Hello!
I have a quick story to share with you!
I have shared often that I have a heart for orphans and that God has definitely placed a burden for them on my heart. I pray regularly that God will give me opportunities to minister to them and show me where He wants me to do so.
Well at the end of this past summer I sent an email to a number of Orphan Care organizations asking them for advice in pursuing this calling and if there was anyway I could help them. I didn't hear anything back, and took it as God closing those doors for the time being. Well this week I got a response!!! Not sure yet where it will lead, but I CAN'T WAIT to see what God has in store!!
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Calling
Hello friends,
God's been working in my life big, so I thought I'd share it with you!
For the past few years God has been teaching me not to plan, at least not long term. This lesson has taken me a lot longer to learn than I would like, but I am getting to the point where I find so much more joy and relaxation in letting Him take over than in knowing what the next 10 years of my life will look like. In the process of learning this difficult lesson God has been graciously revealing to me His calling (or aspects of His calling) on my life. I am so excited to be seeing glimpses of His plan for my life, and so thrilled to share them with you!
First of all, as I have shared with you before, He has called me to adopt and to be an advocate for orphans (and maybe move to Africa one day and care for them, who knows! :)). I am so excited about this and cannot wait to see how He orchestrates this specific part of His plan!
Aside from Him calling me to love on orphans, more recently He has been confirming His call on my life to be a Pastors' wife. He started stirring up this desire in my heart about a year ago, but I did not recognize it as a calling until this Sunday! Pastor Mark preached on the qualifications of an Elder/Pastor and shared that when he first met his wife she had told him that she was called to be a Pastor's wife. For whatever reason, I had thought that men could be called to be Pastor's but that their wives just ended up as Pastor's wives. I never thought of being a Pastor's wife as a "calling". But now that I know it is, it makes perfect sense, the husband and wife are one, it's a joint ministry, they must both be called! This is a scary, humbling, and thrilling realization, here we go!!
So there's a glimpse into my heart, I covet your prayers as I continue to fight the daily battle of waiting for HIS timing and for His way of bringing all of this about, not mine!
Thanks for reading! :)
God's been working in my life big, so I thought I'd share it with you!
For the past few years God has been teaching me not to plan, at least not long term. This lesson has taken me a lot longer to learn than I would like, but I am getting to the point where I find so much more joy and relaxation in letting Him take over than in knowing what the next 10 years of my life will look like. In the process of learning this difficult lesson God has been graciously revealing to me His calling (or aspects of His calling) on my life. I am so excited to be seeing glimpses of His plan for my life, and so thrilled to share them with you!
First of all, as I have shared with you before, He has called me to adopt and to be an advocate for orphans (and maybe move to Africa one day and care for them, who knows! :)). I am so excited about this and cannot wait to see how He orchestrates this specific part of His plan!
Aside from Him calling me to love on orphans, more recently He has been confirming His call on my life to be a Pastors' wife. He started stirring up this desire in my heart about a year ago, but I did not recognize it as a calling until this Sunday! Pastor Mark preached on the qualifications of an Elder/Pastor and shared that when he first met his wife she had told him that she was called to be a Pastor's wife. For whatever reason, I had thought that men could be called to be Pastor's but that their wives just ended up as Pastor's wives. I never thought of being a Pastor's wife as a "calling". But now that I know it is, it makes perfect sense, the husband and wife are one, it's a joint ministry, they must both be called! This is a scary, humbling, and thrilling realization, here we go!!
So there's a glimpse into my heart, I covet your prayers as I continue to fight the daily battle of waiting for HIS timing and for His way of bringing all of this about, not mine!
Thanks for reading! :)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)