Summary:

Without a close, intimate relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together, your chances of walking in a ministry are next to none. With the help of the Holy Spirit, all of us should be desiring and walking in the anointing and gifts that God has given to us. All of us can, and should, be getting fed to go out and communicate the good news with everyone that the Lord leads us to connect with. Walking in a ministry is very simple if you drop the fear and intimidation of connecting with and touching people out of your heart and spirit.

Show Notes:

• Our main objective here at Trinity is not just to feed people, but to equip them to process the information, so that they are able to communicate it to the people they come in contact with. That way the word becomes perpetual. “Teach these things to faithful people, who will teach others also”.

• Ministry is so much more simple than people make it out to be. It can come at a restaurant with a friend, or out of the golf course, where something is brought up and you are able to talk from your position on what you have learned.

• The most important thing about doing ministry is having a close relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together.

• The five fold ministries talked about in Ephesians 4 are to be equipping the rest of the body for the work of the ministry. God didn’t establish them to “do all the doing”.

Quotes:

• People come to church with the main idea of getting fed, but to do nothing with it is a futile effort, in my opinion. They are not thinking about giving that away to somebody else.

• You are carrying more than you realize you are. And, you’re not going to realize how much you carry unless you’re in a situation, in real relationships, where this stuff comes out.

• Ministry is not something we do, ministry is someone that you are. All we’re doing is being able to tell our story, based on where we are in the Lord, and how we’ve grown up in the Lord.

• You’re called to the work of the ministry. That means putting one foot in front of the other. Keeping obedient to God, and listening to what God is saying to you. So, start to find out your place in the body by finding an area of need in your church and step in and start to helping out.

References:

Ephesians 4:1-16

Luke 15

2 Timothy 2:2

Takeaways:

God’s true church will never be what it is supposed to be until everyone in the body of Christ starts to wake up and starts walking in the anointing and gifts that God has already given to each of us. The Lord has given us all strengths in Him to walk out if we will just stop sitting around waiting for someone else to do it.

This is a special edition of the podcast about Charlie Kirk moving a generation to the father. Our thoughts about his death and what happens now.

Summary:

Being desperate for your time with the Lord, not just to hear his voice but to become aware of and rest in His presence, is the first step in being equipped for the work of the ministry. Your connection with the Father opens doors for you to pray for and encourage people. That’s what gives you the heart to touch people to see them freed up to have a real walk with the Lord.

Show Notes:

• When the Lord starts to bring people to you with similar problems which becomes a pattern, start pressing into the Father to see if you have a particular anointing to pray for people along those lines.

• As a male, when the Lord puts a burden on you to pray for a lady, if she is married, it’s a very good thing to ask her husband since he is the head of the household. Same thing holds true if you are led to pray for a child. Ask their parents first.

• We all can miss opportunities to pray with someone who has a need, and if that happens, it’s not a good feeling. But this does make us more aware when another opportunity does arise.

Quotes:

• The easiest entry level into ministry is when someone comes to you telling you their problems. One is they trust you and two, they’re really asking for help. All you have to do is be available and willing to listen and pray with them if they are open to that.

• Stepping out to minister to someone with an inconsequential issue can turn out to be a huge, huge thing in someone’s life. With a believing heart, when praying for someone say, “Let Your kingdom come, Your will be done, in this situation”. That’s the Kingdom of God at work.

• I’d rather be here right now than any other time because this generation has the incredible opportunity to see the Kingdom of God manifest like it’s never, ever manifested before, but it depends on you and you embracing the truth of God.

References:

Exodus 19:5-6

Deuteronomy 10: 12-13

1 Peter 2: 9

Takeaways:

Ministering to God’s people is something that we should be driven to do rather than being something to shy away from. We should be pressing into being equipped to minister so that we can be a huge force in many, many lives, in God.

Summary:

Jesus bumped heads with religious tradition every day of His earthly life. He came almost begging people to drop their traditions so that they could see Him for who He really was, but they couldn’t do it, especially the religious leaders of that day. The same traditions that held people back then are holding people back now from what God wants to do and accomplish in their lives. This is why the five-fold ministries, mentioned in Ephesians 4:11, are so important, to help pull people out of the traditional church age and into a true walk with God, where everyone is encouraged to have a personal walk with the Father and to do His will.

Show Notes:

• Abraham lived in a pagan nation and God appeared to Him and told him to get out of his country, from his family, and from his father’s house. Abraham believed God and was reckoned righteous and he went out, not knowing where he was going. Abraham only knew that he had to follow the Father on where to go and what to do.

• Church traditions are not necessarily bad, but if those traditions are keeping you from your true spiritual identity and who you are supposed to be in God, they are not just bad, but are the most evil thing there is.

• The only truths that you can definitely stand on are that Jesus was born of a virgin, He was the son of God, He lived a sinless life, He died on the cross, and He arose from the grave. All other beliefs are going to be continually changing and evolving.

Quotes:

• For the most part, every church is preaching on the facets of their statement of faith. Most of the time, it’s a salvation message and it’s not really geared to equip people to do the work of the ministry.

• The greatest opponents of the moving of God are the people that God moved in the generation before, because it was so good. They saw the life of God moving in that, but they won’t let go of those things for what God wants to do next.

References:

Ephesians 4:11-14

Mark 7:13

Takeaways:

Jesus ached over the people who couldn’t see Him for who He really was, and especially for the religious leaders. They were not only refusing to see Him, but they were also holding back all of their people from seeing who He was. The same is happening today, because of the religious traditions that people are caught up in.

Summary:

Everyone comes to church to get fed in some way, but we aren’t supposed to get fed and do nothing with it. We should go to church to get fed and equipped to take that word out and engage in ministry to others. God has a ministry for all of us to engage in, not just a few who have some title. It’s old Bible Belt thinking that says God raised up just a few who are supposed to do all of the ministry.

Show Notes:

• The whole concept of equipping people for the work of the ministry has been left to the wayside in many church circles, especially in the Bible Belt, because we have this mentality that the guy who is up front is the one to do all the ministry.

• Coming to church is like taking a time-out in a basketball game. There, the coach (church leader) equips you to go back on the floor and play the game. The church is not the end game, but its the place we go to get instructed on how to go out into the world and play the game.

• Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers were given to equip us for the ministry, not for them to do it all.

• Your profession can either be a job to you, or it can be your ministry. It’s not all the money you can make, but it should be about all the people you can touch.

• God’s real plan for all of us is not to have some title, but to get out and be all you can be to the whole body of Christ. Titles are way over-rated.

Quotes:

• When we get people to break through in their thinking about ministry, then the church really takes on a whole life of its own, and people start to find their place, their gifting, and their anointing.

• To find out if you have that kind of anointing on you, it’s just to keep walking out your call day by day, spending time with the Father and paying attention to the open doors that God gives you to go through.

• To find your calling, it’s just by obedience, faith and consistency in walking this life out with the Lord.

References:

Ephesians 4:11-14

Takeaways:

It’s not for just a few people with titles to go out and do all the ministry. God’s plan is for all of us to be equipped in our calling to go out and be a blessing to the body of Christ and the world, with the anointing that He has given us.

Summary:

Do you want a church where everyone remains an infant in the Lord, not mature enough or prepared to be a real asset in God’s Kingdom? Equipping the saints for the work of the ministry should be the focus of every church, to help their people grow out of infancy and into maturity in their spirits. For the many churches that don’t emphasize this principle, their people are held back from becoming what God wants them to be. The final result is a church full of immature people who expect their pastor and a few others to do all the teaching and ministering.

Show Notes:

• The church cannot and will not be the true church until leaders and the rank and file of the whole body of Christ embrace the truth that all Christians should start being equipped for the work of the ministry.

• In the church age Bible Belt, Christians are held back because of the concept that the pastor and a few others are supposed to do all the ministry.

• So many people run from the word “ministry” because they think they have to get up in front of people and do all the talking. Wrong concept!

• God gave some as apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers. These ministries are given as gifts to the church. It takes all five of these foundational ministries working together to properly set a church in order and mature the people. Without all of these ministries working together, the body of Christ will never be able to attain to the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God.

Quotes:

• Equipping the saints should be a part of the basic, fundamental DNA of every church. That’s how strong I feel about equipping the saints.

• Paul went to great lengths to talk about the physical body, comparing it to the spirit, the body of Christ. Everyone of us have a different gift set. We have gifts, talents, and anointing, so it’s been a high priority of mine all of these years to help people to open their minds and understand that they have a calling.

References:

Ephesians 4:11-14

Takeaways:

Most of the Christian world has been held back from becoming mature believers because of a lack of understanding and teaching concerning equipping and preparing the saints to step up and minister to those who God wants blessed.

Summary:

Andy Taylor is the author of two books: “Reading Your Bible for All Its Worth”, and “The Best Kept Secrets in the Kingdom”. Andy writes in a way that is simple to understand and is written for the common person. With short chapters, which makes for an easy read, both books are phenomenal, first in how fun and easy it is to start reading the Bible, and opening your heart and mind concerning what the Kingdom of God really is, and how to start moving in it.

Show Notes:

• The book, “Reading Your Bible for All Its Worth”, gives many tips to help you to find how fun and easy it is to start reading your Bible without making it a religious chore.

• The book, “The Best Kept Secrets in the Kingdom”, was written to equip everyone for the work of the ministry. It is not exhaustive in nature, but it helps our understanding of subjects like church, the gifts of the Spirit, church government, and true worship along with 16 more chapters, all of which get people into the flow of what God is doing right now.

• “Reading Your Bible for All Its Worth” was written after discovering that between 75% to 90% of all Christians don’t read their Bibles on a consistent basis, which was confirmed by many of Andy’s ministry colleagues and friends.

• Andy wrote these books using language that all people can understand. The books are both geared for the common person, especially those who have a hard time reading and enjoying what they read.

Quotes:

• It’s been an observation of mine down through the years that people are not readers like they used to be, especially men. Men are not readers.

• I wanted to gear it toward people who don’t read. So, every chapter is two to three pages in length.

• What we wanted to do was create and foster people loving the Word of God.

• Most people are waiting for somebody like me or another leader to do all their spiritual thinking for them.

Takeaways:

Both of Andy’s books are full of real kingdom tips that you can use in your everyday life. These tips are simple to understand and are very encouraging, especially for people who have a hard time reading and enjoying what they are reading.

Summary:

Our prayer time with the Father should always be two-sided. There’s a time to talk with Him, to petition Him with certain things, but there’s also spending some quiet time where you give the Father a chance to talk and commune with you. That’s why it’s so important to go to the Father with much gratitude, and with no agenda.

Show Notes:

• With all that’s happening in the world today, there’s no way not to get discouraged without having a close relationship with the Father and spending time with Him. Spending quiet time with Him with much gratitude and with no agenda opens the door for God to love, encourage and speak to you.

• There is never any contradiction between what God speaks to you and what you read in the written word (Bible). He can’t do that. That’s why is so important to have a firm foundation in the written word, and being persistent in spending time reading it.

• Any conversation should never be just one-sided. If all you do is go to God with all your wants and petitions, how will He ever be able to speak back to you, if you don’t take part of your prayer time just to be thankful and listen for Him to speak back to you?

• Just like Jesus, when He would go to the mountain to be with the Father, we can do the same thing. Quietly sitting with Him, sometimes without a word said, you can let go of bad feelings and at the same time take on the Father’s love, compassion and be able to hear Him speak back to you. That’s how this no-agenda thing can work for you.

Quotes:

• Make your spiritual life a priority. It’s about renewing your mind according to the Word of God- the written word of God (Bible), and then the word that God is speaking now. It’s a combination of the two.

• Over the last two or three years, I have found it really most important in my life and in my relationship with the Father, is to just be quiet and enjoy the presence of the Lord. It’s not hard to do, but it takes time, some discipline, and it takes some learning- mostly how to deal with distractions.

• Using the “CALM app” has been one of the most productive things I’ve done over the last few years. It has helped and taught me how to get in the moment.

• The key is to be so in tune with the spirit that you are walking in step, in fellowship with the Lord, where you are in union with Him.

References:

Philippians 4:6

Takeaways:

Your gratitude to the Father opens the door for Him to speak to you and commune with you on deeper levels. When you go to Him in gratitude, not asking for anything, there’s no way He’s not going to bring you into a closer relationship and union with Him.