My Biggest Take Away (So Far)
Hello All,
This week’s post was actually from last week I neglected to put it in the right folder. So we got an unexpected free week. Hope you used it wisely. Looking forward to reading your responses this week.
I hope this reading week was helpful to you all and althea it allowed you to ‘catch up.” Based on your “slips” many of us need (d) that time. That being said, please be encouraged keep up as best as you can. God is a God of timing and when we walk in obedience we get God’s best and His fullest.
This week we will only be receiving the Scriptures so that we can once again have an opportunity to catch up. Please make good use of this opportunity.
The question this week is:
Considering all that we have have learned and discussed during our training, what has had the biggest impact on how you are fulfilling the call of God on your life? How has it impacted this fulfillment? Please be specific.
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Hello My Fellow Leaders,
The biggest impact on me fulfilling my calling has been the men and women that have been strategically placed in my life. When I accepted the call to ministry in 2005, I had Pastor David Jenkins, Pastor Linda Jenkins, and Pastor Fred Burleson to walk with me. I learned from them about serving God and how to serve God with the right intentions and motives – the motive to gratify and glorify God in all that I do. Plus, serving God and learning how to put God first; I learned how to be a better husband, father, friend, and brother. And God has been continuing being faithful and gracious to allow my family and I to leave one location, in the PACNORWEST and come to Newport News, Virginia; where we continue to get good guidance, teaching, and training under the tutelage of Pastor Salvatore Dentu and Pastor Matisha Dentu. The mentorship, friendship, and love that I have received in the last fourteen years has been God ordained and perfect for my circumstance and need.
I use to ask God, why didn’t I fulfill my call earlier in life, but God showed me that I was not ready and people which were required was not in place to guide me properly the way that is necessary. God’s timing is perfect, although sometimes I may ‘kick and scream’ in the spirit, I am truly thankful for God’s calling on my life.
Because of His Grace,
Richard
Considering all that we have have learned and discussed during our training, what has had the biggest impact on how you are fulfilling the call of God on your life? How has it impacted this fulfillment? Please be specific.
What i have learned thus far, biggest impact on how i am fulfilling the call of God over my life is what i have went through. The training has pulled truth, the transparency about my challenges and struggles in the calling.
Thinking back from 2001, when i gave my life to Christ, i praise God for what i have been taught and trained from LFCC Oak Harbor. Under Apostle David and Pastor Linda’s teaching and training was the foundation to accept the calling over my life. They demonstrated and taught the truth of the word of God to show that God can use me for His will and His purpose.
Now, under the teaching and training of Pastor Salvatore and Pastor Matisha, even the more so, the pruning, the corrections, the lessons, the practical and spiritual guidance have given me the strength to continue the calling. The Pastors demonstration on love, grace, and mercy helped me that it’s okay to be who i am. I do not need to pretend. They have showed me, that it’s okay to accept the call. That i do not have to be perfect to do what God is calling me to do.
I praise God for teaching and training. I can go into the community knowing that I have the right teaching and training. It’s the truth of the word of God. I can demonstrate the love, the grace, and mercy toward all God’s people. Serving the community requires me to be filled with God’s word in order to face the stuff coming toward me. Apply truth into every situation. I must seek God daily.
I thank my God daily for calling me into His purpose. He saw me worthy. I am forever grateful!
Sis Amy Jones
The biggest take away for me is staying focused on God, looking up the scriptures, and going through the bible. This is putting more and more of God in me. I wanted a teaching church and God answered my prayer. Every day something is going on in my life and I admit I had the tendency of getting caught up in the situations. This training has helped me to stay focused on God. I intentionally asked for the Holy Spirit to lead and guide me in all things. When I am on my way to HU or Sentara I am praying and asking the Holy Spirit to help me not to miss anything. This conversation is automatically for going to church for anything. As a reverend I know I need to be at the door to assist in any way possible. We are supposed to be responding to the Great Commission. I know if I stay on this path my problems will be taken care of by God and because I am doing what I supposed to do which is Build God’s Kingdom. The best take away I have learned is to just TRUST GOD in all things, not that I wasn’t but it is more in my spirit.
Hello Leaders,
When I consider the the biggest impact on my calling, I now have the realization that my position in this life is strategically orchestrated by God. In my home, on my job and in my community, I have the opportunity to minister to countless individuals. Whether it is outwardly, or discreetly , or young or old. My christian walk, my testimony within “our” testimony, and my calling speaks of the unequivocally phenomenal love of God.
The preparation has been one of amazement. I (we) prayed for a good church home to grow in. We also prayed for couples to fellowship with to strengthen our spiritual growth, and a even greater relationship between us. I now see what they mean when they say “Be careful what you pray for” .
I must admit that I was not paying attention to God’s answers to our early prayers. God removed us from a stagnant living situation to put us in line to receive the blessing of our home. He move on our hearts to seek more fulfilling spiritual leadership.
He brought us through many storms to place us at LFCC Newport News. My family and I are eternally grateful. I am exceedingly thankful for my pastors. For me personally, the teaching, the love , and spiritual guidance that they have provided is heaven sent.
The biggest take away so far for me is that God chose me from before I was in my mother’s womb for a time like today and spend eternity with Him. This really blows my mind to think that our God, creator of all things chose me!
The biggest take away so far was the reading and discussing “The weight of responsibility”. This has had the biggest impact on me during this training. I know that ministry can be a heavy burden to bear and yes, I have weighed the cost many times and had to make the best hard choices by the leading of the Holy Spirit. I say best hard choices because it was the best choice for my life but it was hard for my flesh to be obedient. But to fully grasp the severity and full spectrum of the heavy responsibility of being a minister of the gospel. To hear that we are responsible for not only our own calling but those who are trusted into our care. From the standpoint of everyone being called, but then there are a few chosen. Like in Matthew 22, “The Parable of the Wedding Banquet”, where many are called to the wedding-feast which I equate to “our salvation”, but then to find those amongst us not properly dressed with the spirit and sanctification of God, so it is a constant examination of ourselves first and foremost and then be a conduit for others leading them to a righteous living in Christ. That every day we have our own struggles and yet we are called to be above board on our own issues. That we cannot afford to be self-centered, prideful and without love in our hearts for the lost and those considered Saved. This is a lifestyle, 24/7 and I pray to God to help me be up to the task as hand. That my Lord and Savior provide me the wisdom and the strength to not only battle my own wretchedness but to give aid to my fellow brothers and sisters in and out of Christ, the Saved & Lost.
The biggest impact on me fulfilling my call has been understanding that it really isn’t just about me. Yes God called me because he knew this was the one way he could get me to live for him but he also called me because God wants to use me to minister to someone else. To some that may be a “duah” moment; however, when I heard it something else registered in my mind. That statement of understanding that God really wants to use me to help someone else gave me a sense of “you are vital to the kingdom”. It help lessen my thought of I’m doing it because it’s the right thing to do and helped me recognize ‘No girl, someone is depending on you wether they know it or not’. Understanding this gave me the push I needed to not wanna quit, it helped me not feel that I wasn’t as vitally important as God says I am and it helped me see that If I give it all up right now something will always be missing. Yes God will get the glory either way and can use someone else but something will be missing, I will be missing and I won’t be doing what God destined me to do.