For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted [Luke 14:11].
THINGS THAT MAKE MINISTERS I
Child of God, be delivered out of the thinking that you need to be in the limelight in order to make a statement. There was a time when I thought that I had to be seen by the cameras, that when one is on the frontline then he is ministering. Until I met some of the deepest ministers in the back end, God humbled me. Then did I start to understand this backend principle.
Your ministry begins from the back coming to the front. Never seek to start from the frontline. If you know the things some of us as ministers did in other people’s ministries, things we do not tell because we do not want to lose our blessing, you will understand that we did not get where we are by accident. We did not work it out. We followed a certain pattern by the spirit and he led us to where we currently are.
The first day I visited a certain Asian nation, I heard that there was a Ugandan minister who was to minister somewhere in the morning. I was to also have a very big meeting in the evening. When I heard this, I went for his meeting simply to usher. I became an usher not because I had nothing else to do, I know the lines and patterns of growth in ministry.
There are people who do not want to first usher or do any of the ‘menial’ tasks in church. They want to walk through the door and start preaching immediately. There are people you see ushering or cleaning chairs, they are not immature, they are only living after the pattern. If you miss that pattern and go up, you will still come back down. That is why some people go so high and come back down. There are things in this life you will always repeat until you get the mastery of them and this backend ministry is one of them.
FURTHER STUDY: Galatians 6:9, 1 Peter 5:6
*GOLDEN NUGGET*: Your ministry begins from the back coming to the front. Never seek to start from the front line.
*PRAYER*: Oh Lord we thank you for such wisdom, the patterns by which men grow, the very things that take men up and ensure that they stay up. This knowledge is at work in us. This is the evidence that when we shine, we will always shine. When we rise, we will never fall. When we progress we will never regress. We serve in understanding. We commit and submit ourselves in this understanding. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
