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Category:
Religion
Publisher: Independent
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 99
Copyright: May 14, 2020
ISBN-13: 9798645949150
If you long to discover your spiritual gifts, understand your calling, and become more effective in God's Kingdom, this book will provide a solid biblical foundation for your journey.
Spiritual Gifts and the Five-Fold Ministry Revealed
Written in just two days during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book was born out of prayer, waiting on God, and a desire to equip believers for the work of the ministry.
As the world stood still and international travel came to a halt, veteran evangelist Dr. Jerry W. Hulse found himself alone in the cab of his eighteen-wheel truck at a distribution center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. With an upcoming mission trip to the Philippines hanging in the balance, he set aside worldly distractions and sought God's direction through prayer.
What followed became this book.
Spiritual Gifts and the Five-Fold Ministry Revealed is a practical, Scripture-based guide to understanding how God equips His Church through the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the five-fold ministry described in Ephesians 4. Whether you are discovering your calling or seeking to grow in your spiritual walk, this book will help you better understand God's purpose for your life and your place in the Body of Christ.
Inside you'll discover:
The purpose of the spiritual gifts.
The role of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers.
How spiritual gifts work together to strengthen the Church.
Biblical principles for developing your God-given calling.
How every believer can become more effective in serving Christ.
Why God is preparing His Church for the days ahead.
Filled with biblical insight, practical teaching, and encouragement, this book is written for pastors, ministry leaders, Bible students, and every believer who desires to be used by God.
Excerpt
THE GIFTS ARE FOR OUR EDIFICATION
The heart is our innermost being, and this is where the lord will speak to us and unlock hidden secrets and ideas that will help accomplish his will and purpose for our lives. The gift of prophecy, which we will study later, sometimes will touch these secrets and give us the courage to step out on faith.
An accurate word of knowledge from a man or woman of God can turn our whole situation around and, in some instances, can shine some valuable light on a situation that would take hours of counseling to be uncovered, thus freeing up a pastor's time that he could devote more study to feed his flock with the word of God.
The Lord wants us to depend on him; he cares for us because we are his children. Saints, the Lord sincerely desires to change our hearts; his ways are higher than ours. The Lord gives prophetic gifts because we desperately need them; when used correctly, they will significantly improve the effectiveness of any ministry.
Saints, we need to seek a closer walk with the Lord so that he may share his thoughts with us, not for what we can get from him but that we might be close to him and be called a friend of God.
Our priority and focus should be maintaining a devoted prayer life, including a personal friendship and intimacy with our Lord.
Beloved, the Lord will reveal our purposes if we only love and worship him for who he is and not be a talebearer of what we hear when we are near the throne and intimate with him.
We can go back and study that the prophetic ministry was displayed unprecedentedly during the early fifties and late eighties, such as William Branham, Oral Roberts, T. L. Osborne, Don Stewart, and others.
The ministry of these powerful men and women of God, working in the spiritual gifts, played a significant role in that era and tremendously affected thousands of people worldwide.
The enemy was on the defensive, and it did not take long for the Church of God to reject this move of God, declaring the manifestations of the Spirit were not in order and indeed not of God, but they could not deny the healings and miracles. Yes, dear reader, the main church body missed their visitation of God’s Spirit.
This left a void that the worldly cults and mediums rushed in to claim. This caused people to doubt the gifts and say they were for the early church but stopped at the Apostles.
Beloved, for a counterfeit, there must be the real. If we were to make a copy of something, do we not need the original document?
There have been times that some have tried to use these gifts and made mistakes because they were not mature and were waiting on God. One reason is that they help train us to the enemy's schemes.
Should we throw out the different ministries, such as pastors, evangelists, or teachers, because some have made mistakes?
In my Christian walk with God, I have made it a point to learn from my mistakes and count them as valuable training and education for future things.
The Lord revealed to me that he is not all that concerned when we fall in the mud because he knows the end from the beginning. Yes, beloved, he revealed that it is ok to miss the mark and fall in target practice. I asked him to reveal more of this revelation to me, and he was told that in failing, we become more aware of the tactics and schemes of our enemy.
We become more prone to be on guard and not fall when the real battle occurs, which is now upon us. A-Men.
Dear readers, have you ever found yourself in a place of despair, self-crucifying yourself because you felt like you missed the mark and let the Lord down? I know I have, mainly when my bad decisions affected my ministry and other people’s lives.
Let me tell you from experience that it is okay to miss the mark, and sometimes God will place you in a no-win situation because, in this place, you get pressed out of yourself and into Christ.
Learning how to lose before becoming a successful winner would be best. Beloved, this is why some of us have lost everything, but be assured of this, dear reader: sooner or later, the living God will repay us for all our losses. When we come out of the trial, we are going to be a broken vessel with the anointing dripping off of us. Amen.
The church is headed for an eye-opening showdown with the Kingdom of darkness, and she must have a solid and accurate prophetic ministry with people of integrity leading the charge to know the Lord’s plans ahead of time so that people might be placed in a position to carry them out.
We have all been training for this cause and purpose for several years. What we can see in the spiritual realm must be more accurate than what we see in the natural realm. Beloved, this is what I like to call the fifth dimension. To successfully operate in this realm, you must have a devoted prayer life, including spending time in God’s word.
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