Most Christians receive ministry from the pastor, a teacher and occasionally an evangelist. Apostles and prophets are not readily acknowledged and very few know anything about the ministry of helps. The people who have heard of the help ministry just pass it off as a church tradition like an usher. The ministry of helps was God’s idea so you know it has a place in the church that needs to be honored.
1 Corinthians 12:28 God set ministries in the church, apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, helps, governments and gifts of the Spirit. All of these ministry gifts are important because God put them in the church. When all these gifts of men function as God ordains, they all receive the same reward. The person who is a minster of helps will be rewarded with the apostle, prophet, etc. Those who are anointed to minister the word of God cannot be successful without the helps ministers. Sheep need to be in the right place in order to be ministered to, the helps minister is anointed to “help” the sheep be in place to receive the power of God. In the Old Testament Moses had led all the Jews out of Egypt and they all had problems, too many for Moses to handle, so God spoke to him. Numbers 11:17 I will take of the Spirit which is upon you and I will put it on selected men, and they shall help bear the burden of the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone. Moses chose seventy men from among the elders and they helped him to deal with all the people of God. Take notice here, the anointing on the leader is transferred to the helpers. This is a spiritual transfer and it is part of God’s plan for the church. A person in the ministry of helps has a portion of the anointing of the one they are helping. A lot of the ministers today who God has anointed and given them a vision came from the ministry of helps. Acts 6:3-4 Let us find seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and the Word, and pray over them to help us, in order for us to continue in prayer and the ministry of the Word. The twelve apostles had some serious business to tend to, so they needed some special men to help them, so they could be about the Father’s business. The people that became Christians had needs that needed tending, and the men assigned to help them had the anointing of the apostles to minister to them. Some people are called to help the people of a church but if they are not called to the helps ministry they can cause even more problems. A person must prove themselves to be full of the Holy Ghost and the Word, and that they love people enough to help them. Stephen was one of the seven called to help the apostles and he became an anointed evangelist who performed many miracles. Most of God’s ministries came out from the ministry of helps and they are anointed to carry the Word of God. A person could be a doctor, a lawyer, or a millionaire and be called to the ministry of helps, which by the way is a higher calling than their profession. A man asked Billy Graham if he would run for president and he replied, why would I want to accept a lower calling than what the Lord called me to? If you are called to a certain position and you’re good at that position and you like it, then God’s grace is on you. We do not sign up for a place in the body, God puts us where He chooses.
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When a person is born into this world they are born spiritually dead. They have no connection to God, they inherited this condition from the father of all men, Adam. All natural born people are susceptible to the wiles of the devil. Natural man accepts his place in the demonic world because he does not know any other way. The natural man does not receive anything from the Spirit of God, he is led to believe it’s all foolishness to him. He is not aware of it but he will live all his natural life and his eternal life with his father the devil.
But God is not willing that any man perish and spend eternity with His enemy the devil. In response to all sinners God ordains intercessors who pray in place of the lost. When the righteous pray, the Holy Spirit begins to woo all sinners with the love of God. The Holy Spirit tugs at their heart in an effort to lead them to Jesus and salvation. All men are in a spiritual battle and most of them are not aware of it. The devil wants them and God wants them, they both have a right to them! Sin gives man a divine connection to the devil and the blood of Christ gives man a divine connection to God. Deuteronomy 30:19 I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God‘s blessing or God‘s curse, and I call Heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life. Every man, woman, and child has been given a choice. They can stay with the devil or have the living God as their Father. If man does not choose, he will remain a child of wrath, a child of the devil. God sent His Son as a sin offering for all of creation, whether they accept Him or not, He died for all mankind. Every man that chooses will undergo a miracle, they will be born-again and become a new creature. The new creature in Christ has their eyes opened and they can see where they came from and where they are going. This will provoke the new creature to offer thanksgiving and praise to the one who truly loves them. 2 Corinthians 5:17 If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold , all things are become new. This new creature is the result of a miracle at t he new birth, in the twinkling of an eye a child of the devil becomes a child of God. This new creature must renew his mind in order to know who he is and to know his Heavenly Father in an intimate way. It is an indescribable joy to discover the attributes of becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus. All your fears begin to fade away and you feel something in your spirit you have never felt before. Anger, rage, and hopelessness depart from you and you become a more optimistic person, you have a contentment you cannot explain. John 14:16-17 The Father will send you another comforter, the Spirit of truth; you will know Him because He will dwell in you forever. The Father sends the Holy Ghost to take the place of Jesus, and that’s all He will talk about is Jesus and what the Father gives Him to speak of. How blessed is this new creature that God himself comes and lives within him, and He reveals Himself to His new child. I understand it is quite a challenge to be a happy, positive person in this world controlled by the rulers of darkness. But this is not a valid excuse because Jesus has overcome the world. Whatever you focus on will impact your attitude. Are you looking at the works of darkness or the works of Christ? We will become whatsoever we lend ourselves to, we have a choice. We are not married to the projection and influence of this fallen world.
John 16:22 When you see Me (Jesus) your heart will rejoice, and your joy no man can take from you. Psalm 16:11 In your presence is fullness of joy. Joy is a supernatural impartation that can only come from God and no man can take it from us. Joy is a more powerful component than sorrow, it always searches for the best of everything. The disciples were sullen and abandoned when Jesus died, but when He appeared to then they had joy once again. He told then He would suffer many things and rise again but they did not believe Him. If they would have believed Him, then even His death could not rob their joy from them! Joy is the result of believing what you cannot see and those who cannot see cannot take your joy from you. Psalm 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to My judgement, even unto My cause. Many years ago the Lord told me how to stir up myself, He said just put everything in perspective. The world tells us that we must conform to their brand of thinkin, we must believe we are changing the climate and we will all burn up. But the Word tells us that Jesus is coming back for a glorious church, and not because we are in danger of fire. He is coming back when the Father sends Him, not to save us from the planet but to save us from our sins. When our sins were forgiven and washed away, that is the basis for our joy. The joy of the Lord is bound up in His Word, when we receive the Word we receive His joy. Believers who have no joy have not accepted the Word entirely. Let’s put things in perspective so you can stir up the joy that can come from God alone. Your sins have been expunged and forgotten. Jesus, His Father and the Holy Spirit have come to make their abode with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. He is with you every day of the world until He calls you up to Heaven to live for all eternity. No matter what the principalities and powers throw at you, they cannot change your position in Christ Jesus. Mathew 5:18 God‘s Word is more real and lasting than the stars in the sky and the ground at your feet. Long after the stars burn out and earth wears out, God‘s Word will be alive and working. God’s Word is everlasting, so our joy is everlasting. Don’t let the devil convince you that you must be forsaken along with the world’s membership. The reason God ordained the new testament church of Jesus Christ is so we would have a place to go to get our joy refreshed. If we are subjected to the ways of the world for long periods of time, it puts a demand on our joy and it tries to weaken it. When Jesus was born, the angel told the shepherds that He had good tiding of great joy. Jesus brought great joy and He sent the Comforter to take His place, now the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of great joy. Jesus told the Jews they must eat His body and drink His blood because He was the bread of life. The Jews and many of His disciples were offended at His revelation. I don’t think the Jews were offended at the idea of eating His flesh and drinking His blood, they were mad at Him for claiming to come from God.
John6:56 He that eats My flesh and drinks My blood, dwells in Me, and I in him. The Jews didn’t understand what Jesus was telling them, His body He offered them was a spiritual meal. If they would believe He was the Son of God and He came to save them, in essence they would be partaking of His life. How could a man dwell in Him if you ate Him all up? The Jews practiced the Passover meal every year, and they ate a perfect young lamb which represented the Messiah. So when Jesus introduced Himself as the Christ they would not accept Him. They had an image in their mind of who the Messiah would be and the Son of a carpenter did not resemble their image. They wanted a Samson or Gideon, not a wimp who went around telling about God as His Father. Luke 22:19-20 Jesus took the bread and said this is My body which is broken for you. Then He took the cup and said this cup is the new testament in My blood. Eat this in remembrance of Me. Jesus was fulfilling the prophesy of Isaiah when he wrote in his book. Isaiah said, with His stripes we are healed and He was bruised for all our sins. The bread represents His body and the cup represents His blood. All He asks us to do is remember Him and what He did for us. The bread and the wine are symbols of His body which is His life. When we take communion we recall what Jesus did for us on the cross. It’s quite easy to forget something that was given to us over two thousand years ago. 2 Corinthians 11:29 He that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgement upon himself, not discerning the Lord‘s body. If we don’t take communion by faith, then we are not protected from the curse of the law. God does not put sickness or disease on people, we do that or we get it from the devil because we don’t resist him! The church at Corinth had cliques and divisions, the participants had no business taking communion. In the Catholic church you could not receive communion unless you went to the priest and confessed your sins. Eating Christ’s body and drinking His blood exempted you from the curse, eating and drinking unworthily opens you to the curse. 2 Corinthians 11:31 If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged with the world. The world has no covenant with the Lord, they are under the curse of the law, they are under judgement. Being saved does not always exempt you from judgement, obeying your Lord offers divine protection. Jesus offered Himself for all mankind, He redeemed us from the curse of the law, we must hold His sacrifice in high regard. The Bible has much to say about seed because every living thing begins in a seed. In order to understand the Words of Jesus, we must first of all understand His doctrine of seed. Saint Mark recorded an incident with Jesus as He taught the parable of the seed.
Mark 4:13 And Jesus said unto them, know you not this parable? How then will you know all parables? According to the parable of the Sower, a seed can be natural or spiritual, the natural explains how spiritual seed can produce after it’s own kind. Mark 4:26 So is the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground. If you fully grasp the Words of Jesus you will become seed minded not need minded, because a seed meets every need. This planet and all the planets came from a seed, the worlds were framed by the Word of God. When God said “Let there be”, His Words were the seeds where all the world’s came from. So then the Lord says take the Word of God praying, so our words are seeds that bring what we say. Now all men have a natural life and some have a spiritual life, both of these lives began as a seed. Every human being born of a woman came from the seed of their natural father, but what about a spiritual man? Genesis 3:15 I will put hostility between you (the devil) and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. The seed of Eve would be Jesus, but years in the future. Jesus was God the Father’s seed. Jesus came to give life, some accepted Him but most rejected Him. Jesus came with the power to grant eternal life to whoever would ask for it. For the uneducated soul, they struggle to comprehend the concept of being born-again or being born anew. Here is their argument, “I’m already born, do you want me to go back into my mother’s womb and come out again?” Jesus told them that if you could go back and come out again nothing would change, the devil would still be your father. God is offering all of mankind the most precious gift the world has ever known, a chance to have a new beginning. If a man would accept God’s offer he would become like Adam in the garden before he sinned. Man could once again bear the image of God and never lose it to the temptation of the devil. 1 Peter 1:18-19 We were not redeemed with corruptible things. But with the precious blood of Christ. The blood coursing through the veins of Jesus came from His Father, it was God’s blood. This is not ordinary human blood, this is from God, therefore it’s eternal and the seed of Jesus. Whosever receives this seed of His blood will have eternal life. Jesus shed His blood some two thousand years ago and it’s still available to whosoever desires eternal life. With this seed in us we are new born babes in Christ Jesus, but we can grow to the full stature of Christ. Mark 4:26 And so is the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground. Now we have the seeds of life within us and we can speak life over things we want to preserve. Our Words are like seeds and now we can frame the kind of world we want to live in. The spirit realm is more real than the natural realm because a spirit created the natural. Our words have always been seeds but now we have a new vocabulary that brings life into our fallen lives. The blood of Jesus became our seed, but Jesus had to die in order to make it available to us. Jesus knew that not everybody would accept His sacrifice, but because He so loved the world He died for all those who would believe. |
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