Bread of Life

A PASTOR'S LIFE!
Always pray for your pastor

"The lawyer is working,
The lecturer is working,
The journalist is working,
The Doctor is Working
The Pharmacist is Working
The Pilot is Working
But many think the PASTOR is playing and needs a real JOB.

You think everyone else in every other profession is really busy, but when it's a pastor, you say 'go and look for a job'.
Well done!

We applaud professions that don't offer real value to people but think less of those who do.

Footballers earn far more than doctors,
Comedians earn far more than teachers,
Most Pastors earn very little or nothing.
And you think that's fine?

How has Messi helped your life or given you a new hope for living?

How has Basketmouth saved your marriage or helped deliver you from addiction?

But pastors are involved daily, bearing the brunts of helping people live a better life and yet when we see them own few things we behave as though they don't deserve anything.

In case you don't know, being a pastor is one of the most demanding and sacrificial work I know on earth.

I am a pastor. I have been a Pastor for so many years now.

I have been to police stations severally because of church members.
I have visited several hospitals and spent nights there awake because of church members.
I have travelled long distances, given up my belongings, attended to marriages at the verge of divorce, and conducted funerals all because of church members.

The last was a family who were barely 4 months in church had an accident and the woman and her baby died on the spot. When I got there, their whole family was crying to me, asking me in tears 'pastor why?'

Who else is supposed to answer such a question? Its always the pastor. Yet in the midst of that, we bring courage and restore hope.

But when it comes to a pastor having money, people will frown and wag their tongue against it. And yet the economy is not different for pastors

Everyone else cries but when a pastor does, he has no faith.

Everyone can bring their problems to pastor but no one asks if pastor has eaten, he should tell it to God.

Everyone else can be forgiven when they make a mistake, but pastors' mistakes are unforgivable. ('And he calls himself a pastor' is always the line)

Everyone can be rich but not pastors, else the society will begin to talk.

You will read headlines, "members are poor but pastor is rich" but you won't ever hear of or read when "members are rich and their pastor is poor".

You think it doesn't happen?

I have seen a church where many members have big cars but they all drive home without anyone offering to drop pastor and his family home first, not to talk of buying him a car.

Do you know that majority of pastors are actually struggling financially, taking multiple jobs and even menial ones to survive?

But they won't tell you, especially the ones who probably deserve it more.

See let me tell you, if you see a pastor doing different jobs while in ministry, let your heart be moved favourably toward them and treat them honourably especially your pastor.

They're sacrificing a lot.

Instead of you quoting scriptures to teach that pastors should work (as if pastoring is not hard work), it should be your desire to be able to care for them to the point where they won't have to do other jobs to survive.

Don't join the bandwagons of those who dislike pastors and do all they can to defame them

God Bless Every Pastor in the House of God

"PASTOR"

>>>Ang pastor mo, hindi man yan kasinggaling ng ibang mga pastor, pero siya ang regalo ng Diyos para sa church n'yo. Siya ang itinalaga ng Diyos to care for the flock. Siya lang ang makakapag-preach sa puso mo in a way na mararamdaman mo ang pastoral care. Kasi kilala ka niya. Kilala mo siya. Siya lang din ang pastor na with all the elders of your church na nagpe-pray sa 'yo by name, nag-aalala sa'yo at buong tiyagang aalagaan at didisiplinahin ka hangga't maging katulad mo si Cristo. Kung may tanong ka tungkol sa Bibliya, o may gusto kang ikonsulta tungkol sa isang isyu o desisyon sa buhay, pwede mo siyang lapitan.

Your pastor is still better for you than any other pastor who is not your pastor.

Hindi siya perpekto, pero gusto ka niyang turuang tumingin ka sa nag-iisang perpektong Pastor—ang Panginoong Jesu-Cristo. Marami siyang pagkukulang—tiyak yun!—pero sa pamamagitan niya ay mararanasan mo ang kasapatan ng biyaya ng Diyos para sa church na kinabibilangan mo.

——CTTO——

(1 Timoteo 6:11-16)
11 Ngunit ikaw na lingkod ng Diyos, umiwas ka sa mga bagay na ito. Sikapin mong mamuhay nang matuwid, maka-Diyos, may pananampalataya, pag-ibig, pagtitiis at kaamuan.
12 Ipaglaban mo nang mabuti ang pananampalataya. Panghawakan mo ang buhay na walang hanggan, dahil diyan ka tinawag ng Diyos nang ipahayag mo sa harap ng maraming saksi ang iyong pananalig kay Cristo.
13 Iniuutos ko sa iyo, sa harapan ng Diyos na nagbibigay-buhay sa lahat, at sa harapan ni Cristo Jesus na nagbigay ng mabuting patotoo sa harap ni Poncio Pilato,
14 sundin mong mabuti nang may katapatan ang mga iniutos sa iyo hanggang sa pagbabalik ng Panginoong Jesu-Cristo.
15 Siya'y darating sa panahong itinakda ng mapagpala at makapangyarihang Diyos, Hari ng mga hari, at Panginoon ng mga panginoon.
16 Siya lamang ang walang kamatayan, at nananatili sa liwanag na di matitigan. Walang taong nakakita, o makakakita sa kanya. Sa kanya ang karangalan at kapangyarihang walang hanggan. Amen.
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(1 Timoteo 6:11-16)
11 Ngunit ikaw na lingkod ng Diyos, umiwas ka sa mga bagay na ito. Sikapin mong mamuhay nang matuwid, maka-Diyos, may pananampalataya, pag-ibig, pagtitiis at kaamuan.
12 Ipaglaban mo nang mabuti ang pananampalataya. Panghawakan mo ang buhay na walang hanggan, dahil diyan ka tinawag ng Diyos nang ipahayag mo sa harap ng maraming saksi ang iyong pananalig kay Cristo.
13 Iniuutos ko sa iyo, sa harapan ng Diyos na nagbibigay-buhay sa lahat, at sa harapan ni Cristo Jesus na nagbigay ng mabuting patotoo sa harap ni Poncio Pilato,
14 sundin mong mabuti nang may katapatan ang mga iniutos sa iyo hanggang sa pagbabalik ng Panginoong Jesu-Cristo.
15 Siya'y darating sa panahong itinakda ng mapagpala at makapangyarihang Diyos, Hari ng mga hari, at Panginoon ng mga panginoon.
16 Siya lamang ang walang kamatayan, at nananatili sa liwanag na di matitigan. Walang taong nakakita, o makakakita sa kanya. Sa kanya ang karangalan at kapangyarihang walang hanggan. Amen.