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Rev Albert Ocran
Rev Albert Ocran

Don’t despise small beginnings - Rev Albert Ocran

It’s easy to despise the day of small beginnings. Small beginnings often come with hard work and little help. Small beginnings usually offer tall resistance and modest encouragement. Small beginnings typically see limited budgets and abundant setbacks.

Nevertheless, whatever God has called you to do, “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin” (Zech. 4:10).

Life always seems to present us with innumerable challenges and problems on a daily basis. It throws left hooks when we were expecting right ones; it even presents us with seemingly awful surprises that we weren’t expecting, and it bloats us with unresourceful emotions that tend to tie us down to a life of mediocrity and unhappiness.

Despite all this, it is not so much what happens to us that actually makes a difference, it is rather what we do with what happens to us that determines where we will end up, what we will have, and how we will be transformed by our experiences.

It is for this reason that the Springboard, Your Virtual University, a radio programme on Joy FM, did a playback of a presentation on how to transform one’s small beginnings into something great by Rev Albert Ocran.

Educating the audience on ‘Way Makers and Small Beginnings,’ Rev. Ocran urged the audience not to despise their small beginnings but rather work on nurturing that small beginning into something great.

“Naturally, when you hear a word from God, we expect everything to happen immediately but when God says what he will do, there is a process. Everything that God does (normally) starts small and it grows,” he stated.

“Your small beginnings should, therefore not discourage you. The greatness of  your life is not defined by the size of what is in your hands today,” he added.

Quoting Job 8:7 as a foundational scripture, he said although one’s beginning may be small, its latter end would increase abundantly.

“In this verse in the scripture, the Bible contrasts periods in life, a beginning and an ending. It also contrasts the magnitude or the resources at both periods of time. The beginning is characterised by smallness while the latter end is characterised by abundant increase,” he noted.

Transitioning to abundance

Touching on how one can transition from small beginnings to abundance, he said Jesus Christ provided a clear guide to this process in his passage about the mustard seed in Mark 4:31.

The mustard seed is considered the smallest seed and yet when it is planted and it grows, it becomes the greatest of all plants, with big branches that birds can perch on.

The motivational speaker pointed out that like the mustard seed, ones small beginnings, when planted could transform into a big thing and make the person a way maker by offering branches to people.

He said the passage about the mustard seed provided four outstanding lessons for people who intended to transform their little talents and dreams into something big.

The first, he said was “our God is a God of small beginnings.”

“At the seed stage, the mustard seed starts behind others, smaller than other seeds. Your started some journey in life and you look at others way ahead of you and you feel far behind. The mustard seed starts smaller than others but when planted it becomes the greatest. Your beginning is not your end.” 

“Our size, our reach, our resources, our influence and our opportunities at the beginning stage do not matter. It may be small, it may look insignificant but it will grow,” he stated.

“The God of the seed is also the God of the harvest. Don’t look down on your seed because it is small. Don’t despise your gift because it looks so small because that same small gift is what will open doors for you and bring you before great men,” he added.

Sow the seed

Another lesson, which he said could be learnt from the passage was “no matter how small the seed is, just sow it.”

He said the seed had greatness in it but until it is sown, “it abides alone.” 

“It may be a seed of your greatness but until it is sown, its potential will never be realised.”

“That grace upon your life, that talent, whatever it is that you are trusting God to do in your life, if you do not step out and do it, it will not grow,” he said.

“That talent is a seed that God has planted in you and that seed will be the turning point in your life but somehow, procrastination, fear and uncertainty is preventing you from planting that seed. Go out and plant that seed,” he stressed.

Don’t give up

After planting the seed, Rev. Ocran pointed out that the seed may first die but “that should not make you give up because it is also part of the process.”

“Many are at that stage in their journey, where the seed has been planted but somehow the seed seems dead. The death of your seed is your turning point,” he said.

Using the ‘correct’ sign as an example, he said “the correct sign has something significant about it; first, it goes down, and hits a turning point and starts going up and goes all the way. That is exactly how the life of a seed is. The seed may seem to be going down for a moment but there is a turning point,” he noted.

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