PASTOR OLUWASEYI OSANYINBI
PERFECT LIBERTY MINISTRY, ONDO
MINISTERS’ SUMMIT: THE TESTIMONY OF Light
DAY 3 MORNING SESSION
THE MANDATE OF THE CHURCH
The Word ‘ELOHIM’ is in itself sufficient to describe God. He needed to step down from that realm and he became the Word and we couldn’t comprehend it and stepped down to life, and descended for us as Light then the Holy Spirit was sent to us to help us.
We have spent years of our life studying the shadows the Light have casted, without focusing on the Light itself. When we understand that our basic responsibility is to study the creator not the creation then we will begin to understand how to be the right witness.
The Christian church needs to be curious about the kind of power that Jonah and John carried. Something is wrong with our approach. We are not focusing on what we should focus on. The church is ripe for another revival. We need to evaluate our Christianity. There might be certain philosophy or doctrine running our lives that is not producing result.
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.”
John 1:6
Very few people are sent from God. Many people are sending themselves because they love God. Our approach is wrong. Many of us also presume on God which shouldn’t be. We should define our scope of authority. We have to be sure we are sent. Many of us don’t spend enough time to receive our clear cut mandate. You need to be sent, but being sent does not mean, there will be an impact.
[biblegateway passage=”ACTS 6:1-5″ display=”ACTS 6:1-5″]
The quality of a ministry is vastly determined by the quality of men. These qualities are: Men of honest report and full of the Holy Ghost. For the church, not just anybody should be brought to leadership, so that the capacity would not be weakened. Whatever we do, we should start thinking of how to affect our generations.
Until we begin to place emphasis on what God places emphasis on, we wouldn’t get it right. One reason why we cannot be effective is because we are changing the rules. The church rises or falls on the quality of leaders.
Nobody is designed to finish the work, everyone needs to flow as a team, the human structure is one, when one part suffers, and every other part suffers, likewise, the same with the body of Christ. We need to understand that there is an inter connectivity within the body.
[biblegateway passage=”MATTHEW 7:15-27″ display=”MATTHEW 7:15-27″]
The nature of the spiritual Light is unlike the natural Light. In these days, we are afraid to confront darkness and people who are false. There will be gross darkness, there will also be gross Light, but we have no reason to surrender to darkness. You must understand the nature of warfare that is happening. The church needs to understand that darkness has its fullness everywhere. Even with all these, Jesus is still in control, no matter what, he has not lost control. What is important to God is our commitment and faithfulness.
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”
John 1:1
“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”
EPHESIANS 4:13
THE POWER OF WITNESSING
Power here means ability, capacity, competence, mastering, Force, authority. The power God wants to give is the power to become sons of God, we need power to become sons of God. What is the mandate of leadership? The purpose of delegating authority (exousia kind of power) is so that men can become sons of God.
If at the end of a church meeting, programme or gathering, the intention is not committed to making God’s people sons of God, then it’s a false activity. The unity of faith is still a mystery to quite a number. We should not do things as we please.
God desires that we all come into the ministry of faith. We must be careful of things that we think are legitimate so as not to cause our downfall. The overriding factor should be that everyone should come into the unity of faith. Anything that opposes that, is anti-Christ.
We should have so much influence that antichrist personality wouldn’t be able to manifest wherever we find ourselves. This is witnessing. The purpose of the Light is to define as Christ. To build your life and ministry on rock, takes time and might not be so convenient. But this is the value system to build.
[biblegateway passage=”MATTHEW 28:18-20″ display=”MATTHEW 28:18-20″]
[biblegateway passage=”ACTS 19:1-20″ display=”ACTS 19:1-20″]
“Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;”
HEBREWS 5:7
We don’t understand our mandate, he did not send us only to evangelize but also to colonize, and it means to take over the place. We should have the mentality of spreading, getting people to be immersed in God’s teaching, when they are being colonized, they will begin to do the will of the father.
Allegiances have not change, this is the reason why Lucifer still has his stand, when allegiances shifts, Lucifer will have a great fall. Our goal is to get the Word of God to prevail. We need the Holy Ghost more than ever before. Without the Holy Ghost we cannot be a witness. No harvest takes place without the Holy Ghost.
The bottom line of spiritual activity is authority. Have we engaged the Holy Ghost?
We have not learned fear, there is a fear that causes God to answer prayers. We should be people of fear, and fear God. This fear is having absolute regard for God. God himself is Fear. The church must learn fear otherwise we cannot witness of him.
When Moses started dealing with pharaoh and the Egyptians, every level that Moses operated, Satan copied it, that’s to say everything we believers do, Satan has copied it and he uses it against us, that is the level at which darkness as manifested itself we need a strategy that is entirely unique. Only the Holy Ghost can help us with this.