choosing a pastor has become so weighed down with process and people… prayer, fasting & REALLY listening… then obeying rarely comes into play. In Acts, they arrived at a simple outcome: “it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us” Acts 15:28.
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choosing a pastor has become so weighed down with process and people… prayer, fasting & REALLY listening… then obeying rarely comes into play. In Acts, they arrived at a simple outcome: “it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us” Acts 15:28.
God is preparing me and Netta for our BEST days of ministry — and we’ll be READY when He puts us IN to whatever NEW adventure He is preparing!
looking back over my life & ministry, it's painfully obvious that I rarely did things close to perfect. I should've smiled more, said less, given bigger, listened longer and prayed more specifically.
You know that many runners enter a race, and only one of them wins the prize. So run to win! 1 Corinthians 9:24
I've always lived by the thought, "begin with the end in mind" -- I apply this to many areas of my life (from sermon prep, to ministry focus, to financial planning, to exercise objectives, etc)…
Seems like today, we only hear what we want to hear and ONLY when we want to hear it. But, friend, that’s not how it works. God’s our Father – He speaks when He chooses – we must simply LISTEN and OBEY. And guess what?? God IS calling you!
