My days are busy and I have been told by others that I must like it like that. In all reality I really don’t, I just don’t know how to be any other way. I have come to understand that it is just the way my brain works. I strive daily to love the Lord with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength, and serve Him in those ways as well. Because of how I live, by the end of the day, most times I tend to sleep very well. Lately my sleep has been broken up, every time I start to doze off I feel like I am being poked with a stick or start wrestling with a bear. I think part of it is because of the way I intentionally live my life trying to sacrificially encourage others and the enemy doesn’t like it. Encouragement is probably one thing that is needed most in our world, giving someone support, confidence, and hope, but the majority of people are just too busy to do it. For me, it seems as if it is something that is hard not to do, mostly because I know how desperately I have needed it at times and not received it. There are times when life for me gets overwhelming in caring for the needs of others that I may miss a few services at church and it seems to go unnoticed. For some Pastors, they stay in their own little worlds where it is all clean and peaceful. Then there are those that go into the trenches where it is full of pain, heartache, and filth. When some Pastors see the hurting in front of them, they cross the street or go in a different direction, to avoid, and not to minister as we see in the story of the “Good Samaritan”. I want to see hearts set free and people healed, especially the ones that the world would say are “the undesirables” because I was one of them, and am still considered that by some. My prayer is that my days are full of ministry however that may be, some by messages and phone calls, others face to face, or by divine appointment. More importantly by taking every opportunity to take someone else before the throne of grace in prayer. I find it interesting how many people say they can relate to the prodigal son but in all reality how many actually resemble his brother instead. I have been in the church a long time and one thing that I can say for sure is that I have seen the attitude of the brother more than the son. It is written in *Luke 15:25 “Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’ 28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’* I minister the way that I do because when I was in need, there were few, if any, who were willing to walk an inch in my shoes, much less a mile with me, and even when I was crawling to the foot of the cross, it was only the Lord Jesus who gave me strength. I believe that God wants our lives to overflow with grace, mercy, and compassion because that is what He has given to each of us. These are the true marks of a servant of God. Church, we are called by His name and as followers of the Lord Jesus, we have a choice: withdraw from the unsettling realities because we are too busy, or too good to deal with what is right in front of us, or follow His example by responding to those with the greatest needs of our day with hope and love. When we step out in faith, something incredible happens, we’ll encounter our living God working through us as we minister with the Love of the Lord Jesus. My greatest desire is for God to get the glory for all that He allows me to do. If you want anything more than that, it is idolatry. To God be the glory. In Christ Love, douglas. HE>i. pastord.blog

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