We all long to live our lives in such a way that we fulfill the plan of God and make a difference in the world. We as women long for acceptance, love, and significance. Sometimes, we feel like we are giving it all. We may be serving God and people with all our hearts. Yet we can find ourselves wondering if we are making a difference. Perhaps we are waiting for a breakthrough in our ministries, in people’s lives, or in our family’s life. We can start to wonder if we are on the right track… or if God’s hand is on us and our ministries. During these times, I have to go back and remember God’s hand throughout my life. “How did I get here?” In my story, I grew up in a missionary’s home and heard the gospel early. I got saved at the age of five and surrendered my life to the Lord when I was twelve. I said “yes” to God. I can look back to how He led me to prepare and how He placed me in the different opportunities to serve Him. I have to go back to something He taught me a long time ago. * I am not in charge of His plan to evangelize the world. My role is to obey and to embrace my calling and my assignment. I can choose to doubt that God is able to overcome all the obstacles in my assignment or I can choose to believe that God is greater than all the obstacles. He who has assigned me here can use me and my family in His Big Plan… even when I cannot see the Big Picture. We all have times where we just cannot see our lives from His perspective and we have to wrestle with doubt… Yet, I want to be a girl that He knows will say “Yes” even when I do not yet see, and will trust Him that He designed me and my family “for such a time as this.”
“Dear Lord, I pray that as we face uncertain times in our world, that You will strengthen our calling. You have called us to serve. You will continue to equip us, strengthen us and provide for us. Please give our friends in ministry the determination to keep on believing You, trusting You, and to keep on serving You! We believe that You have placed us in this generation, have equipped us with the gifts and abilities that are needed to accomplish Your calling! We do not want to have a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and a sound mind. Please strengthen Your warriors today for the battle! Now unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly, above
all that we ask or think!”