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Thanks Jerry, for being a bully to me

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Posted by: anthony

Jerry,
I just waned to drop a note and say Thanks for being mean to me. You were right when you said leadership hurts, and it did. You helped me to realize that what I was looking for, a hand to hold, was something you, nor anyone else would give me. What I need, is to quit trying to be pulled into heaven, and start pushing people into the same realization. So many people, Jerry, are climbing into hell, and they don't know it.... They need to learn how to fall, into heaven. It sounds like I have it all backwards, but now, now, I know I am learning it right, because I am seeking His face, not asking someone else to show me. If I have that hunger, and really want to be that leader Jesus ordained me to be, I have to get up and work. Am I going to make mistakes? Yes, quit a few, but I know how to get back up. Its going to take more time than I would like to be really ready.... Just like Steve taught us, its that bad "p" word...Patients...

It also made sence what you said about wanting to leave... I did too.. I would tell everyone how right after, and I mean RIGHT after I picked up my High School Diploma, I was gone, but now, I realized that the stirring in my heart was something the Lord was telling me. I have something I must do before I go. I had been thinking about it, and hearing it, since you left the first time, and will share all the details with Pastor John. I don't know where that will lead, but I'm trying to open my heart to obedience, so if you would, please pray that I learn to be so much more obedient. That's all I ask, a prayer. When I am sure that I have done everything I can do here, THEN, I am going to come find you. I may be out of college by then, or maybe not, but I will come looking for you years down the road. And Let me tell you this, Jerry, when I come looking for you years down the road, I WANT A JOB. I won't say anything else, because you know what I am talking about...

I know, getting a bit ahead of myself, but I am looking for the Lord's face... "UNTIL" I see it, In Jesus Name.
Again, thank you Jerry... (I know that won't be the only time, either...)

ALways your Friend,

Anthony


Posted by: anthony

To Everyone who reads this, PLEASE, don't take the first part literally... Jerry wasn't a "Bully" to me, but he had to be a little rough on me to make a point. I don't want you to get the wrong idea, he did it out of love, and I mean that. Almost like a father would disipline his child, as did Jerry for me. And besides, I figure it would get more people to read this post as opposed to skipping it, so now that you have read it, would you pray for me too? He He Thanks a bunch! _a_