WHERE DO WE BEGIN?
People try to start things on their own like Sara and Abraham tried in the Bible. They thought they could improve on God’s Word to them. So did the Levites with the Ark of the Covenant. They thought they had a better way and it will save them a lot of effort by not having to carry it, and put it on a cart. it didn't work.
There are those who want to Pastor a church and quit there job, and do not prepare and begin trying to lead a flock only to see it dry up in a short while, and wonder why in a short while it drys up. It doesn't work.
THE PROBLEM
What then is the problem?
I believe things of God are BIRTHED NOT STARTED. There is a passage in the OT that says "...As soon as zion travailed she brought forth her children". Isa. 66:8. There is a process of:
First- getting the vision of what God wants you to do. I hear a lot of people claiming what they are doing is by FAITH. Hope is what they are confusing for faith. As the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. An Idea in the head is not necessarily God’s direction.
,Secondly the "justation" period where you let the vision grow by preparing yourself and waiting. Boy is that ever hard. Waiting is not what the “now generation” live by. Everything is instant this and that.
Thirdly is the "pain" of prayer and travail till God delivers it and it comes alive. when the vision is manifest there is breath and life, and movement.
PRAYER
I believe that if God's people begin to pray from the depths of their hearts, God will bring some great answers. Psalms 2:8 "Ask of me and I shall give the the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts for thy possession. When Christians really get before God in travailing prayer, Souls will come to Christ. Evil will be stopped and the Kingdom of God will appear.
But people don't like to pray because it is work. They would rather do something enjoyable, where people will see them and look up to them, some kind of visible ministry like the Pharisees who stood on the street corners for everyone to see and hear them. The Psalmist said "...weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning."Psa 30:5. No tears, no joy. That’s God’s plan for ministry.
