14/09/2025
PASTOR, YOUR CALLING IS NOT A CAREER (PART EIGHT) ...
There was a day you said “Yes, Lord.”
And the LORD recorded it.
It was not a job offer.
It was a call to die.
You said, “Here I am, send me.”
And the LORD took you seriously.
But now…
You are negotiating that call like a business contract.
You weigh invitations like a paid consultant.
You review honorariums before you Accept Invitations.
You demand deposits before you prepare.
The sacred is no longer sacred to you.
You are still using His name,
But now with terms and conditions.
Oh, what has happened to you?
Ministry was never meant to become a career path.
But you have become a professional preacher.
You now invoice the burden.
You now monetize your prayer life.
You now move like an employee of the anointing.
“Freely you have received; freely give.” (Matthew 10:8)
But you now charge for what was given to you in the place of Trust.
You now sell what came by mercy.
You now package what came by sacrifice.
And the altars you once wept on…
Have become stages you now negotiate.
You say, “Full-time ministry,”
But your posture is not of a Levite it is of a merchant.
You are selling The Grace GOD Gave You.
Have you not read?
“My house shall be called a house of prayer… but you have made it a den of thieves.” (Matthew 21:13)
You may not steal money,
But you have stolen the priesthood.
You have taken what is holy,
And turned it into livelihood.
You’ve taken the calling…
And made it your convenience.
You say, “I’m just honoring my worth.”
But priesthood was never about your worth.
It was about your Scars.
It was about your altar.
It was about you surrender.
And now that you’ve stopped bleeding,
You’ve started bargaining.
Oh Pastor, be careful.
When the call becomes your hustle,
When the ministry becomes your market,
When the altar becomes your invoice table…
Judgment is already close.
Because God is not your client.
He is your King.
And He does not share His glory with hirelings.
PASTOR, BE CAREFUL.
The LORD will ask what you did with the calling
Not how many meetings you were paid for.
Not how many flyers carried your face.
Not how many invitations you declined due to “budget.”
Return.
Before it is Too Late..