Build It & They Will Come
Building God’s Way—The Call To Ministry
If you want God to flow through you and in your ministry, you have to create a space where He can flow prophetically and administratively. There is no one-size-fits-all way to receive from the Holy Spirit; there is only your way. How God called you is exactly the way He will communicate information you need to move forward. But the question is: do you know how to hear from God for yourself? Have you done the work you need to discern His will from your own or the enemy's?
If not, that’s exactly where you need to start. Start creating strategies and systems that help you through the process of discerning God’s will for you and your ministry. When you do, you will be more sensitive to how God wants to show up and what He is really leading you to build. If you have built that infrastructure, it’s time to implement it. Test it to see if what you learnt is going to work and aligns with the person God called you to be.
If It Doesn’t Exist Create It
This quote is famous and controversial in both the Christian community and the world. Some agree that if you build (do the work), God will send the people that would benefit from what you have built. So who’s right and who’s wrong? From my perspective, God is! He is the one that gave you the word, not man. A better question to ask is, ‘What does God want you to discern from that quote to help you move towards where He is calling you.’
Maybe it’s not about following the status quo but about BELIEVING that what you’re meant to BUILD is going to ATTRACT the right PEOPLE to the THING (business, ministry, product or service) God told you to build when everyone else THOUGHT it was a waste of TIME. Ok, so you’re in the PROCESS of building. Now what?
Find a STRATEGY that works for you and your ministry
Seek God on the detail and be ok with pivoting your plan if they don’t align with what you have already created.
Be ok with STANDING OUT even when it means doing it alone for a SEASON
There are so many examples in the Bible, like Noah—who God called to build an ark for something that was to come (rain and animals). He had to have faith that it would come to pass and that what God promised to do would be fulfilled. He also had to trust God and use what he knew about building a boat and the RESOURCES available to him to build exactly what God told him to build.
Have FAITH in the VISION not in the MISSION
Noah’s mission was to build the boat, but the vision was God’s. This is important to remember when the pressure to perform starts to weigh on you or the demand of the call takes a toll on how you show up (long-term)—especially if the vision is nowhere in sight.
