This weekend was an amazing challenge on many levels. In the personal column, we were celebrating the birth of our first granddaughter with my son David and his wife Corrie and we had family in town as well; we enjoyed many wonderful moments together.
In the North Way column, we had the launch of the Sewickley Valley campus on Sunday morning and I was responsible for the message on the topic of “Too Messy for Jesus?” (You can watch or listen to this message on our website at www.northway.org.)
Without going into great detail, all those things could have piled up on my spirit and caused a lot of tension. Instead, as the Lord seems to do in my life, He used the convergence of all these events to create a ‘moment’ of obedience to His Spirit.
Rather than giving the full message that I had spent many hours preparing, the Lord had me basically “step off the script” and just bring the highlights of the message to allow His Spirit to use the time to minister to people at all the different campuses.
The results of this were incredibly refreshing, according to all the campus pastors, and I know certainly at Wexford. Most important, I felt the favor of God for being willing to take the risk to trust Him along with the all the teams that had to adjust as well in order to make this happen.
It’s not often that we have to trust God and step out into unknown territory with many people who could be affected. However, there’s great joy and fruitfulness which can’t be seized any other way.
Blessings,
Pastor Jay
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