Milk, Mush and Maturity

Milk, Mush and Maturity

by Jo Buck

Transcribed from the original recording; may contain errors.

We’ve had the spirit of joy. We’ve had the spirit of peace. We’ve had patience. I wouldn’t be surprised if all the fruits of the Spirit haven’t been expressed in this camp. Why, we’ve had men and women give their life to Jesus Christ. Little people. Big people. Isn’t that the best scuttlebutt you ever heard in your life? Amen. Can’t you feel the breeze a-blowing? Yeah. How do you know the Spirit’s been here? Why? Because He’s in our lives. Why? Now, many of you will be going home with healed memories. Oh, you may not think so right now. But the Spirit is here. Others will be going home and you’ll be able to solve problems you never were able to solve before. How do you know that? Because the Spirit has been here and has given you a new way. But that new way is in here. And it didn’t unfold.

In six days or seven days at camp, like a seed planted in the ground, it will bloom. First of all, it comes the blade of grass. And then the bud and then the flower that opens up. You can’t be a flower overnight. The Spirit of God is in this camp. And I’m rejoicing in that. And there’s a peace in my heart about that. I’m not worried about anything else. Because I know He’s touched your heart. I know you haven’t been able to stop Him from touching your heart. Because where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is power and there is healing and there is love and there is joy and there is peace.

Say amen. Amen. Yeah. Now tonight I want to talk to us about ministry. And I think it’s about time we got to thinking about ministry. I don’t know how this will evolve, but I’m sure that it will bless my life, and I’m sure it will bless your life.

And I want to read a scripture from Galatians, chapter 4. And only two verses. You can listen and get it in your mind. But remember this. That if a father dies and leaves great wealth for his little son, that child is not much better off than a slave until he grows up. Even though he actually owns everything his father had. He has to do what his guardians and managers tell him to. Until he reaches whatever age his father sets.

A son or daughter receives the father’s property when they are of age. That has been the standard practice down there. And so you are God. He said He has placed His Spirit within you, and you can call Him Abba Father. All the stars in the universe are yours.

He has given you many promises to the things that you will be doing. Things that you cannot do now. Not because He doesn’t love you. Because you’re not ready. And so the Father says He will give you all that He has. But just like this flower, He never interrupts the process. There’s always a process in growth. Whether it is in the natural realm or the spiritual realm.

Now a child knows his father. And he knows that asking his father will give him the things he needs. This too is inbred in the heart of every person that is born into this world. And yet, you know, a father will not turn his business over to a nine-year-old son.

We are living in the age of the Spirit. It has been so since the Acts of the Apostles. Where the Holy Spirit has been working within our lives in a most wonderful way. And in these last days, yes, I’ll admit He’s been doing some extra purging.

So that we may come to the place where He can give us the inheritance. But mostly I think He wants us to know that He loves us. How would you like it if your little child came to you crying all the time? What would you do to that child? You’d take it to the doctor, wouldn’t you? Sure you would.

You want your child to be happy. You want it to feel free. You want this child to trust you. And so it is with the Father. He says, “I love you. I love you.” That’s what He wants us to know, first of all. Because He knows that we cannot go any further until we know He loves us.

Now, nothing can satisfy our hearts. If the angels appeared in this room, and if you saw them for a little while, that wouldn’t satisfy your heart. The children of Israel saw angels. They saw the pillar of fire. They saw the clouds. They saw so many miracles. There was still an emptiness in their hearts.

If a great prophet came in this room and spoke as a great orator. And told you all the things you ever wanted to hear. And even told you your whole future from beginning to end. You know what would happen? You’d forget about half of it. I haven’t yet remembered all the prophecies that came my way. Not because I didn’t want to hear it. It’s simply because I do forget as I live and grow. I just retain those little things in my memory bank. They sort of just trickle down there and I file them away very neatly. That won’t satisfy you.

And the gifts of the Spirit will not satisfy you. Having the greatest preacher in the world stand up here will not satisfy you. Crying 24 hours a day will not satisfy you. Laughing 24 hours a day will not satisfy you. Well, what will satisfy your heart? The simple, childlike knowledge that God loves me. That’s the only thing that will satisfy you. To give you a feeling of peace.

Until God found out that He couldn’t reach us through all these things, the creatures. And His Son came. And He brought us into contact with divinity. Jesus said, “Any man who has seen me has seen the Father.” So look at Jesus. Keep your eyes on Jesus.

Always keep your eyes on Jesus. Well, He brought us ministry in that He Himself was the Word of God. And now He wants His people to be that minister. That body. That minister. Life to others. Now, I found out from personal experience, when I am ministering, when I’m sharing my life, loving, teaching, admonishing, never putting down, never yelling at anyone, never making them feel bad.

When I’m doing these things, I feel a flow of love. And when I feel no concern about others, my spiritual faculties become kind of feeble. And I’m without power. And I just sit there and stare out the window. I’m not exercising. So we have to exercise. You know, there is a method of training children who are brain damaged now. They have been doing it for quite a few years. And they call it patterning. And I mentioned this in Oregon. I want to mention it again, because it has to do with your mind. Spiritually. Spiritually. They say that a child must pattern. In other words, when it is born, it must kick and scream and do all those things a baby does. Crawl around on the floor. These make patterns in the brain. And spiritually, if you’re not doing anything, you’re not making patterns in your spirit.

Well, as in nature, there are two stages in the Christian life. Infancy or childhood. And the other, manhood. Now, in nature, growth out of the one into the other comes in its course. And we watched tonight. And that, again, was a display of the Spirit. When you see our young people able to stand up in front of a group of people. Now, you know, when you were little, you didn’t do this. Many of you. Did you? Were you able to do that when you were little?

They have a freedom today. We want them to keep the beauty of this freedom. We don’t want them to put on all the masks and hide their true selves. But in our spiritual life, this is not so. We can remain infants until Jesus comes. And sometimes we do. I’m sorry to say, but that’s true. Now, it all depends on you. It all depends on me. And don’t stand there and tell me that I’m going to be here and the Lord’s going to do it. You’re going to do it. You’re going to use your will. You’re going to use your mind. You’re going to use your feet. And the Lord isn’t going to do it until you do.

Now, why do we want to minister? There are many reasons why we want to minister. First of all, I mentioned a couple… I’ll give you a couple of negatives, and then I’ll get all the positives. Well, I like to minister because it makes me feel good. I’m helping others. I like to minister because, boy, I can really tell them, and they have to listen to me. I have a captive audience.

I like to minister because it feeds something somewhere inside of me, and I don’t really understand what the consequences will be, but it does feed something in my nature. I like to minister because Jesus has taken a hold of my heart, and the love of Christ has constrained me to do this.

I like to minister because when I look at you and I see that, yes, you had problems, and when the Spirit began to come in, a light started to show, and your face began to glow, and your eyes begin to shine, and truly your eyes are the mirrors of your soul. That’s why I like to minister. I like to minister because I see that you’re in contact with God, because you’re touching Him at whatever level you’re at. See? It’s God’s business to help you to grow. He just puts people in your way, and you take the word from them or their love or whatever, the circumstances of your life, but it’s His business. I cannot mold or make you. I don’t listen to anybody when I don’t want to. I just turn it right off. You can turn it off too. I can turn it off so fast. I just go right out there, and I just sit down with Jesus, and you can be doing anything you want to do. I only hear words saying, you can do that too. I know.

Sure. Well, it means being involved in all of life, and it means growing in the second stage of my Christian development. And I wish it did, but it doesn’t come with the passing of years. And I’m glad it doesn’t come with the passing of years, because some of us that have received Jesus Christ, well, you know, if we had to wait and receive Jesus when we were little, well, we might not be the way we are now. Who knows what our lives would be?

Now, a baby in Jesus is without experience in the matters of right and wrong. And really, it’s that simple. We are living in a complex society. And we’re putting things into our computer that we’re not able to bear.

And we’re laying ourselves out to the point where I wonder how we ever really get up off the ground. Jesus says, “You are my children, you are my sons.” Well, what does a baby do? He likes milk. Mush, baby food. You feed him, change his diapers, put him in bed, and he goes goo.

That would be awful, you know, when you think in terms of spirit life. You don’t like to see that in a person that’s supposed to be mature in the Lord, do you? Well, a baby likes to be fed. And I want to say this with love in my heart. And as a leader, having been there, oh, we love to hear those speakers. Mm, man, we run. We run hither and yon across the country to hear that man because he’s the only one that can do it. He’s the only one that can give me the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge.

Not so. Not so. We wouldn’t have to run two, three, four hundred miles if we believed that Jesus could do it. Would we? Really? I say this, you know, knowing that’s how we are. But, well, oftentimes we’re babies.

Well, in Hebrews chapter 5 verse 14 it says this. Now you have been Christians a long time and you ought to be teaching others. But instead you have dropped back into the place where you need someone to teach you all over again the very simplest things in God’s word. You are like babies who drink only milk, not old enough for solid food. And when a person is still living on milk it shows he isn’t very far along in the Christian life. I’m not saying any of us are this. I just want to bring out another point that happens to come in there. And doesn’t know much about the difference between right and wrong. He is still a baby Christian. You will never be able to eat solid spiritual food and understand the deeper things of God’s word until you become better Christians and learn right from wrong by, and I like this word, practicing. Practicing. Doing right. And that says something to me. That’s the point I wanted to bring across. It’s what I practice doing. It’s that patterning. It’s that baby that crawls on the floor and gets up and crawls again and gets up. That’s what does it. I learn when I’m crawling around that I mustn’t step on nails.

I learn when I go near the stove that I mustn’t touch it hot. That’s how I grow. And after I’m burnt a few times I go, hmm, I don’t go near that stove, I’ll tell you. I’m going to learn what’s right and wrong, what’s hot and cold.

I’m saying this is how we learn to live. I’m afraid we want something to come out of the blue. The ministry comes by habit and by living with ourselves and with our fellow man. All right? To minister means I must. To minister means I must learn to discern right from wrong, good from evil. Is that a simple statement? Do you agree with me? Now we can make it very complex. But we’ve lived one day in this camp today, and I’ve gone along this whole day, and I haven’t found anything that came into my life that was so complex that I couldn’t turn it over to Jesus. We got up this morning and we brushed our teeth. And we went up to eat. And we came in this room. And we did a few things here. And then we went there. And you get the point. We are living with one another in community. And that’s growing in Christian life. That’s learning to be a mature Christian.

And within the household of God, you always have the kindergarten, the baby department. You have grade school. You have high school. You have college. And then you have all those other places that I’m not there yet. Praise the Lord. But anyway, all over camp you find over here there’s a little kindergarten going, you know, and someone’s receiving the Spirit. And over here in camp we have first and second grade someone is admonishing the Word of God and over here something else is happening. That’s how we grow in Christ. That’s how we learn right from wrong. The eye is exercised to know God’s way. The ear hears His voice. And the conscience says, “I will reject that thing. That is not pleasing to God.” And the will says, “I will choose His will.” And as far as I know in my Christian life, it’s been my will that said, “Jesus, it is Your will I want.” And I haven’t even run around saying, “I don’t know what Your will is. Now, is this Your will today? Should I have two sermons for tonight?” And I tell you, I could have said, oh my dear, I don’t know which sermon the three to. Oh, one of them has to be the divine will of God. I don’t know which one it is.

Oh, I’ll just get so worried about this. Maybe I should have someone come and pray for me. Would you pray for me? I don’t know which sermon. You’re getting the point? Compounding our problems. We run all over. When Jesus said, “I love you, Jo. You have two sermons. You can use any way you want.” Isn’t that great? Isn’t that great? Praise the Lord. Yeah. Right. And I want to tell you something else. I haven’t noticed any shepherds over in Nevada go up to any of his sheep and tell them which blade of grass to eat. I mean, gee, that didn’t come out right, did it?

We better heal that sheep, Lord. Which blade of grass to eat? Have you ever seen a shepherd tell them which to eat? No. He gave them the whole mountain over there in Nevada and he says, go and eat. Yeah. The will of God for you is what Barbara was saying in the word today. It’s I bless You, my Father. I love You, my Father. I worship You, my Father. I got my eyes on You, God. Praise the Lord.

I got banana. Oh, wow. Thank You, Jesus. We are Christians, Christ followers, not self followers. And I don’t even want to get concerned about it today. We get too concerned about it. That’s what happened to Adam. He went in. Instead of looking up, where’d the Father go? I don’t know, I’m too busy worrying down here. And God had to come stomping through and say, “Adam, where are you?” “I’m in here, Father. Father, looking at myself.”

Praise the Lord. We have to be delivered from this and keep our eyes on Jesus. What is keeping your eyes on Jesus? You get up in the morning and you brush your teeth. You go to breakfast and you go to school. And you meet your friends and you do all these things. And while he’s doing this, you’re touching this life and you’re touching that life. And you’re touching that life. And you’re smiling and you’re loving. And you’re having a few problems. And you’re sharing with someone else. That’s living with Jesus. Amen. What do you think it’s going to be like in heaven? Hallelujah. It’s going to be community. Yeah. I’ll say, Lord, I want to go to Mars for a few minutes. Can I go there? Yes, you can go. And I’ll just go. I won’t even have to worry about a body. I’ll just take myself there and talk. Now we’re Christ’s followers. He came to do the works of God. He said, Father. Father, He said, to the people, “I come to do the will of Him that sent me. Father, I know You always hear me. Always hear me.” That’s all He wants you to say is what Jesus said. Father, I know I’m to do Your work. And You have a plan for my life. And right now, to the best of my ability, I’m walking in it. And I know You always hear me with joy and a lightness in our hearts.

See? All right? How did Jesus learn? Now He learned, and we’ve used that word a lot here, and I want to use it tonight, not to make you heavy, but to show you that Jesus had to be obedient too.

And I will read it from Hebrews. And it says, even though Jesus was a son, He had to learn from experience what it was like to obey. When obeying meant suffering. It was after He had proved Himself perfect in this experience of humanity, of living, of sharing His life, of loving, that He became the giver of eternal salvation to all those that obeyed Him, of dying.

He had to experience what it was like to obey being in the human nature. And to obey His Father, whom He loved more than anything else. And the summary of the laws, love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy soul. And love thy neighbor as… what? Thyself. That’s what we’re growing into. That’s what we’re getting happy about. That’s what we’re growing in Jesus.

We’re loving our neighbors and we’re beginning to love ourselves. Praise God. Yeah. That’s what we’re doing. We can’t come to maturity any other way. I haven’t found any other way. When Jesus was tempted, He exercised His will. And if you don’t think it wasn’t… it wasn’t hard in that… He had the whole thing thrown at Him during the temptation, I don’t know what…

What could have been harder. You say, well, my life is so mixed up. I don’t think it’ll ever get unraveled. And Jesus unraveled the whole world. He thought… much of it in the temptation. And you know the areas the devil used? Boy, he’s tricky. Food. This world’s good. And believe it or not, worship. Hmm. Sure. He knew where to get us. He knew where he was trying to get Jesus. He wasn’t saying, oh, Jesus, you know, I know You just came from the Father and He gave Him all this nice heavenly talk. Mm-mm. He was hitting that humanity in Jesus. He was hitting the prize.

Well, the next thing we want to do if we’re going to be ministers in Jesus, and I hope I’m not making this hard, is to be an intercessor. We are priests of God. The scripture says, no offense to you, me.

We are all priests of God by virtue of our being Christians and baptized into the body of Jesus Christ. Now, you can intercede on any level. A little child can intercede. It doesn’t matter who you are, you can intercede.

We are ambassadors, and we minister endless life. I picked up the bond of faith again and studied it again. Every time I do, I find something beautiful. And what I find is that Glenn Clark knew persons, and he knew how to minister to people. And this has to do with ministry, and he expresses it beautifully. Now, I want to read it because it’s the sixth article. We shall recognize three circles in our united efforts at spreading the kingdom of heaven through the hearts and souls and minds of men. The outer circle, which was described in the Gospels as the multitude, must be fed by parables and simple, practical teachings that those who hear are able to receive. Now, I said simple, practical teachings. No lofty discourse telling how, you know, the pre-millennium, the millennium, and all this stuff, because they can’t understand that. You have to talk grassroots, gut level, to the multitude.

And the middle circle is where the teachers and the apostles shall be taught through messages that may be more intimate and sacred, knowing that the hearers will not trample that which is holy underfoot. And finally, there is the inner circle, the inner family, where we shall share our deepest, inmost experiences and highest revelations and keep, get this, much in secret and silence to share with God alone. And, oh, how often I blurted, hmm? Blunder, I talked too much. I gave advice. Oh, we love to give advice. Oh, they’ve got to hear, well, don’t you know what you’re doing wrong? Well, I’m going to tell you what you’re doing wrong. You just listen to me. I’ll tell you. Haven’t solved my own problems yet, but I sure am going to tell you.

It’s a marvel that, you know, we get picked up again. Well, when I first became a Christian, I didn’t know whether I had a ministry or not. And I really didn’t think about it too much. But I did pray. And I spent a lot of time in doing that. And I shared my faith on a simple level.

And I thought I was leading others to Christ. And some did receive Jesus as their Savior and Lord. And I think I taught the simple truth of the Bible. And I learned something. I learned that praying for somebody was half the battle. Was half the battle. You believe that? Do you believe that? The peace of the Lord be always with you! Come on, Barth.

And now through with you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I love you, Robert. I love you. Thank you. I love you, Amy. Thank you, dear. Praise the Lord. I am, huh? Yeah. Oh, well, well. What’s happening in this camp? It’s getting to be one of those hugging camps. That’s what’s happening.

This is a good place to share these two little stories. I know that Paul likes them. And so I spent a lot of time looking for something that will be pleasing to Paul. This is about a young guy that liked to go fishing with his dad and he was supposed to learn the 23rd Psalm. And as he was rehearsing it and he got up and he said, “Thy rod and Thy reel, they comfort me.”

This one is for my brother, Pat. It’s an Irish one. It’s also about a little girl who was learning the 23rd Psalm. And when she came to the sixth verse, she said, “Surely good Mrs. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life.”

I hope we’re registering the word ministry to you because I know that in your heart you want to minister. And there are various kinds of ministry. And I was going to share how I got into my ministry, but I don’t think it’s that important right now.

Except to say that… Herm and I entered the evangelistic ministry as Church Army evangelists. We received the laying out of hands from ministry by David du Plessis, believe it or not, way back there in the early 60s. And then we received laying out of hands by the Bishop of Nevada, standing in behalf of the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. And then Herm has gone on and on and on and had so many laying out of hands, I’ll never catch up to him, and I don’t intend to. Because I can act on the power that is within the church. Praise God. And there is power in the church.

And this work came to us through the Holy Spirit. And I think Herm has shared that with you, how we went to New York and took our training there. And then we went to Nevada. And I didn’t have any church there. I had gone through the training. And I’m saying this because you may have to wait for your ministry. Wait on your ministry. And not jump into anything because your ministry evolves out of your person. Out of your life. And if you pick yourself up and place yourself somewhere where you’re not prepared by the Spirit, unless He does it Himself. Like a plane falling down in some place and you have to be there. Like the Apostle Paul on the ship. Remember the ship was wrecked and he had to go to this island. This was the way the Spirit leads in ministry. And sometimes we really think that, you know, we have this burning desire and we’re not quite sure. But I’m saying that your ministry evolves out of your life and out of what you’re doing. And when you go to school, you go through the grades. And I think in the Spirit too, and even in ministry sometimes we go through the grades. And one man may say, well, I never dreamed it and here I am preaching the gospel.

Well, the Spirit had been preparing him for that all along. He just didn’t know it. God is not going to place men in the ministry or women in the ministry that are not ready. Oh, they might learn there. But they’re ready in their heart and in their will. They’re ready in those areas and that’s what He cares about.

And so He gave me two churches and I shared in Herman’s ministry too and he shared in mine. And we had a great time. And the reason I said that is to tell you that my ministry has changed today. I don’t have two churches in Nevada. I live in Nebraska.

And the Lord is beginning to bring from me a new ministry. I’m not quite sure what it is, but I’m really not that worried about it. Because He knows I want to. Father, I know You always hear me. And so it will be with you.

Now you may come to CFO and you’re a spectator. And first thing you know, you get involved and you get into that second circle. And then the first thing you know, you find you’re in the first circle. And then you’re on the council ring. And from the council ring, you may go to creatives. From creatives, you may go to something else. And so your ministry is evolving because in that CFO, you are learning how to touch lives and how to minister. But it’s always as the Spirit will. Now, perhaps there aren’t many special ministries here in terms of, quote, unquote, the gospel. But I would say that down here there are ministries that you haven’t even thought of yet because, you know, when God made you, it was all there to begin with. And He envisioned you totally complete. We may have someone here who has a ministry as a doctor, as a lawyer, as a psychiatrist, as a nurse, as an athletic director. I mean, these are ministries. But you see, in the church past, we hadn’t thought that they were ministries. They were outside of the church.

And consequently, the kingdom of God is not set up on earth because we’re now learning that these are ministries. And we need Christian doctors and Christian nurses. Now, if you’re a young person and you just received Jesus as your Savior and you want to go home and you want to minister what you have received, you just wait, God’s going to find a way for you. We had three little boys at our church. One of them is part of the church. And he got so excited about finding Jesus and being baptized that this little boy, I don’t know, what is he, 9-11? 9. He went out there with a prayer book because this is what he wanted. And he showed this other boy, you know, about Jesus. Now, this is God and Jesus and you have to be baptized. And that was the extent of his ministry, I’ll tell you. But it was beautiful. He reached two young boys for Jesus. But he did it on his level, you see. And God will train him and help him to grow. I’m saying that to you young people who have been baptized. It will happen. And you won’t have to worry about it because God’s going to put it in your mind and in your heart. And it’s going to flow with your natural course of life unless He uproots you violently.

Which He doesn’t do very often. And so some of you have special ministries and some of you have the ministry of being a housewife. A homemaker. That’s a better term, really. Some of you have the ministry for children. Some of you are good cooks. I mean, there are many things you can be to bless. You know, Brother Lawrence was working in the kitchen all the time praising the Lord for those pots and pans.

But then, there are special ministries here tonight. And sometimes I can see them. And if I don’t see your ministry, it’s because I don’t see it. But I see Bob and Janet ministering together as a couple. Something new is going to evolve now for them in the days to come. And they have been faithful in the little things. And God will entrust them with greater things. It is your portion. You will have it. You will have it. It will come to you.

And of course, I knew the other day about you. Before you ran up here and said, “I want to be a minister. I want to do something for Jesus.” It was all around you know. There it was. It was shining out through his heart. Somewhere in the will, this had happened.

And both of you will minister together. Can’t you see what God is doing? He wants… He wants those that are married to come together. To come together. Share your lives as you have never shared them before. And decide that together you can do more for Jesus than you can going that way. And you going that way. Husband and wife, come together. Share your lives together. Minister together. Do it at any cost.

And then, we have a young fellow here that has very good ears. I don’t think he knows yet that he has very, very good ears. He has a listening ear. And I do believe that the Holy Spirit is opening his inner ear. And that’s Paul.

Paul has an inner ear. He feels it. He doesn’t know what it is. And Paul, I want to tell you not to worry about it. You just go ahead and be a boy like Jesus was and have a great time. And just be free. Yeah, amen. Yeah.

There are others here too. What categories that you will go into… If you are a tremendous band leader, you may turn out to be something else. You cannot depend on your talents. I’m saying this to you, beloved. You have tremendous talents and you have great gifts. He may not use that. He may use something else. But you can use this. You can drag it along and say, okay, I can use this sometime. You know? Praise the Lord. Okay. You’ll accept that. Hallelujah. Yes.

Hallelujah. Now what I want you to do tonight, those of you who have definitely feel… Don’t just stand up to say, “I want to dedicate my life to the Lord’s service.” Because that doesn’t mean anything. Because the Lord has got His time for it anyway. He knows your heart. And He will give you that opportunity. I’m sure that the Lord waited a long time for Jerry to say, “I want to dedicate my life to this.” Amen? Right. Yeah. So the whole point is, you wait until the Lord says, “Tonight’s the night you do it.” But I want those to stand up who really have felt for a long time that, you know, somehow Jesus is touching your heart for a minister. And we want to pray for you tonight. I want to pray for you. And I’m going to ask everyone to just kind of close their eyes. And Herm, would you come up with me? And we can both pray for these that will be standing up right in their pews.

Just… Everyone, close your eyes. And we’re going to have a word of silence here. And then, those of you in the silence who feel that Jesus is touching your heart for ministry, you stand. You can stand as couples, if you like. Thank God.

Thank You. Thank You in the name of Jesus Christ for every person standing here right now. And we thank You for the ministries of those who didn’t quite have the courage to stand, but who are saying in their hearts, I want to serve with all of my heart, with everything that I have.

And we thank You for the blessing that I have. But now, especially on these who are standing, we ask that the blessing be so upon them that they be anointed by the Holy Spirit of God and so filled and baptized in His Spirit that they’ll go forth from here yearning and searching for the ministry that You have for them. So, open the doors that You would have for them. Close those doors solidly that You would have them remain out of.

And may Your blessing so rest upon them that lives even this night will be touched by their ministry. And from this time on, each one of them, knowing that the Holy Spirit is with them, will abide by His guiding and His wooing, that all may be done decently and in order, and that all may be done according to Your perfect will, to the honor and glory of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And may Your hand rest upon each one now in that special blessing, that special ordination that only You, our Father, can give.

On yourMonkey. And we thank You for them and bless them in Your name. Amen. Amen.