NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL A FATHER IS, IF THEY GIVE YOU A PLATFORM, IT IS YOUR GRACE THAT WILL SUSTAIN IT.
DON’T JUST BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE FATHERS, ALSO NETWORK AND HONOUR PEOPLE ON YOUR LEVEL WHO ARE THE FATHERS OF TOMMOROW.
- Pastor Olumide Emmanuel at Kingdom Wealth Conference, Day 3 Morning (Ministers Session).
You need to have seminar and outreaches. That will also help you. Sometimes nobody will invite you, you have to invite yourself. The Bible said Jesus went from synagogue to synagogue, city to city. No body invited him, he invited himself to his own programme. I have done that forever, every year we do 24 meetings in different parts of the world, two-two meetings every month. We have planned already for next year. If I show you my diary for 2022 you will wonder. I am already in 2023.
Last year we started doing virtual meetings and people are saying “all this virtual, no money”. I made so much money virtually last year and I am still collecting money, not that I charge them. When God turns to you, it is your turn.
You need to do events, let people know. Now it’s easier you can do it online. You can do the adverts, spend $10 for adverts on Facebook and Instagram and then you go live. You might see just two or three people, don’t be deceived. Church Gist. You don’t know whether one of them is thirty people watching one laptop. Don’t joke with this thing.
- Networking
Be a good networker because you never know somebody that knows somebody that knows somebody that knows somebody. Some times it is the wife I met, I have been to a Youth Convention and the Pastor said “Ah ah you people should have told us that it is this type of person you are bringing, he should have come for the whole Church Convention” and that is how Church Convention opened.
One of my mentors was invited for a Youth Conference in one South America Church, he said he didn’t even want to honour it because it was Youth Convention. When he went, they came to pick him at the airport and they said they were taking him to the stadium, the youths of the church were 25,000.
So network, network with people of value. I see a trend where many of the young ministers want to connect to fathers. Every body “I want you to be my mentor”, they are on their way out. Connect to tomorrow’s fathers. Church Gist. Stop looking for one father that is not lost. Some of you are suffering from orphan spirit. No matter how powerful the father is, if they give you the platform, it is your grace that will sustain the platform. Forget all these things and build yourself.
Some of the people I know today, I knew them when they were nothing. I have done that thing before going up and down looking for fathers, but I asked myself in the 90’s what are you looking for, are you an orphan? come back and face your work. So I came back and faced my work and when my work started speaking, I started getting phone calls from those I was seeking before. If I tell you of how I met many of the fathers you would be shocked, they were the ones that called me. Face your work.
So I will advise you young people, connect with your tribe. Among your age grade look around and begin to see people that are going somewhere and connect to them. Connect with pastors here now, they may have just twelve members but small churches will be big. Church Gist. When people finish playing football they become coach so that they can remain relevant. I can tell you up there I have them, on my level I have them and in the next generation, I have them. Ministry is not about branding. It is a privilege to be a blessing.
- Stay Fresh, Stay Focused, Stay Useful, Stay Relevant.
Stay Fresh – I am almost amazed at the mindset of some pastors when it comes to this ministry work. I went to a country not too long ago and I stayed in the house of a friend, so he came inside one day and met me doing devotion with Open Heavens, and he said at my level I still have time to read Open Heavens. I told him I am a child of God, I still need to grow my spiritual life.
A lot of pastors are not fresh and you want to be an itinerant minister. Why would they invite you? To come and say what? When it is the same thing that you are saying. You are boring, nothing is fresh, no fire. Why do you think the angels are screaming Holy! Holy! Holy! Without getting tired, because there is always a new dimension of God. He is new every morning. Church Gist. Those who are in demand even in their 70’s is because they are fresh. There are people that started with them that even if they say they should come to your church for free. You will say no because you know they don’t have anything to offer.
Stay focused – Many people are too busy carrying title without entitlement. If the anointing is not in a short nicker, agbada cannot bring the anointing. Stay focused, don’t get to that point where you think you are too much. It doesn’t cost God anything to replace you.
Stay Useful – you can be an itinerant minister and they invite you, there is something they are inviting you for. You can’t go to somebody’s church and that is where you want to test your new theology. Church Gist. When people call me to come and preach, I send them a form to know what they hope to achieve, what is the time, what is the audience like so I can tailor myself to come and serve.
Stay Relevant – you have to be updating with the time and season to stay relevant. Social Media was agog when one of our fathers landed with private jet and limousine. He said he has made many mistakes and before he dies, he will correct as many things as possible. It takes humility to do that, you better learn and stop judging what you don’t understand.
Why do You want to Have an Itinerant Ministry
- If it because of money, you will be frustrated
We pastors are not comedians and musicians that charge like Americans. All this charging, charging. We will see where it would end. Don’t go because of money because there are places you go to and God will tell you don’t collect, there are other places, God will tell you buy keyboard for them. If you are really a man of God, don’t go because of money. Church Gist. I have been to London before and they gave me flower and card that they all signed. God will test you, so if it is about money don’t do it. - If it’s about fame, then be careful.
Don’t use God to become famous, don’t try it. Many people don’t know there is danger in success. If you think you have integrity, you will see that there are different levels of integrity. Church Gist. Some men of God they are married and they won’t chase women, that is elementary integrity. What of when women are chasing you, can you say no? That is real integrity.
Why should you go out? For impact. You are going out there because you want to be a blessing. Everything is not money, money. When you finally get all the money what else?
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