You won’t look to be NOTARIZED when you know you have already been AUTHORIZED and DEPUTIZED to do the work of the ministry.

I was walking the dog this morning and the Lord and I were discussing the narrative of the nations. This led to a phrase from the Lord and a discussion about people’s need to be notarized. Pastor Dustin Smith says to us as a church all the time, “we were not created for fame”. Living in Nashville, the place where people come to become famous in the music industry, those are fighting words, but they are the truth.

Ministry in the church has become about being celebrity Christians, people love the notoriety. The challenge is, notoriety is the seed of idolatry and we know very well what the Bible says about idolatry. Jealousy, jockeying for positions, titles and microphones; platforms, stages and pulpits; it is prevelant in the church today and it reveals that we don’t know what we have been given.

Psalm 115 says, “Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to Your name give glory because of Your faithful love, because of Your truth.” The only famous one is Yahweh, the only one worthy of glory, honor, power and praise is God alone. We are not made for notoriety, but we have been given authority. Jesus said in Mark 16, “And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

People who want to be notarized, don’t recognize they have been authorized to do the work of the ministry. Once you know who you are as an ambassador of Christ (2 Cor. 5) then you will walk in the truth that you have also been deputized (Matthew 28) to go into all the world and make disciples of nations. We were not made for notoriety, we were made to carry authority and we have been deputized to do it. Stop seeking notoriety and start manifesting authority, this is what you were made for.