26/12/2025
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DON'T RUSH THE JOURNEY
To my sons And Daughters in ministry
Ministry is not a race to be won; it is a life to be formed. It is not about how fast you are noticed, but how deeply you are rooted.
Every calling has a season the season of training, the season of pruning, the season of waiting, and the season of sending. When you rush, you skip the classroom of God and anyone who skips class will eventually fail the exam.
The anointing may come suddenly, but character is built slowly.
God does not use a man because he is gifted; God uses a man because he is processed.
David was anointed as a boy, but God still sent him back to the sheepfold.
Joseph dreamed early, but God still sent him to the pit, the prison, and then the palace. Even Jesus waited until thirty learning, obeying, and submitting before stepping fully into public ministry.
Son, rushing will tempt you to build platforms without foundations.
You may impress people for a while, but storms will expose anything constructed in haste.
Do not rush to preach what you have not lived.
Do not rush to lead where you have not served.
Do not rush to command others while you still resist correction.
Ministry grows through hidden years years when nobody claps for you, nobody calls your name, nobody recognizes your effort. Those years are holy.
In those silent spaces, God kills pride, purifies motives, and teaches obedience.
If you avoid those seasons, you do not become strong you become fragile.
My son, learn to sit under authority. Learn to listen. Learn to receive rebuke without arguing. The ministers who fall are not usually those who never learned how to preach they are usually those who never learned how to wait, submit, and be accountable.
Rushing will expose you to places your maturity cannot sustain.
Rushing will make you copy others instead of discovering God’s pace for you.
Rushing will push you to build crowds when God is trying to build Christ in you.
Remember: God is never late He is deliberate.
What He is forming in you matters more than where you think you should be.
If God closes a door, He is protecting you.
If He delays a season, He is preparing you.
If He hides you, it is because precious treasures are not displayed too early.
Stay faithful in the small.
Serve when it is inconvenient.
Study when nobody is watching.
Pray when it feels dry.
Obey when it is hard. God is writing a story in you and stories written by God are never rushed.
When your time comes, nothing will stop it. And when your time has not come, nothing should force it.
Let patience be your strength. Let the process be your teacher. Let God set the pace.
Because the ministers who last are not the ones who started fast they are the ones who allowed God to build them slowly, deeply, and thoroughly.
Don’t rush the journey of ministry. Let God finish what He started in you.
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