06/09/2025
LORD HEAL THE BROKEN HEARTS...It pains deeply.
Church members and followers only...
I can tell you without a doubt that being a minister of the gospel is one of the most challenging and difficult professions nowadays. I have been a pastor for 15 years now, and I can say a few things. If I had the opportunity to quit, I would a thousand times. This is the silent pain that many ministers of God go through.
How do we heal others when we are sick in heart? How do we encourage others when we are so discouraged in ourselves? How do we build others when we are so broken internally? How do we pray for others when we are so dissatisfied sometimes, even in God? Ministry is a battleground where the fainthearted die, and the same people who kill them cry more on the day of their funeral.
Many ministers are on the pulpit, not out of joy and fulfillment but out of fear of what people will say. Many ministers are defeated, frustrated, depressed, and disquieted within. I have seen ministers of the gospel who can not afford house rents for their families yet are doing their best to serve the people who do not care. I have seen ministers of the gospel who can not afford fees and daily needs for their families, yet they preach with passion. I have seen ministers who are locked up in cells for accusations they didn't commit. I have seen ministers of the gospel abused and accused by the same people they helped some years ago. It appears to me that there are people under pastors who are happy to see them go down.
The church has become a place of forgetfulness. Many of those we helped have forgotten that they were helped. Many of those we prayed for have forgotten the labor we did for them. Many of those we assisted have forgotten they were even assisted before. Most of the people fighting ministers today are the same people who have been helped, supported, and assisted by the church and the ministers. It is unfortunate that the mistakes of the pastor are always louder than his goodness and efforts. No one even cares about his goodness. They amplify the bad and minimize the good.
The errors of the minister should not be forgivable. How dare he make a mistake? To you, he is human and should not make mistakes. You can make a mistake, and the minister must forgive. He shouldn't be angry when you make a mistake, but the minister doesn't deserve forgiveness when he makes a mistake. It is very disheartening to see how ministers are sabotaged by their own spiritual children. Those who were sustained and lifted rise up to say the minister is making many demands. Those we paid fees for can't even turn around today to pay fees for our own children. Those we helped who have become great do not reply to our messages anymore. To them, we are a nuisance to their peace and their success.
I can tell you that the average minister of the gospel today is struggling for survival. Those who are genuinely serving God and are passionate about the work suffer more than those who do not care about the work. The good are struggling, and this struggle is pushing them into being bad.
I was told of a minister who died of a heart attack because one of his trusted subjects turned against him. I have heard of ministers who became alcoholics because even the women they married rose up against them. I have heard of ministers who were broken in pain because those they put their hopes in turned around to be their greatest enemy. The hearts of many ministers are bleeding, and many have not yet healed of their pains.
Before you accuse a man, hear his own side of the story. But this generation believes the first person to speak is always right. The police hate ministers. The military also doesn't want to hear a case involving a pastor. There is an atmosphere of hate, attacks, and stigma around those on the altar.
Let God heal the brokenhearted.
Fellow colleagues, you are already aware of this reality surrounding our calling. So let God give you wisdom to live fulfilled and not pained and hurt. Let God give you wisdom to live above emotional trauma. Focus on your call and do not get involved in arguments. If people leave you, let them go. The same God who brought them will bring others. Refuse to be bitter and decide to be joyful because the joyful side is always the winning side.
Prophet Joel Mayaba.
