There can only be one

Back in the days, I use to think that God has His approval on a ministry by the size of the ministry. As I come to know Christ and how He thinks, I realize that I lied to myself. Large or small ministries both have issues; all these issues and differences of opinions and our perceptions of what is happening around us come from within. We are not born with what we know, but we learn them and everything we learn, we learn from men shaped in iniquity.

Blessed is the man that walked not in the counsel of the ungodly… Jesus said, it’s not what goes into the man that defile the man, but what comes out… As you and I both know, we differ in many areas of life. Our ideas of life and what we believe are as different as our appearance. But if you look at my testimony and yours; and the testimony of those around the world, you will find that those testimonies that God orchestrated are all agreed upon, they agree with one another. Those things that God does in us causes us to worship together and fellowship with one another. But outside of what God has formed in us, we struggle with one another. For this reason God judges the world. Sin is the author of the ideas of men. Rom 7th chapter.

The Holy Ghost is one spirit and when He works His will in us, we see, hear, speak, taste and touch and testify the same things. He is the only one who can take both Jew and Gentile and make us one and cause us to speak the same things. It’s impossible for that to happen through education. Our expressions of what God is and how he blesses us and blessed us are testified exactly the same way, despite the differences in lifestyle, race, experiences or difficulties. The Holy Ghost causes us to become one, to care for one another, He changes our perspectives and causes us to walk in unity. Take two men from different parts of the world preaching under the anointing of the Holy Ghost and they will speak exactly the same words.

Take two men from different parts of the world educated by the same schools of theology and they will formulated their ideas from their own experiences. Unfortunately they will use those ideas to manage God’s business and the lives of God’s servants. They will also use them to teach us.

Its when saints walk as men, that we struggle with one another; our perceptions come from our experiences; judgment of one another is after the flesh (we use our senses to judge) and when we cannot see or hear from God, we trust in our own judgment. Our judgment comes from our eyes, hearing, feelings, tastes, smell. We mix what our senses draw in, process and mix them with our previous experiences to draw a conclusion. The Holy Ghost came because of sin a flaw in our nature. He has one perception, idea, opinion, concept, which is God the Father’s. God says that our thoughts are not his and neither are our ways Hiss, nor does He judge like us.

But he has given us the ability to see things His way and to think like Him through the Holy Spirit. I Corinthians 1 and 2nd chapters.

The meaning of the local church or earthly church and the Body of Christ have somehow merged together in our language. It has become difficult today for people to distinguish the differences between to the two. Like those who manage people in the world, in ministry we treat one another like we are the owners, managers or possess ownership of one another’s soul. We appoint leadership without consulting God in fasting and prayer; we have made ourselves the source to heaven and we have come to believe that without us or interpretation of scripture, those who we command are lost.

How much time do we truly spend consulting the Lord when we choose men, to lead us or to lead others?