Do you know why the devil is having a loud laugh at Christians? Because the church is busy fighting and quarrelling over who should sing or preach on Sunday service or midweek service, whose church building is bigger and who can outshine the other person during prayer session or during workers meeting. Lord have mercy! Competition! Competition! Competition! Everywhere you look is competition and packaging all in the name of “anointing”. This is why the church is dead and dry just like the fig tree Jesus cursed in Mark 11: 12 – 14. Now note the following statement before Jesus cursed fig tree, “Because it was not the season for figs.” Yet Jesus went on ahead to cursed it. Beloved, if it’s not your season please give way for other rising stars in the church, your own time is coming. Everyone in this life has his season but the moment you want to come out before your time, what happens is that you become competitive and impatience lacking leadership qualities that can help you lead well as God’s shepherd. The believer must not be a new Christian because he might be proud of being chosen so soon, and pride comes before a fall. Satan’s downfall is an example (1 Timothy 3:6 TLB version). Such was what the arch-enemy of Christians did before he was thrown down.  He went for God’s throne and when he couldn’t, he rallied supporters and fought God. The same thing is happening in the church today.

Now it can be that you are young like Timothy who was full of God’s anointing and given leadership to lead because God has seen your heart, and all hell broke loose in your department or the entire church. You don’t need to fight at all. Oh yes! David had the same challenges when he was chosen by God. His brother despised him and the sitting king who was Saul was so obsessed with killing David. His obsession made him take the lives of priests who were all in their priestly garments, then he destroyed Nob, the city of the religious leaders, with the sword. He killed men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys and sheep, with the sword. (1 Samuel 22: 17 – 19). He took three thousand soldiers to pursue one man. Yet when it was in the hand of David to kill Saul, he showed Saul mercy. Learn to hand your worries, troubles, and challenges to God. Fighting and quarrelling won’t get you anywhere, rather it shows one’s folly. I tell you, the same people who would want to steal from you or may have denied you your rightful position will definitely see or hear you a crowned king tomorrow. When you become obsessed about anything or anyone, pray for God to deliver you because it is one of the quickest ways for a man to lose his vision. The purpose of God in a man’s life is lost, the gifts and anointing wasted (Matthew 25: 18, 25 – 30). What do you think will happen to a church that quarrels and fights all the time? The glory of the Lord will depart – Ichabod.