Wednesday, 02 July 2008

• Who has final authority in your life?

  This goes back to a comment I made to a post with some extensions of course

  I was in a church where everybody can't discern for their own. For some reason everybody thinks that the pastor and the pastor's wife are the voice of God to them. I wouldn't say the church is a cult, but the pastor does try to orchestrate as much as he could in people's personal lives to get people to serve at the church. I did allow them to do that for awhile during my time there because I was only starting to walk with God. For some reason, I couldn't serve at the church effectively because I keep getting spiritual battles as to whether if it's God's will for me to go into ministry or not. They told me that they see it in me that I'm supposed to be in ministry.

  It got to a point that the pastor's wife told me that if I wanted to join her discipleship group, I can't even be friends with the guy I'm dating now - a man who truly does go after God's heart. Thank God that He gave me heads up before she asked me to join - He told me there's a discipleship coming up and it won't be with the pastor's wife. After she asked me, I told her I wasn't getting any peace for joining her group, it was like my eyes were opened. I saw how the pastor would preach something and it is something completely different from the conversations that we would have.

  And that's when God told me to make sure that I make His Word the final authority of my life. He told me to make sure that I don't get approval from anyone whether if s/he is a wo/man of God or not. I need to get approval from Him.

  I don't hold a grudge against the pastor or his wife, I learned a good lesson. But there are a lot of people who rather turn to a pastor for their life problems or decisions than to God.

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