God is Calling

          I love the way God works! I start praying for my son's basketball team and began listening to what He is telling me to only realize He isn’t talking to me about the basketball team (even though it applies to them also) instead talking to me. I have been asking God for a ministry, a way I can serve and encourage others, a call to do work He has prepared for me to do.

          Everything we do in life is a call of some sort. We think we made the decision to do the things and in some ways we have, in reality God presents us with the opportunity (call) and we either choose to embrace it (joyfully or reluctantly) or we choose to look in another direction for a different path. God calls us to many ministries.

          I use to think becoming a wife and mother was just the next stage in of my life. I now realize it was the call God had placed on me at that time. As a wife I was called to be a help mate to my husband {Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him.” Genesis 2:18} to be there to love, support and encourage him in his work. As a mother I was called to train, love and encourage my children. {Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6}

          So don’t think “I’m in a stage of life & this is what it brings, God isn’t going to use me to minister to others.” You are never too busy to do the Lords work even when what He has called you to do is to love and care for your family. Ask God “Lord, what do you want this stage to look like?” or “How can I bring glory to you?” and be thankful for being right where you are in life because that is exactly where God wants you. {Let the peace that Christ gives control your thinking, because you were all called together in one body to have peace. Always be thankful. Colossians 3:15}