Everything has compensation.
You can't wait to get paid for everything you do.
If I had only done what man paid for me to do, I wouldn't be where I am right now. My knowledge, skills, value, leadership authority and anointing would be extremely limited.
You see, even when man's time clock ends, God's is still running. Sometimes the compensation isn't tangible yet. The compensation is in the form of skills you attain that can expand your platform and pay you for years to come.
Man's time clock has a start and ending time for the work shift. That means for every task you do, your pay stops at a certain hour. It has a beginning and an end. But God's time clock never ends.
Long before I landed my first client, I was logging hours on God's time clock. People discredited my efforts because I wasn't getting a paycheck for the work and dream I was investing in. But God was preparing me for something greater than the payday of any man.
When you work past 9-5:
- At home finishing that last report
- Preparing for that new training session or degree
- Working out or praying into that new season
- Writing that policy and procedure, song or book chapter, even if man doesn't recognize, authorize or pay you, God offers the REAL reward.
He compensates you (with wisdom, favor, skill, understanding and proficiency) for overtime hours.
American Heritage Dictionary defines overtime as:
Time beyond an established limit, as:
a. Working hours in addition to those of a regular schedule.
b. In sports, it is a period of playing time added after the expiration of the set time limit.
As champions, you must be willing to work beyond the limits of others; beyond the expectations that men impose on you. But it takes faith to work when no one is watching you, because you have to trust that God will reward what people cannot see.
The potential they cannot see, the hard work they cannot see, the discipline or the intangibles they cannot see. All God wants is just an ounce of faith, so he can perform a miracle, breathe on what you deem little and make it much.
He wants to take a seed of faith and transform it into a tree.
There is a seed principle at work in your life RIGHT NOW; that whatever you excel in doing by faith when no one is looking continues to pay you for the rest of your life.
But you can't have faith unless you first have hope (hopes, dreams, what you can imagine.)
Your faith needs something to be grounded in; something to latch onto. No one can just say, "I have faith."
- What do you have faith in?
- What are the hopes and dreams that demand such faith?
- What has God promised you?
- Who is the hope of your glory or wealth?
Your faith must be fixed on something (and in Christ.) You cannot have faith for something that you do not first imagine, hope, pray for or trust in. Dictionary.com defines that word imagination as: ingenuity, enterprise or thought. The ability to face and resolve difficulties-resourcefulness; it is the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
That's the incredible wealth that is in you.
But this wealth is not just money. The definition of "wealth" is: A great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches; an abundance or profusion of anything; a plentiful amount: a wealth of imagery; all things that have a monetary or exchange value; anything that has utility and is capable of being appropriated or exchanged.
Christ became the exchange for you and I. That's why HE supplies all of our needs according to HIS riches and glory, HIS direct deposit, HIS trust fund and treasury.
Today, you must work in such a way that the result (or consequence) causes your Creator, your employer, your clients, your industry, your church, your city, your state-THE WORLD to stand up and take notice.
When you do, you will never be without influence and favor for jobs and better jobs.
As you work, DECLARE, "I WILL:"
- Discover resources; hidden treasure in barren places
- Generate hope and ideas where it seemed they were exhausted
- Create opportunities where others thought none existed.
- Take what is average and make it extraordinary and
- Stop making excuses for where I am.
My Pastor, Neville McDonald, once said, "Promotion is in your future."
Get on the clock.
