It's amazing how you can go through life not being effective in others life and everything could be going seemingly well. But the moment you make a decision that will effect change in others lives, you experience the most opposition.
I serve as the minister of music at Restoring Life International Church in Pikesville, Maryland. I've only been serving in this position for about 4-5 months. But in that time span I've seen great change in the ministry and have received many testimonies of how the ministry has been a blessing to the lives of others. But the enemy does'nt like effective ministry.
My wife was pregnant with our baby to come. And on December 1st, 2009 our baby Matthew was born 3 months early. He was supposed to come in March. But as God would have it, he came early. It signified many things for me that somethings in my life would happen sooner than later. Of course nervous but ultimately excited, I embraced this new day. The baby was a premie and a micro one at that. We had a long road ahead of us, and on top of that, I am now in a position of ministry that is demanding. I have never been so stretched. But it all relates to where I am going.
In the building of a ministry and watching our baby grow in the hospital before our very eyes, was a pull. But God is faithful. He will not allow me to be tested above what I could handle. But alot of times it feels like it's too much.
Our baby has grown and is still growing. He's still in the hospital developing, but he is growing.
Along side of his growth, God has me growing in contrast to my son. I am growing in my faith like never before. Sometimes it seems like I'm failing in faith. It's like when you're working out in the gym. When you work out, you get to a weak point, but that's where your muscles are developed. I feel like I am at my weakest point in my faith. (I'm lifting more than I have ever lifted) But it is here that I had to make the decision to push forward. My faith is going to another level, and I hope that this blog is encouraging you to push in those times of weakness. Your faith is going to another level.
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I speak encouragement and strength into you brother! For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
ReplyDeleteBecause your weakness is of God, you're far stronger than that of a thousand men.
2 Corinthians 12:10 ... for when I am weak, then I am strong!
Paul even had revelation that there was strength in weakness simply because of the point that you brought to the surface - "it's at your weakest point that your muscles are being developed;" your faith is being developed and maturing.
Would we praise and worship God foreal if there was no devil? If there were no trial or testing period? When everything is going exactly how we planned it was going to workout: the job promotion, the fortune 500 business, the mercedes?
He puts us in a position where we have to come to Him because we can't put our trust in the doctors or any man.
Continue to exercise your faith, you cannot afford to give up just because you feel a little pain or opposition from the workout; your job is to endure through it. You're going through a transformation and you're coming out better than what you are right now!!!
And not just you, everything and everyone that you're connected to as well. When a train increases in speed and begins to make turns, everything that's connected to it increases in speed, and makes turns with it also or it would get left behind.
"Your faith is going to another level!" I receive that!