So the last few weeks have not been easy ones as a pastor. It is hard sometimes to do what God is telling you to do when Satan does not want it to happen. I am starting to know what pressing into God REALLY looks like. 2010 has been a step up for me in my prayer life. I think that going through some of the things I have has helped in that area. Today I have been fasting and praying over somethings and as I have I read 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)
" 7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong".
Even though it is hard sometimes to pray when we are weak we need to press into the face of our Great God. As a young pastor I am still learning what it means to be a pastor but as I learn I know that I am still a sinner saved by God's grace and it is all about Him and never about me. Pray for me and other pastors who are ,sinners themselves, called to lead sinners and be the BODY of Christ.
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