Dear Pastor, please take time to slowly and carefully read through these comments that I wrote down after my devotion time today. I believe these words represent the heart of God as revealed in His Word and His activity in the world. Remember that these words are for you and the flock that you shepherd.
I thank God for you. Remember to celebrate that Christ is with us and Christ is in us!
Mike
I have chosen you
Thus saith the Lord: I have chosen you.
I have chosen you to be my child.
I have chosen you to be my servant.
I have chosen you, my Beloved, because I love you and desire to be with you.
Remember this: I am for you.
You are not alone, nor do you have to live only according to what you have.
You will live according to what I give to you.
And I will give you rest. I will give you mercy. I will give you my Spirit.
Dear Church, I have given you my Spirit, I have chosen you to be with me and so that you will go and make disciples.
Dear __________ (your name here), I have given you my Spirit, I have chosen you to be with me and so that you will go and make disciples.
I have chosen you because I know all that I have already planned and prepared for you.
I have chosen you because I love you and desire to be with you and in you for all eternity.
I have chosen you because there are people in your life that I desire to share my love and gospel with. You are the conduit through whom I have chosen to flow.
You are mine, I have paid the full price for your rescue.
You are mine, and I now offer to you all that you need to enjoy the fullness of life I intend for you to have.
You are mine, and I now appoint you to go and bear fruit. I designate you as my apostles.
You are my ekklesia (called out ones) and my ambassadors. Go therefore and make disciples. Go therefore and share my truth by my Spirit within you and bring others from their brokenness and despair and chains into the freedom of life and salvation in me.
Pastor Encouragement 