Divine
leverage: Help for amazing results
Nevertheless
I tell you the truth
; It is expedient for you that
I go away : for if I
go not
away , the Comforter will
not come unto
you ; but if I depart , I will send him unto
you .But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going
away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go,
I will send him to you (John 16:7).
If you will prioritise something in your walk with
Christ, keep close watch on Gods word, prayer, faith, and the Holy Spirit.
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Gods word because it is the means by
which you obtain your inheritance (Acts 20:32). It is the source of faith and
the weapon/tool for prayer and the Holy Spirit.
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Prayer because it unlocks everything
else you want. John 14:13 says that if you ask anything in my name it will be
done for you.
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Faith because without it you are unable
to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Faith is the only way to please God. Humanity accesses God’s grace only by faith.
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The Holy Spirit because he is the
executor of God’s will and the distributor of his grace and gifts. The comfort Jesus gave to his sad disciples
before departing from them was that he would come back, and that until then
they would not be alone. He several times used words like ‘but’, ‘however’,
‘nevertheless’, ‘not to worry’ to counter words of departure. The Holy Spirit
would come to be with them. The Holy
Spirit, the Spirit of truth, would come to be their paraclete (partner who comes alongside), superb help, leverage,
comforter, strength, equipper, teacher
of all truth, guide, prophetic urge, source of peace, advantage, advocate,
favour, conviction concerning righteousness, revelator of Christ and all His,
and experience of Christ’s glory (John 14:23-27; 15:26; 16:5- 15). His presence
is proof of God’s love to those who love Him (John 14:23). What more is needed?
When he comes along all you need is to learn to give him enough room to do what
he knows best and to cooperate with him.
The good news to a believer therefore is you are not
alone. You are not an orphan. How much help are you allowing from the Holy Spirit. Dont limit his work to church activities only. God as in
the days of Isaiah is asking ‘who shall I send’. When he finds someone he prepares, guides and
amplifies their initiatives. He empowers them or enables them to get things
done. He multiplies the joy and results
of their acts of obedience. He is the principal partner through life’s
journey. What he brings makes what you
have nothing in comparison yet he deems your part as essential to his plan of
action. He makes your frailty, little or nothing become something great in
effect. That is what divine leverage is about.
A human seed of faith amplified to divine impact. Human action translated to divine results.
Earthly obedience escalated to heavenly abundance (Ephesians 3:20).
The Holy Spirit is the executor of divine leverage. Leverage
is the increase in force gained by using a lever/helper. With leverage you can move a much bigger weight than you ordinarily would with your little strength. Divine leverage makes things in your hand do wonders
for you. In the world of finance, leverage to maximise output and returns comes
from borrowing. The borrowed funds in appropriate measure enable greater
results. Sowing not borrowing achieves
divine leverage.
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Sowing
factor. Sowing is therefore a key ingredient for divine
leverage. God is seed provider. Every seed you receive is a test – will you eat
all of it or sow it. If God can trust you with seed, he can trust you with a
harvest. God given abilities and things
are not for you to live on but seed for you to access supernatural resources to
live on. Divine leverage is what God does with seed given back to him. He multiplies it back to the sower. What God places in your hand is not for
consumption only but sowing or for God to work with in your favour. If he
receives nothing he cannot multiply anything. In mathematics, a figure
of millions is reduced to zero if multiplied by a zero. The same thing, failure to sow
reduces the infiniteness of God to zero effect in your life.
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Sowing
conditions. Where there is a seed, life in Christ,
faith in God and obedience/spiritual disciplines, conditions are ripe and rife
to sow for divine leverage. God helps those who help themselves by running to him. Help yourself by meeting the easy conditions for leverage. Strengthen the spiritual lever by disciplines of faith such as prayer.
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Sowing
methods. You can sow through actions of faith/obedience that
include prayer, love and giving. Store up inner strength for times of trouble. Obedience is acting in the name and authority
of the Lord. Through obedience, God helps you become what you should be and
multiplies what you can achieve. The heroes of faith in Hebrews received
acknowledgement for the actions they took not just the desires and thoughts
they had. Obeying God leverages spiritual results and disobedience deleverages
them. Disobedience is a liability that slows and pulls you down.
Bible
Examples:
Bible examples are many that demonstrate that divine
leverage makes what you have enough for what you need to go forward
and be all that God wants. God completes what is lacking in your life. He fills your resource gaps for his glory. After you have done your best in faith, he finishes what remains outstanding. He advocates for you where you cannot be. He enables where your strength comes short. He perfects your shortcomings. Do not try to logically figure out how he will do it. Do not try to help him. Do not worry. Just build and stand on faith and patience. Wait on the Lord. He knows how. The means used in
the examples below were ridiculously unsuitable for the tasks to which they were put.
Enemies and observers laughed their lungs out but the people of God had the
last laugh because of divine leverage.
In Judges 15:15, 16. Samson was only able to find a
jawbone of an ass to fight a well-numbered and armed battalion of hostile
Philistines. He took it, and struck down a thousand men with it. He used an ordinary unlikely instrument of war. Something ordinary plus annointing equals divine leverage. Never limit God.
In 1 Samuel 17:45 David confronted the fully armed
giant Goliath with a sling and five stones. He even used only one of the stones
to knock Goliath down before cutting off his head. He had warned Goliath “You are coming against
me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!’
In John 6:9, 10 all Jesus needed to feed a multitude
of possibly over 20000 was a small boy’s meal provision of 5 barley loaves and
two small fishes. They looked pitifully useless before so many people.
Nevertheless, Jesus was delighted there was seed on the day and ordered the
people to sit down. Every one was well fed and some bread and fish was left
over. Divine leverage prevented a human
catastrophe.
In Exodus 13 Moses stretched a rod he had used to
perform signs and wonders in Egypt
The list is endless, In Judges 5 Gideon's trumpets
and pitchers in the hands of an army of 300 facing thousands was enough for
victory. In Judges 4:21, 22 a hammer and nail in the hands of a woman, Jael,
sealed victory for the people of God against the Canaanites. In 2 Kings 4:2 a widow's pot of oil turned her to a wholesale supolier of oil.
In the twentieth century, you also can wrought
victory with what you have through divine leverage.
Message by Dr. Kurai Chitima.
Faith Ministries – Johannesburg Faith
Life Center
Ground and First Floors Sunset Bay Building
204B Bram Fischer drive,
Randburg, Johannesburg ,
South Africa
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