Discerning Compartments

Frustrations at home. Problems at work. Then you get to church.

Depending on how the day has gone, you can be excited and ready. Relieved and comforted. Or burdened and preoccupied.

For the deacon or person in ministry who holds a secular job/career as well as church responsibilities, a bad day that includes church activities can be a hard transition. I have trouble with it, myself, last night being no exception.

Whatever the enemy can do to throw us off our game and get our attitudes and actions and thought-processes out of alignment with the truth in an effort to derail and destroy us, that will he do...until you are defeated and left for dead...spiritually-speaking. Our lives are 100% Gods, but each of us must be careful as to what we allow to influence various aspects of our lives.

Failure in one arena must not infiltrate another, in hopes to ruin that.  Work life shouldn't destroy your ministry. Ministry can't destroy your home. Home hopefully doesn't sabotage neither work, nor ministry. Lord, help us with sorting this out!

Pray for deacons, as well as admins and staff and ministry volunteers...may they have a discerning spirit about their lives. Pray the power and help of the Holy Spirit would enable and quicken the ability to balance the roles we live out on a daily basis. Pray for guidance in dealing with troubled areas, that problems and situations would be contained so they can be properly resolved without damaging other areas of life. Pray for friends and advisers to have boldness to speak truth and life into sitations and call out attitudes and thoughts that are not conducive to resolving situations. Pray the grace of God to cover such difficult times and may God be glorified as situations are worked through and may the outcomes be their testimony of God handiwork in the affairs of man.

-PNC

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