I have seen over the past twenty five to thirty years of ministry, how easy it becomes to trade truly healed souls “inner life” for broken souls that appear healed. To maintain our stages, platforms and positions, we learn to minister empty, while deceptively projecting life and overflow.
We often do this until pressures reveal inner deficits that often lead to damaged churches, fractured families and the loss of ministry credibility.
Instead of ministering from overflow, we learn to patch holes and forge ahead. But I have learned that Christ (the Spiritual Rock they all drank from) doesn’t require facades, and He doesn’t expect us to minister empty and without being filled with His love and power.
John 4:14 (CSB Strong's)
14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.”
1 Corinthians 10:4 (CSB Strong's)
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.