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Is everyone in your church relatively nice, respectable, and well-off? Does this fill you with alarm and concern? I repeatedly taught that the Kingdom was for the needy and oppressed. When the invited guests refused to come to my wedding banquet I had my servants go far and wide to compel the poor and lame to come in. When you fellowship do you find yourself surrounded by such people? If not then you may well think that something is wrong. There is an abundant supply of such people in the world and I am keenly interested in having the banquet hall full at my wedding feast. Go and get them. 

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Are you familiar with the parable of the sower and the seed? There are different outcomes for the seed sown in different areas, but the parable implies that all of the seed is good. The difference is in the conditions it finds for growth. The seed represents the word, full of divine life and potential for growth. The sower could have found good soil and planted all the seed there, but the story says that the seed fell in all types of soil. Has your garden ever grown in ways you didn’t expect? You can’t always tell good soil from bad by a casual examination. This is all the more true in the story. I give you an unlimited supply of seed. Sow it everywhere. 

I said that except a grain of wheat dies, it abides alone, but if it dies in the earth it brings forth much fruit. You can see the obvious way in which I was referring to myself, but can you also see that the illustration I used about a seed being consumed in the process of producing a plant is a universal principle? In that case can you see that it applies to you as well? Not in the unique way that it applied to me, but do you see any effective and fruitful gospel works that occur without sacrifice? I call you to lay down your life and pick up your cross and follow me. Your obedience in dying to yourself is a necessary part of the fruitful ministry I have for you.

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Are you familiar with the story of Balaam? He was offered money to curse my people. He had a recognized spiritual gift and ability or the offer would not have been made. I told him not to go, but the final offer was high enough for him to overcome my objections. You know that ministry should be given freely and not for reward or up to the highest bidder, but are you subject to more subtle temptations? Is there prestige attached to a successful ministry? You know better than to call it glory, for you know this belongs to me, but how do these differ? If your heart and motives are pure toward me I will show you a way to serve me that gives all the glory to me.

The audio recording below is an example of a prophet and a teacher teaming up to effectively and easily minister deliverance to a young man named Caleb. Jesus sent the disciples out in teams of two to minister, and Acts 13:1 specifically mentions prophets and teachers. So I believe that when I (as a teacher), team up and minister with a prophet, the ministry time is much more effective and quicker than when I try to minister alone.