I hope that I can, with due respect, agree and disagree all at the same time! I had one of my mentors help when I was at that place of perceiving, mostly mentally ministry was hard. He gave me advice that has, for the last 25 years, helped me to enjoy ministry and never see it as hard (totally understanding your thought) again. He told me this, "𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 - 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡." With that, 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓; no more about trying to establish my own leadership. I started enjoying preaching, teaching, and the work of God. I stopped policing the people and allowed God's Word to do what it does: draw all men unto Himself. I do understand the concept of seeing Ministry as hard, from the perspective of the mental state of allowing my mind to believe that the map, what I was seeing, was really the territory. But, in reality, when I started walking in the moment and got rid of my destination disease, wanting to be somewhere other than where I was or someone other than who I was, now ministry is good and life is much easier. Hard is no longer apart of my vocalulary.

@Billy Punt Not that its not hard or a struggle, but how you Frame it determines how you approach it. If I asy this is a challenge that creates a very differnt approach from have the mentality of it being hard. AND if we really believe that "All things, (hard things, stuggles) work together for the GOOD of them that Love the Lord and ae the called according to His Purpose..." Then what your going through is purposed. So for me that is a challege not some that is hard in the since of coming against. The opposite is true. This didn't come to hurt me it come to make Me.

While currently on sabbatical, one of our pastors delivered a powerful message today. The sermon, titled "From Mud to Masterpiece," was an insightful expository presentation based on Ephesians chapter 2

@Billy Punt Thank you sir, I gave the wrong chapter!!!! Eph. 2 I will change that! “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 KJV The new living translation says:“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”

Hello, my name is Martin Wilson Th.M. I am the senior pastor of Exalted Word Ministries, Clt. NC. Author, NLP Practitioner, Law of Attraction Practitioner,

@Billy Punt little cold today!!

Exatled Word Ministries, Clt. NC