NEXT LEVELS IN THE MINISTRY REQUIRE A HEALTHY FAMILY.
DON’T LIVE SEPARATELY FROM YOUR SPOUSE, BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, THE HUSBAND WILL HAVE A DEPUTY WIFE AND THE WIFE, A DEPUTY HUSBAND.
GENUINE MINISTRY STARTS FROM HOME.
IF THE FAMILIES ARE STRENGTHENED, THEN MINISTRIES SHALL BE STRENGTHENED.
SUCCESS IN THE MINISTRY CAN BE TASTELESS AND FRUSTRATING WITHOUT A HEALTHY FAMILY.
DIVORCE IS NOT PART OF THIS FAMILY TREE.
-Pastor Mrs. Faith Oyedepo on ‘HEALTHY FAMILY FOR NEXT LEVELS’ at 2023 International Ministers Conference Covenant University Chapel 11th May, 2023 || PART A
In this First Session right now, we are looking at a subject captioned, ‘HEALTHY FAMILY FOR NEXT LEVELS‘.
Next levels in the Ministry require a healthy family. By way of introduction, it is important for us to understand that every Ministry whether you are an Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher, Prophet and Apostle is made up of families, because there is a member of your Ministry that represents a particular family.
Therefore, it is very easy to understand that if the families are strengthened because they make up Ministries then Ministries shall be strengthened, isn’t that simple enough? And vice versa.
Now, coming to talk about a Minister and his health in 1 Timothy 3:5 and 12, if a man doesn’t know how to rule his house which is a smaller unit how can he rule the Church of God? Genuine Ministry starts from home – Charity they say begins from home.
-Therefore, in this ‘Next levels’, I pray for everyone under the sound of my voice today whether you are on ground or you are online, that the grace of God for each one of us never to fail in this assignment shall be multiplied.
It is said and I believe it is very true that the Light that shines farthest shines brightest at the base.
This is so important that we find in the Scriptures at the beginning of the miracles that Jesus did, showing forth His glory.
-In our marriages and families beginning from today, greater glory and grace shall be released.
It has become a commonplace even on the altar, the things that were so far-fetched in those days are happening today.
They say to themselves, ‘This is my Sugar, this is my Honey’!
They call each other all kinds of names on the altar but before they got to Church, they got themselves involved in a heated argument that the neighbours heard them. It is even so serious including physical abuse – You beat each other, you punch each other.
Please you do this as a Teacher and as a Prophet and you want the unction to flow? Let’s get back home.
In the words of Mother Theresa, ‘You get to Heaven and your spouse is not there’? God forbid!
You get to Heaven and your children are nowhere to be found? God forbid!
Minister of the Gospel, you and your spouse are keeping malice, you don’t talk to each other for days?
I read a story of a particular woman who after a particular Service went to the altar, sat down there and refused to go back home – What is the matter? You know what she said? That she knows that at home, there is trouble.
-We shall make it! Together we shall make it! The grace is released unto us!
There are things that happen even in the home as Ministers of the Gospel which are not proper.
You can’t leave one (Either the husband or wife) in Kenya and the other one in Nigeria, before you know it, the husband will have a deputy wife and before you know it, the wife will have a deputy husband and then you will start binding the devil, you opened the door to him.
The rate of separation and divorce used to be in the world but now it is so rampant – Not only Honey, your Sweetie, your Love and a few Sundays after you come with somebody else, it is not so in this family tree.
-Grace to mend the fence is released in Jesus’ Name!
In the Scriptures, you will find out very clearly that the Apostles led their wives about Matthew 8:14.
Peter, a man of depth and revelation – You find out that his house was conducive for Jesus during his Ministry. And so his family members were partakers including Peter’s Mother-in-law and they were beneficiaries of the Ministry of Jesus Christ. How about Noah? Genesis 7:1.
-No matter the evil in the world today, you and your family shall be exempted.
How about Eli in the Bible, sad story! A Minister of the Gospel! 1 Samuel 2:12. His children did not walk in the ways of the Lord and so the end was very devastating, he died a death that was so shameful, we all know the story and we preach about it.
-That will not be our portion in the Name of Jesus Christ.
How about Samuel, a Prophet whom the Bible tells us that none of his words fail to the ground but because his children did not walk in the way of the Lord, the people went to him and said, ‘Give us a king, because your children are not walking in the ways of the Lord’! Too late!
-By the grace of God, for everyone under the sound of my voice today, it shall not be too late for us.
Very importantly, and I want to make this statement with every sense of responsibility and that’s the fact that success in the Ministry can be tasteless and frustrating without a healthy family.
I read the biography of a great Man of God in this great Nation – A very powerful and anointed Man of God but he had a very very unhealthy family life, at the end of the day, his life was cut short – He didn’t live too long, probably and who knows? This was one of the reasons.
-You will live long! And in case there is anyone under the sound of my voice now, I don’t know who I’m speaking to that is being tormented by the spirit of the fear of death, I curse it right now in your life and I decree your total freedom and liberty.
-And I decree and declare to you, ‘You shall not die, you will live and declare the works of the Lord’!
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