I want to wish everyone a happy new
year 2022, and I wanted to share a
quick word that's upon my heart.
I don't know if I can get it
across exactly how I want to get it
across, but I'm going to try.
I'm seeing a bunch of young Christians launching
ministry prematurely because the availability of social media
like YouTube and TikTok, Facebook, and stuff like
that, they feel like they want to get
out there and to share what they got
from the Lord.
And they're losing the impact that they could
have had if they would have stayed hidden
away longer with the Lord.
We have had so many historical accounts of
men and women of God that hid themselves
away for years until God launched them onto
the scene.
And when God launches people onto the scene,
then all of heaven's going to back them.
There's going to be a greater impact, a
greater anointing, a greater deliverance ministry per se.
You know, we need a bunch of deliverer
ministries far greater than we need deliverance ministries.
They're both needed, but the deliverer ministries like
the spirit of Elijah's, the spirit of Ravenhill's,
the spirit of Finney's that come onto the
scene, the spirit of Wesley's that come onto
the scene, where God just had these men
and women hid away.
And then he launched them out the door.
They didn't open the door.
God opened the door.
And the floodgate of heaven followed with them.
And we have a bunch of shallow ministries
today.
They're impactful, but they're not making the impact
that they could have had if they would
have waited upon God longer in the secret
place.
You know, I've been a Christian now for
25 years.
And the reason I can share this, because
I did it myself when I first became
a Christian, I was 24 years old and
I was kicking down doors.
But you know, it was very spiritual when
I was doing it in the name of
Jesus.
And I had the right motive.
I wanted to share what I had.
And what we're doing is this.
We're decreasing in a secret place.
We're getting alone with God.
And we're getting consecrated.
And as we're decreasing, we begin to sense
the anointing.
We begin to sense the glory of God.
And we want to share it.
And so what we're doing is as we're
going down, but yet God wanted us down
here, but we launch right here.
So we launch public ministry here.
And it's an impact, but like I said,
not the impact we could have had if
we would have waited upon God down here.
God would have just totally helped us abandon
ourselves entirely to him.
The self would have been crucified, consecrated to
the Lord.
And then we launch with a much powerful
anointing onto the scene.
Like I said, we need deliverer ministries more
than anything else today where men and women
are God are just hidden away in a
secret place, getting alone with God.
And here's the temptation.
I'm almost done.
Hold on.
What we're doing is this.
So as we're coming down here and we
launch early prematurely out of the closet, we
think to ourselves, well, I can continue to
consecrate.
I can continue to get alone with God.
And that's very true.
You can continue.
And I assume you're going to continue to
decrease.
But you begin to focus now more on
to the public ministry than your ministry with
him that you could have had if you
would have waited.
And then what you do, you slow down,
you go from fifth year to first year.
You're still decreasing, but at a much slower
pace now, because now you're focusing on what
you can say, how to launch, how to
do this.
You're focusing more on the public ministry rather
than the secret place ministry with the Lord.
And that is the big difference we're seeing
today more than ever.
I hope this makes sense.
I hope this helps someone out.
We have a bunch of microwave ministries today
springing up all over the place like that
microwave popcorn that gets done within one minute
when God wants to mold us and break
us and shape us.
God has not changed brothers and sisters.
He has the waiting for him.
This waiting upon God has not changed.
He still wants us to wait upon the
Lord to renew our strength before we launch
an impactful ministry to go out into the
scene into this dark world we live in
for the cause of Christ.