Build Your Capacity -Bishop FEB Idahosa
Proverbs
13:20
He
that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be
destroyed.
It’s important to know
what capacity is. The bible says in Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise
wisdom and instruction.” It’s important we start thinking about knowledge.
Proverbs 18:15, says, "The heart of
the discerning acquires knowledge; the ears of the wise seek it out.”
Capacity is very
important. How much capacity do you have? You might want to know what capacity
is. Capacity is the ability to do something. It’s the ability to carry
yourself, learn something and improve yourself. Capacity also talks about how
much you can carry, how much you can do and how much power you have.
Most of us our capacity
is not quite enough for the next level we want to go. Unless you increase your
capacity, it won’t be enough to carry the load of the next level you want to
get to. God once told me, “FEB sometimes the hindrance to the answer of your
prayers, is the fact that you prayed.” I
know this sounds funny, but let me explain: We can spend a lot of hours in
prayers for God to give us more load to carry for the next level, but if we
don’t have the capacity to carry such load, the prayers will not be answered.
Many of us are trying to increase the load in our lives; we want God to bless
us, we want God to increase us, but we have not increased our own capacity. We
are praying that God should give us a job, but we are still at home doing
nothing about it. We are praying for God to do more for us and we are not doing
anything.
My point is this, the
hindrance to your prayers been answered is the fact that you have already
prayed and you assume that God will do everything for you. Because we assume
that God will do everything for us we pray, so, the hindrance to that prayer is
no longer God, but us, because we have not done the things we need to do to
increase our capacity.
The question now is:
how can we increase our capacity? You can dress up yourself, you can look good,
but if your capacity to carry your next level is not there, that next level
when it comes can kill you. Rev Dickson Ogbahon, once said, “If God gives you
the big car you have been praying for when you are not ready for it, that big
car can kill you,” the fuel of the car alone might be more than your salary.
If your capacity is not
enough to carry your next level, it’s going to be a problem for you. So, you
need to make sure you increase your capacity. Capacity building is essential
for your next level. As you are praying to God to bless you, you also need to
do your part by increasing your capacity.
So, how do you increase
your capacity? The bible in Proverbs 18:15 says, "The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge; the ears of the
wise seek it out.” If you are discerning and you know what you want in
life, your heart must pursue knowledge; you must acquire it. The ears of the
wise seeks out knowledge. You must begin to pursue the knowledge that will
increase you.
There are several ways
you can build capacity: You need to learn. Start learning.
(1)
The Formal way: Go back to school; if you are a secondary
school leaver, go back and get your first degree, if you have a first degree,
then go back and get your Masters; this days a Master’s degree is just as
common as a first degree. Then go back and get your PHD next. Always be continually
learning, improve yourself, if you don’t, the capacity for your next level will
not be enough to carry the load: the capacity will be like putting an entire
building on a 1.5kva generator, it simply will not carry it. You seek knowledge
by going back to school.
(2)
The Informal way: If you can’t go to school, then go and
look for other ways to learn knowledge. The world today is digital and it’s
important you learn some of these things. There are things now called MOOCs
(Massive Online Open Courses). A MOOC is simply this: almost all the big
Universities in the world (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Preston, etc.) have all
their courses online available free of charge. Just go to these websites and
learn whatever course you want to learn free of charge, though you won’t get a
degree from these universities, but you will have the knowledge. Examples of
MOOC website are: coursera.org, edx.org, udemy.com,
khanacademy.org (a collection of different people teaching children how to
learn several things).
You must begin to start
thinking on how to build your capacity. You must begin to learn in order to
build your capacity. Go after knowledge. Seek knowledge and pursue it. You have
laptops and smartphones, these can be used to acquire knowledge. Do more with
your phones than Whatsapp or Facebook. Use your phones and tablets to learn
something. The more you do to learn, the better you will be about your
capacity.
(3)
Self-directed learning. You must do the informal part and
be a self-directed learner. Brian Tracey said, “Do your best, every single day
read thirty minutes in your field, what this does for you is that it improves
your capacity and in one year, you have the potential to double your income.”
It is important we
learn every day, because your capacity is what will help you carry more load.
There is a new level God is taking you to. There is a new level God wants to
bless you with, but God will not bless you with more, unless you can carry
more. God will not bless you with more than you can take. God wants you to
improve your capacity. God wants you to learn. The bible is full of scriptures
that talks about learning and improving in knowledge. You must improve on what
you know. Your capacity is very important. Capacity is the key to building
opportunities.
In summary you cannot
dress yourself to carry the load for the next level, until you improve your
capacity and you improve your capacity by acquiring knowledge, either formally,
informally or through self-directed.
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