Sure you were greatly blessed by the last edition of the Web of Wisdom magazine. In this edition I will be dealing with the topic “Finding the Power of God”. It is going to profit those of you that are pastors and everyone involved in leadership role in church especially to worship leaders.
Many times what we call praise worship is an entertainment to our soul and sometimes an exercising of our body. I believe that the most important qualification of a worship leader is not actually good voice but his ability to find the Holy Spirit in a meeting. Don’t put your skill or your talent ahead of the Holy Ghost. Sometimes people that are skillful take leadership from the Holy Ghost; rather you need to spend time in prayers to do the following things;
1) To become pliable and sensitive to the Holy Ghost
2) To find the right song for each occasion.
Everyone that is involved in worship has a major role to play in the amount of power that is available for a service or for a meeting or for a crusade. In the days of Elisha (2 kings 3:15) Elisha said ”Bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played that the hand of the Lord came upon him.” Elisha could have started talking but he rather chose to wait for the anointing to stir up prophetic utterance. A worship leader that is interested in his own voice will miss the Holy Ghost, the mood of the Holy Ghost and how the Holy Ghost wants to move.
Don’t submit the leadership of the Holy Ghost to skilful people, in fact I have even seen unanointed people join a church and within three months, they became leaders of the choir because of their powerful voice, so such people have used their talent to take leadership from God.
Now the first thing you are going to take note of if you are going to find the kingdom of God or find the power of God is:-
1. Follow the flow of the Spirit.
Learn to follow the flow of the Spirit; you do so by simply watching somebody that is in the flow. You do what they are doing, so simple. You must teach people where to look.
When God led Israelites out of Egypt, the Bible says “He led them by the pillar of cloud in the day and by the pillar of fire in the night.” So wherever they are, they must look in the direction of the tabernacle.
Most of the times when Israel is in trouble, you will find the spirit of prophecy fall on one of the sons of the priest, if there is no prophet there, it will always come upon someone either a king, a priest or a prophet in the old testament, but in the new testament it is the person that is sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit that is the leader in any gathering. Leadership has nothing to do with title; it has to do with sensitivity. True leadership is not about the position they gave you but your sensitivity to where the Holy Spirit is going.
As a Pastor, you are not following the fashion, you are not following the fact, you are following the Holy Spirit; following the anointing. In fact you are a student of the anointing, I want you to consider the practical steps in following the flow of the Spirit:-
- Study and follow the flow in your heart; the flow in the anointing and the flow in your calling,
- Develop sensitivity with the flow in your heart.
- Look at the flow on the leadership of a meeting.
- Teach your members to follow the flow as they see it on you.
Myself and mummy have worked together for many years now and some people wonder, saying “how do you know she is going to prophecy, the issue is not how do I know she is about to prophecy, the question is “how do I know what is coming up next. You are to follow the anointing as a pastor and teach your members “follow me as I follow the anointing. What the anointing moving me to do, get involved.
Don’t forget the Shunamite woman who followed the flow in her spirit, such that when Elisha passed by she sowed in her seed time and reaped a fivefold harvest; 2 kings 4
- She reaped the harvest of a son.
- When the son died, she reaped the harvest of the resurrection of the son.
- When famine was coming, she reaped harvest of divine communication.
- After the famine she reaped the harvest of divine restoration plus interest.
One seedtime yielded a cycle of harvest, and the key is “you can’t have harvest when you miss your seed time”. Seed is what set your harvest in motion and when you get to your seed time you need to follow the flow.
2. You must find the purposes of the kingdom
God is a God of purpose. In fact when they were looking for Jesus at the age of 13, He was missing from the crowd that were going back and for three and half days they couldn’t find Him, but where did they find Him? They found Him in His purpose.
Every time you get out of divine purpose, you also get out of divine power.
The Bible says God deals with motives, the reason is just more important to god than just the act, especially for those of you that are singing, it is so easy for you to get carried away with your own voice that you are just entertaining people.. As a music minister there is a thin line between entertainment and ministering. When the crowd response is more important to you than the flow of the anointing, you are in self glorification and not in the purpose of God.
The purpose of God for the anointing is to destroy yokes, lift burdens, build the kingdom of God. So find the purpose of God and you will find the power of God.
If you ask God for a loaf of bread and I ask for a bakery He will give me a bakery without giving you a loaf of bread, you know why? Because the reason why I am asking for a bakery is to be a blessing. He will not waste His time baking a loaf of bread but He will give me a bakery and tell you to come and meet me since He knows I am going to give you the bread.
Somebody says God make me a millionaire, He doesn’t make people millionaire, He gives people assignment of a millionaire. Let me give you a fantastic counsel. “Never say no to a divine assignment if you want to grow in power with God.” So find the purpose and you will get the power. Your purpose is to prepare the ground for the ministry of the word to bring the power of God down. Your purpose and god’s purpose must align and become congruent.
3. The word of God
If you don’t know which road to take to a service, take it in the direction of the word of God. Whatever you are called to do with the word face it. A minister must know his calling, don’t preach without being sure that you are called. There is a difference we must understand between the calling and assignment.
The calling is the divine invitation and claim on a man to a holy work. However having a calling is not as important as knowing that you have a calling. The problem in the body of Christ is interested Mediocres working for God because they are interested. Interest can die; calling cannot. Calling is not a matter of interest. It is when God calls you that He begins to clarify things for you.
Assignment on the other hand is the Holy work given to you to do and there are many assignments within a calling.
Things you must do to your assignment:-
1) Know your assignment.
2) Watch your assignment
3) Study your assignment
4) Give yourself totally to your assignment
5) Take heed to your assignment.
Finally, I pray that God baptize you with sensitivity more and more so that you and I can fulfil God’s purpose for our lives.
May God depend on you.
For more on this teaching, get the full teaching by Daddy (Rev. Olusola Areogun) on the title “Finding the Power of God”
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