Harvey Carey, founder and senior pastor of Citadel of Faith Covenant Church in Detroit, Michigan was recently recorded saying...
“Why is it that our business meetings, our strategy meetings, our management meetings far eclipse our prayer meetings? In your calendar do you not spend as much time in your personal prayer life, seeking God, asking Him for His direction, as you do in your management and strategy meetings?
If the truth be told the average Christian leader spends more time in management and strategy meetings than we ever do talking to God. How are we going to think that we are going to further the work of the Church of God, the Kingdom of God, the things of God, without God. We are doing these things and we are doing them by human ability and doing them with human intelligence and human capital. If we have got enough money we will do it, if we have enough staff we will do it, if we have got enough buy in from the congregation we will do it, it is us doing it.
And God is saying to us if you are going to do my work it requires my presence. And so we have got to pull away from this man made management of God’s Kingdom. For unless the Lord builds the house the labourers work in vain.
You cannot make the Kingdom like you make a widget.
God is real, prayer is real, the Word of God is real. God is asking that if My people who are called by My name, would not abandon thinking, not abandon their brain, but come to me first, and generally give Me the same about of energy that you give to the other piece. We have not given the same amount of energy to our God, as we have to own ability. It not an either or. Keep thinking, for God gave us that, but it is spirit and truth. It cannot be the add-on, “God meet us with our plan.”
When you allow God in this equation, whatever you have done to this point that was your idea, you saw what you could do, but watch what God can do”
Are we are stuck in a rut of meetings without power? What are your thoughts?
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