(Insight for emerging teachers/preachers.)
For those pure of heart and truly called, preaching/teaching the Gospel (actual message of Christ) will often:
1. Begin a process of fast spiritual growth, development, and maturation for you.
2. Set you on fire for the things of God and cause you to burn for Him.
3. Set you on a path of inner, authentic conviction and change. You become the first partaker of what you teach/preach and develop a passion to live it.
4. Increase your hunger for the Word.
5. Teach you to rightly divide at the hand of the Holy Spirit.
6. Suddenly, hearing the Lord and seeing Him in everything amplifies. Your awareness of Him and the need to see others become aware of Him increases.
7. Amplify your desire to hear, study, and know the Word.
8. Begin to shape your own sound, and a frequency starts to take shape.
9. Sometimes, increase your spiritual sight and you begin seeing yourself with certain people groups, audiences, and locations.
10. Increase your confidence.
11. Allow humility to have its perfect work as the vessel yields to the call, and remains teachable, accountable.
12. Make God’s word become like fire shut up in your bones that cannot be contained.
13. Lead you to hear callings to be more, to do more, to organize and learn to lean into the will of God and build.
14. Sometimes, lead you to gravitate to similar sounds in a divine pull or leading by the Holy Spirit. Those people assigned to you also begin to identify your sound and connect with its frequency.
15. Shape your purpose.
16. Begin to unfold your destiny.
17. Stir up the Spirit of the Lord within you and set you on a course of “mentoring, learning, watering, and increase.”
18. Build up the fear of the Lord within you (along with the aforementioned humility aspect and hunger).
19. Increase massive inner healing and deliverance, especially under accountability and the watchful eye of God-sent leaders for the young in faith. (Personal weaknesses, strongholds surface and if we submit, we are healed… OR they grow into major problems and become stumbling blocks, setbacks.)
20. Advance and increase the understanding of the word. Teachers/preachers move from the milk of the word to meat as they grow.
21. Cultivate growth and love for the Lord’s eternal vision, outlook, and push for the establishment of the Kingdom.
22. Build endurance within the vessel. Advance the prayer life supernaturally.
23. Increase discernment, alongside the knowledge of God and knowing His will.
24. Sometimes, create a strong push to organize and build a community of discipleship, and training.
25. Transform the vessel into an ordered, deliberate, and astute teacher. The careful development of the word and the need to ensure understanding becomes a priority.
26. For some, becoming
guardians and preservers of the Word in context with Christ becomes a heavy push or thrust in their callings.
27. Clarify other callings, advancements in one’s life and ministry become clear, intentional, focused.
28. Intensify a hatred for darkness, the works of the devil/enemy, and strengthen it in those who remain pure.
29. Increase vessels in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding by the power of God.
30. Create an innate pull that comes by way of the Spirit that causes the soul to love (ahavah) God to the point of loving what He loves and hating what He hates.
Any detour along the way can set the stage for a crooked path. Trust me. Teachers/preachers must be vigilant over their own souls and not allow ungodly seeds to be planted.
Most teachers will go through a process of protecting the seed in their ground/their heart – not just from others but from the darkness within, their own lusts.
Just as there are rewards for becoming a teacher/preacher, there are pitfalls (James 3, Matthew 23, Jeremiah 23, etc.). Feel free to keep this list going. The idea here, however, is to earnestly SEE why we must act when we hear the call. Failure to act can be a stumbling block to our own spiritual growth, development, and maturity.
