How's Your Alignment?

Our spiritual life can be like our cars alignment, if its off it effects everything around it and if you ignore it, it can get real expensive real quick. So how do we check our spiritual alignment? From what I've been taught and understand from God's word is that there is a very specific order of importance of things!
It follows: God first, family second, ministry third! We have to remember to always keep this balance otherwise we are no good to God. We sometimes as Christians fall into the trap of doing God rather than being with God. That's the whole point He wants to commune with us.
So to be honest i have had to recheck and fix my alignment. i was helping out at after school program, being effective and doing Gods' work, but was neglecting my own kids. I was missing out on the most important time of day with my kids< from when they got home,did homework,ate, and did family devotional study. I and my family were missing out on so much. I had been struggling with this for quite a while and one day my babysitter cancelled on me so i couldn't go. this brought up the opportunity for me to be honest with my employer how i felt and the struggle i was facing. Thank God this man too values the God, Family,Ministry order also.
But anyways, i found that through my obedience and keeping to that order resulted in a gift from God last Monday night.

It was beautiful, a young man from youth group begged me to give him the floor for a little while because he had something he felt God wanted him to share with the group. normally i wouldn't do this but all of my spirit was at peace with this. This kid has a gift for preaching and on Monday he just exploded with this ultimate firework display of Gods' word and cultural relevance of stepping out of the world and arming yourself with the Armor of God. It was absolutely beautiful!
But it gets even better, one of the guys that has been straying a bit from the Lord had came back after a jail experience and he shared his testimony. He shared that he once new the Lord but strayed, he messed up bad because he was weak at the time to the enemies attacks, he suffered the consequences and while in jail he renewed his relationship with Christ and got that same peace he had once had. Prodigal son!
But then another one of the guys tells me he has heard Gods calling on his life and he needs to stop ignoring it and be obedient. He is being called into children's ministry, which i totally see him being awesome at!
See what happens when u keep your life in balance, God,family,ministry. God blesses u with awesome gifts like myself and the other leaders at Edge with witnessing awesome transformations, just like these few here that i just mentioned. This is why Jesus did what He did, and as followers of Christ that's why we continue in His work in reaching out to the lost! What a privilege it has been to be part of Gods plan in these kids lives, this is the true blessing being used to bring Him glory and honor.

So till next time, keep the faith, check your spiritual alignment and always remember that God wants to use you to change lives for eternity!
your bro in Christ
john