Friday, October 19, 2007

God as a public relations firm?

God has given each of us special abilities, and He wants us to use those abilities for His good. But in the battle between good and evil, the devil always will try to keep us from moving forward. Joyce Meyer recently wrote in The Christian Post about a time early on in her ministry when she was leading small groups in California. She wanted the word of her ministry to spread by hiring a public relations firm, but in the end it was not for her:

This wasn’t the right way. This was only a cheap imitation of what God wanted to do in my life and in my ministry. I wanted to take the firm’s offer but I turned them down.

I still remember lying on my bed in that California hotel room crying. I was desperate to move ahead in my ministry, but it seemed like I was bogged down, unable to move at all. God spoke to me in that weak moment and told me that if I would wait on Him, He would be my public relations firm; He would be the One who would make sure His name was known through the growth of the ministry He had called me to. God is faithful! He has done what He promised He would do.


I'm not sure if He's a member of Public Relations Society of America, but I would be happy to have God handling my public relations.

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