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| Revival cries for the world change. Church, Catch the FIRE!!! www.boilingpointgospelcentre.org Spirit's Voice 11 Article: Emphasis on the Holy Spirit. |
The greatest need of
the church today is not money as many had been made to believe. Striving to
make money as a great prospect in ministry is nothing but a bash misplacement
of spiritual priority.
When you have money, they claim, you can purchase
sophisticated musical or sound equipments; you can also hire the best or most
qualified workers; with money you can still erect a pleasing to the eye
cathedral, Schools, hospitals, universities and other edifices; with adequate
finances, one can travel far and wide; you can organize programs like crusades,
seminars, conventions…
But critically speaking, it does not mean much nor a big
deal to succeed by ordinary natural methods, because all these do not first and
foremost make a ministry with divine backing or approval. Without God’s back
up, all one can do is to only imitate others or take after worldly fashions and
give the ministry a superficial outlook and name.
What a tragedy of ministry
with so much earthly initiatives, focus and abundance; but deficient of God’s
power! That is why our Lord Jesus ensured a clear direction to successful
service in God’s kingdom only in Spirit and Truth (Jn 6:24).
And in His
discourse to the disciples before His ascension, He also made it clear to them that
they only need to depend on the power of the Holy Ghost as they journeyed into
ministry without His physical presence.
Acts
1:6-8
6 Therefore, when
they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this
time restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7 And He said to them, "It is
not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own
authority. 8 But you shall receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
NKJV
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