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As I write this, I have a conviction I am speaking not just to you but to the gift that’s lying within you crying out for expression.
I was just sitting out on the balcony strumming my guitar while enjoying some leisure thinking when a thought breezed through my mind…

“The creatures earnestly wait for the manifestation of the sons of God”

For a long while in my life I thought I got the whole point in this scripture but as I sang on, this same words came to mean even more as this scripture opened up right before me just like an onion bulb (testimony to the endless nature of God’s word).

Now, needless to say, many Christians would agree with me that we all were created for a purpose and underlying this purpose is the one great commission:
This is universally and unquestionably true but in our pursuit to fulfill this God given assignment, most people have innocently or in most cases religiously thwarted the purpose of God for their lives leading to frustration, dissatisfaction, struggling and in some cases, total relapse into old and sinful habit or even collapse of faith all of which are not what God promises in His word!

“…For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

Nonetheless, the major cause of this issue is usually written off to discovery of purpose which is in most cases correct but in more complicated cases where purpose is known and frustration alongside its vices still occur, a underlying problem of location. Put in simple words, not every Christian is called to be a Pastor (by this I mean a minister of the word, heading a church) but permit to insist that every Christian has a pulpit. In other words not every Christian can affect their world or carry out the great commission from a church stage but every Christian should definitely and most certainly preach the message of Christ.

This should sound absurd or outlandish to a few but on a lighter note, just what if it were so and somehow a whole country came to the knowledge of Christ, accepted Him and surrendered to His love with a burning zeal to achieve the great commission?
I’m all too sure the economic meltdown in that country would hit a record breaking all time low. This would evidently be because everybody was out building some church maybe in another country and it ain’t gonna be pretty.*just saying*

In contemporary times, a normal church setting would have the chairs for the congregation to sit, the instruments and then the stage where the pulpit may or may not stand. It is from this point of leadership and authority that anointing and control should flow to the church. It is also from this point that the minister (in word,song or otherwise) ministers from. I can hence conclude; The pulpit is to the minister as the throne is to the king. Having made this clear I’d like to restate my bordering claim

Not every Christian is called to be a pastor but all Christians have a pulpit

This understanding I got does not counter the truth of the great commission but it points out a fundamental problem in the Christian community. (let me explain!)
Yes we may have discovered our talents and yes we know we are to use them to glorify God’s name and preach the gospel and transform our world but all too quickly we run to Church and start working earnestly assuming it most definitely is our place of assignment.
This is not a bad decision but in too many cases it is not the right decision so listen up believers!

I love your zeal for the Lord’s work and I just want to let you know that at the point you met Christ, a process began in you, more like a fire from your insides and that fire has a hilltop where it should burn and light the world even brighter. For a fact, That fire in you has a pulpit.

So you have a pulpit, a place of assignment! The instructions in the great commission are quite the same for every born again Christian but the location does differ.
Your location is your hilltop, it is where you shine the brightest and it is where you’ll get the greatest satisfaction, your hilltop is your pulpit. Please note that when I say location I am not just referring to a geographical location but your pulpit can be anywhere, anything or even any means from which you operate your natural gifting for maximum impact and God’s glory. So your pulpit might just be a pen and some sheets or a perfectly tuned 6-stringed instrument. Your pulpit may be a science laboratory, the backsides of a camera, the congress hall of politics or even a sports field. Your pulpit could also be your amazing vocals or a simple paintbrush, a palette of colors and a canvas: the complete trio. Your pulpit could be anywhere and it could be in a church.

No more stereotypes Christians

It is very important to find your calling yet it is as well necessary to find the place of your manifestation (your pulpit) cos you know what?
The creatures-the pens, the microphones, the landscapes, the clay, the musical instruments, the chemical elements, the computer programmes, the economy, the earth- are waiting for your manifestation.

Shalom!