Hi, my name is Ken L_____ Jr. I was just recently on your website and I have to say that it was such a blessing to read what you are doing. However, I had a question. I was wondering if you guys had any job opportunities available. The Lord has put the love of Bible Prophecy on my heart and I would love work with people that have that same passion. I will do pretty much anything as long as I can serve the Lord by telling the world about our Lord and Saviour. I am 20 years old and currently attend a Christian University. But I would love to work at a Bible prophecy ministry.    If you have nothing available, your site has still been a blessing. God bless you and your ministry.

In Christ,

Ken L______ Jr

Hey Ken,

I’m envious of your position in the Lord, just 20 years old and already in love with the things of the Lord. I began my walk with the Lord when I was 26, and I still remember the joy of studying the Bible and having my understanding quickened by the Holy Spirit. Indeed, I would not take anything for the testings and experiences that were mine as I began to grow in God’s Grace. You have a lot of joy ahead of you, so let nothing deter you from studying the Bible and grasping every opportunity to tell others the reason for the hope that is in you.

When you ask us for a job in our ministry,  I appreciate your wanting to give your all to the Lord. However, let me share some of our experiences with some mega-media ministries that encourage new believers to attach themselves to their group and to become their "cheap laborers"—working for only food and board. This applies also to some organizations who are striving to become mega-media ministries.

In our travels, we have come across too many Ministries (so called) that exploit the faith of babes-in-Christ for their own purposes, teaching that "surrendering your all to Christ" means giving your all to their ministry. We’ve seen many respond to such teaching, some having only their time and abilities to give, others bringing their substance as well—which would soon be absorbed by the "ministry." (These organizations are to be distinguished from bona fide ministries set up to meet the needs of indigent people who have no place to sleep or food to eat.)

Sadly, most such "workers" eventually leave the host ministry bitter and disillusioned. Why? because they did not make the Bible their authority in the things of God, but rather some charismatic individual(s) which used them and then cast them aside. They have also had to consider the fruit of such "host ministries"—too many of which have made headlines in the scandal sheets at the super markets.

Also, while we’re considering things to avoid in your spiritual growth, let me bring up a couple of things for your consideration, both of them having to do with the supposed working of the Holy Spirit in many of today’s ministries/churches. (I bring these problems up because if you haven’t already encountered them, you will shortly, for they are prevalent.) For instance, let’s look at the claim to have the gift of healing which supposedly works hand in glove with "the gift of the word of knowledge." This fairly new phenomenon in the church has gained much attention because of its prevalence in media ministries. According to the TV "ministers," many viewers were miraculous healed every day as they "spoke the word of knowledge" over the airwaves. Strangely enough, these people who were supposedly healed never came forward to give God the glory for their healing. Let’s compare this with the way the people reacted who were actually healed under the ministries of the disciples in the Bible—the Apostle Paul, for example.

Acts 14
⁸ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
⁹ The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
¹⁰ Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
¹¹ And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
¹² And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
¹³ Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.
¹⁴ Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
¹⁵ And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

Now, let’s consider a miracle brought forth by the ministry of Peter and John:

Hidden in these passages of Scripture is probably the reason that the Church sees so little of the power of God in its midst. How did the early disciples who actually had the gift of healing behave? They were very careful not to take any credit for what God was doing. Why look on us? they asked. Today, it’s "Look at me! Look at me!" So, we’ve looked at them, and what did we see?

All of the nonsense that has happened in the church world the past few decades has happened for all the world to see. For the student of the Bible, there should be no bewilderment, only sadness as we see it come to pass, for you see, it was all prophesied by the NT writers. However, for those outside the church, roadblocks to faith are established in their hearts making them bitter and cynical to the things of faith.

There is another passage of Scripture that we’d do well to consider.

Note that this young lady with a fortune telling spirit attached herself to Paul’s ministry and followed him many days acting as though she was one of them. That her "fortune telling" worked is apparent, else why would people pay her owners much money for her services? Could it be that this passage explains the "strange spirits" that have crept into the church today, saying the things needful to attach themselves to churches/ministries, while practicing their divination and doing their soothsaying. If this be so, then how can one tell the difference between a "word from the Lord" and the word from a soothsayer? That, too, is given in this passage. The "strange spirit" operating in the damsel brought her owners much money; but the servant of God operates on the premise of "freely you have received, freely give."

But back now to the "host ministries." Unfortunately, they not only hurt the individuals they misuse, but they also hurt the Church by siphoning off the Lord’s workers into vain things. For you see, all born-again believers are ministers, called by God to individually study His Word that He might give each of them understanding; and then each believer is to be a doer of the Word, not a hearer only.  

The Bible is also explicit as to how this "rightly dividing the word of truth" comes about.

I John 2:
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

This verse of Scripture in no way contradicts the fact that God calls men and women to teach His Word. But you see, even when we sit under another’s teaching, we are still to be dependent upon the Holy Spirit for our understanding. In fact, one of the first gifts of the Spirit that each believer needs is the gift of discerning of spirits so that he or she can recognize what is of God and what is not.

Studying the Word is not the only thing in our walk that is to be done on an individual basis. If we’d just consider, we’d see that each of us are accountable for what we do or don’t do with our lives. No one else can stand in for us on our day of accountability. Just as we were born in the natural, each of us must be born again of the Spirit on an individual basis.  Each of us must give account for why we studied or didn’t study the Bible. Though others can pray for us, no one else can pray in our stead. Everyone of us has our own walk that we are called to and each of us must individually walk in the Spirit to walk that walk. Each believer has the call on his life to go into the highways and hedges and compel the lost to come to Christ. We cannot pay another to do this for us. The church leaders are to help prepare us to do this, but they each have their own highways and hedges to work.

The highways and hedges for each of us are filled with our family members, our friends, and our neighbors. Each of us have our center of influence and we can witness to them as no other, for they can see the change that the Spirit-filled walk makes in us. This is the primary way ordained of God for the Church to grow. The work of witnessing was never given to religious "super stars" or to church employs.

Again, I envy the joy that awaits you as go forward in the things of the Lord and learn what He has in store for you.

Let me leave you with the words of the Apostle Peter:

The bottom line is that we should not say, "I was saved, healed or blessed...under Brother _______'s ministry.  If you feel you must mention the brother, then you should say, "While Brother _______ ministered, the Spirit of the Lord came and touched me."  To be careful to give God the glory will not offend the brother; for if his ministry is of the Lord, this is the way he would want it.

Thanks for taking time to WRAP with us,

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