Before planting Solomon's Porch, my wife and I spent eleven amazing years in the world of college ministry. I think I speak for her when I say we loved every minute of it. However, if there's a downside to ministry on a college campus, it has to be finding space on campus to meet in. This is a problem we had to deal with for the first 7-8 years, until we were able to build our own student center (thank you Life Fellowship in Weatherford, OK).
Even though our college ministries days are over, we find ourselves dealing with the same problem regarding meeting space. We've been meeting in a hotel since we started doing pre-launch services in October of '09. Over that time, we've met in pretty much every space they have available. Thankfully, Chi Alpha prepared us well for this type of inconvenience. That being said, the inconvenience reached new heights this past weekend.
On Saturday, I received an email from the hotel letting us know our time with them was over. Starting in November, we will no longer be meeting in the hotel. It's always tempting to panic or get upset when something like this happens, much to my surprise though, neither happened. Without going into a lot of details, I believe the timing of all this is God ordained. I don't know what's around the corner, but I believe God is in the middle of it.
Right now we're praying for direction and wisdom. Do we find another hotel and/or temporary meeting space? Do we go ahead and use this time to find a more permanent location? Do we go into homes? We're not quite sure which direction we'll end up going, but here's what I do know. We will not panic. God is in control!
Showing posts with label God's Will. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's Will. Show all posts
For Such a Time as This
We just finished the third week of our Game Changers series by looking at Esther. In fact, most of you knew I would be mentioning Esther from the title of this entry alone. Esther 4:14 is a much quoted passage of scripture and is a preacher's dream come true for good sermon material. As I was studying for the message, I realized something about this verse, as well as Esther's situation that I believe is important for us to understand.
"For such a time as this" is often a place we'd rather not be. We know how the story ended with Esther, we know that she saves the day, and because of that I think we sometimes lose perspective on how scary her 'such a time as this' really was. Too many times we're guilty of believing we're in God's will when life is going smoothly and not in his will when life is hard. Esther's story teaches us that sometimes God's will puts us right in the middle of a storm. Esther was in God's will...she was made queen for such a time as this, but I'm guessing she wasn't really excited about the situation she was in...it was literally life threatening.
If you're walking through a difficult time right now and you find yourself in the middle of a storm, then this next statement is for you. Just because you're in the middle of a storm, doesn't mean you're not in God's will! Keep praying...keep fighting...stay in his will. In the end, you will be victorious.
"For such a time as this" is often a place we'd rather not be. We know how the story ended with Esther, we know that she saves the day, and because of that I think we sometimes lose perspective on how scary her 'such a time as this' really was. Too many times we're guilty of believing we're in God's will when life is going smoothly and not in his will when life is hard. Esther's story teaches us that sometimes God's will puts us right in the middle of a storm. Esther was in God's will...she was made queen for such a time as this, but I'm guessing she wasn't really excited about the situation she was in...it was literally life threatening.
If you're walking through a difficult time right now and you find yourself in the middle of a storm, then this next statement is for you. Just because you're in the middle of a storm, doesn't mean you're not in God's will! Keep praying...keep fighting...stay in his will. In the end, you will be victorious.
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