PHANEROO~DEVOTION 7th March 2016 CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINE I Apostle Grace Lubega

[1 Timothy 3:6]; Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

There are things that happen only to teach us the most cardinal lessons of our life. You tell a young man that he is an anointed singer and so you give him an opportunity to sing.  When he gets the microphone the moment he gets onto the pulpit, he thinks he is serving his own opportunity without understanding the spirit and vision that put him up there or how that spirit drew the people before whom he stands.

The next thing you know is that the one who was invited to sing is preaching not under conviction but with the preposterous mind simply to prove that he can also preach. Before they play the CD, he starts, ‘the book of Jeremiah says…’ and he starts teaching and the next thing you see is that some people are stumbled by his indifference. The instruction was simple, sing. If the instruction is for you to give a testimony, simply give a testimony. Yet for some, before you know it, the young man has preached a whole one hour sermon, no self-control whatsoever, which self-control is supposed to be a fruit of the spirit.

I went for overnights of young men back in the day who stumbled many. They seemed to be mature but sadly they were not. The young man is told that there is an overnight and that there are three preachers, one is preaching from 11pm-12pm, another is preaching from 12pm-1am another is preaching from 1am-2pm. He gets on the pulpit at midnight and preaches up to 2.00 am because he claims that "the Holy Spirit" led him.

You cannot be led of the Holy Spirit and not have self-control. What was at the back of the minds of some ministers is that people had to hear them and acknowledge that they were deep; to understand that they had something to put on the table. Some simply wanted to prove they  could preach better than even the pastor. Some of them left their home churches before the appointed time to go, and started churches elsewhere, life became so hard because they flouted the principles that could have made them great. A man of an excellent spirit will never seek to prove his craft. He will just wait for the opportunity that the Lord will create for him and whether it is in the valley or the village, he will always thrive.

Excerpt from the sermon: OF THE EXCELLENT SPIRIT by Apostle Grace Lubega

A man of an excellent spirit will never seek to prove his craft. He will just wait for the opportunity that the Lord will create for him and whether it is in the valley or the village, he will always thrive.

Scripture Reference: 1 Timothy 5:17, Galatians 6:4