Shaping Your Ministry through the Word
For the past few months, my bishop, Bishop Clarence E. McClendon has been very methodically re-stressing the necessity of speaking the word over the various areas of our lives. Though he has taught this for many years, I have sensed a particular poignancy for this season that we are in. He has been practical in showing us how to stand on scripture, personalizing the Scripture for what we are believing for. Every Sunday, he passes out a paper that lists the Scriptures the ministry is standing on and as a congregation, we recite the Scriptures as one voice. Bishop McClendon has charged us as department and auxiliary leaders to lead our departments in doing the same. As I have implemented this into our dance ministry, I have seen tremendous change in our morale, our unity, the dancer's investment, and the intensity of the power of God on our ministry and even in our rehearsals.
The Framing Power of the Word
Ps. 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Heb. 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
In the two Scriptures above, we see God using His Word to frame and bring His creation into existence. Everything that God created, and anything that now moves Him to act, began and continues to be initiated by words of faith being spoken. Gen. 1:26 tells us that we were made to be like God in the way He operates, including bringing forth the "world" we desire in the same way He brought the world He conceived into being...with our words.
By extension, we can effectively "create" the dance ministry God has placed in our hearts by speaking His word, and getting our members to stand in agreement with us and also speak His word. After we pray, asking for what we desire in our ministry, and receive it in faith, we are then to continue to declare that the thing we have asked for, by faith, now is. So, I sought God about what Scriptures to stand on for our dance ministry and I put our name in it. At rehearsal, we pray those Scriptures. Here are some of the Scriptures we are standing on and how we have personalized them:
Ex. 25:8-9 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make [it].
FHIC Dance Ministry is building this dance ministry and our dances according to Your pattern and You are dwelling among us.
1 Cor. 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
FHIC Dance Ministry is of one spirit and mind with the leader of our house, Bishop Clarence E. McClendon, and our dance ministry leader.
In our rehearsal, I assign each dancer a scripture to pray. They read our restatement of the scripture and then pray further about that area as the Spirit of God leads them. Others are also welcome to chime in on that particular area if they wish. I encourage them to take the papers home and continue to pray and declare those specific Scriptures over the dance ministry during their prayer time.
Scripture tells us tremendous synergy is created when we are in agreement:
Gen 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
By doing this, we can shape the type of dancers that come into our ministry, what happens when we stand before the people of God to minister, our capacity to be creative, we can call in assistance, finances, etc.
I just wanted to take the time to share because I have already begun to see a huge change in our ministry. What are some scriptures you stand on for your ministry?
God Bless!
Marlita Hill
Dancing Hill Ministries
Uncovering the WHAT, the WHY, and the IMPACT of the dance minister
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