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Question: I have been a Christian and I mean a true follower of Jesus for the past 6 years. I have walked with the Lord, obeyed him the best that I know to do. I have taught Sunday School, Go to an Assembly of God church every time the doors are opened. Love the Lord with all my heart. He is my best friend. But for the last month, I have felt that don't want to teach sunday school anymore. My interest in it is gone. When I first started teaching, I loved it. Couldn't wait to get to it each day. Now I dread it. What in this world is the matter with me. I have had a hard time reading my Bible. I just have to make myself. I don't understand what is wrong. I tell the Lord all about it. I ask him to put a love back in my heart for the word, for the things of God. Yet when I try to read the Bible I find myself far away. I find myself in deep thought about something else. I find myself not wanting to do the things I use too.

I witness in the Chatrooms everyday. I love it just like I loved teaching Sunday School. It is so hard to witness to people though. I pray before I go in, and I ask the Lord to guide me. I love sharing with people and love helping the hurting.

Do you think it is that I have to walk by faith and not by sight. To discipline myself even though I don't feel like doing it. Not going by my feelings, but by faith. I just heard Charles Stanley say once that he was burned out once, and how he got on his knees and prayed and God helped him. How God puts a restlessness into your life when he gets ready to do something different.

I just don't want to loss my relationship with Jesus. I don't want to fall away from him. It is so easy to do that if you aren't careful. It can happen so quickly that you don't even realize it sometimes. I don't know what is going on. Maybe you can help me. Thank you very much.

Answer: I've been praying over your question and sense the importance of your finding a solution to your need.

First of all, allow me to share with you a story of a minister who had been pastoring for some 25 years. one day as he began his daily prayer, the touch of the Lord wasn't there as it had been before. After several days of this, it was time for his midweek service. He knew that he'd need the help of the Lord, but as he prayed, he still felt the same. As he entered the pulpit, he felt the anointing that he needed, yet the next morning it was gone as he started his prayer. After several more weeks of feeling lost and as though God had forsaken him, he realized that God was trying his faithfulness to his personal prayer life. For he realized, we must pray even when we don't feel to pray, to keep our spiritual strength up, just as we must eat to keep up our physical strength. The book of Hebrews speaks of the sacrifice of praise (KJV).

From your question, I sense that you're discontent and discouraged in your prayer life and the work that you've been doing in Sunday school. Ministering to the needs of those you know personally, you've lost this desire. Yet you have this desire to minister over the Internet to those whom you don't know. We must beware of an overindulgence to the Internet. It can become a leech that can sap our desire for the things of God. I've seen ministers become so wrapped up in the Internet that their walk with God suffered greatly. The Internet, as great as it may seem, can become addictive as any other vise that we teach about.

I would encourage you to become fruitful in your own experience, which will enable you to grow seeds which you can plant in other lives. We must be faithful to God if we want him to use us.


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