Comments on: When You Feel Like Giving Up http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/ Discussing ministry in the workplace - "Whatever your passion is, that's your vision" Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:02:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kathie http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/comment-page-1/#comment-10808 Kathie Sat, 30 May 2009 23:39:39 +0000 http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/#comment-10808 Hello Pastor Mick and thank you for sharing. I'm so sorry you're in the 'pit' right now, but you know that it won't be forever, as life is constantly changing and moving forward, even if it doesn't feel like it sometimes. I'm so sorry you've had people use you and then leave you alone again. That is their problem and not yours. I've had the same thing happen to me and it's usually during those 'pit' times when others come along to help pick me up again. I wasn't saying we should be dependent on man - man is fickle. But I am saying that God will use 'man' to demonstrate His love and concern for us and often to encourage us during our down times. For this I am grateful and I pray that someone will come along real soon to help lift you back out of the pit. Hello Pastor Mick and thank you for sharing. I’m so sorry you’re in the ‘pit’ right now, but you know that it won’t be forever, as life is constantly changing and moving forward, even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes.

I’m so sorry you’ve had people use you and then leave you alone again. That is their problem and not yours. I’ve had the same thing happen to me and it’s usually during those ‘pit’ times when others come along to help pick me up again.

I wasn’t saying we should be dependent on man – man is fickle. But I am saying that God will use ‘man’ to demonstrate His love and concern for us and often to encourage us during our down times. For this I am grateful and I pray that someone will come along real soon to help lift you back out of the pit.

]]> By: Mick http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/comment-page-1/#comment-8473 Mick Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:42:08 +0000 http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/#comment-8473 I wish this were always true, that God provides people to come and remind you of your past influences. Nice thought. But that that doesn't always happen. Sometimes God waits to receive and perceive persistance out of you. I too could write a book of trials and pain. I'm a pastor where you deal with people that often get close to you, then crucify you. I know that God doesn't always send help via men or their messages. He often lets you sit in the pit till you show a consistant act of worship unto Him. By being constant...God becomes consistant. I'm in a "pit" now with a reality that Christianity, churches, and pastoral "friends" are being unfaithful to me. When I'm needed, I'm actually loved, and then after being "used" for their "buisness", I'm alone with God again. These people of God show you their love and not God's true compassion. Thier love fails...God never fails. Thus, when people are your hope as your feeling low...your hope is not in God. To wait for a human to come and encourage you is a foolish act of faithlessness. An act of dependancy on man. I love encouragement from others...but I need encouragement and faithfulness from God. A man's hope in his fellow brothers is a temporal life boat with a hole in it. However, God's deliverence is sure. ~ I wish this were always true, that God provides people to come and remind you of your past influences. Nice thought. But that that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes God waits to receive and perceive persistance out of you. I too could write a book of trials and pain. I’m a pastor where you deal with people that often get close to you, then crucify you. I know that God doesn’t always send help via men or their messages. He often lets you sit in the pit till you show a consistant act of worship unto Him. By being constant…God becomes consistant. I’m in a “pit” now with a reality that Christianity, churches, and pastoral “friends” are being unfaithful to me. When I’m needed, I’m actually loved, and then after being “used” for their “buisness”, I’m alone with God again. These people of God show you their love and not God’s true compassion. Thier love fails…God never fails. Thus, when people are your hope as your feeling low…your hope is not in God. To wait for a human to come and encourage you is a foolish act of faithlessness. An act of dependancy on man. I love encouragement from others…but I need encouragement and faithfulness from God. A man’s hope in his fellow brothers is a temporal life boat with a hole in it. However, God’s deliverence is sure. ~

]]> By: Karen O'Bannon http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/comment-page-1/#comment-3123 Karen O'Bannon Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:29:11 +0000 http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/#comment-3123 I think we've all taken turns being in the valley. As if the work itself isn't hard enough, people sometimes don't make things any easier. But the good thing about a vision God gives you is that the vision itself will give you strength. And those affirmations that you spoke of earlier are the icing on the cake! I think we’ve all taken turns being in the valley. As if the work itself isn’t hard enough, people sometimes don’t make things any easier. But the good thing about a vision God gives you is that the vision itself will give you strength. And those affirmations that you spoke of earlier are the icing on the cake!

]]> By: Beverly http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/comment-page-1/#comment-3098 Beverly Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:15:10 +0000 http://workplace-ministry.com/2008/03/01/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/#comment-3098 Can I say "Been there. Done that." Yes, I could write a book about the times I was deep in the valley and ready to give up when God showed up and showed out! (My Pastor says that in church alot!) The Word says when you are at your weakest, that's when God can work thru you and His power makes you stronger again. I'm so glad to know I have somewhere to turn during those moments. Can I say “Been there. Done that.” Yes, I could write a book about the times I was deep in the valley and ready to give up when God showed up and showed out! (My Pastor says that in church alot!) The Word says when you are at your weakest, that’s when God can work thru you and His power makes you stronger again. I’m so glad to know I have somewhere to turn during those moments.

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