PHANEROO~DEVOTION 18th March 2016 KISSING MOTHER & FATHER II Apostle Grace Lubega

[1 Kings 19:19-21]; So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.  And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

The mandate of a spiritual authority in your life is primarily  to reproduce himself in you and pray that you do better than them. He should not seek his own but  fruit that abounds to your account. The Bible says consider every word that has been spoken to you, knowing from whom you learn(2 Tim 3:14). The people we learn from are not seeking favour or any advantage from us. They do not lose when we walk out; another will walk in who needs what is upon their lives if they are walking upright with God.

However, it is painful to every spirit of a father who realizes that he must reproduce himself when he sees this child he saw as a gift to the body of Christ and laid hands on him, but finds the same child in the same state years later. He is not advancing anywhere and the father cannot trust him with anything. Such a one cannot even be moved to do much in the kingdom because he is comfortable tending over oxen than redeeming nations.

Most of the people who rise up in ministry did not just wake up one morning and found themselves where they are now.  When the spiritual men and women sought to reproduce something in their spirits, they responded. They knew what was done to them. Hands were not laid upon you for you to fall down, get abit dirty and go back home and come back the next Sunday for the same thing. It's what you got up with that matters, Understand what was done to you.

Excerpt from the sermon: THE RULE OF THE MANTLE by Apostle Grace Lubega

The mandate of any spiritual authority in your life is to reproduce himself in you and pray that you do better. He should not seek his own but fruit that abounds to your account.

Scripture Reference: 2 Timothy 3:14, 1 Corinthians 4:15