{"id":1358,"date":"2016-03-18T10:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:42:18","slug":"a-little-kneeology-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"A Little Kneeology……"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Little Kneeology…… \u00a0Hebrews 13:5 (Msg)\u00a0 <\/strong>Don’t be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, “I’ll never let you down, never walk off and leave you,” we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I’m fearless no matter what.\u00a0 Who or what can get to me?<\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>It seems that so much of concern for many ministries focus on financial or material needs as a necessity for ministry itself.\u00a0 I know that I have written several articles dealing with such but it just seems to prevail in so many of the requests and among many of the pastors that I visit with daily.\u00a0 I know that finances in this world are important but the ability to minister and witness to the power of the gospel must not depend on money and material things.\u00a0 There are specifics that we might consider important that require certain finances but their absence should not prevent us from witnessing to the power of the gospel to change lives.\u00a0 So much of what we do has come to depend more on finances and material needs than the power of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 If we are submitted to the power of God rather than the physical or financial influence to empower the work to which He has called us, we can\u2019t fail.\u00a0 It is all about being submitted to Him and placing ourselves under His covering.\u00a0 I know of pastors who have admitted to me that as they grew their ministry in accordance to their plans and the need for more money and much larger and more expensive facilities, more of their focus was on getting the money than on the actual ministry itself. Consequently, the ministry ended up suffering and in some cases failed.\u00a0 I recently spoke to a pastor that told me that his ministry was doing well and growing so he and his other church leaders decided that if they build a much larger church and added more programs that it would draw more people to the church and based on the success of their present ministry, it would just grow and grow.\u00a0 Not so, the financial demands on paying for and maintaining the much larger facility and staff took the focus away from ministering to the real needs of the people.\u00a0 Even after all these past thirty years of ministry I can recall how in the early years under pressure of finance committees and denominational support demanding more finances took away from actual ministry.\u00a0 We preach about faith but then allow things of the world to suppress ministry with a spirit of weariness.\u00a0 A few years ago as God called me to leave the denomination that I was part of and into a new ministry, I submitted to Him in faith that He would provide for that which He had called me.\u00a0 Such submission included finances, facilities, and every daily need and not to look to the future beyond the vision that He would give me, nothing of my own design.\u00a0 We have moved from location to location based only on the immediate need, kept programs that only focused on witnessing to His glory and the making of disciples, and showing the love of Christ by providing for the needy and homeless.\u00a0 Guess what, He has never let us down, walked away, or left us !\u00a0 He has provided for us daily our needs and even allowed for some of our wants.\u00a0 I share this witness in an effort to share not only the truth of His Word but hopefully to ease the weariness of those who are losing so much of the joy and blessings that come by just letting go and letting God.\u00a0 It truly becomes a matter of saying, \u201cWho or what can get to me?\u201d \u00a0It is one of God\u2019s secrets to finding peace.\u00a0 Amen?<\/h4>\n

\u00a0NOTW…Bro. Mike<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Little Kneeology…… \u00a0Hebrews 13:5 (Msg)\u00a0 Don’t be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, “I’ll never let you down, never walk off and leave you,” we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I’m fearless no matter what.\u00a0 Who or what can get … <\/p>\n

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