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splett
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Post subject: Hope In The Valley
 Posted: Apr 11, 2008 - 12:38 AM
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Please post your comments / opinions on Rob Haslam's video blog on Hope In The Valley
Link to video (note...if the video is very pixelated you can make your browserwindow smaller until the video appears clearer) |
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Posted: May 29, 2008 - 10:21 PM
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| Thank you for your thoughts! Wonderful! What gets me though the valleys is remembering that this to shall pass. 1 Cor 10:12,13 tells me that not only has Jesus been there and done that, He also provides a way out. I have to remember patience, His time not mine. |
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missy
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Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 08:35 PM
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i somewhat feel like i'm just coming out of a valley. I don' know that i've ever been in a valley as dark as the one that i've just walked through. my faith was really shaken....to the very core of my being...but I'm walking back up and see the sun
somehow through it all i aways still had hope...weather it was the strength of God deep inside of me, or weather it was the people that i had praying for me, i'm not sure.
i did learn that even as dark as it seemed to be....and as much of a weary warrior as i felt all alone...God was with me...and when i became too tired to hold up my shield, his shield was over me.
thanks for sharing
also i know this is totally off topic, but do you know where i can get ahold of the video you showed at rock lake? (your dad, almight God) it really encouraged me and there are some youth that I want to share it with
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Posted: Aug 28, 2008 - 05:04 AM
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missy wrote:
also i know this is totally off topic, but do you know where i can get ahold of the video you showed at rock lake? (your dad, almight God) it really encouraged me and there are some youth that I want to share it with
The video is called "The Father's Love Letter". you can view it on youtube and buy it from most Christian book stores. |
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"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
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Posted: Oct 03, 2008 - 09:51 PM
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| Ya, my valley has been going on for about 6 months now. They get bigger, deeper, wider and darker each time. I fully recognize God walking with me and still working through me. But the lack of joy, focus and the deep loneliness is crazy. We have been created to need people - so even knowing and believing God is here is no were close to enough. The lack of people who can relate is the tough part. For 1/2 a year i have been thinking of leaving ministry - and walk through that alone day after day. For me to leave powerfully effects so many things. I can't bear that responsibility. It would mean leaving a church that me, my wife and kids have always known as home. It would mean my wife leaving ministries that she loves leading. It would mean leaving so many friends. It would mean leaving the youth that i have poured into for so many years. What if i am wrong? What if i have not been given permission to leave by God? What if the calling and anointing are still on me and i dishonor God by leaving? What if my walk with God is broken like so many other youth pastors that have left ministry? I know how deeply it would hurt my wife and I can't bear to hurt her that deeply. I have found ministry to be just as much of a trap as a joy. I would never go into paid ministry again....and yet here i am in the middle of it for 10 years. I want to play with my kids in the evenings while they are still young..not leave all the time to teach others what their parents should have been teaching them in the first place. I live in a world of parent neglect that we call church and yet to care for their neglected kids i have to sacrifice far to much of my own. I do it solely for God and the youth but i have come to have borderline hate for their parents who work 2 jobs so they can pay me to teach their children. They teach their kids day after day what a selfish adult looks like and when the kids follow their example instead of mind...well then i have not done my job. But i can't tell the Parents that they are screwing their kids up because then i lose my job and my right to speak at least some truth from God into their lives. So i am sacrificed...over....and over....and over and i smile and shake their hands Sunday morning. |
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Posted: Oct 04, 2008 - 05:17 PM
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Hi pcrob,
I found your post hitting close to home for me. I have often felt lonely in ministry, as if i was almost untouchable because of what i do. All my time was focused on the ministry that i didn't really focus on myself that well. I'm not going to try and trivialize your post with some easy answers, i just wanted to acknowledge your struggle and tell you that i've been there and understand. Something that helped me was a book called "Boundaries" by Henry Clowd. I hated it at first but then i found value in what it was telling me. feel free so sent me a private message if you want to talk about your post some more?
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Galatians 6:9
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Rob Haslam
Director of Canadian Youth Worker
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