Ephesians 4:12 NKJV
for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:12 NKJV
One of the most important factors that God has designed for believers to continue growing into maturity, to become the very image of God, is to be equipped by the five-fold ministry.
The church in general has done amazing things but often neglects the important part of sustaining the faith and saturating the earth with God's glory, power, and love through equipping the saints.
Every believer needs to be equipped, trained, and nurtured into maturity, to know how to handle the word of God; to understand our new nature and our state of being in Christ.
The reason we have a church that is beaten by the enemy, wounded, and being victimised is that the church is lacking in knowledge, understanding, and truth about what Christ has truly done for us.
Many gifts in the body are used to minister but very few are dedicated to training and equipping believers to work the works of God.
God has provided, established, and appointed us to rule and reign in life, but if we don't know how to use it, we might lose the battle that God has ordained for us to win.
God never allows something to come our way that we cannot conquer, when it does come, it means we have the capacity to overcome it.
Therefore, let us all give ourselves to be equipped and those who function in the gifts start equipping the saints.
Let us rise together, desiring to be built up from the inside out so that we all can start producing leaders who know their God.
Live in the blessings,
Ps Ambrose