(Understanding Another Type Of Ministry)
📖Mark 1:29-31
📜Mark 1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she MINISTERED unto them.
Have you ever asked yourself, either during your personal studies or when this passage of the Bible is being taught in your church, How Peter's mother-in-law ministered unto JESUS and His disciples?
Did she sit them down and PREACH to them? Certainly not. Yet sometimes people THINK the only way we can minister to another is to admonish them with the scriptures.
Peter's mother-in-law apparently ministered to them BY SERVING them. The word translated "MINISTER" is the same word that was translated "DEACON" twice in the New Testament, and "serve, served or serveth" eight times.
We can minister for the LORD by doing some of the MENIAL TASKS that many consider to be unimportant. It doesn't have to be something great or gigantic before we acknowledge that it is part of ministry.
📖Rom 12:7
AMP: [He whose gift is] PRACTICAL SERVICE, let him give himself to serving; he who teaches, to his teaching;
Verse 13:
NIV: Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Also, be reminded that JESUS said that even a cup of cold water given in His name would not go unrewarded (📖Matthew 10:42).
Many people are waiting for the IMPORTANT JOBS to come along where they can make a big impact or receive a lot of RECOGNITION, while they pass by many LESSER OPPORTUNITIES every day.
But in the kingdom of God, we won't be given any GREAT OPPORTUNITIES until we are proven FAITHFUL in the small things.
📖Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Today, ask the LORD to show you ways you can minister to others by serving them.
📖Galatians 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but BY LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER.
It is interesting to note that Apostle Paul said the services we are to render to one another should be powered BY LOVE.
Why? Because if it not done BY LOVE or IN LOVE or THROUGH LOVE, it will be:
👉 Pseudo Service
👉 Pretentious Service
👉 Prideful Service
👉 Pompous Service
If you minister "BY LOVE" to others or accept responsibilities that foster (grow, cultivate) God's agenda, no matter how menial:
👉 GOD Will Back It
👉 GOD Will Honor It
👉 GOD Will Reward It
👉 GOD Will Bless It
👉 GOD Will Expand It
GOD BLESS YOU BY ALL MEANS IN JESUS NAME!
Apostle Dr. ROCKSON AWESOME STEPHENS
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