{"id":367,"date":"2015-05-04T18:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T22:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/?p=367"},"modified":"2015-07-01T19:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:57:01","slug":"bro-mike-a-little-kneeology-may-1-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Bro Mike: A Little Kneeology May 1 Post \u201cGet out of my way and let me be God!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 46:10 (NLT) 10 \u201cBe still, and know that I am God!<\/strong>
\nI sometimes take this verse to mean to me, \u201cGet out of my way and let me be God!\u201d or \u201cGet out of the way and I will show you who I am\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Either way, we, whether we admit it or not, will find ourselves the greatest obstacle in the way of God\u2019s work.\u00a0 It is not that He can\u2019t or won\u2019t overcome our being the obstacle but He does find it necessary for us to realize, for our own well being, that He is God and capable without us.\u00a0 In fact, it is often the problem of many of our ministry efforts, that we get in the way of God\u2019s working by displaying little or no faith, or altering His blueprint for the ministry to which He calls us or a great factor, going on anyhow even though He didn\u2019t call us.<\/h3>\n

Overzealous church folk kept me from knowing God through Jesus Christ for almost half of my adult life.\u00a0 Plain and simple, they got in the way by their own designs of God\u2019s design for my life.\u00a0\u00a0 It was the God of the church that I was seeking to know, not the church!\u00a0 I wanted to know Christ, not religion or churchliness.<\/h3>\n

I was turned off by preachers who wanted the tell me about their church, as I was wanting to hear about God and the path to Him.\u00a0 Likewise, I am more interested in how God is using a certain ministry to meet the needs of the people and introduce them to Him through Christ than I am about pedigrees and degrees of the ministers.\u00a0 They can only be a blessing if they get out of the way and let God bless them.\u00a0\u00a0 It is just my opinion, but, I feel the success and failure of many of today\u2019s ministries are determined\u00a0 by their willingness to let be God be God.\u00a0 I learned a long time ago that at any board or council meeting I attend or have anything to do with organizing, I invite God to be the moderator.<\/h3>\n

I heard a biker minister say concerning his club\u2019s success in ministry was that they kept JC in charge of the MC.\u00a0 In other words, they stepped aside from themselves and allowed God to be God.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One aspect of doing so is that the successful-ness of the ministry is that God does not fail; God does not run out of money; God does not allow the world to interfere with what He has determined to do. Therefore, if we will step aside from self and let God be God, if the ministry-calling and work is of His design, it will be a success in accordance to the way He measures success.<\/h3>\n

It is an awesome thing when He even takes over something we designed and redesigns it for His purpose, once we get out of the way.\u00a0\u00a0 In some of the problems that folks have shared with me concerning their ministries, it is often very visible that they are in the way of God doing a powerful work with their mess, and once again, I say it is awesome how He will take our messes and work miracles.\u00a0\u00a0 Far too often as we begin a partnership with God in our ministries, He becomes a silent partner or we seek the controlling interest.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I often pray to God for Him to not be subtle in letting me know when to shut up and be still, when to get out of the way and let Him be God.<\/h3>\n

Yours in Christ,\u00a0 NOTW<\/h3>\n

Bro. Mike<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalm 46:10 (NLT) 10 \u201cBe still, and know that I am God! I sometimes take this verse to mean to me, \u201cGet out of my way and let me be God!\u201d or \u201cGet out of the way and I will show you who I am\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Either way, we, whether we admit it or not, will … <\/p>\n

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