Ministry 101 - #29

The Kingdom Cowboy

Summary:

The church will never be the church, which is us, until we, as God’s people, start connecting with the Father and start maturing in Him. That means opening up to the leading of the Holy Spirit to bless people, whether it’s an encouragement for someone to receive the Lord into their heart, or praying with and lifting up someone who comes to you for help. You don’t have to be some high-powered ministry to do this. All it takes is love and the help of the Holy Spirit for you to help God’s people to be all they can be in the Father.

Show Notes:

• It’s so important to get people to look at the little everyday things that they go through, and see where they can see God moving, because He’s trying to set us up for something much greater, depending on how good of a steward we have been with what He has already given us.

• When talking to someone, we should never try to push any conversation around to Jesus. Ministry usually opens up when someone seeks you out to tell you their problem or the concerns that they are having. They are trusting you enough to talk about it, which is a great sign that they are asking for help.

• When these situations with people start happening to you, it’s because God has been working His heart in you to respond. As we are faithful in these things, the Father starts to give you more opportunities to bless and help people.

Quotes:

• When you start to see those signs and honor God in those situations, He test you in the natural to see if He can trust you with the supernatural gifts.

• God tests us all the time, just in the natural course of life. When we start to get more aware of the kingdom and more aware of what God’s doing, we notice those things more.

• If God has your heart, He can get your feet where they belong. God is sovereign in that there are things in front of us that He wants us to respond to in a kingdom way.

• When you are in the right place with the Lord, ministry comes to you.

• The Father made all of this stuff where it’s simple. If we just do it, it always works. It works every time.

• You are not going to get proficient in ministry unless you do a little of it.

• I’d rather miss by doing something, than miss by just playing it safe all the time.

References:

2 Timothy 4:2

Takeaways:

We will never be effective at ministering to God’s people until we step out and allow the Holy Spirit to move through us. We only get efficient at ministering after we do it several times, even when it’s uncomfortable and we don’t know what we are doing at first. All of God’s people are crying for someone like us to bless and lift them up.