Yesterday we went down to preach at a small church who is looking for a pastor and we had a wonderful time together.

But can ya believe it, here we are all dressed up and my wife is looking hot, we get part way there when she announces that she forgot her bible!!

How devastating,  here we are suppose to be doin some impressin and she forgot her bible!!!  what would people think when the pastors wife leaves it at home????
Then to top it off, she forgot earrings,  I old her she would have to stay in the car!!  I’ll roll down the window for her!!

Can’t have my wife without her bible or earrings, what would people think??!!

We had to laugh because I can’t remember a time that she ever forgot her bible,  she might forget where she left me, but thats a whole nother story!!

They had a meal for us afterward where we had the chance to sit and get to know them. They reminded me so much of our first church that it wasn’t funny.

They were very informal and down to earth, farmers, factory workers and salesclerks. But they made us welcomed and asked if I would come back on the 20th and meet with their board and I agreed.

Where the Lord shuts one door with our plans of starting a church, he opens another door of opportunity, all you have to do is be willing to be used of God,  be faithfully walking with the Lord and he’ll do wonderful things in your life. And if this isn’t the church that we’re suppose to take, then he’ll have other things for us to do

As nice as the people were, it really isn’t about the people, its about serving the Lord and participating with him in his plan of spreading the gospel. People will pay you compliments and thats nice, but we’re sinners saved by grace and my wife and I know how much grace God has poured out on us.

I’m thankful they enjoyed us, but its not about us and no one should look at us and give us praise, we are to look to the Lord and give him praise.

This church is nothing attractive on the building end, they once had a school and built a gym and thats the church now, of course you can hold allot of people in it, but its so far out in the boonies, that theres not allot of people.

They don’t have a parsonage and so we would have to commute and hour and a half both ways which could pose a few problems at times since I work full time.

But if this is where the Lord wants us, then he’ll do what needs to be done and provide for us the means in which to do it.

I love a challenge and then watch how God puts it all together, it is an amazing thing to see how God pulls things together.

Are you participating with God in a ministry for him?  It can be anything if your asking the Lord to lead you in what your doing.

Theres preaching, teaching, praying, support of Gods work that needs participation in and all sorts of other things, pray and ask God that your willing to participate with him and to open a door of opportunity and see what he brings your way.