Are You Nervous?

Are you nervous?

I have been asked this question to many times to count as I have been preparing to preach the next two weeks at Grace. The answer is simply no! Yes, there will be more people than I am used to preaching in front of.  Yes, this will be my first time to preach in front of our new church. Yes, I am looking for many to decide to go and start a second campus with me preaching to them weekly. But, no, I don't feel intimidated. I am not worried about people’s perception of me. I am not trying to impress. Maybe a preacher of old put it best:

“Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.” - Charles Spurgeon

My job, what is asked of me, is that I would merely be a vessel through which God’s Holy Spirit could do what He does through me! If people don’t remember me at all, rather they encounter God on Sunday, then I will have been successful.

I preach not unto men but unto God and ask that He in turn speak to those in attendance and bring change and intimacy with Him.

As you pray for us this week pray that God would do just that this Sunday and next! Pray that it wouldn’t be me they see! Pray that God would remove every distraction so I might hear Him clearly as I prepare and as I preach! That lives would be changed!

Preaching is one of life’s greatest blessings and most powerful ways I see and hear God! Pray I would be changed!

Thanks!

Jeff