How And Why You Should Know Yourself

1) Look upward

Psalms 121:1 “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.”

Go before your Maker and inquire of Him about your creation. Nobody knows a product better than its manufacturer. Ask God, “What are You saying about my life? Why was I born? What is the beginning and the end of my journey?”

Habakkuk 2:1: “I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He (The Lord) will say to me”

2) Look within yourself.

Look at the burden in your heart. Also, pay attention to the needs within your home and your community. Uncover the potential and grace that God has placed within you, and use them to fulfill His purpose for your life.

Act 7:23: “Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.”

2Kings 4:2: “So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”

There is nobody who is empty in this life. What do you do effortlessly that other People went to school to study? Somebody who is left-handed did not go to school to study it. If you put a pen in his right hand, you are wasting time. He cannot write with his right hand. The dominant part of his brain is on his right. So, he functions through the left.

Check every dimension of your life. I know how to dance and write songs; I did not learn it from anywhere.

A jobless woman came to me years ago and complained. I asked her, “What could she do?” She replied, “I didn’t study catering, but whenever visitors come to my house, and I cook for them, they never leave any food behind.”

I said to her, “That is where your strength lies. Start selling food.”

She said she didn’t have a restaurant or even dishes. I told her, “You don’t need those things.”

So, she began selling food in aluminum foil containers and went from office to office. One person in the office would eat the food and recommend it to another.

From there, she got an opportunity at a bank. The bank staff tasted her food and said, “Come and run our restaurant.” Later, someone from another bank ate her food and said, “Come and operate our restaurant too.”

In three months, she bought the shop whose rent she could not pay.

Everything changed because she became aware of her capabilities.

What can you do? Even making people laugh has made people millionaires.

3) Look outward.

Look around you. What are the needs that you see that command both your attention and your compassion, and also have a connection with your purpose?

Nehemiah heard of the broken walls of Jerusalem, and it drew his attention. He began to cry because of the broken-down walls of Jerusalem, and God used him to handle what compelled his attention.

Look out into your world for the witness and observation of loved ones. Those who know you and love you. What witness do they bear concerning who you are? I’m not talking about your enemies. They will never find anything good in you.

In Mathew 16:13-16, Jesus told his disciples, ” What do men say I am?

And all of the things that they were saying were close to who he was.

When I was growing up, my senior one saw the way I play with words, and he said, “You are going to be a lecturer, a teacher, and a speaker. Something is growing up in you; you are going to address people. “

There are people around you who can identify certain traits that you yourself cannot. Take notes of the good traits people are saying about you; it could be a true call to your destiny.

4) Look at the Spirit-World.

Look in the direction of the spirit.

1Corinthians 2:9: “But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

When you pray abundantly in the Spirit, your understanding becomes saturated with spiritual information about your life and about your assignment.

5) Look Word-Wise

Look in the direction of the Word of God.

Act 20:32: “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified

The word will show you who you are. We look into the Word of God like a mirror. The best way to know what you look like is to stand in front of a mirror. A very good mirror will not tell lies. A bad mirror might tell you lies, give you extra head or extra hair.

James 1:23: “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;”

The word brings out your capability and your audacity. It shows you who you were meant to be in the land of the living.

Why Should You Know yourself? What Are the Profits of the Knowledge of Oneself?

1) It facilitates optimal and excellent performance or Delivery

If you are a fish and find yourself in water where you belong, you perform optimally. If you are a bird and you find yourself in the sky, you perform excellently.

Most of the people who are stars in this world do not have two heads; they have found purpose.

1 Samuel 16:17-18: “So Saul said to his servants, ‘Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.” Then one of the servants answered and said, “Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and the LORD is with him.”

2) It Facilitates Confidence and Boldness in assignments.

When you know who you are, you become confident and bold; You are not shaky. When you know what you are called to do, and who calls you to do it, and the backing that you carry, you become unmovable.

John 1:22-23: “Then they said to him, ‘Who are you, that we may answer those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” He said: “I am ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Make straight the way of the LORD,”’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

John did His assignment with confidence. John was talking to the Pharisees with audacity because he knew His purpose.

3) It Terminates Existence in Inferiority and Low Self-Esteem.

It terminates the idea that other people are better than you. When you locate your purpose, low self-esteem will die. The pig has never envied the cat. The cat will never step into the mud, but the pig will live inside the mud for Christmas.

It looks like the pig is one of those animals that God created for scavenging. It cleans the earth of dead debris. I’m sorry for those who eat it as a delicacy, but pigs contain certain enzymes. One is called cadaverine. A cadaver is a dead body.

Cadaverine is used to dissolve a dead body and digest it. Another one is Miticide. The two are inside its intestines. So, the pig is not envying anybody. It is fulfilling his assignment inside the mouth. He enjoys it and all the smells in that place; he is not aware.

If you are taller than me, you are too tall for my assignment. And if you are shorter than me, you are too short for my purpose. There is no comparison to the kingdom’s purpose.

If you know your purpose and what God created you for, you wouldn’t change your skin color and your nose. People are undergoing various types of surgery—nose, chest, etc. What some individuals have naturally, others are choosing to buy. And if God knows it is fitting for your life and purpose, He would have given it to you naturally as well.

Knowledge of yourself delivers from an inferiority complex. I have never felt inferior to anybody under heaven, irrespective of your color: white, black, yellow, red. Anywhere in the world, I move with audacity.

4) It’s Facilities Assignment with Focus

When you know who you are, you move with focus

Matthew 6:22: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”

Knowledge of yourself helps you not to be easily distracted by everything.

I know a billionaire who once said he has never ventured into the oil and gas business because it is not his area of calling. Neither has he ever ventured into government contracts or contract-based deals. Yet, he has built a fortune.

Some Christians will quickly enter a trending business and abandon what God told them to do. Focus is the key to impact. You cannot have an impact in life until you are focused. Some Christians will quickly enter a trending business.

5) It Averts the Tragedy of a Wasted Life and Guarantees an Ending Well in Life

There was a man who said he had worked at a job that made him miserable every Monday for the past 26 years. Each morning, he would wake up with his heart racing. Fear would crawl over his body, yet he still went to work.

Someone asked him, “Why do you keep doing this job?”

He replied, “Because it’s close to my house.”

They asked again, “Why don’t you resign?”

He said, “I have only three more years before I receive the golden watch.”

In that company, employees who serve for a certain number of years are rewarded with a gold wristwatch. He was willing to endure misery for three more years just to receive that watch.

Think about it: that is nearly 30 years of his life spent doing something he hated.

His reasons were simple: “The job is close to my house, and there is a golden watch waiting for me.”

But what can that golden watch really do for him? Will it add more time to his life? Will it restore the years he spent unhappy?

He sacrificed almost three decades of his life for a reward that may not even be worth a thousand dollars. The tragedy is not the value of the watch; it is the value of the years he exchanged for it.

Life is too precious to spend your best years trapped in misery for rewards that can never compensate for lost time.

Do all you can to know yourself.

When I stepped into ministry, I had never written a song. I never imagined that songs would one day flow out of me. I could not play any musical instrument, and I came into ministry with no formal Bible school training. I became a pastor, raw and inexperienced. Today, I have written many songs.

Many people arrive soon, so they arrive too small. For as long as I have not seen Jesus face-to- face, there is one more step to take.

If Moses can start the first chapter of his ministry assignment at the age of 80, how old are you that you are agreeing to retire?

Inspired by Dr. Paul Enenche’s Sermon

Scars of Angels