Comments on: A Shared Post from Perry Noble: Five Questions We Should Ask Ourselves http://www.mikecantrell.org/2009/07/13/a-shared-post-from-perry-noble-five-questions-we-should-ask-ourselves/ leadership & life Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:11:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: April Billingsley http://www.mikecantrell.org/2009/07/13/a-shared-post-from-perry-noble-five-questions-we-should-ask-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-20 April Billingsley Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:10:44 +0000 http://www.mikecantrell.org/?p=235#comment-20 UGH, Pastor! You're doing it some more! I am struggling with some of this right now... not so much in application to ministry as it is more about my life. I was just praying today about how sorry I am that I have somehow slipped back into thinking my life should involve things that I like, that I want, that I "need". God quite bluntly let me know that not only is my life not all about me... it wasn't even a little about me in the grand scheme of things. Of course God wants His children to be blessed and happy and have joy and peace. But we don't get to make requests that would bend His will to ours. I keep thinking of a sermon you did - you said that God can unzip our hearts and put His desires right inside and then they become our desires. I pray for that frequently... because as in one of my favorite songs - I am a flower gently fading, here today and gone tomorrow, a vapor in the wind. That really crashes selfish hopes and desires. God's plan continues without me... I can be a good and faithful servant, or not. I choose the first! UGH, Pastor! You’re doing it some more! I am struggling with some of this right now… not so much in application to ministry as it is more about my life. I was just praying today about how sorry I am that I have somehow slipped back into thinking my life should involve things that I like, that I want, that I “need”. God quite bluntly let me know that not only is my life not all about me… it wasn’t even a little about me in the grand scheme of things. Of course God wants His children to be blessed and happy and have joy and peace. But we don’t get to make requests that would bend His will to ours. I keep thinking of a sermon you did – you said that God can unzip our hearts and put His desires right inside and then they become our desires. I pray for that frequently… because as in one of my favorite songs – I am a flower gently fading, here today and gone tomorrow, a vapor in the wind. That really crashes selfish hopes and desires. God’s plan continues without me… I can be a good and faithful servant, or not. I choose the first!

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