Feasibility Study

Friend, this is the time to take action. Things are becoming more complex with the increasing complexity of the world. We are already in the third month of the year running, all the words God has been unleashing to you, what have you done with them? I think you need a personal review, I do to. You are needed beyond the four walls of the church. You can’t sit down ruminating on if the leading He is giving you would work. We are in a journey of faith.

Faith is ever valid; it doesn’t fail. Faith is a great force that makes grace find expression. Now, I want you to see why you cannot do anything phenomenal this year if you don’t do something with what you have been receiving by faith; taking the giant step.

I know you might have heard about the concept of “feasibility study”. When an entrepreneur or an organization develops an idea and want to invest in such, some people on the project  come together to check how viable the idea is; If they would make profit or not. The result will determine where to go. So, it is a preliminary study undertaken to assess whether a planned project is likely to be practical and successful and to estimate its cost. So, feasibility study can come up with an outcome that would discourage investing because the measures shows negative. In essence, feasibility study is the decider of action.

That is quite essential, however, that would not work for divine leading (ideas). The Israelites have had the prophecy of inheriting Canaan. It was to become their possession by God’s command. This was not a physical feat. Now, they were so close and the Lord told them it was time to take the land. The book of Exodus made us to understand spies were then sent by Moses to the land to do feasibility study on God’s word. It was a normal military strategy to go view the landscape of where is to be overthrown, but, these spies went for something different. The guys chosen to go into the land weren’t going with the settled mind of what God had said. They only wanted to go and see if it was possible; if it was worth the risk- feasibility study.

“Moses sent them out with these instructions: “God northward into the hill country of the Negeb, and see what the land is like; see also what the people are like who live there, whether they are strong or weak, many or few; and whether the land is fertile or not; and what cities there are, and whether they are villages or fortified; whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are many trees” Num 13:17-20

The Lord already told Moses how the land was and He was going to take them there. Unfortunately, they chose to do a feasibility study on God’s word; they wanted to be sure God was right.

“And I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perissites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey” Exo 3:17

However, when Joshua was about leading the people into the land of Canaan, he was more conscious of how God would have them take the land. The two spies Joshua sent were to go see the land as the normal military routine. They went for a view, not testing all the components God already outlined. How would you weigh God’s word on man’s approval? So, they came back with a report referencing God’s promises not just about their ideas.

“Now, Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying “Go view the land…” Joshua 2:1

Friend, when God gives you an instruction/direction, all you need do is move. Trying to find out if it would be profitable or successful is an insult on God’s integrity. You don’t do feasibility study on God’s word. The feasibility study Moses conducted turned out bad for the team, it prevented the whole nation, except a few from entering.

“But I vow by my own name that just as it is true that all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, so is it true that not one of the men who has seen my glory and miracles I did both in Egypt and in the wilderness- and ten times refused to trust me and obey me- shall even see the land I promised to this people’s ancestors” Num 14:21-22

It is natural for God’s ideas dropped in your heart to look unattainable. So, embarking on a feasibility study on if it would work or not will breed fear and doubts into your spirit. This was exactly the situation of those Israelites. You don’t have to be looking for how God will do it when you have not trusted Him enough to start; get on doing something about it.

Is it a ministry you ought to have started; maybe teaching those young girls about God; starting a prayer chain for the nation or reaching out to the less privileged? Do you have a business idea that you know was never a natural idea but you are afraid if it will yield? Is it an investment? Has he told you to go preach to that hardened girl/boy, but, you feel the person may never change after all? What has He told you to do?

“God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall not make it good?” Num 23:19

Doing feasibility study on express instruction of God to you is a disservice to yourself. Get on it!

Have a blessed week.

Be Innovated

Olufemi Ibitoye