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A young minister of God, who was really gifted, thought at a particular time, that with all his gifts, he should be ready for public ministry. He asked God “can’t I go into ministry now?” The Lord answered him “you have not started the introduction of all I want you to achieve for me; all you are doing are just preambles get down and learn”. He waited and at this waiting period, the Lord taught him many things so wonderful in His wisdom.
Six years latter, he asked God “when exactly is it going to be? God then told him “wait for the last minutes instructions”. He couldn’t understand this, until the Lord opened his understanding and illustrate His intension and instruction with this parable”.
An expert performance trainer had a great reputation of bringing out the best performers into the stage of show. He had institutions where his students in training must abide for some seasons and be trained in various ethics of outdoor performance, this he always ensured before taking them to the auditorium for a periodic show.
This expert without doubt had notable critics; these saw him as a major hindrance to making their fortune in the contest; they were really jealous of him. In one of the contest, they were zealously seated in the auditorium to pick both obvious and hidden mistakes of this expert’s trainees and make them public quickly to discredit his reputation. However, he (the expert trainer) was not ignorant of their plans; He has wisdom they cannot match and had schemed out strategies to astonish their critical features; the real wonder that will threaten and defeat their intension.
There were all categories of people in the audience awaiting the performance: the natural critics, the highly placed, privileged, destitute, Business tycoon and the garbage gleaner; all in the auditorium as the prelude music accompanied their expectations. Before the commencement, the expert trainer scheduled some time to rehearse behind the stage to give “last minutes instructions”. These are the strategies by which the critics are programmed for defeat. While they gathered and have put on some of their custom, the trainer started outlining these instructions with his perfect demonstrations. But some of the trainees considered their master too slow in this bid, they were anxious to be on the stage. Some of them peeped and ran into the stage, it was there, they discovered they had not completed their make-up, they ran back, but were already penned down by the critics. By the time they ran back, the master had completed these sets of instructions. The impatient trainees were disturbed, in a hurry; they dressed up to meet up their functions. The show had commenced, the critics were unconsciously lost in the wonder displayed by these performers but wherever the impatient trainees feature, there was always a mistake.
This is the lament of God! Many called and gifted had impatiently commenced their assignments and many had copied out patterns from somewhere else. Impatiently commenced ministry don’t live to expectation because most vital information and instructions from God the master trainer is often neglected and by this, devil has been given opportunity to criticize God’s work.
The place of patience; waiting upon the Lord is the preparation for exploit. It is sadden, that men He had spent time and resources on do not wait enough time to receive the necessary instructions for their anticipations “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint” Isaiah40: 31.
There is always pattern for every ministry. Between calling and selection for service there is a time of training and testing. After this, the qualified servants are delegated. God’s delegations are always with sets of instructions, which are expedient for victory, without which no theological knowledge or charisma could amount to heaven’s accepted success- “good success”
Noah, Moses and the Prophets were all given patterns-sets of instructions. John the baptised reflected on this in John1:33. “I did not know him, but He who sent me to baptise with water said to me, upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining in him, this is He who baptize with the Holy Spirit”
The young minister waited additional years. At the beginning of commencing fully his assignment, he said
“I thank God, it was not earlier than now for all I’d learned this few years are far more than all I thought I’d known. My works now in quality are far more if compared with then. There are some things I would have loved to withdraw from circulation if I’d sent them into public, because years ago, I thought I was already made but thanks God, I didn’t while waiting, He (God) was making me, it is a wonderful principle to learn to tarry at his mount of revelation”.
You need to tarry on the mount and receive valuable instructions to be fulfilled in your callings; you cannot know better than him. He knows all, including the enemy that scheme to fault his work. Please learn to wait and receive “Last minutes instructions”.
Every one put his car on the road. Each driver expertise has to depend on another driver’s expertise, you are thought certified for such if not, you should not be on the road or rather place on it, a learner’s barge. Your inexperience in this road is a threat to lives and properties. Your taste will follow the protocol of accident. Your impatience in learning the right way at the right time is a threat to God’s trust. If you may dare request God’s trust and backing, get down at his feet or wherever he may say and learn wonderful wisdom from the Lord.
As you sight your cross, don’t attempt carrying it in haste. Gesthame, is the place to tarry, and rehearse your anticipation. The time of tarrying is the time of empowering. Patience in learning at his feet receives patterns for the assignment. And be sure only patterns in God’s prescribed instructions will receive God’s backing
Hudson Taylors said “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply
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