John 1:1 (MSG);* The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one.

*THE WORD FIRST*
If you want to grow as a Christian, it can never be overemphasized that you must put the Word of God first. 
 

Putting the Word first means that it is the starting point in every aspect of your life.
Take for example when you awaken. What is the first thing you look for? Is it the messages that you received on WhatsApp while you slept? Is it how many likes your latest post on Facebook has acquired? How many people have commented on your latest photograph on Instagram?

Every new day is a gate. How you start it defines a lot about how you will spend the rest of it. If you start it with the Word, it lights the path of your day.
 

Another way to have the word first is to make it your source and not merely your reference. Some Christians merely refer to the Bible. They go to it to double-check particular points and how they resonate with their present circumstances.

What does it have to say about anxiety when they are feeling anxious? What does it have to say about healing when they feel pain in their bodies? 
 

Treating the Word of God as a reference means that you only visit it but you do not live in it.
 

Even to God, the Word was first. Creation was not possible without it. He went as far as exalting His Word above His very name

(Psalm 138:2).
I urge you to treat the Word with all the seriousness it deserves. Circumstances change when we give the Word priority; destinies are aligned when the Word is first.

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"For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars."  2 Chronicles 16:9(KJV)

*THE HEART OF THE MINISTER*

The size of a ministry is not measured by how large its congregation is or how big its building is.

The size of a ministry is measured by the heart of the minister. 
The heart is what God looks at before He uses anyone. The Bible says that His eyes roam throughout the earth searching for them whose heart is perfect toward Him. 

What kind of heart moves God to use a minister?

God responds to a heart that beats for souls. 

There are ministers of the gospel who are too concerned with what they have or do not have. They are looking at the machines they use in ministry, looking at the amount of collections they make every Sunday or looking at what is needed to complete that church building project.

Those are merely tools for service, they are not the heartbeat of ministry.
God is interested in the man or woman of God whose heart is on his people, on their spiritual growth, their zeal for the things of the Spirit and their attachment to kingdom purposes.

That is the kind of ministry that will grow and flourish because at its centre is what God desires--souls.