He must increase, but I must decrease:
“John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:27-30 (NKJV)
We must pray to God to take full control of ourselves, so that not us, but Christ Jesus live in us. In all we do, we must train ourselves to hear from God all the time and practice to follow Him, so that at a certain point, His characters and behaviours come to us automatically. If you allow the Holy Spirit to take control, He does and you can just flow with Him to think, speak and do when you are ministering for God or even when you do your own personal things with His help because God is interested in helping you in every area of your life.
No longer I live, but Christ lives in me:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 (NKJV)
This is what Apostle Paul too understood and explained even further saying, that we must crucify ourselves with Christ so that our wills, desires and feelings all die and only Christ Jesus’ wills, desires and passions live in us to do His work effectively. This we all can achieve when we practice to live by faith in the Son of God. By faith we go forward and do mighty things for God with boldness. If you are not self-conscious, you can pray and command boldly for miracles to happen and receive too. You are thinking all the time, ‘what if it won’t work’ and shying away; but ‘what if it works’ and God gets the glory!
“And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” Matthew 10:38-39 (NKJV)