HOW TO BECOME GREAT

What is greatness?

No one was born a great, but everyone was born naked, hopeless, dependant and useless, all of us were born poor, having nothing. It is through understanding that a person becomes great.

What is understanding?

The main meaning of undersigning is to know good and bad. If you don’t know what is good and what is bad you will never succeed because you will destroy the good things in you. When you receive understanding you will know that when you do this you will miss this and when I say this I will miss this way. Because of not having understanding you end up being poor.

People without understanding are 87% including you, because we were all born useless and the same as others. However you were born that is not the problem but the problem is your perception, what are you perceiving? Are you in negative or positive? God is searching in the world for a person who can present Him depending on your perception. God is searching for a person who knows who he is.

Greatness is reaching the height of something more than others. When you look at the countries where there are highest mountains you will identify there are things which are exceptional to other countries. When you receive understanding, know that your understanding will surely take you into chaos. Once you have understanding you will have the knowledge on how to make things increase, but know that when you become so you will encounter chaos.

Examine yourself where you want to go and know that you will pay a price for you to become someone. For you to reach greatness there are things you have to understand and do.

You have to recognize who you are. Reach a point of self identification because where you are heading it’s for people who recognize themselves. A person who wants to climb Mount Kilimanjaro has to know himself first to know if his health allows him to climb the mountain and do several exercises, so even to reach the goals of greatness there standards you must have, and number one is to identify yourself.

How do you identify yourself? Where are you coming from, where is your source. You are the likeness and image of God; this is the main identity that you are the likeness of God.

Who is God? He is a spirit, the creator, owner of heaven and earth. After describing God then you can put yourself there because you are His likeness and so all the stupid perceptions will go away. The likeness and image are important to understand more than what you know. You have to know the likeness and image of God more than anything you know. If you don’t know that you can never succeed. Anyone you see prospering, they have little understanding on the image of God and so they practice who they are.   

It is only 3% of people who know that they are likeness of God, followed by the 10% who wants to recognize themselves but the rest are the laborers and consumers who produce nothing. When God created you He did not create a consumer but He created a producer that is why He said go and produce. When you say I am the image and likeness of God it means you are telling the world and yourself that I am how God wanted me to be and God wanted you to be a producer meaning that He wanted you to be like Him. So the first thing you should know is to recognize who God is because you carry His likeness and image. If you want to conquer this world and be among the 3% or 10% you must resemble who has created you. It is not the way you fast but the way you understanding.   

Proverb 3: 3- 4 “My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands; ² For length of days and long life And peace they will add to you. ³ Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, ⁴ And so find favor and ^[a]high esteem In the sight of God and man.”

Even God loves the person who understands himself; even people love the person who understands thyself. Nobody can stop you to get understanding. Learn to understand yourself.

Understand which kind of family you were born because the way you were born will help to easier or harden things for you. This is because you will understand what to hold and what to quit for you to reach where you are heading.  The way you were born can hold you back no matter how hard you work.

Know your responsibility. What is your responsibility? If you want to get somewhere there are responsibilities to help you get there.

Know your way to greatness. How are you going to get to there? because the ways of getting to greatness are not the same. Everyone has a way of getting to his greatness, look at Moses, Joseph, David and the others. Every step you take you must understand why you are there because some people will go to their greatness through pain, others through hardship, slavery, prison, but know that even when you pass through pain there will be peace in you so don’t use shortcuts to get to your greatness but focus on your way.

God has prepared a way to your greatness but that way and path is not the same to everyone because it depends on what kind of glory you are going to receive. Some people have great glory; some little, some great great according to what they have labored so don’t run away. The way you endure is the way you grow because in pain there is glory. There is no greatness without pain.

Many Africans are good in endurance but not good in change, so they can endure pain but they cannot think to change the pain. The problem is not how you endure but how you change, the way you change things change, the way you endure things release. Learn to endure and the way you endure you learn how to change and the way you change things change. Don’t endure without change. Consider endurance while looking for changes without quitting. When Jesus endures change at Gethsemane, He decided to change and when He changed things also change.

Success never comes to someone who has not changed. When you see someone succeeding, know that there is some changes the person has taken.  Success cannot happen rapidly, it is a process and not a miracle. A child can be a miracle but a good marriage is not a miracle but a process when some people decided to change.

What is your expectation? (The result or outcome). Don’t live without expectations. Prepare yourself for your greatness but put things in sequence. After knowing your identity, the family you have come from, your responsibility and your way, what do you want to be in your life, and for what reason? Make sure you have a why? If you don’t have a reason you will never be serious in what you do because you want it for no reason. Don’t desire to become great without a reason. When you have a reason devil, people, witches or yourself cannot stop, the reason will push you no matter what, even heaven will not stop you. When you have all those things you will have a tangible report to make you fulfill what you want to fulfill.   

By Servant of God Apostle and Prophet Josephat Elias Mwingira, Efatha Church.