Rise Up and Rebuild - Felix Okoh

There is something powerful about hearing a man preach about rebuilding when his own life is a testimony of what God can do with a surrendered life.

From travelling to South Africa in his late twenties with little more than a dream and a conviction that God had ordained more for him, to becoming one of the leading voices in South Africa's real estate space and building a 10,000-seater church, the journey of Felix Okoh is a living reminder that God can change the trajectory of a life.

At Rhema Feast Day 3, his message was simple, yet piercing: Rise up and rebuild.

Drawing from Nehemiah 2:18 and 2 Kings 4, he reminded us that before something is rebuilt, something must have been broken. But brokenness is not the end of the story. Circumstances may have changed, opportunities may have disappeared, and seasons may have left us wounded, but we must never allow what happened to us to become the definition of who we are.

To rise up is to show up.

Felix Okoh

Sometimes, there comes a moment when we must stop crying over what was lost and take responsibility for what can still be rebuilt. After fasting and praying, there must come a time to go out and do something.

The widow in 2 Kings 4 had almost nothing, yet the prophet asked her, “What do you have?” She had oil. And that oil became the beginning of her restoration. Felix reminded us that everyone has something. There is always oil, an ability, a gift, an idea, a relationship, a resource, an opportunity waiting to be stewarded.

But oil requires vessels. And vessels speak of capacity and relationships. If we want God to entrust us with more, we must become capable of carrying more. We must cultivate quality relationships, expand our capacity, and refuse to remain comfortable with smallness.

His message was also a call to Africa: it is time to rebuild. It is time to stop borrowing endlessly and begin recognising, developing and using the resources God has already placed within us.

You may have started small. You may have suffered loss. You may have been delayed, overlooked or surrounded by circumstances that seem bigger than you. But your beginning does not have the authority to determine your ending.

Rise above your circumstances. Take responsibility. Use what is in your hands. Build again. Because what God begins in a life can become greater than anything the past ever suggested.

Though your beginning was small, your latter end shall greatly increase.

Job 8:7