Pastor Enoch Adeboye
In 1 Corinthians 3:1-2, Paul told the believers in Corinth that for years they concentrated efforts at physical development to the detriment of their spiritual growth. As a result, they remained babes in Christ.
There are some believers who have maintained the position they were when they became born again some 10 or 20 years ago. They are born again but have never submitted themselves for water baptism. Some are water baptized but for that length of time have never been baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Some have been baptized in the Holy Spirit but have never spoken or prayed in tongues. Like a merry-go-round, they have continued to go round in circles.
When they fall ill, they run to their pastor. They cannot carry themselves on their own faith, let alone carry others. At a time they should be praying for others, they still submit themselves for prayer. Some are members of RCCG for several years without becoming workers in the church.
If you are in this situation, do something about it now. It is dangerous to amass years but refuse to grow spiritually. Such spiritual fledglings will continue to walk carnally. They will handle spiritual assignments with physical strength and end up messing things up.
Because their spirit man is under-developed, God would be constrained to limit the ways He speaks to them. They are more sensitive to rice than to the Spirit. In a church, among such people you will find ring leaders of gossips, complainers, backbiters, and evil seed sowers. As they have made themselves unusable in God’s hands, Satan will find them most useful and vulnerable.
Such will use the number of years they have stayed in the church as basis to fight and ‘contest’ for positions they are not qualified for.
Many of such people would be engrossed in carnal things when the trumpet sounds. The few who are able to make it to Heaven will be among the poorest ranks in Heaven. If you have been in such a situation, you can have a change today. Spiritual fledglings cannot fulfil God’s plan for their lives.
God will abandon them to fulfil their personal agenda. Whose agenda are you after? Yours or God’s?
Christian’s today like to blame the world.. and while the world has done much to aid in the feeding of man’s sin nature.. nonetheless
It has become apparent to me, that many so called “Christians” today “know of “the word; but they do not know the word” and in that the devil has gained more ground.
In this I am not seeking to admonish without love first myself.
His crooked pencil
Nathanael
Dear Brother and Sisters,
Sometimes people fill that the church has select handful of people who row that churches boat.
So if a pastor hasn’t let his congregation know that he could use their help, I think that should be the first thing that happens.
If the pastor has broadcast this need from the pulpit, then I say give it one more try.
After making it well known to the members of the church and then if people don’t come forward. I think the pastor has the right to ask them to take a responsibility.
I think this is a misunderstanding. Sometimes for people to move forward they need something tangible to hold on to. Although God should be the only tangible thing any of us need.
I question what types of position you would give to someone who won’t get baptized?
To me that is no different than a man or a woman who dates someone but won’t get married.
You are either Gods child or not. If you are then you should be getting baptized, taking his name. Making your marriage legal.
When it comes to tongues, not knowing the size of your church or your altar and the desire of your elders to get out of service on time. Does it hinder people who should be seeking from feeling comfortable to come and seek for whatever time is needed to pray through?
When one goes the altar in my church almost every single Christian in the church goes to pray with them. It doesn’t matter if it is one in need of salvation or if it is one going through some form of a test or a trial.
So if someone who is baptized, claims their rights as a child verbally according to the word. I think you should rejoice unless you see them out in the streets in sin or the Lord has given you visions or dreams that create this fear. But I think instead this is a test of you faith and walk with the Lord. The word says the righteous will be tested much. I don’t know if you can know for certain if he or she is full of the Holy Ghost. Did they say they have been seeking but don’t pray through? I know some pastors try to hear the people when they pray, to see if they have the Holy Ghost. Some people seek God like the Old time saints.
I cry and speak out when I pray, but then my Daddy was a pastor. That can make you timid as a child and outgoing as an adult in the Lord. But often some are meek in spirit even worship. The word says we should be humble, so there are many who are righteous with sanctification but reserved in the spirit.
I just finished a trail. If my pastor wife hadn’t called several times a week to pray with me,
I don’t know if I would have endured.
I think you have to consider that now all of Gods children are going through something.
Forgive me I didn’t check to see where you church is located. But if you are in the United States where economical hard times have fallen, your job is the only one not getting hours cut. The pastor, his wife and elders in the church should be getting worn out from the need of Gods sheep in your church.
So if you are from the US or another part of the world where economical times are tough, it is to be expected that people are asking for prayer.
I am sure you are concerned and fearful for your congregation. I would say if they belonged to Satan would they be having the problems they are having in the last hours before Gods coming.
If they are the tares the word says you are to leave them in the congregation and if they don’t make things right by his coming they will sweep up like the sinners and burned in the fire.
Jesus asks Peter Do you Love me? Peter said yes Lord and he told him to feed his sheep.
If you are feeding the sheep and doing you job, take your burden to the Lord.
I would have all of the elders or those who are willing to stand in prayer, binding together for the kingdom of God. They need to bind together every day of the week at a specific time to bombard Heaven for the unsaved loved ones in your congregation and unsaved family members of the congregation. The prayers don’t have to go on forever but it needs to be to the opening of the one praying in the spirit to the Lord.
We are living in the last days the enemy is hitting your church with everything, let the Lord hit him back for you. One praying Christian puts 1,000 to flight and 2 puts 10,000 to flight and the power of the multiplier keeps going with the more sending up prayer and praise to the Lord in Heaven.
Let us remember the day of Pentecost when they were 3000 saved and they were all speaking in tongues at one time. The power was so great that the earth shook. God is the same yesterday and today and tomorrow forever.
I pray that some of these words ill encourage you to know that the Lord has his hand upon you. He is waking up the church, be encouraged not discouraged. The Lord is coming for a spotless bride.
Send me your praise report when you come out. I believe it will be soon and I also believe that the room at the altar will be full and that you will hear the voices of those who were on the fence totally committed, coming forward to be baptized and hearing the words of Gods’ language on their tongues.
Your Sister in Jesus
Pattie
This is great. If a man is not used by God he will be used by the devil.
That was a frankly great read!