A prayer to avoid burnout in ministry by Pete Brisco.

I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will be careful to observe my ordinances

Ezekiel 3627

I've been in ministry for a number of years. I've seen people work themselves to the bone.

They pour themselves out past empty and they turn themselves inside out.

They do it all for Jesus. They do it all for love.

Their intentions are pure-hearted, but their methodology is unbiblical.

If you want to avoid burnout, you're going to have to let Jesus be Jesus, and that requires

a great deal of surrender and dependence.

Mark 42628 reads,

This is what the kingdom of God is like.

A man scatters seed on the ground.

Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up,

the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

All by itself the soil produces grain.

The kingdom of God is like this. God grows it. God produces it, it, God produces it, God knows how it works. The kingdom of God is like

this. You don't have to kill yourself to make sure it lasts. You're able

to abide in the Lord and scatter where he tells you to scatter. Plant where he tells you to

plant and this is amazing rest at regular intervals in between.

If the indwelling is the spirit resting in you,

then dependence is you resting in him.

Let's pray.

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