The times it's raining hard, and you don't want to be driving through it, but you slowly, carefully, persevere because you have a Bible study scheduled your going to....
The faces you get to see turned from tearful, lonely, or sad, to relaxed, thankful and relieved....
The phone call you don't want to answer because it's someone hurting - a prayer request for God to work in a messy situation that only He can mend....
The times you tell your family and your best friends "I miss you, but I'm not coming to see you yet, God said 'wait', and He comes first."
The nights you are up later than you want to be, because something came up that you were not planning on doing....
The stories you get to hear that have never been told before, of the miracles God has been working in a life....
Those times you are inconvenienced, but somehow you're not being one bit impatient, and then you realize God is doing something in your life that only He could do....
The satisfaction you have when someone starts reading the Bible for themselves. Those moments you feel helpless, like you can't keep going on, and you breathe a silent prayer, and God answers and totally takes over for you....
The fulfilment you experience when someone makes a decision to give their life to Christ, to go into the waters of baptism, to start a new life with Christ. The joy you feel when they explain how they're excited for the new start they will now have with God....
The person who comes to church or prayer meeting because you call and encourage them almost every step of the way, telling them how they can make it and they will really enjoy it....
The hearts you get to love, the souls you feel a burden for, and the promises you find when you realize the burden is to big to bear alone...
These are the moments that make a life in ministry totally worth living!
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