Ministry

 

Who knows what my perception of ministry was, I think it might have been something along the lines of if you are a prophet you can only prophecy, if you have the gift of healing that is what you do. To be able to minister to people in any way you need to know the Bible by heart what verse goes where and the meaning of each of them.

You can be in ministry no matter what you do or where you are. Who you are in Christ always comes through in your daily life, a house wife and mother, or a ceo at some big company, it if about the willingness for God to use you. Yes, it can be tiring and draining you Spirit runs empty

 I had a friend working at one of the busiest shops in town, she touched so many lives just by being who she is not only in herself but who she is in Christ.

 Another friend if I can call her that is an amazing singer song writer, I think that she has the most amazing platform and she can reach so many people, with who she is in Christ and through the lyrics of a song she gets to write.

 We are all equipped with different things but also the same things, Luke chapter 9:1-2 it tells us in such a nice way

 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

 JOHN 17:21-23

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

The same power that is in Christ is in us, we must trust Him.

 Luke 9:10-17 the disciples was out doing what Jesus send them to do, as they got back they testified of the demons obeying their orders, why? They new and believed in the authority given to them.

We tend to get caught up in what we are doing so that we get drained and tired, and sometimes we forget to be still and feed ourselves as the disciples didn’t eat that day of the 5 fish and 2 bread. That is when Jesus will take us away to spend time with Him Rebuild our strength, but instead we only feel the loneliness and sometimes the emptiness and we pull away from Him.

If we keep pulling away, we won’t be able to hear His voice and we won’t be able to grow, look at it this way if you have a plant and you don’t water it, it will start hanging it’s leaves looking like it doesn’t want to continue with life. Then this magic happens when you water it, it starts to pick up it’s leaves again with us it is the same, we pout into others until we can’t yet still we try boom crash nothing left to give, the time we get pulled away to be alone is not a punishment but so that the living water of the word can give us new life.