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Course 119 - Course 119 - Discovering and Fulfilling your Ministry Lesson #7
17 Ways God Calls...
Ways God can call you into specific ministry
In every true sense, every believer is called into ministry. This is attested by various scriptures which reaffirm the priesthood of all believers John 15:16, 1 Peter 2:9. Beyond that general call there are specific ways through which a saint can know that the Lord is seeking to arrest attention or apprehend him/her for the purpose of serving in a specific sense to build up the Body of Christ generally or in his/her local assembly.
In order to fully discover, pursue and fulfil your ministry, it is important that you understand your spiritual DNA as it reflects what God has made you to be. What is exposited here are the various ways a Christian can hear from God concerning his or her life. This is the bedrock of testimony as you appear before any council set up to ascertain readiness and/or suitability for public ministry.
1. Audible Voice. God speaks audibly to some people. You can have a divine visitation in which He calls you by name and tells you He wants you for service. This was the case with Saul of Tarsus in Acts 9:118 and Samuel in 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
2. The Written Word. God can call you through the quickening of specific verses of scripture that minister to you. The quickening can occur when you are in a church service or when you are alone. Those who make it a regular habit of studying and meditating on the Word of God have the greatest chance of receiving inspiration from God Psalm 1:13;2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Timothy3:15-17.
3. Ministration of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit communicates the call of God to prepared vessels. This was the case of the apostolic call of Paul and Barnabas in Antioch Acts 13:14.
4. Burden of the heart. A call can be discerned by a burden the Lord lays on a heart of an individual which refuses to be shaken off. Such a burden fixes your gaze spiritually on a given aspect of the work of the Kingdom.
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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 #6
SCOPE OF MINISTRY: Primary, Supportive & Hybrid
It is important to realise that it is God who determines the scope of ministry. In other words we should not allow self manifested as ambition, competition or other carnal considerations to propel us into ministry. Romans 12:3 speak of acting in proportion to faith.
Romans 12:3
3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
We should not therefore exalt ourselves beyond what God has called us to do. Ambitions, love of money and power to control other people have been used by Satan to lead many people to run off prematurely to do public ministry as lone rangers unaccountable to anyone. As we grow in Christ, it will become obvious that the reason why God gives each saint a measure of grace in callings and gifting is to make us inter-dependent, needing each other to be complete in Him. God wants us to use His call on our lives and gifts given to engage with other saints as organic parts of Holy Spirit led Kingdom communities - whether as cell fellowships, local congregations, city Churches or non-denominational ministries.
In the classic Kingdom setting, no human or natural family should 'own' a ministry, acquire and use its assets to foster personal ambitions and use saints as cannon fodder. God has chosen unity as the pathway for expressing what His Body is Ephesians 4:1-7
What this means is this: as we discover our gifts and callings, the idea is not to receive a declaration of independence from spiritual relationships to which God has called us. This makes it imperative for every saint to find out from God beyond any shadow of doubt, answers to these questions:
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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!
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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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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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