Excitement was great as the 2024 Ministers’ Conference continued at 3:00pm on Tuesday evening, September 10, 2024. Beginning with a soul-lifting praise session led by the NBTS Ogbomoso Praise Team; the NBTS Ogbomoso Deputy President Academics – Rev. Prof Olusayo B. Oladejo presided over the evening session. Rev. Dr. Diran Adeleke of Orita-Mefa Baptist Church, Ibadan, led in a powerful prayer session tagged “Let me Fulfill My Call.”   Colossians 4:17 and First Timothy 4:12 were the basis for four prayer points: First to appreciate God for calling ministers into ministry; Second, that God in His mercy will make ministers’ ministry blameless both before God and the congregations the ministers serve (II Corinthians 6:1-4). Thirdly, conferees prayed that their ministry will be approved by God and received by men (Romans 15:31); and fourthly, that all will be error-free ministers of the Gospel, thereby ending well ministerially in Jesus’ Name.

A key event during the evening session of day two of the programme was the Revival Hour led by Rev. ‘Segun Ayuba of Praise Baptist Church, Sango-Ota. The Revival Hour was tagged ‘Living in the Fulfilment of the Call.’ Bible texts read included Isaiah 45:1-5; Psalm 78:70-72; Romans 8:28; and John 15:14-16. The revival preacher, Rev. ‘Segun Ayuba emphasized the following ‘quotable quotes’ among other points:

• Skills, proper management, and gaining of mastery in ministry are significant.
• Grace is location sensitive.
• You cannot excel in the ministry God gave you if you can’t master it.
• Excellence is key in whatever we do.
• Skill mastery is the fundamental requirement to fulfill any dream.
• Learning is reigning (If you don’t know it, learn it. Excellence can be learned, and so can skills).
• The level of your intake determines your impact; so it is that your coverage is determined by your consumption.
• If you don’t have any knowledge, you can’t have an edge anywhere.
• God doesn’t give a gift without giving the capacity of its possession to the recipient.
• God doesn’t just give fruits, He gives seeds.
• Your output is a function of skills and capacity.
• No leader has the right to condemn that which wasn’t commended;
• when you lack structure, you lack treasures;
• Faithfulness is the bedrock of fruitfulness.
• Every saint has his past, every sinner has a future.
• God looks at the heart.
• Beware of making a lot of noise and no talking; speaking but not having a voice.
• The devil attacks people not because of them but because of fruit they will produce.
• ‘Nothing sinks a man like sin. When you sin, you sink.’

Rev. Ayuba concluded the charge with the point that God looks at the pastor as an agent to bring transformation to their nation – in this case, Nigeria. Pastors should be

skillful, open to learning, and lead excellently – whether in crisis or peaceful moments. The NBTS Ogbomoso President’s statement was reechoed that “An excellent leader doesn’t leave his responsibilities because of crises, neither is comfort a measurement of assuming a responsibility”.

Rev. Ayuba further expatiated that in addition to Jesus, there are others to learn from and that

God gives ministers POWER to work:
P – People: God gives people lest the minister be poor.

O – Opportunities;

W – Work;

E – Excellence;

R – Relationships: He explained, if you have 99% anointing and 1% administrative skills, you can still fail. If you lose structure, you lose treasures, he warned.

Prayer Points raised are as follows:

Father, hold my right hand, all through my ministerial journey

Father, subdue nations before me.

Father, give me grace to go far in ministry in Jesus’ name.

The session continued as participants departed to witness for Christ in the neighborhood.

Oluwafunmibi Caleb FEHINTOLA

for NBTS Advancement Centre