Adapting To A Changing Time In The Ministry, Retaining My faith In God

adapt flexible ,make something suitable for new use or purpose, modify

change is good,alter or modify. make different,replace

retain keep, absorb and continue to hold, keep possession of.hold on

We often hear the expression God has not finished with me yet.

We need help rebuilding,restructuring our lives Don’t lose your joy!

The year 2024 we are experiencing much change

Technology

AI artifical intelligence

Social Media exposed, monitored, followed

Smart Phones memory, monitored, substitute for companionship

Pleasure trips to space

Adapt to changing time in ministry retain your faith

Movement in Church

Entertainment

Competition Between other churches

Lost sight of who we serve (friend, clique, idol,mentor)

Failing to integrate the past and the present (old and new}

We have stop waiting on the Lord and start blessing ourselves

Adapt to change and retain your faith

Questions:

Do I have the courage to decipher right from wrong?

Spritually decerning

Should I rethink my position? Am i looking at things clearly?

I don’t want to be left behind, what are my options?

Adapt to change and reain your faith

We cannot go back to a simplier place in time where gold and silver were natural products. Now everything is a percentage of...

Haggai 2:1 “In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:”

Haggai 2:2 ““Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,”

Haggai 2:3 “‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?”

(new temple pitiful)

Haggai 2:4 “Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts,”

Haggai 2:8“The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.” :

Haggai 2:9 “The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’ ””

Encourage our hearts to believe and receive

Psalm 28:7 “The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.”

Psalm 28:8 “The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.”

Psalm 28:9 “Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.”

Psalm 73:26 “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

Remind us God is in control of our lives

Summary: We are actually rebuilding, restructing our lives, we must remember that God has to be the number one in our lives.

Philippians 2:12 “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,”

We are in a changing time , ADAPT TO THE CHANGE , BUT RETAIN YOUR FAITH

The holy spirit is the same now, yesterday and tomorrow, It will not change.