Count the cost and pay the price

1 Kings 3:4-5 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

When one talks about paying the price, the flesh immediately gets scared because it doesn't want to lose the comfortable position it may be in at the moment. But that's the normal thing anyone who wants to sit at the table of great men has to go through. And it's interesting that if one is not willing to pay it now, they are simply postponing it for a later time. 

Legally, when one purchases something from the shop, they use a currency acceptable in the country they are in, so it is with greatness. It has a price tag to it, which is suffering and trials. Am not talking about suffering because you have stolen or have been caught in adultery but suffering for doing good. What good are we doing but to share the gospel? There's a famous quote which says of anyone desiring greatness, "What have you survived, and what have you been through?"

As you desire to occupy a place in ministry, prepare to usher in the glory of God by way of sacrifice. 

Further scriptures 

2 Chronicles 5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

2 Chronicles 5:13-14 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD; So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

Luke 14:28-33 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have [sufficient] to finish [it]? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish [it], all that behold [it] begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.