Happy Memorial Day to you all. I want to give you a chance to share with each other in this blog. Have you ever had a Damascus Road experience? A time when God turned on the biggest spotlight in heaven on you, and things radically changed in your life?
I had this type of experience when I decided to go into ministry full-time. I was 15 and trying to figure out what kind of road was ahead for me. I remember laying awake at night debating between ministry and medicine. I did not want to become a pastor, but somehow I could not get away from the thought. Pastors normally don’t drive a Ferrari, and Magnum P.I. was my hero (minus the short shorts).
Then one evening while attending a Disciplehsip Camp at Turner Falls, Oklahoma, the evangelist was preaching about “the call into ministry”. He said, “If you know you will never be fully happy, except working for God full-time, you know you are called into ministry.” Click! Que Spotlight! Somehow, that phrase turned on the high-beams of heaven. I simply knew I was suppose to become a pastor. I could take you back to that room where it happened, and point out the exact tile where I placed my nose to the ground and knelt to surrender my will to God’s plan. That moment has guided every moment since.
The power of the book of Acts is not that it happened. The power is in the fact that it still is happening. Got a Damascus road story? share it.
Hey Mark,
After spending some time at the SOW class with you this weekend, I knew God had more he wanted me to learn from you. I was lead to check out your site and have been reading through your blogs.
This one really hits the nail on the head for me brother.
It’s a realization that I’ve come to accept in the past recent months. The calling of God on my life has been there for twenty plus years but I’ve always felt I needed more confirmation. But a few months ago I came to this realization, as you so clearly repeated in this blog, that I knew I would never be fully happy until I was in full-time ministry.
That really should be all the confirmation we need.
Thanks for your life of transparency!
Consider me a new fan of your blog and I’ll be praying for True Life Church.
Be Blessed.
Wayne,
It was great to connect together at SOM, and I am thankful to the Lord that I am able to be a place of encouragement for you. I look forward to the interaction in blog, and in life.
mc