Break-Out

We all have our off-days, down-times and bad seasons. Your favorite sports team goes through a losing streak funk. Your pastor... a bad sermon? Hopefully not a loss of the entire series of sermons! A couple additional moments thinking about yesterday's boring sermon from an exciting Word train of thought...

For indeed, we've all been there. What was I thinking? Why did I say that? Where was my mind when I decided that? Where was my heart when I pursued that? Clearly, something was off base and out of whack. Perhaps even to a serious, or worse, disastrous degree.

Of all the situations, circumstances and conversations that we go through on a daily basis, the last thing you want to have go wrong is anything that has lasting and detrimental impact. Ministry is paramount, for everything done has in mind, the eternal perspective.  As such, it's frustrating when things don't go as planned or hoped when it comes to such matters, whether in the avenue of formal ministry or the act of informal ministering.

Which is more difficult... your pastor getting out of a season of "funk" or your favorite professional athlete? We certainly get more excited about a great game, than we do a great sermon.

Pray this #seniorPastorMonday for those pastors finding themselves in a difficult season of struggle. Whatever it is that is weighing them down or bringing discouragement, pray that that spirit and whatever has brought it to bear would be lifted. Immediately. Pray for a refreshing and rejuvenating move of the Holy Spirit over their hearts and minds; may the heads be lifted by the hand of God. May God extend grace as a covering, for the insecurities, faults and inadequacies of pastors; for it relies not on their charismatic greatness, but upon His divine power and sovereign purpose as they move in faithful service.

For the glory of God
And the cause of Jesus Christ.

- PNC