A pastor describes how his ministry's success and financial stability bred complacency, making him forget God's supernatural work. He warns that believers need something in their lives that demands reliance on God, not self-sufficiency.
I'll never forget one time when the ministry first began to become fruitful. We were running our ministry events smoothly. We were seeing testimonies pour in. The finances were finally stable after years of struggle. Everything seemed to be firing on all cylinders. And there was this calm, this peace, this plateau, this season of rest. Nothing wrong with seasons of rest. But here's what began to happen. I began to grow complacent because struggle had been replaced by comfort. Uncertainty had been replaced by certainty. And now it was no longer a stretch to believe for the resources that we needed. I had begun to forget the supernatural element, and the Holy Spirit convicted me. He said, since when does it take no faith to operate a healing ministry? No risk means no faith. If where you are doesn't require faith, you're not in the will of God. I'm not saying every season needs to be chaotic and you need to be reaching way beyond to some extreme extent. I'm simply saying that where you are right now, there has to be something for which you're relying upon God.
