What it takes to build a ministry took me
awhile to understand since I didn't know. I knew God had given me a vision and desire but where did I go from there? I started by calling ministries to ask if they could tell me
what to do. To my surprise they didn't say well you do 1, 2, 3 ect., in fact they didn't tell me anything. I was dumb founded. Why didn't they offer to help me?
Some even told they didn't like my vision. I was hard headed, I just kept asking. The Holy Spirit said to me what are you doing I'm your teacher.
I'll tell you that was a welcomed statement coming from God. The Holy Spirit was going to train me, Praise God! I became a student of God's
word, and prayer. Little by little I started learning it was all based on Love. When I heard Kenneth Copeland say everything has to start and finish with Love the Holy Spirit confirmed that's how you start a
minsitry. I was so surprised it was that easy. When God who is Love tells you that everything happens by Love it will change your life and ministry. Now I'm going to save you sometime and share with you what
I've learned. We found you use these same principals when teaching new converts and for people involved in religion. #1 Except and receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior ( make him the Lord of your life). As you do
this forget your past or you will not have a future. Since God has made you a new creation and cleansed you from all sin you have to believe it and receive it. #2 Relize who you are now in Christ Jesus. Study the
Abraham Covenant. (Genesis 12:1-3)God told Abraham through his seed he would bless the entire earth,(Deuteronomy 28:8-13 that they would be the head not the tell, that they would be the above only,and not be
beneath if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, God made this convenant with Abraham and the Jewish people and we received it through Jesus. Galatians 3:29 And if you are in Christ's, then
you are Abrahams seed, and heirs according to the promise. (covenant) We can do all things in Christ who strengthens us.
#3.Jesus gave us 2 commandments in them all the commandments are fullfilled. Mark 12:30-31 "And you shall love the Lord our God
with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength . This is the first commandment . And the second, like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. There is no other commandments greater than these"
#4 Tithes and offerings Malachi 3:6" For I am the Lord, I do not
change" Malachi 3:8-12 "Will a man rob God? But you say In what way have we robbed You? In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse. For you have robbed Me. When we love God with all, we give him
the tithes. When we love are neighbor, we give offerings and this releases God blessings.
#5Wisdom comes by asking God for it James 1:5
" If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him" Proverb 2:6-7
"For the Lord gives wisdom: From His mouth come knowledge and understanding: He stores up sound wisdom for the upright
#6 Have faith in God. Hebrews 11:6 " But without faith it is impossible
to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 2 Corinthians 5:7 "For
we walk by faith not by sight." This was hard for me when I would go to the mail box and it was empty. Romans 10:17 " So then faith comes by
hearing, and hearing the word of God. Matthew 17:20 "So Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief, for assuredly , I say to you, if you have
faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain , Move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."
#7 Prayer is the most important thing we do. In prayer we ask God for what he has
already provided 2Peter 1:3 "as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue. by
which have given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the devine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
The word says God knows what we need before we ask but tells us to ask anyway. Talk to God he waiting for you. Ask him for what you need, thank him for it and believe that you receive. Don"t keep asking, God is
not hard of hearing just continue praising him for it. Ask God and he will bring the right people into your life or ministry, don't you try on your own.
#8 Prosperity is ours. God is the God of prosperity. Do we believe he is the God of poverty? He is our Father and we are his children and he
delights in our prosperity. Is God mad at us? Does he want us to live in poverty while he lives in luxury? 2 Corinthians 9:8-9 And God is able to
make all grace abound toward you, that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may have abundance for every good work. As it is written: He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness
endures forever." Psalm 35:27 "Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteousness cause; And let them say continually , Let the
Lord be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servants." Deuteronomy 8:18 But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he
that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto thy father , as it is this day." God blesses us so we
can be a blessing. We can't help anyone if we are just getting by.
#9 Ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven. We are Ambassadors of
Christ 2 Corinthians 5:20 we can have everything that the Kingdom we represent has. We are not allowed to state what we believe or think but only what the Kingdom tells us to say. We have to renew our minds
and read Gods word to make sure we are telling people the right things. Jesus himself being the King would not be welcome in most churches today. He would
say nothing is impossible to him that believe, He would never use the word maybe, sometimes, or you never know what God will do. They would kick him out for not understanding religion. He would heal
everyone. He would not make people sick or poor to teach them.
#10 Confession brings posession.Proverbs 18:21 "Death and life are in
the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit." What we say does matter. If you go around talking about I can't do this or that,
you can't. So you have to change what you say, I can do all things through Christ. Don"t talk poor or even tease about, its not funny. Poor
people kill and steal more then the rich. Change it to, I have the Financial favor of God, I will bless the entire world. Always say what God says
about you. Think about this, God made everything by just stating it. We are made in his image. God loves us.
God is your source, its not your church, not your job, but God.
Ephesians 3:20 "Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
At Philippine Vision we see how God is providing all that we ask to fullfill the vision. The vision is being fullfilled. We pray for you everyday and
we thank you for praying for us. God bless you. Jesus is Lord. Darold Dotson.
