God is at work where you live

We don’t have to know all that God is doing

We know the basics… He’s told us in his Word that he is saving, sanctifying, sustaining, and guiding us. Along the way we know that He is protecting and providing for us.

In your local congregation and in mine, we don’t necessarily know all the specifics of how God is working to strengthen the core of the congregation and build them up in faith and produce fruit in them that will draw other people to Himself.

We don’t know all the ways that He is arranging circumstances and speaking by His still small voice to people. Sometimes from our limited perspective, it seems that not much is going on.

But nothing could be farther from the truth.

An entire book could be written about what’s going on just in the last month in your local congregation.

God is speaking, God is nudging, God is convicting. God is doing miracles, God is setting captives free. God is speaking by visions and dreams, God is speaking by His word and even through the Bible studies and messages that you’re bringing.

The point is that God is profoundly at work and rather than spending all of our time trying to figure out all that He’s doing, the most important thing is to avail ourselves to Him and say “God, what do you want me to do now?”

As pastors we must quiet ourselves and bow before the Lord in prayer and we can be assured that God will bring a name to our minds, or will give us a task to do, or will speak a promise to us that He wants us to meditate on and perhaps even share with family and congregation.

One of the all-time most important things that we as pastors should be doing is kneeling or laying before the Lord with reverant submission in our hearts and an openness to what He reveals.

And then we can begin to watch for His handiwork because we can rest assured that He is highly active right where we live and in the midst of the people who are part of both our biological and faith family.