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FOCUS ON CHRIST, NOT RESULTS: SHORT NOTES ON VISIBILITY IN MINISTRY (5
In the previous part we established that ministry must derive from communion with the Lord. I must add that even results in ministry that are acceptable to the Lord must also come from communing with the Him. So you see why the focus should be the on Lord and not results?
Any result that is not drawn from the Lord is a lie. Why? This is because only Jesus Christ is the TRUTH (John 14:6). This means even results can be a lie—that’s why there are lying wonders which are wonders not sourced from Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:9).
Proofs too can be a lie: Potiphar’s wife presented proof beyond every reasonable doubt that Joseph was with her but it was all a corpulent lie —(Genesis 39:11-2. Once again what makes a result or proof in ministry a lie is not that it does not solve problems on the ground, it is that it does not originate from a healthy communion with Christ. Only Jesus Christ is the truth!
Sadly, some ministers today do not seem to care where their results come from as long they prove to their colleagues in ministry that they are not failing in ministry. They mix their faith not with patience but with compound unrighteousness.They seem to forget that we all shall account to the Lord in the hereafter. They are like a certain Nigerian politician whose soul had been so inebriated by vanity that he declared in the delirium of temporary grasp and control of fleeting power thus,
“ I’d rather be lionised here and be humiliated in hereafter than to be humiliated here and lionised in the hereafter. “ How foolish could a man become?
The Lord blows very hot on punishing all those who get results outside of communion with Him in the following passage:
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?And then I will declare to them, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU’; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ (Matthew 7:21-23, emphasis mine)
The stern proclamation by the Lord, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU’ does mean that the Lord is oblivious of their existence. The word KNEW in the Greek is not mental knowledge but intimate, conjugal knowledge, mostly the kind that a man has of his wife during copulation. The Lord can have this knowledge of His saints (albeit spiritually )because the church is is His bride.
So the Lord is saying that He does not have communion with these wonder workers — therefore their works are null and void. The reason is their works do not derive from a deep communion with Him. Their results are tantamount to a married woman getting pregnant by another man who is not her husband and expects the husband to take responsibility for the fruit of infidelity.
The Lord would simply not be omega to anything that He is not alpha to! Getting results outside of communion with the Lord—outside the ecosystem of Christ, is the classic definition of iniquity! Hence the punishment meted to them is heavy.
This is why it is a very terrible thing to get results outside of communion with the Lord! For more on this, get my book, KINGDOM RECALIBRATION here:
https://linktr.ee/ApostleAromeOsayiBooks.
May the Lord have mercy on us all and give us the grace to stay focused on Christ alone for the rest of our pilgrimage on this side of eternity in Jesus’ precious name!
With love from your brother,
Arome Osayi.
A house is just a house, it's happiness and peace of mind that makes it a home. It doesn't matter what you do or where you live. It doesn't matter the size of the house and how much you spent on it. If you can't find happiness in your home, life becomes a misery. It doesn't matter if it's a rented house, your own house, a friend's house, a family house or a statehouse.
Happiness is from within. External stress can be avoided but internal stress is more painful than death. Without happiness or peace of mind a house is just a house. One of the most painful things in life is not to have rest of mind in your home where you lay your head. A homeless person is not a person without a house, but a person who is always unhappy when going home.
So...✍
If you truly want happiness in your marriage. Stop cooking what your partner hates to eat (Not talking about food). Be open to communication. You can discuss your daily activities with your partner but avoid bringing job or business related stress to your family and make them pay for the sins they knew nothing about. Make your matrimonial home a place of comfort and peace. Because a person who is never happy going home, may never stay at home.
*Pictorial Description of Sustainable Marriage*
*1. You noticed that the ground is green, and the man is lying on the green pastures as the foundation of the Home*
*2. Watch the woman.She is not fully on the man.She used her two hands to get strength from the green pasture,which means her hands are partaking from the foundation, too,and her whole weight is not on the man.The woman is to reduce the weight the man carries. Don't be a wife that will increase His burden..*
*3.The children mount on the woman and not on the man,that is,the woman train the children directly on behalf of the man..the children happily climb their mother but hardly see that their father is supporting the buttocks of the woman to balance the family,while the woman uses her hands and knees on the floor to reduce the weight on the man.*
*.. This is how marriage works.....* *Wishing Each And Everyone Of Us A Beautiful New Day.*
Siyaka Success
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