30 LESSONS WE HAVE TO LEARN IN MINISTRY

1. Ministry is patience.
2. Ministry will test you no matter where you start from and what you start with.
3. Ministry blossoms with diligence and faithfulness.
4. Some friends will be needed at different stages but you must be ready to let go when it is time.
5. No one can succeed alone in the ministry, you need mentors & partnership.
6. Give the best at all time you are given opportunity. A well utilized opportunity can boost your ministry forever.
7. You can’t succeed in ministry without copying what has worked for others. Use only good methods after approval by the Holy Spirit to improve your ministry.
8. Some pastors will never respect your calling.
9. Some pastor friends will never accept your personality.
10. Some pastor friends will always focus on your weakness and forget what God is achieving with you.
 11. You need discipline to stay alive with the word of God as a pastor.
12. There is a wisdom you will never get until the need arises in your ministry.
13. You must respect those who have gone ahead of you no matter their age.
14. We don’t use age to do ministry.
15. Your classmate can be your ministry teacher.
16. Competition is real on the ground. Up your game to stay in the game. We are fishing from the same pool.
17. Never prioritize anything above the value of a soul in your ministry.
18. Run away from Adultery, alcohol, drinking and lust
19. Put structures in place but be open hearted to the leadings of the Spirit of God.
20. Keep YOUR SECRETS TILL YOU GET A WISE LISTENER WHO NEEDS IT.
21. Every year you will lose important people in your ministry to the exodus.
22. Every year you will get some good fishes into the sheepfold.
23. Grow fast if you want to make impact in the ministry. Equipping yourself is to your own credit.
24. Holiness must be more than a desire but a life!!!!!
25. Guard your heart against money and offenses.
26. Don’t cherish preaching as guest more than staying home to feed the flock you said you love!
27. Be among the top three highest givers in your church. Pay your tithe ALWAYS!!! Redeem your pledges ALWAYS!!
28. Caring for your members is very important, pray for them, text them & visit them to ask for their welfare.
29. Humility will elevate you when others think you don’t qualify. STAY HUMBLE, STAY HUMBLE, STAY HUMBLE!!!.
30. Fasting is non negotiable element for a growing church

 Let’s keep learning and do Jesus proud in our generation!!!

Failed Generation

     This life was bequeathed to us values was bequeathed to us, Respect for authority were bequeathed to us, you in this generation you has responsibility to handover a decent society to your children because your parents handed over a respectable society how come you are supervising a society that has no respect for the elderly. You are supervising a society that has no respect for values what kind of the next generation of parents are we going to have the kind of training our parents gave to us we this generation parents we have failed our society we have failed we have overpampered our children and hey have gotten rotten now they believed in that time that a Good name is better than riches, but unfortunately you this generation you now believe that riches is better than a good name where did you learn this from where did you get this attitude from? That was not what our parents thought you why are you teaching your children now put money ahead of Good name,and it's because of this corruption has eaten our society.
     Everybody is looking for money regardless of where you get it and how you get it, where did you learn these from these things from? This generation of people forty years to seventy-five you have failed your children and grand children and it's time you rise up correct the mess behind you before you exit this world. Your parents and my parents at that time will ensure that you go to school they will arrange to get an extra teacher but there is no way my parents and your parents would find a way to buy a question paper and for me to study there is no way my parents and your parents will ever do that but how come you have been doing that, you go behind the scene you buy question papers for your children and they get the A+ and you celebrate them you are teaching your children how to do evil and Corrupt society
     This generation is responsible for the mess we are in, society is the product of the family, society start from the family and from the family to the community, community to the larger community and to the entire nation is rotten, it means that the Home is rotten. If we say the society is corrupt it means the home is corrupt the problem of our country is not only because of government but it is because we've had irresponsible parents who have Destroyed the values and the foundations of our Homes.