So Ive been thinking, its about time I retool the way I do facebook. Dont get me wrong, Im not closing my account- and Im not getting away from using this for God ultimately. I am going to revisit the amount of time spent here, and the level of devotion with which I apply to devotionals. In fact, I can see that God has already been scaling me back over the last 2 years. It started when I no longer had the time to take care of my page BOLD voices for CHRIST. I had to completely walk away from that ministry that I started. Then, with the new job change, I was no longer able to host Open Mic FRIDAYs. .Each had developed into large communities- and no doubt was a move of God. But were seasonal. I used to have a lot more time to actually study Gods word for the purpose of bible teaching. I remember going verse by verse literally through the book of Jonah and James. I have never approached teaching Gods word rashly but have always sought to borrow from the most sound doctrine available. It does take time. Recently I have not had the commitment to dig deep in study for purposes of information only. The reason is, because I havent had the time. God is not going to give me a passion for something that I cannot purpose in today. So that said, my teaching is simplified, and for sometime now most of what I write has been right of the top of the head, or just shared stuff, or fun stuff. When I share I teach from knowledge possessed. Not a whole lot of new revelation per se. The time I spend in the bible now is more for transformation not information. In other words, Im coming to God because I need some personal lessons taught and perhaps some revelation that is not meant to be shared. I dont want to make the same mistake as many ministers before me who sold out their families for the ministry. I will not do it, and God would not honor it if I did. Also, I do not need to because this is not my livelihood- lol. Please keep me in prayer because Im in a critical stage where I have a 13 year old an almost 8 year old- and a lovely wife. They truly are my first ministry even if I have not always treated them that way. I want to make the right decisions for God. I want to make the right decisions for my family. I want to make the right decisions for my job. And of course I want to make the right decisions in my ministry. I dont think facebook is bad, I have seen God do for too much in this place. Ive seen lives transformed and people come to salvation. But I do know that when a good thing becomes an ultimate thing it becomes a bad thing. I want to do facebook with balance. Ive been ministering here day in day out for over 5 years and I think its time to pull back a little bit. I might miss a post here or there and it will not be the end of the world, lol. I believe this. I believe God is doing a new thing! And if I reduce in my efforts in half, God is going to double the results. Not everything I do here is solid ministry. There is lots of time wasted scrolling down news feeds and doing other things. You guys dont see that stuff. I want to use facebook as the Lord leads. I want to do it the same way I do life, Proverbs 3:5,6. I had gotten to the point earlier where I did not have facebook, but it had me! And I feel like God has broken be free from that stronghold. I pray that you will evaluate your usage of facebook. Hopefully it will not be at the place where it is crowding out other more important things. Your kids are only kids once. Never make them feel like they are competing with social media. God showed me that lesson a long time ago. I feel like now he showing me another one- time stewardship. Everything is fun for a season. Just make sure that youre willing to yield with each new season. I pray that I can as well. Happy Fellowshipping purposefully on facebook :)
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:43:01 +0000
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