Welcome to August. This is my birth month; it is also my wife’s birth month. It is my father’s birth month; it is Obama’s birth month; it is Usain Bolt’s birth month. I tried to lobby God into upholding the doctors’ Expected Delivery Date of August 2nd or 3rd for our boy child; he came three days before August. I guess God wants to break my attachment to August, somehow. It’s not my fault; August is used to describe a great event- like in the phrase ‘August Occasion’. August is the only month with the letter G. G is for Great; G is even for God, Grace, and Glory. Let me not bore you with the litany of lines I used when I first wooed my wife. Welcome to August; welcome to the month of exploits. Exploits are not tied to any month; this is just an opportunity to learn a few things that guarantee an exceptional living.
Even Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton came in August. But exploits are not tied to any month, I said. Real Exploits are tied to a kind of people. Exploits are an exclusive of a set of people on the earth. The Bible said ‘… the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits’. (Daniel 11:32). The word ‘exploit’ appeared only twice in the KJV version of the Scriptures and the two times occurred in the Book of Daniel Chapter 11. Daniel… okay, let’s talk about Daniel for a while. Daniel- God is Judge- is the name of my son; beautiful name, beautiful Bible character. He was said to be ten times better than the best of his colleagues; he was reputed to possess an excellent spirit; He specialized in solving the most difficult of problems; he unraveled mysteries like one unwraps a gift. Daniel lived while four kings reigned- and he was relevant to all of them. He saw into the things John later wrote in the Book of Revelations- Daniel was light years ahead of his own generation. In his lifetime, they called God the God Of Daniel (Daniel 6:26); the very acronym of the word ‘G.O.D’. I named my son Daniel, and I call him each time with deep, deep understanding and revelation. So if only Daniel mentioned ‘exploit’ in the whole of the Scriptures, I am very interested.
You see, Daniel had an excellent spirit and he could unravel the most difficult mysteries; yet at some point, Daniel began to see things he could not comprehend (see Daniel 12:8). And God did not help matters; God told him ‘Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end’ (Daniel 12:9). Packaged in that mystery also is the word ‘exploits’, such that the word never occurred before Daniel nor did it ever come up in the King James Version of Scriptures again. So when I hear my generation use that word (exploits) frequently and often loosely, I feel excited that God is set to unravel the mystery that He denied even Daniel. We live in interesting times, only we do not know. These are the times the likes of Daniel would wish they were around for God.
Those two times ever that the word ‘exploits’ occur in Scriptures were used in the prophetic. The first time, it refers to a king whose ‘heart shall be moved against the holy covenant’- that king shall do exploits (verse 28 of Daniel 11). The king there represents an order- a move- against the holy covenant. Have you noticed that the people we consider as ‘doing exploits’ are largely unbelievers? These are the ones who make it appear as if you can hit it big without God. They are doing exploits nevertheless. Consequently, man became so full of himself. Man was never so great in his own eyes as he is in our time. Man was never so boastful, defiant and rebellious as he is today. Man thinks he has reduced God to a seat in the church. There are people who do not know God and they are doing so well, aren’t they? But Real Exploits belong to the exclusive class of people ‘who know their God’, and the only way to disprove a counterfeit is to produce an original. You see, the world has not seen anything yet; let them have their time because the sons are coming. The manifestation of the true sons of God is at hand and it is going to hit the earth like a tornado. Let me calm down a little, as I take you into an era that is about to begin. This is going to be just a peep, as my mind cannot capture the whole scenario- it is just awesome!
Are you not curious? Did Jesus not say ‘Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and GREATER WORKS THAN THESE SHALL HE DO…?’ (John 14:12). Show me one work greater than what Jesus did? Let us not attempt to explain away the obvious; in fact, we have been witnessing LESSER WORKS since the days of the first apostles.
Dictionary defines Exploit as a daring deed or action. But you know I do not trust the Dictionary to unravel the true meaning of any word. There is the Word that was in the beginning- who was with God; who was God- that Word will explain exploits to us. And we shall take Daniel as case study. He should be able to give us an idea what exploit really means since the word was introduced into Scriptures through him.
Wait for me, let me attend to my Daniel. I will be back shortly.
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