PETER’S SWOT ANALYSIS

I want to share a thrilling thought with you about one of the most impactful apostle in the New Testament church, and the fact that he excelled after conducting a honest Swot analysis on himself which helped him grow in areas of his weaknesses in ministry. Most believers forget that ‘Men of God’ are Men hence deify them as gods’. Fortunately for us, Peter acknowledged his humanity in the assessment of his strengths and weaknesses.

Swot analysis is the examination of a person by looking at Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of such a person towards identifying areas for development in life and ministry. Most people do that in the marketplace to plan for their path towards achieving career success and impact for those of us in full time ministry. It’s important for those in politics to understand their comparative advantage over their opponents.

However, I’m elated to Inspire you today from scripture on the above subject. I found a passage in the bible that captures the Swot analysis of one of the greatest Apostles in the Bible. ‘Then Peter said, silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk’ (Acts 3 v 6). That is Apostle Peter’s SWOT analysis in brief, and we shall be taking a closer look at the 4 analysis. We shall dissect the scripture above, hoping to extract Peter’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities.

FOUR (4) COMPONENTS OF PETER’S ANALYSIS

1. STRENGTHS: Peter clearly said, ‘such as I have…’, meaning, he knew what he possessed as strength. There is no one on earth who doesn’t have something to offer his generation, the problem is that we haven’t discovered our ‘such as I have’ advantage in life. We have strengths within and talents without but haven’t acknowledged them as strengths for us to bless our generation. Pause and think about it now; WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO OFFER?

 

2. WEAKNESSES: Peter started out by mentioning what he lacked and didn’t have when he said, ‘Silver and gold have I none…’ Wow! that sounds like he knew his weakness and what he lacked. The beggar wanted money (one way to solve the problem), but he lacked that and was weak financially but dug deeper within to produce something else he had that could do the same job and even better. Pause and think about this; WHAT DO YOU LACK?

 

3. OPPORTUNITIES: Peter and the other Apostles must have passed that crippled man for years but didn’t see any opportunity for manifesting their talents and gifts until that faithful day. The Bible tells us that the man was carried there daily to beg for alms and for over forty years, but the Lord opened the eyes of Peter to the opportunity before him that day and the rest is history. That healing ‘launched’ Peter into the supernatural in ministry. Pause and think about this; WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DO YOU PASS BY DAILY UNAWARE?

 

4. THREATS: There are always people that will be threatened by your emergence and you shouldn’t halt your talents because of them. The Pharisees and Sadducees attacked this healing and rebuked Peter for this. There are many external threats to your success in life and ministry, and those people may feel you are taking what belongs to them. This is the only place that I differ from Pastors who see their colleagues as ‘threats’ because I feel happier if someone gets saved in another church or even leaves mine to another towards spiritual growth. We shouldn’t be threats to ourselves but the devil and atheists who are threats to us. Pause and think about this; WHO ARE THE THREATS TO YOUR WALK WITH GOD AND SUCCESS IN FAITH? 

Let me stop here before I turn this article to a sermon or Booklet. Let’s run some SWOT analysis on ourselves today on our walk with God and not pursuit of money or career paths alone.

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