03/12/2022
On ministry and Understanding ministry.
The call of God is not a burden, it's a privilege, and it's important that we know that. I see a lot of people making standards out of the coinings of men, hence finding ministry difficult. Primarily being called of God demands trusting him to prepare you as you yield, and make you what he wants to make you, not what you want to make yourself, or what men feel you should be. A lot of young ministers are under pressures that do not have eternal value, because they want men to see them as a kind of minister and as a result have lost the primary assignment of theirs given by the caller and are chasing assignments that vogue handed them. Note the following
1) you must be trained to do ministry, it's a must, But don't loose your assignment in the process of training, don't start trying to fit into a pattern that's not yours, this can be the reason for many struggles.
2) Excellence is compulsory in ministry, mediocrity is not good. But don't kill yourself with bills that will change your message, excellence is not cheap and it's not necessarily money, it's achievable at every level. Don't use the A.C. that will send you out of ministry😃. But is A.C. bad ?. Absolutely not. But it's not strong enough to put unnecessary pressure on you, you cannot be losing your peace because you don't have it🙄. If that happens, unhealthy competition is in your heart whether you admit or not, unfortunately, the people you are competing with might have the means. Can you be patient enough to wait for your time? , can packaging feed people's spirits?. In fact it's packaging because it's not you. Stop the fake appearance , if you stick to preaching Christ, the outlook you desire will be your comfort zone. Note that when that time comes you will still have to release your faith for them, but growth would have made it easy to do so. Faith is different from trying to manipulate your way into having those things. BLESSED
Written, 3rd December 2018