HELP SOMEONE WIN

April 5, 2014

We live in a very competitive world where everyone wakes up with the mind to just win at all cost. Business owners want to stay ahead of their competitors anyhow. We find it very hard to help our neighbors or colleagues because of the fear they might end up bigger or greater than us.

Apostle Paul would never have become such a great apostolic agent without the support of another disciple, Barnabas. I am sure you remember Paul used to be the dreaded Saul that was responsible for the death of many believers. On his way to Damascus, we read of how God met him and changed him from Saul to Paul. When Apostle Paul was trying to convince other disciples to allow him join them, Acts 9:26b says, “But they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.”

At that point, Barnabas put his life on the line by standing for him. He said, “I know him, he is a good guy, he is a changed man, let him be a part of us.” As a result of what Barnabas did that day, Apostle Paul was able to write more than half of the New Testament, yet we hear little of Barnabas. If Paul was interviewed, he would have said, “I would not have succeeded had Barnabas not risked his life for me.”

There is no greater legacy in life than to help someone win. An adage in Nigeria says, one rich man in the midst of twenty wretched people is also a wretched man. I have realized that when you do for others what they cannot do for themselves, you will never lack God’s favor. You will never lack God’s blessings. Prov 3:27-28 says, “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.”

Help someone win today. Have a refreshing weekend.

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