And this is what she said to me, 'You can fix them or I can. when I had my annual physical this year and my doctor told me your numbers are pointing in the wrong direction. Their A1C is high, their blood pressure is skyrocketing, their cholesterol is bad, they're on more medications than they should be." You'd be surprised that the majority of black preachers are in horrible physical condition. Y'all, did you realize this is the only body we get? This ain't a test run. I want to travel and go sit in the back of somebody's church and hear the word of God and not be worried about what time we got to get out for the next crowd. I want to read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation without trying to write a sermon. Serving in ministry doesn't make up for deficiency in prayer. Sunday worship does not make up for deficiency in prayer. When you really love the Lord there is something about being convicted of a deficiency in your prayer life that you can't escape. I want to know what it's like to get back to the place where I spend the first hour of my day on my knees. Sharing some of his spiritual and physical goals for his time of rest, he said, "I want to draw back closer to the Lord. I hear the Lord saying 'be still.' So I'm going on a sabbatical." I've just got to walk differently and in order to do it, I've got to step away. And I gotta leave some stuff in the 40 that I'm not carrying in the 50. And the Lord's trying to change me y'all. Wesley told the congregants: "The Lord is pulling me away because I'm in this struggle and I'm not surrendered. "Sometimes God engages you in a struggle so that God can remove you from people to teach you to surrender, so God can break some stuff and make you walk differently." But he's got to get Jacob in a struggle by himself so Jacob will surrender and then the Lord can break him and then his walk will be changed," Wesley said. And God gets Jacob because God wants to change Jacob's nature. I'm struggling with God with some issues right now. I feel like Jacob when God wrestled with him. That you allow your work to be mixed with your worship, and I feel so distant from God. One of the greatest mistakes of pastoring is to think that because you work for God you're close to God. This ain't nothing but an admission baby. Looking tearful he said, "I'm not leaving you. "I fell prey to the satanic trick that busyness honours God." It is ungodly not to use up all your vacation. Don't you leave PTO in somebody's hand! You take every mental health day they gave you. I don't know who I'm preaching to right here but don't you leave vacation days on the table.
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And the word to somebody today is if you really want to be holy you gotta learn how to rest. And God says you are not being holy if you don't know how to rest." That if you're working yourself to the bone somehow you are glorifying God.
That the more you got to do, the more high up on the food chain you are. And here is the greatest deception of the devil – to convince you that the busier you are the more important you are. He said, "The enemy in an attempt to block your holiness, wants to remove rest from your life and push you back into slavery. Wesley, who has led the megachurch since 2008 said that taking time to rest is a biblical requisite for holiness and that oppositely busyness does not honour God. His sermon at the time was titled "Selah" and focused on the value of rest.
Pastor Howard-John Wesley made the announcement during a sermon to his 10,000 church member congregation. And I'm tired in a way that one night of sleep ain't gon' fix. It is very dangerous for your pastor to be on empty. I am walking away from every responsibility I have as pastor," Wesley announced in a sermon earlier this month. He explained the reason for his decision was because he felt far from God, tired in his soul and needed to recuperate mentally and physically. Megachurch Pastor Howard-John Wesley of the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, has stunned the church this month after he announcement that he will step away from his preaching ministry for a season. Howard-John Wesley, senior pastor of the historic Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va.
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