Afflictions shouldn't hinder your witness

2 Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.


There's a tendency for ministers and generally Christians to neglect the work of ministry because of the cares of this life.


Whenever they are under pressure from all sides, they drop everything they are doing for the Lord to sort the crises of life. They get lost literally, shut off from the church family until they resolve the issue and then come back to do what they used to do. That shouldn't be so for a soul winner. Learn to do ministry regardless of the battles of life you are facing. Its surprising that a normal church member doesn't even expect their pastor to miss any preaching engagement yet for them they allow themselves to abandon their duty for any small issue which may arise. The pastor may have bigger problems they are battling but they have learnt to rest in God and minimise the afflictions. Paul called them light afflictions. Jesus too had His own share of afflictions and pressures from all opposing religious and political leaders but that did not hinder Him from preaching. Any good minister must learn how to do God's work amidst pressures and afflictions .


I wonder why people go to work even when they have many problems and continue to perform well but do the opposite when it comes to the work of God. They think God will understand. No He won't. If they are able to forgo their issues for secular work, why not for their true work? More so ministry is by the power of the Spirit which we have in us!


Learn to minimise the challenges of life through soul winning. If you focus on God's business, God will sort your business.


Further scriptures 


2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;


2 Corinthians 6:3-6 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

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