I believe that all of us who have the life of Christ within have a unique spiritual contribution to make to other Christians and to the world. This is our ministry and it contributes to the ministry of the church in the earth.
It seems important that we not waste our time and our lives writing other people’s stories, wishing we had her contribution or his, or concluding we don’t have one at all based on our set of natural gifts. Don’t confuse your personality or natural gifting (or lack thereof) with spiritual gifts.
Jesus Christ has been distributed to us through His Spirit, Jesus Christ has become to us a life-giving spirit.
We are to learn to quiet ourselves, so that we can watch and hear what Jesus is doing through us, what he is doing in our here and now, touching the people only we can touch, this can look like loud proclamation or slow revelation of him to just one or two.
Once we see and recognize his life in us it becomes about simple surrender, about laying down our lives to what the Lord is doing through us.
This is the ministry philosophy, method and technique that Jesus himself displayed, taught and set up for us.
Not what we think we should do out of duty or guilt. And it’s not what we’ve always done for generations or what we can do out of our brilliance or strength of discipline. We don’t need to copy or give ourselves to someone else’s vision because we don’t have one or because we never did.
We partner and fellowship and listen for the Lord then ministry flows naturally out of that fellowship. The Lord is working and ministering and is active all over the earth in different ways, he wants to work in the earth by occupying and dwelling within his people. He calls us “his body”, and bodies are directed, every single member of a body, by the head, not by one another.
We do what we see him doing! and if we don’t see him “doing” we seek him diligently and we wait until we have eyes to see him and ears to hear him before we do. Anything else quickly becomes a distraction from the Lord and from his life within us.
2016 was a great year in many ways, I pray that 2017 be great for you!
– Adam Collier
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