tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859223472844069585.post7292377975540136968..comments2010-08-20T10:28:12.874-05:00Comments on A Five Course Meal Or A P.B.and J. Sandwich?: "I'll say "Yes,Lord."PB and Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17240791120645729406noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859223472844069585.post-408336354370504162009-08-25T00:37:27.546-05:002009-08-25T00:37:27.546-05:00Love your posts, Rach! You always make me think! ...Love your posts, Rach! You always make me think! I too love that song!<br /><br />Hey come on over to my blog. . you've been "tagged" if you so choose to accept the mission.<br />It's easy, I promise. I know time is tight for you right now.<br />Love you!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859223472844069585.post-27960163956595658052009-08-24T11:02:50.109-05:002009-08-24T11:02:50.109-05:00Exactly what I came to sis. I appreciate your resp...Exactly what I came to sis. I appreciate your response to this. It not only helps me to feel related to, but, it helps me to have a better view of your position as Pastor. <br /><br />The times that I struggle The Most to not take things personal is when a sister/brother in Christ speaks carelessly and without regard/respect to others and then if it's pointed out, for sake of resolve, dances around it w/an apology as plastic as a small child who states they are want to clean house because they feel like doing it for no reason. I don't know what the lesson for me is in that. I certainly don't feel nor believe that (as much as I can now appreciate being so much like mama) it is right/let alone Christian to continuously "be o.k." with it and keep walking into it. I can't help but wander what the right thing to do is, aside from praying for my own spirit and total self and whoever it may be. I appreciate and respect positions because they play an important role into the Christian body, as a whole. I know there is a lesson in this for me or else each time the return is made to this same old spot I wouldn't feel the way I do. I want to handle myself God's way, not Rachel's, yours, or anyone else's. My true heart's desire is to be like Jesus by way of Jesus living through me. As I commune with God throughout each day, my heart is in contast prayer, not turmoil, with what He wants me to learn/do with how to deal with this. In the meantime, I continue to praise and worship and go about my journey and walk with Him, knowing that His lamp won't run out of oil and that He will continue to light the path where He wants me to walk. <br /><br />I love you, too, hermana preciosa de mio:):) (Precious sister of mine- time for that foreign language biz again sis:))And while I am not blogging for re-actions/responses, I do appreciate you for sharing your heart with me and I thank you for allowing God to work through you in such a beautiful way because your ministry has and continues to touch my heart.PB and Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17240791120645729406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859223472844069585.post-90161902754380341692009-08-23T23:13:38.720-05:002009-08-23T23:13:38.720-05:00Dear sweet sister,
I experience this almost every...Dear sweet sister, <br />I experience this almost everytime I get up to speak God's word with my congregation. I spend time on my knees praying and/or fasting, reading, studying, meditating and waiting to hear from God.<br /><br />He gives me my sermon. I get up in the pulpit and preach it. Then, almost every week, I'll get a head's up, a phone call, an email, sometimes little comments later on and realize that the very person that message may have been for has rejected it.<br /><br />At first, I took it personal. It has been a slap in my face several times to realize that REALLY, not only did they not listen and hear, they were either talking, not paying attention, or decided to drop their dedication all together and go play in the spiritual traffic with a knife and act like someone who doesn't care at all about God.<br /><br />Then I realized it was for God not me that he was being rejected. I did as I was told. It was up to the person to move forward with it.<br /><br />I have come to learn that I have no control over the outcome of my sermons. Countless times over the past year, I have thrown my hands in the air and asked God if I should just give up and quit speaking to his people. <br />He reminds me of something pretty special.<br /><br />I get frustrated when someone doesn't hear it, get it the first time. It makes me crazy that someone may have to hear something 43 times.<br /><br />God's not like that. It doesn't hurt his feelings. See he already knows that person is going to have to hear the same thing 43 times before they actually grasp it. So, instead of getting his feelings hurt or getting angry, I believe God rejoices. I believe he says, "YES! My messenger gave the message! Only 42 more times to go! Then my child will understand!"<br /><br />It kinda puts things it a different perspective. <br /><br />Remember this. When you are delivering a message from God, you cannot take it personal. You are just the messenger! It's all about God and that person!Sharon Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00695395104518983907noreply@blogger.com