Comments on: Theyleft everything and followed him

By: Pastor Rick Hill Jr

Pastor Rick Hill Jr — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This message is exactly what I needed to hear today. I have been working at my Career as a Safety Professional for a large Prestressed/Precast Concrete manufacturing and erection firm for ten years. For the past couple of years I have been working a second job which has been my passion driven by prayer and I feel Gods will for me, as a Substance Abuse Counselor and Pastor for Missouri Dept. of Corrections. I am also Senior Pastor and Director of our Ministry Serenity Through Hope which with everything added up has left very little time for much else. Jan. 6, 2005 I was injured at my Full-time job which has resulted in major back surgery that will most likely not allow me to return to the job. Either way I have decided to go full-time as a Substance Abuse Counselor and Pastor for Missouri Dept. of Corrections. This is a great leap of faith for my family and me because of the drastic drop in income. Although We walk by faith, not by sight 2Cor.5:7 there are still trying times for Pastors as well, I know we are expected to be the rock for our congregations but at times we feel vulnerable also. Thank you for the wonderful message. Bro. Milton at Transforming Sermons had this link on his site.
In Him,
Rick

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is the very passage and the very message that my pastor spoke on this Sunday, and the very thing that I recently wrote on my own site. I find this happens a lot when God wants to teach me a lesson, he will throw it at me everywhere I go. My metaphor for this was that we need to pray to God with open palms, and we cannot do so when we are unwilling unclench our fists from around the things we desire in this world. EVERYTHING is a big word. Leaving EVERYTHING to follow Christ seems almost impossible. Yet, everything is this world is finite, and will pass away? Why then do we say that it is easier to grasp things that are here today and tommorrow are gone rather than grasping something that will ALWAYS be there?

By: Ish

Ish — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Nathan for this challenge. I’m reminded of St. Fransis who stripped from the cloths that his father had given him. And then as he stood naked with a crowd watching gave the cloths back to his father, and set out for a life of self imposed poverty. A fast from riches to draw closer to the Lord. May I only be so bold in my relationship with God.