01/16/2025
This New Year, battle familiarity with your pastors.
Familiarity makes you honour, obey, support, value, respect, and recommend pastors and people far from you who do not even know you exist than pastors and people you have their phone numbers, are very close to them, etc.
Familiarity makes you one hour punctual to be online to wait for a pastor's program who does not even know you exist, but you will be one hour late to the pastor you know very well and who knows you very well and even has phone contacts.
Familiarity will make you even share the pastor's programme that the pastor doesn't know you exist to the pastor you know very well and calls often to pray for you.
Familiarity makes you always find fault and focus on the mistakes of the pastor you know very well and have contact with but see the pastor very far as a saint.
Familiarity makes you get delayed because when God chooses to use the very pastor you despise and are familiar with to minister to you, God cannot because you have your mindset that God can only use the pastor far away.
Familiarity is an enemy against many pastors who despise their spiritual fathers and mothers because they are not famous and international but honor and share links and messages of pastors far from them.
Familiarity can make you angry now in reading this message, but it will not if it were a popular pastor far away from you who typed this message.
Check yourself the first time you met your pastors, how you were not familiar and God was using them to bless your life, but now it's a different story because you're familiar with them.
What you are familiar with, God doesn't use anymore to bless you.
Repent now and balance the same sharing links, giving, respect, honour, recommendations, etc., you give to famous and international pastors far away from you who don't even know you exist, and also to your local pastors that you have their phone contacts, calls for prayers when on emergency, etc.
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By Benny Payne.