I recently listened to a message by John Osteen. He was preaching at Kenneth E. Hagin’s 1981 Campmeeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I attended many of those meetings in those days … the Campmeetings in Tulsa and the Bible Seminars on the Rhema Bible Training Center campus in Broken Arrow. Many reading this may recognize the name John Osteen as belonging to Joel Osteen’s father. He was the pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. I miss him. Well, I miss Kenneth E. Hagin also. I thought it would be good to share with you the main points from this 1981 message from John Osteen. He taught on how to have your ministry grow and develop. He gave these seven points patterned after the Apostle Paul:

1: Make much of your first experience of meeting the Master, the Lord Jesus

2: Begin where you are

3: Be faithful in your Jerusalem – your beginning

4: Be faithful in the silent years when nobody seems to notice you and the dream seems forgotten

5: Trust God to bring a breakthrough

6:Promotion comes when God sees you’re ready

7: Stay full of the Holy Ghost and don’t copy other people, but follow the Holy Ghost