Five Requisites for a Blessed Ministry

 In this powerful episode, Bishop Wayne Huntley shares the five essential requisites for a blessed ministry. From knowing God intimately to walking in humility and total commitment, discover timeless apostolic wisdom that will transform your calling and deepen your spiritual impact.

✨ Episode Summary

In this impactful episode titled "Five Requisites for a Blessed Ministry", the host welcomes a legendary voice in apostolic ministry—Bishop Wayne Huntley, District Superintendent from North Carolina. Known for his spiritual depth and generational leadership, Bishop Huntley outlines the five non-negotiables for anyone seeking a ministry not just marked by popularity, but truly blessed by God.

Unlike the world’s idea of success, Bishop Huntley explains that blessing is defined by alignment with God’s purpose—not fame or fanfare. Drawing from decades of experience, he breaks down how ministers can build longevity and divine favor in their calling.

🛐 Key Takeaways – The 5 Requisites for a Blessed Ministry

1. Know God

• Scriptural Foundation: Jeremiah 9:24, Philippians 3:10, Psalm 103:7
• True ministry begins with a deep relationship with God—not just ministry for Him, but time with Him.
• Knowing God comes through His voice, touch, and Word.
• Avoid the trap of replacing relationship with research or internet shortcuts.

2. Know People

• Ministry is relational. Influence grows not by being “interesting” but by being “interested.”
• People rally around four things: doctrine, organization, a person, and a shared cause.
• Build emotional intelligence and engage in real care—ask about their world, not just share yours.

3. Know Truth

• Revival requires a return to the Bible—a “re-Bible.”
• Theologians aren’t elite—they’re students of the Word.
• Conversations should center around Scripture and spiritual insight more than secular trends.

4. Walk in Humility

• True humility isn’t self-deprecation—it’s not thinking of self at all.
• God promotes those who don’t seek the spotlight but live to serve His people.
• Anointing is never for personal gain—it’s because God loves His people.

5. Total Commitment

• Life motto: “If you make God’s business your business, He’ll make your business His.”
• Ministry is a vocation, not a vacation. Give God your best effort.
• Bivocational ministry is valid. What matters is being committed, not whether you're full-time in ministry.
• Don’t use your job as an excuse. Balance work with unwavering dedication to your calling.

💡 Featured Quotes

• “Success is judged by the Master—not by man.”
• “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s not thinking of yourself at all.”
• “You must know God by His voice, by His touch, and by the breaking of the bread.”
• “Revival cannot come without a re-Bible.”

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🔁 Recommended For

• Pastors, church planters, and ministers in all stages of their journey
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• Young ministers aiming for depth over popularity
• Apostolic believers passionate about revival and reformation

Transcript

 Today's episode is titled five requisites for a blessed ministry. I've got a new guy and up and comer. You may, you might've heard of him. He pastors in North Carolina. He's actually the district superintendent goes by the name of brother Wayne Huntley. 

I told him I do not need an introduction for him. People will know who he is. I'm very honored that he would take the time. He just flew in from Louisiana and he is making time for the podcast. We are very grateful. I'm not going to hold you up, Brother Huntley. Thank you so much for coming on.  Go ahead and get us started, brother.

Tell us about the five requisites for a blessed ministry. 

Well, thank you very much. It is my passion to share anything I feel like the Lord has given me. with a younger generation and those that are passionate, those that are sincere and truly desire to be mightily used of God. And our world needs mightily used of God, apostolic ministers, our cities, our states, our nation needs powerful apostolic  ministries.

And 

so in your pursuit, my pursuit,  I have taught the Lord as to what are the requisites or what are the ingredients what are the components of a blessed ministry? I chose that word blessed carefully because normally we might would say a successful ministry, but only God judges what is the success.

And there's no way that we can relate success to this man and failure to that man because it's in the eyes of the only one true master that his servant is a success or a failure. So I wanted to talk about being blessed. How can we enhance our relationship with God, our walk with God, to where that we can reach the maximum potential of blessing?

I am convinced that God wants to bless us. In ways far beyond our capacity to comprehend. He does the best with what we give him. We want to give him more. We want to present more to him so that his kingdom can move forward. His name can be exalted and truth can spread around the world. So the first thing I think.

That a man of God needs to do to have a  blessed ministry is to know God, K N O W, to know God. Now, that sounds very elementary and 101, but I will show you some things relative to the scripture and the knowledge of God that people have. The Bible said, if any man would glory in Jeremiah 9, 24, let him glory.

in that he knoweth and understand, understandeth me.  And then in Philippians 3. 10, Paul said that I might know him. It was the passion of the Apostle Paul, not to just be used of God, blessed by God, but to know him. The scripture says that Adam knew his wife, Eve, and the result of that was multiplication.

It was production. I think our ministries will flourish and be fruitful in our knowledge of God. Now, you might say, that's elementary to know God. Well, notice this.  1 Samuel chapter 3 and 1. The Bible said that Samuel ministered unto the Lord. 1 Samuel 3 and 7 says that as of yet,  Samson knew not the Lord.

Samson was ministering for the Lord, but he didn't know the Lord. Now I want to be in a position where that I'm not only ministering for him, but that I know him. Another verse of scripture that has challenged me along those lines. Psalm 103 and seven, the Bible said he made known his acts unto Moses, unto Israel, but his way unto his, unto, let me get it right.

He made his acts known unto  Israel and his ways known unto Moses. It's easy to see what God's doing, but there is a place that we can learn the ways of God. And the Bible said he revealed that to Moses. He showed him his ways. If we can learn the ways of God, then we can posture ourselves  in a more blessed attitude and atmosphere.

Of course, I'm convinced that one of the best ways to get to know anybody or anything is to spend time with God.  

Absolutely. There 

was a day we would say, let's have an hour of prayer. We sung sweet hour of prayer. Now we talk about a word of prayer to know God. That's what we really need to spend.  A large amount of time with God.

Some of the greatest, most beneficial times of my ministry was when I was an evangelist. Back in the day when I evangelized, we evangelized seven years. Back in that day, all evangelists had to do was preach at night. There were no demands. There was no schedule. There was not any other area of involvement.

Just be ready to preach that sermon tonight. So it gave me a lot of time during the day to go to private places. I was preaching a little bit in churches out in the middle of country. Nobody hardly knew where they were. GPS couldn't find them. If there would have been one this way back in the woods, I'd go into those buildings, spread a blanket on the platform, maybe under the piano and take a notepad, legal pen, the Bible and search the scriptures.

And I always pray, God, anybody can read this, help me to understand what you are saying. Help me, give me a revelation of your word. And so it's the result of spending time together. I feel like a lot of our younger ministry is being robbed of that relationship with God because of the internet. There's so many things you can get off the internet to shortcut your ministry.

You get sermons, you get Bible notes, you get thoughts, but it's not coming out of you. It's not coming out of your relationship with God. And the most powerful aspects of our life is what's born out of our relationship with him. So in order to know God, you must spend time with God. In Mark 3, 14, the Bible said, when Jesus ordained the disciples.

He ordained them that they might be with Him. I think sometimes we have missed the great privilege of our calling. That calling is not just to preach, teach, be used in the gift of the Spirit. It is the privilege of being able to be with Him.  He ordained them to be with Him. I think we need a resurgence of slowing down our lives.

We're so busy, we're so spread out, we have so much to demand that we lose that time with God. We need to go back and learn to know Him, and the only way we can know Him is to spend time with Him. There were three ways that Jesus was known after His resurrection. The first time was to Mary, it was by His voice. 

The second time was by touch to Thomas, and the third time was on the road to Emmaus when he broke the bread, their eyes were open. So there's three ways that we can know him by his voice, by his touch, and the breaking of the bread, which of course is the opening of the Word of God. And studying of the word of the Lord, we can know him.

I'll pause right now for any remarks that you might have on this subject, questions or discussion.  

I've got some  only because that's good stuff, Elder. That is good stuff. I've got comments about the know God and Thomas, but I got a question for you first.  And I'm asking you as an elder who's obviously been around the block a time or two you went back to, you were talking about success and I'm glad you did because we are often  confused by our measure of success versus God's measure of success and that's why you called it blessed and I'm glad you did. 

I was one of the ones who struggled with that because my phone did not ring as much as someone else's.  Right.  And I learned to accept it. And what I told my wife, for example, was if I was as popular as she wanted me to be, then I couldn't be the youth pastor that I needed to be because I would be gone too much and I needed to be home and teaching. 

My question to you  is,  am I wrong in teaching these young ministers that  Not all of us are called to be widely known, that there's nothing wrong with being  powerful in your own local church and the district not know who you are. Just because you're not known does not mean you're unsuccessful. 

Very good.

Exactly. Well said. If you look at a book of Hebrews, you'll find out the names of all of those blessed people called the heroes of the faith. But listed with them, it just says others.  

Right. 

Others. Unknown. Unnamed. But they're in that book. And so we can find our niche, our what we got, and be recognized by God, even though we're not recognized by our peers or others. 

Wonderful. Thank you for  confirming that because Otherwise, it's just my word and I wanted someone to let me know if I was missing something.  I like what you said about knowing God and what I went to was I thought about my wife. We've been married just, this is going to sound like kid stuff to you, but we just celebrated our 25th anniversary a few days ago. 

Congratulations. 

For 

the average 43 year old, that's a long time. But there are. Backstories that her and I know about each other that no one else knows there are inside jokes that her and I  Have that no one else knows because we know each other  because we have spent time Like you're talking about spending time with them, and I just wanted to tell the listener. 

It's not about how often you attend church Yes, we believe in church attendance But it's about that intimate relationship falling in love and just spending time with your best friend and learning about that relationship. And you should have an inside joke with God. You should have some backstories.

I remember back in the day when this happened,  I just wanted to encourage them to, I just wanted to reiterate, that's what I went to when you're talking about knowing God. I thought about how well spouses know each other after so long. One thing I wanted to talk about or one more point was Thomas.

When you mentioned the three ways, Mary, Thomas, and on the road to Emmaus,  the touch, I think it's critical, and you tell me if I'm wrong,  it was not that Jesus touched Thomas, but that Thomas touched Jesus. That's a different direction. God can reach out and touch things. And some people take that for granted, but Thomas had to reach out and touch those scars.

That's right. And I think that adds a different dynamic to it. If someone's trying to get to know Jesus,  they can't just sit there and wait for him to reach out. They're going to have to touch him. They're going to, that's right. So anyway, those were my thoughts. I wanted to add to it. And as trivial as it may be, that's what I had taken notes on.

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to add to it.  

Yes, sir. The second thing is to know people, K N O W, people. You must know God and you must know people.  I learned this years ago and it's been a great blessing to my life.  The key to influencing people  is not being an interested, interesting person,  but rather being an interested person. 

Yeah, 

That is a powerful statement because we're prone to try to decorate ourselves posture ourselves,  market ourselves before other people trying to sell ourselves to them. And that's not impressive and that's not influential, but the thing that's influential to people. It's when you are interested in their world.

When you put your thoughts aside, you put your challenges, even your victories. I know some guys, if you said you had three, get the Holy Ghost Sunday in church, they would say, I, well, we had five, you just, you gotta be interested. You can't always be up in somebody. Getting above them. You must be interested in their world.

How's your mother? How's your brother? How's your church? How's things going in your world? Instead of always addressing toward ourselves. So we need to be interested and not just interesting. So understanding people do things for their reasons and not ours. We have to comprehend that and live with that.

That people do things for their reasons.  So there's four things that people rally around. Number one is doctrine. Number two is organization. Number three is a person. And number four is a cause that permeates and produces passion and vision. If you want people to rally around you, if you want people to congregate, you want people to unite, then it is a proven fact that they, some will rally around doctrine.

When you move into a town, you look for a United Pentecostal Church because of doctrine and also because of organization. But sometimes people rally around a person. The charismatic speaker, the great preacher, the great teacher, a man that knows how to care, a shepherd that knows how to care for his congregation.

And the third thing is a ministry that permeates and produces passion and vision. That's what grows people. That's what draws people. And that is what maintains people. Because without a vision, the people perish. 

Absolutely. And one 

definition of that scripture, people perish, it says they cast off restraints. 

They're not willing to come under discipleship. The thing that creates discipleship is a vision and a passion. If we're going to go somewhere and we're going to accomplish something, then I'm ready to pay this price. But if there's no vision, there's no direction. There's no passion. It does not create interest in others. 

I'll allow you to respond to that. 

No, you're absolutely dead on. What's the old quote that  no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care? Exactly. So we have to invest in people. And I always told people, young ministers, I'm training some right now, when they're preaching, for example, don't go straight to Acts 238.

If you're teaching a Bible study on X238, maybe, but if you're trying to win a soul, don't go there. You have to earn the sale. That's what Verizon Wireless taught me. You have to connect with them. You have to let them know that you're invested in them. And then when you have them hooked. Then you produce the product that you're selling, but they're only after they're convinced that you care about them.

Plus the message of acts two 38 was not preached until the question was asked. That's right in brethren. What must we do? Then you give them the answer. You don't answer questions that they're not asking. 

Exactly. That's 

wait till they're asking those questions. 

Absolutely. All right. 

The third thing is just simply know the truth. 

I'm appalled and somewhat concerned  in my day. Young ministers were all hungry to know the Bible, quote the Bible, discuss the Bible. But if you were out with a group of preachers today, it's sports, it's politics, it's the economy, it's the stock market,  it's everything but the Bible. And we need, if we're going to have revival, we must have a re Bible.

There must be a return to loving the Scripture, sharing the Scriptures. We'd get together and we'd ask each other, What do you think if you preach lately? What do you think has God showed you lately? But now it's more or less secular conversation. So in other words, to have a blessed ministry, and I think we need to know the Bible to know truth. 

Oh, absolutely. What's your definition of a theologian? Someone asked me just yesterday if I considered myself a theologian, and I was stumped. I had to tell them, no, I studied the Bible, and I can answer. Well, that's 

what a theologian is.  A theologian is a student of the Bible. It's someone that spend times in the scriptures.

That's all it is a study of the Bible. You study the Bible. You're a theologian. 

Okay. I just, I was thinking of someone a little higher and mighty. 

No, a theologian is anybody that studies the scriptures. 

Well, there you go. 

A student of the word.  Number four is humility. I believe God blesses us, advances us,  gives us privileges and opportunities that equal our status of humility.

We've seen too many get a little blessing from God, go crazy. They don't need a pastor. They don't need a UPC. They don't need anybody. They think they've got this connection with God that separates them unto themselves. And they always end up in deception or in compromise. 

And 

so there must be. There must be a tutelage, a mentor, someone that we're under and acknowledge that God does the work.

We do not accomplish anything without His anointing, without His power, and without His presence. In the Book of 2 Chronicles 2 and 11. There was an Old Testament king by the name of Hurem, who was the king of Tyre,  and he told the Queen of Sheba, he said, because God had loved his people, he has made you king.

Now, that alone is no great, startling statement, but when the Queen of Sheba came to see Solomon, she said the exact same thing in 2 Chronicles 9 and 8.  God loves his people because God loves his people. He has made you King. My takeaway from that powerful repetition is this.  Anytime we're anointed of God, it is not for us. 

It's because God loves his people. It's because God's trying to bless his people.  God's trying to heal his people. He's trying to enlighten them. It's not about our aggrandizement. It's not about our promotion of flesh. It's about God trying to help somebody. Anytime anyone is anointed of God, it's never for themselves.

It is always. To help somebody else.  My definition of humility is this. Humility is not getting in a pulpit and debasing yourself or belittling yourself or talking about, I don't know why they got me up here preaching tonight. I'm as dumb as a box of rocks. I don't have it. That's that I've learned that is float pride. 

That is camouflage pride. Humility is not thinking less of self. Humility is to not think of self at all.  

There you go.  

It doesn't think of self at all. If it goes great, God gives the glory. If it doesn't go great, I'm not gonna kick myself because it's up to Him what happens. I do what I can, the results are up to Him. 

Okay? Yes, sir.  That goes back to our definition of success. Yes. If we're trying to impress people,  then we get sway we get off course. But if we're just trying to win people to Jesus, it's easy to stay humble because that's our goal. We're trying to win. We're not trying to win them to our fan club.

We're trying to win them to him. That's right. And, but when we lose track of that, if we're trying to become part,  we've That's how we get stuck in that. Right.  

The fifth one and final one is  a total commitment. This has been the motto of my life that I've used ever since shortly after I started preaching, I came across it and it's been the mandate that I have tried to live by.

And that is if you'll make God's business, your business, God will make your business, his business.  If you will make God's business, your business, God will make your business, his business.  If you will work hard for God, he will bless you.  We should not be more willing to work for any other company harder than we work for God.

Our ministry is not a vacation. It's a vocation. And we need to give our very, very best to God. If we'll give our best to God, he will give his best to us.  

Oh, absolutely.  I'm just debating on putting you on the spot with a hard question. 

That's all right.  

All right, let's go there. If it gets awkward, I can always edit it out. 

But let's get real about because here's.  I'm a transparent person. Okay, so that's why I'm going there.  I believe in transparency. I've been bivocational my whole ministry. I've been in this, 20 years now, which is still a drop in the sand, drop in the bucket.  I'll be honest,  a lot of people will give you a guilt trip for that.

And I've  struggled. Have, I've not felt led. I prayed about it. Have I felt led to quit my job? No, my pastor has not felt led for me to quit my job. I've discussed this, I pastored for five years and was bivocational and did not feel led to quit my job.  But can you speak to being totally committed and still having to work?

Right.  

That's good. It's a good question. Well,  when I first started the church in Raleigh as a home missionary, we started here with five people.  Uh, we started in 1978 with five people.  We were blessed to be put on the Christmas for Christ program,  which enabled us to get funds to help us do the work of God. 

Brother Yance always taught home missionaries that  they need a job so that they can maneuver and be mobile around the laws. If you separate yourself, you don't have a world to reach into. But by working out in the secular world, you are exposed to people that you will not be able to be exposed to any other way. 

And so the thing is, not everybody needs to be full time for God because they're not self starters. They're not self motivated. They'd wake up in the morning, lay in bed at 10 o'clock, go have breakfast, go back to bed, sleep at 3 o'clock, have supper, and then go fishing. It takes somebody that is disciplined, that can be their own boss under the leadership of the Spirit, and be self inspired, self motivated.

No, full time is not for everybody. But under the guidance, like you said, of the spirit, your ministry and your pastor, you can make that decision. And it's not a guilt trip for a man to work.  

I appreciate that. And I'm glad you were willing to speak to it because I know I'm not the only one that  deals with that.

And commitment is required on the flip side, though, we cannot use our jobs as an excuse, right? It's not, is, for example, the church that I pastored and I just recently resigned. So it's still new, but I lived an hour and a half away. Yeah, it was very tough, but what I kept telling myself and my family was it was not the church's fault that I live so far away, right?

And the job I live 45 minutes when I work, but the job was also a different hour and a half, a different direction. So I had to make sure that when they needed me, I was there or.  Because I couldn't just say I work, no, I still have a commitment that I chose to do knowing the distance. So listener, you got to provide for your family.

You got to do like we just said, talk to your pastor, listen to Holy Ghost, work it out. But if you're still working.  You still got to commit, you can't just can't just use it as an excuse. Can't skip every prayer meeting because you're tired, can't blow off every midweek service because you're tired.

You're 

You're right.  

So anyway,  man, that's good stuff, Bishop. And I'm not afraid, ashamed to tell you one bit, I'm going to preach some of that here soon. Well, 

I gave it to you and I'm through, that's all I have.  

I appreciate you so much coming on. You didn't have to, but you did, and I am so grateful for you taking the time.

You're very 

welcome. 

I hope you have a blessed night. I hope you have a blessed day, and praying for your church and your ministry, brother. 

Thank you. I pray for God's advancement in your ministry, his anointing on your life, and his blessings on your family. 

Thank you, Bishop. Have a blessed day. 

Good night.