2020 My Year Of Greatness

The Lord says Y2020 is our year of Greatness!!!! I pray that this prophecy shall come to pass in your life. Let’s look at three bible characters Abraham, Moses and Joshua whom God promised greatness as we proceed in this message:

How did Abraham become great? “Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your nation. Abraham was only one man when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation.” Isaiah 51:2 NLT

How did Moses become great? And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.” Ex 11:3

How did Joshua become great? The Lord told Joshua, (Dele Dada “Today I will begin to make you a great leader (Pastor, Husband, businessman, Engineer) in the eyes of all the Israelites. (Canadians) They will know that I am with you, just as I was with Moses” Joshua 3:7

What is greatness?

Greatness is the quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent. Greatness is something or someone that is larger in size, quality, or quantity which may be called "great." It is a term used for something beyond the ordinary. In the Bible, God, humans, and Christ receive this designation with theological significance. Greatness is a common factor in the lives of achievers. The common denominator with Abraham, Joshua and Moses that made them great is God. I read somewhere that the difference between Race and Grace is G-The God factor. Nobody becomes great without the God factor but that does not mean that to be great you will just fold your arms! All the people that God exalted in the bible that became great were people that did some extraordinary things before, during and when God called them. When you become born again, you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the doer/processor. Holy Spirit makes the difference. You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall……..

There are so many knowledge sharing sources in our generation but few learners and because many refused to learn, instead of becoming great a lot end up in mediocrity. The purpose of sharing these few thoughts is to initiate, enhance or upgrade your greatness. May you not end up as a mediocre in the year of greatness! - the year 2020!

Orders of Greatness

Our magazines and TV screens are filled with stories of the rich, the beautiful and the strong. Our culture places these things on a pedestal and many of us aspire to achieve them. There is nothing wrong with these things – but they are not everything. The French philosopher, Blaise

Pascal, spoke of three orders of greatness: Riches, beauty and strength fall into his first category of superficial ‘physical greatness’. Above this is a higher, second level of greatness. It is the greatness of genius, science and art. The greatness of the art of Michelangelo or the music of Bach or the brilliance of Albert Einstein – these stand way above superficial physical greatness. However, according to Pascal there is a third kind of greatness – the order of holiness. (And there is an almost infinite qualitative difference between the second and the third categories.) The fact that a holy person is strong or weak, rich or poor, highly intelligent or illiterate, does not add or subtract anything because that person’s greatness is on a different and almost infinitely superior plane. It is open to every one of us to become great in the order of holiness. This year much as we are trumpeting greatness, let the greatness of holiness and integrity be your focus.

STEPS TO GREATNESS

1. Walk in faith: Nobody has seen year 2020 before it is just being created day by day, but people who believe the word of God and the prophets and are willing to walk in faith believing they are going to be great will become great. “ Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper” 2Chr. 20:20. For those who are skeptical, pessimistic, unbelieving and say nothing will change, nothing will change for them. “And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she[b] considered him faithful who had made the promise.” Heb. 11:11. You need faith to download God’s promises to your life. Faith that you will not drop out of school either due to financial, mental or environmental stressors. I am not just talking about small faith of securing a job, no, develop faith to buy that company that turned you down. Develop faith to start your own company and make it big. Greatness is not an abstract phenomenon. People become great in one area of the other, great engineers, great athletes, actors, great ministers, all of them see it coming to pass and they walk and work into what God has promised them. You cannot become great without the F-Faith Factor in spiritual parlance and the equivalent of risk factor in the corporate/business world.