The Point Men Ministry

NO AMBITION. JUST A DESPERATE PURSUIT TO FINISH. I believe there is a place a man comes to in his walk with GOD where he is no longer trying to become anything before men. The only thing left in his heart is a deep concern that what Heaven placed inside him must not return to Heaven unfinished. GOD’S desire for a generation is too vast to be carried by one man, so in HIS wisdom, HE distributes it in portions. To one man, HE gives a people. To another, HE gives a territory. To another, a sound, a burden or a particular work that must be accomplished before his days are complete. Once you understand this, ministry stops being a competition. Another man’s portion can be larger than yours without making yours insignificant. You also stop running through every open door because you understand that not everything you can do is part of what you were sent to do. This was the government upon the life of JESUS. HE said, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” There were many needs around HIM, many places HE could have gone and many things HE had the power to do, but HE remained inside the will of the FATHER. At the end of HIS earthly assignment, HE could say, “I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” This is what creates genuine movements. A movement is not first a gathering of people; it is a portion of Heaven’s desire that has found a man willing to carry it until others are captured by the same burden. The burden enters his prayer, governs his decisions, orders his relationships and gradually gathers men around what GOD wants to accomplish. There is nothing more operationally beautiful than a life existing solely at the centre of GOD’S will. Such a man may not do everything, but everything he does begins to answer to one divine intention. This is my prayer: that I will not become distracted by relevance, comparison or opportunities that have nothing to do with my course. I only want to know the portion of Heaven committed to me, spend my life upon it and, when my days are complete, be able to say before the LORD: “I finished it.”

A LETTER TO MY SONS IN MINISTRY My sons, Receive this as counsel from a father, not suspicion from a critic. I do not doubt the oil upon your lives. But I have lived long enough around ministry to know that a man may have a genuine Call while nursing an appetite that will eventually profane it. Satan does not always begin by stopping a man from preaching. Sometimes he permits him to preach, grow, trend and gather men, while quietly corrupting the reason he wants the microphone. He watches what happens within you when another minister is invited and your name is omitted. He observes the irritation you conceal when another man’s work begins to flourish. He studies your appetite for titles, platforms, proximity to great men, large crowds and public honour. Then he begins to speak to those appetites: “You are too anointed to remain hidden.” “You are bigger than this place.” “Nobody here understands your grace.” “You do not need anyone over you.” And if ambition has not passed through the Cross, something within you will answer, “Exactly!” My sons, that inward agreement is where the trouble begins. Suddenly, correction sounds like dishonour. Submission feels like captivity. The caution of a father appears to be jealousy. Hiddenness begins to look like rejection, and every delay is interpreted as an attack against your destiny. Before long, you will begin to announce that GOD has sent you, when it was ambition that sent you. You call it “a new season,” but GOD never opened that season. You call it “apostolic emergence,” but it is only an unbroken appetite searching for a platform. Hear your father: not every departure is a sending. Sometimes a man is only escaping the government that was sent to preserve him. My sons, be careful also of the pleasure of being desired. A young minister begins to enjoy the attention of women. He tells himself, “They are only attracted to the grace.” He prolongs private conversations with the Ladies, permits emotional dependence and continues counselling a woman whose affection for him has become obvious. Then Satan suggests one inappropriate conversation, and an appetite that has been secretly fed agrees with it. Before long, the same man who is praying loudly in public is deleting messages in private. Stop calling every woman “Jezebel.” She may have crossed a boundary, but you must also admit that something within you enjoyed being wanted. Some ministers did not fall because they stopped loving GOD. They fell because they also loved being admired, and they never brought that appetite under the government of CHRIST. Do not flatter yourself because women are drawn to your ministry. Guard your soul. Guard your marriage. Guard the sacred boundaries of your calling. No amount of oil upon your head makes your flesh trustworthy. Another minister discovers that certain messages produce invitations, honourariums and public celebration. Gradually, he stops preaching anything that may offend those financing his visibility. Satan does not ask him to deny JESUS publicly. He only persuades him to edit out the parts of JESUS that may reduce engagement. He still mentions CHRIST, but repentance disappears. He still prophesies, but he no longer Teaches about sin. He still carries a Bible, but Mammon has become the editor of his sermons. My sons, the day money begins to determine what part of Scripture you are willing to preach, you are no longer standing under the government of the Word. You are negotiating with another master. Consider Judas. Judas was numbered among the Twelve. He heard CHRIST directly. He witnessed miracles and participated in apostolic ministry. Yet John 12:6 reveals that he was already stealing from the ministry purse. Before Satan entered Judas in John 13:27, greed had already secured an agreement within him. Satan did not create an entirely new appetite that night. He entered through a desire Judas had repeatedly protected.