HE can do a billion dollars project with one man, a million-dollar project with another man, while he does a $10,000 project with this other man, or even a $1000.
Why?
Capacity.
Is there a junior and senior Holy Spirit? No, it is the same spirit. So what is the difference?
Capacity - the amount of work that can be done.
When knowledge meets practice capacity is built.
Knowledge lays the foundation for practise because you can’t practice what you don’t know. When you are practising, you are working. The more you practice, the better you become and the more you can do. The more you can do, the more capacity you have built.
The amount of power that leaves the Kainji dam is not what gets into your house. Why? Capacity.
The wire that is used to carry power from the power station to the transformer is not the same to carry power into your home. What’s the difference? Capacity.
David developed the capacity to solve a national catastrophe called Goliath that scared the king, generals and soldiers. If David joked with his bush where no one was seeing him, except God, he wouldn’t have had the capacity (the faith), the evidence of things hoped for to show the King.
Some of you are neglecting and joking with your capacity.
God cannot use you beyond your capacity.
The capacity to resist, the capacity to push, the capacity to stand your ground. The capacity to handle and multiply what is put into your hands. God will give you what you can handle, that’s capacity.
The Bible said that God gave the devil permission to test Job's faith.
One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.” Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Job 1:6-12 NIV
Why did God permit such on his faithful servant? Had Job failed the test, who would have been responsible?
God gives you what you can handle. He knew Job had the capacity (faith) to resist, the capacity to push on, and stand his ground (hold unto his faith). If Job failed the blame would have been on him because he failed to utilize the capacity he was given. The outcome showed the output of his inward capacity.
Are you utilizing your capacity or do you let it to waste? Do you misuse you’re the capacity you've been given?
Some people lack moral capacity. Once little money gets into your hands, you will throw away your wife and run after flashy younger girls it you'll start disrespecting your husband or people around you.
God doesn’t want to lose his children just like you won’t want to lose your 7-year old kid who asks you for the key to your car. Even though he is asking for the keys, he doesn’t have the capacity. And even if he grows to 39 years old and doesn’t still know how to drive, he won’t be given the keys.
But an 18-year-old who can drive can be given the same keys even without a license.
Knowledge plus practice gives capacity.
Source: The lead image is from Pixabay.
Great illustration for capacity building. As much as I have read the Bible and understand the nature of God, the statement that God gave permission to the devil to try brother Job is still a contradiction to me. The same Bible says God cannot be tempted with evil, neither can he tempt anyone with evil.
I know this argument is outside the theme of your article.