The five fold Apostolic ministry has two objectives.
1) to set people’s broken lives back in proper place with God so they can heal.
2) then help them gain strength & empower them for individual ministry.The problem with a lot of saints is that they never want to be totally healed!
Some people want to always have something wrong with them - marriage problems, money problems, sin problems, emotional problems, sickness, etc.
They like the all the attention, & sympathy they receive!
( I’m not talking about people with prolonged sickness they have to live with everyday! I’m talking about people that always seem to find new sicknesses & develop new problems all the time! )
The kind of people you just hate to ask them how they are doing because you’re afraid they’ll start telling you!
That’s why those people never mature into ministry - they’re still sick!
Wounded soldiers are not fit for battle!
Wounded saints are not fit for ministry!
That’s not the will of God!
The will of God is to totally heal every broken life & equip them for ministry!
Mat. 7:5 - "first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye."
When your eye is healed & OK, then you will be able to minister to others!
Mat. 9:12 - "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."
When Jesus completely heals your broken life He expects you to become His assistant, not His best patient!
Yes, I know that even doctors\nurses get sick, but when they’re sick you don’t see them in the operating room!
Revelation: They didn’t spend 8 years in school to be sick patients! They want to be practicing doctors that can help people!
Jesus had that same philosophy - "... the Son of man ( not the Son of God, this refers to his humanity ) came not to be ministered unto, but to minister!
In Luke chapter 4 Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness praying\fasting, & being tempted by the devil. After that he went into the synagogue at Galilee.
He was given the book & he stood up to read.
Notice: He didn’t start having a pity party for himself!
- "I’ve been fighting the devil for 40 days."
- "I feel so bad right now. You just don’t know what I’ve been going through."
He said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me to minister to those who are blind, bruised, & broken hearted!
Church, there’s nothing in your life that the Word of God & the Holy Ghost, working through the five fold ministry, cannot heal, repair, & restore!
God has called you to more than just salvation!
God has called you to complete restoration, & God has called you to ministry!
Eph. 6:10 - "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord ..."
Don’t ever settle for being a weak, anemic saint when you can be a strong, Holy Ghost anointed & empowered minister to a hurting world!
God is ready to make you ready for ministry!
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