The ministry of the word is the paramount ministry in the church, This is because everything that God will do on earth depends on the operation of His word. The creation was accomplished with the word spoken and according to the unknown writer of the Epistles to the Hebrews, God continues to sustain the world by His word, the omnipotent word.
God esteemed the word so much that he uses it to affirm His integrity. He has exalted it above his name. This points to the fact that God will not say a word exempt He means it. He will not utter a word unless he is willing to see it to its logical conclusion. Every word spoken by God shall not return to him void. It continues to work until it has accomplished the intended purpose.
This is why every time we minister the word, it should be with all carefulness. Paul preached the word with fear and trembling at Corinth so that only God will be seen through whatever he said and so that only the intentions of God shall be established through whatever he disseminated.
When next you speak or preach the word let it be not with your clout behind it. While that has its place, it must much more be with the person of God and His grace behind it. When you are a King's emissary, His throne is behind the message unless your delivery is otherwise. God must be represented every time we speak.
If we represent Him in and with our delivery, expressing and interpreting only His thoughts and intentions; it must then be done with exactness - without falling for sensational speculations that goes beyond what the Lord says to fly what the man thinks or likes. It must also be done with the grace that God supplies so that the message shall be a divine oracle and not human manipulations; it must be dome with faith in Him who sent us that there shall be a performance of what He has spoken through us.
Our efforts in the ministry of the word must be with honour for the word and with faith which rests on God's grace and ability for the word to be confirmed in the lives of those that God sends us to.
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