Apartment Ministry

 God multiplied our apartment ministry this past week when two other workers in the harvest joined us.   We had been praying for other laborers in the harvest to reach the community for Christ.   Also,  Jesus has been it on our heart to pray for more women to go pray/share with people in the apartment complex.  We need other women to connect and encourage two women in the apartment that were not connected to a church.    The Holy Spirit used me to share the 3 circles with a young girl about elementary age on Thursday night in my apartment complex.    

A few friends and I are praying Luke 10:2 this weekend that God would provide other people to come alongside us to pray and share with the lost.   Luke 10:2 says,  "The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few,  Therefore pray to the Lord of harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."  At first, we started with just Nate Roberts and I then it multiplied to three.   For about three to four weeks it was Me, Nate, and Stephen Cahill.     Lastly week,  God multiplied our apartment ministry group to four people, if Nate and his friend come next week it could be six people. 

Gospel Ministry

 God revealed to me today that Gospel ministry is hard but necessary.   We have to strive to reach the lost for the kingdom of God.     Paul wrote painfully to the church at Corinth for their growth in Christ and was in anguish because of the division that took place.     Also,  Paul longed to see those that he ministered to in Ephesians 3:17-18, "be rooted and established in love, may have power, together with God's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ."   Even in the midst of the Judaizers in Galatians,   Paul set forth what God had called him to do.     He pushed forward when he knew the road was hard and long.    Lastly,  Paul fixed his eyes on things about not on earth; Colossians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 4:8. 

A few friends and I have been doing some apartment ministry for about a month and a half.   We had a breakthrough with someone Jordan and I prayed with one Friday evening.   He was a believer that came to faith through a video online.   Tony came to church a few times and a few small groups before I attending a false gospel revival.    I discipled Tony for a while but I have not heard anything for him lately.   Last Thursday,  we were able to pray for some believers that did not have a church home and invited some of them to our church.   These instances remind me that gospel ministry is hard but we have to keep pressing "on toward the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly calling in Christ Jesus" as Paul says in Philippians 3:14.

It is important this week we press on toward reaching the lost with the gospel.   We have to center our hearts on who God is and his glory.   In order to do this, we have to develop a reverent awe and wonder of who is in our life.   Our mind needs to be centered on making disciples that further make disciples.   Therefore,  gospel multiplication needs to be taking place in our life.  

God is still working

 God used some people in my life to remind me that he is still working in the waiting.    God will ordain the circumstances in my life for him to use me in his timing.   These people reminded me that God has a plan and he is working it.   He is using this time to conform me to his image.   He is helping me see the metapmorphsis in my life and molding through Romans 8:28-29.  

Also,  God used the Discipleship pastor from church to remind me of how God has used me recently.  He told me how he has seen the impact God using me to share the gospel.   He mentioned my passion for serving in the church.   Justin Flores was impressed that I was serving in a wide range of areas of church.  He described in detail how my gifts of service and evangelism have been utilized in the church then encouraged me as well.  

Lastly,  God has used the Children's Pastor and the Discipleship Pastor to remind me that I need to keep waiting on God's leading in my life.    Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still and know that I am God."   This shows us that we as believers need to humble ourselves before God and wait on his leading in life.   It is also a reminder of how much we need to depend on God and seek him for everything.   Lastly,  we need to always be aware of God's presence in our life and what he has for us.