The person who births you into ministry is not always the person who should cover your ministry!

[Pastor Wayne Allen]

I excepted my calling under a well known Pastor in this area. I served faithfully under their leadership as youth minister for 3 1/2 years. As God began opening my understanding of spiritual giftings and charismatic ministry through much prayer and fasting God unctioned me to transition. This was only after going to my leader and asking him to help me to understand more in depth spiritual things. He then referred me to another local charismatic Pastor for guindance and understanding. After much criticism, and humiliation from my home church God placed me under a younger but wiser Pastor. "I truly feel that as a man or women of God it is very important regardless of what the Pastors says you shouldn't do, handle God's people with care. Make it known publicly that you are not leaving on bad terms or with an attitude, this is to help guard your ministry from assumptions and false accusations. Also, make sure you have heard God and not your flesh. Sometimes flesh can be speaking louder then our spirit when you maybe spiritually uncomfortable. Wait on God, be obedient and faithful where God has planted you, Pray earnestly and love and serve your leader and ministry with patience and diligence, and let him open the door. When you do this you will have no regrets, and people will not be able to discourage you into thinking you have done something wrong or out of order.
My new Pastor helped to cultivate and mature my spiritual gifts. Where I was once before shunned and criticized because of my giftings.
I really feel it is important for Pastors and Leaders to be humble enough to admit when they have taking a man or woman of God as far as they can take them, and be able to recognize the next level call of ministry God maybe taking them to, without scrutiny or judgement.
Needless to say after serving 3 years at this next ministry my Pastor told me when it was time for me to Pastor. He spoke release on my life and gave impartations. And he is my spiritual covering, he not only covered our ministry financially starting out for the entire first year, but also supports us by actively participating in events and functions that our church holds. And what a blessing he has been.

[Pastor Wayne Allen]

God bless you bro. It is truly a blessing.I appreciate your response minister Luckett. I have been Pastoring now for 2 years and it is great knowing that I don't have to second guess whether it was God. When it is your time bro you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt. And I did start my own ministry, but with my Pastors support. We spent 1 year in a storefront building paying $650 a month for 4 rooms. After 1 year we bought a 6,500 sft building on 3 acres for 51K paying $430 a month. God is super good especially when you wait your time. Now don't get me wrong I found myself getting anxious a time or two but my Pastor was honest with me and told me he did not think it was time yet. He never tried to hold me back but he was totally honest with me that God was going to maturing my kids, prepare my wife, grow me in some more areas before it would be a total peace for my realease. Recieve that bro. timing is everything keep being faithful bro.
God bless

[Pastor Wayne Allen]

I honor your faithfulness minster Luckett, It is going to happen and you will know it especially if you are already feeling the tug. Don't be afraid to expose yourself to other ministries as well. It is good to see how protocol is handle in other ministries. Have you been getting any opportunies to preach at other places? And do you get opportunites at home to preach? If not thats ok. Just pray that God will begin opening doors for you to preach just for practice purposes. Main thing is be comfortable in your lane. Be the best Rev. Luckett you can be and God will annoint that. I have learned people are drawn to Jakes and Noel Jones because of the distinct annointing that is on there lives. The same thing happens when you start Pastoring. They are drawn to your personality and swagger. Do you bro. Nobody else can!

[Pastor Wayne Allen]

That's good Rev. Luckett that you are gettting opportunities to preach. Many ministers get 1 time a year. Be thankful bro. I too got plenty of opportunities to minister at various churches on Sunday mornings as well as at my home church. Keep in mind that preaching is just a small part of pastoring. Theres counseling, theres worship service, theres outreach and having vision for God's people. Many pastors I think are carrying the Pastor title but are actually evangelist. But because of salaries, prestige, honor, etc. Ministers except pastorate responsiblities and as a result the people suffer. Where there is no vision the people perish.
Start imagining yourself pastoring a group of kids what would you tell them? What kind of things would you have to do to get them to understand your vision? Defintely not saying I or anbody else is pastoring children but sometimes in planted churches you sometimes end up with members who have never been in church before and you are the first person that shows them what ministry and church is all about. Also learn as much about church finances and how things are handled that you can. Because often times you and your wife may become overseers starting out of the financial aspect of ministry also. Just some things to be thinking about.
God bless you bro.

[Rev. Eric Culberson Jr.]

Interesting Luckett, when I first began public preaching we had a fellowship and I got some wrods of wisdom from the visiting pastor he told me (he was a country preacher from Texas where he grew up in a church pastored by his daddy) that he never left his pastor alone after services. He stayed until his pastor was ready to leave the church. I took that to heart and did the same, it made for long days sometime but you are absolutly correct in that you will glean SO much from him if you just make yourself avalible. So I to am the one my pastor looks to for a lot. We dont have a Assistant Pastor but we have what we call the ministers fourm to which I am the head and it is my job to have the eye out on the other associates and make sure that i am aware of what is going on with them. And if they aint got it together he looking at me to find out whats going on, blessing and a burden though cause sometime Im getting the funny looks when they acting up, but its all good because the trade off is im constanly gaing wisdom about the inner workings of overseeing the local church.

[Pastor Wayne Allen]

Lol ! Now that is funny!

[Pastor Wayne Allen]

To God be the glory, It was not easy going through it bro" but GOD!" Endured criticism even by fellow ministers about the transition. But it's just something about when you know it's God that you have an unexplainable peace of mind.
God bless you