Ministry

What is your ministry???

As believers we all have the SAME goal: and that is to love the Lord with all our hearts, soul and minds and strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves. These are the commands that the Lord gave us. If we do these two things everything else falls into place...I think this looks a bit different for each of us though. For me, he has laid on my heart the whole adoption and orphan thing. I have a heart for it and I'm passionate about it...it's EASY for me to fill this calling because I believe in it, but it all points back to HIM...



Mark 12:29-31 (New International Version)
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[b] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[c] There is no commandment greater than these.”

For everyone it will look a little different, but if we are doing SOMETHING with our passion, in the name of our Lord which means that it lines up with LOVING HIM and LOVING PEOPLE...then we are right on track.

The only way we can figure out what is layed on our heart by God, or what our passion is, and how to use it for Him.....is to spend time with Him..to know His word and His voice, ask Him and listen and read. He is sooo clear in His Word, what we are to do, and how EVERYTHING is about Him and His glory.

I think so many times people get caught up in the "thing"...or the "ministry", and they lose focus of what it is truly all about. This is sad because I believe it all starts with the right heart and then it can easily turn to "our work" or "our thing" and we begin to take pride in what we are doing and not what God is doing. We need to remain "humble servants" doing it for the glory of our Lord and somehow we turn it into something to feed our ego or our flesh in some way.

I bring this up because people say....what we did for Esther is so wonderful.....well, I feel like it is wonderful that we were allowed to do it, and that we are the blessed ones for God using our family in this way. It is not anything we did other than felt the tug at our hearts and asked the Lord what to do with it, and He did the rest. We are the blessed ones...we are the ones that have had this wonderful thing happen in our lives. That's just how good our God is!!!


Then I think other times people think they have nothing to offer, they have NO ministry....that is sooooo untrue. Everyone has something they love and are passionate about, and if they let God do something with that, they can use it for Him.

I know of people in ministries with horses...with quilting...with orphan care...with homeless....with politics...with tea....with clothing people so they can interview for a job...with kids.... with foster care...with the elderly.....with sports....with with with with...the list is endless. God is soooo creative and He made us all different, but He made us for His glory and His purpose...so if we find what it is that makes our heart break and soar at the same time...then do something with it for HIM!!! If it's pointed back to Him and loving on Him and people; He will do the rest.

Many times people are guilted into doing something or feel pressured into something, but if it NOT layed on your heart by the Lord...you are just doing something good, which is not a bad thing, but it is probably not going to change anyone's life, but if you do what is layed on your heart and you give it 100% to Him, then He is glorified and people are changed.