THE General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, (DLBC), Pastor William Kumuyi has advised church leaders to declare the great commission and shun every form of vain vanities that can deaden our vision.
Kumuyi said this at the just concluded Global Worker Conference held in Taraba organized by DLBC.
Tagged, ‘Triumphing Ministry in Troubled Times,’ brought together church workers and church leaders from many parts of the country. Representatives of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Women Wing of CAN, government officials, and royal fathers, among others. 150 countries were connected online across the world.
In his sermon titled: “A divine call to higher service,” Kumuyi said that “God is sending the whole church to the whole world, and if the church can arise and get up to do the work God has sent us without any form of distraction, we will get the work done in no time.”
He added that “the church needs the same vision, mission, passion, fire, consecration and penetrating skills that will penetrate the hearts of the people across the world.”
He pointed out that the great commission cannot be fulfilled without great consecration, passion, resources, quality of time, and skills. “If we have the same passion for heaven together as the body of Christ, then we will be reaching the nations in no time.
“As ministers of God, “our call into the ministry of reconciliation is a noble one and it is the best thing we could ever do with our lives.”
He posited that ministers of God must neither be satisfied with what they did in the past, nor with the errand ran for God in the past.
He enjoined them not to look around and think that the resources, grace, and miracle God had given in the past were good enough, saying it was not yet the time to relax.
He said: “we must arise as there is an urgent work to evangelise more for kingdom advancement. The instruction of God upon our lives is purposeful and the response of the people is immaterial, ours is to arise and do the work.
“It is sad that we see people perishing and we respect them so much that we fail to tell them that the soul that sinneth he shall die. We must not be too gentle in telling sinners that they should turn from their wicked ways because destruction awaits the obstinate and the unrepentant sinners if they die in their sin.”
He warned church leaders to focus on the messages of Jesus that saves and prepares men for heaven rather than telling them about our ideas and opinions that will not matter in eternity.
He cited the book of Ezekiel where God warned the prophet to warn sinners and if the prophet fails, he would require the blood of the sinners in their hands
Governor Darius Ishaiku thanked Pastor Kumuyi for the choice of Taraba for the conference.
He said “I want to thank you and your colleagues who are doing a great job. We pray God will give you a longer life and make us more acceptable to him and we will meet in the kingdom to path no more,” the governor said.
The governor confessed that when he assumed office in 2015 if he had known the magnitude of the job ahead of him in one year, he would have run like Jonah. “I asked God to come and help us and he did show up”.
Ishaiku, who said that he had passed through lots of challenges, noted that through it all, “God has been faithful, the work we had to do in eight years, was done in seven years, eight years is just a plus for our administration considering the landslide achievements recorded so far.
“In all the areas, I saw difficulties, but God wonderfully interceded. All the people of God need to pray and thank God, more importantly, I should hand over to someone who will build on the foundation that we have laid in the state.
“God in his wisdom will help us to hand over peacefully and build on the structure that we have established. I believe by the will of God, Taraba will soon become one of the greatest states in Nigeria.
“I always say that God is a Nigerian, but He resides in Taraba State,” he said.
