So you want to be a preacher! Are you ready to go into the bowels of hell and bring out the captives? Are you ready to do battle sometimes 24 hours a day? Are you ready to lose your closest friends?
Are you ready to be shunned, ridiculed blasphemed? Are you sure you have counted the cost?
Are you sure you are ready to fast 40 days and 40 nights to see My Mighty hand move and do the impossible? Are you ready to forsake all others and take up your cross and follow Me?
Are you ready to die out to your flesh so that all that is seen is My Son Jesus?
ARE YOU REALLY READY TO PREACH MY WORD?
COUNT THE COST AND THEN FOLLOW ME!
Luke 14:26-33 (NKJV)
26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it–
29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32 Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.
33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.