Pastors have a million things pressing them from every side. Just to list all the things that pastors do (or are unrealistically expected to do) is overwhelming.
And we have so many obligations and people expect so many different things from us (and we expect so much of ourselves) we often get tired, and fatigued under the heavy load and feel like we can’t go on. Sometimes in fact we think we have so many things to do we don’t even know where to start. Furthermore the devil likes to accuse us of laziness if we do take a break or if we slow down to get our bearings.
Pastor, I want to encourage you to take time to wait before the Lord in prayer, in silence, yes even in sleep. I have found a beautiful thing is to sleep in a posture of prayer (often only for a few minutes) and then to awaken with a fresh vigor and zeal to talk to the Lord or actively listen to Him through Scripture reading or meditation on Him and His Word.
Secondly I want to encourage you to take the time to wait on the Lord. We obviously should be waiting in the presence of the Lord in the prayer room in an intentional time of prayer, but we also need to adopt a lifestyle of waiting on God. God’s timing is perfect, God’s revelation is perfect, God’s plan is perfect. So let us determine to not get ahead of Him or lag behind but to simply stay in step with His Spirit. We must trust that the Lord will make His will known and cause us to be able to hear His voice and His instructions in His timing. If we don’t know what to do and we haven’t heard His voice clearly, let us simply wait and listen and keep our eyes on Jesus.
Please take time to enjoy and rest in the presence of the One who died and rose again because He wants to be in your presence for all eternity!
Christ is with us, Christ is in us!
Mike J
Pastor Michael Johnson 