Confidence...

OUR GREATEST CONFIDENCE - 

"When we help God’s people pastorally, we have one tremendous source of confidence: It is that when God begins a good work in people’s lives He will continue it until the day of Jesus Christ. The hidden factor in every encouragement we give, or exhortation, or difficult piece of advice or correction, is that God the Holy Spirit indwells the believer to back it up, and to apply it with a force we do not possess. 

  

Our confidence that people will react and respond in the right way is not our confidence in human nature but our confidence regarding God’s working in them. This explains why Paul spoke of being confident in the Lord concerning the behavior of Christians (2 Thessalonians 3:4; Philemon 21). Without that confidence we would despair; with that confidence we are brave and strong to fulfill any pastoral responsibility."

  

- ON BEING A PASTOR: Understanding Our Calling and Work, Derek Prime & Alistair Begg

May YOU always be confident in the Lord's affirming your ministry. While you are a physician of the soul, remember that you are just a PA (Physicians Assistant) to Jehovah-Rapha, the Great Physician, and HE most certainly "restores the soul". 

"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." - Ephesians 3:20–21 

Only by HIS Power within, 

~ PJVS