Understanding Our Ministry To Others 

When we show understanding to those who are still battling with issues that God has given us victory over rather than hash correction, we have helped someone. Every experience we go through improves our capacity to help others. Our mess becomes our message.

It is proof of spiritual maturity when we help the weak. Many are struggling in their walk with God and need stronger arms to lean on. They love God and desire to do His will but the flesh is weak and can use the loving inspiration of others around them to defeat the enemy in their lives. Our lives are in fact our ministries. We are to minister to others through our daily activities. The challenges we overcome ought to be practical examples to others that it can be done.

Are there people you know who are still struggling with issues you already have victory over? Come down from your high horse and hold their hands. Help them through their fears and doubts.

‘But I have prayed for you; that your faith fail not.’

This is the heart of the matter. Jesus did not gossip to others about the impending attacks of the enemy on Simon’s faith. He did not castigate him or ridicule him but prayed for him. This is a pattern for each of us. We are to stand and pray with those saints under the attacks of the enemy. We are to do all within our reach to help the saints overcome every hurdle placed on their path by the devil. Our objective at all times must be to help the saints so that their ‘faith fail not.’

Unfortunately today, it is the saints who help the enemy to ‘get’ the saints. We don’t pray or care enough about each other’s spiritual, emotional and other needs so that they become vulnerable to the enemy’s tricks. Oh, that we will pray more for each other. Oh, that we will encourage and support each other so that the devil’s devices will fail. We owe each other protection from the wiles of the enemy. We owe each other care, love and guidance.

‘And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.’

This is the Lord’s desire. He gave Simon Peter an instruction to strengthen his fellow saints when he has overcome. We each have divine instruction to strengthen others. Every time God gives us victory over a certain situations, He expects us to use the experience to help someone else. It is our daily responsibility to help to lift others up. It is the chief duty of every believer to seek out the weak, the struggling and help them to stand and to be strong.

Whose hands are you lifting today? Whose weaknesses are you helping to strengthen today? Who are you imparting the secrets of your victory to today? That is your duty. May the Lord help us each to strengthen the weak, encourage the depressed and empower the faint-hearted.