A leader requires victory secrets to make an impact. Life and death may depend on your knowledge of certain secrets. There are secrets that are very important for your life. Anyone who has been blessed to enjoy the secrets of God knows that life and death virtually depend on their knowledge of certain secrets. This is why you need to seek revelation from God.
Daniel and His Companions
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were young Hebrew men who had been taken in slavery in Babylon. They found favour with the king by the grace of God and were chosen to work in the palace of the king.
And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes; Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
Daniel 1:3-4
Daniel and his companions were in great danger of being executed. Death was staring at them in the face. The king knew that most of the wise men, astrologers and magicians were hypocrites, full of deception. King Nebuchadnezzar desperately wanted to clear his palace of all imposters. The test that the king instituted would ensure that only genuinely wise people would remain in his palace as advisors. To be a good advisor, you need to know certain secrets. There are secrets behind every great achievement and behind every great person.
Often, we wrongly speculate about what has made a person great. Most of the time we do not really know the secret of someone’s greatness. Discovering certain secrets will prevent you from perishing. The spirit of knowledge is also the Spirit of God.
“…When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19). When the enemy comes in to kill you, the Spirit of Knowledge lifts up a standard against him. The word ‘standard’ is the Hebrew word “nus” which means “to cause to disappear”. Through knowledge, certain things are caused to disappear and lives are even saved.
For instance, years ago, everyone who developed malaria, asthma, high blood pressure or diabetes simply died of these diseases. Without knowledge, these deaths would have continued. Through knowledge, these diseases have been “caused to disappear” and been neutralised.
Your knowledge of a secret will make you have the upper hand. All the advances of science, medicine, astronomy, agriculture, mechanics and physics are based on secrets that have been discovered. Those secrets are facts that have existed for thousands of years. Inventors are basically discoverers of secrets. E has always been equal to mc2. Einstein was only the discoverer of a secret that had existed for thousands of years.
A victory secret is a revelation that brings you the victory! Victory secrets are revelations from the Holy Spirit that can make the difference in your life’s work and ministry. Often, the difference between life and death is a little knowledge. God can grant you knowledge today! God can cause you to know a little secret that will change everything about your life and ministry. Some people call these key snippets of knowledge a “revelation”. Whatever you call it, these victory secrets will lead to great victories and triumphs.
It was not until 1877 that Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of another bacteria, bacillus anthracis. This phenomenon exhibited by anti-bacterial drugs was called antibiosis. It was only in 1942 when drugs that acted that way were eventually named antibiotics by an American microbiologist, Selman Waksman.
It was this secret of antibiotics that was absent in the fourteenth century! This is the secret that would have prevented millions of people from perishing at the hands of the bubonic plague in the fourteenth century. Simple drugs like Streptomycin, Gentamicin and Ciprofloxacin would have stopped the disease in its tracks. Today, your chances of dying from the bubonic plague are almost zero.
Not even one person would have died from the bubonic plague if we had had the secret of antibiotics. A victory secret greatly transforms lives. A victory secret saves many lives. A victory secret changes everything.
One of the most important prayers of your life must be the prayer for the spirit of revelation. Pray for victory secrets, dear leader! That is the prayer for timely revelation and knowledge that will make the difference in your life.
The Art Of Leadership By Dag Heward-Mills
theaol@ymail.com