Are you exhausted and worn out, beat up and beat down, sitting right on the edge of "I quit", and wondering where God is within your situation? Are you pleading for God to take you out of the difficulty or hardship that you are within, wondering why He has not answered? Where is God? Why has He not delivered me? This is a common place that many of us reach throughout our life and unless we understand why this silence from our Father occurs we can often miss the reason for the situation altogether.

We are a people that have been instructed to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, imitating Him in the various aspects of life and purpose. Our savior Jesus, lived a life on a mission to please His Father and was obedient even unto death. Jesus was nailed to a cross, after already going through horrific humiliation and torture, yet He followed through with His purpose and even coming to the point of "Where is God". Jesus himself came to the place where He cried out; "Father why have You forsaken me?" Had God forsaken Him? No, not at all, Father God had to allow Jesus to go through death before He could give His son the victory over death.

Sorry, if you were looking for more, but this is the only truth that I have ever found to really help me. It very seldom makes the problem or circumstances go away, but it does change my attitude and perspective about the difficult place that I'm within. To be perfectly honest, there are times that it has changed my perspective and attitude so much that I no longer view the situation as a problem. This is better than God making the issue go away. Instead He gave me the victory over it.

Further, the men and women involved in this production are very well know in politics and if I said their names most of you would immediately know who I was speaking of. They also profess to be Christians, which made this all the worse for me. So let me explain and clarify why I feel that this is an issue. Why I think this is just another way that man has tried to minimize God.

We are not looking to start another ministry...there are ministries and churches on every corner. We are not looking to be another set of teachers or preachers...There are many that are far more talented and gifted as orators, public speakers and leaders than we are. Why try to recreate the wheel? Why not have something where God can have His own way, completely organic and unplanned? What if we just started crying out and worshipping Him, creating a throne of praise for the King to sit upon and then allowed Him to rule the service? I think we might find that God would do things a bit differently if He were allowed to direct the service. I think that our services would have an entirely new feel and would have much more variety, which would create a unique experience every time we came together.

I have heard it said many times by pastors and ministers, including myself, that it is "my church". Many have named the ministries that they have started after their own name. Many people have referred to church bodies as being "such and such's "or" so and so's" church. I know many of us say these things without even thinking about what it is that we are saying. So I am suggesting at this time that it is something that we need to be thinking about.

It seems very inappropriate to me these days that we should be calling anything "ours" or "mine". The church body or ministry does not belong to John Doe, but rather to our Heavenly Father. (Acts 20:12) The almighty God is the possessor of all things. (1 Chronicles 29:11, Psalm 50:12, Romans 11:36, Colossians 1:16, ) You may think that this is a bit trivial but the fact of the matter is this, if you say something long enough it will eventually take form and become something that you view as truth.

So often we get so caught up in doing the so called things of the Lord that we often miss what the Lord has actually directed us to be doing. Many of us will substitute doing activities or ministries of the religious nature for obedience. Still their are others who do neither. Let me ask you this question; "How many of you have taken a moment to consider the other commandments in the scriptures? You know there are many more than just the Ten that we most commonly hear about, in fact, there are over 600 hundred of them.