The Ministry of Beholding His Face – David Wilkerson
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 COR 3:17-18
Our modern-day concept of ministry is so corrupted.
We think ministry only as a career, ordained licensed men or women, who marry or bury. They pastor churches. They build and maintain institutions.
We think of ministry as someone who’s gone to seminary or Bible college and comes out and some denomination or some organization ordains or license that individual. We say that he is in the ministry.
That is not a biblical concept. Not at all. No human being, no bishop, no denomination can put you in the ministry. They give you a paper, but that does not make you a minister of the gospel.
And folks, God doesn’t judge ministry by effectiveness, by magnitude. Paul speaks of a ministry that every single one of us listening to me today has been called to. (2 Cor 4:1)
Paul says, It’s a calling that every born-again believer has been called to undertake. It is our first calling. It is a ministry out of which all other godly endeavours are birthed.
It is called the ministry of beholding the face of Christ. To spend quality time in the presence of Jesus. Just beholding. That’s quietly worshipping. It is dedicated focussed worship. It’s time given to Him just beholding His face.
This word beholding is a very serious and strong word that the apostle uses. Not just taking a look. But in the Greek it’s fixing the gaze.
It is making a decision that I will not move from this position. This is my calling. Before I do anything else. Before I try to attempt anything for God, I’ve got to come out with His presence. I’ve got to come out with something that I’ve received in His presence that is changing me. I have been changed.
I have not gotten this in a seminary. I have not gotten this from men. I got this alone with Jesus beholding His face. I have fixed my gaze on Him. I said this is going to be my life.
