Building Capacity…
I’ve come to the conclusion that God’s will for our life isn’t as complicated as we make it out to be. So, in a “nutshell,” here it is…
God will use anything and anyone to form and mold us as people who will be able to contain and execute His glory on earth. I call this CAPACITY – having ability, faculty, size, power and volume to steward and execute God’s glory on earth.
We seem to get caught up in the “what,” but God is always looking for a “who.” “What” we do for Him is never as important as “who” we are for Him. “What” is our method, “who” is our message. “What” is a procedure, “who” is a person.
I believe all God is interested in is building a person with capacity. And obtaining Kingdom capacity is prerequisite for creating change and making a lasting difference.
Many of us have dreams of being used by God in great and marvelous ways, but without capacity, it’s only fantasy. Capacity comes through much pain and anguish. Distress, rebuke and disgrace are used by God to build in us the capacity to birth out what God has put in our heart.
The building of capacity is a painful process but I’m learning that the secret is NOT to try to “get out of this” without figuring out what God wants us to “get out of this.” And it’s in this building of capacity that I realize that there’s something that God wants me to notice that I haven’t noticed, and that there’s something He wants me to be that I haven’t been.
Romans 5:3-5 NIV
3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy ySpirit, who has been given to us.
I agree, we get caught up and we forget that God is our daddy our creator and that He Knows what He is doing.
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
God is preparing us to be able to handle the life that He has for us.
We must pray to christ that he will fill up the chairs and make it so that they must stand to here the word of God because there is no more room to fit them.
God is looking for people to answer His call. It doesn’t matter if you feel qualify or not; God’s choosing already qualified us into His will. Our responsibility is to respond, respond is our act of responsibility toward our creator. I believe that the big man of the Bible who did great things for God are not that different from us. The only thing that differ us from them is that they answer the call and we are on our way to do it.
I must continue to allow God to build my capacity and I must not allow my circumstance to interfere with it. Embracing God’s WIll in my life.
Well Pastor I know that if we don’t have capacity we know that we have to keep on praying and he will give to us.
By design, human kind is not a species of “beings” but a species of “becomings”…humans becoming…becoming more like God in our heart, or becoming more distant from God in our minds. We choose who we want to be, and that dictates our process.
Becoming nothing is easy. Becoming like Him is uncomfortable…shedding skin (i.e. containment) in order to grow properly. It’s tempting to force change and avoid pain or hide failure…offended in church? change it, upset with your wife? leave her, challenged at work? change jobs, dreams too hard? – dream smaller…
Use each opportunity as a season of ministry for ourselves and to others. Change comes naturally after orderly completion of kingdom assignments, and the timing is always right. That makes the former pain less than the present joy.
David, great thoughts on becoming…