“Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the Prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?” Acts 8:29-30

For believers to be successful and accomplish great things in life, God must be involved (Psalm 127:1 & John 15:5). We also have a part to play (1 Corinthians 3:6). God’s words are of no value when we don’t act decisively, promptly, and timely on them. When God gives us an assignment, we must accelerate to accomplish it. It takes acceleration to accomplish great things in life. Philip knew that hearing from the Holy Spirit alone amounted to nothing but when hearing is combined with action it caused great things to be accomplished. After hearing the Holy Spirit, Philip took accelerated action by running to join the eunuch chariot, thus God was able to use Phillip to lead the eunuch to salvation. If Philip had walked, he would have missed the golden opportunity of ministering salvation to a man going back to his country after a fruitless search for a living God. It would have been impossible for Philip to catch up with a man riding a chariot, just like it would have been impossible for a man today walking to catch up with a man driving a car.

Acceleration is critical in order for one to succeed in the assignments given by God and man. Acceleration makes dreams become realities; acceleration makes desires become fulfillment and goals to become accomplishments. Contrarily, procrastination, going with the status quo, ineptitude, and being lackadaisical will all rob us of accomplishing great things in life. Many people fail in life because they do not take timely action to “run after their chariot.”

Webster’s dictionary defines acceleration as the act or process of moving faster or moving quickly. It is also described as a change in the rate of motion. This described what Philip did; he accelerated his action from walking to running. Philip, a messenger of the living God, ran after a dying man in search of a living God.

For us to reach greater heights even above our human capacity, we must strengthen our feet and accelerate towards our chariot even when we don’t know all the details. We must join the leagues of people who accelerated their speed in order to accomplish great things. David was a man who accelerated and accomplished great things. He accelerated towards Goliath with a shepherd’s staff and five stones to bring down Goliath, even in spite of being at a disadvantage as a civilian, a youth, with no armor, or armor bearer (1 Samuel 17:48).

Zacchaeus was another man who accelerated and ran with urgency to climb the sycamore tree and Jesus saw him and ended up in his home (read Luke 19:4). Abraham also accelerated and ran to meet the angels; he ran to inform Sarah about the angel’s presence and to prepare a meal for them. This singular act changed the life of Abraham forever as the time of the birth of the promised child Isaac was confirmed by the angels (Genesis 18:1-10). When we don’t accelerate, what is supposed to be a blessing can turn into a curse. Elijah warned Ahab that his lack of active obedience (acceleration) may turn his blessing to a curse (read 1 Kings 18:44).

There are acceleration breakers that we must avoid or remove from life’s journey: the Bible calls them weights and sins. Hebrews 12:1 says, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”

These sins are: ungodly habits, lack of faith, fear, procrastination and ingratitude.

This month is our month of acceleration. I pray that God’s hand will be upon us to accomplish great things and to grant us the grace to identify and to remove every “acceleration breaker” in our lives in Jesus’s name.

I welcome you to the month of October, our prophetic month of acceleration.

Pastor Tope Dosumu