The purpose of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers is to perfect you...to fully equip you as a DISCIPLE of Jesus Christ...not so that you can sit in your church Sunday after Sunday like a "bump on a log".
God's purpose is that you walk out of your fully equipped to go back into your sphere of influence...your home, school, work place...full of the power and authority of the Holy Spirit to spread the Gospel, to break the devil's power, to cast out devils, to lay hands on the sick, and to MAKE OTHER DISCIPLES who will do the same!
Wow do you realize what's happening to you and I when we are under a ministry year after year? We're BECOMING DISCIPLES...DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.
As a DISCIPLE of Jesus Christ, you are a FULL-TIME minister! Your main profession is not being a housewife, police officer, doctor, teacher, secretary, carpenter, accountant, farmer, or retired. The world system with the devils help has deceived the body of Christ. We need to get our eye off of the worlds business. Get your eyes off the tools of your trade.Our main profession being a Disciple... a LIVING WITNESS... of Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.*
*Our main goal... our main purpose as a DISCIPLE...must be to build the kingdom of God upon the earth. Our desires must be focused upon fulfilling the commission Christ has given you of "MAKING DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS."*
JESUS TRAINED AND EQUIPPED HIS DISCIPLES TO DO THE SAME WORKS HE HAD DONE
*We need he Holy Spirit to breathe upon us, as He did upon the early Church, to shake us out of the traditions that are binding and holding us back. We need the Holy Spirit to give us a clear vision...to cut through our man-made ideas and methods of doing things, so that we can understand what God has called us to do.*
*We need a fresh Baptism of the Holy Spirit that will place a burning desire and commitment deep into our spirits,that will make us willing to set our minds to fulfill God's plan and purpose regardless of the personal cost to us.*
*We could be in the final days just before Jesus' returns. We don't have time to play games. Our Churches need to face the problems and quit covering them up. And we can no longer set around and do something about them. We need to get these things out in the open and face them head on in the strength of the Name that is above every Name...Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God!*
*We can never reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ from behind the pulpit. Never! We must have a breakthrough in our environment...in the church...where members of the Body of Christ have a fresh vision of the work God has called them to do, and where they respond in single-minded obedience.*
*Throughout the world, God is raising up a mighty end time army of men and women...who are full of power and anointing of the Holy Spirit Who are equipped with signs and wonders as their credentials, who are united together for one specific purpose
...to proclaim the Gospel of the kingdom of God in a DEMONSTRATION of power throughout the nations of the world!
You are part of this end time army.
**So let us all leave 2011 behind and start the New Year out by becoming Mighty Warriors for our Lord Jesus Christ!**
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