Equipping The Saints / #51

Summary:

Without a close, intimate relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together, your chances of walking in a ministry are next to none. With the help of the Holy Spirit, all of us should be desiring and walking in the anointing and gifts that God has given to us. All of us can, and should, be getting fed to go out and communicate the good news with everyone that the Lord leads us to connect with. Walking in a ministry is very simple if you drop the fear and intimidation of connecting with and touching people out of your heart and spirit.

Show Notes:

• Our main objective here at Trinity is not just to feed people, but to equip them to process the information, so that they are able to communicate it to the people they come in contact with. That way the word becomes perpetual. “Teach these things to faithful people, who will teach others also”.

• Ministry is so much more simple than people make it out to be. It can come at a restaurant with a friend, or out of the golf course, where something is brought up and you are able to talk from your position on what you have learned.

• The most important thing about doing ministry is having a close relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together.

• The five fold ministries talked about in Ephesians 4 are to be equipping the rest of the body for the work of the ministry. God didn’t establish them to “do all the doing”.

Quotes:

• People come to church with the main idea of getting fed, but to do nothing with it is a futile effort, in my opinion. They are not thinking about giving that away to somebody else.

• You are carrying more than you realize you are. And, you’re not going to realize how much you carry unless you’re in a situation, in real relationships, where this stuff comes out.

• Ministry is not something we do, ministry is someone that you are. All we’re doing is being able to tell our story, based on where we are in the Lord, and how we’ve grown up in the Lord.

• You’re called to the work of the ministry. That means putting one foot in front of the other. Keeping obedient to God, and listening to what God is saying to you. So, start to find out your place in the body by finding an area of need in your church and step in and start to helping out.

References:

Ephesians 4:1-16

Luke 15

2 Timothy 2:2

Takeaways:

God’s true church will never be what it is supposed to be until everyone in the body of Christ starts to wake up and starts walking in the anointing and gifts that God has already given to each of us. The Lord has given us all strengths in Him to walk out if we will just stop sitting around waiting for someone else to do it.