Sixth Time is the Charm, Not Three

I think I’m pretty unique.

Correction, I know I’m unique.  Unique is defined as “being the only one of its kind” or “unlike anything else.”  We are all unique in our own way yes, but something that is definitely different about me is how many times I need to be told to do something.

Especially by God.

I’ve always felt called to youth ministry ever since I started attending a youth group at Pauls Valley First Assembly of God in the seventh grade.  I never denied it, but I never fully accepted it.  I had always put it in the back of my mind.

It took God telling me six different times for me to accept it.  The straw the broke the camel’s back was a night with the college kids at my church.  We ate a non-traditional thanksgiving dinner.  Not long after cleaning up, we felt the need to pray for a friend, which then erupted into a five-hour prayer meeting.  By the end of the five hours, God said to me, “DEREK!  What’s taking you so long?  Time is running out.”

I’m still not exactly sure what He meant by, ‘Time is running out,’ but I am certain of what He meant by, ‘What’s taking you so long?’

This month I began the Oklahoma School of Ministry.  In ten months, my girlfriend Kelli Clark and I will be certified ministers.  After that, we will start our licensing classes, then we will work towards becoming ordained. We are both taking eighteen hours this semester, along with doing School of Ministry, and serving at our church.  This is what we “church people” would call a “refining time.”

I only post this, to ask this:

Please remember Kelli and myself in your prayers.  Please pray for strength, wisdom, courage, guidance, diligence, and most of all a servant’s heart.

Twelve21

Misty Edwards – You Won’t Relent

You won’t relent

Until You have it all

My heart is Yours

I’ll set You as a seal upon my heart

As a seal upon my arm

For there is love that is as strong as death

Jealousy demanding as the grave

And many waters cannot quench this love

Come be the fire inside of me

Come be the flame upon my heart

Come be the fire inside of me

Until You and I are one

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~ by Twelve21 on January 18, 2010.