WAITING FOR THE DIRECT MESSAGE FROM GOD FOR YOUR PEOPLE
Do you ever step up to the pulpit on Sunday morning knowing you are not as well prepared as you should be? My friend Ken Johnson shared a story with me that he heard Ian Pitt-Watson tell this past June at Arcadia Presbyterian Church. Pitt-Watson said: “Because I’m leaving on Tuesday for Korea, I am not as well prepared as I ought to be. And I am reminded of the pastor who thought, when he had difficulty preparing a particular sermon, ‘Perhaps the Holy Spirit will tell me what to say on Sunday morning.’ This thought returned to him several times during the week, and when at last he stood silently before his congregation, he turned to the Holy Spirit for guidance, and a celestial voice said to him, ‘Tell the people you are unprepared!”‘
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