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Update- April 13, 2009
Hello again, everyone! It has been such a crazy month that I have not been able to post an update since my last one at the beginning of last month. I have been very busy with activities at my home church, such as leading our Kid’s praise and worship, and working with our 5th grade ministry training team, teaching them about worship each Sunday morning. I also went on our College and Career retreat a couple of weeks ago, where God gave me the opportunity to be able to lead worship for the weekend as well. God moved mightily that weekend; He spoke to each of us on Friday night, but Saturday night (early Sunday morning) was the best time. One of the guys in our group spoke on “being in the grey,” that we need to be either in or out when it comes to our relationship with Christ. Let me tell you, that hit home to me. I was instantly reminded about the name of this ministry that God has called me to, and how I had not been giving it my all over the past few months until February.
This is where I want to apologize openly to each of you who may have visited the site, or those of you who know or may have known me personally. I hadn’t been allowing God to fully use me for a period of time; I became focused on other issues and made those a higher priority. But God called me out on it, and that’s why I’m here today. I’m working on now focusing on every aspect of me that may be hindering me from moving forward in Christ and in ministry. Our church has a wonderful minister of restoration, and she has been working with me and others to pinpoint issues in our lives that have limited our potential, and have hindered the flow of the Holy Spirit in our lives. I’ve only been through about a month and a half of this healing and restoration class, but I feel God doing so much within me. I have been able to start moving forward in areas that had been stopped for a while. There was a period of time where I was almost not ministering at all, but since February, there have been some opportunities that God has brought forth to me, such as the leading of the worship for our College and Careers group retreat, and most recently, this past Saturday night, leading about 45 minutes of worship at a local Christian coffee house. I feel a stirring of God’s anointing within me that I have not felt in a long time. I feel God’s power and His mighty presence when I minister in Kid’s Church, and when I play keyboard with our praise team and Harp & Bowl team.
I am planning on starting to travel again and minister after my healing and restoration class is complete, which should be sometime around the end of May. In the meantime, I’m not usually one to ask for this, but I would appreciate it if you would please keep me in your prayers. With the ministry that God has called me to, especially with the name, there is a heavy burden that goes along with it. I don’t want the burden to be taken from me, but I want God to help me carry it. My greatest desire is to see souls won into the Kingdom, and for those who know Christ to be able to enter into a deeper level of worship, a more intimate, close, powerful worship time with God. Please pray for me as I start planning new material for this site and for future ministry opportunities that lie ahead.
I pray that God will continue to bless and pour His love upon you. If you happen to be reading this right now, and you don’t have a personal relationship with Christ, please click the link on the left-hand side of this page (it is actually on every page throughout the site). May God richly bless you and keep you in His love and care.
In His Grip,
Ryan
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