Tapiwa John

Counsellor

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.”
—J.C. Ryle, English bishop, author, and traveling preacher who ministered to major industrial hubs including Manchester

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

HERE IS THE SCARY PART ABOUT MINISTRY: YOU CAN BE USED BY GOD WHILE STILL HIDING SIN.

Someone can masturbate in secret and still mount the pulpit to pray for people.

Someone can fornicate in secret and still stand before the church and lead worship.

Someone can lie, manipulate and extort money from people and still mount the pulpit to deliver powerful Spoken Word.

People will clap.

People will cry.

People will testify.

People will say, “What a powerful minister.”

People can genuinely be blessed.

And behind all of it, there can be a person God is desperately calling into repentance.

THAT SHOULD SCARE EVERY MINISTER.

Because a gift can open a door that character has not yet prepared someone to walk through.

You can have a genuine gift and still have a secret life that needs to be surrendered.

You can preach holiness while secretly fighting lust.

You can lead worship while living in compromise.

You can pray for people while desperately needing God to deal with you.

You can be gifted and still be broken.

You can love God and still have areas of your life that need to die.

And here is the uncomfortable truth:

A PLATFORM IS NOT PROOF OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY.

God using someone does not mean God approves of everything that person does in secret.

The microphone can amplify a gift without exposing character.

The crowd can celebrate the minister while God is dealing with the person behind the ministry.

So don't hide behind your gift.

Don't use ministry as camouflage.

Don't say, “But God is still using me,” as an excuse to remain in sin.

The fact that God is still using you should drive you deeper into repentance, not deeper into compromise.

Don't just ask God to use your voice.

Ask Him to purify your heart.

Don't just ask for a platform.

Ask for character.

Don't just desire an audience.

Desire intimacy with God in the secret place.

Don't just pursue revival around you.

Let revival begin inside you.

Because revival doesn't begin with a microphone.

It begins when God's people stop protecting their secret sins and start surrendering everything to Him.

REVIVAL MUST BEGIN WITH US.

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

A difference between a cult and the Church of Jesus Christ.

1. Leadership.
In a cult, everything centers around a man or a woman.

The leader is worshipped, cannot be corrected, and claims to be the only voice of God on earth. In the Church of Christ, everything centers around Jesus Christ. No man is worshipped.

Jesus alone is the Head of the Church.

— Colossians 1:18.

2. Authority.
In a cult, the words, visions, dreams and books of the leader are placed above the Bible, and they become the final authority.

In the Church of Christ, the Bible alone is the final authority and is enough to guide us.

—2 Timothy 3:16

3. Salvation.
In a cult, salvation is by loyalty to the group, by doing certain works, by paying money, or by knowing secret knowledge.

In the Church of Christ, salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

—Ephesians 2:8-9

4. Control.
A cult controls your life.
It tells you who to marry, what to wear, where to go, and it isolates you from your family and friends.

It uses fear and guilt to keep you.
The Church of Christ does not control you, it guides you with truth and love. It gives you liberty in Christ, for where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty

— 2 Corinthians 3:17.

5. Money.
A cult exploits its members.
All the giving is forced and it goes to enrich the leader.
In the Church of Christ, giving is voluntary, cheerful and transparent. God loves a cheerful giver

— 2 Corinthians 9:7.

6. Attitude to outsiders.
A cult says, "Only we will go to heaven, everyone else is lost and cursed."

It hates and condemns other people. The Church of Christ knows that salvation is not in a building or a denomination, but in Christ.
So it loves the lost and preaches the gospel to them, because God so loved the world

— John 3:16.

7. Questioning.
In a cult you are not allowed to ask questions. If you ask, you are called rebellious and backslidden.
In the Church of Christ you are free to ask questions and search the scriptures for yourself, just like the Berean Christians did.

—Acts 17:11.

8. The fruit.
A cult produces fear, confusion, pride, and broken families. It does not bow.

But the Church of Christ produces love, joy, peace, longsuffering and humility. As we read from John 15, the branch with the most fruit bows the lowest. That is the true mark

— Galatians 5:22.

A cult uses God to promote the leader, but the Church of Christ uses the leader to promote God.

The golden question, are you in a cult or are you in a church of Jesus Christ?

[Billy Graham @BillyGraham]

"You don't deserve to be saved. I don't deserve God's salvation and forgiveness. I don't deserve the love of God. But God's grace and God's mercy was extended to me and to you. And now I am a recipient of that which I did not deserve." —Billy Graham

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[Nick Pavlick @nick_pavlick]

Acts 1:8...But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Sumaria, and to the end of the earth...

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@CharambaPastor Amen, mazvita

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@CharambaPastor Amen

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” - John 13:35

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Matthew 5:3 - KJV
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. – Hebrews 11:1

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When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. - Psalm 56:3

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If God is for us, who can be against us? – Romans 8:31

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“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” - Proverbs 27:17

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You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. - Job 11:18