. Forgive
us if your role model wasn’t mentioned as the list is unending. Some made good
impact, others bad and ugly. But the truth remains that like that Bible verse
above clearly states, the world of today is in gross darkness. Our big question
comes: Can we lighten up the world? Or is our part to live in its darkness as
we have met it?
The singular truth
remains that God created us to make positive impact, “to be fruitful, multiply,
replenish the earth, subdue it and have dominion” (Genesis 1:28). That is God’s
5 point agenda for man and these agenda were for planet earth and not heaven! To
enable us achieve these, He created us in His own image with His likeness
(Spirit and personality). Today we share God’s big idea for the world. They are:
1. To
extend His kingdom on earth not to set up a religion. It was not God’s idea for
us to gather in a hall and clap hands and do all those religious jamboree, no!
His idea was and still remains that we receive His light (by being born again)
and we go out there and shine. To shine, in this context, refers to reflecting
His glory, personality and culture in our society whether as a sportsman,
musician, doctor, engineer, force man, lawyer, teacher or even politician. In a
nut shell, we have three levels of operation on earth: be born again, identify
purpose and impact our world. So let’s find the level we are in and move up! Going
to church is like going to the restaurant to eat, we don’t live to eat, we eat
to live so lets stop playing religion because that is not our main task rather
fellowship with one another is an energizing process.
2. To
colonise the earth with heaven and not to take us to heaven. If God’s sole
reason of us getting born again is to take us to heaven, then there will be no
to keep us here after we have been saved (born again). Good people, “For this
is what the Lord says – He who created the heavens, He is God; He fashioned and
made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it
to be inhabited” (Isaiah 45:18)! The earth is our place of primary assignment;
no man gets rewarded for sitting mute and waiting for pay day. My dear
Christian, stop standing and waiting for Christ to come and take you to heaven,
go out and impact your world. “The heaven, even the heavens are the Lord’s: but
the earth has He given to the children of men” (Psalms 115:16). The so called ‘sinners’
and ‘devil’s agents’ are not sitting and waiting for hell, they are about their
fathers business, infesting the internets with pornography, the media with all
sort of corrupt images and sound, the political systems with corruption, the
educational system with all forms of social vices and we, the so called ‘elect’,
are just sitting and singing, “This world is not my own, I am just a passer-by…”.
That is an error! We are no passer-bys, we are fishers of men! The fisherman
doesn’t just pass by the sea; he stays on it and makes some good catch. You can
take a pause and ask yourself, “How much of heaven have I released on earth?”
3. To
fill the earth with the culture of heaven. A kingdom is not a place; it is a
lifestyle, a culture. When the colonial masters came to Africa, they came with
their kingdom, tagged it civilization and today, we live the western lifestyle.
We even wear suit under the hot sun! All in the name of civilization. When a
fellow Nigerian commits grammatical blunder in English, we see him as an
illiterate because we now live with the western culture. The same way, just
like the Western men infested us with their way of life so also God requires us
to influence our world. Not by carrying guns and fighting some damned ‘holy war’.
It is simple, just arise and shine! Live a life of purpose not of money. Add value
to men’s lives and they will follow you.
In GLIFE Foundation, we
believe that we owe our world and God a responsibility to show forth His glory
by impacting our world that why we present to you the first edition of our FREE
MEGA ICT & BASIC LEADERSHIP TRAINING. The major goal of this program is to
raise technologically sound youths with Kingdom leadership values and traits
that will take over the various sectors of the society, bringing about social
transformation.
HOST COMMUNITY: AKEGBE
UGWU COMMUNITY, NKANU WEST LGA, NIGERIA
DATE: 8TH AUGUST – 12TH
DECEMBER 2015.
The revolution has just
begun and you too can be a part of this change move!
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