Joyce Meyer: Ministry Difficulties

Joyce Meyer:  DIFFICULTIES IN MINISTRY 

Some Difficult Things I Have Dealt WithIn The Ministry  

NOTE: These things are not listed in any descending degree of difficulty. They are simply things God placed on my heart to share with you. Hopefully, they will encourage you to press on and see the end fulfillment of your dreams and visions.   

Loneliness – “It Can Be Lonely At The Top.”  

Leadership can be and often is lonely.  

We want friends like everyone else; and yet, we cannot allow a spirit of “familiarity” to come upon those God has placed under our leadership.  

Beware of becoming “entangled” in the lives of those who are under your leadership.  

Becoming too “familiar” will cause most people to no longer be able to see you as the leader. They will begin to see that you are human; and although in one way they want you to be so, in another way they are disappointed if you are.  

A “divine connection” that God arranges with a mature believer is what we must learn to seek. I have some very good friends, but they fall into one of two categories:  

Friends in ministry – people doing the same thing I am doing 

It is easy for others to say, “Lighten up and have a little fun,” when they are not the ones who need to prepare for six upcoming seminars.  

Sometimes it seems that everybody you get around wants something, needs something, expects something, has a question, or needs a decision.  

Always remember that birds fly in flocks, but “eagles fly alone.”  

Giant oak trees do not grow in clumps; they are usually by themselves, perhaps on a hill – and they look majestic.  

We don't say, “Oh, look at that beautiful, majestic clump of trees”; but we do admire the, perhaps, lonely but majestic giant oaks. 

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