I’m Tired
I’m Struggling
I’m Scared about coming home becoming a youth pastor
I am simply burnt out
This is why I haven’t blogged in so long, because I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to write. I feel sometimes that I need to impress the viewers since you all are my supporters and you “need” to see the amazing things happening in the Kingdom through us.
Today I was running and listening to a couple different messages reminding me of who I am in Christ. Reminding me that I am His FOREVER! Reminding me that my identity needs to be found only in Him and that I am IN CHRIST. The moment I placed my faith and trust into Jesus Christ I became His, I became no longer my own, but that He bought me with a price and that I am now His forever and that no matter what I am going through or anything that I have done against Him, I am secure in Christ and He loves me. I have been struggling with all these things. I have been far from God and desperately in need of a renewal, and the part that is the scariest for me is the fact I am going home in a month to become a youth pastor burnt out/Tired/Scared/emotionally drained/ and with the fact our marriage has been in a difficult place all race long because of ourselves and also the circumstances the race puts you in.
I write all this to ask you….
I need your prayer family/body/church! I’m in a rough place and I need you to be praying for us and to some extent I feel that the prayer from back home has come to a halt. I need you to pray for us, and ask the Father for a new desire, a new perspective, and a perseverance through the trials.
Maybe, you too are going through the same type of things that I am but in different ways and you too are struggling. I want to tell you that we are IN CHRIST. Our Identity lies in Him and we are loved by an incredible God who is always pursuing us even when you don’t think He is. Family, we need each other! That is what the church is for and the church isn’t a building, it’s people, it’s relationships and God ordained it that way because we need each other. Just as much as I need all you to be praying for us, there are people that need to be praying for you as well, but if were not transparent and open nobody will ever know what to pray. God has encouraged me through this with this verse…..
2 Dear brothers and sisters,[a] when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
I also encourage you to read these verses as well as I have and understand where our identity comes from in these verses. IN CHRIST/IN HIM/IN THE BELOVED.
WE ARE IN CHRIST!!! And that’s something to praise God for.
I love you all, thank you for allowing God to use us on this adventure.
-Jeremy
