A threat to covenant relationships in ministry – Believers Digest

A minister suffering from insecurity or inferiority complex cannot sustain viable and destiny relationships in ministry. Wherever you see insecurity, there’ll always be suspicion and also misjudgment and misinterpretations of motives and actions. Ministers who are insecure may not own up to it but their actions and reactions are always inspired by such negative tendency.

So, when a fellow minister is perceived (by him) not to be doing up to what he’s doing, he feels motivated, energized, inspired, reinforced, motivated, encouraged and fulfilled. But the moment he perceives someone to be doing “more or better” than him, he feels threatened and put up an unfriendly behavior and body language.

Now such a minister is not free — he’s in bondage, and the earlier he realizes that his problem is not other ministers with whom he has relationship but himself, the better. Till Jesus comes, dear minister, you will always see people operate in dimensions of grace you do not operate in (both ministers on the horizonal lane and also on the vertical lane).

You will have to thank God for everyone and appreciate what the Lord is doing in the life of each person and keep your gaze fixed on Christ, the One Who called you into ministry. Insecurity in ministry has many operational dimensions, viz envy, jealousy, competition, cynical criticism, withdrawal, verbal attacks, and MUCH MORE.

The New Testament has this to say about ENVY: JAMES 3:16

For where ENVYING and strife is, there is confusion and EVERY EVIL WORK. Wherever you see ENVY, there’ll be a high propensity of EVERY EVIL WORK (name them).

Today, ministry is being “redefined” before our very eyes, especially in the consciousness of people. Many folks these days see ministry as THE RAT RACE and not THE RIGHT RACE. So, the desire to outshine and outperform others takes a toll on the minds of many, thereby distorting the balance of ministry equation. Whatever level of relationship you maintain with other ministers, never allow insecurity. How can a father be insecure with the way God is using his son in ministry? I mean how on earth could I have ever imagined that we would be witnessing such negative trends in our day?

Truly the balance of ministry is being distorted — there’s a DISTORTION, and in the words of Dr. Jesse Duplantis, it’s “the vanity of genetically altered Christianity.” The joy of every genuine father is for their children to be greater than them. So, when a father picks up his ministry son for a fight especially in the public arena, then such person has lost consciousness of his divinely-privileged role and responsibility.

In ministry, you will have sons and daughters who will be more popular than you and who will also operate in some dimensions of ministry that you may not operate in, yet therein lies your joy because you see your children succeeding in the work that God has placed in their hands. When you see a man of God curse his spiritual children, underneath is that disguised tendency called INSECURITY. Also, why should you be insecure around your friend and colleague in ministry? Why should you always have the desire that you must be the one to outshine everyone in your circle of friends? That’s called A SENSE OF INSECURITY.

Anytime your friend shares a ministry testimony with you, instead of you to first thank God for him and rejoice with him, you always look for a testimony to share too so as to outshine his own. Friend, that’s nothing but insecurity. Deal with it today before you lose all the precious relationships in your life.

Somebody takes up an ordination that is not against the Bible, but here you are, saying that he’s title-conscious, and for a whole year, that’s your series of teaching, my friend, that’s nothing but INSECURITY. I can’t say some things on this platform but let me say authoritatively that through ministry experience, I have seen people lose precious divine and God-ordained destiny relationships in ministry because they couldn’t deal with the plague of insecurity.

For those who are sons and daughters to fathers in ministry, why should you be threatened by or envious of the ministry exploits of your father? A wise young minister does not envy the harvest of the fathers. No, it’s unwise folks who behave that way. So, you come up online to stylishly criticize your spiritual father or other fathers because of the paraphernalia of ministry they enjoy. My friend, that’s INSECURITY.

If you can learn well, your father’s experience and exposure in ministry should serve as a leverage for you to pursue God’s mandate upon your life. Whichever way it is, no minister should give room for insecurity in ministry — it’s a potential destroyer of covenant relationships and also a potential limiter of destiny fulfilment.

Don’t envy anyone in ministry. Bless God for what the Lord is doing in their lives and ministries. To deal with insecurity in ministry, a minister must see himself in the light of the Word of God, submit more to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in his life and must have a Kingdom vision. He must know that there’s nothing we have that we have not received, and that all of us are co-labourers working together to fulfil the mandate of the Kingdom. That strengthens his love walk and makes it easy for the Holy Spirit to work on his heart, and if that is done intentionally and intelligently, he will be able to keep and preserve precious covenant relationships which are like spiritual stimuli for his ministerial productivity. Anything short of that is a pathway to extinction and oblivion in the work of the ministry.

May the Lord give us understanding!

Amen!!

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Author: Pastor Bimbo Animashaun