Thread by @GbengaWemimo

Pilot fishes are always swimming around a shark, feeding off the crumbs of the shark's meal
Some pilot fishes eat so much that they grow large enough in size for the shark to notice them, once this happens, that pilot feet becomes the next meal of the shark
That is nature for you

In ministry, there are many people who will be drawn to you as co-labourers
Some of them are attracted to your anointing
Some are drawn to your result
Some are drawn to the money they can get off you
You would invite some yourself, at the beginning when you're still trying to get

on your feet
Some of these people will be pilot fishes, they may wear suits and ties and carry the Bible in their hands or on their head
They are not really looking unto Jesus
You are their focus
No matter how much they pray or preach, you are the one they try to impress and they

expect you to notice and repay their loyalty in cash and kind
You will notice that when they are preaching they are calling your name in sixes and in sevens
"Brother G said that...
"Apostle Q said..."
or "Pastor Chris said that...
Or Daddy G. O said...
They have not developed a

personal relationship with the Holy Spirit
They have not really met the Lord as they ought to
You must not encourage your people to grow up this way
Raise Sharks, not pilot fishes
Encourage them to grow in fellowship until they know the Lord and are led by the Holy Spirit
Pay

attention to their growth, evolution, testimony and language
The language of a baby Christian is always different from the language of the matured ones
Don't mistake loyalty and ass-kissing for maturity
That a guy or lady is always kneeling and bowing to you does not mean he is

ready to be trusted with a position of authority
Learn from the mistakes of those who have gone ahead of you
I made a man a leader too soon some years ago, his reality nose-dived from that point
He began to manufacture miracles just to impress me and his standing with me
We had a

serious case
He came to me and the team and announced that he had handled it and the blind man whom he prayed with had regained his sight
Then he maliciously blocked this man and his mother from having access to me so that nobody will discover this lie
Some months later I met

The mother of this blind man and she had quite a lot to say
I was disappointed
By this time, everybody in the group he was leading had one thing or the other to say about him and his testimonies were always manufactured and conjured
It was obvious he was just posting falsehood

and had convinced himself that was the way to go
So I removed him from the group he was leading and he suddenly came up with the "God has called me to start my own ministry line"
What option then did I have?
He left and I moved on but he couldn't move on
Till today, he goes about

telling anyone with two ears how i was intimidated by his testimonies and progress
How I threw him out of the ministry out of jealousy or whatever
He has been at it for many months, the ministry was dead on arrival
His ego won't let him come back and learn and he hangs around one

the ministries i laboured to start for relevance
He is a pilot fish, he can only find relevance in the accomplishments of a shark
Even where he is, all he still does was cause trouble
I get reports every other week from their ministers and members of so many unchristlike conducts

and erratic behaviour
If you call him to a meeting, he will immediately start the "I am loyal sir", "I love you sir", "I will do the right thing sir" but once you turn your back he goes "Who is he? What has he done? I am full of the Holy Spirit too" etc
Like I said "A pilot fish"

David's mighty men were pilot fishes who through training and maturity grew into sharks
Absalom was a pilot fish that gobbled too much off David (The shark) and suddenly convinced itself it has become a shark
He never was one
Adonijah was a pilot fish
These guys would be nobodies

if David didn't rise
He was the shark and they acknowledged it
If you are presently in ministry or political office or career in any capacity but you know you wouldn't have been where you are if not because God raised somebody through whom you gained relevance, don't start acting

as if you rose by yourself
That's the undoing of most pilot fishes and that is why some of them end up unable to attain the level of greatness preordained for them
If you notice a spirit of error in you, eschew it
If in your conversation with the brethren all you do is gossip

backbite, label and spew words from a bitter source, watch it!
Every man's work will be tested by the fire of the gospel, remember this.
Every motive will be judged
Every action will pass through divine scrutiny
It is better to walk away from a self call than claim it is of God

If it is of God, the fruits must show it.
We were ministering in Kwara once and the power of the Holy Spirit was present to heal the sick
We got to one man, he was on a wheelchair but he shook his head and refused to be prayed for
Everybody was shocked
He blatantly said he does

not want to be healed
I have come across several cases like that, people who believe they deserved the sickness God gave to them and therefore didn't want to be healed
People who said the sickness was a gift from God to them put their bodies under
People holding on to ideologies

and doctrines or belief systems that are quite funny
A man had whitlow, he refused to use any medication until his thumb started to rot
His children couldn't bear the smell and his pain again, they rushed him to the hospital and the thumb had to be amputated
This man saw what had

been done to save his life and he began to curse his children one by one by desecrating his faith
It was so bad that he refused all further treatments, refused food and drink, and also refused to see any of his children
The son, a medical doctor came to me with the issue and I

went to see this man
The man was willing to pray and receive divine healing so he gave me an audience
We had a chat and somehow I was to get him to see the balm of Gilead, not only as the name we gave God (God didn't call himself that name) but also as a medicine
He said the use

of medicine was against his church doctrine and belief
I didn't bother arguing with him
I said, "Is unforgiveness, bitterness, and anger also part of your church doctrine?"
He shook his head
So I said "They were wrong and they have acknowledged that. Being a good Christian means

you forgive them and allow them to make things right
He nodded
We began to pray and he cried a lot
What his children did really hurt him but the word of God is like a surgical blade and it is the only power that can divide the soul and the spirit
When we were done praying, he

invited his family into the room and blessed them
He also allowed them to complete the treatment and responded very well to their care
When he was discharged from the hospital, his other son in New Jersey arranged for him to visit and recover in the USA
This man loves and blesses

me like a son
Living in America made him see many things that arguments would have been futile against
He now attends another church and enjoys the fellowship of the Holy Spirit better
That is a man we all should emulate, a man who learned the truth and responded to it positively

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