Post by Les Brewer on Dec 18, 2021 21:57:56 GMT
LIFE HAS ISSUES
Some things people don’t understand about my life! Why? It is because they have not lived my life with me and can’t understand everything I have been through and why I cherish many of the personal relationships I have with the young pastors and preachers in Ghana.
When someone who’s not your son fills your heart with joy like a son it is one endearing experience. I love my African sons just as if they were the progeny of my own loins. There is such a mutual love and respect between us and it is edifying to say the least. I love the connection and rapport I have with many of those which I consider my African sons. Even though it’s virtual and spiritual; those relationships are real and dear to me.
Brethren I know the thralls of abandonment and how it can hold one in captivity to the anguish and despair of its sense of emptiness and doom. When I was obedient to the heavenly call and I launched out into the deep and left all to follow Christ and his will for my life.
Yet; I will not lead you astray my brethren and will admit my faults and take the responsibility of my own faults, mistakes, and misgivings concerning family dynamics which became dysfunctions that devastated it and left me alone to deal with the reality of my sins and the consequences of them.
Yet after that great misfortune I sought the face of the Lord and repented with a whole heart and confessed my sins and my faults to God seeking restoration in his eyes and I found it at the altar of my own living sacrifice. I then with much fervor and intensity sought to do the will and purpose of God in returning to ministry which God had called me back to after a period of much prayer and mending of my broken heart.
I have now resumed that calling and have seen the fruits of my labor in the souls, healing, and deliverances which have occurred over the years since my restoration. I always remember the passage in which Jesus gave an answer to the curiosity of Peter’s concerns. He answered with a promise which has come true for me. Why? It is because all that I lost has been restored in the form of that which I have told you at the beginning of this commentary. Read it:
(28) Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
(29) And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
(30) But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. Mark 10:28-30 KJV
It’s true that when I am in my second homeland which is Ghana; I have a hundredfold more concerning a family which I feel connected and respected with. I have brethren, sisters, mothers, children, and land that come with the persecutions of those who seem to have made it their mission to come against me and the ministry God has called me to.
Brethren; I was nothing when God picked me up and washed me in his blood and gave me a new name, new nature, and a new nation as a child of the Most High God in the Kingdom of Heaven. I owe Jesus all of my life and I am in the process continually to do that very thing. Selah
Bishop D. Ray Ritchie (Apostle of the Faith)
