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If it ain’t broke, they say, don’t fix it.

Well, it is broke…and most do not know it. You know why? The word “broke” like “w.o.k.e” has been redefined.

All of my websites broke a few weeks ago…they went out on the same day. This is the second time I have had to redo one of them. Amazingly, it is the one with all of my blogs…things I have written for over thirty years. It is more frustrating than anything. I know it is technology…however, I am listening to see if Holy Spirit is telling me something.

MINISTRY RESET does not mean to redo your ministry so people can see progressive changes in the cosmetics of our ministries. It is a waste of time to start from where we are and repaint the building and buy a new keyboard…and change the service times for the younger ones…and call it reset. 

MINISTRY RESET means to first find out what MINISTRY means. David’s lack of attention to this instruction needlessly cost him the life of a man who was trying to help him move a cart. 

We are leading precious people who are waiting on instructions, demonstrations and explanations on what to do next. If our instructions are to continue as they are, we are in for a rude awakening. Like David, we will lose valuable people who came to help, but are dying at the expense of our ignorance.

If we are still doing ministry the same way we did a few years ago when we encountered the dreaded disease…we are, then, in the same boat as before. We talked and complained more than we demonstrated the word of God we had taught prior to the devastation of people’s lives. Many just caved in, not able to properly divide the word of truth.

MINISTRY RESET requires our willingness to stop where we are, go back to the instruction manual and listen to what God has said…and is still saying. Actually, it requires more than that. 

Andrew Murray equates being spirit-filled as being fully surrendered to Holy Spirit. How can we be fully surrendered to Holy Spirit and fully surrendered to what we want at the same time? Scripture reminds us that we will love one and hate the other as we cannot serve both God and mammon. Who wants to admit which one is hated?

I suggest that many of God’s people are illegally in ministry because they are not in harmony with God. He reconciled Himself to us…Paul then says for us to reconcile ourselves to Him. In other words, we cannot walk as one if He is the only one who entered into reconciliation. Oh, we accepted what He did for us based on the hope and assumed promise we can go to Heaven. That is not why He did what He did.

Until we are in harmony with Him, His word, and His purposes, we can only function with the gifts HE GAVE us because without the Gifts and no harmony, we must rely on our own power. 

We can build meetings without Him. We can even establish some form of government without Him. It is what some have already done. That is what social justice is all about…build in our own power, meeting the needs of the people…and not the purposes of God…like Gen 11 as the people attempted to build their own tower to sit in their power. 

Did you notice what God did when the folks were trying to build for themselves? He said in Gen 11:7 ampc:

Come, let Us go down and there confound (mix up, confuse) their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Wonder if He came down and we cannot discern it.