Oh this Jesus. He always keeps me focused on moving forward. Focused on letting go of what’s behind and awaiting what’s next. That stir I feel in my spirit, that feeling of soon, it’s something that has gripped me since Saturday and has not let me go. We don’t know the day or the hour but we do know the season and the season is now.
Last week I heard the Lord whisper about a free trip up to NY. A trip to see some dear friends and have some Jesus time. I was patient and the Lord worked out the scheduling, the sleeping arrangements and everything that we needed to have done to drive up for the weekend. He even added a few chickens to my soup on the way home!
He put serving on my heart and Regis and I had a really good time helping a dear friend of mine in the kitchen during the services at her restaurant on Saturday. The worship was powerful and so many people were touched by the presence of the Lord that weekend. When you give Him the space to move and you hunger for His presence, the Lord will always meet you there. I am living proof of this. I spent time seeking Him all week, I was patient, I followed His lead, and I encountered the Lord in probably the most powerful way I have in years. He is a rewarder to those who diligently seek him.
Look up diligence and seek him by that definition. Look up seeking while you’re at it too, and look for Jesus in that way. Pray without ceasing. That is my advice to you in this hour.
But it’s not about me, it’s not about you, it’s not about what we want. It’s about what we are called to do and how to walk that out. I was led by a conversation with another dear friend to look into callings. I took it to the Lord and what the Lord and I found together over the last few days, was a unique ability to rest in the identity that He created us in.
We can be confused by our gifting, feeling that our gifts from the Lord will lead us in a certain direction, and often times they do, don’t get me wrong. But we can get pulled into this thought pattern of that since we minister a certain way or are used in a certain way, that it’s all about being used in that gift, instead of walking in the calling or resting in who the Lord created you to be and letting the gifts of the Lord flow freely where you’re called.
I’ll use me as an example because I always do. I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I probably still will, but by God’s mercy and grace, He dusts me off and says keep going. I’m ordained as an Evangelist. The Lord has gifted me in deliverance ministry, in visions, in worship, in healing prayer, in words of encouragement and messages. He keeps me pliable, moldable and adaptable to what’s going on in the moment. I used to think that meant there was something wrong with me. I accepted the enemy’s whisper of the worldly phrase “because I was a jack of all trades I’d be a master of none.”
I used to think I needed to be a minister, to have meetings or to eventually have a platform. I used to think that the Lord needed me, that He needed to use what He put in me. So I would desperately try to figure out which box I fit into. Was I an evangelist, a deliverance minister, a prophetic writer, an intercessor, an encourager, a worshipper?
I would see everyone having a niche and excelling in their calling, while I felt like all I was doing was wandering the dusty streets with Jesus asking what we are doing today.
Then the Lord spoke to me the other day about being a pillar, about holding things up where I am. I let that sit with me for a while. I am a pillar, I help hold things together. I am a pillar, I can provide strength. I am a pillar, I can support. I am a pillar, I help.
As I thought about my calling and prayed with the Lord about it, I heard him call me an evangelistic helper. Then I realized what I’d always excelled at in the natural, in the pre Jesus, in the flesh. I am a helper. I’m a great assistant, executively, administratively and physically. I like to help people take things off their hands, do things right, with quality and in good time. I’m a great temp. I can clean, I can toss boxes unloading trucks, I can run a register, I can do quick books, I’m an organizer, I can minister, I can pray, I have worked a ton of different fields in my past and I have always loved variety. I get bored with routine. I need variety. My calling is helps.
This blew the top of my head off this week with a peace and rest that I can hardly explain with words. I’m ok, I’m who God created me to be and there’s nothing wrong with me because I don’t have a specialty, a niche, or one specific direction the Lord is taking me.
He is the potter and I am the clay. Today will not be the same as tomorrow. Today I will help where I am, and tomorrow I will help where I go. However that looks and whatever it takes.
I don’t have to have a certain niche, a specialty, a platform or even a ministry. I can simply rest in the wandering with Jesus, sharing His word, His love, His freedom and His healing presence with anyone I encounter along the way.
Where can you rest with Jesus? What is He calling you to? It’s there, that your gifts will shine. It’s there where they won’t have to compete. It’s there where they’re unique!
It’s ok to just be you, wandering the streets with Jesus, trying to figure it all out along the way.
The Lord had me look up the rest of that worldly quote to shut the devils mouth “a jack of all trades is a master of none, but is oftentimes better than a master of one”. Don’t discount yourself because you’re a wanderer or because you don’t have it figured out just yet. You may just be a gifted disciple that’s looking to walk out your calling of helps, or business, or finance, or administration, or motherhood, or ministry, or politics, or carpentry, or culinary arts. Whatever it is, take Jesus with you and rest in the fact that it’s ok to be who God created you to be. Even when that looks completely different than everyone else around you.
It’s you and Jesus. The rest will work itself out.
Ephesians 4:1-4
1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
Romans 12:4 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
2 Peter 1:10 - Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Romans 11:29 - For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 6:8 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
John 15:16 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
1 Peter 5:10 - But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 - For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1 Peter 2:9 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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