SUBMISSION AND SPIRITUAL FATHERHOOD INNTHE BODY OF CHRIST

in #uganda2 years ago

✓I learnt that God designed each one of us one Spiritual Father 1Cor 4:15
✓Having your biological parent as a pastor, Apostle doesn't necessarily mean that he/she is your Spiritual father.
✓Many men of God can counseling you, guide you but you have only one Spiritual father despite the work done by the thousands of men of God.
✓I learnt that authority is to make right decisions and to give orders
✓Spiritual father's take their time and effort to help us grow Spiritually
✓A Spiritual father is given authority to correct me and guide me
✓There it implies that we ought to obey and submit to the Spiritual Authority
✓A Spiritual father also imparts grace, Spirit, gifts and He watches over our souls.
✓I also learnt that there is a divine order through which the grace of God flows and any blockage somewhere, makes the pattern incomplete ie;
GOD to Spiritual Father and then to a shiner.
So this pattern has to flow continuously.
That's what I learnt about Spiritual Father

Then I also learnt the following about Submission as seen from the pattern above;
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✓Submission is a principle of God.
✓With great humility, we ought to walk in that principle👆👆👆and God ordained someone, for our case i will say our Mzee to whom we are to submit such that we fully receive the grace of God.
✓ I also learnt not to underlook someone that has been appointed by our Spiritual Authority maybe because of age, height or size, what I just have to do is to obey and be submissive to that person. E.g, At Makerere we have Mama Dorcus and Papa Peter to whom we are to submit.
✓Therefore to be submissive is to be under/ being a subject.
✓Submission is not a burden but simply being given patterns of life. i.e;
*Submission =Patterns = Direction = Key to blessings.
✓ God is pleased when we are submissive at all times
What is submission?
•Submission is to open up
•Submission is communication(keeping in touch)
•Submission is giving [Tithe to the ministry]
•Submission is to follow, participate, contribute to the activities or programs of the ministry.
• Submission is to allow correction.
Prov 12:1 (Always we have to love learning and accept to be corrected at all times.)

The rest have been talked about by my sisters and brothers, so that's what I can say briefly🙏🙏🙏 .

Allow me join my sisters to thank our Spiritual parents Mzee and Mummy for always sending us a mentor to feed us such delicious food that is essential for Spiritual nourishment.

Let me take this opportunity to thank our Big Brother Bishop for sparing time for us. Thank you for loving us as Makerere and indeed our lives shall not remain the same.
Thank you so much👏👏👏👏👏

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God didn't design for everyone to have a spiritual father. You could have accepted Christ because a woman witnessed to you. You're misinterpreting the verse. This is what it says:

(1 Corinthians 4:15 NIV) Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.