One of the simplest errors that occur in ministry is when the vision is forgotten. The minister gets so engrossed in running he soon forgets why he began the race in the first place. I have fallen prey to this far too many times and I have come to learn and appreciate the scripture in Habakkuk that says “Write the vision”. Sincerely I have the vision of this team written in so many places, marked on my bible and all that. Such that when I start loosing drive or focus I go back to what God said at first and its been awesome. I’m saying this so you can ask yourself “what got me here in the first place?” When you’ve got it figured out, write it down. Visit it frequently. You’d be glad you did.
Now, the Christ A Poet Team was founded basically on a need to make this gospel of Christ known through the unique gift of literature. The gift of writing. One of the things God has clearly laid in my heart concerning this team is to raise Christ-a-poet(s). At the time I got the name I had foggy understanding why but down the road God made it clear He wants to build us into writers that are Christs(saviours) in this world. God is building an army of writing Christs in us and you and I can testify He has surely been teaching and grooming us ever since we joined this beautiful team. See that’s one reason amongst why God chose the name team for us. He wanted us to train together like team would, grow together, complement each other such that when it is game time we become a formidable force. We train to win. We grow to go out and teach. That brings me to what God showed me in Ezra.
You see…Scribes, They at different times occupied different positions such as secretaries of state, study of the law, multiplication of copies of the law, teaching of the law, documenting prophecies, transcribe the law, at a point the scribes wielded more power than the priests. In Ezra’s day he was described as “a ready scribe” Ezra 7:6 I came to understand that to mean Ezra was skilled at what he did but what dintinguished him to be was what vs 10 said “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgements”. The Lord stopped me here and made it clear, as a team this is what we’re called to do. Who we are called to. We are first to seek Gods word, then do it and then teach it. No part of this process ought to suffer neglect. You see later down the road especially during Jesus’ day the scribes missed it somewhere but that doesn’t mean God is no more interested in this office. You see that’s why He put a pen in your hands, that’s why those scriptures are opened up to you more than others see it, that’s why you can sit from afar and observe life as we know it, that’s why you can put words together into a most compelling message even with no formal training in the art, it is why you’re in this team today. God wants to speak in your heart knowing fully well you’ll write it down. He wants to be with you He wants to build you He wants to send you but not on your own He will most definitely go with you. That’s it!
Hallelluyah
God called you and I to be his scribes, his secretaries of state, his pen, a ready pen.
A worthy Scribe!
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What excites me even more is eyes have not seen, ears have not heard neither has it entered into the imagination of man what God has planned to do with us.
So don’t just hang around, get in the mix. Our God is awesome. What a blessing He sheds on our way.
Godswill
Christapoet, Manifest Progenitor after Christ.
Christ a poet 