The excellence factor - By Gibson Annor-Antwi

The Excellence Factor

Text: 2Ch 2:7,13-142Ch 2:7 And now send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and one who is skillful to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided …

•Professional Qualification•Team work attitude (engrave with)

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2Ch 2:13 And now I have sent a skillful man blessed with understanding, of Hiram my father,

2Ch 2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson. He also can engrave any kind of engraving, and can invent every device which shall be put to him, with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

•Exceptional professional qualification•More than team work attitude•Proclivity to easily acculturate with Solomon’s workforce

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And Hiram the king of Tyre answered in writing …

• Solomon advertised for someone with the requisite professional qualifications to create very exclusive ornate designs in metals and textiles.

• The King of Tyre sent him Huram, who had the requisite professional qualifications with an X-factor!

a)Exceptional professional qualification:Stone, wood and linen.

b)More than team work attitude.Had the proclivity to easily acculturate with Solomon’s workforce, being a blend of Tyre and Danite parentage.

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Solomon’s Advert in the Tyre Times

Hiram’s Response

And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in :

• gold, and • in silver, • in brass, • in iron, • in stone, and • in timber, • in purple,• in blue, and • in fine linen, and • in crimson;

also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

Solomon’s Request

• Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in:

• gold, and • in silver, and METALS• in brass, and • in iron, and

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-• in purple, and • crimson, and TEXTILES• blue, and that

can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.


Metals are either beaten into the required intricate shapes or are melted and poured into moulds to form the predictable shapes or ornate designs.


Stone and wood demand precision cutting, and chipping.


Any careless cutting/chipping renders the parent material ruined for good.



• Embroidering is tedious and patience-demanding.• It calls for attention to details.• A little carelessness can cause the yarns to snap or

break!

HURAM-ABI’S EXCELLENT ATTRIBUTES

• Attention to details• Precision: target hitting, chipping• Tenacity and patience for tedium • It calls for attention to details.• Carefulness • Team work and leadership skills



Reflections for this Morning

• When does transformation occur? Under pressure. “ This may also be as a result of an accelerant or change agent to form the complete product. Diamonds are formed and chiselled under pressure; so is gold mined and smelted … [Ukaiko –Transformative Learning and Faith Integration]

• For some of us, our students, staff and church members may be metals (gold, silver, brass, or iron), others stone, wood or linen.

• What X-factors do we have to develop or acquire during our training as students, in order to become professionals with excellent attributes such as Hurambi had?

• How are we going to respond to the tedium of course work and other extra curricular activities, that have the potential to sharpen our leadership and professional qualities?



Ponder Quotes on Excellence

• If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” Colin Powell quotes

• “Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character” - nhsalan

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Ponder Quotes on Excellence

•Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.” Rick Pitino

•Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

John W. Gardner•If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” Thomas J. Watson, Sr.



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What’s your Prayer?

Dear Lord, grant me the grace to excel in all I do here in the Pentecost University College?

Amen!!!

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The excellence factor - By Gibson Annor-Antwi