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Ministers of God and the Priority of Personal Fellowship

Dear ministers of God, your assignment on the pulpit must never replace your personal walk with God. It is possible to speak about Him and yet slowly drift away from intimacy with Him. Ministry can become demanding, visible, and applauded, but your true strength is not in how often you stand before people, it is in how deeply you kneel before God. The pulpit is only an overflow, not the source.

There is a quiet danger in becoming more committed to preparation than to presence. You can study to teach, pray to deliver messages, and fast for power, yet miss the simplicity of just being with God. Your relationship with Him must go beyond sermons, beyond services, and beyond responsibilities. It is in that secret place that your heart is corrected, your motives are purified, and your spirit is refreshed. Without this, ministry becomes performance instead of an expression of life.

God never called you just to represent Him publicly, He called you to walk with Him personally. When intimacy is lost, pressure increases. You begin to depend on your gift instead of His grace. But when your relationship with God is intact, even the simplest message carries power because it is backed by genuine fellowship. Your private life with God sustains your public assignment.

Pause and examine your walk. Are you spending time with God beyond what is required for ministry? Do you still enjoy His presence without the need to prepare a message? When was the last time you sat with Him with no agenda? If the pulpit was taken away today, would your relationship with God still remain strong and alive?

Apostle Prince Victor Matthew 

Hope Expression Values 

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