As God continues to reform the Body of Christ, it is critical for local churches and leaders to set up rules and protocol that will govern their churches. Many local churches are going through problems because they have not set a standard for their household (church/ministry). The following are keys of wisdom for Pastors and Leaders.

1. Never go into another Pastor’s church and recruit people from their church to build up whatever you are planning. Furthermore, do not give out prophetic words to those members and collect seed/offering from them to do so; you are in fact stealing from another man’s house!




2. Local Church Pastors must ensure that when visiting Pastors are allowed in, any private prophetic word given by them to their members must be done in the presence of one of your Pastors or Ministers.

3. Always use one of your strongest Ministers whom you can trust to carry out armor bearer functions for or to give assistance to the visiting Pastor. By doing so, you might avoid church splits and problems ahead.

4. Recognize that many Pastors who go to other Pastor’s churches to preach, they moment they walk in, they are hit with envy and jealousy at what they see. As a result, they begin to find faults, ways and means to undermine the host Pastor(s) and engage in issuing their personal contact information to the members, befriend them and then pull them out! When a Preacher comes into your ‘house’ he/she is also subject to your authority and the rules of the house. Most local Pastors don’t have rules, hence what they have built and labored for in the ministry can be torn down in a day.

5. One of the roles of a shepherd is to ensure that you protect the flock. Hence, there are certain parts of the household that must be off limits to any visiting Minister.

6. Not everyone that comes in is about souls or is interested in edifying the Body. Most often they are about power, money and boosting their religious resume. It is very important for you as the local Pastor to teach your flock about the difference between the Gifts and the Anointing.




7. Understand and accept the fact that visiting Pastors don’t grow a ministry. Prayer, Fasting, Evangelizing and Empowering do, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Many who come in don’t care one iota about your hard work to build the ministry. You as the Local Pastor have the right to eat the fruit of your labor. Many Pastors labor, but those with whom they have labored oftentimes neglect to be a blessing to their local Pastor(s). When you as the local Pastor believe that it is the visiting Pastor

8. Never invite a Pastor to minister to your church, or for spiritual covering because they are popular/famous. The kingdom is not about popularity and fame; it is about the Holy Spirit. Many seek for covering trying to get connected to big names, but through experience over the years, the majority of such Preachers and Leaders are only interested in their own ministry, not in yours. So while they have received favor, they do not extend such favor to others. When you encounter problems, you can hardly reach them for help. Many of them believe and teach that they don’t sow down, they sow up! Recognize that the Law of Seedtime and Harvest lets us know that every seed sown has to go down (into the earth) before it can come up! The fact that Jesus came and laid His life down for us, He sowed down and became poor for us to be rich! Think about this, when you literally look up what do you see above you? The sky! You never see soil above your head it is always below your feet! Soil is required for sowing, so the principles of life itself is that something must go down for something to come up!

9. Network with Pastors who are willing to pay their own fares to come and fellowship with you and pour into you. It doesn’t mean that you are not to take care of them and sow to them too; but those are often the ones with genuine motives.

10. Don’t seek spiritual covering only for the purposes of access and impartation to you! You can contribute in return even prayer and other kinds of support! Look for covering from those who will live holy. It’s not about the 20% (or however much it may be) that you would give to the covering ministry. Covering is a dual relationship – support goes both ways.

11. Always seek the Lord when establishing fellowship, relationship and networking. There are different levels. Remember, there are many out there in the fields with titles and titles can be bought. Many out there have split churches and were operating rebelliously and without being under any authority. Don’t watch the gift, watch the fruit!

For further measures of wisdom on this topic, get a copy of the book Man, Money, Ministry by Apostle Steve Lyston.