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Ministers, Are You Raising Others?

If you are a minister of God, your ministry was never designed to make people permanently dependent on you. Your calling should help people discover what God has placed inside them, gain clarity about their assignment and develop the courage to function in their own calling. Ministry is not successful simply because people admire your gift, attend your programs or celebrate your anointing. There must be evidence that your expression of Christ is helping other people become who God created them to be.

A ministry that only gathers followers but does not raise functioning believers needs to examine its fruit. Paul said, “And the things that thou hast heard of me... the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2). The pattern is clear: what God deposits in you should be transferred, developed and multiplied in others. You are not merely called to demonstrate what you can do; you are called to equip others to discover what they can do through Christ.

Perhaps someone has been sitting under your ministry for years, yet they still cannot explain their purpose, identify their gifts or take responsibility for their spiritual growth. Have you ever asked yourself why? Sometimes the problem is not that people lack potential; they have simply been trained to admire ministry instead of participating in the work of the Kingdom. Your responsibility is to create an environment where people can learn, serve, make mistakes, grow and eventually become solutions to the problems God has called them to address.

Jesus invested in people until they could continue the assignment beyond His physical presence with them. Ephesians 4:11-12 teaches that ministry gifts are given “for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry.” This means your ministry should equip people for ministry, not monopolize ministry. If everything must pass through you, every decision requires your approval and every gift remains beneath your platform, you may have built an audience rather than a Kingdom structure.

Your greatest ministry testimony may not be how many people know your name, but how many people became clearer, stronger and more useful to God's Kingdom because they encountered your ministry. Help the confused discover direction. Help the gifted develop discipline. Help the wounded regain courage. Help emerging ministers understand their assignment. Help believers recognize that they are members of the Body of Christ with a purpose to fulfill. Your calling becomes truly fruitful when what God has done through you begins to function through others. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works” (Ephesians 2:10).

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Apostle Prince Victor Matthew 

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