Finding Your Ministry
By: Michelle Mundy
You know the drill. We need someone to work nursery. Oh, that’s okay, the pastors’ wife can do it. No one wants to work with the youth. The pastors’ wife. Missions Organization? Pastors’ wife. Lead music, play piano, teach Sunday school, arrange events, cook meals, children’s ministry, work as secretary got it covered; the pastors’ wife can do it.
Saying “no” means you recognize your limitations.
For instance, I LOVE my two-year-old grandson, but I am NOT called to work the nursery. It exhausts me and always has, even when my children were small. The ministry that God has called you has the opposite effect. It invigorates you! It excites you and frees up your creativity. Even after pouring yourself into your ministry you come away tired but excited. That’s the difference. Saying “no” allows you to say “yes” to what God has called YOU to do.
Please don’t read this and resign from every position you are doing; instead, pray and ask what you can give up in order to seek His Best. Recognize that when we serve in areas God has not called us to we are blocking those who He has called from stepping up. Sometimes a position has to be left unfilled before that happens. Maybe the parents have to care for their children in the sanctuary for a while. Breathe.
So where do you start?
Begin by taking an inventory of your days. Then count the cost. This applies not just to financial issues but to energy as well. Ask God what is draining you of your joy and passion for Him. It could be as simple as a sabbatical from what you are currently doing so you can re-energize. Or it could be you are serving in an area that God has not called you. Seek God’s face and ask the hard questions. God will reveal your ministry.
Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
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Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”
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