Title: Tim Conway Shares About His First Time Preaching Meta (it is taken from video, so once translated there you can paste it here): One of the things that happened when I stood in that pulpit, that first time, is my legs barely carried me into the pulpit. When I got there, it was like such a sense of peace descended upon me; all my faculties, my mind was absolutely clear, strength was in my legs, and my mouth was ready to speak. The thing is as I looked at those people... such a burden came over me for their souls... that I had a truth that they didn't know, that I needed to impart it to them. - Tim Conway Tags: Tim Conway,preaching,believer,pastor 1 00:00:00,810 --> 00:00:03,870 God is in the business 2 00:00:03,870 --> 00:00:06,710 of going with you where He sends you. 3 00:00:06,710 --> 00:00:08,500 And He is in the business 4 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:12,750 of not going with you where he doesn't send you. 5 00:00:12,750 --> 00:00:17,220 Brethren, it is kind of like Moses you know, 6 00:00:17,220 --> 00:00:22,930 "Lord don't send us us out there unless You go with us!" 7 00:00:22,930 --> 00:00:27,659 Men, you've got to come at teaching that way. 8 00:00:27,659 --> 00:00:32,290 "Lord please don't..." 9 00:00:32,290 --> 00:00:36,230 And I will tell you this. 10 00:00:36,230 --> 00:00:38,270 I did not believe I was called to preach. 11 00:00:38,270 --> 00:00:41,020 I would have not sought preaching. 12 00:00:41,020 --> 00:00:45,660 In my lost days, public communication absolutely terrified me. 13 00:00:45,660 --> 00:00:48,050 I was the worst in high school. 14 00:00:48,050 --> 00:00:50,040 I dreaded it I hated it. 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,230 I turned red. 16 00:00:51,230 --> 00:00:52,500 My knees failed. 17 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:54,220 My tongue went dry, 18 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:56,620 it was bad. 19 00:00:56,620 --> 00:00:57,990 It was bad. 20 00:00:57,990 --> 00:01:02,030 And it took God taking me into a situation, 21 00:01:02,030 --> 00:01:04,190 many of you know the story, 22 00:01:04,190 --> 00:01:05,729 there in a juvenile home, 23 00:01:05,729 --> 00:01:07,110 up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 24 00:01:07,110 --> 00:01:09,690 and I was working with youth for Christ. 25 00:01:09,690 --> 00:01:14,350 I was a volunteer sidekick for a paid staff guy 26 00:01:14,350 --> 00:01:18,490 who would lead all these services there 27 00:01:18,490 --> 00:01:27,260 at this home. 28 00:01:27,260 --> 00:01:29,670 He would lead the chapel services. 29 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:33,560 It was a big home 30 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,520 and there was lots of kids and lots of workers 31 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,100 and he got sick one day. 32 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:41,280 And I showed up 33 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,259 and here's like seven or eight young people 34 00:01:45,259 --> 00:01:52,150 from the college class of a church on the north side of Kalamazoo. 35 00:01:52,150 --> 00:01:54,310 They came in 36 00:01:54,310 --> 00:01:58,999 and somehow one of them got it in their head, 37 00:01:58,999 --> 00:02:01,209 I don't know maybe the paid staff guy said, 38 00:02:01,209 --> 00:02:03,149 "Have Tim preach." 39 00:02:03,149 --> 00:02:06,549 But the guy probably asked me... 40 00:02:06,549 --> 00:02:08,080 he sat down next to me, 41 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,250 while we were doing the singing, 42 00:02:09,250 --> 00:02:10,860 he sat down next to me and said, 43 00:02:10,860 --> 00:02:11,860 "You're preaching." 44 00:02:11,860 --> 00:02:19,120 "No I am not." 45 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:20,120 And he got up and left 46 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,620 and he came back and he said, 47 00:02:21,620 --> 00:02:23,879 "You are preaching." 48 00:02:23,879 --> 00:02:26,120 And I mean, I kid you not, 49 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,379 he probably asked me 7 times, 50 00:02:29,379 --> 00:02:33,900 and finally it was like the importunity of of Luke 11, 51 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,579 I caved. 52 00:02:36,579 --> 00:02:39,079 And once I said I would, 53 00:02:39,079 --> 00:02:42,379 there was still like another song and a half to go before I'd go up. 54 00:02:42,379 --> 00:02:48,470 I sat there in utter terror. 55 00:02:48,470 --> 00:02:57,459 I had left my Bible in the car. 56 00:02:57,459 --> 00:03:00,269 I had a track in my pocket 57 00:03:00,269 --> 00:03:03,579 by Conrad Murrell. 58 00:03:03,579 --> 00:03:05,450 It's that one with the ark 59 00:03:05,450 --> 00:03:07,969 and there's a smiley face on the side 60 00:03:07,969 --> 00:03:15,290 that said, "Smile God loves you." 61 00:03:15,290 --> 00:03:19,129 My legs barely carried me to the pulpit 62 00:03:19,129 --> 00:03:22,799 and when I got there, 63 00:03:22,799 --> 00:03:24,840 I mean such a thing happened, 64 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,930 as next to my conversion 65 00:03:28,930 --> 00:03:34,030 it was one of the greatest miracles I ever experienced in my life. 66 00:03:34,030 --> 00:03:36,569 What happened right at that moment. 67 00:03:36,569 --> 00:03:40,989 Now I didn't recognize where God was taking me in the rest of my life. 68 00:03:40,989 --> 00:03:48,109 And again I hesitate to emphasize these things too much 69 00:03:48,109 --> 00:03:51,530 because what happened to me is not going to happen to the rest of you. 70 00:03:51,530 --> 00:03:54,989 (Name removed) saw fire come down from heaven. 71 00:03:54,989 --> 00:04:02,950 (Name removed) felt like wave after wave of liquid love he described it. 72 00:04:02,950 --> 00:04:06,230 This is something that was happening... 73 00:04:06,230 --> 00:04:11,269 Again I recognize that depending on the measure God may use somebody 74 00:04:11,269 --> 00:04:15,459 depends on the kind of experiences that they're going to have. 75 00:04:15,459 --> 00:04:16,459 But brothers... 76 00:04:16,459 --> 00:04:23,259 I'll tell you what that experience did for me: 77 00:04:23,259 --> 00:04:25,919 it showed me 78 00:04:25,919 --> 00:04:27,970 that when I went into a pulpit 79 00:04:27,970 --> 00:04:30,460 God would be with me. 80 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:34,310 You want that assurance. 81 00:04:34,310 --> 00:04:37,949 If you're sitting in a Bible study with three people 82 00:04:37,949 --> 00:04:42,870 you want to know that that's where God wants you to be 83 00:04:42,870 --> 00:04:45,590 and that he's going to go with you when you go there. 84 00:04:45,590 --> 00:04:48,470 Brothers, why would you want to go there? 85 00:04:48,470 --> 00:04:51,759 For your ego? 86 00:04:54,860 --> 00:04:57,880 So anyway, 87 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,639 God makes teachers. 88 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:02,639 You remember what happened, 89 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:03,970 you remember Moses. 90 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:07,260 "Lord, don't send me I can't do this." 91 00:05:07,260 --> 00:05:09,440 And the Lord said, 92 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,919 "Moses I designed the mouth, 93 00:05:12,919 --> 00:05:14,319 I make the tongue, 94 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:16,550 I am the one who creates that." 95 00:05:16,550 --> 00:05:17,690 In other words, 96 00:05:17,690 --> 00:05:20,449 "I give that ability." 97 00:05:20,449 --> 00:05:23,770 I mean God gives that ability. 98 00:05:23,770 --> 00:05:25,199 You remember John the Baptist he said 99 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:29,870 "We can't receive anything unless it's been given to us from heaven." 100 00:05:29,870 --> 00:05:33,110 This is something God gives. 101 00:05:33,110 --> 00:05:35,470 This is something.... 102 00:05:37,290 --> 00:05:43,340 Anyway, God will make it clear. 103 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:45,039 And I want to emphasize that 104 00:05:45,039 --> 00:05:49,600 because I get the feeling that some men, 105 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,840 they fight 106 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:53,000 and they claw, 107 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,320 and they strive, 108 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,630 and they coerce, 109 00:05:55,630 --> 00:06:00,490 and they maneuver to make it happen. 110 00:06:00,490 --> 00:06:03,350 But if God's in it, 111 00:06:03,350 --> 00:06:05,780 God will guide you, 112 00:06:05,780 --> 00:06:07,380 God will show you, 113 00:06:07,380 --> 00:06:09,400 God will direct you, 114 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,510 and if you're directed, 115 00:06:11,510 --> 00:06:13,470 once you get there, 116 00:06:13,470 --> 00:06:16,330 God will help you. 117 00:06:16,330 --> 00:06:19,550 That is huge, 118 00:06:19,550 --> 00:06:27,360 because men if God has given me a gift of mercy... 119 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,699 we can have multiple gifts... 120 00:06:29,699 --> 00:06:32,919 but if God has given me the gift of mercy 121 00:06:32,919 --> 00:06:34,729 and not the gift of teaching, 122 00:06:34,729 --> 00:06:36,240 then you know what? 123 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,030 When I go to show mercy God is going to help me. 124 00:06:39,030 --> 00:06:42,849 I would rather go into that into that realm, 125 00:06:42,849 --> 00:06:44,030 in that direction, 126 00:06:44,030 --> 00:06:48,220 where I know God is going to help me. 127 00:06:48,220 --> 00:06:50,409 I would rather have God help me 128 00:06:50,409 --> 00:06:53,630 clean the toilet. 129 00:06:53,630 --> 00:06:54,630 Than me fight, 130 00:06:54,630 --> 00:06:56,849 coerce, and maneuver to get in the pulpit, 131 00:06:56,849 --> 00:06:59,860 only to get there and not have God's help. 132 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:02,470 Wouldn't you all agree? 133 00:07:03,509 --> 00:07:10,259 One of the things that happened when I stood in that pulpit, 134 00:07:10,259 --> 00:07:15,000 that first time, 135 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:21,569 is my legs barely carried me into the pulpit, 136 00:07:21,569 --> 00:07:23,940 when I got there 137 00:07:23,940 --> 00:07:30,530 it was like such a sense of peace descended upon me, 138 00:07:30,530 --> 00:07:31,530 all my faculties, 139 00:07:31,530 --> 00:07:33,680 my mind was absolutely clear, 140 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,180 strength was in my legs, 141 00:07:35,180 --> 00:07:37,840 and my mouth was ready to speak. 142 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,270 The thing is as I looked at those people, 143 00:07:41,270 --> 00:07:45,270 as I looked at those young people, 144 00:07:45,270 --> 00:07:50,550 such a burden came over me for their souls, 145 00:07:50,550 --> 00:07:54,699 such a burden came that I had a truth that they didn't know 146 00:07:54,699 --> 00:07:59,330 that I needed to impart to them. 147 00:07:59,330 --> 00:08:02,729 You see that goes way beyond just wanting a platform. 148 00:08:02,729 --> 00:08:04,400 You just want to be heard, 149 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:05,490 you want to be famous, 150 00:08:05,490 --> 00:08:06,490 you want to make money, 151 00:08:06,490 --> 00:08:07,689 you want to be popular, 152 00:08:07,689 --> 00:08:11,300 you want to be - you know - the showman, 153 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:12,360 you want to entertain, 154 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,389 you want to be the comedian. 155 00:08:16,389 --> 00:08:20,460 But there's a burden to impart something to the people.