Leadership
The word of the Lord came to Ben just before he was to meet with the Pastor of their tiny little church in the ghetto.
Ben had heard that his Pastor was offered the opportunity to take over the position as Head Pastor of a Huge Church.
Although Ben was not part of the Board of Directors or held any position in his church, he knew what God had spoken to him about this so called upward move and he knew he must deliver the message.
Ben arrived early and sat down with his Pastor in his office after some brotherly greetings.
Ben discovered that the rumors were true and that his Pastor had already accepted the new offer. The offer meant a extreme increase in the Pastor's income for him and his family, and it meant TV & radio exposer.
Ben sat quietly as he listened to his Pastor explain all that this new offer could present to him and had therefore accepted the position.
When it was Ben's turn to speak he began to deliver the prophecy that God had given him,,, holding nothing back he said. "The Lord has told me to tell you Not to go any further on this offer, it is NOT from Him." God showed me a man digging day after day in this old abandoned gold mine that nobody really wanted anymore, and after long hours of hard work, he only was able to find a few small pieces of gold. It was not even enough to pay all his bills or live in a decent lifestyle for his wife and children.
Then the man was offered a much larger gold mine that was proven to provide for his family very well, and so the man took it thinking it was a gift from God. However the man had not heard from God correctly, for in taking the new properous mine, it would become his downfall. Therefore the Lord says this...... "STAY IN THE MINE WHERE I HAVE PLANTED YOU. If you will be faithful to that old abandoned mine I have given you, one day you will break through to a large cavern and when you shine your lamp on it, you will see the walls and ceilings and floors bursting forth with the Mother Lode of all Mother Lodes, an amount you cannot count."
The Pastor looked at Ben and stated that he did not accept that as being from the Lord and wasn't going to change his mind on the new offer.
It was then that Ben, delivered the rest of the prohecy that God told him should the pastor not accept it.... Ben said,... "God says, if you go ahead with this, you will be rolling in money, a new car, fine clothes, and in 3 months the new church will love you to death, in 6 months many will begin to turn on you, in 9 months you will be fired, and in 12 months you won't even be in the ministry."
The Pastor again did not recieve this and so they ended the meeting. He took the new offer, and just as Ben had told him, it all came true.
The moral to this story is this.....If God places you somewhere, DO NOT leave Iit until God tells you to leave. DO NOT WALK OUT FROM UNDER GOD'S WILL, STAY IN THE FIELD WHERE YOU'RE PLANTED.
All that glitters is not gold, and more and more gold will never satisfy.
The enemy is out there to strike you down, and to steal, kill, and destroy everything God has blessed you with, and you may never again recover all that God has for you. God never said finding the Mother Lode was going to be easy, in fact He told us it would be hard, so stay where God put you till the Mother Lode comes in and then He may take you to richer ground.
Why am I telling you this story??? Because someone or perhaps many someone's out there needed to hear this right now.... I beg you as a servant of the Lord,,,,, do not act on your own wisdom, wait for God to confirm it, and listen to those who God send to you, they maybe trying to save your life.
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