God's Armorbearer: Running With Your Pastor's Vision Volume 3 (Armor Bearer)

176 Pages·2005·0.72 MB·English

by  Terry Nance

GOD’S
A
RMOR
BEARER
Running with
Your Pastor’s Vision

GOD’S
A
RMOR
BEARER
Running with
Your Pastor’s Vision
T N
ERRY ANCE
©Copyright 2005 – Terry Nance
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Dedication
I dedicate this book to my lovely wife.Kim,you have stood faithfully
with me for 26 years in seeing the call of God fulfilled in my life.I could
never have made it without you.You have been a strength and encourage-
ment to me in all I have ever attempted to do.You are a great woman of
God and I love you very much.Love will keep us together.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
CHAPTER 1
IT’STIMETO…
Get Plugged Into the Power Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
CHAPTER 2
IT’STIMETO…
Get Out of the Comfort Zone and Develop the Gift Zone . . . . . . . .27
CHAPTER 3
IT’STIMETO…
Step Into the Challenge Zone and Run to the End Zone . . . . . . . . .49
CHAPTER 4
IT’STIMETO…
Get Ready to Become a Voice and Not an Echo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
CHAPTER 5
IT’STIMETO…
Stand With Your Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
CHAPTER 6
IT’STIMETO…
Become Kingdom-Minded Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
CHAPTER 7
IT’STIMETO…
Release the Members Into Their Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
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Introduction
In 1983 I was faithfully working in a local church as an associate min-
ister and mission director.My wife and I were excited to see the first mis-
sion students being released and sent out from our church.It gave me a
great feeling of satisfaction that the mission school we had raised up was
producing what we had envisioned it to do.
Several months after our first group of students had been sent out,I
was relaxing at home one night with my wife.We had been visiting about
the future and what we felt the Lord was leading us to do.As I sat there I
suddenly began to sense an urgency to go and pray. I felt the Lord had
something to say to me and I knew I must get alone.
I went into my living room,sat in a chair and simply asked the Lord,
“What are you saying to me?”I heard in my heart the Lord say,“Go read
the story of David and Saul.”I quickly turned in my Bible to First Samuel
and read through the first 16 chapters.As I read I came to First Samuel
16:21,“So David came to Saul and stood before him. And he loved him
greatly and he became his armorbearer.”
As soon as I read that scripture I heard the Lord say to me in my heart,
“I have called you to be an armorbearer to your pastor.”At first I did not
understand what that meant,but as I reread about Jonathan and his armor-
bearer I began to see what God was saying to me.
Iknew the Lord was giving me an assignment that night to stand with
my leader and be a support to him.When I began to realize this I slipped
out of my chair and laid on the floor. I cried out to the Lord and said,
“Now Lord wait just a minute,what about my vision for the world that
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you gave me before I ever met my pastor?”The Lord said that night for me
to lay down my vision and take up the Vision of the House.He said He
would take care of the vision I had for the world.He reminded me of His
example in coming to the earth.He laid down His desires and took up the
Father’s,and God highly exalted Him.What you make happen for some-
one else God will make happen for you.
What is the Vision of the House? It is the vision the Lord has placed
in the heart of your pastor.When God gives an assignment to build a
church He will always place a calling in the heart of a man or woman of
God to birth that local church.With the calling comes a word that will be
the mission statement for that local body.That is the Vision of the House.
Once it is communicated it is time for those who are a part of that local
church to get plugged in and begin to use their gifts and talents.
When you place your vision under the Vision of the House you will
begin to see the Holy Spirit bring to pass what God has put inside your
heart.This commitment will be one of the major keys God will use to
unlock your future.My wife and I are a testimony of this revelation.We
have seen God fulfill our hearts’desire when we made a decision to run
with the vision of our local church.
Ibelieve the local church is God’s idea and not man’s. God has set the
local church in these last days to be one of the major players in this last day
harvest. I do believe this is the hour of the local church.
My prayer is that,as you read this book,you will be challenged and
stirred to get plugged into your church like you never have before.I pray
God stirs your heart to stand with your pastor and to make a new com-
mitment to do the will of God in your life.As you join heart and soul
with the other members in your church you will begin to witness God’s
power in an unprecedented way. You are called to be not just a member,
but a minister.
May God bless you and take you to a new level in your spiritual walk.
May you become a participator and not just a spectator.
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