Impact Despite Setback

THURSDAY 3^RD JULY 2025

TOPIC: IMPACT DESPITE SETBACK

SCRIPTURE: The king of Aram had great admiration for Naaman, the commander of his army, because through him the LORD had given Aram great victories. But though Naaman was a mighty warrior, he suffered from leprosy. 2Kings 5:1 (NLT) 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: To wait until you have no challenge at all before making impact is to live and die useless.

 Our anchor scripture makes it abundantly clear that it is possible to live an impactful life despite setbacks. It is possible to have outstanding results in life and command the attention of your generation despite setbacks in personal life.

Challenges are parts of life to varying degrees. Everyone has one little challenge or the other, in one area or the other, and at one point or the other in life. At every point in time, you are either celebrating victory or confronting a challenge. And to celebrate victory means you just came out of a challenge. It means you just overcame an obstacle. The only person who is without a battle, a challenge, or a problem is the one in the graveyard. To wait until you have no challenge at all before making impact is to live and die useless.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 says, Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest (NLT).

If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done. If you are waiting until every condition around your life is perfect, you will never get anything done.

Beloved, note that the excuse not to do something will always be available. Naaman had great qualifications, even though he was a leper. He proved that one could make impact despite setbacks.

First, the Bible said that he was a captain of the host. That is, he was the chief of staff of the Syrian Army. In other words, Syrian army could not go into battle until Naaman had given the command.

Second, the Bible said that he was a great man with his master.

Third, he was an honorable man.

Fourth, by him God gave Syrians deliverance.

Fifth, he was a mighty man of valour; he was a first-class soldier. He was a military strategist. He was a war lord par excellence. All these qualifications and achievements came ahead of and overshadowed his identity as a leper. He did not allow leprosy to frustrate his destiny.

Meanwhile, in Naaman’s day, there were people with two hands, two feet, strait nose, clean skin that could have been the Chief of Army Staff but none of them had the capacity, audacity, ferocity, brutality, strategy, and stamina of Naaman. So even though he was a leper, he commanded non-leprous people. He had more impact than non-lepers. He was a leper, but he affected his generation positively.

Beloved, never permit any setback of your life to render you irrelevant. Never allow any condition to make you useless. Never allow any setback to set you at the back.

And I don’t care what setback you may be dealing with in your life now, if you can make up your mind that no adversity shall stop your destiny, you will command the attention of your generation.

Remember this: To wait until you have no challenge at all before making impact is to live and die useless.

ASSIGNMENT (S):

1. Stop looking at your ‘limitation’; start taking advantage of what you have and maximize every opportunity that comes your way.
2. Refuse to exit this world without making a mark.

PRAYER: Lord, thank You for Your investment in my life. I receive the grace to manifest every deposit of your grace in my life. No setback will stop me from making impact, and no adversity shall stop my destiny, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

 FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: IMPACT DESPITE SETBACK

 DAILY BIBLE READING: Proverb 16-18

 QUOTE: Never hold anyone responsible for your success or failure in life. If you want to reach your destiny, be responsible. Culled from the book, Road Marks to Destiny by Dr Paul Enenche.

AMAZING FACT: Cuttlefish have three hearts and can change their skin color to blend into their environment.

PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: Receive the audacity to make impact despite any setback in Jesus Name.