What would you consider to be a successful ministry if someone should ask you? Maybe we would like to have a church full of people paying their tithes so that we can bless the poor, or maybe a home cell with Spirt filled people blessing you with word once or twice a week.
How about you preaching repentance for 120 years without having one conversion? A pretty dismal ministry by worldly standards but when looking in the Spirit we see Noah as this righteous man saved by God.
Or how about living in the king’s house for forty years, killing somebody and then fleeing for your life, being a herdsman for 40 years, leading God’s people for 40 years with people rebelling against God on a daily basis? In your ministry you also have to bury +-1,2million people over 40 years. This is an average of 83 people per day… who would have liked to have that ministry? From a physical point of view a dismal ministry but from a Spiritual side you are one of the biggest prophets the world has ever seen, and you are known as a friend of God.
Our ministry could look like a failure for people looking from the outside but where are you in your relationship with God? We should be careful of judging people’s ministry by worldly standards. Maybe God is using somebody to make a big difference somewhere
How about you preaching repentance for 120 years without having one conversion? A pretty dismal ministry by worldly standards but when looking in the Spirit we see Noah as this righteous man saved by God.
Or how about living in the king’s house for forty years, killing somebody and then fleeing for your life, being a herdsman for 40 years, leading God’s people for 40 years with people rebelling against God on a daily basis? In your ministry you also have to bury +-1,2million people over 40 years. This is an average of 83 people per day… who would have liked to have that ministry? From a physical point of view a dismal ministry but from a Spiritual side you are one of the biggest prophets the world has ever seen, and you are known as a friend of God.
Our ministry could look like a failure for people looking from the outside but where are you in your relationship with God? We should be careful of judging people’s ministry by worldly standards. Maybe God is using somebody to make a big difference somewhere