Wedding rehearsal on Friday night—what a blast!Being @ Caesar’s Creek with a former student and his 1 more day to be bride, parents and family was a thrill.Then the wedding on Saturday with an incredible reception out doors—then onto Fairhaven for the Saturday night @ 6 gig.I really do enjoy speaking to that crowd—great people, laid back, great music— a great time to do ministry.Sunday a.m. came fast—speaking @ both services was really a great time for me—loved it, loved the people, loved the music—had a blast for sure.
Now the week is cookin.Tuesday staff has come and gone—time to work on uprising this coming Sunday night and the first parents meeting.Getting the ducks in a row to present to parents our vision, our heart our year, looking so forward to meeting with all of them.
So—so what now?Who am I kidding.If it were all about the above—that would be easy—it’s not—those things in ministry are the outside of what God is doing inside.Really?Yes.I am thinking about all that needs to get done, all that needs to happen—but I am also thinking about the how—
The how it will get done?It could be by shear force.It could be by shear energy.It could be by management of time, by management of people, it could be by management of whatever.In truth—I am going to seek God this afternoon to move mountains.To move the ministry along.To move in the hearts of students.
Yes, the only way the ministry is different than any other thing that happens in business, or at the Y.M.C.A. is that God is the catalyst.It is God we are ministering for and with.It is God that we hold high to move the ministry period.If it could be done in the flesh I guarantee it would be easy.It is not—many things need to take place and those things are of spiritual nature.Those things are what God is in the business of doing—Drawing people to Christ, drawing people to Himself, drawing people by the spirit to sort through all the junk so that we can focus on Him.
Yep—this afternoon is about calling out to the Lord to do big things in this ministry.
Oh Father,
That you would do mighty things in the Student Ministry.
That you would draw students to your Son.That you would cause an incredible movement that our students can be drawn to.That you would move this ministry to the place and places that you and you alone find to be beneficial.
