One way ticket - i speak for myself
If anyone come to fellowship with me concerning how long to serve the as a fulltimer?
My reply: honestly, it will be a one way ticket. which simply mean "your whole life" to serve HIM, no turning back, no turning back.
Serving HIM for almost 17th months and i believe by HIS GRACE, more months ahead...... i guess it really have to be a one way ticket. Seeing and hearing the needs of the church, it is very hard to say, "ok, i guess i have done my duty", but if it is genuine from the Lord, it is like being a missionary. Today missionary is unlike the past, 2 weeks..... and you are a missionary. If it is truly a calling, i guess, you may have to spend your whole life there......because LOVE is involve, if you see the need of the saints, many things thru HIS LOVE, you just simply have to put yourself down, take care of their need before yours. This is being a bondservant of Christ that our bro Paul is saying.
And one of the way to serve HIM : Prayer
I was talking to a brother over lunch yesterday afternoon, he shared with me that many time we do not have many thing to pray to the LORD, my replied: If only you are in your own business, you will have lots of things to think about compared to a employee. Likewise, if you are in the full-time service, you will see more, you will worried more, you will grieve more, of course, you will also rejoice more. Above all, you will PRAY more.
What i usually pray?
Pray for all the saints in home 2 (due to their fixed sitting arrangement, i m able to pray for one by one).
Pray for youth and young people,
Pray for my own working saints group,
Pray for my co-workers,
Pray for the newly married and getting wed couple,
Pray for the health of some saints,
Pray for married support group,
Pray for the YYP conference,
Pray for the Lord's table and the message,
Pray for the leading brothers,
Pray the oneness in the church,
Pray for the "Genuine" love for one another,
Pray for the oversea saints, especially those who are there alone,
Lastly, Pray for my family.
To be a fulltimer, you must first of all, learn to be a man of prayer. Pray and pray, pray and pray. Amen. Work? well........you pray, HE will show you where are the holes in the wall to mend. And not forgetting HIS PRECIOUS WORDS.
Glory be to GOD.
My reply: honestly, it will be a one way ticket. which simply mean "your whole life" to serve HIM, no turning back, no turning back.
Serving HIM for almost 17th months and i believe by HIS GRACE, more months ahead...... i guess it really have to be a one way ticket. Seeing and hearing the needs of the church, it is very hard to say, "ok, i guess i have done my duty", but if it is genuine from the Lord, it is like being a missionary. Today missionary is unlike the past, 2 weeks..... and you are a missionary. If it is truly a calling, i guess, you may have to spend your whole life there......because LOVE is involve, if you see the need of the saints, many things thru HIS LOVE, you just simply have to put yourself down, take care of their need before yours. This is being a bondservant of Christ that our bro Paul is saying.
And one of the way to serve HIM : Prayer
I was talking to a brother over lunch yesterday afternoon, he shared with me that many time we do not have many thing to pray to the LORD, my replied: If only you are in your own business, you will have lots of things to think about compared to a employee. Likewise, if you are in the full-time service, you will see more, you will worried more, you will grieve more, of course, you will also rejoice more. Above all, you will PRAY more.
What i usually pray?
Pray for all the saints in home 2 (due to their fixed sitting arrangement, i m able to pray for one by one).
Pray for youth and young people,
Pray for my own working saints group,
Pray for my co-workers,
Pray for the newly married and getting wed couple,
Pray for the health of some saints,
Pray for married support group,
Pray for the YYP conference,
Pray for the Lord's table and the message,
Pray for the leading brothers,
Pray the oneness in the church,
Pray for the "Genuine" love for one another,
Pray for the oversea saints, especially those who are there alone,
Lastly, Pray for my family.
To be a fulltimer, you must first of all, learn to be a man of prayer. Pray and pray, pray and pray. Amen. Work? well........you pray, HE will show you where are the holes in the wall to mend. And not forgetting HIS PRECIOUS WORDS.
Glory be to GOD.
posted by Lighthouse at
7:15 AM
1 Comments:
Hopefully your 'Lastly, pray for my family' was not a literal one. Encourage you, bro, to pray FIRST for your family.
As the infamous 1 Tim 3: 4-5 says:
"4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence 5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)"
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