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    What Our Ministry Is
    What Our Ministry Is
    What Our Ministry Is
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    What Our Ministry Is

    By Theodore Andoseh

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    There are the general purposes of God and the distinct purposes of God that He entrusts to specific individuals, groups of individuals, communities, and even to a Spiritual Movement. Both kinds of callings are documented in the Scriptures and all serve the economy of God’s purposes.

    To Zach Fomum and those that God called along with him, a distinct economy of the Gospel was entrusted that translated into a clear goal. The pursuance of that goal through obedience to God’s specific instructions has gradually clarified the will of God and the means of accomplishing His purposes. God’s will, God’s ways, our responsibility, who we must be, what we must do to please God, and accomplish our goal, are presented here as constituting our ministry.

    This is written for all who are part of our ministry, and for all who will be part of this ministry, so that we may serve in the same spirit for the same purpose and, by accomplishing the goal, bring glory to our Lord Jesus.

    God bless you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZTF Books Online
    Release dateOct 21, 2016
    ISBN9781370931514
    What Our Ministry Is
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    Theodore Andoseh

    The current leader of Christian Missionary Fellowship Internation

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      What Our Ministry Is - Theodore Andoseh

      Part 1

      Our Ministry As God Sees It

      What Pattern ?

      What Tools ?

      Called To Imitate

      The Missionary

      Knowing The Man

      Entrusting The Life

      OTHER BOOKS

      1

      The Encounter And The Encounters

      THE BASIS FOR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.

      W hen Abraham was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless’ (Vs1). I have also had to confront two things:

      Spiritual progress and

      Progress in God’s work;

      are a function of fresh encounters with God. Every encounter with God is promotional. We move ahead spiritually by such encounters with God. In Abraham’s life you find it again in the following passages:

      Genesis 15:1:

      After this, the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.

      Genesis 18:1:

      The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.

      Spiritual history is chronicled in encounters with God. When I meet God, there are:

      transformations

      transactions

      transpositions, and

      God moves me ahead.

      I operate in that realm until I meet God again, and then I can move ahead. So if my only encounter with God was at my conversion, I may be a witness, but I may not make much progress. All spiritual progress is conditioned upon fresh encounters with God; at least this comes out in Abraham’s spiritual history.

      THRESHOLD HOLINESS.

      The second thing to confront in that verse,

      I am God Almighty, walk before me and be blameless.

      If God will take me ahead, there must be a fresh encounter with the holiness of God. Deepened sanctification will take me ahead. Preceding all spiritual appointments in service, for most spiritual appointments in service as documented, there must be an encounter with the holiness of God and the God of all holiness. You find it in Brother Zach’s The Way of Christian Service. I will continue in my present level of service as long as I continue in my present level of sanctification.

      In John 15:1-2, the Lord says

      "I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful."

      So we have from fruit to more fruit through a pruning process. Pruning is cleansing or discipline by some translations. So I move from fruit to more fruit, to more fruit, to more fruit by increasing pruning. Sanctification is God’s threshold condition for service. If I am anxious that my work, my ministry should grow beyond what it is, I can’t run away from confronting God’s holiness afresh in subjective terms, in deepening sanctification.

      In the case of Abraham, the sanctification coincided with the encounter with God. The encounter with God produced a call to a deeper level of holiness. These are the conditions that God established for the confirmation of his covenants.

      THE BASIS FOR INCREASE IN NUMBERS.

      There was a covenant to increase Abraham’s numbers. God appeared to Abraham and charged him to blamelessness in his walk, and on that condition, promised to expand the covenant. I have had to confront the fact that my work cannot grow outwardly, while my heart and my relationship does not grow inwardly. I must also confront the fact that I must enter into a deeper cleansing by God’s spirit, as God’s normal way preceding a new breakthrough.

      Last night, we were laying hold on God, for a new impartation of God’s holiness to the saints. Growth in numbers is linked to man’s walk in blamelessness. It is not the devising of new methods; how to do kits. It is a new walk with God. That is what God based the increase in numbers on. Let us pray we would believe it, because I find that I have the tendency of planning for growth in my work only in terms of increased activity. God’s word condemns me. I have to confront the fact that growth in numbers will be linked to my own spiritual growth.

      2

      Some Applications

      Let us take two applications of what we have just said.

      OUR WORK IS SPIRITUAL

      The first one is that our work is fundamentally spiritual. It is not the mastery of methods. Our work is spiritual and it is as we evolve spiritually that our work also evolves. So when I get into a nation or to a province, the state of the work there, at every given time, is a reflection of my walk with God. If I make more progress, the work will progress more. The state of your ministry is a reflection of your present walk with God. One can keep going further and further with God; further and further and further; from glory to glory to glory to glory; from increase to increase, to increase, as he keeps growing. So Paul says, - forgetting what lies behind, I push on to take hold of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. We forget what is behind and keep pressing on. So, to come to a plane of satisfaction, through the observation of some success is blindness.

      To excuse myself that the condition of my work is tied to the fact the people are difficult or other is not true. It is God who gives fruit; and he bases it on fulfilled conditions, and these conditions are spiritual. In the business world, you can master certain success laws, but you cannot transpose them into the gospel enterprise. If you do, you will have a worldly work that looks big and successful. It doesn’t cost much for grass to grow. My work can be grass. But if you are going to cultivate corn, you will have to fulfil some conditions. You can’t cheat there. Your ministry can be grass, or it can be a farm. But many of us may just be satisfied by the fact that there is at least something. Our work is spiritual, based on spiritual conditions fulfilled; counting on God’s activity alone.

      THE MAKNG OF A LEADER : TIME AND SPIRITUAL TRANSACTIONS.

      The second application which I am going to come back to is that God begins to trust a man after a lot of spiritual history and dealings with the person. If God was to make each one of us a starting point, the work may never be done. It took him 25 years to prepare Abraham, with at least five failures:

      the failure of famine when he went down to Egypt.

      the failure of Lot when he carried Lot along.

      the failure of Ishmael, when he went into Hagar.

      the failure of his lying in the land of the Philistines.

      the near disaster of defiling the holy seed.

      It took God long training and long discipline. It took God 80 years to build Moses. After the calling and appointment of David, it took God 13 years when David was already entering with recommendations. It took God 13 years for Joseph from the time when he gave him his revelations. God works in a man before he commits his purpose to that man. If you have a difficulty accepting a leader, and you want to be autonomous, at least make sure that you also have history with God.

      It is by comparing talents that people despise spiritual leadership. Remember, we have this treasure in earthen vessels. When you develop a spiritual mind, and know what goes into God’s investments into a man before committing His purposes to that man; you will be seeking to be led. It will be like seeking security from the wind. So it takes much working of God inside to commit his purposes to a man.

      The progress of God’s work in a town, in a nation, in a continent or anywhere is proportional to God’s working in a man and in men. When God and Brother Zach appoint any of us, as missionary or as leader in charge of one aspect of the ministry, they have determined that God should make that aspect of the ministry depend entirely upon our spiritual evolution. That is one of Brother Zach’s cries about the personal intimacy with Jesus. Either there is that or we have no work. It is humbling for me to know that God must work lengthily inside me for me to become trustworthy.

      To put it in a panorama, look at Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God was planning a nation by which the world will be blessed. In all of Abraham’s life, he did not even give him land, even a child came with difficulty, but what did God succeed to do in Abraham? He succeeded in laying his foundation for his world purpose in Abraham; by a relationship with Abraham, a covenant with Abraham. Outwardly, the promise of being a blessing to the world looked like a mockery, but God was working inside, laying the spiritual foundation.

      He did it in Abraham, first generation; Abraham lived to be 175 years, so

      175 years of laying foundation one.

      180 years of laying foundation two, (Isaac),

      147 years of laying foundation three (Jacob) and

      110 years of laying foundation four, if we go up to Joseph.

      It makes a total of 612 years.

      Why is God so uncompromising about the spiritual foundation? It should humble us, make us grateful to God for raising a leader and leaders. It should make us like Samuel, happy to serve the Lord under Eli. A spiritual leader is God’s wealth. Let’s leave it at this point.

      3

      A Distinctive Relationship And God’s Purposes

      1.THE CASE OF ABRAHAM.

      In verse two –

      I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.

      God’s purposes are tied to a certain relationship. I will greatly increase your numbers, I will confirm my covenant between me and you. The covenant between me and you talks of a relationship with God. Greatly increase your numbers talks of God’s purposes based upon that relationship. In human intimacy, from the ordinary love relationship of a couple, fruit is first borne. Increase fruit springs from a relationship. From spiritual intercourse with God, there comes an overflow of some fruit; call it your ministry. Ministry is what flows from intimacy with God, and that is general.

      In the particular case of Abraham, God had to work out a certain kind of relationship between himself and Abraham; a distinctive relationship between him and Abraham; a covenant. From this distinctive relationship was to come a distinctive ministry, which we call God’s purpose tied to Abraham. You father God’s work by entering into a distinct relationship with God.

      2. HOW DOES THAT CONCERN US?

      I want to first of all say that our ministry is actually God’s purpose springing from a distinct relationship between God and

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