Divine Order Brings the Divine
by Hilton Sutton
God is a God of divine order. He has everything planned. Nothing happens by chance. That means that this great Southwest Believers’ Convention was ordered of God. It isn’t something that Kenneth Copeland decided to do because he didn’t have anything else to do. Every one of us here is here by the divine order of God. I know I am here by the absolute will of Almighty God.
From the time this first Southwest Believers’ Convention was announced, people began asking how I became one of the speakers. I said, “Because I’m a believer. I preach from the same book. We have the same vision.”
God has called us all according to His divine plan, and we all fit into it. Aren’t you glad we don’t all sound alike? If we did, some people would never get ministered to. That’s why God has raised up such a variety. Together we offer to you the complete ministry of our Lord Jesus.
Ephesians 4:11-13 says, “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man….” This scripture lets us know the unity requested in John 17 is on the way in the Body of Christ. It’s beginning to take hold.
As I listened to the other speakers, I realized that almost every one ministered on subjects they had learned from someone else. And why shouldn’t they? Are we not workers together with the Lord (2 Corinthians 6:1)? Are we not directed by the same Holy Spirit? Then why shouldn’t we feed one another and be used of God to inspire each other?
But we haven’t seen anything yet. God is ready and the Church must come into its full maturity and shift into the highest gear of productivity the world has ever known.
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