In your ministry assignment, have you ever said that? Has your life and ministry taken a turn that you don't really appreciate? OK, I know we can say it stronger. Are you in a place you hate right now? For many pastors and ministry leaders we have to admit we have been or are there now.
So does God have a Word for us? Well of course! But, we may not like it. Listen to what God said to His people through Jeremiah:
This is what the Lord of Host, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon: "Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease. Seek the welfare of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it has prosperity, you will prosper."
Jeremiah 29.4-7 (HCSB)
For whatever reason we are where we are because God has placed us there. Jeremiah never says God will move you because your unhappy or its hard or its not what I thought it would be. He says don't stop living, don't stop serving, don't stop being productive. He does say pray for the place where you are. Perhaps God can use us in those difficult places to bring about a great spiritual "prosperity" for His people.
So does God have a Word for us? Well of course! But, we may not like it. Listen to what God said to His people through Jeremiah:
This is what the Lord of Host, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon: "Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease. Seek the welfare of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it has prosperity, you will prosper."
Jeremiah 29.4-7 (HCSB)
For whatever reason we are where we are because God has placed us there. Jeremiah never says God will move you because your unhappy or its hard or its not what I thought it would be. He says don't stop living, don't stop serving, don't stop being productive. He does say pray for the place where you are. Perhaps God can use us in those difficult places to bring about a great spiritual "prosperity" for His people.
