Readiness And Renewal For Christlike Penetration In Ministry
Colossians 3:10-11; Isaiah 40:28-31; Lamentation 5:21.

“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:28-31). We cannot dig so deep, go so high, and search so broad to know the Lord’s wisdom, knowledge and understanding. The Lord will give you something you never had before: if you were powerless, your day of power has come; if you were weary, your day of strength has come; and if you were depressed like Elijah was, you are about to start a new level of life. This promise is not just for the young people but for all those who wait upon the Lord, regardless of age. You will not be weary, and your strength will not fail when you need the strength; you will stand, walk, preach, and pray, and God will answer your prayer.
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1. RENEWAL AND REGENERATION TO BE CHRISTLIKE IN MINISTRY
2 Chronicles 15:7-9; Psalm 51:7-10; Job 29:15-16, 20; Isaiah 40:28-31; Acts 1:4-5, 8; Romans 12:1-2,7; Luke 12:36-40.
Christ wants to make us like Himself. “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31). If you learn to wait upon the Lord, you can do a lot that you never thought you could do, get to places you never thought you could reach, and become another man, woman, preacher, pastor and personality with renewed strength. Anytime you feel weak or discouraged, wait upon the Lord; renewal will come upon you. The reason we wait upon the Lord is to become Christlike in ministry. The evidence of our Christlikeness includes ministering:
- Without Fear or Favour. Jesus ministered without fear and favour. When we are like him, we will not be afraid of sinners but will declare the truth to them as Christ did.
- With Focus and Freshness. Jesus ministered with freshness and focus. When we are like Christ, we will always have fresh insights and revelations from the word of God to preach to the people. Also, our preaching will not be purposeless but will focus on what Christ concentrates on.
- With Firmness and Finality. The message of Jesus to Nicodemus was with firmness and finality. We will be firm in our preaching and have a tone of finality so that if the sinner never hears another preaching, they will have heard enough from our message to know the right step.
- With Faith and Forbearance. Jesus ministered to his disciples with faith, telling them of what exploits they would do through preaching the gospel even though they were still vacillating at that time. He also endured with them and was steadfast with them, even after they deserted Him and went back to fishing after His crucifixion. When we are like Christ, we don’t give up on the people we should preach the gospel to because we preach with faith and forbearance.
- Freely and Fully. Christ was free in posture and His mind. If we are going to preach like Christ, we must not be bound by tradition. We must not be frivolous or superficial when we preach, but we must be free like Christ was. Christ also preached fully; when He tells people to come as they are, they don’t leave as they were. When we preach to people to come as they are, our preaching must be complete to include that they must not remain as they were after they are saved. When Christ preached the gospel of ‘no condemnation’ to the woman caught in adultery, he balanced it with the message of ‘go and sin no more.’
- Frequently and Fervently. Your heart, mind, and whole concentration must be in the ministry, and you must do that frequently. When you do something frequently, you master it. As we preach frequently and fervently, we will eventually master it.
- Faithfully and Fearlessly. If we are fearful, we will not be faithful in preaching the word of God. Even though the Pharisees and the rest of the Jewish elders were watching Christ, He said everything He ought to have said because He was fearless and faithful. The Lord wants us to be like Him, and when we wait upon Him, He will renew our strength, mount up with wings as eagles, and, like Christ, be faithful and fearless. The Lord will remove everything that brings fear to your heart in Jesus’ Name.
2. RECREATED AND RECOMMISSIONED BY CHRIST FOR MASTERY
Isaiah 43:7, 21; Psalm 4:3-4; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9-12; John 21:15-17; 1 Cor 9:24-27; 2 Tim 2:1-5.
Christ wants us to be masters at what He has called us to do, whether as apostles, prophets or evangelists. Christ renews, recreates and recommissions us so that we can become like Him in ministry. “Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.” (Isaiah 43:7). God has not created you for the glory of your denomination but for His glory. When we look at the whole Bible and preach the totality of the word of God, we will not be preaching for the glory of our denomination but for the glory of God, and the glory of God will descend upon us. “This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.” (Isaiah 43:21). We are created for God alone, and we will take the gospel’s light, power, and message everywhere. When another call comes, we will declare boldly that God has called us, live in that consciousness, and nothing will take the call of God away from us in Jesus’ Name. Christ has called us to mastery, and to gain that mastery, we must master and overcome:
- Fretfulness and Previous Fearfulness. When we become like Christ, all the fear we have had since childhood will be gone. What could you do and achieve if you had no fear of anything and anyone on earth? You have no reason to be afraid because the angels surround you; Christ lives inside you, died for you and paid the whole price of all you have done.
- Failure and Past Fruitlessness. Just as a baby learning to walk does not give up when he falls but keeps trying until he masters it, we must not give up when we fail or experience some setback at something we try for the first time or after a few first trials.
- Falsehood and Preconceived Falsification. When you read or hear about false and preconceived falsifications about you, don’t stress yourself about the authors, and don’t let it slow you down or stop you. Instead, prove them wrong by going on.
- Fault-Finding and Perilous Fence-building. When God gives you a good ministry, project that ministry instead of finding fault in the ministry of others. When you engage yourself in the ministry God has not called you to, even if you succeed, you will fail in the ministry God called you to. God has not called me to the ministry of fault-finding. Wash off the statements of faultfinders from your heart and move on freely until you reach the top.
- Faithlessness and Perverse Foolishness – John 20:27; Proverbs 24:9. “Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.” (John 20:27). Faithlessness will try to stop us from believing and make us appear foolish, but we must remind ourselves that we will only see what we believe.
- Feebleness and Painful Forfeiture – 1 Samuel 2:27-30. We must remember that if we are feeble and fearful and do not do what we must, God has more than a thousand people who can replace us. I will not be replaced. If we are feeble and refuse to go to God for renewal of strength, we risk forfeiting our ministry. Get into the stream of God’s power and anointing and get feebleness away from your life.
- Fanaticism and Perpetual Famine – Isaiah 8:19-20; Amos 8:11-12. Fanatics are those who are looking for another source of power outside the Bible and those who leave the fire of the Holy Ghost and are carrying strange fire. We must avoid anything Jesus and the apostles did not do in search of power to do God’s work. When you get rid of the items of the devil and repent of your fanaticism, the Lord will give you the power to do His work, and the famine in our ministries will be swept away in Jesus’ Name.
3. REFINED TO REBUILD WITH CHRIST, OUR MASTER-MODEL-MAKER
- Rebuild the Temple with Christ – Acts 15:16-17; 1 Corinthians 3:9-17. The temple is what God has established and done. “After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up” (Acts 15:16). Christ has come to rebuild the church in this land, and you will work with Him to accomplish that in Jesus’ Name.
- Repair the Tabernacle like Christ – Hebrew 8:5-6; Isaiah 58:12. Go higher than what you are used to and repair the Tabernacle like Christ. “Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.” (Hebrews 8:5). Don’t go back to the valley, to the people who are not strong, to those who have no vision, or to those who are not achievers to find a model of building the tabernacle; get on the mountain top with God, wait upon Him and build according to the pattern He will reveal to you. We must commit to repairing the tabernacle in our preaching, praying, and doctrines.
- Restore the Teaching of Christ – Acts 3:19-23; Matthew 28:20. We must restore the repentance, righteousness, restitution, monogamy, evangelism, sanctification, holiness, Rapture, Second Coming of Christ, and millennial reign that Christ taught.
- Reproduce Teachers for Christ’s Commission – 2 Timothy 2:2-5; Titus 1:5-9. We must reproduce teachers for Christ who will take the message of Christ to the world, not for our denomination.
- Resist Temptations Tenaciously like Christ – Matthew 4:3-4, 7, 10-11; 1 Peter 5:8-9. While we must resist the temptation to sin, we must also resist the temptation to sit down when we should stand, to look back when we should run forward, to disobey Christ when we should obey Him, and to love money more than the gospel. You have an assignment from heaven, and you can only fulfil that assignment if you resist the temptations that will come your way as Christ did.
- Refuse Treasures of Corruption and Compromise – Hebrews 11:24-27; Luke 4:5-8.
- Repossess Truth and Truthfulness in Christ – Matthew 22:16; Ephesians 4:21-24. With your new possession of truth, truthfulness, and the power and provision of Christ, you will not be weary or tired again. The power to preach, heal the sick, raise the dead, and be everything you are called to be is now given to you in Jesus’ Name.