Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Take Vantage Positions 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Cities do not happen on hills by chance. They are deliberately, purposefully, consciously and strategically planted, built and set on hills for specific purposes or reasons ranging from protection, security, visibility, etc. whatever be the reason,  the import is that cities are set on hills purposefully and by choice.

A hill is a conspicuous, strategic and vantage location that gives visibility to both people below the hill and those on top of the hill. Those below see the city on the hill easily as opposed to other nearby cities on lowland. And for those on the hills, they can easily see intruders, predators, competition, enemies and have sufficient time to prepare to repel such attacks.

The essence of a product or service is to impact and bless people by adding value to their lives. And when people discover this, they will definitely seek the product or service. But if the product or service is buried in a hideout, an obscure, inaccessible terrain, how does the product get to the people? How do people access the product or service? Therein lies the wisdom of setting cities on hills so that they will not be hidden. Joseph was thrown into prison, hopefully to obscure him into oblivion so that his lights would stop shining. Joseph chose the path of making prison a hill. He shone his lights as brightly as prison allowed him and prison became a launch pad, a springboard to global limelight, relevance, significance and dominance.

Beloved, make the effort to shine your lights as brightly as God would have you shine them wherever God placed you to shine them. That way, you will leapfrog whatever limitations and barriers that the enemy attempts to place in your path. This is not to say that you should sit docile and passive; refuse to make conscious, deliberate purposeful efforts to build and plant on a hill for global visibility. It is your responsibility to do so but trust God.

Hills differ in diameters and heights but whatever the size of your God given hill, purposefully be determined to build your prestigious God given city on the hill. How? Identify your God given hill. Build your God given city on your God given hill. Do not covet someone else’s hill or God given city. It is your God given city built on your God given hill that will give you global visibility, relevance, significance and dominance. Use appropriate media.

Joseph used word of mouth. He spoke up about his God given ability to interpret dreams and significantly so, he interpreted the dreams of the butler and the baker. He also asked the butler to remember him and speak up for him to Pharaoh, again the use of word of mouth, a prominent media in the days of Joseph. It is also still very prominent today.

Daniel also used it – he requested time from the King to tell and interpret the dream of the King. Thereafter, other people announced Daniel’s ability to interpret dreams and solve enigmas through word of mouth. What vantage positions do you require to build on? Build on your hill as soon as possible and emerge into global relevance and significance. Shalom.


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