PRINCIPLES 2

"HENCEFORTH, all the days of the earth, seed [time] and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease."
Genesis 8:22 (DARBY)

• You train the people in order to empower them.

• Two types of training:
  I. Formal training: this is a classroom setting type of training, where the people would be taught the nitty-gritty of the ministry work—the essential and basic, or practical details of the work.
  a. It is discovered that the lay-workers in the church cannot be equipped through every Sunday preaching.
  b. You would need to have a training system where the basics or the fundamentals of the church or ministry would be taught to the people.
  c. In this tailored training school, meant for those who would serve under your leadership or ministry; the fact about God and the Kingdom assignment would be taught to the people.
  THE curriculum of this school would involve your convictions, things you were told by God about the church or ministry, the specific pattern with which the church or ministry to be built, and a number of other things you had learned in your walk with God.
• If you did not pay attention to this, formal training, your ministry may not go far and It might not outlast you as the visionary or the founder.

II. Informal training: this is the practical aspect of the ministry work that should be learnt by the people that wanted to serve under your leadership.

• It is about giving the people an opportunity to serve, after they have been taught and trained formally; watching them how they do whatever is committed to their hands—what they are assigned to do.
• If you did not have faith in the people under your leadership, you think they cannot do the work, you made them believe that the work is for special people; they would never attempt to do anything and they would remain in their cocoon and be there as baby Christians.
  THEY would leave everything to you, wanting you to do it for them.
• You must have trust or confidence in the people, that they can do it, especially after they had been taught and trained. a. The way to show or prove to them that you have faith in them that they can do it, is, when you delegate or assign them to do the work.
  b. You start by giving them little responsibilities and keep promoting them based on their individual performances (1 Timothy 3:10).

• The informal training consummates, perfects or completes, the formal training; both are very important in the equipping of the saints—the lay-leaders or lay-workers in the ministry or church.

• Some ministers want to use the informal training alone, without the formal training, whilst some think only the formal training is enough.
• The truth is, If you equipped the people formally, with information, without given them the opportunity to serve, or allowed them to put to work what they had been taught; they would become rebels.
• A man of knowledge increases strength the Scripture says (Proverbs 24:5), this is when the knowledge is released or practiced or put to work. The knowledge that is acquired but not released would turn the people to rebels. Knowledge had to be released to give strength.
• However, doing the work without the knowledge—formal training—makes the people ineffective and ineffectual, unproductive.
• You cannot perform in the field which you have not been taught and trained.
• If people needed to be formally trained in the secular profession to perform excellently well, then those who are to serve in the ministry or church needed to be taught and trained for them to also perform excellently well.

• You will not fail in Jesus' name.

• Should there be any ailment in your body, receive your healing now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
• The hold is totally broken and the Affliction will never rise again in Jesus' mighty name.
  Peace!

STEPS TO SALVATION
• Take notice of this:
IF you are yet to take the step of salvation, that is, yet to be born-again, do it now, tomorrow might be too late (2 Corinthians 6:1,2; Hebrews 3:7,8,15).
a. Acknowledge that you are a sinner and confess your Sins (1 John 1:9); And ask Jesus Christ to come into your life (Revelation 3:20).
b. Confess that you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that you confess it with your mouth, Thus, you accept Him As your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
c. As you took the steps A and B your name is written in the Book of Life (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:8).

• If you took the steps As highlighted above, congratulations, It means you are saved—born-again. Join a Word based church in your area and Town or city, and be part of whatever they are doing there. Peace!