Note to self: Tone...

Watch the TONE of your ministry...

Be careful to not be so CONDESCENDING...

You CAN'T LIFT PEOPLE UP if you're constantly TEARING THEM DOWN...Albeit in a passive way...

That whole "I've arrived" approach is played out...let's grow together...it shouldn't be a competition of who gets there first...or who worships better (John 4:24 "God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth)...it's not about our shout, it's about our spirit and our truth...or who understands "relationship" the best...many of us are still in the refining process where God is bringing us to where HE needs us to be to experience the relationship HE wants us to have with Him...everyone in their season...

So if you've been blessed to go through the process, don't say to yourself "Thank You God I'm not like them"...but rather, "God, show me how to help them"...

Luke 22:32

"...And when thou art converted, strengthen the brethren."

If you can't help somebody...you haven't arrived... :-(

~ Charesse