Stop murdering your own dreams. | Callings

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If we were to practically bury all the dreams that get strangled every day due to "lack of experience", we would surely run out of land much sooner than later.

You have a perfect idea, an idea so amazing that you are sure without a doubt it will work out, but the only challenge is that you do not have the working experience, so you throw it away. Please allow me to show you how and when you got qualified for that idea.

While David was busy taking care of sheep, his brothers were training seriously. I mean, they were the nation's soldiers, they had all the working experience, and they had won many battles with the king before this particular battle with Goliath. 

If David had looked at the usual, or expected work experience as a major requirement to fight, let alone a giant man, he would have lost the confidence to do what he knew God wanted him to do. 

Imagine if he had said, "God, why don't you ask my brothers, they are way more skilled than myself. All I know is playing with stones and sheep, if I dare use a stone as a weapon in front of all these professionals, I will plainly be embarrassing myself." But David knew these two things: 

1. He knew his God, 

2. He knew that he was qualified.

1. He knew his God.

Even when King Saul told David that Goliath had been a soldier all his life, David responded:

"Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God."

1 Samuel 17:36 

He knew that his God is above all human power and armor. When we look at our insecurities or reasons as to why we don't qualify, then we have forgotten who our God is. 

Someone once joked, "Moses complained that he couldn't speak well, but even if he did speak well, his state of speech wouldn't have helped in parting the red sea." Meaning that even what we think we need in order to be qualified for a given idea, dream or calling, might be of minimal importance in comparison to the work that needs to be done.

"I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty!" David said (1 Samuel 17:45), and that is how we ought to go for everything we want to do, not in our strength or qualifications but in the name of Jesus.

2. He knew he was qualified.

While they needed soldiers to fight battles, David knew and trusted his training. The soldiers had won many battles before, but this battle required someone trained by God. 

Even though taking care of sheep doesn't look the same as the intense training soliders go through, God has used it to train David.

When you walk with God and submit under his leadership, He starts to train you for the things He knows you will do in the future. Just like David, not until he was anointed had he known that taking care of his father's sheep was training him to kill a giant man that the professionals had failed to kill.

You are qualified.

For whatever idea or responsiblity God puts in your hands, He has been training you for it, even though yours doesn't look like the training the "professionals" get. Your training in the field equips you to fight battles that "professionals" might not be able to fight. 

Not forgetting, if God has academically qualified you for your calling, you need to remember that you are guided by your education but led by God, and that's the only way you will be able to win battles other professionals can't.

And in case God has given you an opportunity to be academically qualified, then that is where He intends to train you from. Whatever He wants you to do, He gets to qualify you for.

Now that you are qualified for your biggest dream, what's your excuse?

Run after that dream, take a step into your calling!

Till next Wednesday.

God bless you.

I can't wait for next Wednesday to get to interact with you.