JUST BECAUSE A PASTOR FAILS TO PERFOR A MIRACLE DOES NOT MAKE HIM FAKE

JUST BECAUSE A PASTOR FAILS TO PERFOR A MIRACLE DOES NOT MAKE HIM FAKE

 I'm seriously getting tired of this... 

Just because a person performed a miracle doesn't mean he's a pastor. And just because a pastor didn't perform a miracle doesn't make him any less a pastor either. 

I've taught you the difference between the gifts of Christ and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. While one is for perfecting the saints, the other is to enhance the workings of the gifts of Christ. 

It's shameful that this generation validates a man of God by the miracles he his able to work out in their midst. 

A pastor has one major assignment in scriptures, and each time God became upset with pastors, it's always because they didn't do this one assignment. Let me show you two scriptures:

Jeremiah 3:

15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Jeremiah 23:

2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

Notice the first scripture, a pastor should feed the congregation with knowledge and understanding. And in the second scripture, any pastor whose teaching scatters God's people will face God's judgement. 

Let me quickly write two letters. The first will be to pastors, and the second will be to Christians. 

Dear Pastor, 

If all you conduct in your church is miracle service, God will soon call you, I promise you. Please teach the congregation. The greatest miracle any one can get is the miracle of transformation. Teach them to know their rights in Christ, their rights to miracles, signs and wonders. The bible says, "these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name, they shall cast out devils". Did you notice "follow them that believe"?, it didn't say "follow pastors". So stop acting like it's only you that has capacity to do miracle. Equip your congregation with full truth, not half-baked truth. Don't leave something behind only because you want them to keep coming back for it. 

Dear Christians, 

You need a pastor who will feed you with knowledge, not miracles. The fact that you keep looking for what you already have is why some "men of God" keep taking advantage of you. Stephen was a deacon, he wasn't even among the disciples of Jesus. Yet the Bible spoke of the miracles he perfomed. Acts 6:8 says, "And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people". Yes, that's a deacon - a worker in church, not a pastor. According to Mark 16, the first thing that validates your Christian life is signs and wonders. The job of your pastor is to teach you to a point where you'd not only perform miracles, you'd also be a miracle to your world. If this isn't happening in your church, please change church. 

There are many churches that have lost relevance today because their "man of God" hosts more miracle services than teaching services. The miracle service strategy worked before, but the challenge is that the people who received those miracles were not able to sustain them, and that's because it takes the knowledge of the word to sustain miracles. 

If you check the ministries that are doing well today, they are word-based ministries. People are hungry and smarter now, they are tired of being taken advantage of. They want to know how to get things done by themselves.

I attended a service one day and all the man of God was doing for a larger percentage of the time was prophetic declarations over the congregation. And even when he began to teach, he would say one line and then turn it into a prayer point. It didn't take long before I realized that it was another miracle church. Please don't ever start a church just because you can do miracles. You'd need more than doing miracles to lead a vibrant congregation. My spirit was so unsettled in that service, I had to extricate myself from there.

General overseers, I beg you, teach your congregation the word of God, they'd thank you for it tomorrow. Don't focus on the immediate seed they'd bring, set your mind on the future harvest. And if you want to reap a great harvest, then start by sowing a great seed within them. 

I lead a fellowship of people whose spiritual level were at ground zero. Today I look at many of them and I'm full of joy as they've began to find their purpose in Christ. As a pastor, the only way you can have rest in the future is to teach your congregation the truth. 

I hope this has brought enlightenment to someone. 

Remain ever blessed! 

#EmekaAnslem