Lesson Two…<\/p>\n
Over the last 7 months, I have had the privilege of speaking at many different places and to many different groups.\u00c2\u00a0 I have decided to take time to just evaluate those opportunities and to see what God has been teaching me through this time.\u00c2\u00a0 The first lesson I learned, and that I wrote about in the first posting in this series, is one of true humility.\u00c2\u00a0 I am honored and humbled that God would choose to use me.<\/p>\n
The second lesson God has taught me over the last 7 months of speaking is how truly Sovereign He is.\u00c2\u00a0 As I was praying at the beginning of the year for any opportunities the Lord would give me, I sensed He was telling me something unique.\u00c2\u00a0 I sensed Him telling me that any messages I would speak outside of Seacoast would need to be focused on one passage, Acts 2.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why and I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite sold on the idea, but I simply sensed Him saying that and knew I needed to be obedient.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I started studying and preparing.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned so much about Acts 2 and allowed the principles and truths within the passage to marinate in my heart and soul.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew God wanted to speak to me first, before He used me to speak to others.<\/p>\n
Then the invitations began to come in.\u00c2\u00a0 The first few opportunities I had, they did not give me a specific theme.\u00c2\u00a0 They allowed me to choose what I wanted and so it was easy to share with them that God had placed Acts 2 on my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone was excited for what God was going to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Then came those invitations that many speakers dread.\u00c2\u00a0 It is when a speaker is asked to speak, but to do it within the confines of a particular passage.\u00c2\u00a0 Some speakers like this system, while others would rather just pray about it and sense what God is saying in that moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I already knew what God had been telling me, so I was nervous about the passages anyone was going to give me.\u00c2\u00a0 How was I going to fit that passage into Acts 2?\u00c2\u00a0 Would the host be upset that I felt God saying teach from Acts 2?\u00c2\u00a0 These were all possible questions I would have to wrestle with\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that is until the requests started coming through.<\/p>\n
As God would have it, the places that had a passage picked out for me to speak on were also listening to God on my behalf J and when they called and shared the passage they wanted me to speak on, I was in awe of God.\u00c2\u00a0 What passage was I given multiple times?\u00c2\u00a0 Acts 2.\u00c2\u00a0God is so good.\u00c2\u00a0 He is sovereign and He knows what He is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lesson Two… Over the last 7 months, I have had the privilege of speaking at many different places and to many different groups.\u00c2\u00a0 I have decided to take time to just evaluate those opportunities and to see what God has been teaching me through this time.\u00c2\u00a0 The first lesson I learned, and that I wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}