An Introduction to ‘Follow Me’ Ministries
The Ministry & Its Purpose
By John Marquez
Follow Me Ministries’ was birthed in March, 2011. Its purpose is: to enhance the training that the risen Lord Jesus (Yeshua) the Messiah of Israel, gives to His personal New Covenant disciples. We will endeavor to serve those that received His call to this level of discipleship by providing Bible-based instruction and training material geared to ‘garden’, expedite and protect their ongoing, interactive, fruit-bearing relationship with Him.
We firmly believe and endorse the statement of John the Baptist (the Immerser) that the apostle John recorded in his Gospel:
“He (God’s living Word made flesh) must increase, but I must decrease.” (Jn. 3:30)
We’ll strive to follow that guideline as we contribute to the spiritual wellbeing of serious followers of our Lord. And as we all encounter and face and try to deal with the challenges and needs that the realities of our times will impose on us all, we’ll sharpen our focus on our Master and wait upon Him to teach us His ways so that we can walk in them…under the shadow of His ‘wings’.
The days in which we are living will become ever more perilous and challenging, to say the least. And as the Faith is severely assailed, our personal faith will be shaken and put to extreme tests. That’s why we need training that can effectively deepen our spiritual maturity and nourish and strengthen the roots of our abiding sense of trust in God and purify and intensify our obedience to His commands and directions. Such high stakes training will specialize in developing a living, interactive relationship with our indwelling Lord that all those called to discipleship have the opportunity and privilege to pursue and engage in, should they choose to do it.
Turbulent dangerous times require disciples to develop a military-level focus and discipline leading to the development of a unique set of skills that will enable them to maintain continual interaction with their indwelling Master. He will equip and empower them to overcome personal attacks, severe temptation, doubts, fear and even painful betrayals. They must be trained to operate faithfully and fruitfully as they draw from the perfection of His presence, amid all types of excruciating, gut-wrenching circumstances. These are some of the matters we hope to address, in the hope of making positive, effective, eternally beneficial contributions to the Lord’s Body on Earth.
Taking the World’s Pulse
No doubt you’ve noticed how unstable and dangerous our world has become. What seemed like a granite-solid foundation sustaining the world system is being mercilessly exposed. Now we see that it is nothing more than a crumbling façade. And more of mankind’s false gods have shown their true colors. Instead of leading their believers to abundant life, their false, deceptive claims have dragged billions into chaos and abysmal poverty, destruction, pain and death! Terror that is generated by lust for power and control and greed and maniacal treachery and myopic destructive, self-defeating selfishness, are the legacy these false gods leave in our midst.
And because virulent opposition to God’s Biblical revelation is rapidly increasing; so also is violent persecution against those that believe and love the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and who seek to obey and proclaim His Word. It is for such a level of spiritual combat that modern day disciples must be trained, equipped and prepared.
“See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, ‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.’
“This expression, ‘Yet once more,’ denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a Kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire!” (Heb. 12:25-29 NASB)
So Where Are the Disciples?
While all this shaking takes place, what about the multiple millions of ‘believers’? It’s obvious that Darkness is enshrouding the world. So shouldn’t the Lord’s Light in us be getting brighter and even more obvious and penetrating? Should we not be changing supernaturally in correspondingly positive, productive God-glorifying ways? Should we not be emerging into ‘City on a hill’ prominence? Yes, of course we should!
But do you see much of that happening within you and all around you? If you don’t, is it because God is incapable or unreliable? Is it because He’s betraying us? Or could it be that there are things in us and about us that keep getting in His way… something about us that creates separation between our Master and ourselves that keeps ‘breaking the connection’ and cutting us off from God’s Almighty Power?
Can we assume that we’ve ‘arrived’, that we know everything and have no further need to learn and grow? Should we settle for our present status quo level of world-impact? Isn’t it true that portions of Christendom have become smug, self-serving and self-satisfied? Isn’t it true that some portions have even sided with the enemies of God’s Word? And isn’t it true that other segments have pulled back entirely from the conflict…and have retired into silent irrelevance?
It’s time for God to begin dealing with those in this generation that claim to love and serve Him. It’s time for us all to be pierced, penetrated and impregnated by the Resurrection Life of our risen Messiah and stimulated into increased spiritual maturity, growth, depth and skill so that we can glorify God even amid gut-wrenching adversity.
Most of the world knows about us. They have a variety of more or less incomplete or warped assumptions concerning our Faith and our claims. But why do so many of us lack Truth-validating spiritual Spirit-empowered authority? Are we not in dire need of God’s authority and power to validate and back our claims? But do we have it? Is it happening? Isn’t it true that the attention and interests of many among the younger generations have lost interest in God’s Word and in our Faith? Isn’t it true that the cynical, jaded, humanistic world is moving in directions that veer away from us? And does this situation not call for disciples that are trained and equipped to fulfill this God-given command?
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good!” (Rom. 12:21)
How many ‘believers’ are actually spiritually, mentally and emotionally equipped to usher in ‘The Light of the World’? Doesn’t it take Spirit-inflamed, God-endorsed disciples to do that…disciples that are worthy of the name? Where are they? Why are they not emerging and entering the Arena of Testimony to bring our Master’s Light and Truth into the increasing Darkness? Our current conditions have emerged due to a vacuum that has been created, a disciple vacuum. For centuries, Christendom has lost its sense of direction regarding the authentic Biblically-revealed training and development of disciples. We obviously have not understood what the Lord actually had in mind when He gave these disciple-making orders to His original Jewish disciples and apostles before ascending into Heaven:
“…All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations (disciple the gentiles), baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Mt. 28:18-20 Emphasis added.)
We interpret this in many ways and call it, ‘The Great Commission’. But do we really grasp what the risen Lord meant when He said ‘disciple the gentiles’ and ‘baptize (immerse) them in(to) the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’ and ‘teach them to observe all I commanded you’ , and ‘I am with you always’? Have we really taken His orders to heart and carried them out with authentic ‘image and likeness’ disciple-level precision? Do we really believe His promise to be with us at all times and think, act, react and interact as if He really is with us?
Most of us think He was speaking of evangelism, in terms of the ‘Ask Jesus into your life’, and ‘Join a church’, Gospel-spreading techniques that have become so popular in modern times. But none of the contemporary mindsets and practices that are so normal to us, even existed in our Lord’s day. Obviously neither the Lord nor His disciples understood what He was saying the way we do in our modern day suburban, well-heeled contexts. Yes, God wants His people to ‘spread the Gospel’ to be sure. But He was talking about a very different Gospel. He was talking about what His Father has always had in mind. And that goes much deeper and is vastly more heart-penetrating than what most modern day people could even imagine. People that are alive today have yet to see what He really had in mind to deal with the needs of Sin-corrupted, fallen human beings.
The Lord was preparing His original Jewish apostles to do something that, to Jews of that day, would have been inconceivable. He was preparing them to lead the repentant portions of the Gentile World into a New Covenant lifestyle that would make even the Jewish world jealous! (See Gen. 12:3 and Rom. 11:11-14) He was ordering them to get ready to start engrafting Gentiles into the Root of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Root into which He, the living Word of God, and Messiah and Son of David had first brought the original fathers of Israel! Now He was with them…to establish and begin the New Covenant era that would finally usher in the fulfillment of that ancient world-saving Root!
He was getting them ready to teach even the pagan Gentile world to serve and interact with Him just the way He, (God’s living Word) had taught them and the rest of their Israelite brethren to serve and interact with Him! He was saying: “Teach the rest of Israel and the Gentile world to live and interact with Me exactly as I taught Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses…and you…to live and interact with Me! That is what I taught you. So now go and teach and demonstrate what that is…to the whole world!”
This bears repeating: He was preparing His New Covenant disciples to start preparing themselves for the era of the ultimate restoration and New Covenant fulfillment of God’s original ‘image and likeness’ blueprint specifications for all of humanity! God sent His Word after fallen Adam and Eve in the Garden, to cover their Sin-corrupted nakedness and reconcile and reunite them to Himself. And God’s Word was also sent to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their descendants, from generation to generation, to carry forward and complete this reconciliation and restoration with the rest of the world. And in the day of the first century disciples, the Word made flesh, was preparing them to introduce and multiply the post-Resurrection, New Covenant fulfillment of that original ‘image and likeness’ level of humanity. So He had much more in mind than a recruiting campaign that would invite Sin-corrupted people to shop and pick and choose something they would like, from a vast buffet-like variety of self-pampering, man-made religous organizations, theologies and traditions!
Do Our Current Lifestyles Fulfill the Lord’s Orders?
Ponder this: If the living Word of God were actually here with us today… revealing His ways and explaining the true, authentic meaning of God’s written Word, from Genesis to Revelation…would the true meaning of what God really meant by the term, ‘image and likeness’ correspond to the way we are and mirror what we do in our modern era? Or would His words upend all the money-laden tables and ‘bulldoze’ and expose the ‘Jesus as You Like Him Buffet’ into which Christendom has evolved, with it myriads of competing self-serving entrees of sects, theologies, man-made traditions and practices that controlling men have stubbornly invented over the centuries? It is much more likely that rather than endorsing and approving what we are doing, His words would stab and expose many of us with God’s chilling Truth…and we would all be utterly overwhelmed and stunned…and silenced!
(And by the way, thanks to the Gift of the Holy Spirit who is here to make God’s living and written Word real and alive and abundantly fruitful in and through us, we actually do have the privilege of being able to sit at our Master’s feet and interact with Him in the perfection of His Resurrection Presence. Yes…He really is here with us…to explain, provide, protect, correct, discipline and guide us. Only most of us don’t know it or believe it…yet.)
The Disciple ‘Job Description’
Modern disciples have the same job description the Lord’s first century Jewish disciples had as we see revealed in Scripture. This is what they did:
- They lived with our Master day and night and knew Him intimately.
- They lived with each other as His personal family members.
- They waited on our Lord and on each other and memorized our Lord’s words and embodied His teachings.
- They followed His understanding and interpretation of the Scriptures.
- They learned to reproduce His Spirit-led actions and lifestyle.
- They transformed into His living image and likeness.
- They allowed apprentice disciples to watch them interact with our Lord so they could learn to be and do with our Lord what they saw the veterans being and doing with Him.
- After His Ascension and their reception of the gift of the Holy Spirit, He became their indwelling Life. And because they denied their lives, so that He could live His Life from within them, they served as His embodiment on the Earth. And He continued to produce His fruit, as only the living creative Word of God could do, through their obedient faith and crucified flesh.
The disciple job description never changes. The Lord Himself has to teach His own. He does it on a ‘Watch Me…now you’ basis. He, the living Word of God, is the Source of whatever is real, true and good. He is the one and only ‘Head’ of each disciple. Each disciple shares in the life and activity of the Head. Each disciple embodies the Head…in the midst of a spiritually ‘decapitated’ world. The Head goes first, and His living members follow. That’s what makes His disciples, ‘The Light of the World’.
After their Lord and Head ascended physically into Heaven, the originals had to learn to live with Him and ‘under Him’…in a radically new way…the New Covenant, Spirit-filled way. Formerly they had lived with Him in the flesh, by sight, sound and feelings. They watched Him do what His Father sent Him to do from a few feet away. But now they had to learn to live with Him in the Holy Spirit, believing He was actually now IN them…by supernatural faith! After His Resurrection and Ascension, they had to learn to allow God’s living Word to continue to obey His Father and fulfill the written Word and heal the sick, free the captives and raise the dead just as He had done before His death. But now, He was going to do what He had done…to them…and from within them…and through them!
And that’s exactly how we too must learn to live and interact with our Master. Yes, we can and must learn to live and interact with Him like that. And despite what many of us think, we’re not at a disadvantage. A most wonderful improvement has been made…the New Covenant improvement that gives us a tremendous advantage! The Lord Himself said:
“…I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” (Jn. 16:7)
Yes, God’s Holy Spirit is our wonderful Advantage. Now we don’t have to be in any certain place at any certain time. We don’t need special gurus or mediators or religious ‘go-betweens’ to connect us with our Master. The Holy Spirit connects us to Him and to the Father that sent Him. Now we can know God directly, personally, at an incredible level of intimacy, anytime, anywhere – by the Holy Spirit’s power and the supernaturally obedient faith in God’s Word that He transmits into us. We’re never bogged down by the limitations of space, time, religion or natural human weaknesses and limitations. Now, none of that matters. The risen Messiah is with us always! And He never changes…He’s always infinite, eternal, present, perfect and All-Sufficient! And His agenda has never changed nor will it ever change. He is still determined to transform His own Covenant friends…into His own living image and likeness!
But this lifestyle requires special training to equip us to live it out authentically and effectively. It’s not going to work in ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ type people. It will only work through the obedience of faith type people (Rom. 1:5: 16:26). We will see it when we actually believe it! Christendom has lost sight of this unchanging spiritual fact over the centuries. But this is what the Follow Me Ministry will focus on – assisting those that are called to discipleship…to abide in Him by faith in His absolute credibility…so that He can teach us Himself…and restore this tremendous New Covenant treasure to His people…and prepare us to meet the unprecedented challenges the coming days are going to be forcing upon us.
This ministry will strive to help you cooperate with the Lord so that He can ‘garden’ your faith and deepen your understanding and teach you His ways. We won’t try to get you to place your expectations on yet another man-made ministry, or another collection of material, or get you to chase after this or that charismatic personality. No…everything will focus your attention and energy to – living with and from…the risen Lord of Glory Himself, as He shows us how to do it, through Scripture…and in Person!
The Mother of All Reality-Shifts!
Try to imagine the wonder of having this awesome living Word that proceeds from the mouth of God, coming to you. Suddenly He picks you out of the crowd, pierces you with His eyes and penetrates and impregnates your innermost being with these words:
“FOLLOW ME!”
What an awesome summons! What a mind-shattering invasion! The one that is ALL in all to the entire universe, initiates a relationship with you that will be so deep, vast and loving that nothing else could ever comprehend or duplicate it. The Creator of all things invites you, an insignificant, tiny human, into an eternal love-union with Him! And what an enormous, gut-wrenching reality-shift that will cause in you! Try to imagine being eternally linked – Spirit to spirit – with the living Word of the Living God! What will that lead to? What explosive transformations will He make in you? What will He give to you in exchange as He strips away your former, radically independent, self-adoring existence? And what kind of future eternal inheritance will He now begin to equip and reconfigure you for…and stimulate you to grow into?
If God should call you to be His own, could you ever forget about it and go back to what you were before He pierced, penetrated and impregnated you with His proposal? And even if you tried, would you not be a marked man or woman forever? Yes indeed! You’d never be the same. That call, once you hear it, will burn the risen Messiah’s white-hot ‘brand’ deep into your soul and you’ll be marked and set apart forever as one of those that Almighty God has chosen to be – HIS! After He calls you, nothing short of being His will ever be able to satisfy or fulfill you from that point on!
Since Creation began, God’s Word has been summoning humans in this way. If they obey, He interacts with them at an intensely personal, intimate level. He reveals Himself to them in progressively overwhelming stages. But more than that, as their relationship with Him deepens, He begins to reveal Himself to others, through their circumstances and situations and by the way He radiates out from within the spirit, soul and body of each disciple! Each one serves as one of His ‘points of entry’ into this world. Once they enthrone Him as Lord and Master in their hearts, His Authority and Power begin to touch people and situations around them. And God reveals Himself all across the earth, through His Word’s enormously privileged, honored and very wise disciples!
“Thus says the LORD: ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool.Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being,’ declares the LORD. But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at MY WORD!” (Isa. 66:1-2)
“So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work, for His good pleasure.” (Phil. 2:12-13)
Who Trains Christ’s Disciples?
Disciples must maintain continuous, directly interactive contact with the Master Himself. No one can make a disciple for the Lord Jesus. Nothing can substitute for His living, dynamic, interactive Presence. He calls us to follow Him. And He promised that He would be with us always. Not only that, but He has actually made it possible for us to abide with Him continuously. So why would we allow anything or anyone to get between Him and us?
So we need adequate training that will enable us to avail ourselves of this tremendous privilege and treasure. The world doesn’t need us…it needs Him! And we do not need substitutes for Him. We need Him too! For us, nothing short of Him will do. If He doesn’t train us Himself, our lives as disciples can’t be Biblically authentic nor will He be able to produce His fruit in and through us. If we’re not in direct touch with Him, any ‘fruit’ that may appear will not actually be His, nor will it last or avail into eternity (1 Cor. 3:10-17). Nothing can be allowed to come between a vine and its branches. If that happens, the branches will die and the vine will not be able to live and produce its fruit through those branches. And that’s how it is with the risen Lord and His disciples. Nothing can be allowed to stand between Him and us:
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.” (Jn. 15:4-8)
True disciples prove they’re the authentic embodiment of the Resurrection Presence of their Master. They do it by bearing the supernatural ‘fruit’ that only He is able to produce in and through them. That’s why they MUST learn to abide with Him through Spirit-empowered faith…even in naturally impossible circumstances! This is the target at which the Follow Me Ministry will aim its efforts. It will make an ever-growing library of training material available for those that desire to deepen their understanding and develop the skill and discipline needed to actually begin to live out this utterly essential, irreplaceable, ‘Vine and branches’ lifestyle with and from our risen Lord.
But the essential ‘tool’ is not any human creation. It won’t be any ministry or set or materials or created device. The essential tool for true disciple life is the loving, personal, interactive relationship in our everyday life situations that each disciple must develop with his or her risen Master. He is the only true Disciple Trainer! The uncreated Word of the living God Himself is what we really need. Only He can do and provide what we need to know and only He can transform our fallen human flesh into what God knows we must become, while there is still time for that to happen.
And He will do it…as soon as we wake up and begin to believe and acknowledge His living Presence in and among us…and allow Him to demonstrate that He really is operating from deep within us! That is the only tool that will effectively allow Him to produce fruit in and through us. It is the only tool that we can’t do without. Without His living Presence in us and among us, we’ll never grab hold of His living Reality nor will we be able to feed upon Him and live and bear His authentic fruit as New Covenant disciples.
Do you see any need in this ‘decapitated’ world for a fresh new revelation of mankind’s true ‘Head’? The Serpent is succeeding in separating multiple billions from their true Head, the Word of God. So does the world need the true, living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to reveal once more, the Glory of His loving, Life-giving Word? Do you see any need for true, authentic, Spirit-filled people that can actually share the Divine Presence that God has entrusted to their care? Do you see any need to overcome demonic evil with the awesome GOOD that God’s Living indwelling Word is here to be to us, for us and through us? Do you know anyone that is hurting and hopelessly desperate and totally stuck? Are there people around you that have no awareness of the Living God? Do they need to know how much He loves and cherishes them and how passionately He desires to get their attention, draw them to Himself and bring them back to life from among the living dead? If you see a need for Him to be able to reach out to them – then you see a need for trained disciples. They’re the ones through whom God does what must be done for this lost, ‘Serpent-decapitated’ grief-stricken world.
Who Could Possibly Live Like This?
God doesn’t choose and train disciples because they’re so gifted and exceptionally superior to everyone else. He doesn’t choose them because they’re ‘hip’ or ‘tech savvy’ or employ the latest, most effective ‘marketing techniques’. He chooses them precisely because they are crucified to all of that. He chooses people that are so ordinary, typical and weak that everyone would immediately know that what is happening has to be from God, and certainly not from them! God’s ways are contrary to the world’s ways. Worldly religious people think in ‘decapitated’ ways, from self-centered perspectives. So they look to created things as their sources. They idolize things that men devise and put together, assuming they thus have what it takes to do everything for God and to be like God.
But in the Kingdom of Heaven, God works through His Son’s image and likeness…the crucified disciples that have no other option but to depend on God to do everything on man’s behalf. And so when supernatural things begin to happen to and through these ordinary, simple, weak disciples, everyone around them can see that what is happening before their eyes is not about them nor does it originate with them. They can see that the marvels taking place are coming from the Head to which they have been attached…the Living God…whose Word is present and creating astounding things…in and through these trusting, obedient, Spirit-empowered little people. When that can be seen…it gets the attention of the rest of the world like nothing else could!
“For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are…” (1 Cor. 1:26-28)
“For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God!” (1 Cor. 2:2-5)
God gives some awesome revelation throughout the entire Bible. Here it is:
Every command He gives to the human race is totally supernatural and utterly beyond our ability to fulfill in our own strength or by any human devices!
Many don’t understand that God’s standards are absolutely impossible for us to satisfy because in ourselves, we are Sin-corrupted, and incredibly weak, vulnerable and powerless. We forget, that as soon as Adam and Eve rejected and bypassed God’s living Word, the Serpent decapitated them! They and their offspring died! And dead people can’t do anything that lives. Most modern ‘self-actualizing’ people can’t begin to fathom what this means. Nor do we understand the enormity and overpowering glory of God’s supremacy, preeminence, holiness and righteousness and utter integrity and purity. There is nothing in us Sin-corrupted humans that could compare to the eternal Life and Glory that abide in Him! The comparison blows fallen human flesh away and exposes and forever discredits it. And after that realization hits home, all we can say is ‘O God have mercy on me, a sinner!’
How could we expect the perfect God to accept those that reject or ignore, or deviously warp and disfigure His beloved living Word? Most modern people do not have a clue about what the Serpent has done to us, nor are they able, in their ‘Head-less’ state to understand or view or know God as He really is. We are spiritually blind and self-centered and humanistic. We can only see and think and react in arrogant, self-centered, self-righteous ways. We assume everything has to be about us and the way we perform. But consider this: in the very first gospel account given in the New Testament apostolic section of the Bible, when the Lord first begins His public ministry of reconciliation, regeneration and restoration as the long-awaited Messiah of Israel, this is the very first thing He said:
“Blessed are the poor (bankrupt) in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven!” (Mt. 5:3)
The most wonderfully liberating truth is this: once we hear God’s Word and obey His command to exchange our unreal, radically independent life for the eternal resurrection life of His Son, we are no longer ‘Head-less’! We’re united to God’s living Word and He is then free to live and operate from within us, by the Power of God’s Holy Spirit. When we obey and allow God’s Living Word to be our new, eternal Life…He is free to obey God from within us…in our name. God Himself obeys His own commands and meets His own perfect standards from within us! He does everything necessary…in and through the Authority of His Word and the Power of His Holy Spirit. And the crucified, totally dependent on God disciples embody this glorious reality!
This is the Heavenly, other-worldly lifestyle of New Covenant disciples. And that’s what the Follow Me material will try to unpack and help believers to practice…so that everything can be about God’s Living Word in us. Disciples must be trained to get out of God’s way and REST and rejoice in the utter perfection of their Master’s finished work. That’s why He must increase and everything else must decrease…until He is ALL…in all of us! And when we acknowledge Him and give Him the true place only He deserves to occupy, He will be our infinite, eternal Blessing. And that Blessing will contain our God-given Salvation, Ability, Perfection, Value, Protection, Authority and Triumph!
More material will be added to this website on a regular basis in the days to come. If you visit regularly, you’ll find more and more things to think and pray over that pertain to disciple life. Extraordinary times and challenges require extraordinary disciples. And they require specialized training, preparation and equipping. So if any of this appeals to you, and you know you’ve received the Lord’s call to be His disciple, then the first ministry I founded, the Christ-Life Ministry, and this new Follow Me Ministry and their combined materials and tools, will no doubt be a blessing to you.
The Follow Me ministry is a sister ministry to Christ-Life (The Ultimate Journey). The two will work like a ‘one-two punch’, for the same disciple-training purpose. If you are not yet familiar with Christ-Life and the sterling reputation it has been earning since 1991, visit the website: www.christlifesolution.org. The staff will answer your questions and help you get started.
Follow Me Ministries is part of a non-profit, tax exempt organization, The Hope of Zion Congregation (Adat HaTikvat Tzion). ‘Adat’ is a congregation of Messianic Jews and Gentiles that worship and follow our Lord together, as one New Man in Messiah. The Adat congregation believes in, benefits from and promotes the Christ-Life Ministry and its Ultimate Journey disciple training venue. And it has also embraced this new Follow Me Ministry and has welcomed it into its official corporate congregational matrix. For your information, this website provides a link to Adat’s website.
If you think this Follow Me endeavor has merit and would help to enhance the ongoing building up of our Lord’s Body on Earth, and perhaps benefit you in your understanding of and relationship with our risen Lord, then please consider joining our team. Your intercession, input and financial contributions will help us finish the task that has been entrusted to us. You can use the contribution link provided on this website, or mail your tax-deductible gifts, feedback, input and other correspondence to:
Follow Me Ministries
P.O. Box 540826
Omaha, NE 68154-0826
In His service, and yours,
John