25/07/2023
YOUNG MINISTER
If you want to go far in ministry run away from these five (5) things. They all start with the letter 'F'.
1. Fornication:
1 Cor:10:8- NIV
'We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them didβand in one day twenty-three thousand of them died'
Any time you fornicate, something dies in you. The potency of your call declines. Doubt this to your own detriment. π₯Ί
2. Fame:
Isaiah 14:12-14
'For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the North'
*Note: you could never have (it) except it's given.- Allow God to exalt you at the set time.
3. Financial Obsession:
2 Tim 4:10
'Demas has left me. He loved the good things of this life and went to Thessalonica'.
*Demas was actually more connected to Paul than Timothy, he made a shipwreck of his ministry because of materialism. He was to be Paul's direct assistant: but he lost it to the love of money.
4 Fraternity With Fools:
Proverbs 13:20
'He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Many young ministers ended up in occultism and mysticism.
REMEMBER, blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in seat of the scornful... Flee π
5. Familiarity With Disregard:
Heb:12:28 - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with Reverence and godly Fear:
There are people who have lost Reverence for God because they feel He is too merciful. Our Reverence and godly Fear doesn't mean legalism. In as much as He is our father, we shouldn't be too Familiar to a point that we lose this godly Fear and Reverence.
* Also, respect and honor your pastor and spiritual leader. Don't allow over familiarity make you despise your spiritual leader.
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