Advancing Encouragement By:
Bishop James Jr. Hairston

2Corinthians: 3:6: Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

We are all ministers ordained by God! The office of a minister holds a leadership position in the Church to teach, to preach, to equip, and to train the ministers of the New Testament. However, no man has to ordain us to accomplish what He has already set in place for us to accomplish as ministers of the New Testament. The Word of God says that He made us ministers! What does that mean to be made a minister? It means to hikanoo or hik-an-o'-o to enable, to qualify:--make able or to (meet). The Lord God has already qualified us to be His ministers and enabled us to meet the standards of a minister. Now, we have to walk in our basic calling in life as a born again baptized believer in Christ Jesus, as a minister of the New Testament! Why of the New Testament because the Old Testament or the Law kills and the New Testament gives life. The Old Testament or the Law is by the flesh but the New Testament is by the Spirit. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, verse 17. The Law was written on stones but the Spirit of the New Testament is written on the hearts of every born again baptized believer in Christ Jesus who has been set free from the bondage of sin. Why, Jesus Christ has liberated us from the Law so that we will operate under the Spirit of the Living God in freedom. Today my friend, believe that you are a minister of the New Testament an ambassador for Christ called to the ministry of reconciliation, reconciling man back to God, 2Corinthians 5: 18. God called you for a special purpose and that makes you special to God a minister to accomplish what He has in-store for you. Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God, 1Corinthians 4:1. 2Corinthians: 6:4: But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 6: By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7: By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 10: As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. This is the life of a minister of God and through it all we possess all things with the Power to accomplish great things in the Lord! The Lord will establish you, keep you, and prosper you to do the things He has planned for you, now it is up to you to walk in them in Jesus Name as a minister of God…

James Jr. Hairston