Once again the Lord has put an opportunity in front of me that I feel I must be obedient to. I,m not exactly sure of the reason why I,m supposed to do it but that has never stopped me before. Since yesterdays sermon I have thought that I should call and thank my pastor. As I had told one of my friends during Sunday school, if I had been given a chance to write a sermon for him it would have been quite close to the one he preached yesterday. Also although my comments had gotten back to him through our music minister I had not gotten around to telling him how touched I was by the service two weeks ago. You see we have communion service once a month and the last one was so special I felt as if it was the first time I truly received. I finally got the chance to tell him how I felt the Holy Spirit was alive and well in both him and our church that day.
Well anyway I had made it a point I was going to call him today and one thing lead to another and as it got late in the afternoon I figured I,d just pop in before or after bible study tomorrow. Then around 4:30 my cell phone rings and the caller I D comes up Pastor Rick. Now I,m always happy to talk to Pastor Rick I truly enjoy any time we get to spend together but I know he,s always busy and he doesn't call me just to say hello. So before I even picked up I knew he was going to ask me to do something and since I was thinking about him today and this is only the second or third time he has ever called me I knew I was going to say yes.
Well Wednesday night our Church hold a Thanksgiving service that allows members to just stand up and give thanks for whatever is on their mind from the previous year. I attended last year and it can be a pretty powerful evening.Well Pastor Rick asked me if I would give my testimony Wednesday night. That means I will go up to the podium and after he opens us up in prayer I will pretty much get the night started. Now the only time I have given my testimony to more than one person was before Pastor Rick and the Elders when I was in the process of becoming a member. I have been told by more than one elder and by Pastor Rick that they enjoyed my testimony and I guess he really did. So Wednesday I am going to share my testimony with about 300 people and I know I'll be in tears halfway into it, and I,m also going to be a nervous all day wednesday thinking about it,but all the events of the past ten days or so and also the event that immediately preceeded the phone call tell me this it what the Lord wantsso thats where I'll be Wednesday night.
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