outflow that is personally suited
to me. I need a ministry. I
need to find a way to reach out
with Your love to others who
need Your help, Your healing,
and Your touch in a way that
You have wired and equipped
me to give it. I do not see
where it is beyond my own
family. What would You do
through me? What steps do I
need to take?
first ministry; you are to give yourself totally to Me and let thanksgiving and praise flow from
your heart. You are to receive My love and life from My hand to nourish and sustain your heart.
Yes, beyond that there should be a flow outward to others so that My love reaches others
through you.
You long for personal involvement that will allow you to share My heart with someone in
need. You have a passion for those who are unfairly treated and those who feel unworthy to
approach Me, or even to venture too far into a church setting. You desire to bring healing
where religion has bombarded a searching soul with judgment or rejection. You cheer for the
underdog. You long to bring others into a relationship with Me that is based on the truths of
repentance and lordship rather than feeling good about themselves. If they only knew how
much I love them, they could not so easily resist My claim upon their hearts and lives. They
need large doses of My love shown to them along with unwavering truth.
I show My love differently through different people. I do call you to minister to those I have
already placed in your heart. They are everywhere around you, but you don't always see
them. Your vision is clouded by your expectations of how I will work, and you are hampered by
unnecessary timidity. My methods and ways are so vast and varied that I will always surprise
you. Ask Me at each encounter to open your eyes. I will show you how to pray or how to speak
to that individual so that they can receive love from My hand. Do not labor over this; it is not a
restrictive thing I place upon you, but a yoke that I have built just for you. You are not
competing with anyone else's style of ministry; this is yours. All the right words are not always
the balm that a hurting heart needs; My loving presence through an imperfect vessel may be
the agent of healing that I prescribe.
A ministry that would lead you to rely on your abilities to perform it would not serve My
total purpose even if it helped others. Pride could poison the fruit that may be produced. I may
bring you into a more defined ministry someday, but in this present role you must depend
constantly on My heart and leading. I find great joy in that. Your dependence ministers to Me
bringing Me the prize for which I went to the cross--your whole heart.
Colossians 4:2-6; Matthew 11:29-30; Ephesians 5:1-2; Romans 12:15-16
Proverbs 26:12; Hebrews 13:20-21
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