The Old Testament Witness to Christ and His Kingdom, Mentor's Guide, MG09
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Kaiser, Walter C., Jr. Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament . Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2003. Wilson, Walter L. A Dictionary of Bible Types . Peabody, MS: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999.
Now is the time to try to nail down this high theology to a real practical ministry connection, one which you will think about and pray for throughout this next week. This can be from any corner of your walk and life. Concentrate on which key insight or principle covered in this lesson may be of help to you specifically in a ministry application. What in particular is the Holy Spirit suggesting to you in regard to your own handling and interpretation of the Old Testament as it relates to your life and your ministry? What particular situation comes to mind when you think about howGod might want to equip you better to represent him through this material and your interaction with it? Seek the face of the Lord, and ask for his direction in your application of these truths. The preacher that prays indeed puts God into the work. God does not come into the preacher’s work as a matter of course or on general principles, but he comes by prayer and special urgency. That God will be found of us in the day that we seek him with the whole heart is as true of the preacher as of the penitent. A prayerful ministry is the only ministry that brings the preacher into sympathy with the people. Prayer as essentially unites to the human as it does to the divine. A prayerful ministry is the only ministry qualified for the high offices and responsibilities of the preacher. Colleges, learning, books, theology, preaching cannot make a preacher, but praying does. The apostles’ commission to preach was a blank till filled up by the Pentecost which praying brought. A prayerful minister has passed beyond the regions of the popular, beyond the man (sic) of mere affairs, of secularities, of pulpit attractiveness; passed beyond the ecclesiastical organizer or general into a sublimer and mightier region, the region of the spiritual. Holiness is the product of his work; transfigured hearts and lives emblazon the reality of his work, its trueness and substantial nature. God is with him. His ministry is not projected on worldly or surface principles. He is deeply stored with and deeply schooled in the things of God. His long, deep E. M. Bounds comments on the absolute necessity of fervent prayer for the man or woman of God in ministry:
Ministry Connections
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Counseling and Prayer
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