We had our daily team time and on the agenda, a Pastors Meeting was coming up the next day. This was a meeting for all of the local Pastors to come and get encouraged and excited to go back out and continue their amazing work for the kingdom. The only trick was, our team was leading the meeting…
Two topics we were to focus on were “Humility” and “Hearing God’s Voice”. Now it was time to choose who was speaking on what. Inside my head I was praying that I got chosen for the Humility one because I was in no position to speak to Pastors about how to hear God’s voice. I was struggling with hearing His voice so why would I talk on that?! I bet you can guess what topic got chosen for me… So now I am speaking to Pastors on a topic I know nothing about. Or was I??
So I get myself calmed down and remember why I am here. To stretch myself and allow God to transform me into whom He designed me to be. Welcome to the World Race. We live a life of stretching and being uncomfortable. The only comfort we have out here is that we are finally getting comfortable with the fact that we will always be uncomfortable. But it will be ok and you will learn amazing things. Just say YES. Even if it makes NO sense to you. Say YES.
So now it’s time to begin preparing a sermon on Hearing God’s Voice for the Pastors. So I begin with a simple prayer, “Lord, I don’t feel qualified for this sermon and I wish I could even hear your voice, but I am saying YES to you and just running with it.” I begin to right down the different ways I have been able to hear God’s voice in the past. Before I know it, I have a full sermon on the topic.
The big day is now here. No turning back now. I told my team that I wanted to kick it off. So I get up there and just begin speaking what I have down. Half way through the sermon, I started smiling and laughing in my head. You know why? That whole sermon that I prepared was not even for the Pastors that I gave it to… It was for ME! God wanted to use that to remind me of how I can and have heard His voice. All I had to do was say YES. Man, He is tricky sometimes.
From that day, I began to hear and feel God’s voice again by simply reminding myself of the sermon I prepared for those Pastors. Just wanted to share that with you.
