Welcome to the Raise to Deliver podcast with Vladimir Savchuk.

When you are saved, you are raised from a life of sin, bondage and darkness to a glorious new life in Christ Jesus.

The Holy Spirit will use this podcast to bring complete freedom and healing into your life,

as well as to equip you to bring his kingdom to those around you.

Let's dive into this episode.

Today in Romans chapter 1, verse 1, I want to share with you a verse that I hope will be

encouraging to you, especially those of you who are in leadership or in ministry.

Apostle Paul says, Paul, bond servant of Jesus Christ and an apostle

separated to the gospel. Three things I see there. One is that Paul was a servant before he was an

apostle.

Servant came before his calling, his title.

It's a challenge for all of us, I think, to remember that, number one, we have to pick up a towel before we grab a title.

A lot of times ministry, whether you're an apostle, leader, teacher, pastor, evangelist,

whatever that title is, that calling is, that is always second.

The first one is a servant. When we don't embrace the mindset,

the attitude of a servant, we don't embrace the motive of why we do what we do, which is to serve not just people, but serve the Lord. Ministry, serving, doing anything with the call of God is going to

quickly turn sour because ministry is not necessarily one of those things you go in to find

your validation, you find your identity, you find your affirmation, fix your daddy issues, or you find healing

for your emotional insecurities, ministry will expose all of that and put pressure on that.

And that's where most of us, we get penalized because our motives are not pure to start with.

We look to title, we look to position, but Paul says, first bond servant, I'm a servant first, apostle second.

You and I are first a servant, then a leader. First, a servant,

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