ICLC 2021
Super session.
*Highly Esteemed Pastor Lanre Alabi*
THE HIGH OFFICE OF A CELL LEADER.
In the mandate that the Lord has given to our man of God, your role and contribution is too vital.
I want you to magnify your office as a cell leader.
Our Man of God made a statement in 2011 or 2013, and I have made that statement to cell leaders
"To be a cell leader and A leader over God's people is more important to God than if you were the president or a chairman of businesses in Europe or Africa." (Paraphrased)
This should make you magnify your office as a cell leader.
Romans 11:13 -14
Paul was addressing the Gentiles.
MAGNIFY= DOXASO=
To cause the significance or worth of something to become acknowledged.
See it in Amplified version.
"I lay great stress on my ministry"
Do you carry this consciousness with you?
You are not a cell leader only on cell day, but everyday.
This should control your daily agenda. It would make you cancel other appointments to meet your cell appointment.
You should be this way especially in the day in which we live.
As a cell leader, you are an officer in this great army.
4 points to make you magnify your office.
1. Think about who you are leading: you are not a leader over inanimate people. You are a leader over people. The focus of ministry is people. Anything that loses relevance with people will lose relevance with God.
Consider those you are leading.
How does God see them?
Be spiritually minded. Your spiritual mindedness about your office as a cell leader can only come from the word.
How does God see them?
Acts 20:28
In that cell, those you oversee are the church there. You have been placed over those for whom Christ purchased with his own blood.
See MSG translation.
The Holy spirit put you in charge of these people.
You have received responsibility from the Holy spirit.
God himself thought they were worth dying for.
Don't let them be common to you.
What do you think about that? And what do you think about yourself who has been placed in charge of such responsibility?
Think like God. Talk like God.
Think about things the way God thinks about things.
If something is important or Big to God, let it be important to you.
Don't make small what God has called Big
Revelation 1:5
The value of a soul!!!
He washed us in his own blood.
All those you lead are washed in the blood of Jesus.
How important your Job is.
If someone gave you something 9f value, you would ensure that in your hands, that thing does not spoil.
II.
All of them are soul winners.
God has put you in charge of soul winners.
Don't make a soul winner being common. It's a privilege. Angels cannot win souls but we can win souls.
If you put together all the earthly presidents, secretary generals together... Putting all their authority in one person.... He still cannot change a sinner to a saint.
But any one of you can in a moment, change someone's destiny and it is recognized in Heaven.
You have the privilege and right to do it. And you are a leader over such same people.
Angels know you. Demons fear you.
How important you are!!!!
Know who you are and Use what you have received.
2. Your divine Responsibility
2 Cor 3:6
We are able ministers of the new testament. Enabled by the spirit.
Your Job isn't enabled by men. It is a divine Responsibility.
They can't enable you in your office or send you to training school for it.
3. You are a definite Officer in the LOVEWORLD nation.
As an officer of an organization, the privileges and authorities of that organization are at your disposal.
(E.g. an office at an organization can have access to the car pool)
Here you have access to ministry Graces.
1. Apostolic grace: a message that must be heard
2. Pastoral grace: the ability to shepherd people.
Don't struggle. You are a partaker of the grace.
You can gather, retain and shepherd people.
When you realize this, you will take your job seriously
You do all you do with your brethren (meetings, etc) because you are an officer of the ministry.
Every position in a ministry is required. There are no redundant positions. As a cell leader you have a definite Job and responsibility. There is no other ministry structure to duplicate what you are supposed to do.
The cell ministry structure is the engine for church growth.
4. Being a cell leader is linked to your eternal reward.
Preparing to meet God should be on your mind regularly
As you carry out your work, you are not acting or in rehearsal. Eternity is being processed. You are defining and beautifying eternity.
2 Tim 4:8-9
What is the crown? Have you thought of your crown? What crown is being laid up for you?
Is there anything to give you an indication of the crown?
1 Thessalonians 2:19
Paul called his souls, his hope, glory, joy, crown
The brethren you lead. The work and the results of that work will not be different from the crown you will receive.
What you do is not connected with here alone. It has eternal consequences.
See MSG translation or TLB.
Are you carrying out your work in a way that you will be proud of your members and proud to present them to Jesus???
If you understand this, you will take every meeting importantly.
Every cell meeting is adding to your eternity.
When you understand these you won't let anything or anyone or anybody reduce your office. You will magnify it.
You have been called.
This program right now is the greatest gathering on the face of the earth and you have been invited to be a part of it.
For no other reason but because you are a cell leader.
To receive direction for the greatest mission that is happening and for the greatest days before the rapture.
How important you are.
Magnify your call and work as a cell leader.
Philippians 3:12
Paul is saying He has been called into something and He wants to attain the fullness of it.
Exhaust all the dimensions of being a cell leader.
Fully Exhaust all that Jesus intended for you to be.
Be all that you ought to be in the day and time of the 6billion Mandate.
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