There are a growing number of courses being offered by churches around the world providing training on anything from “Healing the Sick” to “Wealth Management”. Some of these courses are charging large sums of money and you have to ask if it is value for money.
These courses are becoming prohibitively expensive for most people and some fall into a trap of wanting to serve God greatly and the stress of finding the money to attend these courses. This can lead to some feeling guilty about not finding the money. For those who do attend these courses, if they do not achieve their expectations from these courses it can bring discouragement.
When I was a young Christian I was told seek God for that which I needed. I believed that if I waited on the Lord he would provide to me what I needed in order to fulfil the tasks that the Lord had assigned to me. How cruel it would be if a manager asked you to produce ten thousand copies of a document and expected each one to be individually typed out instead of providing you with a printer and a computer to do the task. So it is with the Lord. He will not ask you to do something that you are not equipped to do.
This seems simple enough, doesn’t it? So what is the catch? In order to be equipped greatly to serve the Lord you need to spend time with Him, potentially give up those things that are in the way and be prepared to be obedient. You need to pray regularly and find some time to listen. I know that some of you might say that I have children or other things that might steal the time required to pray and wait upon the Lord. I have learnt that God can speak to you anywhere and all you need to do is train your ear to hear His voice. Prayer can be done at anytime and at any location. God does not need you to set the scene in order to pray. He just needs you to open your mouth and speak.
Waiting upon the Lord might seem hard for some, but if you attend these courses you still need to seek God in order to be empowered. God rarely gives to those who ignore Him. Christ came into the world to restore a right relationship with the Lord. Let us forget wasting our money on the latest course or seeking after the greatest speakers and just rest and wait upon the Lord.
I am certain that if you do these things you will achieve far more than attending a course.
Why get it second hand when the source is far more exciting.
