Quotes About Ministry

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused.

I want you to hear from God. God already spoke to me what I'm going to write out. You're going to write your checks to Paula White Ministries. If God tells you to give $12.99, do it. Whatever the Holy Spirit speaks to you. If you need to give by credit card, do so.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

The students in your youth ministry don't need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all

In the United States, there are 1,600 forced resignations of pastors every month. Many

Yet the Church does not exist for the infirmary; the infirmary exists for the Church. The

The ordained minister, the one set aside and consecrated, is to illuminate the vocation of the Church and the vocations of the many people who are the Church. That means that ordination is not exclusionary but exemplary."28

God never uses anyone to a great degree until He breaks the person completely. Joseph experienced more sorrow than the other sons of Jacob, and it led him into a ministry of food for all the nations. For this reason, the Holy Spirit said of him, "Joseph is a fruitful vine . . . near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall" (Gen. 49:22). It takes sorrow to expand and deepen the soul. from The Heavenly Life

In the process of helping children prepare to minister and in doing ministry together, important relationships can develop between child and adult. When we know one another and are known, identity builds. Working together with adults, children have the opportunity to follow the example of those adults.

What our investigation has shown is that the real problem, the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it is not the king, but ministry; it is not the law, but the police—that is to say, the governmental machine that they form and support.

Much of the Snowden archive revealed what can only be called economic espionage: eavesdropping and email interception aimed at the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, economic conferences in Latin America, energy companies in Venezuela and Mexico, and spying by the NSA's allies—including Canada, Norway, and Sweden—on the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy and energy companies in several other countries.

Oh if there is one law above the rest Written in wisdom—if there is a word That I would trace as with a pen of fire Upon the unsunn'd temper of a child— If there is any thing that keeps the mind Open to angel visits, and repels The ministry of ill—'tis human love!

I must—to be honest—add that my ministry almost certainly helped me through my adolescence by giving me something larger than myself to be frightened about.

I come from a religious family - my father is a pastor, my uncle, my sister and her husband are a pastor team.