"FOR WE DO NOT WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."
Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV)
• The condition of your heart should be right when relating with a minister.
IN the Church, the fellowship where you worship, Or the ministry you identify with, you should not allow those who have yielded to the devil rope you into any conspiracy against your pastor Or the leadership.
YOUR heart condition when following a minister should be right.
- Gehazi had a wrong heart, a wrong motive, as he followed Elisha.
- However, Elisha in his apprenticeship under Elijah, followed with a good heart.
- Joshua also had a good heart in following Moses.
- Some started well in following a Prophet BUT later derailed: Aaron and Miriam; Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; Gehazi, AND all others who rebelled against the delegated authorities over their LIVES, they all started well, but later allowed rebellion in their hearts (Numbers 12:1-3; 16:1-4; 2 Kings 5:20-27).
THE RELATIONSHIP with your Prophet is covenant based. - Do not join other people, rumour mongers, to speak against your Prophet.
- Prophets could have flaws, an they have not fully allowed God to have His Way, there is no one who does not have one weak point Or the other.
- God always brings Prophets out of the mess, in order to use them.
- "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord WHO has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry,
- ALTHOUGH I WAS FORMERLY A BLASPHEMER, A PERSECUTOR, AND AN INSOLENT [violently arrogant] MAN; BUT I OBTAINED MERCY BECAUSE I DID IT IGNORANTLY IN UNBELIEF."
1 Timothy 1:12,13 (NKJV)
THUS do not look at the mess of your prophet.
- Your prophet might have done what is wrong at the time of ignorance: "Truly, THESE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED, but now commands all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30).
- You must be wise in handling your prophet’s mistakes and the MESSAGE.
- A prophet’s mantle is different from the person of the prophet: "So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. AT ONE TIME WE THOUGHT OF CHRIST FROM A HUMAN POINT OF VIEW. HOW DIFFERENTLY WE KNOW HIM NOW! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" (2 Corinthians 5:16,17, NLT).
- Stop looking at the person of your prophet, but rather looks at the mantle.
NOTE: IT does not mean a prophet should be living in blatant sins and you ignore it, and still be following him.
NO, THAT is not what I am SAYING: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? CERTAINLY NOT! HOW SHALL WE WHO DIED TO SIN LIVE ANY LONGER IN IT? (Romans 6:1,2).
• Take note :
- Do not allow familiarity in order to avoid contempt.
- Do not give room for any negative discussion about your prophet.
WHEN other people come to you to rebel Or conspire against your pastor, do not consent: "MY SON, IF SINNERS ENTICE YOU, DO NOT CONSENT" (Proverbs 1:10).
• In addition to that, you should understand how to relate with your pastor Or prophet By sowing material things to his or her life (Genesis 8:22).
- There can not be a season of harvest without a season of seed sowing.
- The writer of the book of Ecclesiastes says there is time and season for all things (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
- And God told Noah after the flood IN Genesis chapter 8:4 that seed time and harvest time shall not cease.
- When you missed the seed planting time, you may beg in the time of harvest: "The lazy man will not plow because of winter; HE WILL BEG DURING HARVEST AND HAVE NOTHING" (Proverbs 20:4).
- Your wisdom and faithfulness is shown, seen, in the time of harvest.
IF you begged in the time of harvest, it means you did miss it IN the time of seed sowing.
NOTE: the future you desire is IN your seed.
YOUR greatness is in your seed.
THE FULFILLMENT of your vision is in your seed. - If you eat your seed YOU may stay long in the captivity.
- Your dream or vision for your ministry would become a reality when you understand and obey the PRINCIPLES of seed sowing highlighted IN the Bible—which we have shared and expatiate in this piece.
• Why the seed sowing is important?
- Because the power to become is IN the seed.
- It is a cardinal law that you can not wish away.
- Everything on the earth operates by this principle—law of seed and harvest, sowing and reaping.
"While the earth remains, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, and Day and night SHALL NOT CEASE."
Genesis 8:22 (NKJV)
- If you eat your seed, YOU beg in the time of harvest.
- Your seed will pull you up, move you to the top—create a chance for you at the top.
- Your seed will open the doors of opportunities for you.
• Take note:
- Seed opens great doors for you. (Proverbs 18:16)
- It will open the doors of favour for you.
- It will open the ministerial doors for you.
- It also will open the doors to cities and nations of the world for you.
• If you do not believe in this principle, you might not experience the supernatural speed and favour in what you are doing.
- There is a place of fasting and prayer, yet fasting and prayer would not take the place of the seed sowing and do the work of the seed sowing.
- What your seed will do, the Doors your seed will open, fasting would not do it.
- God honours OBEDIENCE not crying and wailing.
YOUR crying does not move God, what moves Him is the obedience to His principles.
"A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men."
Proverbs 18:16 (NKJV)
THE gift the Bible talks about in the passage is your financial gift, the seed you sow, not your talent.
New Living Translation renders it thus: "GIVING A GIFT CAN OPEN DOORS; it gives access to important people" (Proverbs 18:16).
- Your seed is your gift, monetary or material things which you sow Or give, to A minister of God Or the ministry, that will in TURN announce your talents or gifts, makes your talents or gifts KNOWN Or recognized.
• You will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace!
TO BE CONTINUED