Satan's Top 10 Reasons Not to Minister

Before proceeding let me clarify what I mean by minister. Recently the word minister has taken on a more dignified definition, however it's origin simply means to serve or to act as a servant. Which in the bible it is used in those terms. Not as a position of clergy as used today. Jesus served meeting the spiritual and/or natural needs of those around Him, thus we are to be His disciples and follow in ministering the same. How does Satan keep Jesus' disciples from ministering? The following thoughts are usually our hindrance:

                              Satan's Top 10 Reasons Not to Minister

1. I don't know enough
2. They won't receive it or the fear of how they will receive it
3. I don't know what to say
4. No one in this area needs my help
5. I'm ineffective/God's not going to show up
6. I am in a rush or they seem in a rush
7. If I don't help them someone else will or they'll be okay
8. They'll think I'm weird or crazy
9. What if I say the wrong things
10. I can be a Christian and not do any of this (ministering)

Do your job which is to be obedient to the word of God and let all the other things work themselves out. The key is that you are being obedient to God's instructions to "go" and "do". We have to build up a grit in us against Satan. So that Satan cannot use his demonic thoughts (appearing as our own) to keep us from loving the world as Jesus has instructed us to.

                     What are Satan's motives for giving you reasons not to minister?

A. He doesn't want that person to begin thinking about God. Satan doesn't want us to go around stirring up the consciences of people. He wants everyone to be dead in their sins, and you opening your mouth just may quicken their hearts alive to God.
B.The less you minister the less likely you are to do it again or occasionally when you feel like it. But the more that you minister the more likely you are to do it more frequently even if you're not "in the mood".
C. Satan's bottom line is he doesn't want you to be obedient to the word of God. Obedience brings forth fruit, the more fruit you bear, the more you grow and help others. He wants to cease this work.

                        Top 10 Reasons to Minister (rebuttals to the aforementioned) 

1. All you have to know is what has God done for you. You don't have to go to seminary school, bible school, or study or read more. This is a trick of Satan to make you feel like you don't know enough to minister when you really do. Ignore all the "what if they ask" questions. What if they don't ask those questions and your testimony or simple words was enough to prick their hearts.
2. You won't know until you try. Don't judge by their appearance. Most times we try to judge if someone will receive what we have to say or not by how they look. You never know until you try and if you try and they don't receive it oh well, but if they do receive it you have just ignited a fire in them. Either way you were obedient.
3. You can build a bridge to help you feel comfy with sharing what you have to say. Either start with casual conversation or just be direct. Think of it as just talking about the weather, the latest sports news, or a new movie. If God is not a weird conversation piece to you then it won't be weird to them.
4. That is an absolute lie. Unless everyone around is saved, healing, prophesying, talking about the gospel, and can't help but love God, everyone around you needs your help. Look at people through the eyes of Christ. The eyes of fear will say "don't talk to them" the eyes of Christ says "They need my help" whose eyes do you have? If Christ is in you, it is more than you just saying he is there, He should be manifesting via reaching out to those around you. You are to be Christ because we are one with Him.
5. Another absolute lie. You are helping even if you can't see the results right away. Whenever you speak the words of life where there is death you are always being effective. You have either planted a seed in that person, or watered someone else's seed that was already planted. God is always with you because He dwells in you! His Holy Spirit has made residence in you so whatever you attempt to help you are actually helping. Satan just wants us to feel ineffective so we have spiritual low confidence.
6. Sometimes you may actually be in a rush, but if your heart is being pulled towards someone take 30 seconds to approach them. The world can wait, but you may never see this soul again. We are responsible for reconnecting souls to God. We are on God's watch...doing His work first and everything else second. Get used to putting His work before yourself even in a time crunch.
7. This is assuming someone else will take the responsibility. God placed that person on your heart because you are the person for the job. It is not good enough just to have pity on someone, because then you are no different than all the others who have passed by. You are the "someone else" that God has sent to them otherwise it would not have been on your mind.
8. Now that may be true. Because of the time we live in, God is not a popular subject.Shift the focus from you onto the fact that God wants to reconnect with His people, you will peel the attention off of self and place it on them and God. It is only when we think about self that we get fearful/nervous, but shifting it to God's love for them helps. Also, think of it as you are God's spokesperson who's been sent to deliver a message. If they reject you it was God who they rejected because it's His message.
9. What if you say the right things?
10. Ministering to others is a manifestation of God's love. If a man say he loves God and doesn't love his brother, he is a liar.How can you say you love God who you can't see and you don't love your brother who you can see? I John 4:20 And He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:8 On top of being a liar you are also in direct disobedience to Jesus' commands in Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:17-20, Acts 1:8, St John 15:12.

Satan took my lunch money!

Ever had a bully at school picking on you, and your mom taught you if they hit you first you have the right to defend yourself and fight back. Let's say everyday you come running back to mommy with a black eye or bruise that this bully put on you. Your mom would be upset because you're not following her instructions to fight that bully back.

This happened to my sister. My older sister had a bully and while they were playing outside the girl strikes first. My sister runs to my mother and tells what happened. My mother locked the screen door and told her, "go fight her. You aren't coming back inside until you stand up to her."  I can imagine the disappointment my sister must have felt. She had a "dag!" moment. She went out to the middle of the street and beat the girl. Of course they were just kids so it wasn't brutal. My mom wasn't going to go out in the street and fight a 10 year old, she gave my sister the right to defend herself.

In that same way Satan is our bully. He doesn't just go away. You have to fight back and use the authority God has given you to do so. Start speaking back to him or doing the opposite of what he (Satan) is urging you to do. If he wants you to fear, have faith, if he wants you to worry, ignore, if he wants you to dwell in self-pity, be confident.

Have you ever prayed a prayer or had a request you just kept making over and over and still...no answer? This can be frustrating, as if God is just not granting your "wish." Or maybe you've done something to where he is ignoring you? What if I am praying the wrong words? How long will He take before answering? HELLO!! Anyone on duty in heaven today?!

I can guarantee you God is not waiting for you to be more perfect so he can swipe your "Answer My Prayer" credit card. He hears you. God is not ignoring your prayers, but there is obviously more we must learn before we start seeing His word take affect into our life as the bible said it would.

                                                          How to fight the bully called Satan

Understand who you are. As a believer you have authority over Satan, sickness, death, and the earth.

In the beginning God gave mankind the instruction to "subdue" and to "have dominion"  over the earth. (Gen 1:28) This applies whether you are a believer or not.

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. (Mark 11:23)
¹⁹Behold, I [Jesus] give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19)

There are a host of scriptures and biblical events that show we have authority. God isn't out of the picture because He is our source. Once you understand that dominion and power has been delegated to you, your prayers to God will have more thanks and praise and less begging. You are now commanding the mountain (situation), sickness, or finances instead of commanding God to do a job he gave to you. Start rebuking and commanding the things to be removed out of your life. Even if it is something as simple as a headache/toothache, negative thought, temptation. Speak to it because you have power over IT! Not the other way around.

God is answering your prayer, but just not in the manner you had hoped. He is urging you to be transformed by renewing your mind. So maybe it's the TV, friend(s), music, family, or attitude he is trying to get you to eliminate hence your change hinges on your action. Change begins with you...not God.God isn't taking a long time to change you, you are taking a long time to be obedient. Often times the answer is already written in the bible, but we insist to disregard God's word deeming it as a boring book when in reality, his instructions are given plainly. The longer we set aside God's word, is the longer we have to wait for the request to be answered because His answer to your question is in His word. Make time for His word.
So in essence if you are praying and nothing is happening it is probably because you are praying to God about a situation you have the authority, dominion, and power to overcome. If Satan is attacking you with temptations,finances, body, mind, family etc. You have power over the enemy (Luke 10:19), put the enemy in his place and fight him [Satan] back. Otherwise, Satan will continue to have the victory in your life, while you are waiting for God to do it for you.

Our problem is we want to be relieved of being responsible. We want to make mistakes and have God fix them, get ourselves into trouble and have nothing to do with getting right. God has given US the power and ability to subdue the things of this world. Therefore, whatever WE sow, WE reap. If we want change, we can pray for it, but it doesn't just fall out of the sky. We have to make the change. Cut back on certain things to help us make that change.This is what gives people the wrong impression about God. He's just a magical genie to take everything away as we request it. We live how we want and just expect God to make us right without any effort or cooperation from us.Consider this the introduction, but I urge you to study/read scriptures in a new light. Is it wrong to make prayer requests to God? Not at all. But which requests do you have dominion over?

God is not blocking your prayers, he's locked the screen door and has given us the okay to fight Satan back. This blog may have given you a "dag!" moment but you can defeat him if you fight!


If this message isn't for you, maybe there is a friend/family member that could use this understanding. Please forward if you want to help someone stop being bullied by the devil.

Whack Evangelism versus Power Evangelism

I prayed for a man that had his wheel chair in front of a liquor store and as I prayed for him the Lord said he had a problem with his lungs. So I prayed for his lungs right then and there. Afterwards, I asked him "Do you have issues with your lungs?" He said "yes I have asthma" (isn't God awesome!?) I asked him what triggers his attacks. He was pretending he was unsure. I asked "Does smoke trigger it?" He said "Yes, I smoke and I've been told that's what causes the issue, but it's just not that easy for me to quit."

So I begin to minister to his body as well as his soul. My goal was for him to get out of that wheel chair and walk (I'm working on acheiving that). I was able to prove to him that God loved him because God showed me the issue with his lungs without this man uttering a word.

I love to evangelize...now! I am not doing your everyday "share the good news" type evangelism. We (friends and I) go searching to heal the sick, prophesy etc. Why? Because that is what Christ did and commanded us to do and said we could do it. Think about it, it doesn't make much since to walk to up to someone who doesn't believe in Christ or even God and quote scriptures and give a vague statement "Jesus loves you." if you are telling me that some invisible being loves me...PROVE IT!!!

At that point it is just my Christian belief system against Muslim or Buddist beliefs. BUT when I heal them or speak directly to something in their life without them saying anything, they are convinced that my God is real versus the non-healing Buddah or Mohammed. No scripture (because they don't know it or believe it any way), and no discussion...just manifesting his power.

When ever Jesus evangelized he didn't do it by quoting scriptures. He only quoted scriptures to Pharisees and his disciples, but to the ones who did not believe he was the Christ...he showed them. Isn't that our duty...to turn the world of non-believers into believers? So if they are non-believers we have to reach them at a non-believing state, like Jesus. What do you do if someone just doesn't know if God is real? Certainly don't stand and argue with them...heal them, meet a need, speak directly to their life as God gives you the words. This is why the world doesn't believe in Jesus Christ, because Christians fail to manifest his power and we just give beautiful speeches. All words and no works. All sentences and no signs.

Why don't we see these things happening? Because every Christian is asking that same question but no one is seeking to find out how they themselves can make it happen. It's like being a by stander as a man punches a woman hoping someone will come and break it up, and your standing right there. Everyone gets frustrated about not seeing the demonstration but no one seeks it out on their own.

Consider the following:

1 Corinthians 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

Mark 16:17-20
¹⁷And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
   ¹⁸They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
   ¹⁹So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
   ²⁰And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

John 14:12:   ¹²Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

What is he saying? He's saying that I am not presenting just a nice speech to you about God's love. I am showing you God's love through the demonstration of power, by healing you, performing miracles, prophesying etc.

Luke 6:40 "The disciple is not above his master, but everyone that is trained shall be as his master."
Thus, you will never be above Jesus Christ but if you are trained you can be just like him.

Now that is good news!

Dream of a Young Girl

I was speaking with a parent recently about her daughter. For the sake of their privacy I will give them names. Mom is Mary and daughter is Katie. Well Mary has been sick for over 19 years and Katie is the oldest child. She has been taking care of her mother for several years and with her low-self esteem, failing grades, and still having to take care of mom she's just not feeling like trying any more. Katie, 17 yrs old, decides she will leave and do as she pleases on her own. She does just that but to her surprise it is not what she expects.

Katie leaves her home and starts smoking marijuana, having multiple sex partners mostly with older men, drinking and so forth thinking this will help her self view. My heart always goes out to young women, especially those that don't think much of themselves because it leads to a road of destruction. A few nights after speaking with the parent about this situation I had a dream. This young girls spirit was crying out to come back home. She is not enjoying what she is doing and she keeps doing more and more. She is drifting further and further away from the peaceful shore and isn't sure if she can get back. She wants to come back home but is uncertain if her mother will receive her again because of all that she has done.

I have been in search of the mother and the daughter in hopes that I can relay the message to the the mom in time enough. The mom needs to know that her daughter's outward appearances and attitude is not how she really feels. Her actions are the complete opposite of what her spirit is crying for. She may be doing adult activities but the little girl inside of her still wants her mommy.

Why do I post this blog?  God cares about Katie so much, he gave me the insight as to how she is really feeling despite her actions. He gave me the dream to help reconcile her and her mother.You may know of a parent who has had a runaway or is having difficulty with their teenager. Encourage that parent to take their child back with open arms, because inwardly that child is unhappy with themselves. Look past the things they are doing to try to prove they are grown. I know it can be hard to do, but try looking at the child through the eyes of God.

News Flash: It's Not God's Will

Most people have the impression that sickness, death and disease are all in God's perfect plan and some how apart of his will for our lives. I once believed this too. I once accepted the diagnosis and all it came with. How did we come to this conclusion? Maybe the preacher failed to heal or raise from the dead and hence built a doctrine based on his own failure to perform. Hmmmmm.

How can I prove this? Well God in beginning, created man and all the things creatures. He looked at it all and said "It is good." Genesis 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31  Adam and Eve weren't created with diabetes or we don't even read where God created death. Lucifer (aka Satan) wanted to shake his fist at God and show him that no one wants to serve or worship Him. That man, when given the opportunity will choose death rather than to serve God. Well, Lucifer (Satan) proved his point. Once Eve and Adam ate of the fruit hence we have the fall of man. The evil we experience today are a result man submitting his authority to evil. Sickness, death and disease infiltrated mankind. Satan took pleasure in polluting God's precious creatures with wickedness so that we destroy ourselves and destroy each other.

God originally designed us healthy, connected, and pure.

It is as plain as this God is a good God and the Devil is a bad Devil. Why would a good God cause you to miscarry, or suffer from cancer? Does he do this to teach you a lesson? Not at all. God didn't create wickedness. He would be a cruel God just dishing out diseases for us to "learn a lesson." I miscarried a child and because of my lack of knowledge I attributed it to the will of God, until I realized...God created Life and he is not a baby killer.
Think on these questions:

1. If it is God's will for sickness why do people seek healing or a cure via medicine and doctors? Wouldn't that be trying to get out of God's will for your life? If it is God's will then stay sick and don't see a doctor or get perscriptions.
2. If God gave you sickness/death why would he send Jesus Christ to raise people from the dead and heal the sick and then give us (disciples) instructions to do the same?
3. Would a human father give his child a disease to teach him a lesson? If not, then why would God being more loving than any human father do so? The bible says,Matthew 7:9-11 "⁹Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?  ¹⁰Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? ¹¹If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? "

Why do we so easily disregard Satan's part in all of this? Because Satan is a master deceiver. Disguising his (Satan's) works under the "It's God's will" category thus we accept things we actually have dominion over. He blinds us to the fact that we have authority even over him. So here we are today, Christians calling God who is the good Father, the one responsible for our pain and suffering. Remember God said "It is good" how are birth defects "good", or child molestation "good", cancer "good", rape "good", heart break "good", arthritis "good"? If it is not good then why do we say God created it? God did not create anything that was not good. Please know that God loves you too much to put you through any of these, but it is our oppressor (Acts 10:38), our enemy, that subtle one the devil who continues to deceive us just like in the Garden of Eden.

I Am My Brother's Keeper

     This morning I had to make a quick run to the grocery store to kill my craving for chocolate chip cookies. On my ride there I noticed a man on a bench sleeping bundled up in his sweat shirt. Immediatley I thought of the scripture in James 2:15-16 that reads "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?" (KJV)
I couldn't just drive past him in hopes that someone else will have enough compassion to help him.
My heart was pricked by this man laying in a unusual place for his rest. Seeing him, I went in the grocery store got a few donuts and I grabbed a fleece blanket. Got to the check out and I was able to get him the food but I didn't have enough money on my card to get him the blanket. DARN IT!!! I was actually hurt/upset that I couldn't get it. So I drive by him and place the donuts next to his bundled body. I call out to him and point to the donuts. He thanked me as if I just gave him 1 million dollars. I am dissappointed that I wasn't able to get him the fleece blanket, but I will certainly look to do it all over again given the opportunity.

This isn't an astronomical move or act of God you may think to yourself, but to the man who spent a  night in the cold, with no food to him it shows God's care. God doesn't just rain food from the sky like on cartoons or movies. God moves on our hearts with compassion for one another so we can make provisions. I encourage you to not pick and choose who you feel deserves the favor of God. I could've said to myself that he was a drunk or an addict. However God doesn't not show respect of persons. He does not bless us according to how good or bad we have been, but because of his grace we can never earn his affection...that is love. If you want to show someone that God loves/cares about them, meet a need for someone ( a stranger, brother/sister, neighbor etc). We are each other's keeper.