It's Not Good to be Alone

Ministry Wednesday: It's not Good to be Alone (4' Read)

Ministers relationship is very crucial to fulfillment of ministry. When God said, it is not good for the man to be alone, He wasn't talking only about the marital system of mankind but in reference to the social being He had made man to be.

We were made to relate with one another if we are to function as we should. We won't ever find fulfillment being alone.

In destiny, people play a major role. It is major factor in destiny. People sent to us or those from whom God had sent us, those sent with us both temporarily and permanently, those we are sent to or those sent from us... Each of these groups requires proper connection and relationship with us to be able to deliver the desires of God.

But ministerial relationships can be as complex as any other. There are so many things brought into it that don't permit effectiveness. There are a lot of carryovers from the world that make a mess of the effect the relationship is meant to create.

Ordinarily, there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither male nor female, neither free nor slave in the new creation and in the Kingdom of God. Meaning, the social demarcations we have in the worldly society don't exist here in the kingdom of God. But we may erroneously bring those in and create a social classification among us which may even be peculiar to us. The flesh can be very innovative, once its given a chance, even within a spiritual environment, it knows what to do to establish itself and fester with its works.

You can begin to have classes of graces and anointing, classes of achievements, classes of riches and wealth, and so on once the flesh steps in. 

We are to give honour, not really to demand it. We were told to give honour to whom honour is due, we were not told to seek honour that we even think is due us. But the flesh seeks honour.

No wonder our Lord, Jesus Christ said in John 5

44. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

This is a major setback to relationship between and among ministers. We seek and receive honour from one another instead of seeking honour from God and in doing so we destroy fellowship.

We are to give honour, and not to seek it from others! If we abide by this rule, how sweet would our fellowship be?

Jesus Christ, our Lord told the apostles, whom He appointed to send forth, that He won't call them servants but friends... How would the saviour call those who can't save themselves friends? Yet He did it and it is Him we claim we serve, but we know those in our class to call friends, don't we?

God, the Father didn't count it as demeaning or degrading to permit His Son, Jesus Christ to be in His form and to even extend that to those who believe in Him. Jesus Christ Himself didn't see equality with God something to grab by force according to Philippians 2. These personalities are the ones we claim to serve, they called us into service and we have this to learn from how they relate.

We were called into fellowship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ, what a display of humility from God the maker of all things! On what grounds are we fellows with God? Think about it? But He wants it and desires it and was willing to send His Son to die on the cross in order to bring that to pass... I was told its the less that should seek the better but God won't wait for that before coming to seek us and to bring us into relationship with Him... We must learn from Him, if truly we share His nature.

If relationship must work among Christian ministers, we must learn from God and practice what we see Him do. And we have the capacity since we share His nature. His nature is primarily of love. God is love. We are His children, we can't be anything but love. But that's only legal, we need to put that to vitality for it to make any difference.

We have the capacity to forgive, we should forgive. We have the capacity to be generous and be helpful, we should do just that. We have the capacity to condescend to people of low degree, we should practice it. We have the capacity to build friendships beyond the world's class mentality, we should do it.

It won't work when we go about seeking people to bow down to us, to prop up our egoistic selves, to call us big titles, to recognise how big we are and to see us as different from them. That's not the spirit of Christ, we have not so learned Christ, that's Satan there in all his identity.

Lets remove all of those things that separate us. Let's stop seeing meekness as weakness, let us stop trampling on those who show us love and honour in their humility. Let us stop thinking we are better than others, seeing that whatever extra we think we have better than others is only given by grace to serve them...

Nothing destroys relationships like pride and nothing builds relationships like humility. We should also remember that the king of all relationships is friendship... We can build it with others, if God could build it with us, even from His exclusive level of the Omnis.

Thank you for reading, it's time we gave these things some very deep thoughts in the Holy Spirit.

Good day to you!

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