Call Verses Ministry!

Call Verses Ministry!

 

Ministry is a term we use to describe what we do as Christians, “My ministry is …”, “Our ministry is…”, “Our Church’s ministry is…”, “________ has a ministry of…” These are all possessive terms and incorrect!

 

 

Call is something placed upon us by GOD, we do not possess it and many times we do not want it!  Matthew 22:14; Romans 8:28-30, 11:29; 1 Corinthians 1:25-31, 7:17-20; 2 Peter 1:10.

 

 

Our call is a ministry but it is not ours, we do not choose it, GOD gives it to us when we are in our mother’s womb! Genesis 18: 9-15, 21:1-7; Job 10:8-12, 31:13-15; Psalm 71:5-6, 139:13-19; Isaiah 7:17, 9:6-7, 49:1-6; Jeremiah 1:4-8; Zechariah 12:1; Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:5-38; John 1:1-18, 3:1-21, 17:24; Galatians 1:11-17; Revelation 12:1-5, 13:8.

 

 

We are not called to own but to serve, servants do not own or possess – they do! JESUS served the will of GOD and so must we! Matthew 7:21-29, 16:24-27, 20:25-28; Luke 14:26-27, 17:5-10, 22:39-46; John 4:34-38, 5:30, 6:38-40, 8:28-31, 12:26; Romans 1:1-6, 7:13-25, 12:1-12; Galatians 5:13-14;  Philippians 2:12-16; Hebrews 13:21.

 

 

Study those scriptures and remember that GOD’s will is our call in life, “Our Father in Heaven, Holy is Your Name. Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done in the earth as it is in Heaven. Give us today what we need. Forgive our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not let us be overcome by temptation but deliver us from Your advisory. For You are The Power, The Glory and The Kingdom, forever!”

 

 

This brings us to The Gifts of The SPIRIT. The Church has the same problem with believing that The Gifts of The SPIRIT are for the individual to use. Not True, The Gifts are for the Church and for a witness to the world and they are operated through the believer by The HOLY SPIRIT when, where and how He determines. “There are diversities of gifts, but the same SPIRIT. There are differences of ministries, but the same LORD. And there are differences of activities, but it is the same SPIRIT of GOD who works all in all. But the manifestation of the SPIRIT is given to each one for the profit of all.” 1 Corinthians 12:4-7

 

The Gifts are: The Word of Wisdom, The Word of Knowledge, Faith, gifts of Healings, The Working of Miracles, Prophecy, Discerning of spirits, Different kinds of tongues, The Interpretation of tongues. “But one and the same SPIRIT works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He Wills.” 1 Corinthians 12:8-11

 

 

We are The Body of CHRIST in the world, but we are all members individually of His Body. We are to seek the best Gifts, to be used by GOD’s SPIRIT to do His Will in the earth as it is in Heaven. How? By seeking the Better Way – Love! “Now abide Faith, Hope, Love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love! Pursue Love, and desire Spiritual Gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.” 1 Corinthians 13:13-14:1

 

 

The summary of 1 Corinthians 14: “…Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe…Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order.”