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Each minister of the Gospel represents so much. Everything about your life as a minister of the gospel matters to God. He cares about you far more than you
realize.
When you have sent yourself or the devil, you will know. You will be debating. You will not seek to please God. Questions that you are to ask because you want to do right
or want to be sure, you won't ask them. You would only do what selfishness or satan makes you do.
One of the first things that Jesus said was one of the signs of the believing ones, was casting out demons in his name. Demons torment people with fears, doubts, thoughts and inflict diseases.
Satan distracts. He is an expert in distractions. He has many ways of doing that.
But he focused on God's word.
"Turn not from it to the right or to the left". He instructed Joshua to be focused on his word.
Then there is the distraction of Human wisdom; when your reasoning is brought into God's word; and that is dangerous.
Don't explain scriptures with human reasoning. Sometimes they think they have a revelation but it's ignorance.
You cannot use a natural mind in explaining the scriptures. The scriptures are God's word, not physics. God's word is not science or logic. You have to understand
this.
The ministry to which we have been called is spiritual and that's why your prayer life is very important. There are ministers who sleep every time they want to pray. They are too tired; they speak in tongues for a short while then they drift off...
So, the devil steals from them.
Being a minister, there are gifts of God that will be in your life. There could be the assumption that you are growing when you are not. There has to be that personal
development of your spirit and a true and rich fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
Without that, you will move into the realm of sense knowledge in the understanding of scriptures.
God cares about each one...each minister far more than you realize. He cares about your health, your finances, he knows your location. He knows everything. There is
nothing that you will tell him that he doesn't know already. He knows your struggles.
So, you may ask, "So if God knows that I'm struggling why isn't he doing anything about it?" Because He's already done everything.
Stop struggling. That's what you should do.
When Pastor tells you "You're too serious", he is trying to say "You are carrying too much care".
God told us on the scriptures "Be anxious for nothing but in Everything by Prayer and supplications with Thanksgiving, make your request known unto God*. Just say what you want. Don't be anxious.
I've seen lots of suffering from people at the healing school. Some sick for 10-20 years, so I asked God "why do people suffer so much".
He took me to the scriptures and showed me that man that suffered for 38 years. The Lord knew he had been in that condition for a long time.
The Master comes and doesn't heal him in a hurry but asked him "Do you want to get well?" John 5:6-7 NKJV
The man was busy explaining his situation. He was trying to answer a question that was not asked. He wasn't focused on his healing. He was focused on his frustration.
Even at that time, he didn't request for help.
He could have said 'If you can help me get into the water when it is stirred, I will be well_
The women with the issue of blood had a different attitude. She knows if she took a certain action, she would be well.
We are in a spiritual ministry. Everything comes from the spirit. The bible that you hold and believe in, is a compendium of extraordinary and miraculous stories.
Why could your life be less?
What God wants for us is a life of the supernatural all the time.
The life of Jesus was a constant stream of the miraculous.
He just went on and on...
It's like 'half full and half empty.
Pastor first cast out devils 43 years ago. The more you walk with God, the more you experience it. You discover it's not a once-in-a while thing. I've come to recognize in my walk with God...even in my life... The spirit of God is working through me.
You have to set yourself up that way.
The level of wealth that God is taking you to is much greater than what you know.
As you are leaving here, God and cast out devils. You will know who they are and how to function. He chose us to serve him and he gives more grace to make things happen.
When the disciples prayed that God should stretch forth his hand to heal, God didn't do anything but filled them with the Holy Spirit so they had boldness to preach and do his word.
Sometimes the things we desire to see in ministry so that we can fulfil his calling, what you need at that point is more grace.
That's what he is doing for you now.
He is gracious. He knows you more than you know yourself. He answers your questions and He will stand up tall in you.
He gives strength to the weak.
All he is asking of you is to follow him.
He called you before you were born
He protected you all the time from when you were a little kid.
He kept you from doing what other kids were doing
He protected your mind so carefully because of what he wanted to do.
Stop asking questions because He already made you an answer. From now on, when thoughts or worries come to you, Laugh Because God chose you as an answer not as one seeking answers
The Lord is far more gracious that we can imagine. Sometimes, when you look at some things that happen to other people, we become afraid because of what happened to them. We become careful.
You cannot allow the experiences of other people control your relationship with God. Don't let it happen to you.
What's important in your life is what God has planned for you.
Remember the words of David "he leadeth me beside still waters... He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his Name sake..."
That's what He will do for you...for his name's sake.
There are troubles, distractions...but there is a right path.
It's narrow, but He leads you.
Your love for Jesus Christ is all that counts. What will you give him that He doesn't already own? What do you say to him that he doesn't already know?
He will lead you and keep you in the way that you should go.
Did you know that there is a trajectory of a man's life from which he cannot turn from because of his parentage, environment where he grew up, environment in which he
lives, Including spiritual environment...
So, he is in that trajectory from which he cannot turn. One day, I was praying and talking to the Lord about destinies. I used the term "aeon". I wasn't talking about
natural human destiny but about God's plan. He interrupted me with an interesting word. He said "I CREATE AEONS". He replied me in the same terms I was using.
In the spirit, words are like pictures.
When He talks, you see. (Like you imagining what it is that is being spoken to you)
But in the spirit, it's far more real. You actually see.
So, talking about destinies, He creates destinies. If God had a plan for your life and it was a certain direction... He can still change that! Some things are better than others. There is a way you are supposed to be, you never change, you can only get better in it, but to be another man... That can only happen by the Holy Ghost.
Remember Saul. He was turned into another man. God gave him another heart.
You know yourself more than anybody knows you. The only radical change that can take place with you which man cannot make happen, God alone can make happen.
God alone can turn your life into a life of laughter and victories. Then you will be amazed and look like a little boy again.
If God could do it for than man, he will do it for you. It's his plan.
When you say "I just want to serve God with my life"...
Does he hear you? He heard it before you said it...and those devils have no chance in your life.
The most beautiful gift from God is called Wisdom
Isa 61:3 NIV
They will be called Oaks of Righteousness, a planting of the Lord...for the display of his splendour.
He says this will happen to them at the Millennium. Then v6: You will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of the nations. Understand Peter, putting all these verses together and understanding the will of God for His church.
Understand the will of God for His church and understand that this is fulfilled in the church age through the church.
Israel will get this when Jesus returns but the church already has this.
1 Peter 2:9
You were called for the display of his splendour.
These are no mere words; these truths have been given to us as real treasures.
Meditate upon them. Use them to live your everyday life.
If you see from that perspective that is the life you have.
That will be your everyday life.
It's not something you struggle to do.
Don't work at it.
You're not going to become what you already are!!!!
Don't work to become what you are, it will be an effort in
vain.
Here is what God expects of us:
God showed the promised land to the children of Israel and told them to dispossess the land and not to make treaties with them.
Why? Because you are a holy people unto God. You are different.
Their whole lives were centered around the Temple because there was where the presence of God was. Their lives centered around the God of Israel.
What's is your personal service of God.
Have you ever thought about it.
You? How do you serve God?
Is there anything personal about what you do?
THE KINGDOM OF GOD- THE STRUCTURE IN THE KINGDOM
Who are those in the Kingdom of God?
Hebrews 12:22
Notice He calls it a city.
It is the city of the Living God. It is called the Heavenly Jerusalem and it has myriads of Angelic Beings.
V23: We are registered there. God himself is there. Jesus is there. As at now, the spirits of all righteous men of all ages are there.
That is the city.
John describes this same city for you in Rev 21 and 20.
When the scripture says "The bride of Christ", it doesn't mean the Church. It is THIS CITY.
The church is just a part of it.
The Bride of Christ is this Kingdom.
The church is just a part of the kingdom of God.
God has got structure.
The church is very special in God's plan.
When the General Assembly for the United Nations is called, it's not every citizen that goes. There are reps.
In the Kingdom, there is also a general assembly.
Those in the church and joint heirs with Christ are different.
You'd better know the life he has given you and you'd better live it.
In living in this world there has to be a daily consciousness until you are unconsciously consciously working in it
Realize that you live from another world. You carry the atmosphere of your world into this earthly world.
You are born again. You have a new life in Christ. You are not from here, you belong to another kingdom. When you were born again, your human life was supplanted with a new life. You are not from here.
In the Kingdom, you are not just chosen into it, you are Born Into it.
When the Children of Israel went out of Egypt, they went with their own atmosphere. They went with their own cloud. They went through the desert and we're shielded
from the heat of the day time. As they moved, their atmosphere moved with them. At night when the desert was so cold, the fire of God gave them warmth. Your own atmosphere is more real, much more spiritual, powerful and richer. You carry your own atmosphere of our kingdom.
So, when you are at your office...you are playing their game with your own set of rules, it must be in your consciousness.
Each one of you is described as a miracle worker, you have to believe it. If you don’t know this, then you don’t know Jesus.
1 Peter 2v9
This is a special race. The chosen race. Purchased with the blood of Jesus, special people.
WATCH YOUR TONGUE
You are special, you shouldn't rush for a bus. The world is yours. The way you move matters, amidst the busy street, don’t forget who you are. Walk like dignity. SQUARE UP, CHEST OUT, CHIN UP, don't let anybody rob you of who he's made you.
There is a way the rich eat. Eat that way.
Never forget who you are.
Jesus already gave you honor. If you don't believe in the honor that he gave you, at least believe in his honor and that he sent you to go in his name. That's a good place to start.
Say to yourself "I am special and I'm being treated Specially... Including persecution".
Display God's virtues and perfections. You are a miracle worker. When you arrive, the answer/solution has come.
Things that would not work will start working because you are there. Because of you, that company is blessed.
You entered that place with Angels. Because of you, that city is blessed. That family is blessed.
No panicking. When you show up, everything is alright. That's the life he gave you
This is a military thing! Understand it. When you show up, demons are at attention. They don't know what you are about to say. You may not see them, but that's what happens. The only ones they don't give that regard to, are those who misuse the name of Jesus or who disregard his name.
But for you, when you arrive, they are at attention or they panic. They tremble at your presence. "Now that I've come, everything is alright. No panicking, no shaking. No fear. Everything is alright "
Jesus has made you a miracle worker. Don't make light of his word.
I am called to perform miracles. To do things supernaturally.
Abraham did. Isaac did. The prophets did. Jesus did. The apostles did...and I do!