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Course 119: Discovering & Fulfilling your God given ministry - Lesson #5
THE BASIS OF MINISTRY: SPIRITUAL DNA
To seek first the Kingdom and its righteousness (Matthew 6:33) includes making discovering and fulfilling our callings and ministries a central plank of our lives because we would be fulfilling the vision of God and the Kingdom here on earth when we do so, rather than humanistic ambition! When saints live in this 'other worldly' way, they will be distinguished clearly from their unbelieving neighbours who pursue fleshly ambitions after vanities of this world! That is why Paul was used of the Holy Spirit to explain in Romans 14:17-19 that the Kingdom of God is not accumulation of stuff here on earth but a life which rests in the finished work of the Cross evident in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit!
In plain language, a summary of what we have said so far can be put thus: 'saints who have not made understanding, pursuit and fulfilment of their destiny manifested in the specific call of God on their lives are hurting themselves in the now and will be ashamed on the Last Day, if they manage to make it by hanging onto the Grace of God in Christ Jesus. It is through our callings and the supporting gifting that we are fitted to excel in some specific sectors of life and ministry - whether domestic or public; whether in the pulpit or in the Market Place!
Our gifts are designed to make a way for us before humans and bring us favour and open doors in those areas in which Abba has uniquely called us. Our race, gender, age, financial status, dress sense and other natural factors of success pale into insignificance when saints begin to flow in the call of God upon their lives! Truly speaking, such saints simply swim in the river of grace without needing to struggle against the current as many do.
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Personal Message
The Global School of Ministry is birthed, by the providence of God, to be the arrow head for raising a generation of ministers of the gospel whose singular passion will be restoration of His glory, amen. These are men and women who will allow the Holy Spirit to work out the character of Christ in them first and empower them with the anointing to minister to God and His saints.
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Course 119: Discovering & Fulfilling your God given Ministry - Lesson #4
Understanding the Concept of New Testament Ministry.
Ministry is not a title, nor the exclusive right of a caste of priests like the Levitical Order of the Old Testament. In the present dispensation called the New Testament, God has made each saint part of His Temple. He does not just dwell in the hearts (spirit-man) of saints in a dormant posture. Jesus lives in each saint and desires to use each saint to express Himself to the Church, sinners and society generally. Our beings therefore are simply designed to be vessels through which the Holy Spirit manifests Himself or, to use a contemporary idiom, 'shows up' when need be! Please read all of Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4:1-16 and 1 Peter 4:10-11.
1 Corinthians 12:7
7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
Ephesians 4:7
7But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
1 Peter 4:10-11
10As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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Course 119: Discovering & Fulfilling your God-Given Ministry - Lesson #3:
Between The Order of Levi, Nimrod & Melchizedek
The Old & New Testament Concepts of Ministry
Every system of worship is mediated by a particular form of priesthood. Each priesthood order is the basis on which the way people worship the deity they are beholden to stands. Religions have structured priesthoods structured on rank and manifested by external symbols which adherents use to distinguish the 'greater' from the 'lesser'.
One of the critical problems confronting saints is that many were born into environments and systems that are rooted in 'Christian religion'. These systems leaned heavily on either Judaism or the religion which sought to 'replace' it, Rome. Over the years, Rome had basically appropriated the priestly caste of Judaism, modified it and made it the basis of its world-view which divides adherents into two broad classes: Priests and Laity. Most of the offshoots of Rome - including fruits of the Lutheran Reformation invariably found the allure of this dichotomy too great to ignore. The priestly caste has thus been sustained even in Pentecostal and Charismatic ministries which are modern offshoots of the Protestant movement.
Unfortunately, what many saints have been doing all these years is to basically try to store the new wine of the gospel of the Kingdom in the old wineskin of two cornerstones of Judaism:
- a professional priestly caste called 'the clergy' and
- massive investment in religiously designed building men described as 'Churches' to take the place of the Temple.
Here is how Jesus defined the impossibility of what many have tried to do with the Church and the Old Testament structures:
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Course 119: Discovering & fulfilling your God given ministry - Lesson #2
Necessity of proper preparation/training
It is needful to state that newly saved saints and those who are not trained are not expected to jump into public ministry without being processed first by God or without accountability to anyone. To be gifted without the character which comes from intimate relationship with God, being accountable to any one or better still a leadership council is dangerous. The process of God includes training, education and mentoring.
Wrong Reasons and dead works
To jump into ministry because of the allure of money; failure in so called secular work or out of ambition to be seen and known or even because of 'natural' leadership talents and other non-spiritual qualities can be disastrous!
Impure motives and natural qualities will only produce 'dead works' of religion because they are based on what can be seen with the carnal senses rather than what the Holy Spirit is doing through a willing, yielded vessel. It is interesting that saints will take time to study for their various 'secular' degrees that will qualify them to serve society but find it difficult to submit to training in order to function optimally as fit-for-purpose ministers of the gospel.
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Joseph Kamau Ndiritu I love you brother George, you have been molding my life with your posts in Frontline Intercessing, Global school of ministry, Global mission Fund. Am benefiting alot.only that i could not download for my church members bible study class coz i use my mobile phone to study online. keep on posting there are many pastors like me in africa who survive through your teachings.
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