{"id":9671,"date":"2018-12-18T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2025-03-08T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T08:41:37","slug":"no_shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/no_shame\/","title":{"rendered":"No shame if you see little result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By pastor Marcel Gaasenbeek<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>At times we all have the tendency to judge \u2018our\u2019 ministry and conclude we\u2019re failing. If you compare it with the unlimited potential of the message, you easily see too little result.\u00a0 If you compare it with others, we can even doubt if we have a ministry. God is favoring the other and apparently not your effort? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I even noticed while visiting Pastors or ministry leaders from small works, that they were ashamed to show me their reality. But that\u2019s probably why I came: to help.<\/p>\n<p>I learned from Pastor Prince that grace has slow result. When you apply the law, there is quick result. Only it stabilizes soon and from there it can only crumble. Grace shows seemingly very little result, sometimes for a pretty long time. But then is rises into a curve, not to be stopped anymore. Ever increasing glory. The way of grace is slowly but surely.<\/p>\n<p>If my work is bigger than yours, trust me: I\u2019m not smarter. I believe that I\u2019m simply allowed to help others. And when they rise, I will probably need them.<\/p>\n<p><em>2 Corinthians 8:14 But that there be equality, so the abundance you have now might supply their need, that in turn their abundance may be a supply for your need: that it may equal out<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So could it be when your work is small, God is preparing in quality, not yet in quantity? Or could it be that you simply need help? Welcome to the club, we all do! That\u2019s why I\u2019m on the road: trying to help, because it\u2019s needed. And that is only after I got lots of help myself \u2018how to get grace to work\u2019, year after year for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t go for quick results, rather go for solid \u2018building\u2019.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By pastor Marcel Gaasenbeek At times we all have the tendency to judge \u2018our\u2019 ministry and conclude we\u2019re failing. If you compare it with the unlimited potential of the message, you easily see too little result.\u00a0 If you compare it with others, we can even doubt if we have a ministry. God is favoring the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[88,68,86,90,89],"class_list":["post-9671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-blog","tag-grace-alliance","tag-marcel-gaasenbeek","tag-no-shame","tag-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracealliance.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}