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Originally Posted by TakingDominion
Hello,
For those of you who have ever been in full time ministry, whether evangelizing, pastoring or some other form, how did you answer the call?
I'm currently 30 years old, been working at the same company for almost 12 years. God has financially blessed my family in an incredible way over the past year. I've made more money already this year, than we've ever made in an entire year before. I have a great job with incredible benefits with an awesome company. However, my career is no longer my passion...
I go to bed at night dreaming about the work of God. I drive in my car weeping, burning with a desire and burden to do something for the Kingdom. I've driven home many days from a great job, tears streaming down my face feeling the mantle of calling and not sure what to do with it.
I've shared here before, my wife and I are very active in our church. In fact I was thinking the other day, this is the first time in more than 10 years we haven't been teaching a Sunday morning class every week. We usher, we serve, we knock doors, I lead service, I preach when asked, we sing in the choirs, we have taught Sunday school, youth and college & career classes. In the past year, we've been blessed to preach out more than we ever have before. I'm humbled to say God has moved in every service with anointing and power.
Our financial blessings have been such this year, that my wife and I were thinking of taking an extended vacation in the Fall. We were going to go out of the country for the first time. However, I felt in prayer that God spoke to me and said that He hasn't blessed us so that we could take vacations. He's blessed us to prepare for ministry.
I'm just not sure how to move from here, to there. I've had several conversations with my Pastor, and he just says to take it slow. Although, out of intimidation I don't think I've told him fully how I feel. He keeps telling me that most evangelists starve while on the field.
How do I express this feeling that I have? How do I tell my Pastor that I feel God drawing us away from home? How do I tell him I sit in my pew burning with a desire to do more?
Not for money (trust me) not for fame... but to answer the Call of God
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What I'm about to post is just some frank advice and food for thought. You know you and your circumstance better than me or anyone else, except the Lord. What I'm about to post doesn't even require a response from you, either. I just hope you consider it, and whatever worth it has in your mind, act accordingly.
After reading your initial post as quoted above, I had two thoughts:
1.) You're already ministering full time
2.) Anyone at your job hear the Gospel from you/won anyone from work to the Lord?
The first thought is not so significant, at least to me, but to say that it's entirely possible to minister and serve in the Kingdom of God, have a burden to do more, experience the passion and zeal to work for the Lord, and think it means you have to drop the job and hit the road, so to speak, in order to minister "full time" when all along you've already been doing just that.
As to the second thought, I am of the opinion, for whatever that's worth, that the station we find ourselves in, is the place God wants us to work the most. For almost everyone, especially men, that station is the workplace. That's our fishing hole, or our vineyard, if you will. If we aren't working there taking care of God's business, it's pretty presumptuous of us (I think), to say to God, to ourselves, and to others, that we'll take care of the Lord's business, just somewhere else, as soon as He decides to let us off the hook.
But if the workplace has been evangelized, and all the fruit you are ever possibly going to harvest has already been harvested, then I see God moving you along to a new venture, whatever it may be. But not before.
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