29/10/2024
A MUST READ IF YOU ARE A MINISTER BY Bishop Irabor Wisdom
MONDAY MENTORSHIP IN MINISTRY:
28/10/2024
EIGHT (8) WAYS YOU CAN TELL THAT A STRANGE SPIRIT HAS POSSESSED THE GUEST SPEAKER AND THE HOST PASTOR BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE MEETING:
There is how a guest speaker behaves and you just know that you have invited a problem you can't manage.
There is also how the host pastor will behave and you just know you came to the wrong place.
IT IS BETTER NOT TO HOST THAN TO BE THE WRONG HOST:
IT IS BETTER NOT TO ACCEPT INVITATIONS, THAN TO BE THE WRONG GUEST SPEAKER:
WHEN YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING ANY OF THESE EIGHT DIFFERENT THINGS, JUST KNOW THAT ANOTHER SPIRIT HAS TAKEN HOLD OF YOU:
LET THESE EIGHT POINTS GUIDE BOTH THE GUEST SPEAKERS AND THE HOST PASTORS:
THE EIGHT POINTS FOR GUEST SPEAKERS:
1. When you take money for flight or transportation before the meeting, only to still demand for a fresh money when it is time for you to hit the road. In the name of you are very rich, a strange spirit has entered you.
2. When you accept to come, and you have given your words that you will come, only for you to withdraw the very last minute because you heard that your host has gone through a divorce. Of what use his guest speakers if there are no challenge to handle? Do you know the challenge that will befall you tomorrow?
3. When you climb the altar and all you preach is faith in yourself, without any effort to build the people's faith in their pastor. It is just about you, you and you again.
4. When you attack the very thing the ministry is known for, you accepted to preach for a prophetic church, only for you to condemn the prophetic from the beginning till the end. It is a church that is known for tithing, yet you preached against tithing.
5. When you are aware of the challenge in the life of your host, only for you to build your message and utterances against the obvious challenges in the life of your host. For example your host is believing God for a child, which you are aware of, and you still say, how can God call a pastor and he is childless? The oil on his head is not working. Sir you are in error.
6. When you insist that the five hundred thousand they gave you is not enough, that the ten million you raised must be shared into three. It is not any where in the bible. But if you accept this as a host, please keep it. Don't change the goal post after the match. For you to accept this shows that you are a charlatan.
7. When you finish and secretly collect members of the congregation of your host, to now start counseling and directing them to your meetings after leaving your host. You are under the influence of a strange spirit.
8. When you finish preaching only for you to systematically ask a girl in the choir or church that you love, to see you in the hotel. Some ladies in the church are the cause of their problem, they are so carnal that sleeping with a fine guest speaker is a dream come through. Thank God for the few faithful daughters who will expose such demons in the name of a guest speaker.
THE EIGHT FOR HOST PASTORS:
1. Inviting your guest speaker and expecting him to pay his way to your meeting, when your relationship with him has not reached that level. Or asking him to come with his money and then leaving him indebted after the meeting.
2. Keeping your guest speaker seated and you preaching a long message before bringing him to the altar. The last place i ministered, I noticed as I came in, the mic was given to me. No drama. What a matured host. If the guest speaker is your brother or mate in ministry, you can do that. But to keep your guest speaker seated for hours before coming up, is not correct. Unless the said guest wants it that way. I once hosted Arch- Bishop Joseph Ojo and Bishop Simion Okah separately, they both insist on joining the service from the opening prayers. Not minding the attendance not yet at the level I think they should come in.
3. To keep your guest speaker in one room with his personal assistant in the name of he is a humble guest is the operation of a strange spirit. How do you sleep comfortable in your house, knowing fully well that your guest is on the same bed with his personal assistant or media manager? If he is your junior in ministry, we can understand, to do it to your seniors, is an error.
4. To give your guest speaker peanut from the millions that was raised shows you are under the yoke of a strange spirit. Most genuinely born again guest speaker don't care, they will receive it and walk away and still minister for you, because to them is all about souls, they are not moved by money. But one day you will meet your type and it won't end well.
5. Please drop your account we shall get back to you, without you getting back to them, is the operation of your village masquerade. Many host are guilty of this. I have discover that only few people can still honour their guest after the meeting has come and gone. A successful meeting must result in the happiness of four groups of persons. God in heaven, the host pastors, the guest speaker and the general church. When members are happy, it can cover all lapses.
6. You invited a prayer man to your church, before bringing him up, you spoke on the supremacy of wisdom over prayers. You have just killed the spirit of that innocent guest speaker. He may never complete that meeting or he may never come again. You are a victim of inferiority complex. You have a comeplex problem.
7. Your guest speaker made a mistake that is not injurious to the work, only for you to return and told the church what he did, in your mind you are making them believe more in you, but in the minds of the wise and intelligent, you have inadvertently told them the kind of person you are.
8. Because the meeting is not fruitful financially, you now left your innocent guest in the hotel, to sort himself out. The hotel staff told him, he can't leave until he clears the bills. At this point you are the Antichrist we read about in the book of revelation. There is no other AntiChrist but you. This is why I advice everyone to only preach on three different ground. A recommendation from a trusted friend or person. A long standing relationship and by the direct voice of God.
Be blessed.
Bishop irabor wisdom.
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