Please pray for us!!

[onfireforhim]

good evening saints.

before anything, i want to thank God for leading me to this forum. A forum with like faith and belief in Jesus. Believers that know that there is nothing impossible for God, and intercessors. I have read some postings and know that it was God alone that lead me here.. this has been an answer to prayer.

Let me introduce myself. I am a new pastor's wife, starting a new ministry that has been under attack by the enemy since we started. We decided to be released from our church and pursue the ministry that God had been very clear and loud for over two years and we were afraid to be in disobedient to our pastor. Our pastor kept on postponing us in going on and pursuing, sabotaging every step to that we were doing and we felt we needed to be loyal to him. Towards the end of our stay, we were literally pushed out of every ministry and and every time we suggested something he would tell us it wasnt the time, but then go ahead and place someone else who was not even a licensed minister to do the task. We felt rejected and alone and could not talk to anyone about this. I think he felt jealousy because we had a loving relationship with the saints, opened our home, had fellowship dinners every Sunday with different families, ministered to them when they called because they could not reach our pastor. We can honestly tell you that we did this to serve our pastor in an assistant capacity, knowing that he held a full time secular job and was not available. In the beginning he was greatful that we were helping, but then as time went on, his attitude changed with us. He would get angry at us for no reason, at times bring false accusation about us. Our son lead worship for him, and brought such negative accusations about him, had him step down from the worship team 3 times. My son was devastated, because this was a pastor he loved, and although he was only 19 at the time, he was hurt none the less.

We only seek out to this community, not to bad talk our pastor, but to seek advise. we do not have a covering, because after he promised to be with us, he has not returned any of our calls, text or emails. We have been sole surviving for 8 months. we have been able to incorporate our little church, next will be the 501 3c for non tax status. We want to continuing being UPC but how do we explain all this to the district? The last time we went, we wanted to seek their advice when my husband went for his ordination, but before we were able to say anything, they knew of the ministry we were starting and asked why we were taking people from our church, so we realized that someone must have called ahead and we knew then that my husband would not be ordained, and so it was. (As God our witness we hadn't. We were very careful not to make a move because we knew that our move would divide the church.)

So my question being, what do we do next? Our church is going forth, we are working diligently with this community. we are having revival in this small community and every Sunday, we are more and more convinced that God placed us there to continue the work that should have been started a while ago.

Help us in praying for us, and maybe giving us some advice ..thank you.