CAREER AND DESTINY DISCOVERY.

BY DANIEL OLUKAYODE JACOBS
President Center for Creative Youth International Ministries

OBJECTIVES
1. To help young people discover their destiny early in life.
2. To expose young people to a life of personal responsibility.
3. To help them cultivate a life of reading, observations, reasoning and challenging their mind for great exploit in life.


INTRODUCTION
A Career can be defined according to the concise oxford dictionary of English as one’s advancement through life, especially in a profession. It is the progress through history of a group or institution. It is a profession or occupation.

A career is an ambition driven by vision. The quality of vision is what defines the quality of the ambition.

As young people just starting out in life, there is need to have a good understanding of vision and ambition.

One works by faith, while the other is made real by works.

What is Vision?
Vision is the unfolding of God’s divine plan for man.

Vision reveals God’s master plan for Man. Jeremiah 1:5, 29:11

Vision is seeing the end at the beginning. Isaiah 46:10

Vision is your ability to discover what God has finished but intends for you to start.

Vision is what you see from God’s word that empowers your ambition.


What is Ambition?

Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny: it is heaven’s own incentive to make purpose great, and achievement greater.

The instinctive impulse to keep pushing on and up is the most curious and the most interesting thing in human life.

Without this desire to get on and up, this God – urge, everything, even the universe itself would collapse. Inertia would bring everything to a standstill.

Ambition is what adds action to vision to bring about a manifestation.
James 2:20, 26

Vision with a corresponding action (ambition) is dead. Philippians 3:13-15

The cravings for something higher and better is the best possible antidote or remedy for bad habits which one wishes to get rid of.

Vision and ambition knocks early.
Most young people seem to think that vision and ambition is a quality that is born in one and which cannot be materially changed, but the greatest vision and ambition may be very materially injured in many different ways.

The habit of procrastination, of postponing, the habit of picking out the easier task and putting off the difficulty ones, for example, will very easily impair the vision and ambition.

Vision and ambition often begins very early to knock for recognition.

The Personality behind Vision and ambition.
Recognition of the voice of the Holy Spirit early in life inspires vision and motivates us to act accordingly.

The Holy Spirit is the driver of every worthy vision. Vision without the Holy Spirit will always lead to confusion.

Be careful how you discourage or refuse to heed that inner voice which commands you to go forward, for if you do it will become less and less insistent until finally it will cease to prod you, and when ambition is dead deterioration has set it.

That inner call to go forward, to push on to a higher good, is god’s voice: heed it. It is your best friend and will lead you into light and joy.









Dynamics of Vision and Ambition
To discover a worthy vision and walk with a healthy ambition, there is need to understand your make up in God.

God made man in His own image (a spirit) and cloth him with dust (body) and the combination resulted in a Soul.

The spirit belongs to God and can only be sustained by the things of God, which is his word, prayer, fasting, meditation etc.

The body also belongs to God but was created from the dust and therefore has its sustenance in the earth. It can be sustained by trees, animals, iron ore, crude, gas, solar energy and everything visible today to man on the earth.

The body is made up of different members, with which it accesses its immediate environment. These members include the eyes, nose, mouth, hands, feet, legs etc.

The soul on the other hand is completely different. It is a part of man that resulted from the interrelationship between the spirit and the body.

God is not absolutely in control of the soul, in fact after the fall of man, God lost control of it. Both God and the devil seek dominance of the soul.

Soul Dunamis
In the same way man is a three in one being, so is the soul of man. The soul has three compartments namely the mind, intellect and emotions.

In your quest to discover your career early in life, you need to understand the workings of the various compartments of the soul.

The Mind
The mind is the factory that produces pictures that influences the vision of man. What you see is what you believe. The mind is the eyes of your spirit man. The mind two primary functions: It recalls and stores (memory) and it pre plays (Imagination).

The mind can replay or recall the past and as well can pre play the future. This is the most powerful part of the soul.

The human mind is divided into two parts, the sub conscious and the conscious.

The Sub Conscious Mind
The sub conscious is the mind of the spirit. When you receive the Holy Ghost baptism, the Holy Spirit becomes residence in your sub conscious. In a bid to express itself since it is a talking spirit, you mutter words directly from the sub conscious without the due process of the conscious mind. This is speaking in tongues. The same way your conscious mind is edified by the words you speak, the sub conscious is built by the words the Holy Ghost Speaks through you. Jude 20.

The stronger the sub conscious, the more fruitful the conscious mind.

Whatever comes out of the sub conscious is what you have been ordained by God to pursue in life.

Your assignment is hidden in your sub conscious mind.

Your place in destiny is hidden in your sub conscious mind.

Your sub conscious mind is the deep wherein your unlimited breakthroughs are hidden.

The Conscious Mind
This is the processing room of the mind. This is what enables men interact with the physical environment. It helps us to appreciate beauty, nature, space etc.

It feeds on information acquired through sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste. It is a slave to observation, experimentation, inspection, supervision, interaction etc.

When developed, it is the mother science and civilization.

The Emotions
The emotion is another aspect of the soul that plays a vital role is defining our career choices.

The emotion houses our habits, attitudes, behavioural patterns and the way we perceive and react to things.

Emotions are strong inner feelings that define our mood and as result our inner strength or courage.

There is need for emotional intelligence if the right career choices must be made early in life.

What is it that you have discovered from God’s word and you feel good at pursuing irrespective of what opposing forces think of you?

The career worth pursuing is the one that you enjoy doing. Joy and inner peace are pointers to emotional stability as it relates to career choice.

The Intellect
This is the seat of reasoning things out. It is the part of man that defines his capacity to develop new ideas, new vision, new ambition, new levels etc.

It grows with quality education. The quality of career chosen can be strengthened with qualitative intellectual investment.

Intellect is not just about going to school but developing the ability to source and process information.

Intellect grows with research. Before deciding which career or profession to settle for, you need to embark on a research.

Research enables you to know what the current trend is in the occupation you might be desiring.

Seven D’s to qualitative Career Choice

1. Dedicate your life to God.
Jeremiah 1:5 & 29:11 reveals a significant truth. Only God knows your destiny. If you must therefore make a good career choice, it must begin with God.

Accepting Christ and getting baptised in the Holy Spirit activates your sub conscious mind and therefore makes your intellect, emotion and conscious mind fruitful.

2. Discover the truth about you from God’s word.
Psalm 139:13-15 reveals the truth about you. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. But you need a personal discovery of the truth for it to become a reality.

Your identity is in the discovery of the truth. Without a discovery of your true identity, your choice of career might lead you into living out another man’s destiny.

3. Discover what makes you original.
Your career is hidden in something you do that makes you original in God. Is it speaking, singing, writing, meeting people, helping people, solving problems etc.

4. Discover your assignment.
Your relevance is a product of the discovery of your assignment. Your assignment is what you were assigned by God to accomplish on the earth. It is something God has finished in heaven, but sent you to earth to start.

What you hate is sign post to your assignment. What you love is also a sign post to your assignment. What makes you sad, angry, cry, are all sign post to your assignment.
5. Distinguish yourself in your chosen career.
Now that you know what makes you original and as well know your assignment, go ahead and distinguish yourself.

Do not be afraid of being different. Jeremiah 1:17

Don’t be afraid to stand alone.

Don’t be afraid of people’s faces.

Do not be afraid if those you trusted leave you.

Do not be afraid if no one wants to support your dreams.

Do not be afraid of challenging the status quo.

Seek constantly to improve yourself and raise your standards.

6. Do not allow small minds distract you.
Too many people fail in their careers principally due to the quality of their association.

Your association determine your acceleration.

Small minds limit the rate at which you move at accomplishing your goals and aspirations.

The inherent fear and in action in the small minds that surround you create friction in the wheel of your intended progress.

7. Devote your time to kingdom and people service.
Any career that would not allow you to devote time to kingdom service and promotion will surely lead you astray. Your career must be aimed at promoting the kingdom and helping people.

Devotion is the key to promotion and distinction. Matthew 6:33


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Jesus is Lord.