As a small child I thought it be wonderful (prestigious) to have the position of president of the United States. Then as I grew older, I realized who would want that job? Same way with a pastor of a church, who would want the job of pastor? It’s important to pray for and support pastors. I may not want to be under some of their kingships/leaderships (domain or rule), but I can pray for them. In Jesus day, it was every father and mother’s dream for their son to become a Rabbi. It’s similar to a father’s and mother’s dream now to enter professional sports. It says to pray for our president and leaders! I don’t see where it says to criticize pastors and presidents. It’s says first item of agenda for your prayer life, at the top of the list is to pray for pastors and politicians:
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. Hebrews 13:17
It takes a lot to be a pastor. I remember how my husband laughed about the men who are like “kings” at universities with their kingdom of faculty and students. It’s a babysitting job to make sure faculty turn in their syllabus, students turn in their assignments and track their attendance, faculty, staff and administrators make their meetings. It’s a full time job to be a pastor and babysit God’s people. I sure find that out from my six month old grandson Cameron what a full time job he is to feed, burb, change his stinky poopy diapers and him throwing up on me. My daughter Sandy said he started laughing and cooing at 1:00 am when she was watching him and she wanted to sleep. Those babies are demanding and so are God’s people.
Typically a person with a prophetic gift does not “tickle” peoples ears. They are like engineers, computer programmers, working with machines, sales because they fix the problem and they are results-oriented people. God sent prophets and they tried to fix the problem in Israel and most of them were stoned. We want a pat on the back, a feel good sermon. We like plastic surgery, not heart surgery. Same with politicians. We don’t want to hear the truth from a politician, we will take a pack of lies and false promises, because we want to lay our burdens down and be free from a lousy economy. Jesus was a prophet, evangelist, priest (hand holder).
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 1 Timothy 4:1
We need the “whole” ministry of the body of Christ, like we need difficult people in our lives. They help perfect our love. Paul said that we can come to perfection through the five-fold ministry gifts to the Body of Christ. Currently, mostly only the up-front pastor or priest has been operating in the Body of Christ: (It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: Ephesians 4:11-13)
I have a calling of evangelist, like a man who scatters his seed (just shoot them with the gospel gun and run), I don’t like to burp, change and feed the babies. I just like to have sex per say in sharing the gospel. I like to scatter seed and be a planter, sometimes I water the seed in a person’s life, and sometimes I reap the harvest. I am nothing but a seed sower. Nothing wrong with a seed sower, because we have to plant seed to make babies and have a crop.
We all want to be hand-held in life by a pastor or spouse to tickle our ears and tell us often how wonderful we are in life. That is what a politician does is make a lot of false promises, but then they can rarely deliver the package. That is what the false prophets did, they made false promises to God’s people. It warns in the last days, we want our ears tickled.
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3
A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Luke 8:5
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." Matthew 9:37-38
That scripture above where it says ask God to send out workers is actually that God would “thrust” out workers into his harvest. What is it like to be thrusted? I am more comfortable sitting at home doing nothing. I am a home person. My husband was the runner not me. But it’s like a mother eagle, who puts thorns in the nest to get her baby eagles to fly as far as I start getting restless, then I have to go do a volunteer service project or go share the gospel. I can’t just sit at home and do nothing that I want to do. The walls cave in on me, and I have to go to a single’s Bible study or social. Before my husband passed away, I liked sitting at home watching television, working in the yard, watching grandchildren. I got more “thrusted” out when he died into a single world and now I am Jonah. "I don’t want to go there, and I don’t want to do that, and God I don’t want to do anything. Please come and take me to glory to be with my husband. I enjoyed the couple land, not the land of singles." I don't want to go to Nineveh land any more, I want back to my homeland of coupleville.
"And by the way God, I love you, I just can’t stand any of your kids. They are your kids, God those are your poopy diapers to change, and it’s your vomit mess they make not mine. I’ve already raised seven children, so you can have these kids back now."
The Lord told me not to let his people bother me. He was not happy with them in the wilderness, because of their whining and complaining. He let a whole generation stay there until a new generation came up. It’s because He got them out of Egypt, but he could not get the stinking Egyptian thinking out of their brains. What is Egyptian thinking? Selling out to secular knowledge or humanism of this world. There is sense knowledge that comes from our five physical senses what we see, taste, touch, feel, and hear. That is what science, medicine and the knowledge of the world’s universities give us. But then there is a revelation knowledge that moves in the realm of faith that is above this natural world.
When I examine Peter’s life who went fishing after Jesus died and after he rose from the dead is Jesus asked Peter if he loved him, “Feed my sheep.” It said that Peter was “grieved” that Jesus asked him three times if he loved him.
The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. John 21:17
What I consider if you marry an evangelist type personality, it’s on to the next thrill ride in life, the next revival, the next church, it’s a roller coaster. I like the combination of evangelist/prophet like my spouse, because they know they have to be separated from the world and they are not just out to scatter their seed to the wind. So I try to find men with “a conviction” that he will settle down with just one woman. Not a man who says, “How boring to have sex with one woman.” My spouse only had one other woman in life, that is rare.
When things started getting tough, Jesus 70 disciples left and only 12 stayed with him that is some evangelists for you! They are on to the next thing or the excitement of the next amusement ride. Getty- up horse! The next thrill in life. If you are going for an up and down roller coaster in life, you may want to consider a person with a pastor’s heart or a prophetic gift. (From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. John 6:6)
Jesus talked to his 12 who actually “went with him through the trials.” You are those who have stayed with me in my trials. Luke 2:28
If I wanted a hand-holder in life, a person who was empathetic, patted me on back, told me how beautiful or wonderful I was, a good communicator, I would never have married an engineer. My husband and I were well suited in life because neither of us needed hand-holding or much nurturing. This is one of the “basic” problems I talk to single Christian couples who break up is that they are looking for hand-holding in a relationship. They are looking for a pastor’s heart and there are not many out there like that. It was a really “gift” from God that my spouse even told me he loved me twice the week of his heart attack, I just did not get that out of him.
I had a woman tell me that a man overseeing a Bible study is cold/not much love. Then next, I had a man tell me the same thing about a woman who leads a single’s group, “She never smiles.” They probably have more of an administrator gift or prophetess/engineering type personality as a leader. My birth order is baby (last born). I like to monkey around. People with engineering personalities are not in the “monkey business.” I like to be spontaneous, they like structure. My husband hated comedy, he was a civil engineer. As a first-born child, he liked structure. Most of these type of men/women don’t have a pastor’s heart, they don’t have a compassionate nature. They can sympathize, but no empathy. I sat down with another engineer from an online dating site and with his dry personality, I realized, I would like to have a guy a bit different this time, maybe a hand holder or another monkey like me. My spouse was very easy going, even with his structured personality so he was easy to love. We tend to be attracted many times to an opposite of us in life.
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. Hebrews 13:17
It takes a lot to be a pastor. I remember how my husband laughed about the men who are like “kings” at universities with their kingdom of faculty and students. It’s a babysitting job to make sure faculty turn in their syllabus, students turn in their assignments and track their attendance, faculty, staff and administrators make their meetings. It’s a full time job to be a pastor and babysit God’s people. I sure find that out from my six month old grandson Cameron what a full time job he is to feed, burb, change his stinky poopy diapers and him throwing up on me. My daughter Sandy said he started laughing and cooing at 1:00 am when she was watching him and she wanted to sleep. Those babies are demanding and so are God’s people.
Typically a person with a prophetic gift does not “tickle” peoples ears. They are like engineers, computer programmers, working with machines, sales because they fix the problem and they are results-oriented people. God sent prophets and they tried to fix the problem in Israel and most of them were stoned. We want a pat on the back, a feel good sermon. We like plastic surgery, not heart surgery. Same with politicians. We don’t want to hear the truth from a politician, we will take a pack of lies and false promises, because we want to lay our burdens down and be free from a lousy economy. Jesus was a prophet, evangelist, priest (hand holder).
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 1 Timothy 4:1
We need the “whole” ministry of the body of Christ, like we need difficult people in our lives. They help perfect our love. Paul said that we can come to perfection through the five-fold ministry gifts to the Body of Christ. Currently, mostly only the up-front pastor or priest has been operating in the Body of Christ: (It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: Ephesians 4:11-13)
I have a calling of evangelist, like a man who scatters his seed (just shoot them with the gospel gun and run), I don’t like to burp, change and feed the babies. I just like to have sex per say in sharing the gospel. I like to scatter seed and be a planter, sometimes I water the seed in a person’s life, and sometimes I reap the harvest. I am nothing but a seed sower. Nothing wrong with a seed sower, because we have to plant seed to make babies and have a crop.
We all want to be hand-held in life by a pastor or spouse to tickle our ears and tell us often how wonderful we are in life. That is what a politician does is make a lot of false promises, but then they can rarely deliver the package. That is what the false prophets did, they made false promises to God’s people. It warns in the last days, we want our ears tickled.
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3
A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Luke 8:5
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." Matthew 9:37-38
That scripture above where it says ask God to send out workers is actually that God would “thrust” out workers into his harvest. What is it like to be thrusted? I am more comfortable sitting at home doing nothing. I am a home person. My husband was the runner not me. But it’s like a mother eagle, who puts thorns in the nest to get her baby eagles to fly as far as I start getting restless, then I have to go do a volunteer service project or go share the gospel. I can’t just sit at home and do nothing that I want to do. The walls cave in on me, and I have to go to a single’s Bible study or social. Before my husband passed away, I liked sitting at home watching television, working in the yard, watching grandchildren. I got more “thrusted” out when he died into a single world and now I am Jonah. "I don’t want to go there, and I don’t want to do that, and God I don’t want to do anything. Please come and take me to glory to be with my husband. I enjoyed the couple land, not the land of singles." I don't want to go to Nineveh land any more, I want back to my homeland of coupleville.
"And by the way God, I love you, I just can’t stand any of your kids. They are your kids, God those are your poopy diapers to change, and it’s your vomit mess they make not mine. I’ve already raised seven children, so you can have these kids back now."
The Lord told me not to let his people bother me. He was not happy with them in the wilderness, because of their whining and complaining. He let a whole generation stay there until a new generation came up. It’s because He got them out of Egypt, but he could not get the stinking Egyptian thinking out of their brains. What is Egyptian thinking? Selling out to secular knowledge or humanism of this world. There is sense knowledge that comes from our five physical senses what we see, taste, touch, feel, and hear. That is what science, medicine and the knowledge of the world’s universities give us. But then there is a revelation knowledge that moves in the realm of faith that is above this natural world.
When I examine Peter’s life who went fishing after Jesus died and after he rose from the dead is Jesus asked Peter if he loved him, “Feed my sheep.” It said that Peter was “grieved” that Jesus asked him three times if he loved him.
The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. John 21:17
What I consider if you marry an evangelist type personality, it’s on to the next thrill ride in life, the next revival, the next church, it’s a roller coaster. I like the combination of evangelist/prophet like my spouse, because they know they have to be separated from the world and they are not just out to scatter their seed to the wind. So I try to find men with “a conviction” that he will settle down with just one woman. Not a man who says, “How boring to have sex with one woman.” My spouse only had one other woman in life, that is rare.
When things started getting tough, Jesus 70 disciples left and only 12 stayed with him that is some evangelists for you! They are on to the next thing or the excitement of the next amusement ride. Getty- up horse! The next thrill in life. If you are going for an up and down roller coaster in life, you may want to consider a person with a pastor’s heart or a prophetic gift. (From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. John 6:6)
Jesus talked to his 12 who actually “went with him through the trials.” You are those who have stayed with me in my trials. Luke 2:28
If I wanted a hand-holder in life, a person who was empathetic, patted me on back, told me how beautiful or wonderful I was, a good communicator, I would never have married an engineer. My husband and I were well suited in life because neither of us needed hand-holding or much nurturing. This is one of the “basic” problems I talk to single Christian couples who break up is that they are looking for hand-holding in a relationship. They are looking for a pastor’s heart and there are not many out there like that. It was a really “gift” from God that my spouse even told me he loved me twice the week of his heart attack, I just did not get that out of him.
I had a woman tell me that a man overseeing a Bible study is cold/not much love. Then next, I had a man tell me the same thing about a woman who leads a single’s group, “She never smiles.” They probably have more of an administrator gift or prophetess/engineering type personality as a leader. My birth order is baby (last born). I like to monkey around. People with engineering personalities are not in the “monkey business.” I like to be spontaneous, they like structure. My husband hated comedy, he was a civil engineer. As a first-born child, he liked structure. Most of these type of men/women don’t have a pastor’s heart, they don’t have a compassionate nature. They can sympathize, but no empathy. I sat down with another engineer from an online dating site and with his dry personality, I realized, I would like to have a guy a bit different this time, maybe a hand holder or another monkey like me. My spouse was very easy going, even with his structured personality so he was easy to love. We tend to be attracted many times to an opposite of us in life.
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