Written by
Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
The Holy Spirit
gives the ability to be creative, innovative and enterprising. Believers have
more potential to make more money if only they will ask from God. This is because
the Holy Spirit who resides in every God fearing and obeying believer is the
One Who gives illumination for innovation. He gave Joseph the fourteen year
plan for ensuring food security in Egypt.
There had been
surplus harvests in the past just as there had been famines in the past. In the
days of Abraham, there was a famine. In point of fact, it was famine that made
Abraham move from Bethel to Egypt. But for the intervention of God, Abraham
would have lost his beautiful wife, Sarah to Pharaoh. Fortunately, Abraham was
enriched and left Egypt. Please read Genesis Chapter 12 verses 8 to 20. Yet
another famine made Isaac, the son of Abraham want to move from Gerar. But God
instructed Isaac to stay on in Gerar despite the famine. Isaac stayed on and
God gave him the requisite wisdom to innovate on existing best practices that
leapfrogged the famine in the land.
Isaac was
subsequently enriched, in point of fact, so rich that the Philistines envied
him. Isaac did not run away from the challenges in the land. Rather, he
innovated on existing best practices to circumnavigate the challenges in the
land. He was successful. This implies that challenges are sometimes stepping
stones. Please read Genesis Chapter 26.
What Joseph did
was to innovate on existing best practices that went beyond just keeping what
was required from the harvests such as food for eating and seeds for replanting
as well as produce for offerings and sacrifices; and generosity to the poor in
a particular year. No one had thought of collecting a fifth of the produce of
the land for safekeeping to ensure that there was always surplus in the land.
Also, no one had thought of storage facilities as well as preservation methods
for grains and other produce. These great innovative ideas which came to Joseph
through the Holy Spirit helped to bring about a transformation in the life of
Joseph. From slavery and prison, Joseph became a member, a very significant
member of Pharaoh’s court. Joseph became next to Pharaoh in the governance
structures of Egypt. Innovation took him from the dust and ash heap positions
of life to the palace, the elites, and the crème de la crème of Egypt. He was
not only next to Pharaoh; he was also the son in-law of the priest of On.
Please read Genesis Chapter 41 for details.
Daniel’s
revelation and interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream; as well as the
interpretation of the hand writing on the wall are innovative ideas of dealing
with challenges that appeared to have no solutions. Before then, the cream of intellectuals
concluded that no one could reveal the dream of another person as that was
entirely outside the realm of human endeavor. The best that was available was
for the owner of the dream to share the dream and the supposedly wise men would
interpret. But Daniel radically upturned that supposition with his innovative
idea of asking God to reveal the dream alongside its interpretation to him.
Daniel broke with tradition, leapfrogged untimely death and moved on
progressively in the governance structures of the kingdoms of Babylon, the
Medes and the Persians to become the number two person, next to the King in
authority. Please read the entire book of Daniel for greater insight and
understanding.
Finally, may God
Who is rich in mercy grant you exceeding great grace and wisdom to always
innovate to leapfrog to where you should be in life at this point in history in
the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Shalom.
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