Supporting Change by Dr. Omolola Omoteso

🎶 From Glory to Glory

That song continues with “He’s changing me!”

Change is one ideology that is easy to speak or preach about but challenging in practice. Yet, as Christians we must yield to God’s change to enable us move from one level of grace to another level of glory.

If this were to be a company and migration is due to covid and removal is of those told to wait and see, the atmosphere would be similar to what we are experiencing, COLD.

I get it. I understand. But let me put forward one of the things I recently learned about change management:

It is important to support change except you received a clear spiritual warning against such change.

Many didn’t say much about the migration from Whatsapp to Facebook on June 18, 2020 but the writing on the wall is clear. Perhaps it is important to understand why we had to change, a question many did not ask. We were meant to be growing from being a river to being an ocean, rather we were retrogressive towards becoming a pond! We needed to disrupt and diversify to develop. And God led towards a new direction which started by me taking a break from few of our platforms and closing down others to enable spend time to focus.

Noah’s Boat in the Bible is the story of change. Many rebelled and verbally abused. Some scorned. Some who may have supported did not pull through with action. I trust some of his family members only went in out of familyhood, not that they believed.

Here are tips on how we can support change in different facets of life:

1. Patience with tolerance. Your wife wakes up and says, I am going to live with our son, if you decide not to come, I’m going anyway. Patience.

2. Open mind with prayers. Without an open mind we will fail to see the benefits or how we can plug into change or negotiate.

3. Understanding. Doing #2 should lead you to review, research and understand. The world is in need of prayer warriors and champions that are not manipulating desperate seekers with, “fi adura yi ranse si eniyan marun ki adura re le gba!” (send this prayer to five people for your prayers to be answered)

4. Participate. If you are on the “no” wavelength, you cannot contribute to change. You cannot change a system outside of a system. One of the sisters that said to me after the fact, “I am not comfortable with praying on Facebook” is a trained intercessor of Pastor Joseph (Joe) Olaiya’s Prayer School! She didn’t pray about it, just rebelled against the change by not praying when it was her turn. Thankfully, someone offered to pray during her week and she was replaced.

5. Share your constructive contribution and criticism to help shape the change. Sharing is carrying. It was the concern raised by one person which had dropped in my spirit ahead of her sharing that led me to make the page private. Hence, it is only visible to those we invite or those who offer to join. No doubt this keeps us limited to the circle of faith.

I thank you and pray that God will keep our eyes and ears of divine revelation open in Jesus name.