5 IMPORTANT RULES FOR MINISTERS | PASTOR PRINCEWILL AFOLABI
Channel: Princewill Afolabi Ministries [PAM]
Date: 2024-04-07

Ministering: Pastor Princewill Afolabi
Topic: 5 Important Rules for Ministers
Text: Acts 20:28, 1 Timothy 4:16

Don't bother to do ministry if it will land you in hell fire.  Your ministry should not affect your salvation.

1. Take heed unto yourself, you are more important than your assignment. Grow yourself first before you begin to feed other people. You cannot give what you don't have. Stop studying to preach start studying to grow. Stop looking for an opportunity to preach. Device a Bible study plan as a minister. Ignorance will always disgrace the learned in public. Study to enrich your mind. (Psalm 75:6-7) God promotes based on what you have to offer. Never seize to work on improving yourself.

2. Take heed unto your family. (1 Timothy 3:2-4, Gen 18:17-19) If you are a minister in church and you cannot minister to your family, you have failed. The family you leave behind in ministry will make you reverse eventually. You must see your family as your first church (place of assignment) it is your practical field to demonstrate all that you believe in. If you can not win your family, how can you win the world.

3. Take heed of your gift. (1 Timothy 4:14, 2 Timothy 1:6) Any gift God has given you that you have not discovered/developed/engaged will die. If you do not pay attention to yourself, how will you know the gift you have. Pay attention to yourself to discover, develop and engage your gift.

4. Take heed unto your assignment. What are you called to do? Assignment could be God directly or God using is servant.

5. Take heed unto the people place around your life, family and ministry by God. Relationship is God's gift for man to enjoy speed. 

When you see someone around you, the questions you should ask is;
i. Are they friends whose iron would sharpen my irons.
ii. Are they superiors whom I need to learn from.
iii. Are they protégées God place around me to tutor.

How to maintain your relationships;
a. Appreciate people, don't treat them as less important. Nobody will stay around anyone that does not appreciate their worth.
b. Don't disrespect people. Even if you are above them.
c. Don't do what you won't want them to do to you.

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