SAM ADEYEMI

COACHING
PROGRAMME
COURSE SERIES
LEVEL 1
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COURSE
10
I AM MORE THAN THIS
 INTRODUCTION

The account of creation in the book of Genesis chapter one clearly describes the awesome
and magnificent working power of God. Order was restored, life started and systems
were put in place from just one word… Let there be light!

From this declaration, God’s unlimited power gave birth to several others and still does
up till this moment. Therefore, from the revelation which God has given, you must dig
deeper for other potentials for your manifestation, see yourself the way God sees you and
step out with expectations.
 CHAPTER ONE

MAN – CREATION OF VALUE

“Then God said, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the
earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in His
own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and
subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every
living thing that moves on the earth.”

God created man in His own image and likeness. From the dust of the earth, God
breathed into man’s nostrils and he became a living soul. He created us to have dominion
on earth. It is a curse for man to be dominated by anything in this life. God must have
said in His mind, “You don’t know who you are, and you don’t know what you can do.”
So God blessed them. In effect, He was saying; “I’ll tell you what you can do.” And He
said, “Be fruitful and multiply.”

You must understand that this same God was at work in the beginning. In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of
the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”

In the course of creation, God looked at the darkness and saw possibilities in it. All God
did was to call out these possibilities He had invested in creation. Though it was dark,
God saw the potential for light. God said, let there be light and there was light. If the light
was not there, it would not have shown up, but it did simply because the potential for
light was right inside the darkness.

God created other things until He came to the crown of His creation, Man. Man was the
best of the very best, the reason for the whole creation experience. God said, “Let us
make man in our own image.” In other words, “He will be a creator like us, who will
have potential and unlimited ability like us. God made man, but man had no clue why.
Until he was told what he was capable of doing, he did not stand the chance of being the
best he was designed to be. God said to him, “BE FRUITFUL!” Why? Because He knew
the potential He put inside man. Man had the ability to multiply.

God would never have said this if the potential to accomplish it had not been invested in
man. God said this because man had been given the potential to dominate, create, rule
and ‘go over’ in this life. He said man should rule over the work of His creation.

It does not matter how hard, how tough or how rough it has been, you have the potential
to ‘go over.’ And you will ‘go over’ your present challenges. God will lift you beyond
your current limitations today.

You have the potential to succeed.

YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES

The interesting thing about God is that He sees things the way they are. But beyond that,
He sees them the way they could be. And all through the scripture, God was always
speaking to the potential He saw in people.

Let us examine the first set of people God named and the names He gave them.

“This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made
him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and
called them Mankind in the day they were created.”1

The root word Adam in Hebrew is MANKIND. God looked at Adam and Eve, He saw
them the way they were - a man and a woman. But beyond that, He saw the potentials
inside them, so He did not call them what they were but what they would be –
MANKIND. He saw the current over seven billion human beings on the face of the earth
today. Thus when He looked at them, He named them by what they could be. God knew
if you shook hands with Adam, you were shaking hands with billions of people because
we were right inside Adam’s loins. The seed, the potential, and the capability were right
inside him. So God called them what He knew them to be based on the potential He had
invested in their lives. He called them based on what He had created them to be.

Potential is unused ability, latent power, what could be that has not yet been. God sees
you the way you could be and I am convinced that you are more than you are today. God
will help you to attain the heights He designed for your life.

There was also a man called Abram. God saw him in the midst of idol worshippers and
called him out. God looked at him and probably thought, “This man is not supposed to be
wasting away among his kindred. He is more than this.” He said to Abram, “Get out of
your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show
you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you
shall be a blessing.”2 When God called him out, He also promised to give him a son. You
know what? God changed his name. He changed Abram’s name to Abraham, which
means ‘father of many nations’. God looked at Abram, a man who did not have a child, a
man who was barren, whose wife was barren and said: “I have made you a father of many
nations.” 3
In the history of ancient Israel, when Rebecca, the wife of Isaac -- one of the nation’s
patriarchs, was pregnant, the pregnancy was difficult. She was sick most of the time. She
prayed and cried out to God and God gave her a revelation that there were two nations in
her womb4 God is interesting. How can you call two babies yet unborn two nations? But
that is His style, to call things the way they could be. So God does not just call you what
you are today but what you could be. God speaks in terms of potentials. After the two
nations were born, the parents made a mistake. They named one Esau because he was
hairy. But there should be more to a man’s destiny than having hair on his body. The
second boy was struggling with the first one, contesting for the first position. He held the
leg of his brother, and came out second.

Their parents then looked at the circumstances of his birth and called him Jacob, which
means a deceiver, a schemer, a clever man or a cunning man. They made the mistake of
naming him according to the circumstances of his birth and not according to his destiny.
He heard the name “Deceiver” all his life until when he had an encounter with God who
would not allow destiny to be destroyed.

Jacob became desperate in prayers because his brother who had vowed to kill him was
waiting for him at home. Then at the brook Jabbok, God carried out a surgical operation
on Jacob. He touched the hollow of his thigh.

“Then the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, ‘We came to your brother Esau, and he
also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him. So Jacob was greatly
afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and
herds and camels, into two companies. And he said, ‘If Esau comes to the one company
and attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”

Jacob was still calculating with his brain, depending on human effort. This had been his
problem all the while but he now remembered to pray. And God answered his prayer.
God identified his root problem; his name. God asked him, “What is your name?”6 He
said, “Jacob;” the deceiver, the cunning one. God said that was the problem; the potential
people had been speaking to inside him had been the negative one. God declared that
Jacob was more than that. He spoke to his positive potential.

“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God
and with men, and have prevailed.” 7
They called the young man Jacob and he accepted it. He believed it. The day God would
change his destiny; God looked at him and said, “As crooked as you are, as terrible as
you have been, as deceitful as you have been, I still see glory in you. It must have been
because of my investment in you that the devil went after you so bad, but I can still see
something in you and I will bring it out. From today, nobody should call you Jacob. You
are Israel, a prince with God.”

As long as you call yourself what people call you, you may never become what God
wants you to become. For example, they might call you a clerk, a messenger or nickname
you poor boy. If that is how you also see yourself, you may not attain the height God has
destined you to be. For as long as the “blind” people around you, who cannot see what
God has invested in your life call you names to bring down your self-esteem, and you
accept it, you may find it difficult to live the life of excellence that God has designed for
you. You must remember that the scripture says you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people.

Today, in some developing nations like Nigeria, you may hear the slogan, “The common
men are suffering.” Do not accept that as a reality in your life. God’s word does not call
you common; you are a treasure, you cannot be found just anywhere. God is unique.
Everything God made is original; it is what the devil makes that is common and fake.
You are not common. Yes! The fake is much more in the market than the original. But
you are special. You are original.

Dear reader, God is speaking to you today. You may have failed an examination over and
over again, but God is looking and smiling at you. He says you are a success.

This is the word of the Lord to you this day. You are a success. It does not matter how
many times you have been refused, denied or failed. You might even have been an addict
to drugs, alcohol, sex or prostitution. You may have also committed abortions. God is
saying to you today, “You are my treasured possession, my creation of value.” God is
seeing the potentials He has graciously invested in your life and He is saying, “You are
blessed”.
 CHAPTER THREE

GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS

There was a prostitute in the ancient times called Rahab. She lived in Jericho and when
Israel was about to take over Jericho, God led the spies to her house or brothel. She was
wise enough to hide these spies who were God’s representatives. She let them down in a
basket over the wall. God saved her and her family when Jericho fell. By the time they
wrote the genealogy of Jesus, her name was there. She was the great great grandmother
of King David.

You may ask the question in your mind. Can that come out of a prostitute? That is God
for you. When He created her, He did not put the gene of a prostitute in her. It was the
devil who came to corrupt the potential that God put there. God looked at this “prostitute”
and said, “This is still good enough for me because no matter how hard the devil tries to
ruin her life, the seed of greatness is still there. And what I put there, the devil has not
been able to destroy. She is still good enough for me to make a great great grandmother
of David.”

If the devil has messed up your life, you must realize that it is because God has put gold
inside you that the devil is after you. And God is going to help you discover that gold.

God sent Prophet Samuel to Jesse’s house. God told Samuel, “Fill your horn with oil, and
go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided myself a king among
his sons.”

Can you imagine that happening in Jesse’s house, a remote place down in Bethlehem?
Samuel filled his horn and went to the house. When he got there, he asked Jesse to bring
out his sons because God said there is a king among them. Eliab was called first. He was
tall, handsome, and square-shouldered with rippling muscles. He was like what we would
call, “Mr. Bethlehem”. But God shocked Samuel that day, He rejected Eliab.

“For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but
the LORD looks at the heart.”

In other words, it is not those who look like it outside who always get it, it is those who
have it inside. You may look like it but you may not have it. And if you do not have it,
you do not have it.
They paraded all the sons of Jesse but no one passed God’s test. Then Samuel asked Jesse
if he had another son. He said he had one more but he was in the bush keeping sheep.
Samuel asked to fetch him. He said, “…We will not sit down till he comes here.”5 Only
God knows why they put David in the bush. I cannot even understand why Jesse did not
remember to mention him as one of his sons. There is the possibility of David being born
an illegitimate child because there was no mention of his mother’s name. And to cover up
the shame, he was kept in the bush. When they asked Jesse about his sons, he would
bring the proper sons and hide this one who seemed to be a fringe benefit from another
woman. However, when David showed up, God spoke to Samuel, “Arise, anoint him: for
this is the one!”6 Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him.

God looked at this young shepherd boy and saw royalty in him. This may be your story
today (and there are a lot of people like this who may not look like it outside). But God is
saying, “You are the person I want; I have put the potential inside you. You are my
candidate for lifting. There is a seed of greatness inside you.”

God is going to speak to that seed, He will anoint it and you will rise out of obscurity to
become a celebrity. God, who put potential in man, will cause you to rise. All the human
beings around you may not recognize your potential. Sometimes, God puts singing ability
in people, and the first time they sing, you want to send them away. People may even
discourage them by trying to talk them out of the music career to try other things. But the
person still feels like singing, so he will try and try until the gift is expressed.

I remember this boy in my high school who just woke up one day and began to practice
on the tracks several months before the inter-house sports competition. Even though he
did not have any track records, he involved himself in several months of rigorous
training. When the competition came for 100 metres, the boy breasted the tape first to the
utmost shock of everyone. With time he became an outstanding phenomenon in sprint
events. People thought he did not have it but God had already put it in him. The boy just
cultivated it and the potential blossomed. Today, everybody else around you may not
believe in what God has put in you but there is something God put in you that no devil
can steal from you. As soon as you locate it, you rise to stardom. However dark Africa
may be, there are stars on this continent, and you are one of the products God will use to
bring light into this darkness.

God looked at Adam and Eve and called out what He knew they could be. “Go ahead,”
He said, “Be fruitful”, because He saw inside them fruitfulness. “Multiply”, He said,
because he saw potential for multiplication. He saw power, dominion, and authority
inside them. I declare to you today that God is going to touch something in your life that
will bring out his best in you that will benefit your generation and give you the key to
your breakthrough.

There was the experience of Gideon, an ancient Israeli judge. He was threshing wheat in
the winepress, which ought not to be. One should crush grapes in the winepress to release
fruit juice and thresh wheat on the threshing floor of the farm. But Gideon must have
secretly harvested the wheat in the night and carried it to the winepress to hide from the
Midianites, Israel’s oppressors at the time. The angel of the Lord showed up and said,
“You mighty man of valour!”7 Gideon denied the potential of a deliverer that God had
invested in him and queried the angel on why the enemies had invaded their land. But
God insisted, “Go in this might of yours.”8 Though the man was afraid and hiding, the
angel ignored what the man was saying because he was sent to talk to the potential inside
him, to challenge him out of fear. Though he was afraid, Gideon had the potential for
faith. He was behaving like a coward but he had courage in his heart. He was running
away from the problem whereas he was actually the solution.

And I declare to you now that the very thing you have been running away from, you will
turn around to conquer it. And the difference will be that God is going to speak to the
potential inside you. The poverty, lack, failure and insufficiency that have harassed you
so much will give way. It is so interesting that the same problem that has pursued you is
what God has given you solution for.

God does not allow a problem to come towards you for which He has not put the solution
inside you. So the angel was sent to speak not to the Gideon he saw, but the man inside.
“The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valour.”9 God saw potential. He saw
greatness. But by the time He told Gideon to go, he was giving excuses. “I am from a
poor family and I am the least in my father’s house.” He brought out all the negative
credentials and reasons why he could not do the things God was instructing him to do.
Sometimes we can behave like Gideon, but the good news is we are more than this. The
devil may have conspired with human beings, negative situations and circumstances to
beat down and downsize your dreams, but the truth is, the original one God gave you is
the one He gave you potentials to accomplish. Sometimes, because of situations and
circumstances, we keep on reducing the size of our dreams. We allow the size of our
sufferings and problems to determine the size of our dreams. For example, if you are
trusting God to supply a certain amount of money and the more you pray the tougher
things become; after a certain period of time, you may reduce the amount you are asking
for. But God is saying to you, “Dare the situation, and keep on believing, you are more
than this.”
 CHAPTER FOUR

YOU ARE MORE THAN THIS

It is interesting to note that in the scripture God appeared to people who failed; and when
He tried to reveal to them the potentials inside them, they found it difficult to understand.

Every child in our environment grows up with a dream in his heart. Some want to
become Engineers, Lawyers or Doctors. They go through school and after graduation the
reality of life sets in; slaps them in the face and shrinks their dreams and aspirations. The
devil takes advantage and brings desperation and frustration into their lives. The devil
takes this advantage to mess them up. Some write examinations at different levels over
and over again. The problem is, there is the tendency for them to begin to measure their
lives by their failures.

God, for example, came to Moses who was a murderer and a fugitive in a foreign land.
Someone who was ordained to be a leader became a shepherd, running after sheep. Then
God showed up through a burning bush but Moses tried to lecture Him. He said, “I think
you made a mistake in your choice, don’t you realize the assignment will involve
preaching, and I have to talk? But you know I am a stammerer and slow of speech.” But
God said, “I am the one who made the tongue and if you don’t have the potential to speak
with clarity, I could not have asked you to go for me.”1 The one who put the potential
there is the same person who calls. People around you may know your story and write
you off but God is the one who knows your destiny.

God looked at a murderer (Moses) and appointed him the Senior Pastor of the church in
the wilderness despite the fact that there were others who seemed better than him. For
example, his brother, Aaron was not a murderer; neither a fornicator nor adulterer. But
God looked at a murderer and thought, “It is true the devil has been trying to mess up
your life. In fact the devil was so afraid of your destiny that he killed all the children who
were born at the same time as you.” Moses was the only one in his age group because
Pharaoh had killed the rest. God said to Moses, “Everybody around you called you a
murderer but the potential inside you is not for the bush. It’s too much for sheep. You
will still lead. You will lead a whole nation.” God therefore knocked out all the
arguments Moses had and put him back on course. God sent Moses back to Egypt where
he secured deliverance for the Israelites.
You might have failed examinations before. You may have experienced setbacks and
have concluded that there is no way out. But there is a way out of that predicament.
Something inside you is saying that you are more than this situation; you can handle this
present challenge. You might be at a stage in life currently where it seems as if the dice is
turned against you. I declare that you are more than this. The word of God says; “While
we do not look not at the things which are seen…” 3

In other words, we have made a choice to go against the tide and sail to victory. We
choose to see the supernatural turnaround God is bringing our way. You might be down
today, even financially impoverished and it may seem as if there is no way out, but you
are more than this. See the magnitude of your God as One who is strong in the midst of
your battles.

When Jesus was choosing His disciples, He did not make His choice from the seminary
or Bible school of His day. In fact, when he met Simon, Simon was a failure in the
fishing business. He looked at Simon and his associates while they were fishing and said;
“These people are more than this”. He declared that He would make them fishers of
men.4 He looked at Matthew, an ex-custom officer and saw an apostle. 5. By the time
Jesus brought out their potentials, they had testimonies. At one time they had to defend
themselves before the religious elite of the time, after Jesus’ departure. The council
members looked at them; realized they were ignorant and uneducated men, but concluded
that something had happened to them because they had been with Jesus.6 Jesus took a
band of nobodies and, after three years, turned them into reputable men. This is because
He did not see them the way they were, He saw them the way they could be. He looked at
fishermen and saw miracle workers. He looked at Simon, whose name means a reed that
is unstable and saw in him Peter the rock. On the day of Pentecost, after the Holy Spirit
came upon him, the Peter in him came out courageously and preached a powerful sermon
that got 3,000 people saved.7

Despite his moments of failure, Jesus gave Peter a dream which He nurtured to maturity.
God is saying to you today, I will pull out the ‘you’ inside you, so that the barrier,
limitations, and stagnation around you can be broken.

A man called Jabez was named by the circumstances of his birth. He had been tied down
to the negative confession that his name was. He called on the God of Israel that instead
of the limitations around his life, God should enlarge his coast and God granted his
request.8
You might be thinking about your own present predicament right now, but something is
telling you, you are more than this. Just like Jabez, you can cry out to God today.

“This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his
troubles.”9

The poor here is the one who needs God’s help for lifting. Irrespective of your present
status, you can make a decision today not to downsize your dreams. Do not ask questions
like, “Why is my own situation like this?” as many do. Instead ask, “How do I get out of
this present level and step up into the greatness God has designed for me in this life?”
God will say something to you. He could not have said, “Be fruitful, multiply, replenish
the earth and have dominion,” if the potentials were not there. So, arise and get out of the
unnecessary routine and traditions that have bogged you down. Get out of stagnation. Get
out of the ruts. You are more than where you are now. You might have experienced
setbacks, failures, and rejections. But each time these things come staring at you in the
face, you should look at them squarely and say no! You must refuse to accept these
limitations as final. Brace up and say to yourself again and again,

I AM MORE THAN THIS!

Go out there and give life another shot.

You will succeed!

1. What have you been named that has weighed you down like Jacob?

a. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

b. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

c. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

Add if you have more

2. What experiences have made you lose confidence in yourself or believe you have
no potential or bright future/destiny?

a. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

b. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

c. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

Add if you have more

Say this continuously to yourself, facing the mirror for the next 14 days, until it becomes
a habit. This is based on the research that whatever habit one does every day for 14 days
becomes a habit and eventually a lifestyle, resulting in success or failure. Hence the
phrase, decision determines destiny.
I am born of royalty.

I am not common because God who created me is unique and He does not make trash.
Therefore, I am peculiar, in a unique class of my own.

I am a success. I attract success. I attract helpers of destiny and repel stealers of destiny.
I am meant for the top. I will reach the top. I am more than I am now.

I choose to see myself rising out of obscurity to become a celebrity.

Though I am currently………………………………. I know I AM MORE THAN THIS.

Hey, watch out for me. My generation and those yet unborn will be glad I came. I am
going to fulfill my destiny. I am sent to ……………………………my world.

Look at ‘me’ very well.

The ‘me’ you are seeing today, the ‘me’ that you know now will soon die and another
‘me’, the original ‘me’, will resurrect.

Watch out for me!

4. Identify just one thing that is in your heart to achieve that practically everyone has
told you is impossible.

a. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

If it is more than one, kindly state all.

5. Like the young chap that started to practice before the inter-house sport, identify 7
things you can do to realize that dream/goal in your heart.

a. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

b. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

c. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

d. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

e. ……………………………………………………………………………………………
f. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

g. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

If you have identified more, kindly state all.

6. Questions are answers. Instead of asking,

“Why is my own situation like this?” as many do.

Ask,

………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………

Quotable Quote:

People around you may know your story and write you off but God is the one who
knows your destiny. S.A.