From time to time people get negative when other people express the positive things that are happening in the ministry in which they are serving…which often causes people to want to crawl in a hole and silently celebrate the success that God is blessing them with…
AND THAT HAS TO STOP!
If God is blessing you and your ministry…you’ve GOT to celebrate!
If people are Kingdom minded they will celebrate with you…unless, of course, they’re obsessed with their own kingdom and not God’s!
You can’t allow jealous, bitter and envious people to control you!
If just ONE person crosses the line of faith, if just ONE prodical comes home, if just ONE person goes public for Jesus, if just ONE person repents of a sin that has held them in bondage forever…YOU’VE GOT TO CELEBRATE!!!
Because…there ARE people in this world that WANT to celebrate with you!
Sure, there ARE people in this world who will question what is happening in your ministry when you begin to celebrate! (AND…keep in mind that MOST of these people have a blog, not a church!!!)
AND…there are people who will cause others to doubt as to whether or not what is taking place in your church is authentic. (Such as, “there were a lot of salvations reported there…but did they REALLY receive Christ?)
AND…when you celebrate you will get attacked…
BUT THAT IS NO REASON TO STAY SILENT!!!
God DID NOT BLESS YOU so that you could BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!
HE DIDN’T WORK AMONG YOU SO THAT YOU COULD TELL NO ONE!!!
Life is too short and hell is too hot for us to live in fear of others who want to criticize what God is doing among us (and then claim to be on the same team!)
When God blesses…you’ve GOT to celebrate!
Sure, celebrate correctly…BOAST IN HIM and WHAT HE HAS DONE…and not in some “great idea” that you had! (See Jeremiah 9:23-24)
CELEBRATE!!!
Share “good news” when it is happening around you!!!
We do it at football games…when our team is running up the score we don’t sit in the stands and say, “WOW…we are blowing the other team out of the water…but I don’t want to cheer too loud or say anything b/c it might make people who cheer for the other team feel bad.”
NO…we scream…we yell…WE CELEBRATE!!!
AND SO…when Jesus uses us to run up the score on the enemy…a celebration is in order!
SO…what is happening in your church? Tweet me and let me know…I want to celebrate!!!